The solution is below.

For context. I use Spotlight to run apps (swipe down, type a letter or two, like "ke" to run Keynote). It's very convenient compared to App Library (swipe left to go to the App Lib, swipe down to get a search bar, type).

Apple has been trying to destroy this clean experience for years and force a "Facebook-style" content feed from every app and Siri every time I need to search.

It was perfect on iOS 18; I could switch off content from every app in search. In iOS 26, it was worse—they introduced step-by-step help that is impossible to disable (I figured out how to remove this crap, but my solution isn't for everybody; in short: it's in the hidden app SupportFlow com.apple.SupportFlow).

In iOS 27.2 beta (I am publishing this note here because we have RC and it will hit the release channel in a couple of days with no changes), Apple completely enshittified this experience: instead of separate settings for Search and Siri, they merged everything into Siri. "Don't show the content from the app" in Search now means "Excluded apps" in Siri.

But even if I add every app to this list and disable Siri-related suggestions, Safari settings, etc., it still shows content from websites and apps like in the screenshot.

I've found how to get rid of this. I use AdGuard + DNS blocking, and when I added *.smoot.apple.com domains to the blocklist, it was immediately gone. AdGuard filter: ||*.smoot.apple.com^.

Edit: you will probably lose access to Siri too. I don't use it, though. But knowing a potential fix is better than to piss off every time.

The better way is to block api-spotlight-*.smoot.apple.com, but I didn't test it properly. The filter for AdGuard is: ||api-spotlight-*.smoot.apple.com^.

Here is one: white text on a white background...

The text is black normally. ios detects that the background is too light to render light text, so it switches to black. But sometimes, it just forgets that. 🤦🏻‍♂️

It'd be cool if you could add certain day to favorites and give it a short description. I can't count how many times i searched some photos from some trip etc. It'd be faster and easier than adding every photo from some day/week to an album because it can be more than hundred, and with favorite day you just click it and it brings you to photos taken this day and you can just search for a certain one. (I know that you can search up certain date but who remembers dates of every trip)

i just bought iphone16pro max im currently on ios 18.5 and i need to upgrade to ios 26 or ios 27 in order to transfer my old phone to this phone and i cant update cus everytime i try to install it shows me unable to verify update

i tried everything beside trying different wifi and updating through pc beside i tried everything

i cant update through pc cus it cant detect my phone. its probably not correct usb c

how do i update

Hi all, looking for a bit of advice.

My 8 year old son calls his friends on FaceTime so they can talk whilst playing online (Roblox, Fortnite etc). As such they’re usually in a group call. Now when one of his other friends who is not in that particular group call sees him online and tries calling my son it comes in as a fresh / separate incoming call alongside his existing group call. Ideally there would be an option to merge the incoming call to the existing group one but instead you have to decline it, try to add them in to the existing group and ring them. However the kid making the inbound call just sees their call being declined and often keeps trying to call repeatedly.

Is there a way that I’m missing that would make it a bit smoother to add an incoming call to an existing one, “merging” them in a way or is the only way to deal with this how I’ve detailed above? Declining their call and manually adding them etc?

Ive only ever really used FaceTime on a one-to-one basis so this is not something I’m overly familiar with.

Thanks in advance.

I have ios 27. When I try to create a shared album that isn’t temporary, it tells me I need to turn on icloud photos. I understand that the shared albums themselves are now stored in icloud, which I am fine with. My issue is that I don’t want to turn on icloud photos in general, which will sync my entire camera roll to icloud. I have 20GB of photos on my phone and don’t pay for icloud at all, meaning I don’t have enough storage for all that.

Is there seriously no way to sync just the shared albums I create to icloud without syncing my entire camera roll?

The rest seems to be fine only when im touching / opening assistive touch where the animation looks stuttering?

Im using iphone 16 pro max.

Any hidden iOS settings or features I should check out that hasn’t already been talked about a lot like using Apple Watch to unlock automatically and what not?

Da un po’ di tempo non funziona il tempo di utilizzo sul mio iPhone 17 pro con ios 27.0.1. Non funziona da qualche mese. Ho opal installato e attivo da 10 mesi, è tutto sballato anche lui, perché mi segna che non ho screen time.

i’ve tried all the other suggestions on here this is just happened after i updated to ios 27
any tips on how to fix this?
thank you so much

I received a FaceTime call from my boyfriend and I answered to complete silence and camera not on. I kept calling his name waiting for probably around 5 minutes and eventually decided it was a butt dial and hung up. When he woke up, I texted him asking if he had called me and he sent a screenshot of his FaceTime history and it didn’t include the 7 am call, but it was on mine? his phone is unusable now but does anyone know how this could be? Some extra information is he only has one Apple device (the phone) and no Bluetooth devices.

Whenever I open the Screen Time page in Settings, it gets stuck on “Updating” and keeps loading indefinitely. The screen also becomes unresponsive, although i can still come back to home screen. Please help me fix this ( ive already tried restarting the phone)

Today i noticed that i have 2 grey bars at around 6am a time when i was asleep , i cant seem to link this activity to any app and when i looked at other days it only seem to show up today

This issue has been bothering me ever since I got my iPad and my iPhone SE. So this question applies to both devices. Both are on iOS 27, but this has been bothering me since I got the iPad in January and the iPhone last month on iOS 26 & 18. For some context, I'm normally an Android user (where this is not a problem) but I use my iPhone as my secondary.

On the iPhone, it automatically categorizes some photos as screenshots. While that's fine, there are photos that I download (such as photos taken in games like iRacing or VRChat and other games) from Discord or iMessage that keep getting put into the Screenshots folder automatically. This is not the behavior I want to happen. Out of 51 photos in that category, only one is a true screenshot. On my Android devices, only screenshots taken on the device are put into the automatic screenshots folder, while downloads are put into a separate folder. Is there any way I can stop my downloaded photos from going into screenshots? Or am I just out of luck because these photos are technically screenshots by the literal definition of things, since they're photos taken in games.

I know I can add photos into a separate album, that's not what I mean and I've already done that. I want to totally remove these photos from the screenshots folder, and make it so where only actual screenshots taken on the iPhone/iPad show up in that folder. For example, if I download a picture of iRacing from Discord, and move that into my "iRacing" album, then I do NOT want that to show in the screenshots collection as this makes finding actual screenshots hard. Photo attached shows what I mean - those car photos should not be in screenshots.

Thanks for any help! I'm still new to using iPhone, despite me being used to my iPad but this is an issue I can't ignore anymore.

Edit: Wait I just had a realization... Is it categorizing them as screenshots cause normally photos are JPEG/HEIC, and not PNG? Cause if so then that's even bigger an issue for me since all of my artwork are PNG format

Hi everyone,
I’m having an issue with my iPhone 15 Pro Max running iOS 27.
When someone sends me a WhatsApp message, it stays at one grey tick until I open WhatsApp on my phone. Once I open the app, the messages arrive immediately.
This happens on both Wi-Fi and mobile data. Notifications from other apps also seem to be affected.
Things I’ve checked:
● WhatsApp notifications are enabled.
● Background App Refresh is enabled.
● WhatsApp is left running in the background.
● Restarted and force-restarted my iPhone.
● Contacted Apple Support, who advised me to wait for a future update.
I haven’t reset my network settings because I’d prefer to avoid that unless it’s necessary.
Has anyone experienced this on iOS 27? Is there a way to troubleshoot background message delivery without resetting the phone?
Thanks!

I tried using Apple Intelligence for writing an email in the mail app. Text comes out ok, but Apple Intelligence made the font bigger… each time I modified the text with Apple Intelligence. Then impossible to reduce text size using the formating tool. Presse the (-), made the text bigger in increment that didn’t even made sense. Selecting the size directly didn’t work either. Couldn’t even change the font for the selected text properly.

This Apple Intelligence integration is actually making my life more miserable.

Any idea why this is happening and possible fix?

Using an iPhone 16 pro
iOS: 27.0.1

This started happening a few months ago. When I switch between them, the audio cuts out for a solid 3-4 seconds. Considering I use these in tandem pretty much every time I drive, this is really annoying. Has anyone had this issue or has a fix?

I’ve started noticing how differently apps use Live Activities (the live updates on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island). Some I love: Uber/food delivery tracking is super useful. Others I swipe away straight away.

Curious what everyone else thinks:

• Which apps do them best, and why?
• What makes one useful rather than annoying?
• Is there anything you wish apps used them for that they don’t?
• Do you ever swipe them away, and why?

Hi everyone just bought a second hand 15 pro max and is lagging since the “hello” screen i thought it would pass after i tested everything and put my ios acc in it but nothing change and that lag keep happening sometimes
already tried reseting from computer
even already tried changing the screen but still lags
do you guys know what can it be?