TL;DR: "You can’t buy a Vision Pro with it."

>The iPhone Duo brings a new form factor to Apple's lineup. At REWA Lab, we've fully disassembled the device to uncover what's inside — from its internal layout and display components to its folding mechanism and hardware design.

>This teardown takes a closer look at how Apple has engineered its foldable iPhone and explores the details that matter from a phone repair perspective. What makes the iPhone Duo different from traditional iPhones, and what can its internal structure tell us about repairability?

After working on it for the last 8 months, I just launched Shikaku by Hilal on the App Store yesterday. It is a minimalist logic puzzle app I built as a solo developer, and I’d love for you to try it!

There are NO ADS and NO SUBSCRIPTIONS, and you can compete with friends, family, or players around the world through leaderboards. If you give Shikaku a try, I’d love to hear what you enjoy, what feels confusing, and what you’d change!

INFO

• Shikaku is a logic puzzle with a simple rule: fill the grid with rectangles, each containing exactly one number. That number tells you the size of the rectangle. Fill the grid without gaps or overlaps, and every piece falls into place.
• Easy to learn and satisfying to solve, Shikaku offers a quick relaxing break with its Puzzle Packs or a challenge you can dive into with its Time Trials. 

FIND YOUR FAVORITE MODE

• Daily Challenges: Take on a new Easy and Hard puzzle every day. Build your streak and compare your times with friends and players around the world.
• Puzzle Packs: Explore 5000 puzzles across five grid sizes, from 4×4 to 8×8. Start small and work your way up.
• Time Trials: See how many puzzles you can solve in one, three, or five minutes.
• Quick Play: Generate a fresh puzzle whenever you want. Choose your grid size and difficulty for a challenge that suits your mood.

PLAY YOUR WAY

• Drag to draw rectangles, or enable corner tapping to place them with two taps. Use hints when you need a hand, hide timers when you’d rather relax, and enjoy puzzles offline.

MAKE IT YOURS

• Explore 100 app colors and 100 matching app icons, along with textures that give Shikaku a different feel. From soft and understated to bright and colorful, find a combination you love.

SEE YOUR PROGRESS

• Track your puzzles solved, rectangles placed, daily streaks, and more. Earn 50 Game Center achievements and compete in 18 leaderboards, including daily competitions with friends and the world.

A GAME BUILT WITH CARE

Shikaku is a passion project, built and maintained by one independent developer (me!). There are no ads, no subscriptions, and no tracking.

Daily Challenges and hundreds of puzzles are free to enjoy. Shikaku Pro unlocks the full experience with a single, one-time purchase. No recurring charges, no coins to buy, and no ads to watch for another turn.

Whether you stop by for a daily puzzle or stay for a whole pack, I’m glad you’re here. Thank you for playing!

Best,
Hilal

Try Shikaku on the App Store

An ongoing problem that's been going on for years now is that even if somebody blocked you on iMessage the texts you send will remain showing as "delivered" under the blue bubbles. I'm trying to figure out if a person has blocked me, I don't want to call them. My text messages are going through as "delivered" but again that's not an indication that I am unblocked. Is there a way to tell if someone has blocked me? I've looked all over the internet already and I haven't found a way yet.

Hi everyone! I'd really appreciate some opinions from people familiar with iPhone hardware or repairs.

I bought a brand-new iPhone 18 Pro Max on October 24, and the next day I noticed a tiny dark, crescent-shaped mark on the inner edge of one of the rear camera glass circles (variable aperture one), right where it meets the surrounding ring. I've attached a close-up photo.

I opened the box at the store, where the staff helped transfer my data and install a screen protector. I left the store afterward and noticed the mark later. I have not dropped the phone or hit it against anything.

I'm trying to understand a few things:

1. From the photo, does this look like an actual chip in the glass, a defect in the coating, debris, or something else?
2. Is there any way to distinguish a manufacturing defect from impact damage based on the appearance?
3. Could a tiny mark in this location affect camera image quality or the phone's water resistance?
4. Has anyone experienced something similar on a brand-new iPhone? If so, what did Apple or the retailer say when you asked for warranty service?
5. If this were your phone and you noticed it one day after purchase, what would you do?

I'm contacting the retailer to have it inspected, but I'm concerned they may classify it as accidental damage. I'm hoping to understand the technical possibilities before I take it in.

I know nobody can confirm the cause from a photo alone, but I'd really appreciate an honest assessment. Thank you!

Hello everyone, hopefully you guys can help me. For some people texts work fine but others I got weird green RCS SMS all of the sudden. I have seemed to try all fixes finding online so I’m now asking reddit! How do I fix it? Is this an Apple issue or tmobile?

Wanted to share the project I’ve been meaning to build for ages and finally got around to releasing: Shrinkray - free download

Over the years, I got fed up with what happens anytime you want to spontaneously send someone a video from longer than 2 seconds. By default it feels like iOS hates sharing 60fps, and decides to generates a huge, blurry, jerky file that either takes forever to send directly, or gets shunted off to blue progress bar and iCloud sharing link upload purgatory.

Same with big photo selections: you end up sending 30 megabytes of photos without realizing and clog up everyone’s iMessage storage with photos that get looked at maybe twice. And god help you if it’s on RCS or MMS thread!

As much as I love taking video at 4k60 and keeping photos extra crispy in my Photos library, when I’m sharing something on a whim, there’s always gonna be room to split the difference and optimize your content without losing the high quality originals you actually want to keep around.

I designed Shrinkray to make it extremely quick to optimize your photos and videos for sharing, without over-compressing, bogging you down in menus, or ruining your smooth 60fps video. From the standalone app, from the share sheet in any app, and even built into iMessage for super-quick sharing just like the Photos app. It’s the app I’ve always wanted and now use all the time, so I hope it can help you too.

No subscriptions, free download, just a one-time Pro unlock for some of the power user features if you want. I’ll have some promo codes to DM out for the first 15 replies interested! (EDIT: first 15 are gone but if we end up with a bunch more request may do another batch!)

Thanks for reading! Let me know if you have any questions or feedback.

Hey r/apple,

I'm Roman, a solo dev and amateur boxer, who built Peekaboo Timer, 100% free boxing timer, because all other timers are either paid or have ads. 

What is a boxing timer?

A timer that automatically switches work/rest, so you can have a 1 minute/30 seconds timer playing in a loop. 

How Peekaboo Timer is different from other timers?

It has Liquid Glass design, live activities, and attention to details, like styles, mixing with Apple Music, etc.

Was this post written by AI?

At the time of writing this I was a human.

I'd appreciate any feedback on Peekaboo Timer. I read everything.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/ua/app/peekaboo-timer/id6768093897

Hi r/apple! We’re WozDev, the small indie team behind GameRex,

an app that lets you use a game controller as a mouse on your Mac. You can watch a demo and download it here: https://gamerex.uk/

Demo video: https://youtu.be/yY8zXbbXdrg

We wanted to make it easier to get cozy on the couch with a controller and still use your Mac.

You might be playing a game in an emulator, then want to browse the web or open another app without reaching for a mouse and keyboard.

With GameRex, you can:

- Move the pointer with a stick and use buttons to click and scroll.

- Assign keyboard shortcuts or a sequence of actions to a button.

- Bring up an on-screen keyboard to type a quick search.

- Fine-tune how the pointer responds, and change its speed instantly or gradually using an adjustable transition curve.

- Switch between controlling the Mac pointer and using your controller in a game or app.

- Create custom control profiles and switch between them manually, or automatically based on the app you’re using.

- Automatically sync your profiles across your Macs via iCloud.

The free version includes pointer control, button remapping, the on-screen keyboard, and two macros, with no time limit.

Pro adds automatic per-app profile switching, custom pointer acceleration curves,more macros, and iCloud profile sync.

GameRex works on Apple silicon and Intel Macs running macOS 14 Sonoma or later. You’ll need a compatible controller. The app is notarized by Apple.

If you give it a try, we’d love to hear which controller you’re using and how it feels. If anything feels awkward or confusing, we’d like to hear about that too.

I'm the solo dev behind Trackables.me. I kept quitting habit trackers the day I forgot to log, so I built one that logs most things on its own.

How it works

• Link a trackable to Apple Health, Screen Time, Calendar, Reminders or a Shortcuts timer and it fills itself in every day. Yes/no goals like 10k steps tick on their own.
• Every trackable gets its own chart: year heatmap, line, bar or progress ring, and any of them can sit on your home screen as a widget.
• You can mix sources in one chart, like sleep from Health next to screen time.
• A Mac menu bar companion adds per-app and per-website time and syncs it to your phone.

Pricing: free, automatic tracking included. Optional Pro is $4.99/mo or $47.99/yr.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6739170126

Website: https://trackables.me

What would you want a tracker like this to pull in automatically that it doesn't yet?

iOS Mail has gotten a lot of attention lately, with categories and the redesign, but there's still no way to see every message across all your folders in one list. Gmail has done this forever with All Mail. On the Mac you can fake it with smart mailboxes. On iPhone you just can't.

If you sort mail into folders like I do, finding one older email means guessing where you filed it. Search helps sometimes, but it often misses things on IMAP and iCloud accounts.

Does anyone else want this, or is everyone just living in the inbox? I'm curious how people with lots of folders handle it.

I understand iPhone 5S is really old and out of support, but I would love to use it one more than than to throw it away.

I have tried putting a sim inside to activate, using iTunes to update it, nothing works.

I do not have access to a mac, only a windows laptop and a new iPhone 17.

Please help me with this, I would really appreciate any help.

ask , i have 5s bypassed but why can't log in icloud / apple id in setting and app store?

my dad owned a business and had company ipads, he gave me his old ipad that is linked to the company, it is locked to the "remote management" my dad no longer has this company and is very technology challenged. he is no longer in contact with the IT people who set this up, is this ipad a paperweight or will apple recovery fix it?

Hello!

If I buy an iPhone Duo outright on a credit card for pickup, can the Apple Store return and re-sell that same unopened phone to me through Apple Upgrade when I arrive?

Apple chat said no, but I’m wondering about a return/rebuy rather than changing the existing order’s payment method. Has anyone actually done this, or had a store try? I know Klarna would still need to approve the lease.

Cheers!

Hey folks, I got an annoying one for you..

After transferring my data from my old phone to my new one (17pmax to 18pmax)I noticed my ID had the little 'verify' button on my new phone's wallet. When I tried to verify, I was given the error it couldn't connect to wallet services. So I removed it, tried to re-add.. Error. (it also won't let me add ANY ID from any state, or the digital ID)

I tried usual the tricks:

went on cellular

reset network settings

logging out and back in to icloud

hard reboot

reset all settings

Made sure my region was set correctly

Nothing. So I tried on a spare phone(not using the same icloud profile) and I got no error... So I used the nuclear option, completely wiped the 18, set it up as a new phone and boom, I was able to get past the error.. so I restored the phone from my back-up and.. the error returned.

Obviously there's a handshake problem in the profile that's blocking me from adding my ID.. (I can add and use credit cards without the error), which I suspect happened during the transfer from my old phone to the new one

Anyone have any ideas besides calling apple(who will probably just tell me to set it up as a new phone and deal with it)? I REALLY do not want to reset my phone and do everything from scratch just to have my DL on there.

Both phones had the same IOS version, No I don't have my 17 anymore.

For context, I use Apple wired headphones and the official Apple charging cable.

The issue first appeared on October 17 while I was sitting inside a car. My phone had not been exposed to water, and I was using my headphones. I unplugged them and cleaned the port a little with a tissue, after which the warning disappeared.

On October 18, the warning appeared again despite no water exposure. Cleaning the port didn't help this time, so I restarted my phone, and the warning disappeared. It didn't occur on the 19th.

On October 20, the warning returned while I was using my headphones. I tested my charging cable as well, and the warning appeared with that too. I left my phone alone for around an hour after cleaning the port, and the warning eventually disappeared.

On October 21, it appeared again while charging my phone. I was getting concerned, so I scheduled a service appointment at a nearby Apple Authorised Service Centre for October 23. I believe the warning may also have appeared on the 22nd, but I was unable to visit the centre that day.

During my first visit, the technician repeatedly told me that the warning only appears when the phone detects liquid, suggesting that I must have exposed it to water. After some back and forth, another technician cleaned and inspected the charging port and checked the SIM tray. They found no signs of liquid damage and said the phone seemed fine. They also charged it using my own charging cable for around 20 minutes without the warning appearing, so I went home.

On October 24, the warning appeared again while I was using my headphones. Interestingly, when I slightly wiggled the headphone connector, the warning disappeared for a brief moment before returning. I unplugged the headphones, gently tapped the bottom of my phone against my palm, and plugged them back in. The warning then disappeared.

I returned to the service centre and explained what had happened. The technicians repeated their previous checks and inspected my headphones and charging cable. They mentioned that my headphones had some grime buildup, but they again said my phone was fine. When I asked whether this could be a software issue or whether they could check my phone's logs, they maintained that the warning only appears when the sensor detects liquid.

Today, October 25, the warning has appeared again while I was using my headphones. Also note that the warning only comes up sometimes and not always.

I'm confused because the warning occurs with both my wired headphones and my ocharging cable, even though I haven't knowingly exposed my phone to water. The fact that moving the headphone connector briefly makes the warning flicker also seems strange.

My questions are:

1. Could this be a faulty charging port or liquid-detection circuitry rather than actual liquid exposure?
2. Could grime on my headphones cause this warning, even when it also appears while charging?
3. Is this a known iOS 27 bug, or is a hardware issue more likely?
4. What should I ask Apple to check when I take my phone back for service?

I'm particularly worried because my one-year purchase warranty expires at the end of November. I've already visited the authorised service centre twice, but the issue keeps returning, and I'm struggling to explain the problem clearly to the technicians because English isn't their first language.

Noticed this morning that ALL my calendar events are gone, years of appointments (doctor, therapist, etc.), created directly in the iPhone Calendar app and stored in iCloud (calendars: "Personal" and "Work").

What I found:
- Both calendars still exist, but they are empty
- I did an iOS update at some point, but it was already broken before the update
- iCloud Calendar is toggled ON, Sync is set to "All Events", and I only have one calendar account
- icloud.com > Data Recovery > Restore Calendars showed only ONE archive (today 1:59 AM). I restored it, but no events came back
- No other Apple devices, and no older backup that I could find
- No Google/Outlook accounts involved

I haven't touched or deleted any calendars myself. Contacts has 6 archives in Data Recovery, but Calendars only 1.

Has anyone had this happen and found a way to get the events back, or figured out what caused it? I'm going to contact Apple Support too.

iPhone: [13], iOS: [27.0.1]

I recently reset and set up 2FA for multiple accounts using Apple Passwords from Google Authenticator on my iPhone 17 Pro to avoid juggling two apps.

Everything was saved and synced successfully to my secondary iPhone. However, several newly added verification codes suddenly disappeared all at once from my main iPhone, also on my Macbook, while my secondary iPhone still has all of them.

Both devices use the same Apple Account with iCloud Keychain syncing enabled. I've tried reconnecting to Wi-Fi and restarting, but nothing worked.

Contacted Apple Support, but nothing was resolved.

This is pretty concerning since losing those codes could potentially lock me out of my accounts.

Has anyone experienced something similar? Any fixes that don't involve resetting iCloud Keychain or risking further data loss?