To make everything really easy to understand yesterday afternoon my phone close at around 10% saying that it no longer had any battery charge so I plug it and after a moment it turned on but said it was not charging anymore and that it did not recognize my battery (even if it’s the original and never got charged) after some time and letting it on the charger it started charging again but never charged past 25% and even lost battery while on the charger. My question is the following do I really need to get the battery change or can I do something myself about the issue Thank you

I'm familiar with the 'Find my' app on Iphone, which allows my friends or partner to view my location whenever they want to. I like this functionality, but it also feels a bit uncomfortable privacy-wise. Instead, I'd like to get a notification when they 'request' my location. This creates a small threshold for them to check it. They'll only check it when they're worried, for example. Which is my purpose for sharing.

Is there any app that offers this functionality? Or something similar?
Is this something that other users would like to have as well?

14 Pro Max here

After i updated to 17.4, it disabled audio message transcripts in iMessage. scrolled up, checked other conversations, and all previous transcripts that were there have now disappeared

Has anyone else noticed this issue as well?

Recently, I have read a post on the Firefox subreddit where people said that Apple scan our devices to find out if there is any immoral / illegal content. They mostly talked about the really bad stuff like child abuse material. But then I thought, if Apple really checks our stuff, they could potentially find all sorts of wrongdoings:

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/s/gz43LpT1n0

There is also a video claimed that Apple scans our devices to find out if the content of our data is appropriate:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCJuzf7Nu98

Now, I always hear about how Apple is supposed to be the king of privacy. They say they don't peek into our personal data or files. So, I'm a bit confused here.

I'm wondering, do they actually scan through what we have on our devices or in our iCloud? Like, if I had a full pirated movie, "Oppenheimer”, in my Files app and it gets backed up to iCloud, would they know? Or what if someone really terrible, like Jeffrey Epstein, had child-abusing videos/photos in his Photos app, or a cartel member with a disgusting crime video recorded on his iPhone?

Does Apple figure out if there's evil, immoral, illegal, or pirated content on my iPhone? If they don't know when it's just on my phone, what about when it's uploaded to iCloud? Or does Apple stick to their privacy promises and stay completely unaware of whether this bad stuff is on my phone or in iCloud?

I'm eagerly looking for clear info on this. Thanks in advance for helping me understand!

Hello! I am looking for an app where I can mount a folder on a cloud/backup service (Mega) that has all my notes.

My scenario is the following:

• I write my research work on txt files in markdown format on Macbook. I use VSCode for this. (So, all the note files have .txt extension; not .md)
• I backup/sync these notes using a cloud service (Mega)
• I open these txt files on my iPhone to read and edit. On my iPhone, usually, I use the inbuilt text editor of Mega to read the files. But for longer notes, this way becomes tedious as the inbuilt-text-editor does not recognise markdown formatting.
• For long files, I open the txt file in Drafts app. But i have to this one by one. And if I edit, then I have to copy-paste from Drafts to Mega txt editor.

So, is there an iOS notes app:

1. which can read/edit a txt file in markdown format. (I know some apps strictly require files with md extensions.)
2. where I can mount a cloud-service folder so that editing is seamless

I am fine with compromising on criterion-1 above. That is, I would not mind renaming all my note-files (there are a few hundred note files :() if I can solve this problem once and for all.

Looking forward to app suggestions!!

Is it possible, either in focus status or some other way, to make it so I only get text tone notifications (I.e. the dinging sound) from selected contacts. All other contacts and notifications to be silenced. But still receiving banner and Lock Screen notifications?

For clarity, this is the scenario I want. While I’m at work, I don’t want my phone to make any noise, unless my manager or client’s family calls/texts. However, I still want my phone to vibrate and send banner and Lock Screen notifications if I receive a call or text from someone else.

When I try to set this up, it seems to prevent me from receiving haptics (vibration) and banner notifications from anyone that is not an allowed contact. I can be on my phone staring at the screen googling something, and will receive a call from someone and get zero indication they called unless I open my call log or messages folder.

Hello! I’ve had some weird experiences with appleID lately and wondered if maybe it is a new update issue?

First my iMessage disconnected. I went to see why and saw that my number “is not used for sharing”? It was weird but when I clicked on it, the message disappeared and iMessages started working again. I thought that was it. Then it showed a message “new device connected to your appleID” and I freaked out. But on the list of the devices I saw only my ones. Now I realize it was my watch connecting to iMessage again. I was worried though so I contacted the support. They ran some diagnostics and told me the device was fine both software and hardware wise and to force reset. I said I was worried about a possibility of a hack so they said to change my password for appleID if I want to.

I did that later in a day. At first it said that because of a new safety feature, I will need to wait an hour. And that I’ll get a notification when the change will be possible. But the notification came like 2 min later. That confused me even more. So I changed the password, logged off all my devices and reconnected them. And now I am just confused about what even happened and if I need to worry about being hacked.

It’s not the first time I had issues which came out of nowhere with my number showing some weird message with regards to appleID. Same thing happened a few months ago and I managed to fix it by removing and inserting my number back again.

Anyone with similar experiences?

It forces itself back up in the control centre, has a weird transparent look and when I just click the volume buttons nothing happens at all.

EDIT: there was something in my case that forcefully kept pushing down the volume up button.

EDIT 2: Ok nevermind something might be IN my volume up button because it's happening without a phone case as well.

EDIT 3: When I unplug my charger the volume goes to normal again and I dont understand how a charger can affect my volume

I’m moving countries and changing to another iPhone. I am planning to setup the new phone to the new country so have to change the App Store region. In my home country I have a subscription to TickTick which is valid until Oct

My question is if I switch regions now will the App Store let me continue my subscription until Oct although it was purchased from a different region?

Is there a way I can restore my TickTick subscription after I have changed the region and install the app on a new phone? Same Apple ID though

I know this has been asked so many times but I cannot find an answer to my question.

Hey everyone,

after update to iOS 17.4.1 I have that line as shown on the screenshot. Only appears on the lock screen. Disappears after unlock. I did not remember this so wondering is that line was always there?

Thanks for your insights!

Cheers.

https://preview.redd.it/s73m76qwfmqc1.jpg?width=1166&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ffdcd6a2dc38cef9e3128baaf780a0fb424accfd

Every time a new iOS comes out, like iOS 14, 15, 16, or 17, I get excited. But then I end up feeling let down. Apple brings out new features that I don't even use, and the things I really wish for? They never make it in. I think it could go to iOS 100 or iOS 1000, and I'd still be waiting for that one thing I want.

Here's what bugs me: Apple doesn't fix the things that are actually broken. The keyboard, for example, can be so annoying, but they don't touch it. Then they go and mess with things that were fine. Like they took away the magnifying tool when you edit photos. I've been really annoyed by things like this a lot. Sometimes I just forget about it, or Apple changes it back after a while and it's okay again.

But there's this one super simple thing I need, and it's so common everywhere else. On any app or website where you can search for something, you can delete one search term from your search history if you don't want it to be seen by anyone. That's all I want to do in my iPhone's Photos app. Just let me remove one search term from my image search history.

So when Apple says iOS 18 is going to be the biggest update ever, I'm not getting excited. I'm just here waiting for them to add that one little thing that would make a big difference to me.

Is there any way to delete an update that ive already installed?

Since rumors are indicating that greater home screen customization will be a headline feature for iOS 18, I hope that folders get some love as they've worked the same way for pretty much ever. Some improvements I would like to see:

• Allowing us to use basic symbols to name them (I know you can use emojis but they just don't look very clean), like these symbols that you can use for custom focus modes would be perfect for naming folders: shopping apps = shopping cart, smarthome apps = house/lightbulb, apps for your job = briefcase/badge, etc. and the ability to just have no name at all instead of having to copy/paste an invisible unicode character.
• If you had 4 apps or less it should be displayed as a 2x2 grid when not in the folder, as folders with <= 4 apps just look silly.
• Also allow us to customize the background color of a folder. I know people love to sort apps by color into folders, it would be cool if you could tint the background of the folder from a series of colors, like changing the font color on your lock screen that was added a few years back.

so, to begin with, I was on iOS 16.2 since day 1 I have my iPhone 14 Pro -and iP12PM

last month I have noticed the Wi-Fi gets really slow like almost half the speed it should be (100 becomes 60)

so after reading some articles mentioned about modem firmware update, I have decided to update my iOS to 17.4 and battery drained A LOT , BUT the WiFi 6 became so much more powerful (even in my extended MESH wirelessly the speed is always at full speed)

to avoid overheating and batt issue I once again updated to iOS 17.4.1 , improved a lot but still worse compared to 16.2 and location keeps running as “System Service” which I noticed it was caused by “Find My” in System Services turned ON, just because that one option.

So , I have restored to iOS 17.3.1 and the battery life is perfect, ALL locations turned on and no issues at all, BUT the WIFI is being throttled again, I have to restart my phone to make sure it back to normal state for around 1 hour 😂

is there any solutions? please help thanks

So..I have my iosdevice on iOS 16.0 if I wanna upgrade it to 17.40 how many gb data will it take?

Hey guys, any idea how my photos are getting pushed to Google Drive when I have no Google Photos app installed? I have a Drive app but it has limited access to photo gallery. What else can that be?

The sidebar of group messages has photos, links, documents, locations. What’s stopping them from putting a shared calendar and notes in there? It would be extremely helpful making lists and scheduling as a group. For example- vacation planning with a group of friends.

Hoping this comes soon.

I just found out that a-Shell and Blink use HTerm, which is not native. While they're reasonably fast, I still want to explore my options. Is there any other shell, preferably FOSS, with native, non-JS terminal rendering?

I associated a script to display a menu to replace the button’s default behavior.

I never used it so wanted to restore the mute button’s default behavior. So I deleted the script/shortcut.

Now pressing the button tells me the script/ shortcut can’t be found.

How to just restore the default behavior?

Recently, I connected to a friend’s phone so we could listen to the same music through her phone (I had my AirPods in, she had hers). Shared audio through airdrop or something, I’m really not sure.

Since then I keep randomly receiving this notification. Does this mean my friend can see the location of my AirPods? How can I fix this?

iOS 17.4.1. If I used the stop watch at all it stays in the Dynamic Island even when the stop watch has ended. If I open and move off of another app that needs the island, PodCasts for example, the stopwatch moves over to the right of the island until the island is free then it moves back. If I kill the clock app it still doesn’t go away.

Well I changed my password and now my 2FA has been replaced with this… I can’t log in anymore because there is no more 2FA

Hi, I switched to iOS after using Android for my entire life. Honestly not too stoked with how it handles everything but I'll spare my frustrations for another post. I wanted to know if there's a seamless way to access local music on Spotify? I created this SpotifyPlaylist using offline music on my Android phone, and for obvious reasons I can't access this online on my iPhone yet. I haven't yet transferred the songs to my iPhone (I hope that's possible). Any help is appreciated!

I was talking to my friend and we had to move the conversation to WhatsApp later on. He’s traveling. I tried texting him and my message said “sent as text message”. We’re on good terms. I don’t think he’d randomly block me. I understand that iMessage uses WiFi, and that SMS uses the carrier. I just wasn’t sure whether that means I’ve been blocked? Or that his phone is off, airplane mode, spotty area, etc. or if he switched SIM cards.

Hi there. Having a strange issue. On certain streaming websites, videos are suddenly not working. I’m just getting a black screen. Strangely the same is happening on my iPad and my partners iPhone too. Weird thing is they were working this morning but not now.

Netflix and YouTube works. But not when trying to play a video through safari or chrome.

We’ve reset settings, tried different Wi-Fi networks, updated devices.

iPhone 11, IOS 17.4.1.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be great?

Hi, I am in the midst of a lot of bs with identity theft stemming from iCloud hacked, and I really try to stay on top of it. I just noticed that most of my apps say I’m using an “iPhone 15,2” I don’t have iPhone 15. Is this maybe just a glitch? Cuz it says that on several apps. This phone was purchased directly from the Apple Store. I don’t do anything weird on my phone or internet, just regular apps.