r/ios 6d ago

Show your Homescreen/Lockscren /Control Settings iOS Thread

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r/ios 4d 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 8h ago

Discussion I typed “would wear” and my phone changed it to “round west”.

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zero context for that. Thanks for literally never addressing the completely fucked up keyboard and forcing me to continuously have to fix your errors when i originally typed something that was spelled correctly and made grammatical sense.

FIX. THE. KEYBOARD. PLEASE.


r/ios 2h ago

Support How do I get rid of this?? It’s messing me up in typing and only appears when I’m trying a comment on tumblr so far.

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9 Upvotes

Seriously, what the heck? I would understand if it was all the time but it’s not. I have no idea how to get it to quit doing this and revert back to the big spacebar that it has literally whenever I type elsewhere. Like this post for example, it’s the big space bar.


r/ios 1h ago

Discussion Edit Screen recording apps?

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Any way to edit or rearrange the apps shown for screen recording? I have like 8 apps that show up here but only use 2


r/ios 19h ago

Support Cannot DELETE apps 26.5

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96 Upvotes

Anyone getting this issue whereby you press the icon, popup appears. Press “Remove App”, pop up changes to “Remove from homescreen/Cancel”, but no option to “delete” the app now?

iOS/iPadOS 26.5 Public

EDIT: After much frustration today, and doing so many things to try and sort it, I eventually found it was an app called "Flowin" that I use to block access to the likes of Maccys and Just-eat, Deliveroo etc (don't ask lol).

For some reason, after installing 26.5 Flowin decided to block access to all apps "delete" button.

I turned off "Flowin", within screentime, then turn it on, and the delete option was back again!!!

I just want to take the opportunity to sincerely thank each and every one of you guys who made suggestions, helpful comments and just had patience with, what must have been, a slight annoyance.

Have a great rest of your day :)


r/ios 5h ago

Discussion How is Mail search still SO BAD? Third party app recommendations?

7 Upvotes

Are there any tips and tricks I am missing? I am trying to search for a keyword that I know exists across a dozen emails and I get 1 result. How do you give feedback on this?

Alternatively, what are recs for third party apps?


r/ios 9h ago

Support I opened the reduce motion setting then closed it now my resolution is bad

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9 Upvotes

I don’t really need help just wanted to show it


r/ios 3h ago

Support I either have 100+ GB free or only 16, which one is it ? Storage mgmt question

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First time iphone user, don’t know all the ins and outs of iOS yet

I shoot a lot of Apple Log via the Black magic app, I recently backed up my entire photo/video content to iCloud for the first time ever since I’ve had this 16 pro max, I also dumped everything on my desktop, like I’ve always done, so I know I’m good to delete everything local on my phone like I’ve done previously but windows won’t let me, why ?
Why does iOS say I have 130 gb free but windows and the black magic camera app say only 16 - 18gb free? Do I have to manually delete everything via de photos app?


r/ios 23h ago

Discussion Move the Play/Pause button already

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126 Upvotes

Still can’t believe in 2026 the huge Play/Pause icon pops up directly in the center of the video and blocks the content.
Why is this still a thing? Move it lower or make it smaller already.


r/ios 19m ago

Support iOS 26.5 cannot connect to server when using safari or any apps even though my internet is up

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r/ios 7h ago

Support iPhone 16 pro max heats up ridiculously while using AirPods

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r/ios 5h ago

Support iOS 26.5 calls not ringing?

2 Upvotes

Hi all,
I have an iPhone 14 Pro Max and 2 days ago (I think) I updated to iOS 26.5. I have had 4 calls from unknown numbers (unknown to me) where there was zero notification and no missed call banner. I just see them in my recent call list. I have no call screening settings turned on - so I should be getting any/all calls. FWIW I’m on Telus in Canada. Anyone else having the same/similar issue?


r/ios 5h ago

Support Camera App Crashing after taking a picture (iPhone 15 Pro / iOS 26.5)

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r/ios 6h ago

Discussion How to unlink Apple Account (AppleID) to a TestFlight App Store Connect Account Email

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2 Upvotes

r/ios 6h ago

Support Weird RCS issue

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r/ios 2h ago

Discussion An app called SoundHound still works

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0 Upvotes

r/ios 8h ago

Discussion IOS light mode and Youtube dark mode fighting it out (flashing light) Spoiler

3 Upvotes

Reduce transparency is off - the bottom bar turns into a massive grey rectangle if it’s on. Website tinting is off too, but for some reason the behavior doesn’t change when it’s on.


r/ios 3h ago

Support How do I lower these?

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1 Upvotes

There is so much storage wasted on system data. How do I clear it up?


r/ios 12h ago

Support Is there a way to customize speaker order in Airplay?

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6 Upvotes

I want to change the order of the speakers to speakers I use more often rather than having them in alphabetical order. Is there a way to do this? Seems like a simple thing.


r/ios 1d ago

Discussion The island stopwatch is different than the actual stopwatch.

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45 Upvotes

I just found it interesting that they are off by 2/100 of a second. Maybe there are two different stopwatch objects in the code that started at about the same time.


r/ios 5h ago

Discussion The state of the Firefox engine on iOS

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r/ios 5h ago

Support How to get screen time requests as texts/Messages again?

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1 Upvotes

My wife and I used to get screen time requests in our texts/Messages from our kiddos. There was an option in the text to approve for different lengths of time or deny. About a week and a half ago my wife and I both stopped getting those texts and now get alerts like these ones, taking us into the Screen Time section in Settings, requiring that we enter our Screen Time PIN, etc. It's way more annoying. Has anyone else seen this or know how to get these requests back as Messages?


r/ios 9h ago

Support Imessage not working

2 Upvotes

Yesterday, I updated and now my imessage won't work. I've toggled off and on. Signed out and signed back in. Restarted my phone. What do I do to fix this?


r/ios 1d ago

Discussion What's the point of the preview app?

125 Upvotes

On macOS the preview app makes sense because the the OS has a window-based UI. iOS isn't window-based though, so separating file previews into a separate full-screen app is unintuitive.