Hi guys,

On my dad's phone (13) every so often it will send as if he is my dead grandfather. It doesn't happen to often but every time it does happen it is with him and it only seems to happen in our family group chat. None of us can see that it has happened except him and I was just wondering if this has happened to anyone else?

My ex sent me a text and it came through under my number. It has happened 3 times this week. He’ll be messaging me from his regular number but when he sends a picture/video it says it’s from MY number… it looks as if I sent myself a text or something. But…from his phone..but still from my number.. 🫠 I told him about it and he said something along the lines of, “someone’s fucking with your phone and sending static to it.” It just happened again so I asked him if he could explain the whole “static” thing and his response was “it’s more trouble than it’s worth. You need at least a general understanding of networking, etc for me to explain it.” Which doesn’t make sense considering all the billions of times he has overly explained tech shit to me knowing I don’t understand a single word. But now when it pertains to something personal and that also involves him, he doesn’t care to explain? And then he asked what my “imei” was. Idek what he could do with that if anything but I don’t trust it😂I tried telling myself I was tripping but then it happened two more times. It’s no secret that he’s tech savvy. In the past he would always somehow gain access to all of my shit and at one point could even watch me live on my front camera. So it’s also no secret that he has zero problems with crossing boundaries and violating privacy/personal space… so it’s extremely hard to believe that he’s not behind this and that it’s a coincidence.. Can someone please tell me what the hell is going on and if there’s a way to get him off my shit 😣

Siri won’t play YouTube videos instead she just pulls up a list of searches. Anyone know how to fix this?

so i was talking to someone over messages and then i long pressed a message that wasn’t sending and clicked “send as text message” and now it’s sending as text message. can someone help me revert it? i checked the apple forum and their solution didn’t work.

Phone model is 13 Pro max and the update Ive been trying to download is the new 18.1.1 and now it’s the 18.2

Ive been desperately trying to update my phone for quite some time now and it just won’t do it.. the whole problem is that every time i try to download the update for my phone, it will look like it’s doing fine until it ends up needing to verify it, it’ll then proceed to sit here and load on the “verifying update” thing for seemingly forever.

I already know how to do the quick shut off thing but that doesn’t actually fix the core problem, I can’t update my phone. Now it’s even starting to mess up some of my apps since it hasn’t been updated since 17.6.1 … please help me😭🙏🏼 thank you..

I am pissed, all of my photos look very crappy now, followed by this picture. Wth is going on

So I can’t download some apps and other stuff because I don’t have enough storage, even though I have enough on my ICloud account, how can I fix this ? Is there any way to move my photos to my ICloud account?

Ever since i updated my iPhone 16 Pro to iOS 18 - 18.2, it’s been experiencing a flashlight bug delay. Since iOS 18.2 Beta is now production-released, I’m wondering if it’s a factory defect. Please are there any way to fix this its triggering me

On Friday night, I left my iPhone at work. I tried contacting my GM and a few other coworkers from a family members cell, but they said they never saw it. I attempted track it, but of course I didnt remember my iCloud password. I tried my best to password guess my iCloud. I eventually got in, but it wanted verify my number and all these codes sent to my phone. It allowed me to track it with "Find my iPhone" anyway though.

The location ended up being at a local Dollar General. I was blessed because the phone only have 7% capacity left.

I asked the employee if I could get my phone back. It took about 10 minutes of waiting, and she unlocked the machine.

There's currently an investigation going on right now as I press charges. I could have lost really important things. It's sad to see someone that you think you're close with do something so stupid.

Every time I swipe or scroll it lags, I tried updating and nothing works

So I have ordered a new phone (iphone) and I want to trade in my old android device. What steps do I need to take with my old device to make sure I don't lose any data or access to anything?

If you're wondering why I'm asking here instead of just figuring out myself, I have tried and made a list of things, I just want new ideas in case I forgot something.

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I just switched to a new phone with a larger capacity, so installed more apps than the previous phone, then noticed that backing up to iCloud has been disabled due to lack of space.

I do not want to backup my online games (Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail, Wuthering Waves, Zenless Zone Zero, and other games) since they're all server-based, but iCloud seems hell-bent on having me back up more than 100gb of that game file data before I can even disable them from iCloud. Is this really how this works? Otherwise, each iCloud backup I have should be no larger than 600MB tops.

Is there no way of disabling them from getting backed up BEFORE THEY GET BACKED UP? And yes, I find it wasteful to pay for iCloud+ just so I could initially back these apps up just to disable them from future backups.

Further, is there a way to disable backing up new apps (which btw, most apps run off of their own respective cloud services and require no app backups whatsoever anyway) from getting backed into iCloud?

Im soon going to upgrade from iphone 11 to iphone 16 pro. Am I going to need a compter with itunes for this or can i just transfer all my stuff by logging in through icloud on the new phone? sorry for the silly question but its been a minute since ive done this and i have kept up to date with the "procedure".

thanks

Turned off ICloud the other night and deleted all my files on there, for whatever reason this deleted all the books, work and files I had saved in folders on my phone storage that weren't on cloud, I purposely made sure all those files weren't anything to do with cloud for this exact reason...

Is this apples way of forcing you to use iCloud? None of my files returned when I turned it back on and they aren't in my recently deleted files

y u do dis apple? And any way to get them back?

I'm trying to install custom apps and it made me restart my phone to confirm but my assistive touch does not show up and i can't confirm but I do know how to get back to regular iOS is there anyway to get the assistive touch to pop up during this screen? (My phones home button doesn't work)

My iPhone has been turning itself off and on every 3 minutes since 3 weeks ago (I googled they called it's"panic pool").

I've tried everything to fix it.

• Software update through iTunes
• DFU mode update
• Update with 3uTools
• Factory reset my iPhone
• Trying to update after a factory reset

All methods failed because the phone would turn off every 3 minutes.

Then I got stuck in recovery mode. I've tried everything to get out of it, but it always goes back to recovery mode.

I went to Apple today and the technician looked at it and said it's impossible to fix it and It's going to cost over $700 to fix.

If anyone has fixed this problem, can you give me some advice? Also, if anyone has had it fixed by a iPhone repair shop(not an Apple service center), can you tell me how much it cost? Thanks!

Have a iPhone 15 pro max. Lately the phone been slowing down. And some time don’t want to open apps. Especially folder in iCloud. I’m thinking of just doing a fresh install. Wipe my iCloud ( backup via external hard drive) I have a few thing in my iCloud I have tried to download to my my phone and view from their but when I do that it take forever to load the information ie pictures or videos . So I took them off the phone and then tried to put them in the cloud and then view from their even with a wifi connection it take a long time to load videos and or pictures. I’m getting very frustrated and just thinking of starting over fresh.

So many app icons are blurry when they weren’t before. Even the keyboard doesn’t seem to be as crisp as on the smaller phone. I though apps would use the larger area, but most still have either the top cropped more then needed, or crop the size when in landscape mode. I did transfer everything from the pro, could it be the settings? Any way to have 5 wide or an extra row of apps, feels weird to have the same number of apps on a bigger screen?

Thanks for any advice

i tried doing what i saw on apple support, but my phone just won’t stop. it’s worrying. what do i do?

Can someone help me find this caller?

A bit ago an “anonymous” caller had called a deceased family member’s phone number and even left a message. Unfortunately they did not leave a name and when I tried to call them back the call failed with the number left as +266 696687. Can anyone tell me what this means and how I could find this person. Alternatively if this isn’t the sub for this is there a sub I should ask in?

The Bluetooth panel is showing that my phone is connected to 2 devices but when I expand it on it, it’s only showing one devices (which is my Fitbit). Could the other device be my AirPods Pro? I’m not currently using them but they’re paired to my phone. When I do use my AirPods, it says it’s connected to 3 devices.

Someone, please tell me how to turn it off. I’ll be scrolling Reddit, my finger barely taps it and BOOM I lose where I was.

It keeps happening with different apps

My phone was stolen a couple months ago and every once in a while they turn it on and shows location on Find My, but I looked today and it and it’s on the move. It’s like they are using but I have it activation locked. Any reason y’all can think what they are doing?

Months ago I bought a second-hand iPhone, I reset it to see if it didn't have a bypass or something like that and apparently it didn't and just in case I reset it again with my account and it asked me for it along with my password, I logged in normally and nothing was clean, I even updated it to ios 18, registered the imei in my name and it worked fine for a few more months. I reset it yesterday and it asked me for an unknown account that ends in u/icloud and I use gmail. duty or what can I do?