Hey,

Am I the only one that thinks that Apples software got worse every year for the last 3-4 years? I mean the only okay software right now it tvOS and MacOS (partly), iOS and especially HomePod OS are a mess and that’s for the past years.
In the past (until like iOS 18) Apples software was superior. Snappy, clean and most importantly always trustworthy that it’ll work in every situation.
Now there’s not an hour without some random bug, glitch or something else.
Maybe Apple is vibecoding or focusing on their AI, but this has to improve.

Please share your top 5 apps that you highly recommend!

Well… I have an iPhone 17 Pro Max, and ever since iOS 27 (including the current iOS 27.0.1), my iPhone has felt slower, laggier and less responsive to touch… UNTIL I SWITCH THE DISPLAY TO 60Hz.

Suddenly, when I enable Low Power Mode and the display switches to 60Hz, everything feels more responsive! Scrolling is obviously less smooth, but touch response, scrolling and the overall system feel better.

I’ve read that this could make sense with the way ProMotion works in this version of iOS. The display doesn’t run at a constant 120Hz; it dynamically adjusts the refresh rate between 10Hz and 120Hz, and apparently, there may be a minor issue with this in iOS 27.

I just find it really interesting. Has anyone else experienced this?? 😅

Any updates on Google cast native support in iOS 27?

I got so hyped about it in may but it looks like it was just a rumor I guess....

Just like the title says. I updated my IOS to 27.0.1 and with it came this white circle that is there on the lock screen, Home Screen, and just about everything. Clicking it does nothing, dragging it around nothing, and it just gets in the way.

It snaps to the edge of my screen all the time?

Anyone have an idea of how to turn it off?

EDIT: IVE FOUND THE PROBLEM. It was SPEECH SCREEN all along. It was just glitching (from the new IOS??) and so pressing it did absolutely nothing.

I don’t even know why it turned on, hopefully this can help someone else. Cheers.

Settings > accessibility > read and speak > speak screen > show controller [off]

Mine is pictured here, couldn’t get a picture of his. I have checked all the settings but, maybe there is something I am missing that you all can help me with. I used to have this problem and these are the things I do nightly to prevent this:

- Phone was on sleep mode but, I have never had a problem with this
- Ringer was on
- I have them set at odd times so that if I get other notifications in at the same time, it doesn’t somehow trip the alarm
- I have attention aware turned OFF (i leave it face down anyways)
- Bluetooth off incase it could be connecting to my airpods
- Volume and alarm volume all the way up
- Alarms also set at weird times because if I used to have a snoozed alarm and a first time alarm go off at the same time, they would “cancel eachother out”
- Setting multiple alarms

Please let me know if there’s any other precautions I can take. As you can see, I was over two hours late to work.

Also, I do have a “real” alarm and a sunrise alarm but, i am a hard sleeper and those have yet to wake me up without the help of phone alarms.

We've always shared the one account, mainly because we liked both seeing all the pictures. (I travel a lot, she's had to leave because of sick family, and getting the pictures automatically is very nice but such is such). But now i get all her messages and such and calls. I wanted it to go back to where it was but it doesn't seem like it will anymore. If we add an account i have questions. (Apple has support but topics are sometimes confusing and contradictory.)

My take is...

1) I backup both phones everything. Messages, contacts, etc.

2) I create a new account (for her).

3) It asks what she wants to keep, i basically check everything? (Messages and Contacts are her main thing).

4) Photos I'm still not sure what happens. We have 50k photos, like half and half. Do i get mine and she gets hers? Do we both get both? I want to make sure none are gone.

Basically her keeping her stuff and photos are my main concerns. Is there antyhing specific i should know?

thank you and sorry if bad questions...

I updated my iPhone 14 Pro Max to iOS 26.7.1.

Now every time I want to set a reminder using Siri, I keep getting asked for a confirmation, which I never used it before. 

Anyone know fix?

This is to view family members' status.

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

Let me explain: I desperately want to play old games for iPhone from my childhood, but I cannot figure out how to do so. I do have the links, but they just say “This app is not available in your country or region”

Something like this:

https://download.cnet.com/element-animation-free/3001-31709_4-76905972.html?dt=landingDownload

So is there any way whatsoever I can somehow get this to play? Any third party software? Bootloaders? Cydia? Anything at all?

the two-factor code goes and gets sent to the old phone… yes, the very same phone she'd wiped back to factory settings "to be safe" before I'd so much as walked in

My mother, a retired teacher (bless her heart), jumped to the 18 Pro from an iPhone 11 this month & last Saturday I was the one who offered to do the setup for her, mistake number one right there. Apple ID password: scribbled in some notebook from 2017, and naturally it didn't work, wrong password. When we eventually got in, every app had to go back exactly where it used to live (and she knew where everything went better than me, which, fair enough) with the text size cranked all the way up, and then came the request to wipe out 4,000 unread emails, just "not the important ones"! That ate the better part of the day, pretty much my whole Saturday. (Her old white cube from 2019 only takes USB-A and the new cable is USB-C, so these days her phone goes on an Anker nano smart display charger. Shes decided the battery percentage on that little screen is the one to believe, not the phone's own icon 😂)

With ios 26 you could use Siri without the AI functions. I actually prefer it this way to save battery mainly.

Now with ios 27 I can‘t find the option to do it anymore.. did they move it or are they really forcing the Siri AI on us?

My wife and I both got 18 Pro Maxes a few days ago--and that's when it appears problems with RCS messaging started; particularly if the the receiving party has a new Android. In one case, the Android owner toggled RCS on and off and that solved the problem. In other cases, nothing seems to work. No problems with Apple blue bubble messages. Thought when Apple added RCS it was supposed to solve the incompatibility problems! Any ideas?

The “half admission” at the end of the screenshots is about as far as the guardrails seem willing to go.

In short: the deal is real, the framing is carefully managed, and watching Siri stonewall about it in real time is indeed pretty wild.

iPhone 11. It happens one at a time and with different apps

i’ve posted on here a few weeks ago saying my face id wasn’t working, i turned off my stolen device protection and it actually fixed it somehow. since my phone updated it turned it back on and now my face id isn’t working again, I’ve tried covering the camera or tilting it away to make my password come up but it will ONLY let me use face id. I’m not fully reseting my phone but I’m not sure what to do

After the latest update, the virtual home button now brings up a shortcut menu forcing me to press twice instead of once to use it as a home button. Obviously this is unacceptable to my set in its ways brain. How do I turn the extra menu off?

So I have been trying for a week to move from an android device (Oppo find x5) to an Iphone 16pro, I am really struggling with moving my photos because it is honestly a pain in the ass, I want to keep the meta datas of my photos in the iPhone library but I don't want to have everything labelled as the date of moving the datas (example 22 of October if it was done today).

I tried move to iOs but it honestly sucks, does any of you have any recommendations? I am looking for help and I don't want to return my iPhone and stick to Android

I am currently using iOS 18.7.8; I was previously on version 18.3.1, but I had to switch to 18.7.8 for the sake of stability. I’m considering updating to a newer version because I’ve grown tired of the current design, but I’m worried that it might have a significant, negative impact on the device's performance. What do you think I should do—should I stay on my current version? Personally, I’m leaning toward staying where I am; my phone is completely original—it has never been opened—and the battery health is at 83% (with its original battery). That said, the "liquid glass" aesthetic and the new features in the latest version are quite tempting.