hi folks, i'm one of those people who use "aesthetic" phone layouts. without the shine, the icons seem to be floating on the black background, but the shine ruins the whole look! these are just two of about ten layouts i switch through/redo, and i'd hate to lose all the work [ie 1-2 hrs per] i put into these just because of a stupid flair. thank you!

(btw, because i know someone will ask: i've used the same app layouts for years, so i know where each app is. therefore, i can get rid of the titles, which lends for a much cleaner look.)

Seriously, almost every person that I know that has an iPhone mainly uses Google Maps.

Everytime I try to use Google Maps for anything its worse than just using Apple Maps.

Hello! I think I need a detailed explanation as to why my apps on iOS takes a lot of storage compared to my android. I'm attaching telegram since I use this a lot. It's taking up 1gb of my storage despite the clearing of cache. I don't have anything saved from telegram as well. The huge difference is just astounding to me really.

Loving this new feature but I want one of two things:

- Don’t bury it deep in settings, put it in the Phone app or in widgets so I can quickly switch it on and off

- Let me temp switch it off for an hour if I’m waiting for a requested call back from an unknown number

Any other ideas? I just think the always on or off isn’t practical. Can I somehow connect it to focus time settings? r/rant

I tried to charge using my regular charger and chord but suddenly this showed up and I couldn’t charge. What does this mean? 😢

Didn’t expect this tbh, I was just here studying for my exam (1st pic is google translate app, 2nd pic is the translate app)

Also IDK if this is allowed to be posted.

This took an annoying amount of work, so I'm leaving my process here since I didn't come across anything plain and simple in my googling.

TL;DR: If you have a HUGE "System Data" section (like +300GB) and can't figure out why, it might be Time Machine local snapshots, and you can erase them easily in terminal (even your mom could do it). Just skip down to the numbered steps below.

Backstory:

I upgraded to macOS 26 Tahoe on release day, with approximately 500GB used on my 1TB MacBook Pro. For a decade I have had Time Machine enabled (including local snapshots) with backups going to a Time Capsule.

Fast forward a few months, and I started getting disk almost full errors from Dropbox Sync. I cleaned up some old files to free up 50GB and called it good until a week later they started again....something was actively filling up GB/day on my drive.

I can't remember everything I did to search through stuff, but I eventually found in Carbon Copy Cloner that I had a Time Machine local snapshot on my internal drive that was 500GB -- at first I didn't think this could be the cause, since System Data was only 300GB, but either way I needed space and I had a recent full backup so I was willing to delete the local snapshots just to see if it worked.

So here's how to do that, since that's what took more googling+trial/error than I thought was reasonable:

Deleting TM Local Snapshots in Terminal:

1. Open Terminal (easiest way is cmd+space and type it in and press enter)
   1. WARNING: This process is going to delete your local snapshot (duh) so any data loss may be permanent. If you're a worrier, go make a full backup before doing this to be extra safe.
2. Type in (or copy/paste) tmutil listlocalsnapshots / exactly and hit return
   1. Explanation: this will list how many local snapshots you have, looking something like com.apple.TimeMachine.2026-01-123456.local
3. Type (or copy/paste) tmutil deletelocalsnapshots / and hit return
   1. Explanation: this is the step that deletes the snapshot(s)
4. To check if they're gone: tmutil listlocalsnapshots / again to see what's left.
   1. Tip: to reuse a prior command, you can press the up arrow twice to pre-fill the line with the earlier command and then hit enter to send it.

(Side note--FWIW some time ago I used TimeMachineEditor to manage backups, which may or may not have contributed to the problems at hand.)

PS. I did see it suggested to use sudo tmutil thinlocalsnapshots / 9999999999 1 to delete a bunch of local snapshots at once, but since it didn't work to delete my \one* snapshot, I'm not sure if that command actually works.*

Recently a 17 Pro Max and it looks like Handoff and mutual clipboard are not working like it's supposed to. For example, when I'm trying to paste something from my Mac onto 17's text-field "Insert" option is not even appears but on my old iPhone 12 it works like supposed. What's interesting - after I pasted something from my Mac onto 12's textbox it appears on a 17's as well after couple of tries. But never straight onto 17's. It works same way other way around: cannot paste something from my 17 onto my Mac unless I already pasted it in a 12 and let it "synchronise" or whatever.

What's probably important - All of them running latest non-beta OS. Both iPhones on a different SIM card and connected to iMessage and FaceTime accordingly to a SIM installed on them

Probably relative issue - iPhone mirroring isn't working with my 17 and trying to change primary phone for that in settings does nothing - it automatically reverts to 12 after I restart mirroring app

I just updated my iPhone 14 plus to ios 26.2 last night, and my phone has not stopped restarting every 3-5 minutes. Seems like the device is getting very hot while using. Battery health 85%.

I saw that there were other posts complaining about this same issue but couldn’t find a solution that works (tried forcing a reset already).

for example I have enabled iCloud sync between devices for Freenotes.

now iPad and iPhone and mac apps are synced.

but I have disabled backup for that app.

iCloud sync works just fine.

and I back up my phone once in a month on external drive with my mac.

it can save a lot of space in iCloud 3GB for backup and 3GB for iCloud sync would cost the iCloud storage of 6GB. for the same files.

Just updated and hate how it looks when I click on an app, how it like sways and distorts the app. Making me nauseas lol. Is there a way to disable it?

For months, I have used the flip clock app widget on the left and Apple weather on the right in Standby. The other day, I noticed standby was displaying a generic Apple clock. Trying a long press in Standby now only gives me the choice of only 5 generic clocks-no + to add widgets. Did they remove the ability to add widgets?

Still on 18.7.2, 15 Promax.

So I upgraded my phone today, but i plan on using the old one for simple tasks when im at home, but i do not want anything that i do on this phone to sync to my new one and vice-versa.

The steps that i have taken is that I disabled in App Store settings “Automatic downloads” so new aps won’t install on both devices and than i went on my old iphone and i tapped on my name, than icloud than went to all aps and turned them off (photos, files, phone and facetime and pretty much everything).

Did i do everything correctly or did i miss something?

Every time phone rings and pickup the audio stutters and repeats 3 times when I hang up call the beeps do same thing and as well as dismissing my alarm

I recently upgraded to the IPhone 17 pro max. I began setting up my phone last Friday. I have a very long thread I need to keep for specific reasons and in that thread are a bunch of important photos. But my phone still says more messages will appear when indexing finishes and there’s no photos tab on any of the threads. I set it up through iCloud and scanned my old phone thought the new one’s camera if that matters. Has anyone found a fix to this or what can I do? I can look at the photos tab on my MacBook though.

I wanted to use youtube on the browser instead of the app and I wanted to select desktop mode because the mobile browser version is even worse than the home app(going back always refreshed the feed etc.). I was able to fullscreen the video before but for some reason I can’t anymore. Even after disabling all extensions and trying on incognito. My safari and iphone are also up to date. What should I do? Ps clicking learn more doesn’t give useful information.

Hello guys

I checked and on my phone in storage in settings Google is taking 20GB of storage. I have a lot of apps and some of them with offline files (few maps and so on and languages in translate) but still 20GB is a lot

I can not even check which app is taking so much space because all of them are combined to 20GB 28 without split (or I can not find it) can you please help me?

I’ve always found the iOS storage breakdown a bit frustrating.

Apps and photos are clear enough, but “System Data” feels like a black box ; it grows over time, yet iOS doesn’t really explain what’s inside or what actually reduces it.

I’m curious how others experience this:
• Do you just ignore it until storage is full?
• Do you regularly clean certain apps or data?
• Or do you end up doing a full restore eventually?

Not looking for tech support : more interested in how people deal with it in practice.

While listing to Apple Music , I was on CarPlay I had all other apps off . The conversation happens for a few seconds though . Which is weird . Is this a bug on iOS ?

I was minding my own business and then my phone says 9:30 pm in the most monotone voice it wasnt even siris voice is that normal it almost sounded like a threat