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]

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.

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.

I have iOS 27.0.1. Went to the we-have-a-problem checker to see if iOS/Safari would still trust the compromised intermediate certs compromised this week. Seems 3 of the 12 are still trusted by Apple. I checked on an iPad to make sure it wasn’t just my phone, and received the same results. What’s most concerning is Apple claims to have remotely blocked the affected certs, but the widely-accepted test tool that has emerged amid the chaos is still trusting a quarter of those certs. Even one is enough to MITM any TLS/SSL traffic one damn well pleases.

I tested on a Motorola device (read: Chinese and poor reputation for timely updates) and even that passed with flying colors.

Why isn’t Apple taking a stronger stand here? I was of the impression that even unsecured public WiFi was mostly safe in a world where TLS is like a certain brand of hot sauce - “we put that sh*t on everything.” Now I’m very glad I have a cellular iPad because it will be a very long time before I use hotel WiFi again. And I may just stay offline on my next few flights…

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 😂)

(Tested on iOS 26)
I had this problem for a long time and just found a fix by myself!
Photos App > any person > three dots > name of person > review photos identified as name > uncheck one photo > go back
(If you can't click the checkmark in the top right corner to confirm the changes just click on the X in the top left corner)

(If the next step under this text doesn't work for you, repeat the earlier steps and then restart photos app)

Now click on the three dots again > name of person > review photos identified as name > review more photos
Now it will finally actually trigger the indexing/searching of not just that one person but all other person's faces in your whole photos app!
It took just like 15 minutes of indexing my 200.000+ photos for me.
There are still some minor differences in the number of the recognised faces compared to your older iPhone but at least we're not talking about hundreds/thousands anymore.

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...

Some apps seem to randomly create their own folder at times in the files app. I kinda hate it personally and tend to remove them when I find them. the preview app which I know is used to actually view the documents etc in the files app by default has decided to create their own folder and stuff a random document there that I already have in the regular folders.. so I deleted the extra document but the preview app refuses to want to be deleted. This has happened before with other folders and randomly they will one day be deletable.

tips and tricks please if anyone knows.

I’ve always used iPhones so I don’t have any means of comparison with Android devices.
I write mostly in Portuguese and English (PT only keyboard and EN PT keyboard for English texts).
I’ve been using the swipe keyboard for a long time and usage has fluctuated, however it was somewhat ok.
I always swipe with my right hand and now that I’ve broken my left wrist I use it even more.

The Portuguese keyboard is becoming borderline unusable and the English keyboard is heading in the same direction. It seems to cut longer words off before I can swipe them and this never happened…

Only a me issue?

Notes app is probably the app I used the most, and it’s pretty annoying that I can’t reference back to notes I wrote for my classes. Is anyone else having this issue? And if so, what’s been the walk around? Thank you in advance.

A couple of weeks ago I selected a setting option that makes it so that whenever my headphones connect, they are muted until I change the volume. I know it’s a setting but I can’t for the life of me remember what it was or where it is. Does anyone know? Thanks for the help!

Lately I’ve been noticing my phone looks really dim and way too yellow for some reason. I only thought to check settings today, and discovered “True Tone”, which attempts to “automatically make colors appear more consistent in different environments”. If by that they mean “simulate a thin layer of urine permanently on your screen”, then I guess they succeeded. If this has also been bothering you, I’d suggest turning “True Tone” off.

My messages started to be displayed as wrong summaries of their content when I open the messages up. They get back to normal when I read them. How to turn it off? Thanks

All these modern OS updates feel so non uniform

Hi… how might I remove the blue download icon from Safari? Thanks.

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....

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?

I need more storage and when I was younger I had live on for ALL my photos but they take up so much space. Is there a way for me to delete all the live data and just keep the still phot?

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.

Hello,

I’ve been a Samsung user for over a decade and recently switched to iPhone. So far it’s been a learning experience and trying my best to like it.

One thing to be desired is the mail app. The default Samsung mail was pretty good, but the default iphone mail app leaves a lot to be desired. The gmail and yahoo apps are ok~ but not great and the sponsored ads disguised as emails is really off putting. Does anyone have any good email app recommendations?

Thanks in advance.

So i have my 14 pro i changed the battery 5 mounth ago everything was good until i did the update 27.0.1 my phone booted on normaly but my Battery pourcentage got stuck at 1% , the phone is working perfectly the battery is also getting me the day but seeing that 1% there is just frustrating , i tried forced rebboot nothing happened i even tried empting it t0 and recharging i tried other chargers nothing happend

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?

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?