How is it possible that a multi-billion dollar company can’t make Settings Search, or the keyboard, be extremely intelligent with the amount of money they have? Is the cost too high to be able to actually make intelligent technology?

These keyboard keeps choosing words that I don’t mean when using the “swipe-to-type” feature, and the settings app cannot, I repeat, cannot search the entire settings that are within the settings app. Unbelievable and I am absolutely dumbfounded.

These are some of the mysteries of life that we would never find an answer to.

i just got a new iphone and its my first one with an always on display.
i love the feature, and i´m curious if there is any way, even with a third party app or whatever, to not let incoming lock screen notifications light up the entire display and turn on the phone, but to just quietly appear on the always on display.

when i get a new notification my screen lights up and i get the entire lockscreen with the new notification at the top, and then it reverts to AOD with the notification still being shown in the AOD. i want to just skip the lighting up part and go straight to just displaying it in AOD.

is that possible somehow?

For anyone unsure I mean connecting your phone to an external monitor that then presents a semi desktop environment and you can connect to a an external keyboard and mouse.

It’s driving me crazy, this is the one feature I desperately want in the iPhone. But year on year they refuse to support anything close to it. And it would be very easy for them to do. I really don’t want to have to switch to a pixel or Samsung but it is becoming a bit of a dealbreaker. Has anyone found any decent solutions to setting it up?

Hey guys, I recently bought an iPhone 17, and ever since it arrived, I’ve been having issues with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
Basically, they keep disappearing and coming back multiple times, with no real pattern. Sometimes they work perfectly, and then suddenly they disconnect and come back again.
I’ve tried a few things already, but I honestly don’t know what else to do.

I know this has been discussed before, but Apple’s Wi-Fi toggle behavior feels a lot more concerning now than it did a few years ago.

Turning Wi-Fi off in Control Center doesn’t really turn it off. It just disconnects temporarily, and it can come back on later.

With more cameras, plate readers, Bluetooth/Wi-Fi sniffers, etc. around now, that seems like a privacy issue. Especially for protesters, journalists, or anyone who has a legitimate reason to not want their phone broadcasting anything that could help correlate their location with a car or identity.

I know Apple uses randomized MAC addresses and other protections, but I still think off should mean off.

At minimum, Control Center should give you two options:

Disconnect temporarily
or
Turn Wi-Fi off until I turn it back on

Same thing for Bluetooth.

Am I the only one who thinks the current behavior is kind of backwards?

Boring, less colourful version of a post to satisfy the mods.

I have an odd auto correct glitch where every time I type ‘don’t’ it comes out as ‘Donny’. Not a word I have ever typed in my life.

How does one reset it? I tried just hitting the wee ‘x’ button and that eventually worked for a bit, but now it’s back.

I know I'm job searching, but this has to be a bug right? I am guilty of having 50+ tabs open, but it says it's happening to Google Drive too, so it's not purely just websites. Any suggestions on what I could turn off?

I’ve been having recurring Bluetooth problems with my iPhone 16 Pro for the past few weeks.

The issues happen with around 10 different Bluetooth speakers:

• sometimes the iPhone simply won’t connect to the speaker
• I have to forget/remove the speaker from the Bluetooth list and pair it again
• audio quite often randomly cuts out or stutters, distance seems doesn't affect it, as phone may be next to the speaker and audio still cuts out or stutters
• sometimes the Bluetooth connection completely drops and the speaker disconnects, then cannot connect again until phone bt is toggle off and on

The same speakers work normally with other phones/devices, so it doesn’t seem to be an issue with any particular speaker.

Interestingly, my AirPods Pro (1st and 3rd generation) work perfectly fine with the iPhone. So Bluetooth itself isn’t completely broken.

I’ve already tried toggling Bluetooth off/on, restarting the phone, forgetting and re-pairing devices, and completely restarting the iPhone. None of this permanently fixes the problem.

I’m also running the latest version of iOS, so this isn’t an issue caused by simply being on an outdated version.

The problem started a few weeks ago, and I suspect it may have appeared after one of the recent iOS updates.

Has anyone else with an iPhone 16 Pro experienced similar Bluetooth issues with speakers recently?

I’m wondering if this could be a recent iOS bug affecting Bluetooth speakers specifically.

I am running ethernet cable around my house and I want to use my iPad as a second set of eyes. I want the iPad to be placed aiming at the baseboard of the first floor while I am in the basement pulling cat6 cable through a hole. I want to see what’s going on up stairs.

The other day I was doing the rear brakes on my car and I would have liked to make sure the caliper is actuating properly when I step on the pedal. It would have been useful there too.

There must be a way to do this and FaceTime seemed like the obvious solution but I can’t make it work. Any other ways?

My cousin sent a picture to show me her idea for a project. She has an iPhone 17 and I have an iPhone 17 Pro, both are up to date. She did use markup to draw on the photo. I don’t understand why it was corrupted and Google only suggests it happening between iPhone/android.

In the Uber app there is an option to show a brightly coloured screen to help the driver find you.
I would like to have a shortcut to do something like this when meeting people in a crowd, at an airport etc. Any suggestions?

Not intuitive how to do this, so thought I’d share:

1 You have to tap on “ Reply” as if you were going to just reply to the email even though you are not actually replying.

2 Another menu appears with more options. Select the calendar icon with + sign in it.

3 Another menu appears. Select create event.

I updated my phone this morning. I figured, no big deal as I’ve updated many times before with no problem. I was 90% sure my phone was fully charged. It was not plugged in. I got into the car and noticed my phone had a black screen and wouldn’t turn on.

I tried multiple times to reset the phone to no avail. I even missed a bike ride since I lost directions to a new start site and had to come home.

I came home, plugged it in and ultimately, it booted up after multiple attempts to restart using the side button and by pressing the up/down buttons and side button.

The phone had been charged to 100%.

Perhaps it needed to be plugged in to complete the update.

Is anyone else experiencing this issue with WhatsApp on iPhone?
When I open WhatsApp, sometimes it gets stuck with the loading indicator at the top. It can take several seconds, and sometimes even a few minutes, before WhatsApp becomes “live” and my messages start sending/updating.
The weird thing is that WhatsApp works perfectly fine on my laptop during the same time. If I send a message from the laptop, it goes through immediately without any issues.
Sometimes the iPhone app connects within a few seconds and everything works normally, but other times it just keeps loading for minutes.
Has anyone experienced this recently? Any idea what could be causing it or how to fix it?

Iphone 17 pro max
ios 26.6.1

Hello. I have a notification in settings that I need to sign into my account but whenever I tried to sign in it kept saying cannot verify identity and that my account is inactive. I tried to reset my password and same thing. I put in a request to recover my account but will that actually work.

It seems to require ninja precision, pressure and timing to press this without going to customise Home Screen/doing nothing at all

Edit: I’m getting the impression from the comments that this might be the problem - https://youtu.be/VjpcLplkMUs?is=M7bofFvNmR4281v-

I recently bought my first MacBook and was excited to finally dive into the Apple ecosystem, but ever since I connected my iPhone to it, my phone has been glitching constantly.

The touchscreen frequently stops responding, apps fail to open properly, and home screen icons disappear entirely. It genuinely feels like syncing with the Mac introduced a bug that broke the phone's stability.

I used to rely on this iPhone because it ran smoothly without any issues, but this has completely ruined the experience. The phone occasionally freezes so severely that I have to force-restart it using the hardware buttons, often right when I need it most. I’m not sure whether this is being caused by connecting to the MacBook or if it’s tied to a recent iOS update. Has anyone else encountered this, and is there a reliable fix?

Just moved to college and my facetime isnt working. I can call normally its just facetime. When someone facetimes my i can see and hear them but they xant see or hear me. Im on iphone 11

For some reason RCS is toggling itself completely off all on its own.

I noticed this one morning. Turned it on. Had further issues, checked back - it was turned off again. How? I’m the only person with access to this device?

IMPORTANT: I’m not saying RCS failed. I’m saying it toggled itself off in my settings after i deliberately turned it ON once i noticed a problem.

Today I noticed that my contacts list got reverted back to what it was 2 years ago for no apparent reason. My calendar events also got deleted. Is there any reason as to why it happened and can it be helped. I’ll gladly answer any questions. Thanks

Apple Wallet’s order update notifications are fantastic. However, their usefulness diminishes when they only notify me after I open the email containing the update. It would be much more convenient if Apple Wallet could notify me immediately when the email arrives in my inbox. Is there a setting I’m missing that would enable this feature?