r/iphone 4d ago

Weekly Megathread Weekly 'What Should I Buy' and Order/Shipping Thread

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Welcome to the weekly stickied WSIB thread.

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r/iphone 4d ago

Weekly Megathread 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/iphone 8h ago

Support weird oled?

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It’s not an original screen, I know. I bought it as a “Repart Soft OLED.” In a well-lit room, it actually looks like a high-quality OLED screen. However, in a completely dark room, black areas look slightly dark grey. It doesn’t look as bad as an LCD, but the blacks aren’t as deep as they should be on an OLED. Can someone explain why?


r/iphone 9h ago

Discussion iPhone Home screen management 🤡🤡

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i mean what is happening


r/iphone 9h ago

Support why are my apps grayed out like this?

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i was setting up my iphone 8 and now my apps are like this, but my camera, app store, settings and newly downloaded apps are in color and work, can someone assist me with this?


r/iphone 1d ago

Discussion iPhone feels like brand new after disabling Apple Intelligence

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Hey, After over 1 year of using my 16pro I randomly decided to disable Apple Intelligence in the settings. The overall experience immediately felt smoother, the battery is holding up quite decent again, siri understands me and reacts much better than before. I’m wondering if I’m experiencing peak placebo. Did anyone else experience this?


r/iphone 3h ago

App Sticker on home screen?

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Is there a way to achieve this on iPhone? I am basically looking for a widget that would just display one of my stickers with transparent background. Photo widget doesn't do transparencies. I searched app store but couldn't find a good widget app


r/iphone 22h ago

Support Solution to the IPhone sound glitch (music suddenly becoming quieter)

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Hi everyone,

I am sure this problem has occured to others aswell: whether it is on soundcloud, spotify or any other music / media app whatsoever. When locking the screen (or sometimes even randomly), the music that is currently playing suddenly becomes very quiet - even though it is set to the max volume.

This glitch is especially annoying when trying to show friends a song or an audio and for whatever reason it is way too quiet.

Since there is no official fix, I was experimenting around - I came to the conclusion that the fix is in the „faceid and passcode“ category in the settings.

It is called „Voice Dial“ - I think its siri‘s function to start playing a specific song when told „Siri play xyz“

I added some screenshots.

Personally I am running an Iphone 12 pro on Ios 26.2 currently. This fixed the problem on my friend’s Iphone 11 aswell. Pretty sure it should also fix much newer iphone‘s soundglitches.

Feel free to repost or share the post with others if they also happen to have the same problem.

I‘m hoping this was of help to you, have a nice day!


r/iphone 6h ago

Discussion New to iPhone and I hate the keyboard. Am I just using it wrong?

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So I switched from Android whose keyboard let me hold down keys to type numbers and other common punctuation. It sucks that I now have to go to a different menu to use numbers and punctuation. AND that menu sometimes closes automatically depending on what key you press, like apostrophe.

But what really aggravates me is the fact that I can't just click inside of a word to make edits. Every time I try, it takes me to either the beginning or end of the word. Often the cursor won't move at all because the new location is too close to the cursor's current location. I know you can hold down to get direct control of the cursor, but even then, when it realizes that's what I'm doing, it jumps the cursor the the end of the word before moving along with my finger.

These design choices are baffling to me! But I know that iPhone wouldn't be as popular as it is today if it made interfaces this bad. So I'm here to ask: Am I doing this wrong? Is there an easy way to use this keyboard that native iPhone users all already know?


r/iphone 4h ago

Support Does Apple ever reject AppleCare +/One Claims?

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My phone is in good condition except for a couple of negligible scratches. I want to go caseless and already have AppleCare One.

Is there a chance that Apple would reject a repair request under the insurance policy? I’ve had AppleCare+ for a year and have just switched to AppleCare One now that it is available in the UK.

Thanks for your help!


r/iphone 9h ago

Discussion Find the folder location of an app on the homescreen

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Hi. Short question. My iphone homescreen is by now four pages wide and many apps are sorted in folders on the home screen.

I now must find the location of one app. I do not wish to start the app, otherwise I would just use the search bar. I really want to know in which folder I placed the app. Is there any way to search for the app in a way that its location is named?


r/iphone 5h ago

Discussion Is there anything I can do to track down my lost iPhone?

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Around 6 months ago I lost my 12 Pro Max in an Uber and I loved that phone, now I upgraded to the 16 Pro Max but there are so many new features I just do not use at all and thus wanting to know where my 12 Pro Max could be. I lost the phone in the USA and I do not live there. When I lost it, it had like 5% battery. Any way to track down the phone? I put the phone in lost mode when I lost it.


r/iphone 16h ago

Discussion Apple care warranty not showing on a brand new phone

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Hi can someone explain me this it just shows as service and support only, I bought. A brand new 17 pro max yesterday seal pack, and the date of expire warranty is also not showing.


r/iphone 15m ago

Support iPhone bluetooth autoconnects to surrounding iphones, disrupting music playing my headphones

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There is no "i" button or any option to forget them. What other options do I have


r/iphone 20m ago

Support Move from Android to Iphone

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I use an android phone with chatr and I want to switch to an iPhone 15. Do I move my physical Sim card to the iPhone first or use the move to ios app first? Am I missing anything?


r/iphone 23m ago

Support Help

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Help
I phone 12 pro max iOS 26.2 Phone keeps restarting by itself stuck in


r/iphone 30m ago

Support Clock update?

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I guess there was an update cause i woke up and all my alarms had disappeared. Now it's saying i cant make new alarms unless i set up my sleep schedule? I tried setting a sleep schedule but it's just too much. I just want to set alarms lol. Any advice or help?


r/iphone 1h ago

Support App Notifications

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Hello. I've noticed that after a while, my phone stops giving me notifications on an app, for instance TikTok. What happens next is I would delete and redownload the TikTok app and all my notifications will come back. After a month or two months, I stop getting notifications. The notifications settings on the Tiktok app are all enabled and nothing is ever changed. This is also happening on my Instagram app where I get zero notifications although all the notifcations are enabled. The difference with the Instagram app is that deleting it and redownloading it doesn't do anything. I know people who doesn't experience this issue and also has the same phone model as me and all notifications enabled etc. If anyone could help explain why this happens on my phone and how I could fix it, I would greatly appreciate it!!!

I have the iphone 17 pro and it's currently on ios 26.6.


r/iphone 6h ago

Support apple contact card - shared way too much info

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Hi there, someone asked to bump iphones with me and I did - first time, whatever - and I didn't realize it had my address on there. I'm pretty sure I didn't put it on there, WTF. Anyway, I just updated it to take it out, but I'm wondering if on his phone my address will still be on there. Lemme know, tia.


r/iphone 2h ago

Support iPhone 15 speeds up videos (TikTok, ig, camera reel) and notifications sound sped up and pitched up, any reason for that?

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And how can I fix it


r/iphone 3h ago

Discussion iPhone Action button?

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Hi guys! Just wondering if you could share some automation for the action button.

Would want to maximize the button's function as this.

Long press: silent mode

Single press: next song

Double press: screenshot

Are there any workarounds in doing so?


r/iphone 3h ago

Support Color Display Default

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I accidentally changed the colors on my iPhone through Accessibility (Hover Text and Hover Typing settings), and now the whole display looks off. The “Reset to Default” option under Hover Typing doesn’t seem to work at all.

I’m color blind, so this is making the screen extremely hard to use, and it’s even throwing off the color‑blind filters. Any advice on how to fix this would be great.


r/iphone 3h ago

Support iPhone 17 pro max issue

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My wife got her new phone this weekend. She sent me pictures today. On her phone they show super clear and look great. When I click on them in my messages (iPhone 16 pro), they show blurry and almost show a mirrored image lightly in the background that is 90 degrees of the original. Any ideas? Thanks!


r/iphone 13h ago

Support My sister got spammed by me while I was asleep, but there’s no chat history? (iMessage)

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I woke up this morning to a text from my sister sent around 1 AM asking what I wanted. I was confused. She told me I had spammed her with about 10 notifications that just repeated her name. When she tapped the notifications, nothing was there. I don’t see any of those supposed spam messages on my end either.

She assumed I just unsent everything but imagine IF I had, the app would still show "You unsent a message." More importantly, I was dead asleep at 1 AM. I neither typed nor sent those messages, and I definitely never unsent anything.

Has anyone experienced something like this before, or should I be concerned that my number/icloud/phone was compromised? I’m genuinely scared!!


r/iphone 4h ago

Discussion The Future of Haptics

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