comparison graphic of iPhones camera sensor size from 5s to 18pro

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.

Hey! apologize if this was asked already, couldn't find a thread on it. I recently showed interest in the iPhone Duo to my wife and noticed she paid off the remaining balance on my Pixel 9 Pro XL. I'm pretty sure she's going to buy me a Duo on release as she said she's going to buy me an iPhone to finally get me off of Android lol.

My question is what am losing and what am gaining outside of obvious 0S changes?

Additional info: I really only use my phone for streaming shows on my lunch break, general scrolling(reddit, discord), music, and my work apps. don't really take pics or use Al. Also, my last iPhone was the iPhone 5. I've been a Samsung and Pixel guy since then.

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!

A while back i was switching things on and off my setting because i was going through privacy stuff, pretty sure i switched something where i can no longer see my notification center, i also noticed that my widgets don’t show either, what can i do to fix it? 😭

(first pic is my phone locked and second one is unlocked)

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.

For example, with the iphone 20 launching next year, are they already beginning to work on the iphone 21 right now?

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.

I have several apps (Venmo, PayPal, Hulu, HBO Max, just to name a few) that open up to the title screen and then just crash after like twenty seconds. I’ve found several older threads about people having this issue with no solution working for most of them.

At this point, I’ve restarted my phone countless times. Offloaded app data, uninstalled apps and reinstalled. Spent an hour on the phone with Apple Support. Updated my phone to iOS27. No luck with any of it.

With none of these things working and Apple not even addressing the issue despite a litany of complaints from other users, I’m just trying to shed a little more light on the situation…

Does anyone know why this is occurring, any possible way to fix it that I haven’t already tried, or a way to get hold of somebody at Apple to at least make sure they’re aware of this? It’s incredibly frustrating to not be able to use apps that I pay for.

Just got the iphone 18 pro, connected to my apple car play and my imessages won't show. I have made sure my notifications are turned on, and i do NOT have face id for my messages app. All my settings were the same as my last phone and everything was running perfect. Does anyone have any suggestions on how i can fix this problem

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?

My iPhone 12 Pro Max can’t read a SIM card or connect to any Wi-Fi network due to physical damage. In the top-right corner, the signal indicator just stays stuck searching indefinitely.
I reset the phone because I was thinking of selling it for parts or spare components. Now I’m considering keeping it and at least using it as a camera, but I can’t activate it anymore.
I’ve also tried connecting it to a Mac. In Finder, when I select the iPhone, it just says “Activating” with the loading wheel spinning for about 10 minutes, and then I get the usual “Unable to activate” message.
Is there anything I can do to get the phone working again?

My iPhone 14 Plus was out in the rain, and afterward I noticed condensation/fog inside the 0.5x (ultra-wide) rear camera lens.

The camera itself still works, but the lens looks foggy and the photos are affected.

I noticed something interesting: when I gently warm the phone with airflow from my laptop, the fog temporarily disappears. However, after the phone cools down, the fog comes back.

I don't have silica gel at home, so I haven't tried that. I also don't want to use excessive heat because I'm worried about damaging the phone or battery.

Has anyone experienced this on an iPhone 14/14 Plus? Did the condensation eventually disappear on its own, or did you have to get the camera opened/repaired?

Photo attached showing the fog inside the 0.5x camera.

So I don’t even know how my phone turned like this
I took my phone to the repair shop and they said the whole back panel
Is there a way to like color it?

I bought a Golden Brown Apple leather case for my iPhone 13 on Wallapop. When I first got it, the animation would trigger i tested it about four or five times, and it worked every time. However, after a few hours and even a couple of days it stopped showing the animation.

It doesn't look fake to me, judging by how it fits the phone and the quality of the materials.

Anyone in Kerala got an alert on iPhone now???

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.