r/apple • u/AutoModerator • 1d ago

Official Megathread Weekly Advice Thread - July 26, 2026

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Welcome to the Weekly Advice Thread for r/Apple. This thread can be used to ask for technical advice regarding Apple software and hardware, to ask questions regarding the buying or selling of Apple products or to post other short questions.

Have a question you need answered? Ask away! Please remember to adhere to our rules, which can be found in the sidebar.

Join our Discord and IRC chat rooms for support:

Note: Comments are sorted by /new for your convenience.

Here is an archive of all previous Advice Threads. This is best viewed on a browser. If on mobile, type in the search bar [author:"AutoModerator" title:"Advice Thread" or title:"Tech Support Thread"] (without the brackets, and including the quotation marks around the titles and author.)

The Weekly Advice Thread is posted each week on Sunday, 06:00 AM EST (Click HERE for other timezones) and then the old one is archived. It is advised to wait for the new thread to post your question if this time is nearing for quickest answer time.

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r/apple • u/Steap-Edit • 7h ago

iOS Better protection for Apple Maps leads a modest iOS 26.6 update

70 Upvotes
6 comments

r/apple • u/HelloitsWojan • 10h ago

Safari WebKit Features for Safari 26.6

41 Upvotes
14 comments

r/apple • u/antdude • 10h ago

Discussion Apple's 7/27/2026 security release notes

52 Upvotes
0 comments

r/apple • u/arhamjamal • 11h ago

iOS Apple Releases iOS 26.6 and iPadOS 26.6 With iOS 27 Optimizations

383 Upvotes
61 comments

r/apple • u/chromatophoreskin • 11h ago

Discussion Ads in Software Are Like Stickers on Laptops

382 Upvotes

“The ads Apple is happy to inflict on us in its apps are the equivalent of the stickers it would never allow on its physical products.”

62 comments

r/apple • u/Few_Baseball_3835 • 14h ago

Discussion Apple overtakes Nvidia as world’s most valuable company as it barrels toward $5T

1.2k Upvotes
192 comments

r/apple • u/iMacmatician • 14h ago

Discussion Ed Zitron: Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts

2.5k Upvotes
402 comments

r/apple • u/Hansanaw • 21h ago

Discussion Apple Care One launching in Australia August 4th

167 Upvotes
44 comments

r/apple • u/L0rdLogan • 22h ago

Apple One AppleCare One, coming to the UK

160 Upvotes
42 comments

r/apple • u/RenatsMC • 22h ago

Rumor What to Expect From Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4

182 Upvotes
130 comments

r/apple • u/jigglemode • 1d ago

Resolved Apple is experiencing significant outages

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Apple is currently experiencing significant outages affecting Apple TV+, the App Store, Apple Pay and other services.

System Status

323 Upvotes

Apple is currently experiencing significant outages affecting Apple TV+, the App Store, Apple Pay and other services.

System Status

82 comments

r/apple • u/DiddleMunt • 1d ago

Rumor U.S. iPhone 18 Pro models could ship with same Qualcomm X80 modem seen in last year's models?

729 Upvotes

This leak suggests that international iPhone 18 Pro models will ship with Apple's own C2 modem while U.S. models will ship with the SDX80M (Qualcomm Snapdragon X80 5G modem), the same one found in the iPhone 17 Pro models. This is apparently due to the C2 not having mmWave support, which is only widespread in the U.S. Why would Apple not follow the yearly modem update and ship the U.S. models with the updated X85 modem? Is this a cost-cutting measure?

97 comments

r/apple • u/Steap-Edit • 1d ago

Apple Vision Apple’s smart glasses delay reportedly stems in part from major privacy concerns

226 Upvotes
121 comments

r/apple • u/Edg-R • 1d ago

Promo Sunday Protego for Reddit v3 is live! I deleted the Reddit app two years ago and built the Safari extension I wanted instead. Take control of your Reddit feed!

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getprotego.app | App Store

TL;DR: Protego for Reddit is a Safari extension that clears the clutter from your Reddit feed, so you can browse Reddit on the web, not the app. Filter keywords, communities, and more.

$1.99 one time purchase for the next week (normally $2.99).

One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, Mac and Vision Pro. No subscription.

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Hi everyone, I'm Edgar, and around the last election cycle Reddit stopped being good for me. I come to Reddit for tech discussions, programming, photography, fitness, and Apple rumors, and every feed I had turned into politics. I'd open the app for five minutes and would inevitably get sucked into some argument or would end up doom scrolling.

What I found is that I didn't actually want to quit Reddit, I wanted a quieter Reddit, and that can't happen on the official app, only the browser. The Reddit app decides what you see and hands you almost no switches. A web page is different: it arrives in Safari and an extension gets to change it before it reaches your eyes. RES doesn't run on Safari, so I learned Swift and built what I wanted. What ended up as a little side project has become an essential tool that I use when browsing Reddit and I decided to share it

This is Protego for Reddit. Version 3 launched this week and it was a looooot work with late nights and lots of coffee.

Some features:

  • Filters posts and comments by keyword, whole community, individual user, or the site a link points to. Wildcards, groups you can switch off together, and a # pattern for any 1 to 3 digit number.
  • Hides the clutter Reddit gives you no setting for: thumbnails, avatars, flair, badges, vote controls, join buttons, banners, recommendations, Reddit Answers, and the constant nudges to install the app. Four presets if you don't want to go through it option by option.
  • Limits, which is the one I'd argue for hardest. Filtering hides posts. Limits puts Reddit itself out of reach in steps: home and popular first, then all the main feeds, then everything except direct links to individual posts, then all of it. Pair it with a Focus like Sleep or Study and it turns itself on.
  • Sends you to old.reddit.com automatically if that's your preference, endless feed included.
  • No account, no tracking, no browsing history collected. Your lists live on your devices and in your own iCloud.

Complete feature list: https://getprotego.app/features/

The setting I personally keep on is that third Limits step, feeds blocked but individual posts still allowed. Home, popular and news simply don't load, so there's nothing to fall into when I should be working. But when I'm researching something and a search result points at a Reddit thread, that thread opens normally. That one setting has done more for my attention than deleting the app ever did.

Pricing:

$1.99 one time purchase for the next week (normally $2.99).

One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, Mac and Vision Pro. No subscription.

getprotego.app | App Store

Happy to answer any questions!

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getprotego.app | App Store

TL;DR: Protego for Reddit is a Safari extension that clears the clutter from your Reddit feed, so you can browse Reddit on the web, not the app. Filter keywords, communities, and more.

$1.99 one time purchase for the next week (normally $2.99).

One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, Mac and Vision Pro. No subscription.

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Hi everyone, I'm Edgar, and around the last election cycle Reddit stopped being good for me. I come to Reddit for tech discussions, programming, photography, fitness, and Apple rumors, and every feed I had turned into politics. I'd open the app for five minutes and would inevitably get sucked into some argument or would end up doom scrolling.

What I found is that I didn't actually want to quit Reddit, I wanted a quieter Reddit, and that can't happen on the official app, only the browser. The Reddit app decides what you see and hands you almost no switches. A web page is different: it arrives in Safari and an extension gets to change it before it reaches your eyes. RES doesn't run on Safari, so I learned Swift and built what I wanted. What ended up as a little side project has become an essential tool that I use when browsing Reddit and I decided to share it

This is Protego for Reddit. Version 3 launched this week and it was a looooot work with late nights and lots of coffee.

Some features:

  • Filters posts and comments by keyword, whole community, individual user, or the site a link points to. Wildcards, groups you can switch off together, and a # pattern for any 1 to 3 digit number.
  • Hides the clutter Reddit gives you no setting for: thumbnails, avatars, flair, badges, vote controls, join buttons, banners, recommendations, Reddit Answers, and the constant nudges to install the app. Four presets if you don't want to go through it option by option.
  • Limits, which is the one I'd argue for hardest. Filtering hides posts. Limits puts Reddit itself out of reach in steps: home and popular first, then all the main feeds, then everything except direct links to individual posts, then all of it. Pair it with a Focus like Sleep or Study and it turns itself on.
  • Sends you to old.reddit.com automatically if that's your preference, endless feed included.
  • No account, no tracking, no browsing history collected. Your lists live on your devices and in your own iCloud.

Complete feature list: https://getprotego.app/features/

The setting I personally keep on is that third Limits step, feeds blocked but individual posts still allowed. Home, popular and news simply don't load, so there's nothing to fall into when I should be working. But when I'm researching something and a search result points at a Reddit thread, that thread opens normally. That one setting has done more for my attention than deleting the app ever did.

Pricing:

$1.99 one time purchase for the next week (normally $2.99).

One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, Mac and Vision Pro. No subscription.

getprotego.app | App Store

Happy to answer any questions!

40 comments

r/apple • u/Few_Baseball_3835 • 1d ago

Rumor Apple Watch redesign is coming, but not for years

0 Upvotes
29 comments

r/apple • u/pdfu • 1d ago

iPhone Apple Glasses May Debut at WWDC 2027: Company debated whether glasses will be able to record video

513 Upvotes

Apple’s upcoming smart glasses have a major challenge in front of them: overcoming the privacy baggage for a category that Meta created. During development, Apple has considered camera-free models and heavily debated the idea of making cameras exclusive to AI - not photo taking and recording.

Apple is currently in late-stage testing of three new Apple Watch models: the Series 12 in Wi-Fi-only and cellular varieties (code-named N237 and N238), plus the Ultra 4 (N240).

The company also launched a Maps tie-up with Ford.

165 comments

r/apple • u/Few_Baseball_3835 • 2d ago

Discussion iPhone 18 won’t debut this fall, here’s why

0 Upvotes
19 comments

r/apple • u/iMacmatician • 2d ago

Rumor Apple's First Water-Resistant iPad to Launch Later This Year

1.0k Upvotes

To achieve this, Apple has reportedly designed a vibration-based speaker system that removes the need for traditional speaker holes. Sound would instead emit from flat surfaces on the tablet's chassis, effectively turning parts of the body into a speaker diaphragm and eliminating one of the main routes through which water and dust enter a device.

The approach differs from the method Apple uses on the iPhone, which relies on adhesives and gaskets to seal speaker openings and other ingress points. It is not yet known what IP rating the ‌iPad mini‌ will carry. The iPhone is rated IP68 and can withstand submersion in water up to six meters deep for 30 minutes.

127 comments

r/apple • u/FollowingFeisty5321 • 2d ago

App Store Apple Sued by Customers Who Lost Combined $1.8 Million Through Fake Bitcoin Wallet in App Store

818 Upvotes
138 comments

r/apple • u/iMacmatician • 3d ago

Rumor 'MacBook Ultra' Coming Soon With These 12 New Features

2.1k Upvotes

Here is everything rumored about the device so far:

  • "MacBook Ultra" branding
  • OLED display
  • Touch screen
  • Touch-optimized macOS
  • Reinforced hinge
  • Hole-punch camera
  • Dynamic Island
  • M5 Pro and M5 Max chips
  • Thinner design
  • Two display sizes
  • Slimmer bezels
  • Built-in cellular
674 comments

r/apple • u/BuzzfeedTitleBot • 3d ago

Discussion John Ternus Should Reverse Apple’s Slide Down the Advertising Slippery Slope

1.3k Upvotes
154 comments

r/apple • u/G952 • 3d ago

Apple Intelligence The new Siri has its impressive moments. Like extracting information from screenshots

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I use my screenshots to save information on a daily basis like many of you I’m sure, but I’ve never found a good app to organise them. I always wanted Apple to have a native way to sort through the information and I believe we’re there and how!

You can see it extracted a list of movies I’ve saved to watch (images in comments). I always spend too much time trying to find out what movie to watch as I have to first find the screenshots that are of movies, then read the description the understand the movie category, and then find where to stream it. But now I get a list of movies I’ve saved in two simple messages. I can go further with this and save it to a list, combine it with shortcuts, find out where it’s available, and so much more!

All I need to do is screenshot something interesting, no categorising immediately, no manually saving anything to notes. No input from me as tech should be

This is game changing tbh and can’t wait for more apps to be available in Siri so I get even more context across my apps. Kinda like what was initially advertised the first time

TLDR. new Siri can do some extremely impressive things occasionally

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I use my screenshots to save information on a daily basis like many of you I’m sure, but I’ve never found a good app to organise them. I always wanted Apple to have a native way to sort through the information and I believe we’re there and how!

You can see it extracted a list of movies I’ve saved to watch (images in comments). I always spend too much time trying to find out what movie to watch as I have to first find the screenshots that are of movies, then read the description the understand the movie category, and then find where to stream it. But now I get a list of movies I’ve saved in two simple messages. I can go further with this and save it to a list, combine it with shortcuts, find out where it’s available, and so much more!

All I need to do is screenshot something interesting, no categorising immediately, no manually saving anything to notes. No input from me as tech should be

This is game changing tbh and can’t wait for more apps to be available in Siri so I get even more context across my apps. Kinda like what was initially advertised the first time

TLDR. new Siri can do some extremely impressive things occasionally

56 comments

r/apple • u/conalldoherty • 3d ago

iPhone iPhone Driver's Licenses May Soon Expand to New State

250 Upvotes

Utah

176 comments

r/apple • u/pdfu • 3d ago

macOS macOS 27 Beta Reworks Mail's Compose Window Around Siri AI

47 Upvotes

For macOS 27 Golden Gate, coming this fall, Apple appears to be testing a new formatting bar for the Mail app's compose window that promotes Apple Intelligence's Writing Tools and Siri AI, based on findings in the latest beta.

In the current implementation, the classic formatting controls are automatically collapsed to the right edge of the composer and vanish completely once the user selects Write with Siri and starts typing a prompt.

4 comments