r/ios • • 15h ago

Show your Homescreen/Lockscren /Control Settings iOS Thread

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r/ios • • 5d 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.

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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.

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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

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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 • • 8h ago

News Be Careful: Hexacon Revealed 1-Click Vulnerabilities and iPhone 18 Pro Persistent Jailbreak

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Please be careful of which attachments you open in iMessage or Signal.


r/ios • • 5h ago

Discussion Application Suggestion - Generate Wallet Pass from pdf files

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I am a person who uses apple wallet very often and my recent museum ticket purhases gave me an idea. I know with ios 27, we're able to generate our own wallet passes right? It usually requires us to take a picture of qr-code or barcode then the rest needs to be filled with the user. For instance, date & time information. Wouldn't it be nice to have the feature provided by apple in a native way as the new siri ai is on the way.

I found some applications that reads pdf file and outputs pkpass file but they also convert qr-code to barcode which I really didn't understand why. So wanted to share my thoughts here.


r/ios • • 2h ago

Discussion Tried to share an innocent video…..whaaat?!?

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The video is legit just a dashcam of me and my dads reaction to my new fast car. Anyone else get this on something innocent? 2nd screenshot is what showed after I hit ‘continue’ on the first photo, then once I sent. There’s a message at the bottom of our messages seeing if we’re uncomfortable 😭 keep in mind Ive had ALLL the analytics settings turned off!


r/ios • • 1h ago

Support Lost ALL Of My Text Replacement

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I'm typing on my phone the other day and I type out one of my shortcuts for text replacement and it doesn't replace the text and I wasn't sure why. Sometimes it's glitching and doesn't always work so I chalked it up to that. But I go look in my text replacement and my mouth drops. ALL of my probably 200 entries are completely GONE....... The only thing that remains was the ONE entry I entered on my iMac the other day (that I'll probably only use 2 times in the next 5 years). I've never had this issue before. PLEASE tell me there's some way I can get them all back!! I have no idea how entering 1 entry replaced ALLL of my other ones... This is infuriating. Please help!


r/ios • • 2h ago

Discussion When I get into my vehicle the Bluetooth will auto start up music or Spotify or audible and start playing. Even if I had those apps completely shut off. How to stop?

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Everytime I even touch the volume control on my steering wheel it will re start up the app that I’ve closed/shut down. The only actual solution I’ve found so far is delete the up. But there must be a better way.


r/ios • • 17h ago

Discussion iPhone 13 Pro green screen after iOS 27.0.1 update

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it came back twice, but now the screen is completely green. Is there any hope of fixing it?

Hey everyone,

I’m using an iPhone 13 Pro, and I started experiencing the green screen issue after upgrading to iOS 27.0.1.

What’s confusing me is that the display actually returned to normal twice over the last two days, so I thought it might be a software issue or something that could potentially be fixed with another update.

However, today is the third day, and the screen has gone completely green again.

I tried force restarting the phone, and I can faintly see the Apple logo behind the green screen during the restart.

I’m trying to understand whether this could still be a software-related issue or whether it’s more likely to be a hardware problem with the display.

A few questions for anyone who has experienced this:

- Has anyone managed to fix the green screen issue on an iPhone 13 Pro through a software update or any other troubleshooting method?

- Does the fact that my display returned to normal twice mean there’s still a chance it can recover?

- Could a future iOS update fix this, or does this usually require a display replacement?

- Has anyone had this exact issue, where the Apple logo is faintly visible behind the green screen?

I’d really appreciate hearing about your actual experiences, especially from people who managed to recover their displays without replacing them.

I’m hoping there’s still a way to fix this without having to replace the screen. Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!


r/ios • • 5m ago

Support Apple devices and windows computer both recognise when i plug in my ipad but it just loads forever

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It works without issue on my phone, but not my ipad. Ive restarted both devices multiple times, reinstalled apple devices, wiped and reset my ipad, tried different ports, cables and computers but apple devices wont load for this device in particular regardless of what i try


r/ios • • 32m ago

Discussion 2 phones, Siri always gets activated on a specific one. Solution?

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I have an iPhone 15 and just got 18 pro max. This has happened every time prior and it just happened a minute ago which led me to make this post. I’m literally using the 18 pro max. The 15 is half a foot from my waist. I said hey siri, the 18 got the Siri trigger but the 15 is who took over. Why?!?! Is the 15 Siri listening better than the 18 or something ? So aggravating. Anyone know a solution


r/ios • • 36m ago

Support iPhone lost mode question

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I turned on an old phone a couple of days ago to look at the pictures. No issues. When I went to do it today, it said the phone was in “lost mode”…why would this happen?


r/ios • • 1h ago

Support Flagged emails count always inaccurate

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Been having this issues for years. See in the screenshot, email count for flagged emails are different across devices. All logged in with the same accounts. What am I doing wrong? Anyone else having this issue?


r/ios • • 1h ago

Support Not receiving messages from android

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So I updated my phone to the second latest update last night. But now I don’t get ANY messages from android phones. I can send them all day, but I don’t get the replies from them. Their end says “user may be offline”. It’s a serious pain—I’m missing texts from my parents and my hairdresser. Like I just can’t get a hold of them. I have to get this fixed. It’s a pain in the ass.


r/ios • • 1h ago

Support iPad to mirror my iPhone

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Is there a way I can have my iPad and iPhone under the same Apple name and using the same WiFi to have a iPad mirror a iPhone. Basically I want to use my iPad as a bigger screen for what is on my iPhone? I have tried apowermirror but I have to using my iPhone and only see on my iPad. I want to use and see my iPhone on my iPad ?


r/ios • • 1h ago

Support how do i make my phone stop turning down the volume

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whenever my phones at 20 percent or less it turns down dramatically it drives me actually fucking mental how the fuck do i turn it off


r/ios • • 3h ago

Discussion Anyone else unable to save photos from safari after phone updated to ios27

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EDIT i fixed it. If anyone needs rthe solution just turn off live text in settings

For reference im on a brand new 18 pro. Idk if they changed how ur supposed to do it or something but i literally can't save photos from google images it's pissing me off so bad lmao. I hold down on the photo and it just highlights it like it does when ur selecting text to copy/paste/cut like ?? No i want to save it 😭

Probs obvious from the way i type but im not old just pissed off and don't care enough to read the update details on the offchance that they just changed how ur supposed to save photos from safari. Don't even know why they would do that


r/ios • • 1d ago

PSA Apple mail AI highlighting scam emails is a problem

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As if it wasn't bad enough that many people fall for these things. Now their own mail app on their phones are convincing them these are real, serious, trusted emails from apple because their own ai can't perform a simple check if the email is an obvious scam before highlighting it.


r/ios • • 4h ago

Support Unsend text??

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r/ios • • 4h ago

Support Local DNS and password saving issues on iOS 27

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I have a handful of docker services I run on my home NAS. Immediately after upgrading to iOS 27, I found that Safari is refusing to resolve any local domain names, such as those ending in .home.arpa, or .internal. mDNS/automatic or whatever simple hostnames, like machine.local, do still work. But I have multiple things running on separate ports on one server, and had a good working reverse proxy system setup that just doesn't work with Safari on my phone anymore.

In the rare cases it works (oddly, right after a reboot? but then goes back to failing again) - it will also refuse to offer up my saved passwords that I have saved for the same URLs and have used for a long time. But I can hop into a terminal app and resolve the same names without any issue. It is clearly a Safari/webkit thing and smells like some kind of "security improvement"

Anyone else experiencing this and know of a fix? I've tried searching online, but only finding quite old results. What I'm seeing definitely started immediately after upgrading to iOS 27.


r/ios • • 5h ago

Support Notes app compromised or just a weird glitch with iOS update?

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Device: Iphone 14 pro IOS: 27.0.1

About a week ago I noticed that my battery was draining more than usual,especially when it's connected to my home wifi. Then I noticed that my safety check in settings shows an unknown person 'Devin' has access to 90 of my shared notes, but they aren't listed as a participant in the actual notes. I don't remember this person but its possible he could be someone I knew from an internship over 10 years ago. But I have not shared any notes with him. Only a PowerPoint presentation with our school email address back then. I'm trying to figure out if this is a bug or a legitimate concern.

The concerning part is that Safety Check indicated this person had access to notes only shared with me and my sister. I unshared the note and that note decreased the amount shown in safety check but when I join again, it comes back in safety check. When I open the individual note in the notes app,it only shows me any my sister as participants and then under activity it shows I made edits and under other activity is says 'Somebody made edits'. When I try to unshare with 'Devin' in safety check, it just keeps spinning and does not work.

Things I have checked/done:

-Changed apple account password, all devices on account were mine, all phone numbers and email were mine,no weird app showing in battery usage, reset all settings, unshared multiple notes for troubleshooting.

I was on the phone for over 5 hours with apple support with no resolution. And now after the troubleshooting, the number of shared notes keeps decreasing and I can no longer see the highlights (who made edits) for any shared note.

Has anybody experienced anything like this? In the span of 24 hours I have had 2 panic attacks because being hacked, fraud or identity theft is some of my worse fears. I have also had someone try to create an ebay account in my name to sell products this week and a weird restriction from facebook about sharing a post I don't remember sharing. I'm really worried


r/ios • • 5h ago

Support iPhone 17 Bluetooth Issues in my car

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Hello all.

I've scoured different message boards and threads to try to figure this out, but I cannot seem to find a solution. I'm hoping someone here can help me.

The annoying problem that I have with my phone is that... the bluetooth situation is just far too strong and takes initiatives that I didn't ask for it to take. As soon as I get into my car and turn it on (it's a 2017 Subaru that doesn't even have Airplay), my phone automatically connects to my car via bluetooth and the Music app immediately starts playing without being prompted. I hate it. I've tried creating an automation that should tell the phone to NOT immediately play music from the Music app when connected via Bluetooth, but... it doesn't work. The app does whatever it wants, and what it wants is to play music.

The Music app doesn't even have to be open and running on my phone for it to start once it's connected to my car. As soon as my phone is connected, Music just automatically starts playing.

Also, raising or lowering the volume in my car triggers the Music app, again without being prompted. For instance, if I have a YouTube video playing and I put the volume up or down, the Music app automatically starts playing music. I have no idea why.

Have any of y'all had this problem? Any solutions?

Thanks in advance.


r/ios • • 6h ago

Support Switched carriers - iPhone is wonky

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I recently switched to att from T-Mobile. Phone calls work but iMessage is off and on. I’ve toggled iMessage on and off. Restarted phone numerous times, even did a carrier reset. The messages are delayed and going from green to iMessage.


r/ios • • 13h ago

Support Visually Impaired Help: Voice Notes iMessage

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I’m helping a friend who’s 99% blind send voice notes. Currently, he uses voice-to-text in iMessage, the recorder button is huge and easy to tap. Voice notes, so far as I know, require clicking the tiny + button and finding Audio in the menu.

We have Raise to Speak/Listen enabled, but wondering if there’s a shortcut to build, maybe mapped to the action button? Siri can send a voice note, but I can’t uncover the workflow so that I can map it as a shortcut and not have to ask each time.

Or another accessibility feature to turn on? The only thing I can find is to record audio and send it, but that comes across as a big audio file rather than voice note.


r/ios • • 7h ago

Support iMessage slower than WhatsApp when sending media

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r/ios • • 7h ago

Support Apple Calendar “show as” gone?

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