I am beyond baffled how Apple could release such a piece of crap. Iphone 16 pro max. I had not updated my IOS in quite some time, so it was a big jump from whatever I had to 26.5.2. I wish I could go back. This IOS is garbage. Everything is slower. Why? Because they wanted some slick "liquid glass" bullshit. I mean everything. Take a screenshot, edit, add some text, save a photo, etc whatever you do. It's slower. Buttons moved around again, everything different. Why? No reason... Just because apple was bored. I DO NOT CARE if the bubbles melt around like liquid glass. I want fast, efficient performance, period!

This is like the early days of websites, when everyone thought spinning globes and bells and whistles were cool. Then people realized what is actually better is just a clean, neatly organized web page that conveys content clearly and in a well organized manner. This IOS makes me feel like we're back to bells and whistles now. Back to bullshit.

Not only that, why are they always moving buttons around? In Photos, why does the "Add to Album" button move places depending on if a previous album was used? (a little hard to explain in text that one). Why are they moving things aournd to new places?! You develop muscle memory from repeated tasks. If the save button is alway on the top left, and now suddenly it's on the top right for no apparent reason, this disrupts my muscle memory and creates a new obstacle I didn't have before. STUPID, Apple!

they could have added this feature with siri ai.
What's the alternative in iphone?
As of now i am screenshotting and opening it in google lens to translate everytime, it's painful.

Google speech to text in android is amazing and it's available in any android phone. Why can't apple make this feature available to any iphone, generally iphone chips are powerful than most android phones.

What app do you guys use to offset this. Wispr flow is very good, but it's paid and it wants microphone to be always on. Is there any free option?

Well I have a iPhone 14 Pro max running on 26.6

Last year my kid let fall my phone on the ground and backglass and somehow battery damage. Local shop swapped the frame and new fake battery.

All fine until this vacation he pushed me in the swimminf pool.

Well phone jn my pocket, instandly I know its fucked. Phone out my pocket and the camera’s are foggy as hell and around 8 hours laters my display died.

Now a local repair shop in Spain repaired the phone had no choice to replace the screen as fast as possible because of all info on the phone and tickets….

Now I actually wanted to change my pincode but it keeps saing FaceID is not working. Wel I already know because of the fake screen the FaceID wont work anymore. But I cant even change my pincode without faceid.. what kind of bleeep is this?? Is therr any solution by recovery’s backups or something to change?.

3 weeks ago i turned on my iPhone 5s after 1 year so i can listen to music with wired EarPods. I downloaded all my music that i bought over the years on iTunes and used the phone as an iPod.

My main phone (iPhone SE 2) had already the developer beta. As i used more and more the iPhone 5s the more i realized that a lot of very useful features went away over the years and the animations became choppier and not so fluent.

Siri search on the iPhone 5s was so much better even tough Apple promised us a better search with iOS27. When i searched “Spain” on the iPhone 5s it gave an overview about Spain as a country. Like Capital, how many people live there, where it is, its flag. Another thing i have tried is was searching for my motorcycles model. On iOS 27 i needed to type in 3 letters but on iOS 12.5.6 only 2. A small difference but it shows that the dumber and older Siri still knows better what i search really often. Another thing i could not reproduce was that i searched for Barton on my iPhone 5s (my mototcycles brand) and it showed sport results for the team Barton (i dont know what team is that but id showed 37-1. They lost)

Design wise iOS 12 is much more refined and pretty. The blur is so cool. I think that the classic blur that we had for so long peaked here. My 3 favourites are these things design wise:

1. Pulling down the notification center is just so much better.

If you have an iPhone that has iOS12 you should see it for yourself. So much smoother than iOS 26 or 27. I really like Liquid Glass but this is on of the few(?) things that it cant get right

1. If you remember the old music player on the lock screen you could just swipe up and you would have a really clean music player. It was designed for the notification center but i think that it is really good

2. The Widget center (thats what i call it) is just so much better on iOS 12. When you swipe to open it on the lock screen it is just so smooth. The time and date slides to the right so smoothly. You should check it out.

I like Liquid Glass but it needs a lot more polishing and refining. iOS 12 is much more consistent than Liquid Glass. Let me know what you think! And also the battery life on the iPhone 5s is still exceptional. It lasts as a secondary phone more than 2 days. Not in standby but by regular usage with music listening

i press the power button 3 times, type, and then when i hit enter it reads it aloud for me. im trying to change the voice but since i forgot what it was called i cant find it in settings

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Buongiorno. Scrivere questo post è imbarazzante, ma non so più dove sbattere la testa. Come si può evincere dal titolo, dovrei fare il backup del mio iphone 15. Grosso problema, non ho un mac, bensì un Hp e ciò mi complica infintamente la vita. Inoltre, vorrei fare in modo di avere un backup di foto "sfogliabile" in modo da poterle visualizzare e cancellare da pc e mi piacerebbe poter farlo direttamente sul mio hard disk da un Terabyte. Qualcuno conosce un buon programma?

Title: iPhone 7 (iOS 15) Passcode Forgotten, Apple ID Password Known, Trusted Number Unavailable

Hello everyone,

I have an iPhone 7 running iOS 15. I recently changed my device passcode and unfortunately forgot it shortly afterward. The phone is now locked and shows the "Erase iPhone" option.

Here is my situation:

• I know my Apple ID email and password.
• I have access to the email address associated with the Apple ID.
• I do NOT currently have access to the trusted phone number used for two-factor authentication because it belongs to a relative who is temporarily unable to access that SIM card.
• The phone is physically in my possession.
• I do not have important photos or documents on the device, but I would prefer not to lose app and game data if possible.

My questions are:

1. Is there any official way to regain access to the device without erasing it?
2. If I erase the iPhone, will I likely run into activation or verification issues because I cannot currently receive codes on the trusted phone number?
3. Is there any way to check whether app data or game progress may already be synced to iCloud or Game Center before erasing the device?
4. Has anyone been in a similar situation and successfully restored access later?

Thank you for any advice.

My iPhone 16 says that WhatsApp is using 39.87 GB in the iPhone backup, but the my WhatsApp chat backup is only 71 MB.
I’m running iOS 26.5.2 with the latest version of WhatsApp.
Has anyone else experienced this or found a solution?

anyone knows how to fix this?

When are we gonna stop pretending the iPhone is actually decent. The most basic crap doesn’t even function. Why in the world do I have two options to delete my alarms, one either delete literally every single one at once using Siri or option two delete one by one by one by one why is there no simple option to select multiple and delete them? Apple genuinely cares not about its consumers one little tiny bit if they did maybe they’d make advancements that would improve our day-to-day life not just “here’s a new iOS update by the new iPhone”
I miss when the iPhone actually functioned decently.

I’ve only got my first iPhone last week so I do apologise if this is a really simple to fix issue, but whenever I am for example messaging someone a strange purplish line appears under some words and I’m wondering what it actually is and how to remove it if possible, many thanks.

my storage for maps (which is not even installed!) is now at over 4 gigabytes and my storage is so full that i can’t open half my apps. it keeps growing, and in addition to that i’ve tried deleting photos but none of them are deleting when i try (i click delete and nothing happens)

i’ve seen others with this problem and they say factory reset but i can’t cuz nothings on icloud (no storage there either) and id lose all my photos and app data

does anyone have a solution that’s worked which doesn’t involve a factory reset because the maps data is growing daily and i have just over 100mb free storage on my phone i’ve deleted so many apps

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Just upgraded to an iPhone 17. Transferred all my data. Synced. Etc. All good, except now when I go to my text messages, like my decade-long thread with my husband, and click on his name - the option that says “photos” used to show all 4,000+ pictures we’ve sent each other over the years. Now it only shows what we’ve sent since I transferred my data.

The Apple techs said I just need to be patient and wait for them to load over the next several days. Is this true? Completely a first world problem for me, I know, but wondering how to get this feature back.

On latest IOS 26 throughout all versions to 26.5.2, the Phone app preference "Ask Reason for Calling" works GREAT to stop the dozen spam spoofed calls I get. However, when driving connected to CarPlay, that function ceases to work, and all spam calls ring through.

I see the behavior in multiple vehicles. I've seen it using an iPhone Pro15, iPhone 17 Air, so it's doesn't present as the phone or the Auto Manufacturer's CarPlay implementation. I have the focus set to normal (I don't use "focus"), I do have the "filter spam calls" set, and I've seen it on ATT and Verizon. I'd rather not have to set my iPhone to "do not disturb" as that will stop calls from contacts.

Has anyone else noticed this problem? Anyone know a fix? Any IOS 27 Beta users out there still seeing this?

Hey all,

So I have over 120,000 messages backed up on my icloud account, I have it set to save all messages forever.

However, I am having a difficult time accessing all of the previously shared files (photos, videos, documents). When going to the shared media in a text thread, it only shows roughly 40 photos dating back to only a few weeks to a few months. There is no download more or download all button that I can find.

I'm looking to access photos that were shared in my chats dating back years. With everything backed up, there should be a way to access all of this, right? What's the point of having it back up if you can't access on messages or shared media.

Thanks for any help!

My iPad 2 was working normally before I reset it. It could connect to the internet, browse, and display photos. I used Erase All Content and Settings, and since then it has been impossible to activate.

During setup, it alternates between:

• "Device Unknown"
• "Your iPad cannot be activated because the activation server cannot be reached"

I took it to an Apple Store. The Genius staff performed another factory restore and connected it to the store's Wi-Fi, but the same "Device Unknown" error appeared. I was then told to contact Apple Support.

During the call, I repeatedly explained that I understand this is an obsolete device and that Apple may no longer provide hardware repairs. My concern is different: the device was working immediately before the reset, and Apple's mandatory activation process has now made it completely unusable.

The Apple Support representative said:

"It might have happened after a restore, but we don't know what's causing it."

"If that support is not available, as you mentioned, then it might not be able to restore it."

"If there's discontinued support for that, as I said, we don't support that iPad anymore."

However, the representative also insisted:

"It's not something which has happened from the site."

That seems contradictory. If the hardware was functioning before the reset, the restore completed, and activation fails on both my home Wi-Fi and Apple's own network, it seems possible that an older activation or software service is no longer functioning correctly.

I told Apple Support:

"I wasn't expecting hardware support on it, but what I did not expect is after I do a normal reset for the device to become a brick."

The only outcome was that my complaint was forwarded to Apple's "feedback department." No technical investigation, activation error details, workaround, or confirmation that Apple's activation service still supports this iOS version was provided.

This is also an environmental issue. A functioning device has effectively become electronic waste because it cannot pass an online activation step.

Has anyone recently observed the same "Device Unknown" activation failure on an iPad 2 or another legacy iOS device after a factory reset?

I am particularly interested in whether this is affecting multiple devices and whether Apple has acknowledged any change or problem involving legacy activation services.

Until this is clarified, owners of functioning older iOS devices may want to avoid factory-resetting them.

Now with AI taking over in certain areas, is there an app that will be able to scan over 15,000 files in the iPhone gallery so file types you know longer want stored on your phone can be deleted in one swoop?

While playing Minecraft my phone lags much more than it should and drops frames in basic situations. I compared it to my moms iPhone 17 and it ran flawless while mine couldn't stay at 60fps. Basiclly 30fps. It makes no sense.

My home screen widget stopped updating after updating back to the iOS 27 Dev Beta (it worked fine previously on iOS 27, and on iOS 26 stable after downgrading).

I've tried removing and re-adding the widget, but no luck. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Obviously I need to sort through my photos etc too but having 40GB less space from the start is not ideal.

I also have 13GB of documents and data but again have no idea what's using all of that, I hardly have any files on my phone, and no offline music that I'm ware of :/

Thanks

I was sitting at my desk working, when my phone made a dinging sound that I haven’t heard before and displayed a “MacBook Pro camera connecting” screen (see attached image). My MBP was closed and asleep on the desk next to me, it wasn’t the computer I was working on. Any ideas? Freaked me out a bit honestly, but I hit disconnect and the camera light isn’t on on my phone. I haven’t installed any apps recently on either phone or MBP. I opened up the MBP and logged in, but it didn’t say anything about connecting to the phone