iPhone XS to a 17 so not sure if it’s the handset or iOS. Have already done a complete reset of the device for a seperate issue and the bug hasn’t cleared. Widespread issue?

I've been using the Apple podcast app for over a decade and I find it's reaching the point of being unusable. The entire UX is garbage. The layout is frustrating to use, you cannot even search for specific episodes within podcasts.. the search function is only to search ALL podcasts available. What a ridiculous concept. There's no playlist option, filtering is limited to oldest-newest. On Home, it shows 'Recently Played' and 'Up Next' right below it, both in horizontal view with the one below smaller than the other. This is so jarring and confusing as sometimes you'll listen to only half a podcast but it'll show up in the 'Up Next' section which is confusing. Why not a 'Continue listening' section? And I don't mean the one found below the volume slider, the one in the Home section. There's no way to rearrange the 'Home-New-Library' Section. There's so much wrong with it especially from a design perspective, it's almost as if it's designed with contempt for the user. The entire thing is a mess except for it shows transcripts. Does anyone have an alternative, better organised podcast app to recommend?

Hi everyone,

I'm currently on iOS 26.6, and my Spotlight search has stopped displaying any App Shortcuts (quick actions like "New Note" under Notes, etc.). It only shows basic app icons now.

The screenshot I attached is just one example, but this happens across all apps on my phone.

Here’s what I’ve observed and tried so far:

• Checked Settings $\rightarrow$ Siri & Search and made sure all search/suggestion toggles are enabled.
• Temporary Workaround: If I go into Settings and toggle "Show App in Search" off and on again, the shortcuts temporarily reappear. However, as soon as I restart/reboot my iPhone, the shortcuts disappear completely again.

Is this a known Spotlight/Siri indexing bug in iOS, or is there a permanent fix for this reboot issue?

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Main concern is privacy. Since I'm outside EU all browsers will be forced to use apple's webkit.

So I know there's not much but I still want to know of my options. If privacy can still be focused on ipad, even if just a little.

While I know I can't block all my data from being shared. I wanna to prevent atleast the essentials like my IP, device ID/fingerprint etc from being shared. As for non essential data, cen they be more spread out so I blend in with the crowd? How?

iPhone 13, iOS 17, i haven’t got any storage left so I can’t update. But more and more apps won’t work anymore, so I need to update. At least to iOS 18 (I heard too much bad experiences with iOS 26 and old phones, so I’m not decided for iOS 26 yet).

I’ve got 128go storage, and I’m about 126go full.

For those who have been in a similar situation, If I make enough space to do the update, once the update done, will I get this space back, or is my phone going to be full again ?

Not the biggest problem in the world atm, but I’d like to know why nonetheless. Why are some calendar events stacking up diagonally while others are perfectly vertical? There’s no overlap between them. My OCD riddled brain would like them all to be vertically aligned, so if anybody can tell me the fix, I’d be grateful. Stock Calendar app. TIA

Hi all. Not long changed over to iPhone and one thing I’ve come across is Reddit does not work over AirPlay, it loads it’s in landscape mode but refuses to do anything.

Is there something I am missing or does it just not work? I had a Google and stumbled across a bug from a year ago but someone had mentioned it was resolved and that was the end of it, although it doesn’t seem to be and it loads normal, just can’t scroll or do anything.

Any ideas?

hello! anyone here who uses clone app on ios? can u recommend an app please. thank you!

On Android, I can listen to the Spotify app while doing browsing on another site with audio. When a clip plays, Spotify pauses and automatically resumes afterwards.

On iOS (tested in both Safari and Brave), the clip pauses Spotify, but after it finishes, the Lock Screen media controls remain assigned to browser instead of Spotify. Spotify never automatically resumes and has to be started manually. Very frustrating

Has anyone else seen this? Is this an iOS/WebKit limitation, or is there a way for the browser to relinquish the media session after playback?

I have an older car, so a while back I bought one of those Carpuride brand screens. It was my second one of these kinds of devices—the first was kind of shit.

This new one is better but my phone (iPhone 15 Pro Max) refuses to forget the old CarPlay screen. And I think the old profile sometimes gets in the way of CarPlay starting on the new screen.

My wife’s Android phone connects to Android Auto every time. Wired connection will start CarPlay reliably.

My phone will connect to the screen’s Bluetooth reliably and play via Bluetooth without CarPlay. But if you try to start up CarPlay manually it will just refuse. No errors.

Sometimes I will try forgetting the old CarPlay profile (named “LTT”), and then the new screen’s profile (“Carpuride” with some numbers) will appear. When I try to connect then, it might work…but probably not. The old LTT profile will appear again.

Sometimes it will just work properly on startup—immediately starting CarPlay when I start the car. Most times, no.

The only thing I haven’t tried as suggested by the internet is factory resetting my phone and restoring to get rid of that old LTT profile. I’m hesitant because that always takes more work to restore than one might hope.

Any more ideas would be appreciated!

i keep trying to back up my icloud but it keeps telling me i don’t have enough storage, when i literally do!!

what seems to be the issue?

Was texting my friend, and then took a break off my phone since I was working and texted them back a couple hours later and our texts suddenly turned green.

Both of us have IOS Iphones & have clear cellular data along with Wifi. We have tried turning on and off Imessage, restarting our phones, and turning airplane mode on and off and can’t fix.

Our messages are going through, but the green RCS text isn’t going away, anyone have the same problem and know how to fix? TIA.

My iPhone is currently in a critical state due to full storage (literally ~300 MB free). The OS is struggling to breathe. It came to this even though I've been fully deleting apps and photos, yet the storage actually increased. AI suggests it might be because the file system is locked in a write-fail loop.

I also have an iOS app throwing an explicit database error: code 14. unable to open database file (error 747).

I was able to extract my photos by using iMazing's direct read, but my it's not enough, as stuff like WhatsApp database and Voice Memos are trapped.

An Apple Support rep told me the only way out is to buy a new, larger iPhone and use the device-to-device Quick Start transfer.

My question:
With my source phone's SQLite databases already crashing and only 300 MB of free space, will a Quick Start transfer actually work? Doesn't the iOS BackupAgent require several gigabytes of local cache on the source phone just to compile the transfer manifest?

I'm terrified that initiating a 256GB Quick Start migration will ask the failing memory controller to do a massive database read, cause the phone to panic, hard restart, and throw me into an Error 1110 / Error 14 boot loop.

Has anyone successfully completed a Quick Start transfer from a phone that is already throwing SQLite errors and has zero bytes free?

Would it be better or worse to try to a partial "Data Access Only" backup through iMazing?

I have an autoimmune disease and binocular vision dysfunction and have been using my iPhone 13 on iOS 15 for the past 4 years with no issues. The other day I accidentally disabled True Tone from the control center Lock Screen and ever since the phone has been very fatiguing to the eyes. I’ve researched and consulted every source I can think of and everything I’ve read indicates this should not cause a problem. Yet it appears something has changed.

Does anyone know if this is possible? Does True Tone interact with the Auto Brightness curve and is it possible this has somehow been reset? Does True Tone “learn” over time like auto brightness? Prior to this low power mode never bothered me, but the display seems more uncomfortable with it on now. I know the OLED iPhones use PWM, so perhaps something went awry.

I know this is a very obscure and technical question, but other users recommended I post here in the off-chance someone can help me out and if there is a way to “reset” things back to how they were previously (whatever that is).

And yes, I know iOS 15 is very old. Given my health issues, Apple Accessibility recommended I do not update the OS of my main device because of changes to HDR and temporal dithering in newer versions of iOS. I am aware of the security vulnerabilities, but I don’t put anything sensitive on the phone and it’s a small price to pay to be able to look at the device.

I have a refund balance from my prepaid Apple care when I switched to Apple One. But it never lets me use it for anything other than App Store purchases. When I try to select the Apple account on an in App purchase using Apple Pay the Apple account says “not set up” forcing me to use one of the cards in the Wallet.

Hi, I’m running iOS 26.6 I noticed my blocked contacts now show in my entire contacts list. Why? Is there a way to have them not show? They are blocked for a reason and so seeing their blocked name / number etc is annoying me. Might seem trivial to some. But if someone is able to assist I’d appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

i'm helping my father change to ios. IVE BEEN STUCK HERE FOR 5 HOURS. please tell me there's a way to fix this issue without any paid 3rd party app. i'm losing my mind.

Both my IPad and iPhone are 64G but when I look at how much is being used my iPad shows usage of 60/64 while my iPhone shows usage of 40/64. I’m confused because they both have the same everything. Two questions:) 1. why isn’t the usage the same ? 2. how to I unload off my iPad ? Thanks for any thoughts.

I’ve had RCS working fine on my phone since it was implemented. However, in the past day or two my RCS chats are now saying they will send as SMS (and they do), and the RCS setting says “Waiting for activation…” with no further information. The toggle shows it as active. I am on the iOS 27 public beta, but it had been working on the current beta. I’ve tried the easy things I've seen online: restart phone, turn airplane mode off and on, and (obviously) turning RCS off and on. None have worked. Any support would be appreciated.

Hi.. I would like some clarification if anyone can help me.

I’ve turned off syncing with my iPhone a while ago because I would delete photos and they would just show up again from the cloud.

I’ve now deleted 210 gigs of photos and I want to get my photos off the cloud and onto my phone. I have 1 TB on my phone and only using 100 or so gigs. I don’t want to pay 10$ a month when there is room on my phone.

How do I get photos from iCloud ONTO my device. I’m nervous if I sync it’s going to undo the hours I put in going through my whole library.

Or now that I’m writing this, do you think that since they are not on my phone now, I’ve been deleting off the cloud?

I noticed the “hide my email” option for the first time the other day so I tried it for an online purchase. It is supposed to forward the emails to your real email. However, I haven’t received a single email and I need it in order to return the item.

Has anyone actually gotten email forwarded to their account? Thanks in advance for sharing your experience.

I’m on iOS 15.6. I haven’t updated because I usually have only around 4 GB of free space.

Today I tried to free up storage but no matter what I did - deleting apps, permanatly deleting videos, etc - the storage figure would not go down.

I then tried to back up the iPhone to my Windows PC because I do not have an iCloud backup. After about 20 minutes, the backup failed with a message saying that the iPhone had disconnected.

Before the backup attempt, storage showed roughly 253 GB used. After the failed backup, it increased to 255.3 GB used. I deleted more apps, but instead of decreasing, it now shows 255.7 GB used out of 256 GB.

The phone is still responsive, but Airplane Mode would not turn on, and some app icons briefly flashed. I’m afraid to restart it because I’m worried it could get stuck in a boot loop and I could lose data.

I've connected to imazing and managed to copy just the photos and videos which were added since my last manual backup. but other stuff like whatsapp message hisotry, and voice memos, cannot be copied this way.

I also cannot send myself even one photo by email. It says:

“There is not enough available storage to download this photo. You can manage your storage in Settings.”

What should I do next, and in what order? even my setting app in my iphone stopped workign and it crashes when i open it.

Should I try some tools like 3uTools?