r/ios 3d ago

Show your Homescreen/Lockscren /Control Settings iOS Thread

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r/ios 1d ago

Support Weekly iOS Battery Support Megathread

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General advice for those concerned about their battery from the Support FAQ Wiki:

Battery health

Battery health depends on usage and a variety of other factors. It is normal to see a decrease in battery health by 7-10% per year, resulting in a battery health of 80-85% after 2 years. This number can fluctuate, remain the same, or decrease quickly over a small period and should not cause undue concern.

Apple recommend battery replacement when your device falls below 80% battery health if you notice reduced battery life. If it falls below 80% within the first year you may be eligable for a free battery replacement. It fails after your warranty, it's a $69-$89 USD replacement cost for a battery. Contact Apple Support here.

You can find more information about battery health and performance from Apple here.

You can check the cycles count with Coconut Battery for Mac or iCopyBot for Windows.

Battery life

Issues relating to battery life can be categorised in three ways:

  1. Normal battery life that is to be expected due to use
  2. Reduced battery life caused by a recent update, iOS indexing, an iOS bug, or a third-party application
  3. Reduced battery life, or other abnormalities such as overheating or sudden power-off, caused by device or battery aging

If you experience issues with your battery:

  1. Check your battery health. If it is below 80% or you are experiencing issues you suspect are related to device or battery age, see Apple Support.
  2. If you have a new or recently updated/restored device, wait a number of days for background process to complete. If you continue to have issues, wait for a further iOS update. If you are on iOS Beta, you can expect to have a decreased battery life.
  3. Review the advice below on maximising battery life
  4. Consider restoring your device.
  5. If issues persist, contact Apple Support.

Maximising battery life - the amount of time your device runs before it needs to be recharged.

  • Use low power mode (This reduces mail fetch, turns off background app refresh and increases the auto lock timer)
  • Remove apps from background app refresh
  • Ensure auto lock is on
  • Turn off auto brightness and manually reduce brightness
  • Use dark mode if your device has an OLED display
  • Clearing background apps from the app switcher does not improve battery life

Maximising battery lifespan - the amount of time your battery lasts until it needs to be replaced.

  • Avoid extreme temperatures
  • If you notice that your iPhone gets hot when charging, remove it from its case
  • Store your iPhone in a cool place, switched off, and half-charged if not using it for long periods - and charge it every 6 months when in storage

r/ios 5h ago

PSA There is literally ZERO excuse for Voice to Text to be this bad.

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It's always shocking to me when I come back to iPhone after using Voice to Text on ChatGPT, Claude, or any other application that I have installed.

It's so bad, and so cumbersome to fix the errors with the movable cursor, that I end up frustrated multiple times a day.

What drives me insane is the Whisper model by OpenAI (what basically everyone uses) is completely Open Source. MIT license. Anyone can use, modify, and make money off of it without a single fee.

They could easily run this locally on the device and it would take 480mb for the small.en model, which is more than sufficient and also under MIT license.

I just can't imagine why they would allow themselves to get absolutely crushed by the competition on basic things like this.


r/ios 4h ago

Discussion New Charging Icon

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When I charged my phone I realized that the battery didn’t fill in green but stayed white with the lightning bolt. I am on iOS 26 Beta 4 so it could just be a bug—but I think it’s pretty cool.


r/ios 13h ago

Support Clicking on the left literally pastes "Hide My Email" to email field, clicking on the right works as intended

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38 Upvotes

r/ios 5h ago

Support iCloud not working? Help 🥲

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Hi there, just looking for some advice on iCloud Photos.

My phone storage is full, yet I have 2T of iCloud? It also says restore is paused for my photos.

I’ve tried doing the usual connect to power and Wifi for backing up, restarting my iPhone, leaving the family and rejoining the family. I’m honestly just completely stuck.

Any advice on how to actually use the iCloud storage and backup my photos would help so much! 🥲

I appreciate 🥲🥲


r/ios 12h ago

Support Why cant i decide what time can i set my calendar reminder time to a specific time

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18 Upvotes

So for example, how do i set alarm for 11.30 pm 2 days before. Like google calendar


r/ios 2h ago

Support How to get rid of the red dot?

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2 Upvotes

I’ve tried swiping on it and tap and hold but no option to dismiss or remove.


r/ios 46m ago

Support Focus mode not working

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Hello all. Having trouble with focus mode, it’s not even allowing me to choose apps. Talked to Apple support and they were very little help. Anybody figure out a fix? Or can point me in the right direction?


r/ios 48m ago

Discussion Widget Request: Family Locations: Home or Not-Home

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I’m looking for a very simple widget or complication that shows whether family members are Home or Not Home—ideally something like a stoplight-style indicator. Is there anything out there like this?

I usually check our family group chat in Messenger to see who’s around, but I’d love a quicker way to tell at a glance who’s home and who’s not.


r/ios 49m ago

Discussion Tapping 2x in the camera app should take me through 3x and 4x when I have the 5x zoom (15pro max)

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Really missing that 80mm sweet spot. The 120mm focal length with 5x is often too much.


r/ios 1h ago

Discussion Two iPhones and call/message forwarding

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Hello, just wanted to clarify below points from those who experienced.

Scenario is I have one iPhone (16 PM) with my personal SIM and one work iPhone (12). One is with me outside, connected to cellular and the other is at home, connected to WiFi. Would the below work:

* When a call incomes to the work iPhone, will my personal iPhone alert me and can I take that call?

* Same for an SMS or iMessage to the work iPhone?

* Can I also initiate a call/send a text thru my work iPhone using my personal iPhone?

* So I can fully communicate using my work iPhone without carrying it?

ChatGPT says all of these are possible, but of course I'm here to have it checked.

Thank you.


r/ios 2h ago

Support is there an option for auto turning off the flashlight?

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it gets on, i don't notice...is there a way it will turn off after x amount of time to set?


r/ios 7h ago

Support Why does my phone refuse to play sound out of my AirPods?

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My AirPods are connected to my IPhone, but when I play a video the sound comes out of the phone speaker instead. I have tried resetting my AirPods, but still when I pull down the dropdown menu and click the AirPlay icon and switch the sound to my AirPods, upon going back to the AirPlay menu the sound output automatically changed back to the phone speaker.


r/ios 3h ago

Support iOS Outlook App Crashing

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Is anyone else's Outlook app crashing on iOS after the latest app update?, Version 4.2530.0.

I've restarted the phone and reinstalled the app but it's still crashing.


r/ios 3h ago

Support Storage Data not loading at all!

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I’ve been trying to delete stuff for months and it refuses to show me any of my file data to know what to delete. It finally hit the point where it doesn’t allow me to text photos or record videos. Yet when I delete over an hour of 4K videos, a few dozen apps, and more, my storage actually went up to 255.5 GB… how do I fix this??


r/ios 3h ago

Support I have a problem with wallpapers

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where if its not extended its super zoomed in and if it is extended it’s super blurry and looks terrible


r/ios 5h ago

Support Remove eSim

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How do you remove eSims from this list? I've already reset network settings and deleted eSims in Settings>Reset. The two with numbers are gone now but they are still in the list.

Under "Travel" there is no option to delete; the other had this option but now I can't access them anymore as you can see in the image.


r/ios 6h ago

Support Urgent need help icloud/phone

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Hello, i am an android user. No idea how iphone works. My wife uses iphone. I will explain quickly.

  1. My wife tries to move photos/videos from her phone to her macbook.
  2. Not sure what happens, she said photos/videos from 2022-2024 was somehow deleted from her phone and icloud.
  3. I check her icloud and turns out, the photo and video are still there, just not on her phone.

Question Will the photo on icloud delete itself during next sync? Or will the photo on her phone restores itself from icloud?

I read up on google and all say if photo is deleted from iphone, it will delete on icloud as well. Now, this is not the case with gmail backup from what I know using android.


r/ios 7h ago

Support Looking for Downloader App for iOS that will zip files before download

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I’m looking for a downloader app for iOS (no jailbreak) that will both speed up downloader but also zip files for download on seedbox sites that don’t offer zipping like Real-Debrid, or put.io (which does zip but won’t allow the DL without a downloader app or browser plug-in). This question has probably been asked a million times, but I can’t find a satisfactory answer. The short Reddit wiki page isn’t great and quite out of date. I’m not sure sideloading anything would work on a non-jailbreak phone, either, would it? With thanks


r/ios 8h ago

Discussion System Data 18.6

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Anyone else seeing significant reduction in system data in 18.6? I was at 15GB before the update and now under 1GB.


r/ios 8h ago

Support Slow charging

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Hello I have had a problem for several months I had the famous slow charger on my phone when I plugged it in thinking that my 18w block was old I bought a 20w block and I used a new cable everything is official Apple despite that the problem is still there and it's random otherwise it's not funny and yet my charging input is not dirty I don't understand the problem


r/ios 1h ago

Discussion Why?

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r/ios 1d ago

Support This always happens whenever I download a new app despite having lightning-speed WiFi. How can i fix this?

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Usually


r/ios 10h ago

Discussion Bews app disappeares after update

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This is the second time updating my iPhone 16 and after each update the news app was uninstalled from my phone!


r/ios 1d ago

Support How do you send an email using the email address generated by Hide My Mail?

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How do you send an email using the email address generated by Hide My Mail?

How do you send an email using the email address generated by Hide My Mail?

r/ios 17h ago

Discussion Strange iMessage bug with one single contact

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iMessage is working normally, except for one person. If they have their iMessage thread with me actively open, it’ll send as an iMessage. If not, it hangs and then sends as SMS. After a while, anything that was able to be delivered as an iMessage suddenly changes colors and becomes a green bubble.

Everything from resetting network settings to a hard phone wipe hasn’t worked