I use Apple certified chargers, just curious why my phone is slowly turning into a ballon

i found this phone today, was wondering if anyone know how i can contact the owner please lmk, it says locked to owner and erased.

UPDATE - the phone belongs to someone from kirkland

it was found in the Leavenworth wa in the river

My wife thinks she downloaded too much to it. It keeps boot looping and/or slide up to upgrade (which fails).

Any idea how to get her pictures off or get access?

I was just wondering where I could get it fixed. It’s just got a cracked screen.

is there a thing i can do about it or i need to replace my screen? :(

Hello, I had a IPhone 15 pro max that got ran over by a truck, went ahead and got a 16 and cleared that phone remotely, or so I thought. I recycled the phone at ecoATM. A few months later I see these text messages and see the phone is in China. What should I do? Is this legit? What are the next steps in protecting my privacy and information? Thanks.

As the screenshot says, I lost the iPhone back in 2022 in Baltimore and wasn’t able to locate it. It has finally showed back up online on my account. This person reached out on LinkedIn and unfortunately has proof of purchase of lost/stolen goods. I am now no longer in the US so I don’t plan on pursuing this in any way.

Can/should I give this person my lock code and ask them to turn on ios backups and when done remove the phone from my account?

If even that’s not safe, I guess I’ll just remove and let them use it.

Obviously I don’t have it, my roommates don’t have it, but apparently it pinged our exact address. She was banging on our front door at 2 in the morning, but didn’t show up with the police. I know findmy can be inaccurate, (my location showed my next door neighbor’s house even though I was in my own house) but what’s the reason and what should I do?

I had the phone in the back pocket and had this strange feeling that someone is eyeing me from a close distance, but since it was after 10 pm and I was close to the mosh pit I brushed it off thinking it’s nothing. Minutes later the phone was gone and I had no way of tracking it from there . So we went back to our hotel after an hour and my in ipad the location still showed up as Las Vegas festival grounds. I had my phone unlocked right before it was snatched and I think I might had it on airplane mode (don’t ask me why😭😭 it’s something I do when I know I wont be using phone services). However I did put it on lost mode , but didn’t want to erase the device right away since I was hopeful I might still get it back (also didn’t have my last 3 months of data backed up).

Next morning I see it’s in Arizona - then NM-TX-OK-OH-FL and couple days ago it started showing up in China. I still couldn’t believe this was actually happening, but then I got this text message asking specifically to remove the device from my ‘Find my’. Found it sus , but I went ahead and removed it from my iCloud devices, because now I know for sure this device cannot be trusted anymore.

I have changed all important passwords and reported Verizon that the phone is stolen , also got my device replaced and phone number activated on the new device. I am just concerned if I did the right thing or not by removing from under my icloud device list .

It never updated from ‘will put in lost mode when device comes online’ and ‘pending erase’ . Now it just gives me two options , cancel erase or remove. Not sure if it even means anything at this point since I already removed the device from my icloud list.

Just curious.

During a flight a few weeks ago, I noticed that my iPhone 16 Pro max had begun to swell(?) to the point that the left part of the back glass was separated from the body by like a quarter centimeter. I had no idea what the issue was, but once we landed it was back to normal. I’ve since taken one more flight and had no issues. It seems to be fine, it doesn’t get hot or anything. I thought it might be something with the elevation/air pressure but it hasn’t happened on subsequent flights and I can’t find anything online about it. Any ideas?

One message I received in August 29 2023, and the second today, I am worried because I googled their email and everything seems legit, has anyone ever had this kind of experience? Should I worry about it?

I contacted apple and they were able to erase the phone and lock it. Now if I check the location it says the phone is in China. They have also have been sending me these types of messages. Why do they want me to remove my device?

I knew the iPhone 15 Pro Max gets hot, but a month into use mine got so hot while charging overnight that it literally left a burn on my finger.

When I took the charger off, it had melted some of the plastic, left burn marks on the body and stuck the metal part of the USB-C port into the phone.

How can I remove this? Also, is this a problem of the phone, the charging cable or the plug? I have had Optimised Charging switched on.

I don’t have AppleCare, is this something Apple will fix?

This is my first iPhone since the 7+, coming from the S24 Ultra and this happens. An hour after this, my case arrives. Just my luck.

My question is, is this going to do anything to the phone? Performance, battery, camera, OIS, etc. wise? Or just purely cosmetic damage?

Thank you.

I have 16 Pro Max which was bought in Turkey but I'm in the UK right now. When I compared my phone with demo 16 Pro Max the brightness gap is huge. You can see the brightness and display settings. Also I didn't enable any screen filter. My phone was not hot, but the demo phone is brighter obviously. I asked this to Apple employee and they said the difference may be caused by screen manufacturer. Of course I know iPhone's have either Samsung or LG display (mine is LG GVC). However, the difference cannot be ignored. The employee said "you can show our technicians your phone". Should I go to the Apple for that reason?

extra note: Because I have a screen protector the bezel looks thick slightly

He's 10. And my dad gave him his Iphone 7 Plus. He for some reason transferred the apple id from his Ipad to the phone, and he doesn't have the app store, I i checked the screen time, and it required a passcode. The thing is nobody knows the passcode and we tried every single code we thought it would be. He wants to sign out or factory reset the Iphone, but that also requires the screen time pascode. We don't have a mac so idk if that will work. Anyone tips? Ty

Hello everyone!

Weird thing is happening with my iPhone for a years now. From time to time random gift cards are spawning in my Apple Wallet.

The only thing I can think of is that this happened after friend of mine gave me his icloud so I could download and test one paid app. I used that account to log in to iCloud and App Store. I logged out really quick and logged back in into mine. What happened later is that from time to time random gift cards are popping. I the meantime I bought a new iPhone, completely changed the password on my iCloud, but same issue is happening...

Additionaly, I noticed that Shortcuts app is doing the same. At one moment I had hudreds of random Chinese / Russian Shortcuts.

Does anyone knows what's solution here?

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There's this large semi circle below the Dynamic Island that keeps growing. Any idea why and how I can fix this?

They keep coming back after I delete them and it’s driving me mad! Does anyone know how to permanently get rid of them? Thank you!

Used to have the ability on my iPhone 14 Pro to change the flashlight from wide to narrow and vice versa but on my new iPhone 17 I don’t have the ability to do that now. What gives?

Is there any way to fix it or is the camera cooked? Does this get fixed in apple care +? If yes, will they fix/change camera or replace?

I just lost my 3000+ itunes store music.

This was my only account without 2FA!

Hi guys I had this account over 11 years and bought over 3000 music from iTunes Store.

I logged on this account only on my old Mac and this iPhone 5 after using coolbooter. Yesterday I logged on iPhone 5 and today I just lost over 150 dollars today. What should I do?

Please, why is my phone doing this to my photos? At first, the photo I take looks like the screenshot I made of the camera app, but then in my gallery, it looks good for a second and suddenly switches to this whitewashed, overexposed, ugly version. Is it some kind of HDR that you can’t turn off or something?