r/ios 3d ago

Show your Homescreen/Lockscren /Control Settings iOS Thread

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r/ios 2d 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 11h ago

Discussion Why is this button so hard to press?

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It seems to require ninja precision, pressure and timing to press this without going to customise Home Screen/doing nothing at all

Edit: I’m getting the impression from the comments that this might be the problem - https://youtu.be/VjpcLplkMUs?is=M7bofFvNmR4281v-


r/ios 9h ago

Discussion YouTubers: Siri intelligence is amazing! Me: trying to type an SMS…

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r/ios 9h ago

PSA What is a good WiFi analyzer for iPhone or iPad?

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I need a WiFi analyzer that can show all WiFi signals around me to see which channels these WiFi signals are using.

Thanks in advance.

Edit: I just want to see what channel I can use for my IoT WiFi subnet!

Another edit: Thanks everyone for your comments. I have found the solution right in front of me, in my WiFi capable laptop! Thanks to u/Fun-Quit-6884. This command will give all the characteristics and options of WiFi SSID's around the neighborhood:

netsh wlan show networks mode=bssid


r/ios 15h ago

Discussion iOS has improved a lot over the past decades, but it’s Wallpaper needs a major overhaul

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I’m not a diehard Apple fan or anything, I’ve been using iOS/iPhone since my iPod touch with iOS 6 in the early 2010s and the amount of improvements that iOS has added over time is pretty noticeable. Many features that used to be jailbreak-exclusive are now included in new versions, like dark mode, free placement of apps, and much more.

However, the Wallpaper feature in iOS 26 is abysmal. Apple has added all these “features” that make customizing your wallpaper horrid:

  1. Possibly a personal thing, but why would I want multiple wallpaper layouts to switch between?
  2. Why is there no ability to remove the clock on the lock screen (especially if one owns an Apple Watch, but even without)? The clock covers half my image since that image is forced to stretch to fit the screen exactly as Apple wants it
  3. The “Extend Wallpaper” “feature” turns photos and images into these blurry blobs that look AI-generated and very ugly
  4. Where is the option to allow images to fill the frame but not stretch to match resolution (like iOS 6 used to have)?
  5. It’s possibly just my device, but navigating the Wallpaper customization UI is laggy and slow
  6. Why is there a limit on the number of images I can use in a wallpaper slideshow?
  7. Some features (depth, extend, etc) seem to only work for some photos with no explanation

Is there a way to request some of these features from Apple for future versions? Or maybe there’s something I’m missing about how to get these issues solved/answered?


r/ios 3m ago

Support App Store "Can't connect" to Wi-Fi (I have tried everything)

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My app store cannot connect to the Wi-Fi. When I use cellular data, I am able to access the App Store, but when I connect my iPhone to WiFi, I cannot open my app store anymore. It's just stuck in this loading page or it will display the message "Can't Connect to Page".

Our home WiFi is working fine. I am having the same issue on my iPad, but I am able to access the app store on my Macbook.

Please help me. I have tried everything. I already restarted the WiFi router, restarted my phone, put it on airplane mode, changed the DNS Server to manual (I have tried 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4, 1.1.1.1, and 1.0.0.1), signed out and in of my apple account, checked every setting, but still nothing.


r/ios 1h ago

Support My WiFi disconnects and reconnects every 2sec

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Hello everyone,

I’ve done many searches but nothing seems to be working, I’m at a loss.

Context :

We have telus internet.

I owned a 15pro and just purchased a 17pro. (I had no issues for 2 years with the 15pro, no issues with my 17pro currently)

I sold my 15 pro to my dad. So I transferred all the data etc from his 11 pro to his “ new “ 15pro.
As soon as we did the transfer, the WiFi started randomly disappearing from the 15pro..

We finished transferring it all and for 3 days now the WiFi keeps dropping and reconnecting literally every 2sec. It just doesn’t stop.
Weird thing is I turned back on his 11 pro and the same thing is happening to that phone.

All other phones and devices in the household have no issues. (Wife iPhone, my 17pro, iPads, mom’s iPhone etc)

My parents are staying with us for the next 2 months and would be nice if my dad could use the WiFi.

I’ve tried so many different things and I don’t know what else to try :

- turn off WiFi assist
- tried changing his WiFi address to fixed, rotating and off
- tried manually adding his fixed WiFi address to the router directly (but then it asks for password and won’t let him connect so reverted back that)
- did reset network several times
- hard reset of router and iPhone

Among other things…

Is anyone found a magical trick or would have a beggining or an explanation on what the hell is going on all of the sudden. Hardly doubt suddenly two phones got “ damaged “ so must be software related?

Any help is appreciated.


r/ios 2h ago

Support Really loud crackling only on calls

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r/ios 1d ago

Discussion I found a screen on iOS 26 that DOESN'T use Liquid Glass 😳

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It seems it's a leftover screen from iOS 18 they didn't bother to change. Are there any other such screens you know of?

——— Edit: ———

The screen also uses iOS 18's centered title/body text, which iOS 26 mostly did away with.

Whilst liquid glass app icons are used here, I still think this screen wasn't changed at all from iOS 18. Presumably, the screen is just pulling from the phone's default icon set (as it always has), and the default icons now happen to have the iOS 26 edge shine.

I unfortunately didn't get to test if the icon edge shine rotates when you rotate the phone, due to this being a clamped-down demo unit Was informed by a commenter that this screen's icon edge shine does not rotate with your phone.


r/ios 2h ago

Support WhatsApp Android → iPhone transfer completed, but chats didn’t appear, can I recover them without resetting my iPhone?

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I recently moved from an Android phone to an iPhone using Apple’s Move to iOS app.

During the transfer, I selected WhatsApp, and Move to iOS eventually said “Transfer Complete.” I assumed everything had transferred successfully.
However, when I opened WhatsApp on my iPhone, it didn’t show my newer chats. Instead, I can only see my chats and data prior to sept 2023 and anything after 2023 to 2026 is mot present. I have tried repeating the process (factory reset and migrate using move to ios) multiple times and everytime i am getting the issue. My whatsapp, android versions etc are all upto date in both the devices.

A few important details:
● My old Android phone still has all my WhatsApp chats intact.
● I have already set up and started using the iPhone.
● I really don’t want to factory reset the iPhone and redo the entire Move to iOS process. Coz i did it like 10 times now and no success

Is there any way to recover/import the WhatsApp chats that Move to iOS supposedly transferred, without factory-resetting the iPhone?

I still have the Android phone and haven’t deleted or changed anything on it, so the original chats are safe.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks !

Note: this text is tidied up using AI


r/ios 21h ago

Support Why does my iPhone’s timer always default to a time I used once 6 months ago instead of the time I use every day?

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I use a 5 minute timer every single day, sometimes multiple times a day, yet whenever I open the scroll wheel is set to 14 minutes. I used this setting once, at least 6 months ago.

5 minutes is saved if I scroll down the page so it’s not that big of a deal, but it is mildly infuriating since I use it so often. I have deleted the 14 minute timer from the saved ones below.


r/ios 11h ago

Support Offloading app stuck

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Please advice what should I do? I have a very important data and I cannot afford to loose it. I offloaded my whatsapp business and now it is stuck. I can not open and and when I offload again, nothing happens


r/ios 23h ago

Discussion why does tiktok flag any notification as urgent when they really aren’t? can i report it to Apple in some way?

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please ignore the name i gave my friend


r/ios 3h ago

Discussion I'm trying to open the Clock app. Why the Fitness app comes first? What even the word "clo..." have to do with the Fitness app?

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r/ios 1d ago

Support Autocorrect keeps changing my I’s to O’s. Haven’t been able to find a solution online. Can anyone help?

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r/ios 6h ago

Support Unable to join the group in iPhone

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Hi mates,

A need to join a group and it has only one spot left, when I tried to join using link or QR it shows the group is full. From iPhone

But when I tried to join from my another phone which is Android, I was able to join the group. When the admin clicks the add member from the iPhone it shows the group is full.

It's a bug and If any dev is present in the group, please help to fix it.


r/ios 7h ago

Support can software updates cause unresponsive screens?

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i have an iphone 15 pro and i updated it.. but like a part of the iphone screen is unresponsive most of the times to the point where i can’t type properly. and overall my phone’s been super buggy; sometimes it won’t open when i swipe up and overheats a lot. is this a software thing? i did hard reset my iphone a couple of times but ultimately it remains largely buggy still. any solutions?


r/ios 7h ago

Support Carplay Audio Issue

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r/ios 1d ago

Support What’s does this hotspot symbol mean ??

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r/ios 9h ago

Discussion android to IOS

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How to transfer Whatsapp data from Android to iOS without having to reset the iPhone and using "Move to IOS" because i already tried this and for some reason it didn't work and i can't reset the iPhone now HELPPPP


r/ios 11h ago

Support old phone ios captcha problem

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this is a jailbroken iPhone 5c downgraded to ios 8.4.1 (tethered)

and safari doesn't work what leaded me to download puffin but now when i try to google something on it i get this captcha but when i press i am not a robot it gets stuck like this...

can anybody help me solve this?


r/ios 13h ago

Discussion How do Siri suggested apps work?

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I often wish these 4 suggested apps would just be the most recent apps I’ve opened.

Currently half of the suggestions are apps I haven’t used in weeks.


r/ios 10h ago

Discussion This is how you enable Numbers row on iPhone

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Hope this is gonna help…


r/ios 14h ago

Support iMessages sent messages to my contacts, but I didn’t send anything

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title mainly says it all. but this morning at 10:24am one of my contacts was texted a “tips . apple . com” link (separating the dots so this doesn’t look sketchy lol). it wasn’t me, but it’s shows in my iMessages like I sent it. At 10:30 another person was texted by me the same way.

Apple support guided me through typical safeguards,

- password reset

- remove any old/sold devices

- make sure I didn’t click any links

- make sure to check if there’s any unknown numbers in send and receive.

The usual things to check. Done all for safeguarding, everything has been done. As far as I know the “usual“ stuff has been done, all passwords changed up and any old/sold devices removed from my iCloud. Nothing has happened since then, but I am still concerned because it was super random and it wasn’t even a weird link but it came from me when I didn’t even send it, is there anything going on I should be aware of, anything about this that is a “known” issue?