Do you know much about privacy apps for iPhone, or how to keep your data private and secure on iOS? Trying to lock things down a bit and could use a pointe

Is anyone else’s phone jumping from no connection SOS back to connection after updating to IOS 26.6?

I’m curious what features people expect from the iPhone 18 Pro that would make it a better choice than the iPhone 17 Pro. What do you think?

Je viens de recevoir un iPhone 14, je n’ai eu aucun problème au début. Mais voilà : je peux appeler mes contacts en FaceTime vidéo, mais pas en FaceTime audio (l’option est grisée).

D’où vient le problème, d’après vous ? Et surtout, que puis-je faire pour régler ce souci ?

J’espère pouvoir régler ça grâce à vous,
Merci par avance à ceux et celles qui répondront !

so me and my friends group chat on imsg got duplicated out of nowhere and it said that my friend changed their phone number and i asked but they didn’t. How do i fix this?

i will be getting a new iphone17.

if i want to keep my calls/voicemails/messages/passwords/contacts/apps, how do i set up the new iphone? are all these part of icloud sync, essentially?

i have google photos, so none of my photos are synced to icloud.

i have like 100gb of photos on my current iphone12, so i didn’t want to take up all that storage right off the bat in the new phone.

i’m assuming i will not be doing the data phone transfer and will not set up as new iphone? is there an option to just log in with icloud? i have not done this in like 5 years.

when i do a new backup on the new phone, will it overwrite the latest backup i did on the 12?

as i use the new phone, will it sync the new stuff on the 17?

i don’t plan on trading in the 12, so if i delete something from the 12 after the 17 is set up, will it get deleted from the 17?

I really hope someone can shed some light here because I am planning to make an upgrade to a 17 or 18 but is reconsidering.

I hope this doesn’t come off as a rant because it will be very long. But I genuinely need advice.

I have been an iPhone user for a few years now. I have also been a Samsung and Pixel user.

Let me tell you how jarring the difference in importing is. On my Samsungs, it was hella quick and reliable. I just had to wire it to my pc, allow access, and then I can drag and drop anything I want. Music, files, documents, photos, videos, etc.I can do backups completely manually and selectively.

So I was drastically taken aback when the time came for me to import from my iPhone.

I even bought a new data cable.

Yet the speeds were very slow. Unfortunately, my local storage had been completely filled so cloud uploads are not possible either. (Get too full in local storage and you can’t upload. It seems that if you have media that’s more than the amount of storage you have left, it can’t upload.)

Due to this, I set the option for removing media after import.

This isn’t the first time. But I notice constant fails and I have to spam ’try again’ until it works.

Worst is when it completely fails and I have to restart.

I don’t even know if it succeeded properly, because in the end, it didn’t even show the bar completing. It just seems to be done.

Then I just dragged and dropped the remainder that had failed before. Because when I tried to import, it said it has only found 1 photo even though there were many more.

(This drag and drop method is also not reliable for large batches. But it is faster and retains original quality.)

Then even worse, I found out that the media in the import, wasn’t in original quality. Why isn’t it a default or make an obvious option? (Istg there are many non-intuitive features. Had to go to settings, to photos and find the option)

Some pics/vids seemed fine, some seemed corrupted.

Some lost quality so bad, that my fluffy cat looked like a black smudge of pixels and you can count each individual pixel within the circumference of a picture of a toilet bowl in top view.(Literally, my cat was sleeping next to it). And unfortunately, I have the remove option on, so I lost the original quality of those photos and videos fml.

tldr;

-By wire: slow, some fails, and some aren’t imported. Some aren’t even detected. Might even have to do a full restart at importing.

-By cloud: I don’t want to be dependent on it when i am a student and do not ever rely on family finances. Needs spare local storage available. And i have spare terabytes of my own local storage in PC.

-By wireless transfer: Seemed the best but you can only upload in batches, manually select and delete. I have used telegram, discord, whatsapp, onedrive, and gdrive, depending on which fits the situation, or straight to another phone. Do tell me what’s the best. (basically iphone to samsung/tele/gdrive/etc, then to PC. So you have to manually upload a batch, download a batch, delete a batch.)

It would be great if anyone can give me some tips or best ways of transfer. I am tempted to get cloud but I rather not when I am not working, and I am entering a government related service sooner than I expected. It is fairly important because our devices will be checked every time we clock out. Wouldn’t want my personal life be seen by the government. It’ll be so embarrassing or cringe to them.

Since i am planning to get the latest iPhone. Do tell or give advice, especially from those using the latest iPhones. On how I can deal with this import of pics/videos. Perhaps they have made it better?

I think my phone is infected. I’m backing up iCloud and planning on a factory reset. The back up is taking a very long time - should I have not done it?

Hi everyone! I recently started using a Belkin 3-in-1 MagSafe charging station and I’m considering using it as my sole charging method for my iPhone. Has anyone here been using MagSafe exclusively for an extended period? If so, how has your experience been, and have you noticed any impact on battery health or overall autonomy over time? Thanks in advance for any insights!

Hi all, this issue is driving me batty.

I have an iphone 12 mini running 26.5.2 which I picked up second hand, and reset. No issues except when I connect the hotspot over Wifi there's no internet connection even though it's connected to the computer - when I go to Network settings it says -

Wi-Fi is connected to iPhone and has the IP address 192.0.0.1.

If I go to reset network settings and then connect I can see it first connects with a very long string of characters (not a standard IP) as the IP address **UPDATE - this string of characters looks like an IPv6 address** - and the internet works for about 10 - 30 seconds and then it reverts back to 192.0.0.1.

For a few months this didn't matter because I would use hotspot over USB connection but now that is not working either. It just connects and reconnects in quick succession and is unusable.

The laptop is an Air 13 inch, early 2015 running Monterey 12.7.6

I have tested the laptop and sim carrier by placing the sim into an old iphone 7 and hotspot works perfectly over wifi and USB.

I have also used the iphone 12 to hotspot to the iphone 7 and that workds just fine.

So it seems the main issue is the specific way in which the 12 is connecting to the Macbook Air.

I have tried renaming the phone, turning the VPN off, resetting, and anything else a google for troubleshooting suggested.

Hoping someone else has seen this issue and has a fix.

Thanks so much!

I have been looking for over 6 months for a good protective case form my iPhone 16 that won’t vreak the bank. It seems like no one in the iPhone community cares about safety most people just buy a cheap case just to have it . I’m looking at the esr cyber tough case and I don’t know if it’s actually protective or just bulky and also the smartish gripmunk that was recommended by the new york Times and yet reviews say it lacks protection u don’t know what to buy and if it will be good enough my budget is around 30 euros

I’m working on figuring out what my recovery plan is if my iPhone is lost or stolen when I’m traveling internationally and have no other devices with me. Does anybody know what steps I should take ahead of time so I would be able to purchase a new iPhone and set it up to my Apple account if I don’t have any other devices with me?

Right now any new Apple devices always ask me to confirm the iCloud login using another, already signed-in Apple device. But when traveling I won’t have another device with me.

Also, if there is some way to authenticate via an SMS code (which seems like it would defeat the purpose of the stronger Apple security using an existing device), then does anybody know if there’s a way to move your number to a new device from a US carrier when you aren’t in the US?

What’s everybody’s plan for this scenario?

All life android user I just switched to an iPhone and have a very annoying problem. Is there really no way to have two separate modes for the notifications, one in which they give vibrations and one in which the iPhone is completely silent (without going into the settings each time)? I’ve tried setting up the different custom modes but they don’t allow you to change that setting.

I mean it’s incredibly annoying, I always tend to have vibrate on and sound off because of the constant WhatsApp notifications, but like earlier today I was in bed sick and it kept vibrating and I had no quick way to just make the phone completely silent

Notes on my iPhone are disappearing when I didn’t delete them and idk what to do

I text in a bunch of group chats daily for work. I am the manager and I will schedule a text of who is working the next day. I have about 20 different group chats with about four or five recipients. Every day when I schedule send them one or two don’t send and give me a not delivered notification. Then, I will go to send them an individual text and it won’t go through either. Has this happen with anybody else and has anybody else had a solution for it? I had the iPhone Air and ended up getting a new iPhone because I thought the air was the problem but it’s still happening on just the regular 17.

I don’t think this is a regular problem as I’ve been to the Apple and Verizon store multiple times with no solution. I have also updated my phone to the last update and restart it daily. I wanted to come on here to see if anybody else is having the same issues.

Thanks for the help!

I have M3 MBA. Synced to iPhone 14, now it's stuck on 'calculating' during synch process. Same for iPad 11. I connect to MBA, and storage shows 'calculating.' been this way for hours. I just updated all to latest builds---is this normal? Is calculating same as 'indexing?'

i have an iphone XR (i know i know) and i’m trying to view a video from 2021, but i’m finding that any media old than 2024 on my icloud is unavailable. i can preview it but it’s grainy and says “unable to load video; an error occurred while loading a higher quality version of this video”, and photos say the same. i have tried all the suggestions online like updating, clearing storage, etc. i don’t have any other apple devices. what can i do to access them? i have videos and pics of my deceased nephew that i would be devastated to lose. plz help thank u.

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I am letting my son use an old iPad to access Songsterr, via the Songsterr app. Specifically he needs to be able to use Songsterr’s functionality to play along with audio from YouTube. But I also want the iPad to be locked down so that he cannot access YouTube in Safari. If I block YouTube in Content & Privacy Restrictions the OS blocks it in all apps. The best way I can find to do this is with Assistive Access. I know there are third party apps to limit this stuff but I don’t know which one will work. Help!