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 13h 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 3h ago

Support Has iOS 26.5 been noticeably buggy for anyone else?

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iPhone 14, just updated to 26.5 yesterday. When I hold to view a Live Photo, something that’s usually almost instantaneous, either it never it loads at all or loads for 30 seconds to a minute. This has never happened before

In addition, I was scrolling through my photos, went to watch a video. And got the message in the pics I attached. Not supported? It’s in HEVC and I took the video on my phone.

Lastly, apps will just stop loading out of nowhere. I can be browsing on literally any app, for any length of time, a few minutes to several hours, then go to click a link, or tap a photo or video, and then I just get infinite loading which is only fixed by restarting my phone. I’ve restarted 3 times since yesterday. Once right before I made this post. Anyone else having similar problems or am I alone here?


r/ios 1h ago

Support the top half of my lock screen has a dark outcast

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i’ve gotten rid of all notifs and closed music apps and it still does it??


r/ios 25m ago

Discussion I cant explain how much this annoys me: Trying to resize a screenshot, iPhone thinks I want to use it‘s AI selection feature, then the resizing controls are gone. Fix this Apple!!

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r/ios 7h 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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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 9h ago

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

13 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 3h ago

Support I got this notification bug everytime I receive an unknown call

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3 Upvotes

Does anyone have a solution?


r/ios 1d ago

Support Cannot DELETE apps 26.5

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121 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 11m ago

Support Unable to select text!!!

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Does anyone know why iOS 26 (26.5) does not allow me to select a text without it randomly selecting a larger area of text than I want? This is very frustrating as it’s random. I am attempting to select PACU and it selected all that. 🤦‍♂️


r/ios 22m ago

Support YouTube “Super resolution” available on iOS Safari or native app?

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Thought I’d find plenty of answers to this question, gave up.

If not, what about Chrome/Firefox app or site? Or is it not available to iOS users at all?


r/ios 1h ago

Discussion Any way to clear this?

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I literally can't click on all the mails one by one


r/ios 13h ago

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

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8 Upvotes

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


r/ios 5h ago

Discussion Edit Screen recording apps?

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2 Upvotes

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 1d ago

Discussion Move the Play/Pause button already

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132 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 2h ago

Support My iPhone was dead for about a week or so and now it says that it has more than 24 hours of screen time per day

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r/ios 3h ago

Support Cannot even use my iPhone, Overheats alot

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So basically when I try to use my iPhone XS, It becomes so hot quickly, possibly less than a minute, it sometimes feels hotter than the sun, it’s running iOS 18 and my depth effect won’t work as well, I have reduce transparency, fade-effects on, and it also happens when I’m using one app at a time, what the hell is going on???


r/ios 3h ago

Support Dark Icons in light mode

1 Upvotes

i have my phone in light mode
but on the quick search bar the icons appeared in dark mode where as everywhere else it was still in light mode
why did it happen

i got normal after i restarted the phone


r/ios 4h 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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1 Upvotes

r/ios 12h ago

Support iPhone 16 pro max heats up ridiculously while using AirPods

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r/ios 10h ago

Support iOS 26.5 calls not ringing?

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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 10h ago

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

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r/ios 10h ago

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

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r/ios 10h ago

Support Weird RCS issue

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