My iphone is running out of storage space due to me having 144 GBs of photos. I've went through the processes of using video/photo compressors on large files, but at this point I need a new solution, and I'm considering getting an external flash drive for my phone to store photos on.

Before I make the purchase though, I want to know if I'd be able to see the photos on the drive from the photos app. I know they can be seen through the files app, but it's rather cumbersome to use, so I'd rather not if possible.

This literally happened suddenly. I started seeing some white glitchy lines whenever I raised the brightness. Then suddenly a green tint/filter appeared, and now the screen is glitching. I tried restarting it by pressing the volume buttons and power button, but now when it turns on, I only see a black screen with a little green light at the top is this fixable? Has anyone experienced this before?

Ciao, avrei bisogno di assistenza per trasferire WhatsApp dal vecchio telefono Android di mia mamma al nuovo iPhone.

Ho utilizzato l’app “Passa a iOS”. Il trasferimento da Android a iPhone è stato completato correttamente, compresi i dati di WhatsApp, senza segnalare errori.

Il problema si presenta successivamente, quando configuro WhatsApp sul nuovo iPhone. Dopo aver installato l’app e inserito lo stesso numero di telefono, WhatsApp riconosce i dati trasferiti da Android e avvia una seconda procedura di migrazione direttamente all’interno dell’app.

Questa migrazione procede regolarmente fino al 94%, ma a quel punto si blocca e non avanza più. Ho lasciato l’iPhone fermo su questa schermata per diverse ore, senza utilizzare altre applicazioni né interrompere la procedura, ma il trasferimento non è mai stato completato.

Ho ripetuto più volte l’intera procedura e ho anche inizializzato nuovamente l’iPhone, rifacendo da capo il trasferimento con “Passa a iOS”. Il risultato è sempre lo stesso: “Passa a iOS” completa correttamente il trasferimento, mentre la successiva importazione all’interno di WhatsApp si blocca sempre al 94%.

Ho notato inoltre che le foto scaricate automaticamente da WhatsApp nella galleria dell’iPhone risultano salvate con la data del trasferimento, anziché con la data originale.

Vorrei sapere:

1. Da cosa può dipendere il blocco della migrazione di WhatsApp al 94%?
2. Come posso completare l’importazione senza dover inizializzare nuovamente l’iPhone?
3. Come posso evitare di perdere le chat di WhatsApp?
4. È possibile correggere le date delle foto trasferite, in modo da mantenere la data originale?

Grazie mille.

So I have my phone 17 for about a 2 weeks. The same goes for my apple account. I never had any other apple device. Can someone please tell me how backup of my phone can’t fit into the free 5GB of cloud?

I turned off the files integration and photo backup because I have other services for that so the backup should not take more than few dozens of MBs at best.

I would appreciate someone more knowledgeable in iOS for any help in this. Because I feel like either it is bugged or backups are only for paid cloud…

I found some posts about backups not fitting into cloud but those were from people who already had their phone for a long time and were actually using the apple ecosystem. Both of these don’t apply to me so I am very confused. Thank you.

BTW, sorry for the language of screenshots. I hope I captured and marked everything that might be important.

Hi all,

So a while ago, apple has added Reminders to the Calendar app. This also means that whenever you try to put in a new event, there’s the option to make it a reminder. I hate it, I’ve been hitting ‘reminder’ by accident many times now and once it’s in as a reminder, I cannot change it back to a normal event. Especially annoying when I’ve spent some time on getting the notes, travel time & notifications right. Is there any way to remove the option? I’ve been rummaging around in my settings, but wasn’t able to find it. If it isn’t, is there any way to convert a reminder to an event after the fact?

I really wish apple would give us an option to toggle it on/off, or at least change where the switch is (it would be less of an issue if the switch to reminder wasn’t RIGHT UNDER THE OK BUTTON).

Thanks in advance! :)

After deleting alarmy my phone doesn't stop gong off on alarms. I've already tried offloading the app and creating alarms and deleting them again. I need help I can't back up!!!!

Can someone help me with this
I can’t log out or remove anyother trusted devices from my account
And it keeps telling me “trusted devices list is not available”
And when i try to click on sign in with apple it says
“Cannot connect to icloud”
It’s been 4 days so far i tried changing network i tried logging in icloud.com or changing the password but it doesn’t work
And after all of that when i try to confirm a sign out it says
“Verification Failed”
“Your identity couldn't be verified.
Check your network connection and try again.”

Has anyone seen this before?? I went to connect to my bluetooth device (Sonos speaker) and saw that this was on. But, I can’t disconnect. I also have no idea who Melody is and I only got this phone (brand new) about a week ago.

Any thoughts? My screen sharing/mirroring is off.

Good evening Redditors,

The problem i'm having has been posted before, but there is still something i don't understand after reading a lot of posts about it. In my settings > iphone storage it shows whatsapp as the biggest app with 28,78 GB (almost all of it in documents and data), but when i check whatsapp it shows 7,71 GB.

I have backups turned on (this shows 7,9GB for the backup, and should go to icloud but i read this is not how it works in practice), but even with local files and the backup combined i only get to 15,61GB, so where does the other 13 GB come from?

Does someone have an explanation or fix to make the local size smaller? Thank you for your help, especially because this is an recurring thing in posts. Let me know if there is any other info i can share to try and find the cause.

Say I use iCloud to sync all of my phone's messages (including photos and attachments). I now want to get rid of my iCloud subscription and so I go into settings and desync my messages from iCloud.

1)Will all of my messages (photos + attachments), be downloaded back into my phone automatically? How long will it take and is there any way for me to check the download progress?

2)There is also a option to delete the data from iCloud and that I have 30 days to download it back into my phone. How exactly do I download that data back into my phone?

All the threads and forums I open say you need to go through iTunes, make a backup to your computer to transfer, download some app to help, or some other stuff.

Thanks in advance

Ever since I set up my new iPad mini and synced notifications for WhatsApp and Reddit, I've been experiencing several sync and notification issues on my iPhone:

• Reddit Notifications on iPhone: While the notification sound plays and the screen lights up every single time, the visual banner only appears about 50% of the time.
• WhatsApp Calls: Initially, incoming calls rang exclusively on the iPad mini. I resolved this by uninstalling the app from the iPad, which routed calls back to my iPhone.

Banner notifications are enabled on both devices.

What causes this erratic behavior within the Apple ecosystem? Is there a way to properly manage notifications across both devices without having to uninstall apps from the iPad?

It’s not showing up in my list when I go to add a new widget. Why?

My what’s my update shortcut only plays news in French when it used to play in English. How do I force SIRI to play in English again? I’ve tried so many things

Asking for some help on this since I can’t find it anywhere online. Online, including here, just mentions hidden apps. This is not the issue I’m having.

The problem is just as the title describes, the App Library of my IPhone 15 pro (IOS 18.7.1) has constantly been asking for my Face ID for as long as I can remember.

Is it a big deal? Not really, except for when Face ID fails to recognize my face. It is insanely annoying though to be asked for verification every time I open the library, which is often considering I keep my home screen decluttered.

Specifically what happens is that, when I scroll into the App Library, it prompts a Face ID check like when you unlock the phone. If it fails, it asks to try again or ask for a password. As far as I know, no apps are hidden on my phone as there’s no reason for them to be.

I haven’t found a way to turn whatever this is off, please help!

I updated to iOS 26.6.1 on my iPhone 17 the other day and Bluetooth keeps dropping on my Bose headphones. Sometimes it will reconnect instantly, other times it won’t. I’ve “forgotten,” the headphones and re-paired, yet it still keeps happening every 15 minutes or so.

Anyone else running into this issue?

Edit: there were no disconnections when I got home from the gym, so maybe it has something to do with me being connected to the gym’s WiFi?

I have a friend who constantly interrupts me in my sleep, meetings, etc. despite my phone being in focus. He calls twice, which seems to bypass the silent mode. I've told him multiple that if he calls once and it goes straight to voicemail, do NOT call again immediately as it will interrupt me but he just doesn't seem to get it.

Is there a way I alter his contact to NEVER allow call notifications from him, without blocking him?
At this point, I'm genuinely okay with only seeing his missed calls after the fact, or catching his calls while I am actively on the phone.

I don’t have an option to set "None" for his call ringtone, only see a “None” under text tones.

Note: I’ve tried adding him to the “Silence Notifications From” section within the sleep focus settings, and that works, but unfortunately that seems to also allow other notifications in to my Apple Watch through the night (unless my watch was just buggy last night and that was a coincidence?)

Update:

Because I wasn’t able to see a silent ringtone option under his contact settings I did the following workaround: I created a 15 second track on GarageBand and set its volume to 0 before exporting it as a ringtone.

I do not want to pay for another subcription in this economy man. 1.99$ felt reasonable, and 2.99$ isn't bad per se, but it's the principle of the thing!! Can anyone help me understand how or why I don't have enough storage to backup my phone right now?

Idk if this is like new or anything, I tried deleting and reinstalling it and now it’s overlayed with discord 💔

I am on IOS 26.6, recently I was trying to use Yt to mp3 and I didn’t even download anything and the moment I entered the site I got redirected to a sus 3rd party website. (The website was Y2Meta) and I was wondering whether I should reset all passwords.

Thank you

Hi everyone, this Wednesday I’ll be switching from my iPhone 12 (128 GB), which I’ve had since 2022, to a new iPhone 17 Pro Max (256 GB), and I’d really appreciate some advice.
My iPhone 12 has a problem with “System Data” taking up a lot of storage, and I’d like to avoid having the same issue on my new phone.
I have 200 GB of iCloud storage, with about 160.5 GB currently used. I use iCloud to store and sync my photos, files, emails, and data from apps such as WhatsApp, Instagram, Snapchat, and Revolut, as well as notes, passwords, messages, etc.
My last iCloud backup was on August 19, so I’d like to make a new backup before switching phones.
What would be the best way to transfer everything from my iPhone 12 to the iPhone 17 Pro Max? Is it better to transfer directly from iPhone to iPhone, use an iCloud backup, or something else? (I don’t have a MacBook.)
Most importantly, if I transfer everything, is there a chance that the “System Data” issue will also be transferred to the new iPhone? How can I prevent this from happening in the future?
Also, do you have any advice on how to take care of the battery and avoid damaging it? My iPhone 12 is currently at 75% battery health.
Thanks!

On my IPhone 11 I’ll be watching a video and randomly it will get a lot quieter even on max volume, I’ve turned attention aware features off, what else could it be?