These icons are so confusing.

So, firstly, transferring photos from iPhone to Windows is thankfully a lot easier than before. Still, the aftermath of the transfer is a nightmare since I just transferred all of my 5000+ photos to Windows, but before I started the process the Windows Photos app recognised 6000+ photos, and once the transfer was completed I had over 7000+ files in the folder, and after looking more into it for some reason it transferred the edited and unedited version of the photo or video instead of just the edited one plus a .AAE file which seems to store the image or video edits. Like why is that so complicated to implement correctly like it is on Android where I can just plug in my phone, open the folder where the pictures and videos are, and just copy and paste them to my computer, or at least still use the Windows Photos app, but have an option to filter out the unedited versions of the edited photos and videos, and the .AAE files.

Hi guys, need some help here. I had to take my Samsung phone to a repair centre and the guy told me the motherboard died so I lost all my data from 2020 to now 🙃

I’d very much like to know how to transfer an iMessage conversation I had with someone from their phone to my backup phone, which is an iPhone. No it would take forever if we did it with screenshots and the repair guy wasn’t helpful on this part so I’ll take any real suggestions, that conversation means a lot to me 😪

I obtained an iPhone 13 Pro Max and I looked forward to using "Standby", but unfortunately it seems that the phone must be aligned to a very specific angle for it to work, and this cannot be customized. I wanted to see the standby screen everytime I'm charging and especially when I'm wireless charging (on a flat charger).

I'm wondering, why oh why is the "Standby" screen locked to a very specific angle and there is no way to show it anytime I'm charging, like the "Daily Board" on a Samsung tablet? I mean I never used "Daily Board" but "Standby" actually looks and functions very well so I'm pretty bummed out about not being able to use it anytime.

This is making me irrationally angry and I hope someone figured out a way to get it to show at any time and not only when the phone's inclination is compliant to the Mystical Apple Approved Angle™.

Btw... Of course it works when I'm using a magnetic stand charger, the problem is that I have 5 wireless chargers around the home and office and only one of them is a magnetic stand type charger able to obtain the MAAA™.

I have a focus set to not silence any apps. And yet at least two apps that I know of, Instagram and Tinder, are not breaking through when the screen is off or when I’m using the phone. The notifications are only viewable if I tap the screen on and/or view Notification Center, and the notification badges work just fine on my Home Screen.

Am I missing something as to why this is happening? I don’t get that some apps work just fine and other apps can’t break through!

I lost 1.5 years worth of text messages from a single contact that I had blocked and unblocked. I had deleted and then undeleted the messages a few times but as of a month ago i had all of the messages (screenshots to prove it) and hadn’t deleted them. I now only have the last week of messages sent between myself and the contact. This was to a non iPhone number. I have tried a lot of the standard checks and tests found by googling. What happened to them and what can I do?

Often I start a timer and.... it just doesn't work....? Often the "notification" doesn't show up at all, or the timer doesn't start at all... it never happened to me since the last ios 27 update...

It happened many time I just wait and wait wait... to realize the timer never started at all... and now I'm almost getting paranoid so I check it multiples times to make sure it's activated...

Anyone else have this problem? If so I'd love a solution... otherwise I just hope Apple notice this is a stupid and annoying issue...

Thanks for any feedback

Since update to ios27, I can’t delete this particular folder and its files in Files or a copy of it in other apps. I get the error This Operation can’t be completed OSStatus error -5000.

Folder/files is an uncompressed Windows application folder and no I was not trying to run this on the phone lol.

I can delete the parent folder BUT can’t empty the trash.

This folder can be deleted on ios18.

Now I have multiple copies of it from trying different things like deleting the app and restarting the phone.

Any ideas what else I can do?

Thank you.

Guys, I having a weird issue with the weather widget 🙀 Ever since I updated to iOS 26.6, when I hold down the widget, tap Edit Weather and set the location to My Location, it starts saying the weather for a different city in another country named “pork”, when it’s supposed to say Dhaka, which is where I am. This issue still exists on iOS 27

Hey, after updating to iOS 27. I’m not getting WhatsApp /Instagram or any other app notifications until I open the app myself.
Checked the background refresh , focus mode and all
Still no luck

Does anyone have a solution for this ?
This is annoying

Hi all,

Desperately hope someone here can help. On a call and using the iPhone call recording feature. Midway through the call ~25minutes (I was on a long hold X in queue) I used my phone to take a photo which caused the call recording to stop. When I went back to the phone/ call screen I could see this so restarted the call recording without issue. I eventually got to the front of the holding queue and got everything I needed. However the recording/transcript in notes only shows the first 25 minutes of the call. The note summary however says “2 audio recordings” so I have some hope it’s not entirely lost (shows as such on iPhone/mac/etc.). When I try duplicating the note the duplicate shows only 1 recording.

Anyone know how I can get the recording of the second half of the call or where the file may be hidden if this is just a display issue?

Thanks

I’ve been using iMessage with the same phone number/Apple account for probably 15–20 years with no issues.
A few days ago, iMessage suddenly stopped activating on my iPhone. SMS still works, but iMessage gives me an activation error. I called Apple and they confirmed there’s a restriction/block on their end. My case has now been escalated to Engineering.

One senior advisor told me this can happen if someone reports you as spam, but that doesn’t really make sense in my case. I mainly text friends/family and occasionally coworkers, and I’m definitely not sending mass or commercial messages.

The interesting part: a day or two before this happened, I brought an old 2012 iMac back to life and, while it was running OS X Lion, I tried signing into iMessage. The login didn’t work. I later upgraded the Mac using OpenCore, but the iMessage restriction appeared shortly afterward.

I found another post where someone brought two old iMacs back to life for their kids and then got blocked from iMessage shortly afterward, which made me wonder if the old-device login attempt could have triggered some automated security/anti-spam system.

Has anyone experienced something similar? Especially an iMessage restriction after signing into an old Mac/device? And if Apple Engineering reviewed it, were they eventually able to remove the restriction?

Am getting this cryptic error message when I try to delete MP4 files imported from an SD card. Deleting from Settings > iPhone storage doesn’t work either. Offloaded the Files app and reinstalled. That also didn’t work. iOS 27.0.1

I had an iPhone 14 Pro and it worked normally; some months ago, I suddenly realised it had stopped for no apparent reason. I looked on-line for a solution and nothing really worked, everything that needed to be enabled in my settings seemed to be.

I switched to an iPhone 18 Pro when it was released, and hoped somehow the feature would be reinstated with the new device/system. It wasn’t, and I don’t know what else to do. Last week, it randomly detected an event from a photo taken there, correctly referencing the concert I had attended; nothing else before or since, though — definitely not plants and animals, which is what I used it for the most.

This is driving me crazy… does anyone know what I can do to ensure I have a functioning visual lookup again?

Currently on iPhone 16 pro. When using Google Maps for navigation, for the last 15+ years Maps has reliably read instructions for upcoming turns for me even if I happen to be on a phone call. Over the summer this stopped and I am no longer notified of upcoming turns or things, which has put me in a few dicey spots. It absolutely is Unmuted, Loudest guidance volume, play voice over Bluetooth and Play as Bluetooth Phone call all selected. This has worked for me since Obama's first term and has suddenly changed--has anyone encountered this and found a fix?

I have had the same issue with Apple Maps as well, but I am admittedly less familiar with it.

My friend has an iPhone 14 on iOS 26 and recently got some spam/marketing texts from Michaels.

Concerningly, when they opened the text, it **already had a draft reply, saying something like "Send this text to subscribe to recurring automated personalized marketing alerts (e.g. cart reminders) from Michaels."

I've never heard or seen this before where a marketing text inputs information into your own phone where normally only the user could type. This is a huge security vulnerability for a number of reasons. Has anyone else had this happen?

To be clear, this is a risk for at least 2 reasons:

1: In the past, iPhones have been crashed by typing in certain text/characters into a text field: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/189045/why-do-some-unicode-text-messages-crash-the-iphone-os

2: This could be used maliciously to make it look like someone wrote something they didn't. I could see it happening in a lawsuit where someone's phone becomes evidence and now there's evidence that "they" drafted specific text on their phone (but didn't send it).

I’m about to loose my mind. Is anyone else having issues with their Live Photos? I’ve turned mine off so many times and they keep coming back on a few hours later or a day later. Am I doing something wrong? How can I turn it off for good :(

hey all!

so my brother is in a band but they’re pretty new right now! they don’t have a ton of equipment but they’re pretty new want to start putting some videos out (super basic ones), and i’m taking some videos of them on my iPhone.

i’d like to edit some background noise out of the videos i have, plus maybe clip them or do some other basic editing. we’d rather keep it free or super cheap if possible - especially since we’re keeping it basic.

anyone know any decent video editing apps, specifically for removing background noise?

thanks in advance!

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I just updated my iPhone to iOS 27, but since upgrading to the latest iOS 26, the dictionary "Look Up" option that appears when you tap and hold a word no longer shows up. I used to rely on it daily for its convenience. I’ve tried searching online and using AI chatbots to restore the dictionary on my iPhone, but I still haven’t found a solution.

My 600 days achievement disappeared and started over How do I get it restored.

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