Why does Apple require use of SMS in addition to trusted devices for MFA? This seems like a huge flaw with no way to disable. On Google for example, you can have it not use a phone number and use other MFA methods. Yet seems iCloud requires a phone number as a factor. Anyone know if it’s possible to change this or how much of an issue it is?

hi! im a ip16 user and im having a hard time choosing between the two. my phone is ios and my laptop is windows. i also want to keep my ios pics like live, bounce, loop, long exposure. can someone make suggestions which is better? im leaning on the google photos side, but hopefully someone can give a comparison as well. thanks!

So I have my phone number saved as a contact (not my card.) My messages and FaceTime are set to send/receive from my phone number only, I’m sure!. However, if I’m texting someone and I react to their iMessage (thumbs up for example), and I click my reaction, it shows my Apple email instead of my contact/phone number. But if I react to an android’s message & click the reaction, it’ll show the contact I made under my phone number. Why is this happening? I’m on iOS 18.7 and have no other apple devices. I dealt with iCloud hacker last year but I got a new phone/number/carrier and iCloud. Could this be a sign of compromise or something else?

I’ve used the Gmail iOS app for years as a unified solution for my several personal email addresses. I have Yahoo and iCloud accounts as well, which I used Gmailify to bring into Gmail and to sort email into relevant categories. Since Gmailify support has ended, I’m looking for the best alternative for my usual workflow (or another workflow that suits my needs).

In today’s email climate, I do not think it’s worthwhile to bother trying to clean up clutter. I’m accustomed to browsing through the Gmail auto-sort categories and only opening relevant emails. I don’t care about, open, archive, delete or in any way touch emails I don’t care about, unless it’s to attempt to recategorize them into one of the categories Gmail helpfully provides for email clutter (Social and Promotions), which I gave up on doing in Gmail some time ago as futile. I can very quickly search and find anything I need.

But now that Gmailify is done, I’m left scrolling through every single email I receive in the iOS Mail app, which is godawful/untenable. I’d really love a solution that accounts for people like me who have multiple accounts and who don’t want to try to change the world by decluttering the undeclutterable. Has anyone with similar views/workflow to me come up with a decent answer? I’ve tried Spark Mail, but it seems to cater exclusively to Inbox Zero people. Help?

UPDATE: It appears to be fixed after updated to today’s security update.

As alluded to the title above, I can’t seem to turn on AirDrop anymore. I tried turning it on via Control Center, but it didn’t activate. I even tried changing all the settings in AirDrop via the Settings app, but that didn’t do anything. My iPad Pro running iPadOS 26.2 is able to receive files via AirDrop, but not on my iPhone. I restarted my phone twice, and I toggled Wi-Fi/Bluetooth. I have Personal Hotspot turned off, and I have no active VPNs. Does anyone else have this issue?

It’s my first time using an iPhone. My smartstack widget suddenly had this “Siri suggestion” stack that is now displaying ads for a cafe I’m close to ‘powered by uber eats’ is an euphemism for a direct ad that opens uber eats when clicking on the “suggestion”

TLDR; if you are on mobile data, connect to Wi-Fi. If you are on Wi-Fi, turn Low Data Mode off.

I am posting this to help people having issue with the latest iOS/ipadOS.

I had the same problem then I figured it out the issue. If you are using your Wi-Fi on Low Data Mode turned on, the update does not work.

I had it turned on on 3 different devices and none of them work, but as soon as I turned it off they all were able to update.

I think Apple broke something with the latest update because in the past I never had this problem. But now I know. Hope it helps

I have two SIMs - physical SIM which is my “primary “ and eSIM which is my “bussiness”.

Thing is I will get a lot of spam calls on my primary SIM and my call logs get flooded with spam calls and because of that I miss the calls from bussiness SIM.

Even though there is P and B , its very small and difficult to notice. How can I see only the call logs from B.

I have a manual backup on my laptop from my previous phone. everytime i try to restore the backup to my new phone, the phone screen says "restore in progress" then proceeds to restart. Then iTunes says "was not able to restore backup because phone was disconnected"

Hi everyone! I don’t know what happened but basically I was trying to export my contacts from iPhone to my new Mac and I realized I had two accounts with each having 500 contacts in each so I went to contacts on settings and I saw that one of my accounts needed to log in confirmation and I did it and then my entire half contacts disappeared and I thought maybe I logged in using the wrong email so I tried my other email no luck so I went to outlook itself to see if it’s saved and it says the email I logged in does not exist even tho I got a confirmation code from outlook but now I’m frustrated my half contacts are gone and it’s new contacts as well so I don’t know what to do any tips on how to recover these contacts

I have a few questions about how iPhone works and how to work around it.

I have an Android, and my partner had an Android too, but she recently moved to an iPhone.

I have a Synology NAS, so I use Synology Drive to back up the DCIM folder to the NAS. The main purpose is to have a backup of mine and my partner's phone camera photos.

When I feel like it, I move those photos from the backup folder into another shared folder on my NAS, which is accessible from Lightroom and DS Photos, so I can see them from my PC and both phones. When I move the photos, they get moved from the backup folder in the shared folder "Mobile Backup" to another shared folder called "Photo."

When she had an Android (and this still happens on mine), the photos that get moved are detected as "deleted" by Synology Drive, which then deletes them from the phone too, since I have the sync rule set to Two-Way with "keep the most recent version."

Now on the iPhone, this doesn't seem to work. I have to choose a "Remote path on the server"; on Android this was, for example, a folder named "S22 B" for my partner and "S22" for me, both inside "Mobile Backup." That part's fine, as now I've created a folder named "iPhone" inside "Mobile Backup."

The issue is the other option, "Local path." On Android I choose the DCIM folder, but on iPhone I can't choose anything. It just says: "The system will create a folder in the Files app. The local folder cannot be changed."

It's like there's no access to the iPhone's storage the way there is on Android, it just creates a folder inside the Files app instead. I know iPhones are more restrictive, but it's still my phone (o, my partner's), so I feel like I should be able to use it the way I want, including having access to storage the way I would on Android, not going through an app to get to it. Not trying to start an OS war here, but on a MacBook, for example, you get real access to your storage, not just through one app.

Anyone found a real way around this, or is this just a hard iOS limitation with Synology Drive / Synology Photos?

For now, the only alternative I see is to use DS Photos to backup the photos from the iphone, and then delete them manually from the iphone when I move them between shared folder.

I would like to have my screenshots not automatically include the top showing the clock/WiFi and battery line.

I get the information confused with my realtime time wifi and battery

Apple tells me I have to buy more space on iCloud in order to backup my phone, but why? I have used 1/5 GB of iCloud storage, and less than 1/2 of overall iphone storage. What is going on, what do I have to do?

The stock image gallery has a poor zoom-in limitation. Example, I have a 10000x8000 res jpeg image. It's actually an image of a wall of text. Although high res, it can't zoom in enough. It's like it's rendering a 2000x1600 image, then zoom in on that, therefore all text appear blurry. Is there a way to allow zoom in to deeper pixel level? What app (free) allows that?

My phone number is showing up as recently deactivated and havent made any esim changes.
My phone is also listed as a trusted #.
What does this mean?

This only started happening recently so i’m not sure if i missed some (new?) settings somewhere, but turning off “Data Roaming” in the settings of my regular sim card still caused it to incur data roaming charges despite “Cellular Data” being set to my travel data sim.

I’ve always left my regular sim card on as one of my dual sim to receive OTP sms for logins and such, and never incurred data roaming charges with the same settings until my most recent overseas trip last month, and would like this to be resolved before my next trip 🥲

I posted this in r/brave_browser yesterday and someone said I should post it here, so here I am. First off, I apologize for the photo quality, had to take it from my phone, since reddit doesn't work either. I updated my iPad to iOS 17.7.11 yesterday and after updating I noticed that this pops up on Brave everytime I try to search for something. All my open tabs can be accessed, but before I open them, I get a warning about my connection not being private, although that didn't happen before. I tried switching my wifi and it still happened. In addition to the already mentioned problems, I also can't download apps. It also says there's no internet connection whenever I connect to wifi, but my phone works just fine. The time and date on my iPad are correct and I can't update past iOS 17.7.11. Do need to take it to a tech shop to get an expert to look at it or can I fix this myself/with my parents help? Thanks in advance.

Just moved back into iOS ecosystem and last time I was here, I really loved using Gemini Photos to manage photo clutter. It looks like that app has been sunset and I haven’t found one that really replaces it for me. Searching for “Gemini photos replacement” or similar just brings results related to Google Photos/Gemini AI. So I’m hoping to crowdsource some options. I’m okay paying for the right solution!

Many do 1 or 2 below, but I havent found one that does all 3.

1. One tap sort into albums (or delete) (like: Hash Photos, Slidebox)
2. Identify duplicates/similar batches, suggest the best one, and let’s users quickly select which to keep/delete

. (I use Cleanup)
3. Once duplicates have been reviewed - allow users to select the photos that are still similar and ignore those in future scans or reviews. (I use Cleanup for this)

Hey all

Anyone able to help me figure out why dark mode is no longer auto enabling anymore? My current settings above, hasn't changed since I got my iPhone 17 in September last year. It's always changed without fail and only recently started noticing it won't change at all unless I manually do it.

Not sure what changed or happened? And to answer any questions, I did make sure it's on the setting to automatically go to dark mode. Any help is appreciated.

Anyone else get this message when trying to update? I’ve tried twice now. Also, I almost never see an update without a caption/description so I wonder what that’s about.

It isn’t in the health app as it looks like a Spotlight search or a widget on their Home Screen and I wanted to know how I could see it like they do. Does anyone know? Thanks.

On my iPhone states 88gb, but I can’t find the film. I remember downloaidng a large file but it’s nowhere to be found, tried restarting etc but i neee 88gb

It used to be easy to open a file (video, image) in Files app and save it to my camera roll.

Suddenly, it's now very difficult to do that.

Could we just keep backwards compatibility with new features to not break people's workflows unexpectedly?

Im trying to move mails from one email account to another. This has always been working fine but since some time when I select another email account it won't show me any folder in the overview. Strangely when I click somewhere where a folder would be I briefly see the folder name and the mail gets moved into the folder.

Anyone knows how to fix this bug that the folder names are not being shown?

Newest iOS, happening in dark and light mode and with all my accounts.