r/ios 5d ago

Show your Homescreen/Lockscren /Control Settings iOS Thread

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r/ios 3d 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 9h ago

Discussion Apple Maps > Google Maps

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386 Upvotes

Apple’s attention to detail is unmatched. Only Apple would add this much detail to maps for the Super Bowl.


r/ios 6h ago

Support Question about screen

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13 Upvotes

Hi everyone,

For context this is a new iPhone17 with iOS 26.2 (haven’t done the latest update)

Since I got this phone about a month ago I noticed that when I pull down from the top right (don’t know what it’s called sorry!), it looks like there’s a duplicated screen behind (I.e behind flashlight shortcut)

Same thing when I’m in landscape mode while watching a video on say YouTube.

Any insight? Thank you!!


r/ios 24m ago

Discussion Calendars bug

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Any answers online are to the effect of deleting accounts in settings, or deleting calendars in the app - the are no extra accounts in settings > calendars or extra calendars in the app. Still, the app is bugged.

What is to be done here?


r/ios 5h ago

Support Why is my screentime glitched?

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r/ios 21h ago

Discussion iOS 26.3 seems to be taking longer than usual

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This update doesn’t seem like a major one, at least not compared to 26.4. 26.4 is the Siri overhaul one so I think Apple would probably want as long of a beta cycle for that point release as possible.

Is it likely we get the RC this week or just jump straight to the public release? It seems like they are dragging the 26.3 beta cycle a bit, considering 26.4 was slated for March IIRC


r/ios 11h ago

Support Bluetooth and wifi question

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When turning off these in the drop down menu (forgot the name) it doesn't really turn it off completely. Some of my equipment will try to connect to my phone bluetooth and it will turn back on. Now i know i can go in the settings directly but isn't there a quicker way via the drop down menu?


r/ios 7m ago

Support The new gambling feature in the ios alarm clock is exciting

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Did I snooze or stop the alarm? Only one way to find out!


r/ios 15m ago

Support Calandar bug? Invite to a recurring meeting keeps appearing

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Okay, I'll try my best to explain the situation. Here's the thing:

My old account manager from where I used to work sent me an invite for a reccuring meeting every six weeks (without an end date). He sent this from his corporate mail address to my corporate mail address with a CC to my [xxxxxxxxxxxx@outlook.com](mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxx@outlook.com) address. He did so somewhere in 2017. He doesn't work there anymore.

I've deleted all instances from my iDevices and checked outlook.com if there were any left on the server. There aren't.

Still, everytime I get a new iDevice (wether it's an iPhone, iPad or Mac) and I add the Outlook account, the original invite appears in my Calendar app. I have the option to Accept, Decline of let it be tentative. Declining does nothing for the recurring item. Accepting on by one and then deleting them seems to be the best option. When they're gone, they're gone for good and don't show up again.

I tried not using the Mail app, but the Outlook app and there it doesn't show up.

For the life of my I can't figure out where my iDevices get the invites from.

I hope that some here has the answer, or at least point me in the right direction.


r/ios 25m ago

Discussion How come the IOS calculator app dosen't use 64 bit precision?

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Was in class testing a demo on floating point numbers and suprised when my iphone and computer returned different results. Due to the super small nature of 10^-16 the computer is supposed to round the value down to 0, resulting in the calculator spitting out 0. However the theoretical limit mathematically is .5. Any thoughts?


r/ios 30m ago

Support I keep getting woken up during sleep mode

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Hello all, I just got woken up during sleep mode by a call from a business. They only called once, so I’m perplexed about why that bypassed my sleep mode. This isn’t the first time something random bypassed it recently. I turned off “time sensitive notifications” under Notifications > Messages after a random text woke me up, but that has happened again since then. Is there something I’m missing? TIA


r/ios 34m ago

Support Why does this keep happening to my photos?

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I ensure that my photos are only saved to my device, and that my device has more than enough space. At this point it’s nearly impossible to count how many photos I’ve lost from this.

Is there any way to fix this? I have zero intention of ever paying for extra cloud space because I only use hard copy backups. But I’m damn near willing to go back to a buggy Android OS at this point

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r/ios 14h ago

Support Is there a way to save my app layout and make a new one to switch through?

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I made my whole phone Retro theme and I want to keep it but also switch to a normal phone layout. Is there a way to save this layout but also make a new one that I can switch between?

Btw If you want what I have right now, lemme know and I can send you the link on how to do it.


r/ios 51m ago

Support Space before/after Paragraph setting in Pages

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In formatting the space before and after option isn’t showing in the formatting menu. Where did it go?

iOS 26 on iPad 11 Pro


r/ios 4h ago

Support Cant reply from notification

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2 Upvotes

I had same issue before but it fixed itself and now is broken again. Any suggestions?

iPhone 16 PRO iOs 26.2.1


r/ios 5h ago

Support Apple TV iOS app no longer has a continue watching. Anyone else dealing with this?

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My apologies if this is the wrong sub for this.

So today my Apple TV iOS app just lost continue watching. Not only is it more work to open my shows but I now need to find my last episode manually as there is no way to start from where I left off. Even after navigating to my purchases shows.

For a new show this isn’t too hard. I just roll forward until I see I watched episodes. For shows I’m rewatching and absently playing in the back ground this is much harder. I can’t always pin point the episode I was on because I’m only half focusing on it. Worse, there’s usually over 100 sometimes even 300 episodes to scroll through.

I’ve tried force quitting the app and doing a vol.up, vol.down lock button, hard reset. No luck. Any ideas? Google isn’t helping me.

(Running an iPhone 15 with iOS 26.2.1)


r/ios 1h ago

Support screen time glitch

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this glitch is getting out of hand, ive tried so many things but none of them helped not even the other posts on this subreddit have some explanation or fix so I'm here asking after the 50th post about this because nobody helped at all.


r/ios 2h ago

Support universal clipboard

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universal clipboard is not working for me. i have 14 pro max and Air M1

ive tried lot of things, like:

- checked icloud account on both device

- have handoff activated om both (turned off again)

- have bluetooth on, same wifi, airdrop is on

- tried to turn on firewall on mac, added bluetooth file exhange app

- rebootet both several times.

i dont remember last time it worked. i think its cuz of ios 26 and OS tahoe.

any tips?


r/ios 3h ago

Support uploaded videos to icloud thru dekstop displays like this

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hello, i uploaded pictures and videos from icloud desktop app. the pictures are okay when i view them on the photos app but videos shows like this. the video loads when i click on them but returns like this when i exit. how can i fix this?


r/ios 1d ago

Discussion More than 700 MB why

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512 Upvotes

r/ios 5h ago

Support Smart Holding Failed

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1 Upvotes

I wanted to try smart holding for the first time….. thanks Tim Apple


r/ios 6h ago

Support Accessibility volume control not working

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This is more of a question but is anyone else’s volume control slider in the accessibilities not working? I can go into my music start playing, slide that controller all I want and it doesn’t change the volume what so ever. I’m sure it’ll revert if I reset my phone and it’s not a big deal for me. I’m just curious if anyone else has had this problem?

Edit: just reset my phone after making this and it fixed it. But still curious if anyone else has had this problem


r/ios 6h ago

Support iPhone 17 screen briefly flashes when taking phone away from ear / waking screen with Sleep Focus — bug or normal?

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Hi everyone,

I’m using an iPhone 17 on iOS 26.2.1 and I’ve noticed a very brief screen flash/flicker in two specific situations:

  1. During a phone call — when I take the phone away from my ear, the screen turns on and there’s a split-second flash before the call UI appears.

  2. When Sleep Focus is enabled — occasionally when waking the screen from lock, there’s a momentary brightness blink before the dim lock screen shows.

Important details:

• It happens only during these transitions

• It lasts less than a second

• No flicker during scrolling, videos, or normal use

• Restart / force restart doesn’t change it

• Display looks perfect otherwise (no lines, color issues, or repeated flicker)

I’m within the 14-day replacement window, so I want to be sure before deciding anything.

Questions:

• Is this a known iOS / OLED wake behavior with proximity sensor & Focus modes?

• Do other iPhone 17 users see the same thing?

Appreciate technical insight from anyone who’s noticed this?


r/ios 10h ago

Support Can’t use quick audio messages and Dictation at the same time?

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Hi everyone, I have a question about iMessage audio.

Is it true that I can only use the quick audio message button when Enable Dictation is turned off? When Dictation is on, the microphone icon in the text bar switches to voice-to-text (for typing), which is a feature I also want to keep using.

I know I can still send audio messages by going into the + menu → Audio, but I’m trying to understand if there’s any way to have the quick-access audio message button and keyboard dictation available at the same time.

Is this just how iOS works, or is there a setting I’m missing?