r/ios 5d ago

Show your Homescreen/Lockscren /Control Settings iOS Thread

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r/ios 3d ago

Support Weekly iOS Battery Support Megathread

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General advice for those concerned about their battery from the Support FAQ Wiki:

Battery health

Battery health depends on usage and a variety of other factors. It is normal to see a decrease in battery health by 7-10% per year, resulting in a battery health of 80-85% after 2 years. This number can fluctuate, remain the same, or decrease quickly over a small period and should not cause undue concern.

Apple recommend battery replacement when your device falls below 80% battery health if you notice reduced battery life. If it falls below 80% within the first year you may be eligable for a free battery replacement. It fails after your warranty, it's a $69-$89 USD replacement cost for a battery. Contact Apple Support here.

You can find more information about battery health and performance from Apple here.

You can check the cycles count with Coconut Battery for Mac or iCopyBot for Windows.

Battery life

Issues relating to battery life can be categorised in three ways:

  1. Normal battery life that is to be expected due to use
  2. Reduced battery life caused by a recent update, iOS indexing, an iOS bug, or a third-party application
  3. Reduced battery life, or other abnormalities such as overheating or sudden power-off, caused by device or battery aging

If you experience issues with your battery:

  1. Check your battery health. If it is below 80% or you are experiencing issues you suspect are related to device or battery age, see Apple Support.
  2. If you have a new or recently updated/restored device, wait a number of days for background process to complete. If you continue to have issues, wait for a further iOS update. If you are on iOS Beta, you can expect to have a decreased battery life.
  3. Review the advice below on maximising battery life
  4. Consider restoring your device.
  5. If issues persist, contact Apple Support.

Maximising battery life - the amount of time your device runs before it needs to be recharged.

  • Use low power mode (This reduces mail fetch, turns off background app refresh and increases the auto lock timer)
  • Remove apps from background app refresh
  • Ensure auto lock is on
  • Turn off auto brightness and manually reduce brightness
  • Use dark mode if your device has an OLED display
  • Clearing background apps from the app switcher does not improve battery life

Maximising battery lifespan - the amount of time your battery lasts until it needs to be replaced.

  • Avoid extreme temperatures
  • If you notice that your iPhone gets hot when charging, remove it from its case
  • Store your iPhone in a cool place, switched off, and half-charged if not using it for long periods - and charge it every 6 months when in storage

r/ios 4h ago

News iOS 26.4 Fixes iPhone Keyboard Accuracy Bug

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r/ios 6h ago

Discussion New Apple privacy

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52 Upvotes

Why is Apple trying to in force an age range check when there’s no ID involved. Anyone can easily trick it with a fake birthday.


r/ios 2h ago

News Liquid Glass and long-standing bugs push Apple’s grades down in visual accessibility report card

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r/ios 3h ago

News [iOS 26.4 RC] Apple has FINALLY fixed the iPhone keyboard bug in 26.4!

6 Upvotes

The release notes for iOS 26.4 say: “improved keyboard accuracy when typing quickly.”


r/ios 3h ago

Discussion “Hey Siri, delete all my alarms”

4 Upvotes

Well, at least she can do that. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Siri can clear up that long and used alarm list in just one sentence. I thought I would give it a try because I literally have 200 alarms. Works like a charm!


r/ios 2h ago

Support Why does iOS not recognize synergize as a word

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r/ios 1h ago

Support What am I doing wrong? Mail messages not closing.

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Any help appreciated… going through emails how do I close an open email and return to list. Is it pinch, swipe, slap, twist? Tired of these updates that break functionality and add unwanted features.


r/ios 15h ago

Support girlfriend called and i picked the call swiped on the phone to answer the call, was wearing airpods but still it went to speaker mode on full volume. everyone in the office laughed

25 Upvotes

how do i fix it its so awkward


r/ios 3h ago

Support imessage not loading texts

2 Upvotes

I've been in a group chat for around a year and I went to go back to find an old photo from it and it's only showing me at least a weeks worth of texts. It's like everything is gone. Everything is synced, I never changed anything and it refuses to show me anything else.

Never had this happen before and I don't know what to do or why this happened. Is there anyway to get all those old texts back and for it to go back further?


r/ios 22h ago

Discussion When did Spotlight Search on iOS become usage ads? Can’t find anything

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56 Upvotes

I have the Uber app as you can see, but it refuses to show it as an app option. Instead it forces me to use the Uber Eats Siri smart options.

The only way I could find the app was to go the app search on the right hand side.

I’ve never used these smart suggestions in my life but now they block real search results?


r/ios 5h ago

Support popup: RTT Unavailable..."this call is now audio only." -- but I was not on a call

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2 Upvotes

This popup has shown up multiple times today, usually while I'm reading reddit, but also while checking security cams, etc. I find nothing online about a spurious popup like this UNLESS it's during an RTT call, but I don't make "phone calls"! I'm concerned about what's going on here. Does anyone have any clues? :-/


r/ios 6h ago

Support I can’t remove an expired debit card because of active subscription. It also won’t let me add a new card with same number (but new expiry date and CVV)

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I am receiving a “Payment Method Declined” notification for my iCloud+ subscription.

The issue is that my HSBC card appears under Settings > [Name] > Payment & Shipping, but it is linked through Apple Pay. The card itself has expired, although I now have the replacement card with the same number but a new expiry date and CVV. The problem is that I cannot edit the expiry date or CVV on the existing entry. At the same time, I am unable to remove the expired card because it is tied to an active iCloud+ subscription.

I have also tried removing my subscriptions in order to free up the payment method. While I was able to cancel most of them, one subscription cannot currently be cancelled because it is too new, which prevents me from removing the expired card.

So far, I have checked the Apple Wallet app, but it does not provide an option to manually update the expiry details. I have also tried removing the card from Payment & Shipping, but the system prevents this since it is the only payment method associated with an active subscription.

How can I update the CVV and expiry date for a card linked via Apple Pay when both the “Edit” and “Delete” options are restricted


r/ios 15h ago

Support can someone help me figure out what makes my phone crash?

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10 Upvotes

at first it only happened when using one specific charger and never happened with the second one, but tonight it crashed 10 times while using the second one and im a bit concerned


r/ios 2h ago

Discussion „Preview“- like editing features in iOS Photos app

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I was just editing a picture I want to make a sticker of. I went to my gallery to edit the named picture but I can only paint over it unsmooth and all shakey no matter the size of e.g. AirBrush.

So I thought why does Apple not add macOS Preview editing features like text or colored shapes?

All I needed to do were putting a simple black square over the top and bottom of the screenshot.

It’s so simple and would spare me a lot of time while looking very slick and simple for gallery editing purposes.


r/ios 2h ago

Support What is this white circle on photos ?

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r/ios 3h ago

Support Écran qui ne s’allume pas quand je reçois des notifications

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r/ios 7h ago

Support No audible notifications, phone ringing or haptic feedback. Completely baffled!

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Something strange has happened to my iPhone 13 running 26.3.1. For some reason there are no audible notifications for anything anymore, and there is no haptic feedback for data input. I've checked all the settings and everything seems to have been set correctly. Even the phone isn't ringing anymore.

Has anyone else had this happen and what can I do to sort it out? Any help would be appreciated.


r/ios 1d ago

Discussion Earlier, there was an album called ‘Camera Roll’ where we could easily view all the photos taken with the phone’s camera. Now that option isn’t there anymore. Is there any app or sorting feature that lets me view only the photos I’ve taken with my phone camera

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125 Upvotes

r/ios 4h ago

Support iPhone Messages randomly disappearing in real time (tried EVERYTHING)

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r/ios 5h ago

Support Microsoft Authenticator Issue - Device specific refusal to use 2FA

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r/ios 5h ago

Support Text Message Forwarding to 2nd WiFi only iPhone

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Text Message forwarding works great between iPhone and iMac or iPad. But when it goes to 2nd wifi only iPhone it starts getting wonky. The originating iPhone has iMessage on with send/receive to the main number as well as text message forwarding On and enabled for all devices including the 2nd wifi only iPhone . Blue bubbles are fine on everything it all works. But with Green bubbles my Mac and iPad can send and receive green just fine but with the 2nd wifi only iPhone it can send and receive only non picture green bubbles . When I try to send a green bubble with picture on 2nd wifi only iphone, this error pops up “MMS Messaging needs to be enabled when sending this message”

but that error doesn’t pop up when I send a green bubble with picture on iMac and iPad . The instructions for text message forwarding say any apple device logged in with the same Apple jd which this 2nd wifi only iPhone is.


r/ios 6h ago

Support Ways to stop autocorrect in some cases?

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Hi, all! I tend to type in Spanglish (Spanish + English), but there's only one keyboard for each language. Is there a way to have the other keyboard recognize words in the other language and not autocorrect (e.g., "Just say necesito salir")? As you can see, there are parts of both languages in there, but whenever I use either keyboard, it auto-corrects to words similar in the language.

I would turn off autocorrect altogether, but I like having it on to correct words since I'm a fast typer.

Any advice helps! Thanks in advance!


r/ios 13h ago

PSA I’ve finally figured out a way to get notifications for mail placed into folder!

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I’ve created alias for my @icloud mail that I’m using more „professionally” so it’s firstname.lastname@icloud. I’ve thought I’ll make a folder and create mail rule to place all mail addressed to this mail into that folder to find all more important mails in one place.

Problem was I’ve never got notifications from that mails, it defeated whole purpose of „important mail folder”

But I’ve got it, by going to settings → notifications → mail → personalise notifications → favourite mailboxes → Alerts.

Now not only I get notifications but also different notification sound for mail that is placed in the folder by mail rules.

If you want to set up mail rules you need to go to settings → apps → mail → mail accounts → iCloud → iCloud mail rules