I’ve had my iPhone for about six months now, and I genuinely haven’t used this button even once. I still automatically open the Camera app from the lock screen like before.
Does anyone actually use it regularly, or has it become a completely forgotten button for you too?

Hi all.
Iphone 13-17
Ios 18-26-27 (including developer betas and public betas)
Nearly every week, i encounter this issue. One day it just stopa working… My alarms never ring and so. Any idea how or why??

So I recently bought a phone off my mate and it’s doing something I’ve not seen before. When I reset it it turns on with vibrant colours and whatnot but after like 5mins of use (not getting hot or anything) it loses all vibrancy and gets like a grey cast that makes it borderline unusable (see last pic) and it just gets worse the longer I use it. All of these pics were taken on the lowest brightness setting by the way.

What the heck is this? I have tried:
Reset phone
Hard reset phone
Reset all settings
Turn all display settings off
Turn auto brightness on/off quickly a bunch of times
It is up to date with iOS

Please help me out!

Any advice will be greatly appreciated

EDIT: my dear old mother found the effing phone. It was on her chair. The one she’s been sitting on since she got back from the trip with my brother two days ago.

I checked the 'passwords' app and it has passwords for apps i didn't interact with at all. For context, my account is in a family with my mom and the apps were 'WISE', 'DOWN', and 'TINDER'. Idk if it's my mom or not but it's scary both ways considering what kind of apps they are. Pls help if you know what's going on and feel free to ask for more details!

Context: Dug up mum's old IPhone 5 which has been dead for over 10+ years now. Plugging it into my mac, Finder shows the phone is stuck in DFU mode.

Question: I want to know whether the phone being in DFU mode has already erased her old data, as I would like to recover old pictures on it for her.

If it is still recoverable, I would appreciate the help.

Hi everyone,
I’m having an issue with the People & Pets feature in the Photos on my iPhone.

A lot of my videos and photos aren’t being scanned properly, so faces are often missing. Even in some photos, certain people aren’t recognized or added to the correct person.
Is there any way to:
force Photos to rescan my library?
improve face detection accuracy?
manually add a person to a photo or video when Apple doesn’t detect the face?
I’ve already left the iPhone charging overnight, but the issue still persists.
Has anyone found a solution or any tricks to make face recognition more reliable?
Thanks!

I cant use this feature to transalte the language I actually want. English is already my phones primary language so I dont know why its forcing polish on me. I tried removing polish entirely and changing my region but nothing works

Hey guys , i am not able to download new apps for some reason . I am on beta version 27.0.1 and i tried deleting old apps and reinstalling, that works .

Happening with someone else as well ?
I think its because of the beta update

Hi everyone,

I'm hoping someone can help because I'm completely out of ideas.

I have an iPhone 17 that was purchased on 1 January 2026, so it's still under Apple's Limited Warranty.
A couple of days ago, my phone suddenly lost cellular service and has been stuck on "Searching..." ever since.

Here's everything I've tried:
- Tried 3 different physical SIM cards. None of them are detected. eSim option also isn’t working.
- Restarted the phone multiple times.
- Reset Network Settings.
- No recent drops or physical damage.
- No water or liquid exposure.

The phone works perfectly fine on Wi-Fi, but it just won't connect to any cellular network and constantly shows "Searching...".

Has anyone experienced this before?
What ended up being the cause?
Was it a software issue or a hardware issue?

If your iPhone was under Apple's Limited Warranty, did Apple repair or replace it for free?

I'm planning to take it to Apple, but I wanted to hear if anyone else has gone through something similar.

Thanks!

How do i stop my phone from changing words after i have FINISHED typing sentences???? I know iphone now has phrase prediction, how do i turn it off because it is changing the meaning of my sentences and I am not catching it every time it does it!

Just to highlight how insane and extreme this issue is: I am shopping for a house and my fucking phone decided to tell the agent that I want to put in an offer when I said I did NOT want to. I was actually looking at the text when it changed the words. I could not believe it. Imagine if I sent that without noticing the change.

It is changing meaning in very serious ways.

There has to be a way to disable this without removing autocomplete entirely.

Hi everyone,

I have an iPhone with 256 GB of storage, and it's now almost completely full (about 99%), mostly with photos and videos.

I'd like to transfer everything to my PC and then free up space on the phone. What's the best way to do this? Is a USB cable enough, or do I need a specific app or another method?

My main concern is preserving everything exactly as it is:

• Original photo and video quality
• Live Photos
• Metadata (dates, locations, camera info, etc.)
• Albums and organization

Ideally, if I ever decide to copy everything back to my iPhone in the future, I'd like the photos and videos to appear exactly like the originals, with all their information intact.

What would you recommend? I've never owned an iPhone before, so I'm not sure what the best approach is.

Random device showing up as Connected in my BT settings and there isn’t even an option to click the little blue i symbol to remove it.

I am not Douglas nor do I know what an S24+ is nor have I granted access (that I’m aware of) for this device to connect to my phone.

Any idea what’s going on here?

I’m fine with a steeper price and uglier appearance in exchange for quality. I just bought a case with a ring from Amazon and it broke on day 2 of owning it.

I’m looking at some more reputable brands, but they don’t seem to have cases with sockets, rings, or anything of the sort.

Do you lot have any recommendations for me?

ive had my iphone 11 for 3 years and for some reason today it just started acting all weird

all search engines dont work for me safari google duckduckgo they all keep on loading for hours whenever i search anything

appstore isnt opening too says" the paged couldnt be loaded" so i cant try any other search engines

youtube is bugged to for some reason it keeps on loading for ages idrk why

for some reason all of that happened today like 3 hours ago

so far ive tried
restarting phone
resetting wifi
using diff wifi
using cellular data
clear safari cache n history nothing worked

+ whenever i try updating software it says an error occurred while checking for software update

My kid (11) is about to get his first phone next week, he doesn't know a thing about it. iPhone 14.

15 years ago, I worked in the Apple store. And ironically, this is the last time I owned an iPhone! Moved to Samsung, then generic Android. Been using the Honor Magic7 Pro for the last 6 months. So I have little to no idea of what new stuff is out there to link iPhone to iPhone for controls etc.

Am I right in thinking, in order to keep track of my child's usage/control of his phone, I'd be better off going BACK to iPhone?

What are the parental controls like? Are there apps that can link both of our phones for me to be able to approve purchases/see what he's doing at a linear level? I know about Life360 and we use that as a family but does iPhone have their own thing? I plan on taking the phone from him each night, having a passcode known to both of us, having him allow me to check the phone at random intervals, etc.. etc. These will be hard and fixed rules but I obviously don't want to be looking over his shoulder ALL the time when he's using it or away from me during the day.

I think 11 is probably a bit too young to have carte blanche rule over a smartphone device, and believe me, if I had my way he'd be waiting a few years to get this phone - but he's about to start a new school and apparently ALL his new friends all have them, so I've caved to (peer) pressure and just decided to get him one also.

I would miss an Android handset, but I think I need to put my child's safety online above my joy of being able to multitask apps on my Honor!

Any/all opinion and advice appreciated, thanks folks.

I have an old iPhone 7 Plus running iOS 15.8.8. Since it’s losing app support and I don’t really care about recovering it if it gets lost, I decided to lock it down as much as possible.

My goal:

If someone gets the phone, I want the data to be basically inaccessible.
If something happens to it, I don't care about getting the device back.
I want as little personal information exposed as possible.

What I changed:

✅ Enabled Erase Data after 10 failed passcode attempts

✅ Set a long, strong alphanumeric passcode

✅ Disabled unnecessary Lock Screen access (Control Center, Siri, notifications, USB accessories, etc.)

✅ Turned off Find My iPhone because I don't want the device/location visible through my account

✅ Removed/plan to remove Medical ID from that device

✅ Reviewing privacy settings, app permissions, and stored data

I know turning off Find My removes Activation Lock and makes the phone easier to reuse if stolen, but since this is basically a disposable device, I care more about protecting the data than recovering the phone.

So here are a few questions...:

Is there anything else I should disable/remove to reduce links back to me?

Are there any hidden privacy settings on iOS 15 I should check?

Is keeping it signed into my Apple Account a bad idea if I want it less connected to me?

I know the iPhone 7 Plus is ancient by now, but it still works and I figured I might as well make it as secure as possible instead of letting it sit in a drawer, plus i use it as a burner phone for when I don't want to use any of my main devices

I am having multiple issues with iMessage across all devices. I called Apple and they mentioned that my phone number was on a ban. However, iMessage still works for my phone number on my macbook and ipad causing me to miss those messages as they wont deliver to my iphone.

I have called apple numerous times and they have yet to give me a solution and say that this is permanent.

In the settings on both mac and ipad, my number is checked for imessage but on my iphone, its unsuccessful. How would you suggest to fix this?? Is it a phone serial number issue?

Hello! I want to make transparent custom icons for my homescreen but I can’t find a way to save transparent images and use them in shortcuts. Is that even possible?

 Got my phone repaired at a local shop in San Antonio, TX, a while back. Curious if others have had good or bad experiences with local repairs actually lasting.

Did it hold up, or did you end up having issues again?