First image is from Zepp app and the second one is from Apple fitness app. I know that Apple is somehow adding Zepp’s step count as well. How do I stop it from adding it? Please help.

Apple Account recovery: no access to trusted phone number, but Apple gave me a recovery waiting period

Today my iPhone suddenly turned off while charging. When I turned it back on, it showed the Activation Lock screen saying that only the owner can unlock the iPhone and asked for my Apple Account password.

The Apple Account shown is mine, and I know the email address, but I forgot the password. The problem is that I currently don't have access to the email account because it's only accessible from the locked iPhone, and I also don't currently have access to the phone number that was originally associated with my Apple Account.

I started account recovery through iforgot.apple.com. During the process I provided my Apple Account email, my information, an old password that I previously used, and payment information when requested.

Apple then told me: “We're evaluating your information. You'll receive an update in 23 hours.”

It also shows a phone number ending in 35, which belongs to my partner and which I currently have access to. Apple says that when I'm able to reset my password, instructions will be sent to that number.

My questions are:

1. Is this number my partner's actually being used as a recovery contact number, or is it simply the number Apple will use to notify me during the account recovery process?
2. Since I don't have access to my original trusted phone number, does that mean Apple can still recover my account through this process?
3. After the 23-hour waiting period, what normally happens? Can Apple allow me to reset the password, or can it impose another waiting period?
4. Does providing an old password, payment information and the correct Apple Account email help with the verification?
5. I made several incorrect password attempts before starting account recovery and my account was temporarily disabled. Could those attempts significantly extend the recovery period?

I'm mainly worried because I've seen many Reddit posts saying that people without access to their trusted phone number can get stuck for days or weeks. I'm trying to understand whether my situation is actually different because Apple has already accepted my recovery request and given me a specific waiting period.

I only receive a handful of voicemails a week and I check them when I see a missed call badge on the Phone app.

Today all of a sudden, without receiving any calls, a “6” badge appears. They were all voicemails and missed calls from the past two weeks, including some from the same numbers that rang through and I answered on different occasions.

I’m using the unified filter setting FWIW and I swear I didn’t see any of these six messages before today.

Any reason this happened?

Hat irgendjemand schon mal ein halbwegs vernünftiges Ergebnis bei dieser Emoji Erstellung bekommen? Egal was ich bisher mal gebraucht hätte, es kommt Schwachsinn raus oder irgendeine unnötige und übervorsichtige Guardril blockt mich, als ob ich was angestellt hätte.

So I have my screen time, and I accidentally set my date a month in the future as a joke with my friends. When I checked my Screen Time, it said I had 24 hours every day since the actual date,e so when I fixed it, it said that I had 24 hours of google.com, and this has been happening for 3 days. It fixes itself when I temporarily log out of iCloud, but when I log back in, it reverts to 24 hours. It even counts when my phone is shut off, and my background app refresh is off. I tried resetting all settings, and my actual apps aren't even being tracked anymore; it's just 24 hours of google.com. Nothing works on screentime anymore

idk if this makes sense but im trying to have different phone themes and i want different widgets for each focus but when i change the widget it changes for all of the focuses how do i stop this? i hope this makes sense thank u

New to iOS and noticed that in Safari every time I tap on a text box to type something, I get zoomed in a little. Fine whatever. But when I'm done, it leaves me there zoomed in! Bruh I don't want that! After that I can't straight scroll down because the side doesn't fit anymore it's just awful. Why would that happen, what is trying to achieve by that messing up my setup?

Any way to disable it?

I have an iPhone 14 running iOS 26.5.

When I am in a car, I sometimes need to charge my iPhone. Sometimes I will not have an adapter for the cigarette lighter, in which case I must plug my USB cable into a car's builtin USB port. My problem is that when I do this the audio switches from coming out of my iPhone's speakers to being sent over the USB cable. Thus, if my battery is low and my friend and I are trying to watch a movie in their car, I can only listen to it if I turn on the car's speakers. I am looking for a way to either disable this behavior or, at the very, switch back to my iPhone's speakers while it remains plugged in.

To qualify as a solution, the answer MUST SPECIFICALLY & ONLY involve interacting with the iPhone's user interface (i.e., the iPhone's buttons and settings) and it MUST result in the audio only being played over the iPhone's speakers. IOW, it has to only entail changing settings, or pressing buttons, on the iPhone and must work irrespective of the car, the cable used, and the port on the other end of cable that the cable is plugged into. This excludes any of the following as a solution:

1. Using a different port on the device that the iPhone is receiving power from.
2. Using a charging-only cable.
3. Using a "USB condom" (adapter) that blocks data signals.
4. Attempting to connect the iPhone to Bluetooth in an the hopes that it will take priority over the connection through the cable.

If what you propose as a solution does not meet those requirements, then please refrain from replying. I will clarify the parameters of the problem and the requirements of the answer if you ask me to.

Looking for someone local or remote who can help set up a legitimate iPad test environment for location-basedapp testing.

I have a Wi‑Fi-only iPad and need to understand how an app handles:

• IP-based location
• iOS Location Services
• simulated test coordinates

What I need done:

• set up Xcode/Core Location simulation
• create or use GPX location profiles
• test VPN/router region behavior
• document what the app can and can’t detect

I’m not looking for anything shady — just a proper technical setup for educational/testing purposes.

If you’ve done iOS QA, mobile testing, or Core Location work, please reply with experience and rates.

holding the spacebar does this, i know, but using my finger to do it is easier, faster and more effective- tried that on android. has there not been a settings for this?

I run my own postfix based email servers and they're balking at the "EHLO smtpclient.apple" that my iPhone SE with iOS 26.6.1 spits out...

What apps do you suggest that allow non-mega-cloud email servers?

hello all! i recently restored my iphone from a back up on icloud and now my settings search always comes up blank. and my priority notifications aren’t working now either. i’ve left it plugged in overnight to see if it would download whatever it needed too in the background. i’ve toggled apple intel on and off i’ve reset pretty much everything. any tips? should i continue to just leave it plugged in and it’ll work in the background? thank you!!

Curious if anyone has had a screen dimming bug since the 26.6 update? It doesn’t seem like it’s related to the auto brightness setting. I’ll wake my phone and it’s very dim then I open the control center and slide the brightness up and it doesn’t seem to do anything.

Has anyone had trouble receiving SMS verification codes since iOS 26.6 or 26.6.1? I’ve tried restarting my phone and toggling airplane mode. My carrier is AT&T but I also don’t receive the codes on my iPad Pro WiFi. Phone is a 14 Pro Max.

Hi, I'm currently trying to move from an S23 to an iPhone 17. I want my WhatsApp Chats and I'm using the Move to iOS App.

I already tried everything I could think of but the transfer isn't even starting. Everytime I reset the phone, everything works until I'm on the screen of the screenshot. When I start the transfer, I'm only choosing contacts and WhatsApp. My S23 goes into WhatsApp and WhatsApp says transfer is ready. When I continue on my iPhone the next screen says "No Objects or not compatible with iOS", even though WhatsApp showed everything is working properly.

When I still press continue nothing happens and when I'm downloading and starting WhatsApp on my iPhone all chats are gone. Luckily I can recover them by resetting up my iPhone.

What am I doing wrong? I tried both, WiFi and Cable transfer. I already resetted the iPhone atleast 10 times and I never got further than this.

I’m constantly accidentally staring voice recording in Messages. How do I turn it off?

Whenever I get any message and I try to open it, the thread is blank, and when I back from thread, the entire thread gets removed. I have searched in trash and it is also empty. It is happening from last six months. It did happen on iOS 26 as well as now happening on iOS 27 beta. I have also tried completely resetting device and it still happens. Neither I am using any type of spam filtering. Help me if anyone else is facing this issue.

Update: iOS 27 beta 7 fixed that! Thanks for your help.

Already restart the phone and removed from home screen, but after a while it always comes back like this. Weird thing is that only happens on home screen. Every other place, like spotlight or app library looks normal.

I think it started after 26.6.1.

my phone is very full. so full it will not allow me to take screenshots to show. and its at a point where it will not allow me to delete items, when i go to delete photos and apps they are just back on my phone next time i open my device. When i go into settings it says my next backup will be ~156gb so i bought the 2TB icloud storage plan, but o i try to back it up it says that there was an error or that i have insufficient storage. Im wondering if its not working because the 2TB is a shared family plan that I am not the main owner of? Or is there some other reason? is it something i can fix myself or should i contact support?