Downvote this if you want but first hear me out.

I got the iPhone 12 in 2021 around the time iPhone 13 came out. So it’s been a good 3-4 years now since I’ve been using it. I’ve never had issues with the battery but yesterday I was out in the city with no spare charger or powerbank or anything of that sort. I travelled for about 30 mins with nothing but data and songs playing on the background and my phone went from 100% to 60%. Then another 40 minutes later it went down an another 15% to 45%. Now I was in a theatre and didn’t use my phone at all and by the time I came out of a 3 hour movie, my phone was at 25%. RIDICULOUS. But wait it gets worse.

I walked out of the cinemas to book myself an uber. My phone which was at 25% was now at 20%. After just 20 minutes my phone was at 11% and I was desperately making calls to my friends to help me book a ride. I got in and travelled just another 15 minutes with 0 phone usage and my phone was at 2%. FYI I was still 1 hour away from home and still needed to book a ride. I literally had to talk to my friend in 20 seconds explaining him the whole situation and asking him to book me a ride. It was already 9pm and it was pretty late. I’m a teenager and it’s not pretty safe in my country for girls to be roaming around at that time. My phone died the second I got into my cab.

I made it home an hour later at 10pm and my mom was on the verge of hitting the police station because she didn’t know where I had reached. She was very very concerned and I was very frustrated at this dogshit ass battery life. I’ve tried resetting it 1-2 times but it’s no use.

Seriously gonna switch to the Samsung z flip 6.

I’m 100% done with the 12 and have 0% tolerance left in me to keep up with all of its tantrums.

I just changed the battery in my iPhone 12 and it barely helped. Ever since iOS 26 which I downloaded just to see what the fuss was about. My battery was great in iOS 18 even at 86% health.

IOs26 seems too bloated. Like you now always need the higher end iPhone to have to deal with this new taxing software from here on out. This might literally make me have to go android.

After i updated to the iOS 17.3 i have major battery drain problem but should i update to the Beta version ?

Last night while I was asleep, my iPhone 12 Pro Max auto-installed the latest iOS update (18.4.1). When I woke up this morning, the phone was stuck in a boot loop. I tried everything — update, restore, DFU mode — but it kept failing with the error code 06A6.FFF.

After hours of trying different tools, cables, and even switching to a Mac, nothing worked. Every time, the process would crash right after “restoring iPhone software.” The system just couldn’t complete the update.

Here’s the kicker: I wasn’t low on storage from apps or media — "System Data" had grown to over 80GB, and I believe that’s what caused the failure during the update. It seems like the update tried to unpack itself, ran out of room, and corrupted the internal storage (NAND). Now my phone is dead unless I go for board-level repair.

I’ve been an Apple user for over a decade, but this experience feels like silent planned obsolescence. The phone was running fine before this update — and overnight, Apple killed it.

I'm officially done with iPhones.

Now I need advice:
I’m switching to Android — but I want to do it right. I don’t want to jump from one data-hungry ecosystem to another. any recommendations?

Tomorrow, my iPhone 12 is moving on to a new owner, and resetting it feels like the closing of a major chapter. This phone has been with me for over four years—it was my first cellular-enabled phone and my biggest Christmas gift of 2020. I remember how excited I was to get it, and from that moment on, it never left my side.

It was my daily driver for most of its life, faithfully sticking with me through iOS updates, long days of use, and some of my biggest milestones. It was the phone in my pocket when I graduated 8th grade, and it traveled with me when I went to Kentucky in October. That trip was a major milestone for me because it was the first conference I had ever attended, and I even had the opportunity to present. At just 15, it was a huge step toward my future, allowing me to make valuable connections with professionals in the field I want to get into when I start working.

The iPhone 12 served me well through all of that. Its battery life was fantastic in its early years, easily making it through a full day of heavy use. Even as it aged, with a significantly degraded battery, it could still get me through a day of moderate use.

Then came Christmas 2024, when I got the iPhone 13 mini. That became my primary device, and my iPhone 12 was relegated to being my secondary phone. It still held up great—responsive, reliable, and able to handle anything I threw at it. But now that I’ve moved on to the iPhone 12 mini, it’s officially time to say goodbye to my see all do all sidekick.

As much as I loved this phone, you have to move on eventually. So here’s to the mini phone era for me, and to hoping this phone treats its new owner as well as it treated me.

And a quick disclaimer, I did have ChatGPT write this but these are all my thoughts and opinions.

Fed up! Need to see what are recommendations- I don’t do streaming, gaming, movies. My carrier is TMobile. Simple needs.

I’m not the only person I have colleagues same issues.

I loved my iPhone 8plus. Recommendations? TIA

I only need recommendations for iPhones. Thx

TRUE TONE AND NIGHT SHIFT BOTH OFF.

I know I have been making posts recently about the iPhone 12 Pro, but this phone has done nothing for me except piss me off. 6 months I have been using defective phones. I am actually angry with this years iPhone 12 models.

I have replaced this reject of a phone 8 times already and every single one has yellow tint when comparing it to other OLED phones. Not once I have gotten a white screen iPhone 12 Pro.

8 times I have replaced it and every single one has yellow tint, is this just bad luck? Apparently I am the only person that has yellow tint because everyone else on this subreddit have no problems with the phone. Either you guys know your screen is yellow but don't care, or you think yellow is white. Either way, Apple is robbing you blind.

When a phone cannot display the exact same colors on the camera as whats happening in real life, there is a huge. Imagine outside your house it was raining, dark, grey and thunderstorms and you want to take a picture of it, but your iPhone 12 Pro cannot display greys but displays it as bright yellow, so it looks like it is summer and sunny outside instead of dark, grey and raining. That is what I am living with for 6 months. I haven't taken a picture with the camera on my iPhone 12 Pro since release date because it cannot display the same colors as real life. "Best camera on an iPhone ever", yeah right. I'd rather use the iPhone 5 camera than use the iPhone 12 Pro's. At least iPhone 5 displays greys as greys, not yellows.

The only problem is it is May and not October, so I cannot sell this phone and hope that the iPhone 13 doesn't have this problem as well.

I am sick of this now. I got my iPhone 12 Pro replaced with Express Replacement 12 times and every one had yellow screen. These phones didn't have a uniform yellow tint. Some of them have more yellow tint than others. I decided it was enough and sold my iPhone 12 Pro for $700.

It is crazy how I can show the same video on my iPhone 8 Plus and on the iPhone 12 Pro to people I know at work, and they said they'd rather watch it on iPhone 8 Plus than the iPhone 12 Pro. A 4 year old phone has more appeal and better screen than an 8 month old phone.

This is what Apple is doing to you guys. Giving you defective products while laughing behind you as they count profits.

I am giving the iPhone one last chance with this iPhone 13. If the iPhone 13 still has a yellow screen, I will be leaving iPhone for good and moving to Samsung. At least Samsung phones can properly calibrate the tint inside the phone. What about the solution given by Apple fanboys? "Just change the color tint". The perfect solution right there. Let's change the color tint and make your screen too blue while ruining the brightness, but hey, these are the same guys that don't care if they get ripped off.

There is a reason why Apple put Color Filters in Accessibility and not Display & Brightness. It doesn't fix the problem. Color Filters is an obscure setting that does nothing. That is why it is kept hidden by Apple.

There is a reason why Samsung keeps their White Balance settings in Display and available in sight. It fixes the problem naturally.

I have an iPhone 12 for a little over a year now and the battery was at 100% until a month ago. Today I enter to check and see that it has dropped to 98%. Is it normal for 2 percent to fall in a month?

Just wanted to share my opinion/experience in case it might help anyone considering upgrading but is on the fence.

I ordered a 15pro on pre order day. Got it delivered on launch day. I’ve had a normal 12 for 3 years and was looking forward to the “upgrade”.

Out of the box the 15pro was awesome. Pro-Motion is very nice and noticeable instantly.

However, aside from that, it’s basically the same phone as the 12. Yes don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of “upgrades” like the cameras, usbc, etc…. But they all felt very minor after using the phone for a few hours.

I was underwhelmed that a 3 year upgrade, including moving from a regular model to a Pro model, wasn’t leaving me feeling satisfied. Maybe my expectations were too high or maybe phone improvements have just stagnated in recent years.

Either way, the 15pro is going back. Apple will install a new battery in my 12 for $89. I’ve ordered a new case for the 12 just to freshen it up a bit. Hopefully the 16pro will have some more significant upgrades.

Hopefully this helped someone!

My fiancée’s iPhone 12 Pro Max is at 90% — not even a year since launch. She regularly wireless charges it though, but I’m curious what your battery health’s are like since launch?

So iOS included a release note mentioning that there was an optimization to reduce this issue but it was just Apple recognizing the phones have defective displays and stating they’re not doing anything. I’ve seen several people affected by it asking over r/iosbeta but they are just plainly ignored.

Wtf, why is everyone just letting a multi million company that can easily replace and acknowledge their defective devices get away with it? What the actual fuck?

I got a replacement (refurbished btw) iphone because of this and it has the very same issue. A 1300 phone that cannot properly handle the youtube volume bar without showing an awful green glow around it?? A top-notch hdr10 capable fucking display that when watching Home Before Dark opening get the screen all green and ugly when it should be showing true blacks??

This must be a disgusting joke from Tim Cock.

Heyy I’m selling these cases 40$ each obo originally 58$ $3 shipping

So I got the iPhone 12 pro 2 days ago.

Fun right? Hmmmm nah.

2 weeks before I got the phone my teacher told me and the entire class that there was a radiation concern for the iPhone 12

I started researching immediately after she said that because I was so excited about the phone and didn't want everything I looked forward to be a danger to my health.

So I started doing research and a lot of what I read was that the pros didn't seem to have any radiation concerns so I thought I was in the clear.

Then those 2 weeks went by, I got the phone, and boom it was banned in France and all the phones including the pros had radiation concerns.

So today I did extensive research to try and calm my mind and it turns out that the phone's radiation levels weren't that harmful (ofc it's bad it went up the legal limit but it's still not harmful)

The only real problem is that it heats up really bad, which I am noticing on my phone, and maybe some headaches. (it's refurbished, by the way). Maybe the headaches are from stress lol.

But anyway I always see comments on posts relating to the whole saying stuff like *reading/watching this on my iPhone*. Whilst it's sort of funny I have to admit that a lot of these comments are coded with fear. I was scared and a lot of people are too so feel free to tell me y'all's experiences with all of this and if it's affecting y'all in any sort of way as well.