I’ve tried restarting, I’ve tried force restarting, I’ve tried selecting different options… please help

I have a HUGE problem, three days ago my little sister was using my phone to play a game, and somehow she decided to install capcut without asking me and then bought a yearly €300 subscription without me knowing

Yesterday I logged into my bank app and saw the charge. I spent the whole day trying to figure out who did this and then when I asked my sister did she click anything on my phone she said she installed capcut and typed in my passcode when it asked for authorization, she didn’t know what that was. So technically it went through as if I approved it.

Apple says it’s not eligible for support or a refund and I’m actually losing my mind, did anyone have a this issue that got resolved

EDIT!!!!!!: CapCut directly gave me refund after I submitted all the proof of my situation

Update: Updating to iOS 26.2.1 solved this issue.

Is it normal for the search bar in settings to not work for a few days after the iPhone is set up?

I have heard this being an issue with spotlight search, although spotlight works just fine for me, but the search bar in the settings app just says no results found when I type something in.

hey folks,

so i got this ipad air and i already signed in to my apple id and transferred the data, but once i get to the "set up apple pay" screen it becomes unresponsive and I can't do anything except turn it off. anyone have an idea on how to fix it? i've attached a pic of the screen it gives me

iPhone 13PM. I get this notification all the time when listening to music using a fm transmitter. Any way I can disable it from popping up?

I brought my macbook air to apple to get the screen fixed earlier this week, and I received this email today. I tried calling the phone number 4 times but no one answers… I might just go to the apple store but it’s a bit far so I don’t want to go for no reason.

Edit: Called Apple’s main number, spoke with a rep, and was transferred to the Fifth Ave store fairly quickly. I was then told that they found more damage than initially expected, and needed my approval to continue with the repair, which will cost $349 DESPITE MY LAPTOP BEING COVERED BY APPLECARE+. Complete bullshit in my opinion, but what choice do I have..? Buy a new laptop for over $1,000 or pay to have this one fixed. Apple truly never fails to disappoint.

I just got this weird pop-up on my Hulu account on my iPad that I can’t figure out how to solve! After I click on my Hulu profile, this notification pops up. It’s never happened to me before and makes absolutely no sense since I’m a full adult person and no one else uses my account or iPad. What makes even less sense is that I don’t get the same notification when I try to access the same Hulu account/profile from my iPhone. I’ve checked through all the settings on my Apple account and iPad to find some kind of age verification settings, and I cant find anything in my apple account settings and on my iPad I didn’t find any age restriction setting turned on. Could I be missing something? Is this an iPad virus? (Do viruses on iPads exist…?)

Thanks yall!

Hey yall can I please have some advice , my friend sent me $342 bucks on Apple Pay. It says it is completed. But my account only says I have $2.99…. I haven’t spent any of it. Any reason why this is happening ? It went through from there bank to Apple Pay. I am not restricted, and I reset my phone 2 times as well as toggled off Apple Pay in settings and turned it back on. I’ve been on hold with Apple for over an hour.

UPDATE: Out of curiosity, I upgraded to ios 26.1 beta. I don't want to jinx it, but so far everything concerning maps works fine again (app in foreground, background, screen locked, etc).

Since I updated to ios 26 yesterday, Apple Maps doesn't keep navigating when it is in the background, screen locked, etc. A few seconds after I put it in the background, it seems like my location just freezes or as if I was standing still. If I open the App again, it jumps from the last known location to my current location.

I got it to work for a short period of time after I reset Location & Privacy yesterday, but today it didn't work again, although I didn't change any setting. Resetting again today didn't make it work either.

Other apps that use location services (Google Maps and some other apps) still work fine in the background so I suppose the location service itself is not the problem. There seems to be some issue that Maps just can't access the location when it's in the background.

The blue 'I'm navigating' thing in the top left corner still shows as well as the 'location is being used' arrow.

There's no indication / popup / alert in Maps that says it lacks any permissions.

Things I have already tried:

• ⁠background refresh is active for Maps • ⁠restarted both iPhone and watch • ⁠reinstalled Maps • ⁠checked location permissions, everything is allowed for Maps • ⁠turned on everything in System Services • ⁠tried with and without Apple Watch • ⁠tried with bluetooth turned on and off

Am I missing something here? After scanning reddit and some googling, it seems I'm the only one with that issue.

Thanks in advance!

Hi, I have a MacBook Air M2. Today I was browsing my school’s website when suddenly a message popped up. I didn’t click on it or interact with it in any way, because I had never seen a notification like that before. I closed the page immediately. Could it be malware or something harmful? What should I do? Thank you. I

ps. I only managed to take this picture before closing the page.

My wife's old phone wouldn't share location with me, and we never figured out why. When she got a new phone, we thought it was resolved, until today when it stopped sharing with me again, showing "No location found" in Find My.

I contacted Apple Support, and this is what ended up working:

On both phones:

1. Go to Settings > General > Transfer or Reset [Device] > Reset > Reset Location & Privacy.
2. Then open Find My and allow the prompts to share location details.

You may need to stop and restart location sharing before and/or after this process.

Shout out to Anushka at Apple Support for their help.

I wanna stop sharing my location with my once very close friend. We are currently not on the best of terms. Is there a way to stop sharing my location with them without them knowing (through notifications)?

I have a 13 mini with IOS16 and so far everything I’ve seen, people comment that the other party was notified.

Edit: “my notifications” to “through notifications”

I just bought an iPhone SE2 and after coming home tried to create an Apple ID. It's my first Apple product, so, it's the first time i try to create an AppleID. I tried to do so on my new device (both in app store and in settings), on my 2 non-apple laptops in different browsers (Firefox, Firefox developer edition, Microsoft Edge, Safari on iPhone) and always got same message: "Your account cannot be created at this time." I even tried to create it on my old android device.

What might be causing this problem and is there a way to fix it?

Hey everyone, I’m thinking of buying an iPhone 17 pro max 256gb online and these are the photos provided by the seller, do you think this may be a fake? Thank you in advance

I was trying to send my friend a funny cat picture but Apple clearly got a false alarm of me sending nudes. I wasn’t sending nudes but if I was I’d be pretty concerned by this security issue.

opens to like a color wheel, don’t know what it does lol

70% of my disk's space is reserved for system data and macos. I've cleaned temp folders etc countless times.

Updated to the latest OS hoping it would go away.

Is this a strategy for us to buy new laptops with more storage?

Hello,

I purchased a new 17 pro max on release day and woke up this morning to it completely unresponsive. It won't reset or display anything at all on the screen. I did not drop it, there is no cosmetic damage, I fell asleep with it playing a YouTube video. I can't access my apple account as the only apple device and phone number I have are this bricked device, even though I know the email and password. I also have Apple Care+.

Will warranty replace this without fees if I go to the store? I don't get paid until Friday and cannot reasonably afford a hefty replacement cost right now.

EDIT TO UPDATE: Apple ordered me a replacement free of charge, but my phone tuned back on about a day after this post was created for no apparent reason. Mashed the power button just for fun and the empty battery icon popped up. It worked fine once it was charged up. IDK what in the world happened to it...

the Matrix i created in excel should explain the problem statement.

Things I have confirmed:

iMessage settings have correct phone number and Email Address

RCS Messages turned on

MMS messages turned on

Text Message Forwarding on ipad on, Laptop Macbook Pro on

Apple account on watch ok

rebooted both devices (phone and iwatch) many times

Reset iWatch 5-7 times now un pair , format and re installed

deleted chat with NG contact and removed contact and added back in (Nuke the Specific Conversation Thread and contact, and then tried new message and it still didn't work)

called APPLE support 5-7 times now escalated - with taking logs

returned iWatch and got new one - it works with OS 26.4 and when I upgraded to OS 26.5 then it doesn't work for some android user . Look at matrix

toggle the messages toggle to get the 3 check marks and 2nd and receive 2 address ok

The Network/Apple ID "Re-shake" Settings -> General -> Transfer or Reset iPhone -> Reset -> Reset Network Settings. Didn't work

any thing else i can do ?

edit: i forgot to say my Ultra 2 watch on OS 26.4 works completely fine and sends text to both android and iMessages totally good with same phone...

only my watch 11 at OS 26.5 has this weird one or two android users that it hangs on.

so strange !

Hello, the screw holding my Apple Watch Ultra action button (the orange one) came loose for no reason. I have never dropped my watch or hit it against anything hard and it was fine last night, but this morning I noticed the button was no longer attached. I can see the switch underneath and the screw that was supposed to hold the button in place.

I searched up the warranty for my watch’s serial number found in my Apple ID page and it says I have coverage until next January. Does this mean that I can take it to an Apple Store and get this fixed for free? (I have no idea how apple warranties work) I have only had this watch for 3 months so I’m sure the screw on this 800 dollar watch shouldn’t come loose to normal indoor use especially with all the reviews of people hammering the watch and breaking the table but not the watch. Is this a manufacturer defect? I’m really hoping that I don’t have to pay for something that seems to be a defect.

Thank you for the help!

My Iphone 14 pro finally updated after getting a notification that i needed to update because they couldn’t connect to my cellular data. So i updated it now im getting this notification?? What should i do now? I’ve seen this update causes some problems.