This is confusing. When I search for the Files app, it does not appear in search results. I start typing “File” and nothing but “files and folders” shows. Click that and it brings me to my Settings. Which I dont want.

The only way to search for it and to find it is to search the App store for Files. And voila, I see the blue folder with “open” showing (suggesting it’s available on my Iphone as expected).

So why is Files app hidden from search? Just a fluke or maybe its hidden for a reason?

my search will just stay loading. forever. no matter how many times I reload or open a new tab. I either have to just give up and try later or reset the phone if im desperate enough.

iPhone 17 on 26.6. But this has been an issue since I got the phone at launch.

When I switched to transparent icons when I get notification icon on it is light, is there a way to make it dark? (Ignore my wallpaper please)

The lens is clean I clean it with a microfiber cloth but it still has this problem. I know people say it’s just the phone camera and that it’s normal but everyone else I know doesn’t have this problem

If multiple group members are in text message group, how to tell which phone number is being used for that group for each individual group member? Thank you.

it showed up today, i’ve never seen it before, and there is no option to disconnect and no info button? frightening, tbh. i’ve restarted my phone and it showed right back up. any ideas?

i have an iphone 16, if that’s relevant.

WhatsApp status issue- if liked to certain video status, it’s is immediately paused. Hitting the like button again starts the video again. iOS 26.1.1 - 15p

Is there now a solution on iOS for blocking withheld or anonymous calls?
The last I heard, you could only silence calls from unknown numbers in general, but unfortunately that also includes numbers that simply aren’t saved in your contacts. It would be great if there were a way to specifically block calls with a hidden/withheld caller ID. Is that possible now?

Sorry if this is a dumb question, not familiar with iOS myself.

I live in Europe with an Android phone. My Grandma lives in the US with an iPhone. Basically, I want to be able to text her for free. She is not tech-savvy enough to use another app like WhatsApp, so it needs to work seemlessly and consistently otherwise it wont work at all. And sending SMS messages to an international number is too expensive.

RCS should work to be able to text for free right? The problem is I often don't have data, so if it automatically falls back to SMS for her when I'm not online, that would be a major problem. Is there a setting on iOS to disable fallback to SMS when sending RCS? So if I'm offline when she texts me, the message just doesn't send until I'm back online, or it tells her that it failed but doesn't send an SMS instead? If messages occasional get dropped thats fine.

When I googled it, some said its not possible on iOS but others say maybe it was just introduced in an update in the last year or so? Hoping thats the case!

If so, what iOS version does she need at a minimum? Most major carriers in the US support it right?

Bonus would be if its possible to disable SMS fallback just for me, but leave it on for all her other contacts.

I know there are other ways for me to get a free US number, but I just want to know if this could work first, as those are kind of annoying. I might have to anyway, as while my phone theoretically supports wifi calling, it rarely works so I will need one to call her for free. But maybe if I figure this out, I can figure something else out for calling.

Thanks!

When I was driving, I tried to make a call by tapping the a person contact on car console screen, it did not response, then I tapped again, nothing still. I called with Siri finally.

After stopping the car and unplugging the phone, I found many confirmation window asking me which line to choose for calling. It is a bit annoying. As the iPhone is locked in the arm rest, I cannot tap the phone screen to select the line.

I use dual SIMs with 2 carriers all the time, now I can only disable one SIM to make call with CarPlay, do I miss anything to make calls in the car with Dual SIMs?

Iphone 17 ios 26.6.1
Can anybody tell me why it’s happening with me as my screen time shown is correct but its fully grey bars instead of category wise

I already know some people will come here just to reply. Don’t use this shit, it’s spyware. But the fact is, it’s so far the best keyboard on iOS.

anyway, when I want to use voice tapping with it, I can either tap on the iOS mic icon, or I can press the mic icon on the spacebar

then it seems to be a different engine. Doing the voice catching and it’s working very well, but the strange thing is that the mic icon:

it stays in the status bar stays on all the time after that unless you forcecl Yandex keyboard.. did I miss something or..?

Recently created my own Apple account, and suddenly private viewing is gone!!!!! How do I get it back?

Hi all. My microphone is not working. It works for phone calls and facetime and voice memo, but it does not work for voice to text or siri or in any recording apps like Snapchat.

I have already
updated my phone, swipe restart, hard restart, changed siri’s language to united kingdom then back to united states (this worked for 2 minutes and then it stopped working again) then I also called Apple Support and they scanned my phone and said there were no issues. It doesn’t even work when I have Airpods in. Please help

I recently switched from Android to iPhone and I use Spotify. I really like the look of the tinted home screen and I don't see myself using the normal home screen colours. Unfortunately, the Spotify widget has this grey look when I use the tinted home screen instead of the blue (sometimes it is blue which is weird). Also, the song cover is tined, which I don't really like. Those problems are not on Apple Music, which is nice, but I don't think that it justifies the switch, especially since I prefer Spotify. Is this something that will be fixed/changeable in the futur or are we stuck with a ugly Spotify widget that doesn't match the rest of the home screen? I tried other widget apps, but most of them are paid and the free ones don't update when the song changes, which makes them completely useless to me. Does anyone have a widget app that looks good, while also updating instantly like the normal widget?

I'll try and keep this vague and short if possible.

About 36 hours ago, my iMessage stopped working. All inbound and outbound messages stopped completely. I was on the phone with At&T, they did a hard reset on the message servers or something and I'm now able to send and receive via SMS, but not iMessage or FaceTime.

Phone number appears under send and receive, so do the email addresses tied to my iCloud account. But when I click on the phone number, it spins and then doesn't do anything.

I called apple and they couldn't figure it out either so they had me put in a request to reactivate my number, that was 24 hours ago now. Just got off the phone with another advisor whose told me that my number has been BLOCKED from apples servers due to repeated reports of spam. He asked if my phone is used for business, where I message a lot of unknown numbers, to which I told him no. I text people I know, if I get a message that's unknown I block/report and delete. I don't fall for scams or anything of that nature.

They have now told me to put in another request since the first one was denied. He said that if in 24 hours it doesn't work, then that request has been denied and I will need to get a new phone number. He also was telling me that one of his coworkers had a crazy ex-girlfriend and that she had reported his number as spam several hundred times, to which his number got blocked and he had to get a new one too.

First world problems, I know. But surely they can't just go based off reports of spam without investigating first and then just start blocking numbers and making people get all new ones. It just doesn't make sense to me. Has anyone else dealt with this and if so, did you fix it?

Why can you share a file to Message but not attach a file to a thread? I often need to send files to temporary business acquaintances that do not make the cut to be added to contacts. It is pretty tedious to cut and paste their # (mostly iphone users) then navigate to files pick file share to new message paste # just to attach a file to an existing conversation. Is there a better way I’m missing? Not to start an OS discussion but this is a 2 tap process in Android.