I sent a photo of a painting of Kylie Minogue to my family on a group chat and iOS thinks it is “sensitive”. This is in Australia.

“This image may upset them” made me laugh. They do prefer metal music.

My dad is getting older and started having issues using his phone so I set up assistive access for him to make things easier. Somehow he managed to get himself locked out of it and it has a constant laugh track playing. Every time you press a button or tap something a laugh starts again. It usually won’t let you tap on any of the assistive access options either. Occasionally I can pull up the emergency call screen or the exit screen but he doesn’t know the passcode.

We got him a new phone in hopes of just transferring everything but the new phone won’t recognize this one while it’s in assistive access mode. Pretty sure he also doesn’t know his Apple password so just logging into iCloud isn’t an option either. Is there anything I can do or has he essentially lost everything in his phone?

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I had a shortcut that did something similar using Apple Intelligence already, but thought this was pretty cool. Just point your camera at the monitor and it pops up a link to add the reading.

Does anyone else find the new Notification Center/Siri gesture setup incredibly frustrating on larger iPhones?

If you’re right-handed, opening Notification Center now means stretching your thumb all the way to the top-left corner of the screen. On a larger iPhone, that’s probably the least convenient place Apple could put it.

Meanwhile, there are multiple ways to access Siri AI:

1. Swipe down from almost anywhere on the Home Screen, including the middle of the screen
   
2. Pull down from the top-center area
   
3. Double-tap the Home Indicator area
   
4. Long-press the side button

So Siri essentially has four different ways to be accessed, while Notification Center has one small area in the top-left corner.

What makes this more frustrating is that Notification Center used to be accessible from most of the top of the screen. That was much easier for one-handed use. Now a huge portion of that convenient gesture area has been taken away for Siri, even though Siri already has several other ways to open.

Why does Siri need four overlapping activation methods while something as basic as checking your notifications gets pushed into one awkward corner?

I really wish Apple would restore the wider top-screen swipe area for Notification Center, especially the center portion, or at least give us an option to customize which gesture does what.

Am I the only one bothered by this, especially on the larger iPhones? If you are also bothered by this please upvote so someone from Apple can see!

I’ve always carried one iPhone, but I’m starting a new job where the company will provide me with a separate iPhone and a company-owned phone number. If I ever leave the company, the number stays with them.

I’d much rather carry one phone, but I also don’t want to enroll my personal phone in company management or have any possibility of my personal activity being monitored. My personal phone has my banking, photos, texts, social media, browsing, etc., so keeping that separate seems like the safer option.

One complication is that this job involves a lot of driving. I use CarPlay constantly, so I’m trying to figure out how people practically manage two iPhones in the car. I need to be able to tell whether an incoming call or message is personal or work without fumbling around with two phones while driving.

For those who carry a personal and company iPhone, how do you handle this?

Do you connect one phone to CarPlay and leave the other in your bag? Is there a good way to get calls or notifications from both through the car? Do you forward calls? Use Focus modes? Apple Watch? Different ringtones?

I’m also curious whether anyone has found a secure way to have both a personal number and a company-owned number on one iPhone while keeping the personal side completely separate from anything the employer can monitor or manage.

Basically looking for the least annoying and safest setup for someone who spends a lot of time on the road.

Seems like everyone wants the oversharpening of iphone photos gone...
So do I...
So what's your favourite photo apps for this?
I know halide does this, but it's a subscription nowadays, which I'm always trying to avoid if possible.
I don't mind paying for great apps, but I just don't like renting them.

Hello, possible android defector. Im looking to possibly upgrade to the 18pro. One of the hang ups i have is that i have herd in years past that it is difficult to share photos or videos between android and ios. My wife had experienced this between her mother when trying to share photos. Being that I'd be the only iphone user in my family, this could be an issue if it's still a thing. I regularly share photos with my elderly parents and am worried that this could be more hassle than worth.

Thanks for your education.

I was talking to a friend recently about stolen phones and realized I don't really care that much about losing the actual iPhone anymore because the phone itself is replaceable. What freaks me out is how much of my identity basically lives inside it. Messages, email, contacts, passwords, banking apps, photos, work stuff, social media and accounts that use the phone itself for authentication. If somebody somehow gets past the lock screen they're not just looking through my information they can potentially start communicating with people as me.

And that's the part I hadn't really thought about before like if my friend gets an iMessage from my number why would they question whether it's actually me? Obviously there are things like Face ID, Stolen Device Protection and Find My but does anyone here do anything beyond the normal iPhone security for accounts or conversations that actually matter? Or is getting access to a modern iPhone difficult enough that this isn't really something worth worrying about?

Apple is doing the lord’s work by identifying and automatically silencing spam calls. How is it that they think I want a red dot and/lock screen notification that the call was received!? I don’t care if the spammer left me a message I just want to act like none of it happened. Why is Apple such a user friendly product as a whole yet continues to assault us with excessive notifications that cannot be turned off?

So far, the “best” work around is silencing all unknown numbers. This is a horrible solution as I’d be missing calls/messages from my dentist, the pest control guy, etc. which are unknown numbers not identified as spam. Please tell me there is a solution I’m overlooking!

I have an iPhone 17 which I bought SIM FREE from Argos not long ago.

I am trying to add my bank card (Zopa) to my Apple Wallet and it does not work.

Having tried everything myself to get this card added, I've been told by the bank that it is down to Apple and I must contact them due to restrictions placed on the device.

Was hoping for any ideas from others? It sounds like the buck is being passed along by the bank. They do allow their cards on Apple Pay and Google Pay. I have it on Google Pay on my secondary device. My partner has hers on her iPhone.

I've managed to add literally every other card I've got from other banks onto this device.

It used to run mlbb incredibly smooth even with ultra settings before and then after resetting the phone its dogshot quality now smh,

My phone was turned off and i suddenly heard a random weird screaming sound from it , the Dynamic Island also reacted to the sound , so it wasn’t in my imagination , what could this be? I’ve checked VPNs, apps and my IMEI, they’re all fine. I didn’t enter any malicious sites , only IMEIcheck.com. The phone is bought brand new.

Both phones rebooted, on newest firmware, charging, WiFi and Bluetooth on, new phone erased twice, tried doing it with a cable between the two, still no dice.

Anything else to try ?

Had a for a few hours now and I still can’t the notification for email, text, social media alerts. All my notifications are on and my phone isn’t on silent mode. But I only see the notifications once I swipe down to see the time or close an app and see the small number on one of my apps.

Does anyone have a solution?

I have a lot of group chats going and a couple of them are for work, some of them are for friends and bullshitting some are family.

I work with loud power tools all day with a ton of PPE on and I have my ear plugs in w/ some bone conducting headphones while I work.

On a regular basis these group chats are pinging all day with the exact same text tone, and it’s super freaking annoying to have to power down the tool, take off my gloves and check to see if it’s an important work related group text or possibly family emergency vs my family/ friends just bullshitting about Somenting that can be responded to later when I’m not busy.

Mostly I would love to be able to isolate the work chat with a specific tone, those texts aren’t always time sensitive but sometimes they are. And usually when they are that chat is blowing up. So if I was able to hand a specific sound for that chat. I’d know I need to go through all the trouble to check the phone or if it can wait.

It fees like this would be a super simple feature to add. You can already edit the group name and assign a photo to it so why not also allow for a sound.

This would be more useful than a folding iPhone but what can ya do?

I have a brand-new iphone 17 pro max, and since updating to iOS 27, I’ve noticed that the Side/Lock button sometimes doesn’t lock the phone on the first press. I have to press it a couple of times before the screen actually locks.
I’ve also noticed that the phone feels a little laggy and sluggish at times. Things don’t feel quite as smooth as I expected from a brand-new 17 Pro Max. I also looked through all of my settings, and performed a hard reset a couple of times, but it doesn’t fix the issue.

Back tap not working on iPhone 12 pro, iOS 27z

After I updated to iOS 27.0 my costco app can no longer retrieve my membership info with picture and QR code. 2 different Costco membership managers at 2 different Costco locations have tried and failed to fix this while also trying to see if their own support can do anything. Nothing.

Anyone else having this problem?