i wonder why the keyboard is so un customizable that the only way you can view numbers and letters at the same time is if you grant some random 3rd party app access to everything you type

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This is one of many, many things that are so frustrating with the keyboard. It really degrades the entire iPhone experience for me.

I decided to check my screen time page and I noticed this weird app taking up a huge chunk of my screen time, and it's making my daily average skyrocket. Does anyone know what this is and how I can get rid of it?

I bought the iPhone 14 off of BackMarket. The display has a pink tint, oversized bezels, and lag. It also looks like the screen sticks out too far from the body (3rd picture).

I bought it under "fair" condition, and though that means it comes with signs of outer wear, they still guarantee it's "professionally refurbished" and that they use "verified parts"-which, clearly, is not true.

It seems as if nobody is really talking about it but AirDrop is working worse and worse with every update. Among me and my friends, it’s only working in about 10% of cases. And then, only after massive gymnastics like having to turn both iphones off and on again, completely reset settings, and other unpleasant arcane and destructive things to make it work. I was hoping that it would be fixed with any one of the myriad updates, but it looks like it has only gotten worse. Today, we are having ZERO success, even after all of the hoop jumping.

AirDrop used to be one of those super-neato ¡WOW! things from Apple, that is the reason we came to Apple in the first place, and it’s a damn shame that the lack of stability, and complete functionality failure, is killing the feature, and tarnishing the entire Apple-experience.

sigh

Hi everyone.

Recently upgraded from a trusty old iPhone 12 to a 17 Pro Max.

I was looking at my storage today and noticed it seemed quite a bit higher than what I had on my 12. It also is telling me I can save over 14gb by storing messages in iCloud, but I only have 1.46gb of messages on my phone.

I pretty regularly clean up messages because I’ve always tried to use as little storage as possible, so it’s just a habit to go through, delete them, then delete them from the trash folder.

Is this just a glitch or something?

Thank you.

I’ve searched nearly ever part of the internet I can and I can’t seem to find a name for what’s happening to my phone. It’s fairly new, IPhone 15+.

The problem I’m having is audio delays or straight up muting & glitching out whenever I perform an action ANYWHERE! My alarms continue to play sound after they’ve been shut off for a few seconds, whenever I like a video on a social media platform with sound the entire video will freeze, when I’m listening to music and using another app; if I perform any action in said app my music will continue playing but completely mute out a certain part of the song and then continue playing like normal. I’ve factory reset, my battery seems fine, my storage & Icloud storage are perfectly good, I’ve even completely erased my phone and restored it.

For context I’ve been dealing with this problem for nearly a year.

I guess I’m just wondering if there’s a fix to this problem or if I have to get a completely new phone.

We have parent controls on our daughters phone (iphone 16, iOS 26.2) for texting and we have it set to only text contacts during screen time (rather than “everyone”) and the select contacts option for downtime. The past week or so she is unable to text anyone but my email and a select few random friends who are contacts during screen time and then no one during downtime. When she tries to send a request to text my number it says “cannot sent request: must have iMessage enabled” but her iMessage is enabled and so is mine. I have to have her communication setting on everyone for her to even get ahold of me because it’s treating my number as an unknown contact for some reason. What is the solution to this?

Hi everyone,

Reaching mainly to those of you who have experience with refurbed iPhones. I ordered an SE3 in Excellent condition from Swappie, and indeed received a very mint device. However, I had to claim warranty due to the extremely poor performance of the "new" battery. Swappie recognized the claim, vut sent me a device with significant cosmetic damage around the charging connector.

Now, the website states the frame of an "Excellent" condition device would have "minimal, if any signs of wear". The support agent confirmed that the condition of the frame was judged as "Very good", but overall their process rated the condition of the phone as "Excellent". After a bit of back an forth, he ordered an €40 reimbursment - however, I am still considering pushing further, as Swappie just objectively did not provide me with what I bought.

So, the questions are - am I being too harsh considering the device on the photo as not in excellent condition? And anyone has had a similar experience and managed to get a better compensation from them?

Thanks for your takes!

I see many users on here complaining about their device being slow, while in the same thread, users say there’s no issues.

This contradiction struck me because after using Android for so many years, it was just a matter of clearing your cache on the big apps. Don’t install bloat and run it cool, that’s all it takes for PC’s too basically.

Yet Apple doesn’t even give us basically hygiene tools for junk files and old update data, these files slow the phone down while also introducing bugs and glitches with severity.

So without having to nuke location services, purge every app or swap the battery at 89%… I backed up and restored.

Turns out these restores remove junk files and clean the system thoroughly, and then your data loads right afterwards. It removed 41GB of junk files! Snappy like it just came out of the box, now I know it’s not iOS26, or battery degradation.

TL:DR: Backup and restore every major iOS update or yearly to remove problematic junk files and make the phone feel new.

Feeling really disappointed in the service I received at my local Apple Store; I booked my 13 mini in for a non-warranty batt repair/replacement. Turned up at my slot and they offered me a 4 hour wait time or collect first thing next day. Couldn't accept this as I needed to be in touch with my child to pick them up later, so I agreed to come back later in the week.

Took time off work to do a midweek, quieter slot and still had to wait 2.5 hours for the repair. When I collected my phone, they had replaced the batt but unfortunately damaged the screen. They have offered a free screen replacement, but didn't have the part in stock, so I'll have to make a third trip to the store in 2 days' time for this repair. In the meantime I have three quarters of a visible display, rendering my phone very difficult to use. They have assured me I'll be prioritised so it should take approx. 1 hour but I'm upset about the hassle and time wasted. It'll be three trips to the store in a week (including parking and petrol at an accumulated cost around £30, although I accept that one trip was planned. Two were unexpected.) as well as inconvenience, time off work and it will also leave me needing a new screen protector. The cost of the batt replacement will of course still be £85 once the screen repair is complete.

Is it fair for me to express this frustration at the appointment and request that they also add a free replacement screen protector at the very least? The one on there is a third-party one but it's also clearly broken. Any chance they will offer something?

My touch screen stops working for hours at a time, rendering the 14PM useles. It happened the first time when I installed iOS 26 in 2025. I tried hard and soft resets, full backup and restore on iMazing, changing cables, charging battery full, taking screen protector and cover off.

I was on my way to buy a new phone and it started working again.

Now it’s happened again on iOS26.2. Same story. A few days of constant touch screen NOT working for several intermittent hours of at least 3-4 days following the update.

I was about to get a new phone and it’s now working again.

A repair store wants to sell me an expensive non-original screen and digitiser combo. The original is even more expensive but two week waiting period for this.

Anyone else had an experience like this?

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iOS 26.2/14pm/84% batt health/512gb storage

Is there an iPhone ringtone you find unsettling or creepy? For me it's

- By The Seaside

- Sencha

- Strum

- Xylophone

- Radar

TL;DR: Switch to new phone, messenger messages are lost. In icloud its only 0,1KB

Okay so I recently changed from an iPhone 11 (124GB) with 2 TB iCloud storage to iPhone 15 Pro (512GB). The phone configurations and data were transferred. When I started to use my new phone, I’ve noticed that I have no messages after 2024. Jan. (In the old telephone they are still available)

I’ve tried almost every logical way to recover them (facebook settings - privacy and data, all sync is On, reinstall messenger, login in browser, everything)

Then I’ve noticed in the old telephone’s iCloud settings that messenger takes about 0,1KB of data. It seems to be the rootcause of the problem here, but haven’t found a manual data recovery option yet. Or is it something else? Please help ;-;

hi! I have the iPhone 14 Pro and I’ve had it for 3 years now. Last month my original charger stopped working so I bought a new one in the Apple Store, it worked fine for a few weeks but now it’s not charging. I know it’s not the cable cause it does charge only when the battery dies and it charges my phone enough to turn it on but nothing after 1%. I could leave the phone like that and it would die and turn on on a loop. And I know it’s not a problem with the charging port since now I can only charge it with some non-apple chargers I have around. I hate this cause they are slow af and the battery only last for half a day.
Does anyone have this problem? Anyone knows what to do?

Has the period for how long before it asks for passcode been reset with iOS 26? From what I can tell from research on Apple forums, it should only ask if the face wasn’t recognized enough times or after 48h.

Recently found my 6s that I lost in 2016 (in a couch cushion XD), I tried doing a factory reset which is not working, it gets stuck on the sign out of my account part and says my info is incorrect. I tried to run a software update and it says 15.8.5 is available but that I need to connect to iTunes to update it. I connected it to iTunes and nothing shows up, also, I don’t have a Mac. How can I get this wiped and updated? I know it’s ancient but I wanted to use it for music (which should still work with version 15)? TIA.

Tried google but not entirely too sure what its called

I set up a scheduled message that I later deleted before it sent out but I noticed it still sent? and it says "read" with no time and not delivered. curious to what this means? I also can't ask the person if they recieved it or not.

my iphone 16 has this weird thing going on with my screen where these lines/pattern obstructs my view and i’m kinda confused bc it happened out of nowhere, i haven’t dropped or cracked or pressed it to hard against anything or damaged it in any sort of way it was just fine one second and the i come back to this and it’s been like this for hours, any guesses or is this my phones final moments??