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I used to say ‘hey siri, play the breeze by I heart radio’ and it would work. Now she keeps playing the breeze song by Eric Clapton…
What do I need to say to make her play this? This is on my HomePods. All on latest iOS.
I don't use iCloud so it's not an internet or iCloud issue. In the past few days when I take a photo on the regular camera it's blank and then won't load. But for whatever reason the zoom and wide work. It just started and I don't get it. I've seen others with this issue but people just recommend reseting the cloud. I've restarted my phone and that doesn't help. And ideas?
The title! I have an iphone 16 and the proof read or even the “writing tools” dont even pop up and im on ios 18.1 and its pissing me off! Can anyone help cause google isn’t good for this type of sh!t.
Hi folks,
I recently upgraded to a new iphone 16 pro from an old iphone 13. Currently on the latest beta version ios and let me tell you, I am not happy with the experience.
In particular, my instagram app has been undergoing several issues.
Badge notification does not refresh automatically. I would receive new DMs and updates but the icon is either showing no badge notification or the old number. I would have to access the app before the badge number updates.
Explore page(magnifying glass) within the app does not refresh every now and then. Usually you refresh your feeds by scrolling down but recently it's stuck and I would have to restart the app entirely for the explore page to update, and it's quite annoying.
Would love to know if anyone had similar issues? I have deleted and reinstalled the app multiple times already. Will upcoming updates solve these issues?
Thanks!
My wife and I (with iPhone 15 Pro) are in a group chat with another couple (Android S24 or whatever… newer Samsung phones).
Everything seemed to be working fine, until yesterday I was talking to the husband and he mentions he hasn’t been getting any of the text messages from us, he only sees his wife’s reply to the messages we send.
I looked into the SMS/RCS feature, and I see that his phone can technically support it, but it wasn’t active or something, while it WAS active on his wife’s phone. So I turn off RCS on my iPhone, and suddenly he can get my messages!
Today, he messages saying RCS started working on his phone, but I hadn’t been getting either he or his wife’s messages, I’m only seeing MY wife’s messages and responses.
So I go back into Messages settings and turn RCS back on, however my text message bar still only says SMS, and I can’t receive the couples messages, but they can still see MY messages.
Basically my RCS isn’t activating. I’ve tried restarting my phone and turning RCS on and off, no change. I don’t want to reset network settings yet but I may do that next. My Carrier settings only says Voice & SMS.
Is this just a common network issue today or something? I see others have some issues too, no real solution.
I got an iMessage today that says "Hello (my name spelled correctly), my name is Norma. You don't know me and I don't know you, but I know that you are (my wife's first and last name spelled correctly)'s husband. I have something important to tell you. I would like to talk to you. I hope you can answer this message."
Has anyone gotten anything like this? It's weird that she knows my name and my wife's name and is using an iPhone. I'm not sure I've ever gotten a spam text with iMessage. This almost seems like the beginning of "your wife is banging my husband" though I'm not sure how she would get my number if that was the case. Should I respond? Is there any concern with finding out what it's all about and then blocking if it seems scammy?
It’s painful to watch how Apple is slowly undermining its own brand and ecosystem. It’s evident that Steve Jobs is no longer there to guide the company; years after his passing, the results of different management are coming to light.
I usually don’t rant, but I’ve been wanting to because my tools—which are purely Apple—have dramatically transformed, slowly but surely, from top-tier sophisticated software and hardware to buggy, unfinished, and basic products.
It’s is all based on feelings, because that’s the realm you enter when you invest in artistic products, which I would claim Apple used to be.
I feel like Apple has shifted from “If it isn’t perfect, don’t release it” to “We set this deadline, so we have to release no matter what.” I’d rather wait six months to get something fully tested and thought out than receive it on the expected date. Apple has turned from building great products to optimizing profits—something that would naturally follow if the current management dared to continue Steve Jobs’ philosophy by thinking long term and focusing on the product.
They are ruining their products by releasing them too quickly, shipping faulty and unfinished software. Back in the day, it was rare for me to stumble upon bugs. The UI and every detail seemed so perfected, and you could feel the attention to every minor aspect.
Today, experiencing bugs is common. Their iOS and macOS have never been more unstable. They have lost all passion for shipping beautifully designed products.
I miss Steve. I miss buying into art. I wish Apple would not release until there was a compelling reason to do so. I wish today’s Apple would differ more from all the other tech giants out there just trying to make profits. I wish Apple would revert to catering to their longtime fans and remember why we bought Apple in the first place.
I don’t care if I have to wait another six months. I don’t care if I don’t get a new iPhone this year. I don’t care if it costs a little extra. I’ll guard myself with patience because that’s what truly great products require, in addition to great attention to detail.
In the end, it’s about more than just products; it’s about a philosophy—a commitment to excellence and innovation that once set Apple apart. As a loyal customer, I hope Apple rediscovers its roots and reignites the passion that made it a beacon in the tech world.
I noticed my alarm icon in the top right corner of my iPhone (knew I hadn’t set one, I was on the couch and minutes before the icon was not there) so I went into my alarms and there was a new one I did not create for 10:00 pm with a message/label saying something about watching which freaked me out so I deleted it and turned my phone off. I have never added a label or message to any of the few alarms I have created in the past. I only found 1 or 2 posts with similar stories but no real answers. Is someone hacked into my phone? How would an outside party even be able to place an alarm onto my phone? I went through most of my settings and I am not sharing information with anyone else’s phones.
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I followed official Apple tech support's steps to sign out of my Apple Account and force restart my iPhone to get my photos sinking to the iCloud again. However, When my phone was done restarting, I tried to sign in to my Apple account and gave BOTH my username and password but I received a message saying that a verification code was sent to a phone number I no longer have on devices I no longer have because I am not a hoarder. How do I sign into my Apple Account?
I use the native mail app on my iphone. Yesterday afternoon, out of the blue, I can no longer send any email. Attached is the error I'm receiving. I can login to spectrum via the web with no problem. Any ideas? Virus?
TIA
So I finally got a usb c iPhone and am thrilled with it but I am having trouble understanding something that I know Apple is intentionally breaking/crippling but I was hoping someone could shed some light as to why regarding external monitor media playback.
When using airplay mirroring which is identical to wired mirroring, the media player will switch to this apple tv like player but when mirroring via cable, the monitor will only output exactly what’s on the screen despite that not being how it works via airplay.
I know there isn’t any more to this other than apple is intentionally crippling the capabilities of the iOS so it can’t work like a computer but it just doesn’t add up since there is literally an alternative built into the OS that you can actively use.
Anyone have any thoughts on this that can help me out or should I just write to the EU as a concerned US citizen that is totally willing to get dual citizenship cause to take Apple down a few pegs lol?
I upgraded to iOS 18 a while back, and the one thing I miss is being able to instantly go to the bottom of a photo album. I honestly can’t even remember what I would press, but I think it was one of the tabs on the bottom of the screen. It would then just instantly scroll to the bottom of the album.
I know I can sort the album to show newer photos first, but that’s not what I’m looking to do.
We were sending random stuff and I sent this. Can anyone tell my what this is
My phone is dying extremely fast I don know what to do it’s really annoying
ever since I swapped to my new phone, it’s gone from the 3x3 grid to a really buggy and glitchy 6x6 instead. I hate it. I can barely see the stickers and I don’t know how to make it 3x3 again. anyone having a similar issue??
I hate complaining but i have to, apple talking all this new ios feature and ai stuff but our iphones cant simply read a book from the book app library.
All the books are in text format. Sometimes i swing on whether i want to read or listen to a book.
Like if im going on a walk. I prefer to listen, in my still downtime i prefer to read. An audiobook would require me to buy the same book again, but in audio format and paying for 2 formats of the same book is crazy.
The spoken content ios feature is terrible, you have to manually select the page from the book for it to read and every voice sounds robotic. Brother ughh, APPLE FIX UP
Pre update - I had a system. It wasn’t the best, but it worked.
If I was trying to find photos of certain things, let’s say different fruits, l’d search for ‘fruits’ and select > duplicate all the fruit photos I liked.
These would then appear as duplicates at the bottom of my photos. Then if I want to look at more photos from the market I took the photos of oranges at, I’d slide up on that photo and tap ‘show in all photos’. And voila, I’d be taken to that wonderful orange photo on the day it was taken, surrounded by all the photos from that same day.
However now, when I duplicate photos, clicking the ‘…’ does bring up the option to ‘show in all photos’ but it simply shows the duplicated photo, not the original on the day I took it.
I am so gutted and I can’t find a way around this. Can anyone help?
100% of the time when I record a video inside the Journal app, the sound comes out very quiet, it fades in and out. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Or could it be an issue not only with the Journal app?
Is it possible to have an app, such as Shopify, make its lil ca-Ching sound while the silent mode is switched on? I want all other apps to vibrate & that but no sound excerpt for the Shopify app. Can anyone help? Feel like I googled everything 😅
So I updated my Apple ID email. Since then a lot of notes are missing from my iPhone
They are visible in my iCloud account and on other devices like my iMac and iPad.
But on my iPhone , 100-120 notes are missing. Suddenly
I don’t know what happened
It’s so annoying. Does anyone know what to do?
I don't use them, but they are stuck in that spot and won't move. I've already reset the keyboard settings, and the emojis have been reset, but those three stickers are still there.
I have 256gb 12 pro max and im only using 84,my camera,snapchat,and instagram arent allowing me to take pictures or video and i dont know shy
On 15 Pro latest iOS 18. Every time i take a picture and then I view it into the photo app, it will make it a bit brighter after 2 seconds of viewing it.
I read that this has been for some time now and it can’t be adjusted.
Has anyone find a solution for it?
Thank you.
Just got a 16pro max coming from 14pro and radar on the weather app never loads consistently. I thought maybe 14pro hardware couldn’t run the animations but on 16ProMax, I’m thinking this has to be an issue with their servers? It’s been almost 3 years and still on their flagship phone, I can never get the radar to work. Is this just me? I don’t want to have to use another weather app if possible.
I hope I can explain what I mean by that-
I took photos over the past weekend using a mirrorless camera that doesn’t have GPS functionality. That means there was no location metadata.
I used Apple’s USB-C to SD card reader to dump the photos from the camera’s SD card to my iPad Pro - they were dumped to & stored on Apple’s standard Photos app.
I then added the location using ‘Adjust Location’ within Photos. I typed in the exact location, and clicked the (accurate) result that came up. For example, some photos were taken of a painted mural at a specific coffee shop - typing the name of the coffee shop into the Adjust Location interface brought up the coffee shop’s address, so I clicked that as the location I wanted to add.
However, after finalizing that adjustment, when viewing the photo, the location is tagged as a general location - the college campus that’s nearby. I don’t know if the coffee shop has any affiliation with the college, but even so, I want the tag to show the coffee shop specifically. If someone asks me “where did you take that photo?,” I need to be able to reply with the coffee shop’s name, because if I just said the college’s name, that’s extremely vague, and that person could end up not finding it - leading to their frustration, and/or possibly not believing I took the photo, or at least took it where I said I did…
I can’t just rely on my memory to know the exact location of my photographs, especially as I obviously want to visit more places.
Is there any way to ‘force’ Photos to maintain the actual location I manually input, or is this ‘just the way it works?’
Thanks in advance for any assistance!