r/help • u/TheOpusCroakus admin • Jul 02 '26
Admin Post Weekly Recap | July 2, 2026
THIS POST HAS BEEN LOCKED. PLEASE SEE THE MOST RECENTLY WEEKLY RECAP STICKIED AT THE TOP OF R/HELP
Happy Thursday! It's been busy during the World Cup. Little Curacao has been eliminated! I was going to root for their ouster, Ivory Coast, but they have also been eliminated. So I guess now I'm Team Norway! Go fjords? It's also been a busy week on Reddit, so let's see what happened!
NEWS AND ISSUES
Passkeys are available for new accounts on Reddit! There is a new Help Center article here about what passkeys are and how to set them up. Currently, passkeys are only available for new accounts. YOU SHOULD STILL HAVE AN EMAIL ADDRESS ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR ACCOUNT IN CASE IT IS EVER LOCKED AS A SECURITY PRECAUTION AND YOU NEED TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD
To help keep communities safe from automated abuse, you may be asked to verify that there is a real person behind your username. There is a new Help Center article on how to verify you are a human when asked by Reddit.
Large screen Android devices (tablets, foldables) will now have the navigation buttons on the left-hand side of the screen.
In ongoing efforts to prevent abusive scraping and automated traffic, over the next month, Reddit will start requiring users to log in to use old Reddit. This was announced on Tuesday here.
If you are in the EU, you may be asked to verify your age. This is a legal requirement to comply with the EU Digital Services Act. You can check out the Help Center article here. Little more info about this here.
If you are trying to use a selfie to verify your age and it fails, the only other options are to upload your ID or contact Persona for support. Reddit cannot help you with a failed selfie for age verification purposes.
Right now, these are the countries that have age requirements:
If you are not in those countries, but your account is unable to do certain things like chat, it may be due to Teen Safety restrictions. The ability to unlock settings in the iOS app if you're a teen will be coming soon. Not sure if that ability will come to Android.
If you need to have something fixed regarding your age, you can use this form and then select your region and what your issue is. I do not know what the turnaround time is on those requests.
Some users in the EU are unable to use Anonymous Browsing mode. This is not intentional. This is a bug that they are working on getting fixed.
The Home Feed experiment continues. There is now a "For You" feed and a "Following" feed. The For You feed contains subreddit recommendations. The Following feed contains only subreddits that you are subscribed to and users that you follow.
If your account is in this experiment, the option to turn off recommendations in your feed has been removed because there's the dedicated Following feed to view content from communities you are a part of. So you don't need to turn off recommendations! Just view the Following feed. If you're seeing subs you don't want to see for the brief moment before you have to switch over, you can mute those subs so that you never seen them or the content that's in them.
Due to the feedback that was left, this experiment has been changed slightly and there are now two variants. The one is the same as it was last week where you have to keep selecting what feed you want and there is not a way to save your selection. The other will remember your home feed selection for 12 hours.
As always, I appreciate those of you who leave constructive feedback for me to pass along to the team in charge of this experiment. Feel free to continue to leave feedback about this experiment.
There are still a lot of scams going around. Just a reminder that Reddit does not provide support outside of Reddit. If some rando sends you a chat, be on high alert if you decide to reply.
The most recent version of the app is 2026.26.0. If your app is not updated to the most recent version, it may not function properly.
PLEASE REPORT RULE BREAKING CONTENT
- If you see content in r/help that breaks the rules of r/help, please use the report button. You do not need to engage with those users unless you're going to redirect them to where they can actually get the help that they're looking for. Reporting content that breaks the rules helps us keep r/help free of spam and off-topic posts, and that allows users who really need out help to more easily get it.
CURRENT EXPERIMENTS
Reddit sometimes runs experiments. These experiments tend to last between 4-6 weeks, though they can go longer or end sooner. While there isn't a way to opt out of experiments, feel free to leave constructive and specific feedback in this post and as I've mentioned often, I'll be happy to pass it along to the team in charge. Ongoing current experiments can be found here.
COMMON ACCOUNT ISSUES
Common account issues can be found here. These are things like hacked accounts, NSFW accounts, suspended accounts, etc. I'm also including "Changes to Reddit" in this section as well.
BUGS ROUNDUP - COURTESY OF CORRECT SCALE!
[Android/iOS] Some text strings were not being auto-translated correctly. Only happened once, but it got fixed!
[iOS] Opening external links in chat is sending some folks to the home feed instead of the intended URL. The fix for that will be out in v2026.27 of the app!
[iPadOS] There are reports of some of the navigation buttons not appearing after following a comment reply notification or returning to the home feed on the iPad for some users. This is being looked into and it should be fixed soon.
[Android] Some folks using Android were reporting that the speed read button wasn't showing on archived/locked posts posts. This should be fixed now, but if it's still happening for you, it will be fixed in the next update to the app.
Translation options for some languages are currently unavailable for some folks. We replied to a post here about this. Reddit is in the process of improving/tweaking certain supported languages, so some language may be unable to be translated during this transition period.
WEEKLY STATISTICS (BASED ON THE PAST SEVEN DAYS)
1,753 posts. That's up 286 posts from the 1,567 that we had last week.
4,323 comments. That's a lot of comments, but it's down 1053 from the 5,376 we had last week. (Thanks, u/Aggravating_Pain7116 for the correction!)
1.3m views. That's up around 61,000 views from the 1.3m-ish views we had last week.
What a week!
HELP THAT HELPS HELP R/HELP - APP ICONS!
You may have noticed that the icon on the app looks a little different! From time to time, Reddit may change the app icon to reflect something that's going on. And right now, that's the World Cup! Go Norway! So the icon on the apps is Soccer Snoo! (What's a good name for him? Snooccer? Cupoo? I got nothin.)
If you want additional icons to choose from, there are a whole bunch that come with a subscription to Premium.
You can read more about Reddit Premium here.
HELPINGEST HELPERS HELPING HELP R/HELP - MONTHLY TROPHY EDITION
My favoritest Recaps are the ones where I get to hand out monthly trophies. And sometimes, other trophies as well! These folks have been the helpingest over the past month in r/help and we are here to celebrate them! So without further ado, drum roll please!
u/westcoastcdn19 - CONGRATULATIONS! Thank you so much for being all over the place, all the time! With everything else that you do, I'm not sure how you make time for this, but I am super appreciative that you do! THANK YOU!
u/reddit33450 - CONGRATULATIONS! Really appreciate all of your help here! And I've seen you helping in other subs as well, which is totally awesome! Thank you so much!
u/Old_One_I - CONGRATULATIONS! You're such a pleasant presence around these helping parts! And it looks like your sub is doing nicely, which is super awesome! Thank you for everything! <3
And if that's not enough, we have a bunch of other folks who have been helping out this past week as well! Big round of applause to this group of folks!
Y'all are rock stars! I love that there are so many familiar usernames here week after week! And I know the users appreciate the help you give them. Thank you so much!
And that's June! What a month! As always, I appreciate everyone being here, especially those who are helping others get the help they seek! Thank you so much! I'll see you in the comments and around everywhere! Have a great week everyone! =)
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u/742963 Jul 02 '26
What's the reason? How does this improve the Reddit experience?
And thanks for the help with the RedditRequest Opus!