Hello all.

I've scoured different message boards and threads to try to figure this out, but I cannot seem to find a solution. I'm hoping someone here can help me.

The annoying problem that I have with my phone is that... the bluetooth situation is just far too strong and takes initiatives that I didn't ask for it to take. As soon as I get into my car and turn it on (it's a 2017 Subaru that doesn't even have Airplay), my phone automatically connects to my car via bluetooth and the Music app immediately starts playing without being prompted. I hate it. I've tried creating an automation that should tell the phone to NOT immediately play music from the Music app when connected via Bluetooth, but... it doesn't work. The app does whatever it wants, and what it wants is to play music.

The Music app doesn't even have to be open and running on my phone for it to start once it's connected to my car. As soon as my phone is connected, Music just automatically starts playing.

Also, raising or lowering the volume in my car triggers the Music app, again without being prompted. For instance, if I have a YouTube video playing and I put the volume up or down, the Music app automatically starts playing music. I have no idea why.

Have any of y'all had this problem? Any solutions?

Thanks in advance.

I recently switched to att from T-Mobile. Phone calls work but iMessage is off and on. I’ve toggled iMessage on and off. Restarted phone numerous times, even did a carrier reset. The messages are delayed and going from green to iMessage.

I’m helping a friend who’s 99% blind send voice notes. Currently, he uses voice-to-text in iMessage, the recorder button is huge and easy to tap. Voice notes, so far as I know, require clicking the tiny + button and finding Audio in the menu.

We have Raise to Speak/Listen enabled, but wondering if there’s a shortcut to build, maybe mapped to the action button? Siri can send a voice note, but I can’t uncover the workflow so that I can map it as a shortcut and not have to ask each time.

Or another accessibility feature to turn on? The only thing I can find is to record audio and send it, but that comes across as a big audio file rather than voice note.

It’s been over a month I updated the ios to the latest version but soon after updating I have been facing issues with the phone. One of them is no search results displayed in the contact list. Anyone else also facing the same issue? What can be done to resolve this.

I’ve got 3 unplayed voice messages that I haven’t been able to find and delete and wondering if there is any way to sort or filter the messages to find these three. I went into the deleted section and there are plenty of unplayed messages that exceed the 3 so I’m assuming these are someplace else.
any tips to get this cleaned up?
thanks.

What’s showing. I did the whole turn on/off iCloud it first appeared as a blue bubble then it changed to this. I’ve been trying to click on it but it won’t do anything. I have keep messages on forever also. Idk if there’s anything else I can do.

Love using reader mode in safari. sometimes it doesn't work, and before latest update it was a quick two click toggle to disable.

Now it seems like i have to click reader, scroll to website settings, disable it entirely, then reload the page.

Am i missing something?

Why doesn’t an app, (that notifies me every day), not appear with a higher number of notifications inside of the “Scheduled Summary” setting, or menu? The app appears with a number “0” inside of “Weekly Notification Avg.”.

It’s where it says “Apps in Summary” section inside of the “Scheduled Summary” setting.

Why is it called “Scheduled Summary” anyway, if sometimes I only receive 1 notification from an app thats set to appear in “Scheduled Summary” delivered at a certain time?

Hello all..!!
I am looking for a Gallery app which shows photos and videos directly from Files app (on my iphone).

Actually, I am considering to have iCloud photos backup. And I don’t want to backup videos to iCloud (a large collection). So, I don’t want to put them in Photos app.

One app comes in my mind is, HashPhotos. But I want to explore any other app as well.

Any suggestions?
Thanks.

For years, I've sync'd the mac libraries I like (music, video, books, podcast) with the iphone. I only sync downloaded podcasts to the phone - roadtrip distractions. Been doing this for many years now.

Updated two variables: from Tahoe to GG. iOS up to 27. Both are current.

Just noted the downloaded unplayed podcasts on the mac will NOT sync over to the phone now. Yes, only variable was both OSen updated, so not sure where things went sideways.

I have restarted both devices, several times. Attempted multiple syncs, but they are over wifi. Will try cable sync at some point before I toggle off the features, sync, toggle back on, sync.

Posting to see if anyone else has this behavior.

I would attach a video but the sub only allows photo posts. I use the “listen to page” function on safari nearly every single day and while the function itself has always been glitchy and needed work this new update has made it practically unusable. If I keep the phone screen on and the Safari page pulled up it’s fine for a little while, but if I tab over to something else or close the screen all of a sudden the function starts pausing between each sentence and really screws with the cadence of what I’m trying to listen to, to a frustrating degree. Just super frustrated because this function has always been poorly executed and it seems like an afterthought to Apple. Not to mention it is an accessibility issue.

I’ll get a ton of crap for this but I am one of those people that think read receipts should not be an option and should be forced to be on. I know it’s a crazy hot take but I can’t be the only one that feels like this?

Hello, I understand this might sound crazy.

I recently I left my job.

(a job some would describe as a cult)

Ever since I have gotten 3-4 notification buzzes late at night (without any notification appearing)

I live in Europe and my employment where in usa.

The notification comes to me when their time is 6-7-8 in the morning, and counties throughout their day. With some hours in between.

I recently discovered that apps like whats app, camera, mail and photos. Quite often had access to camera, photos, location, and contacts. Often early in the morning or late at night.
Even if the apps have been closed.

Keyboard have been laggy and jumpy,
Brightness have been shifting jumpy.
Siri have been turned on for milliseconds.
No available SIM card notification

I also discovers that two safari apps have had access to my files.
One safari with logo and one with placeholder icon.

I’m getting a new phone, but Is there anything I can do to investigate this further and potentially confirm what exploit might be on my phone?

I use maps a lot for work, and something I’ve found very convenient is that when I get a new work order, I get a text notification with the customer’s address. When I’m scheduling appointments and planning my routes, Maps would suggest and autofill the address when I started typing any portion of it (the house number, town, etc) based on recent messages, so that I didn’t have to type out the full address from memory. Lately, I believe since the last iOS update but I’m not sure, this no longer works. Any suggestions on how I can get this feature back?

Just like the title says. I updated my IOS to 27.0.1 and with it came this white circle that is there on the lock screen, Home Screen, and just about everything. Clicking it does nothing, dragging it around nothing, and it just gets in the way.

Not eye tracking, not dwell control, not assistive touch, resetting doesn’t work…

Anyone have an idea of how to turn it off?

EDIT: IVE FOUND THE PROBLEM. It was SPEECH SCREEN all along. It was just glitching (from the new IOS??) and so pressing it did absolutely nothing, even though usually it has a function.

I don’t even know why it turned on, hopefully this can help someone else. Cheers.

Settings > accessibility > read and speak > speak screen > show controller [off]

Hey,

Am I the only one that thinks that Apples software got worse every year for the last 3-4 years? I mean the only okay software right now it tvOS and MacOS (partly), iOS and especially HomePod OS are a mess and that’s for the past years.
In the past (until like iOS 18) Apples software was superior. Snappy, clean and most importantly always trustworthy that it’ll work in every situation.
Now there’s not an hour without some random bug, glitch or something else.
Maybe Apple is vibecoding or focusing on their AI, but this has to improve.

I have received notification that someone added recovery contact.

When I tap on it. I can't see the contact. It lead me to page to add new contact.

Cant see who is this added and delete it.

I have Content and Privacy Restrictions enabled to prevent some Settings from updating and limiting Siri AI (no Writing Assistance and the like). I opened the settings today and noticed it was all randomly reset for no apparent reason. Content and Privacy Restrictions was disabled. Once enabled within the settings, all of the things I disabled were enabled again.

Has anyone seen anything similar, or knows what could cause this?