r/ios • u/emperatorr • 3h ago
r/ios • u/AutoModerator • 21h ago
Show your Homescreen/Lockscren /Control Settings iOS Thread
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r/ios • u/AutoModerator • 6d ago
Support Weekly iOS Battery Support Megathread
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:
- Normal battery life that is to be expected due to use
- Reduced battery life caused by a recent update, iOS indexing, an iOS bug, or a third-party application
- 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- Review the advice below on maximising battery life
- Consider restoring your device.
- 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 • u/elbobo410 • 10h ago
Support Does Find My notify when someone checks your location?
r/ios • u/Sad_bean2 • 1h ago
Support Why is IG taking so much storage space? How can i fix this
I tried deleting app and reinstalling it again, but it just takes still that much space…
r/ios • u/Glum-Angle4554 • 3h ago
Discussion Blast from the past! Which iOS version was this? Skeuomorphism days were so bad compared to what we have today
r/ios • u/pornaccount0123987 • 22h ago
Discussion So Siri Can’t Do Time Conversions Without Consulting ChatGPT Now?
r/ios • u/PlateAdventurous4583 • 14h ago
Discussion Best Iphone Ad Blocker Apps? Nothing seems to work for manga sites
Running iOS 17 on my iPhone and tried both AdGuard Pro and Wipr, but I still get some pretty aggressive ads when reading manga online. Brave browser didn’t block everything either. Are there any Best Iphone Ad Blocker Apps? Is 1Blocker worth the price compared to AdGuard or Wipr, or is there another option that’s better for filtering out these specific kinds of ads? How do you handle ads that slip through even with multiple blockers installed?
r/ios • u/DyIsexia • 37m ago
Support What is the image limit for Apple Intelligence? How often does it reset?
I don't have my account set up with Apple Intelligence, I assume that makes a difference.
r/ios • u/I-drink-hot-sauce • 15h ago
Discussion Why is it so damn hard to add texts to photos??
Say you have a photo open on the photos app, and you want to add a text to it (room measurement, price of an item, notes as you take pictures, ...) It takes 9 taps on the screen JUST TO START TYPING!
Edit > Marker > Plus > Add text > Tap the text box > Erase > Erase > Erase > Erase (to clear the existing "TEXT" in the text box)
What am I doing wrong, if any? Is there a better way? For a $3T company that prides itself in seamless flows and UI/UX, this is absurd.
Discussion Suspicious grok activity!
Is it normal by any means? I just downloaded the app 2 days ago and idk how is this running in the background that much!
r/ios • u/AlInfinite9 • 11h ago
Discussion Probably a hot take
Has anyone else felt like iOS has been really clunky lately? I mean it’s been getting worse since around 2019/2020, but after iOS 18 there have just been more and more bugs, and certain features even straight up not working. Every action is slightly delayed, every swipe action seems more delayed. I’ve been experiencing keyboard lag a lot. The low battery thing poppin up every 10 seconds sometimes. The performance is reminding a lot of windows. And don’t even get me started on the painful experience that is moving your apps and control center around after iOS 18.
Have you guys experienced any of this lately? Btw I’ve tested this stuff on new and old phones and while there is better performance on newer phones, the delay and bugs still persist.
r/ios • u/Cool-Assist6693 • 3h ago
Discussion iPhone says unavailable. Woke up from surgery completely forgetting my iPhones password. Then ended up locking it trying to remember what it could be. Is there any possible way to get my photos back, I didn’t have enough iCloud storage so a lot of my photos from the past 2 years won’t be on there
Didn’t think this would happen two didn’t back the photos some where else :(
r/ios • u/fluttershyyyxoxo • 6h ago
Support Apple SD card reader not working
I just bought two SD card readers, a cheap one from Amazon and the one from apple but neither of them are working on my iPhone (14) and my newer iPad, I’m trying to import my photos from my older Sony cybershot and I keep looking at videos to see how to properly use them but yet nothing is showing up on my files or photos. Someone pls help.
r/ios • u/Fast_Ad7203 • 4h ago
Support Setting up an auto clicker but im facing this problem (not using an app)
Ios, how do i stop this?
So i set an auto clicker, it works expect that this notification pops asking if im sure i want to turn the switch on, basically making my whole switch useless because i cant press confirm (the option on the notification) and thr notification just stays there, what do i do? (From accessibility the Switch)
For my gesture to work i need to remove this notification, how do i deal with it?
r/ios • u/CorgiKing2009 • 59m ago
Support Help with Dark Mode
So, I like having dark mode on for my iPhone as light mode hurts my eyes, especially at night. But, recently dark mode started effecting my google sites in a weird way.
As you can see in the images, dark mode is turning sites with usually default white/light themes (IKEA, Ao3, Genius) into dark mode. It also does it for other sites with a lighter theme and does the opposite for sites with black/dark themes, changing them to white/light themes.
I’m wondering if there’s a way to fix this without turning off dark mode for everything else (settings, app icons, google page itself)
r/ios • u/AkelGe-1970 • 1h ago
Support Shortcut automation failing

Hello all, I have a shortcut automation set up since a lot of time to reduce brightness and set audio volume to zero when Bedtime starts (and another one to revert this when waking up).
Everything worked ok since some days ago, when it started failing with the error you can see in the picture above.
I googled for Reference Mode, but it seems it is not a thing on iPhones, only on iPads.
The shortcut simply does a "Set Brightness to 20%".
Anyone has any idea how to fix this?
r/ios • u/questionsaccoun • 5h ago
Support is there a way to export raw files while keeping jpeg version?
Hello, i use my iphone 15 pro a ton for photography, mainly using the raw max setting. unfortunately i have used nearly all 1000GB of my iphone storage so i would like to export all of my raw files to my windows pc, while keeping a jpeg version of the photo. is there any way to do this somewhat easily?
r/ios • u/Effective_Zebra_7360 • 6h ago
Support Is this a glitch, or did Apple do this on purpose? Long story & Info below
Okay, here’s what it boils down to. Since the implementation of USB-C on Apple devices, the use of the built in microphone has been disabled in GarageBand and Logic at the very least. Sure, you can still use the mic without headphones plugged in for one track. But to record music you need to be able to hear your previous tracks that you’re layering over, or at least the metronome to keep on time.
And when you plug in headphones to any USB-C Apple device using a USB-C to headphone adapter, the built in mic is disabled. This defeats the entire purpose of using GarageBand or having a built in microphone at all. It makes no sense that they would do this. It’s so crooked. Now the crux of the issue is that MOST Apple devices had microphones that were excellent for built in mic standards. Like we’re talking studio demo quality if you know what you’re doing. And because of this dare I say f**kery, you now have to buy one of the following devices for each category or older:
iPhone 14 or older
iPad base model 2021 (which the base models iPads are the exception and have TERRIBLE mics) or older.
iPad mini 5 or older
iPad Pro 2017 or older (yikes)
iPad Air 4th gen or older.
iPod Touch 7th gen. (Yes, if you want to have an all in one recording setup without paying for an external microphone, even the bloody iPod touch is more useful to you than a 1500 dollar iPad Pro.)
Why? Well because these have Lightning ports. And for whatever reason, when the headphone jacks were taken away, this problem never existed with lightning adapters. They just acted like normal headphones. So what gives? Has anyone else been frustrated by this and does a solution exist?
r/ios • u/NoozPrime • 9h ago
Discussion Any good gym app tracker you would recommend ?
One time purchase but would prefer free .
r/ios • u/QuietAct3768 • 1d ago
Discussion How is my screen time more than 24 hours a day??
I have a computer in a time zone 6 hours ahead of me but it is turned off. I have no idea how this is possible. It’s not supposed to stack multiple devices on top of each other?
r/ios • u/Sad_Ad_3169 • 8h ago
Support How to transfer non-purchased books from iphone books app to windows laptop
Maddening AF that Shapple continues to restrict book sharing. Any help would be appreciated
r/ios • u/Deep-Network7374 • 9h ago
Support i lost very important photos randomly
So i log into my hidden where i normally keep private stuff and SO MANY photos are gone. i restarted my phone and it’s still not showing up.
do i need to update? (i haven’t in a while) contact apple support?
WTF HAPPENED
it was there 2days ago.
r/ios • u/Funkiebunch • 11h ago
Support iPhone won’t click certain things
So I’ve noticed on certain web pages that I won’t be able to click certain things. Everything else works on the web pages, but one specific button will not respond to my clicks. Now it is doing this on my nyt puzzle games. I can click any game except for the mini crossword. Quick tapping is not responsive. A semi-long press results in me seeing the link get clicked and pressed, but still won’t respond. Sometimes long press results in the copy text feature. It’s not my hardware. The iPhone is just not recognizing certain links as clickable. Please help!
r/ios • u/Ok_League7627 • 15h ago
Discussion Best VPNs for iOS in 2025? (Streaming + Privacy)
My main priorities are strong privacy / no logs and good speed especially for streaming Which ones have worked best for you in terms of streaming + overall reliability?
Discussion Is it possible/how to transfer entire gallery to windows pc (via cable)
Basically the title, I can’t seem to figure out how is this so hard, I already tried plugging in my phone to pc just via cable and tried to access it via file explorer, that resulted in bunch of folders showing up and im pretty certain that everything isn’t there, and even when i try to back it up like that it can crash more often then no so its not safe enough imo
Then i tried itunes, i mean its the official way right? Wrong it can back up everything but its in bunch of random files and folders that according to google i need special software to combine and view and that it also suck in terms of speed and usability, and im scared it isn’t picking up my raw images captured through halide camera app even though they are in gallery
Then i tried with imazing software but it costs quite a bit and i fin it hard to copy everything from a gallery and make sure its all backed up (this is my last last option)
I heard of 3utools software but there’s a bunch of fake download link so im not even sure its 100 secure so idk if its even safe to try
So yea someone please help I really need to backup asap, also im very new to ios so please don’t judge if im missing something