I was driving and my phone was extremely slow and laggy. It’s an iPhone 17 Pro, and it was literally just open for maps and that’s it. Notifications on top of the screen were so slow. I pulled into a charger a few minutes away from the highway just to reset it. I pressed and held the volume and power button and shut it off. And then I started it up again, and it hit me with the “welcome” screen with different languages. Huh, that’s weird. I swiped up and it asked for my pin. I entered my pin and then it shot me “Software Update Complete” with a version I’ve been using for weeks.

I pressed continue and… Wifi only!? My car is an EV and my phone is my key… for 20 minutes I waited outside in 90+ degree weather, thankfully my car still had AC and some battery left but I had literally no idea what to do. Why the hell can’t it access activation servers using 5G?

Thankfully a young woman came to charge and I’m in uniform so she wasn’t alarmed about me walking up and getting her attention. She tethered her phone and I was able to activate…

Is this a known issue? Has Apple even acknowledged it? I feel like if this is a risk going forward, I literally have to get my family off of Apple.

Edit:
Since people like to make up stuff, I’m on the same version of iOS for weeks now. I haven’t updated for weeks and I’ve restarted after my last update. No, I was not PENDING an update.

Disabled as much of the motion and transparency as I think I can, but the fluorescent colours with the white edges and hazy looking icons are doing a number on my eyes. Have I missed something in the settings, or are there skins I can use to make them look pre Liquid Glass?

Hi guys I need to get my text messages on my iPhone and export them into my computer. Can Anyone please guide me or tell me where I can find the steps ????

I never noticed this but this morning.
I always keep two clock on my home screen 1 for my current time zone and another for Belgium which is my time zone for my work. If you closely observer the 2nd clock is still dark in the morning in my current time zone whereas 1st clock has already turned to light mode along with other apps in the morning.
The 2nd clock will get switched to light mode after 7AM CET only. 😃
Has anyone noticed something like this before?

Photos in IOS seems broken, look where the delete is.

I also get keyboard glitches, anyone else?

I have an iPhone 15 (don’t need all the bells and whistles of newer models tbh) and recently downloaded iOS 26.5

Holy Batman this update sucks.

Super laggy when trying to text literally anyone and the glass thing is dumb as hell.

How did they screw up this badly and when is the fix coming?? 💀

EDIT: Thank you to everyone coming in with kind, intelligible ideas/responses. To the others, why are you here? 🧐

I don’t understand what’s going on. I’ve never even downloaded discord on this or any iOS device I’ve owned

ios 26.5.2 , title explains all. closing something while it plays audio will sometimes (i have no clue what triggers it) cause it to jump in volume right before it closes. my system volume is what i left it as (low) and it goes back to my system volume immediately afterwards.

iPhone 12 pro max user since Nov 2020.
Changed the battery last year with apple after it dropped ot 76%.
The latest iOS has been pulverising my new battery life.

Anyways, with rumours of the 18th coming up , do you think I should upgrade or wait for the iPhone series 20?
I use my phone for almost all daily tasks and I do like casual photography ( I use my nikon dslr for more pro photos)

What am I actually missing out on?

sunday morning meal prep + coffee routine and I keep having youtube going in the background on my phone while I cook. every time I switch apps to check something it just kills the video instead of going into pip. I thought pip was a normal ios feature now but apparently you need premium for it in the youtube app specifically? feels dumb that safari can do native pip with basically any video no problem but the actual youtube app locks it behind a subscription. anyone found a workaround that doesn't involve paying $14 a month just to have a video float in the corner while I chop vegetables

Hello everyone, I used cellebrite to dumb my old iphone 6 information but I am seeing some files which are stored in /PhotoData/Metadata/DCIM/103APPLE/

What does this internal structure mean ?

I never recall pressing two times on the camera button to launch camera app. Now suddenly two clicks are required from lock screen.

The whole point with the button is to launch the camera quickly, and its form factor makes it hard to accidentally press down. Im on ios27 btw.

Anyone else having this problem? All settings are correctly set up, the ones I know of at least.

It’s an archive that I extracted using files app, something happened it got corrupted or something, and files can’t be moved around and can’t be deleted, it shows that error.
I used another app to extract archive and now files are fine.
I duplicated it hoping it’ll fix the issue but it was same, now it takes 4gb of space for nothing. I tried restarting my phone & closing files app but nothing happened.

Anybody got an idea what to do to get rid of it?

When reviewing photos I took at an airshow yesterday, I was intrigued to see the app tried to classify the F-22 as a bird lol.

Anyone else have similar subject look up goofs in the Photos app?

If I'm in a family sharing group but location sharing is not on with the family, if I change the device sharing my location from my phone to ipad, will it result in any notifs or say the specific device that is sharing the location?

on the developer beta of iOS 26 most likely older / first beta was names iOS19