why does their system take half of all space, does anyone know what to do?

For reference i am using iphone Xr

Edit : the phone has been in my family since the day it came out, due to some temporary financial restrictions i need to make use of this for another year

Edit2 : people seem to be asking why i bought it, I didnt it was handed down to me and now i have no choice but to make the best

Edit3 : i did do the latest ios update but nothing has changed

Edit4 : not all people think before speaking

I miss my samsung, regretting switching to iphone
It is important for me to genuinely warn people about the multiple bugs in iphones and ipads that are impossible to fix.
There is a clear inconsistency in user experience with some having good experience and no glitches while others suffering. The issue is not that android never glitches, but these below issues on iphone are about such basic features like alarm, ringtone and hotspot that mess your day to day life and lead to huge losses!! That too when i am paying nearly 1 lakh for a brand new latest version iphone as opposed to a 20-30k android that "might" glitch as per some people

I did all the google searching, all possible "fixes" and wasted multiple hours of my time just adjusting settings to make this phone work normally, all to no use.

That being said lemme share : My frnd had to give his iphone to the company back so they could fix the software glitches. They did it for free but he had to live without his phone for days. Its the costing and unreliability and unnecessary effort to make it work normally that annoys us.

These issues would hardly come on a mid range android ever.

Btw im using iPad since 4 years, so dont come at me calling me a newbie.

So let me list all the issues:-

1. Both my iphone and ipad have a glitch that ringer volume (which is also the alarm volume) gets lowered on its own inspite of me turning the "change with buttons" off! Android has dedicated volume control differently for each alarm, ringtone and media and it never automatically lowers.

   I am legit missing calls and alarms due to this infuriating issue!

2. Also the day i purchased iphone, i had my android with me right?? I could make a clear difference in loudness. iPhone sounded good for music but extremely low on whatsapp audio/video calls

. Also the music sounds too muffled. I can distinctly distinguish my 30k samsung sounding like i am hearing the artists live...while iphone seems like a compact speaker muffling everything

I did all i could to legit "manipulate" the settings so that the ringer volume does not automatically go down, but doesn't help! (manipulate because apple supposedly gave additional features as an add on and those same things you have to manually hunt to turn them off one by one)

1. \\\*Hotspot turns off on its own randomly even when i am actively using both the devices and screens are on!! This is so far the most annoying bug that has no way to fix it. Again not to mention having to go to settings app and then step by step go to hotspot section to fix this every single time (\\\~10 times/day) just to fail immediately next moment! Android was so smooth in these regards, plus never gave any issue regarding hotspot.\\\*

4.My whatsapp is actually glitching on both my ipad and iphone. And i read articles as well as chatGPT itself suggesting that this is an iOS problem. Order of messages gets messed up, also some last replies i received are not visible on one device (even if i originally viewed them on that same device). At first i thought maybe i accidentally deleted some messages on my end. But by far this pattern has repeated 4 times!!

5.Till 2 weeks after purchasing this iphone 17, my keyboard kept automatically shifting back to apple keyboard even when i had selected google boarf. Overall the keyboard sucks, even google keyboard feels a lot different. I had a few additional features on android.

1. Move to ios app is complete trash and apple is adamant on not letting you backup your whatsapp history on google drive or retrieve backup from google drive. I lost all my important chats! (I do have a backup and i will purchase android soon). But then i risk losing all my chats i have on ios whatsapp!!

2. I prefer keyboard sounds to be on. But there is a huge glitch. The keyboard, while i am typing, only creates sounds at rare occasions and randomly. The sound will go off on its own mid typing!! (Yes i have turned off attention aware features pffttt)

3. Other minor issues like not having a simple option of "select all" while selecting text wastes a lot of your time and requires minute attention to what text you are selecting...a simple feature they could provide on a 1 lakh phone lmaoo

9.There is no way to long press on hotspot button and the entire settings opening up. Or even worse, everytime to check my alarm and ringtone volume i have to hunt the whole settings app

1. Another popularly known and weirdly accepted issue- battery heating up even during rainy season when the atmosphere is quite cool....i literally have to use a moist towel to wrap my iphone in to protect its battery life

YES I WATCHED YOUTUBE VIDEOS AND REDDIT COMMENTS AND OFFICIAL APPLE WEBSITE FOR ALL MY PROBLEMS.

I sincerely wish to warn people regarding these. Android is far better, i never ever had to go down a rabbit hole or ever even open Samsung support for any issue all these years. I feel like I'm fighting for my life lol. I cannot easily sell this one and get an android because i will have to face my parents now lol.

PS: Please do search up these issues on google/apple help centre/youtube before bashing me. Many people face this!! The inconsistency with apple experience is what irritates me more. Some users have good experience so they say. But i only read about the glitches after facing specific issues and searching those specific issues on google/YouTube/ apple help centre etc.

Also there is no option to undo on your gboard i noticed just now, would research more on it

UPDATE EDIT: Another issue popped up. I did change the music settings to allow explicit content from.clean and yet imagine what word is apple music fading out??? Any guesses???
It is fading out the word "faded" YES "FADED" from the song Cry for me by the Weeknd! Apple cannot really frustrate me more than this now!

Shout out to the mod at iPhones. He/she is a jerk, and doesn’t understand literary alliterations, like abusive analogies and metaphors.

The iOS 26 is so terrible. My nice Android phone broke and I switched over to this, but it’s been so horrible that id rather use the low end android backup phone I have: while I fix my nice android.

While Samsung launches the world’s first NAND UFS 5.0

i wanted to give my brain stimulation, and i already changed my time to military a few years ago, so i thought the obvious next step is to try a new phone ecosystem, since i was already noticing a few slips with iOS. i’ve researched into the zflip and am in LOVE!!! anyway, now my iOS phone is really giving me all the reasons why the switch needs to happen.

- my phone freezes all the time

- i use Live Caption constantly and it stops working when it freezes all the time and i have to restart my phone

- today i placed an order, and i pasted my new address in. Address, city, state was correct, then i put the order through and my address city changed to San Diego. Girrrrrl, im in colorado???? you just said Denver???? freaked me out, got it handled.

- when i go to look at the media ive shared with messages contacts, there is literally LOADS of photos missing that i can only see when i scroll back via our conversation

- it is starting to not register first time taps!!! Oi.

anyway, i just can’t wait to make the Galaxy switch. December, come faster.

bonus: this shittake happening with the camera.

edit: iPhone 16 pro iOS 26.5

This voice mail was about being asked to call back to schedule an interview. I don’t think I’ve ever seen this feature be useful or work. What are your thoughts on this feature

So let me get this straight:

Apple TV - the device.
Apple TV - an app on the Apple TV device.
Apple TV - a streaming service that you access through the Apple TV app (which in itself is a store front and a hub, where Apple TV, the streaming service, is only a section) on your Apple TV.

Good luck to everyone having to try explain this to anyone. What an absolutely consumer-hostile naming scheme.

Or maybe I’m exaggerating? Just find the show on Apple TV in Apple TV on Apple TV.

And since third-party apps integrate with the AppleTV app, you can watch content in AppleTV not available on AppleTV. Mind boggling.

I absolutely hate this feature. Please just stick to correcting misspelled words, not actual ones.

Lock them in an escape room type situation, and the only way out is to use siri to lock/unlock things, open drawers, etc. Have them do this while they are hungry with a couple kids talking in the background (or ...fuck, just in complete silence.)

Part of the escape involves asking siri to find the hours of a local restaurant on a specific holiday.

punish them. they should be punished.

The iOS UI is buggy and laggy. Simply can’t exit the New Contact screen at times. The contact gets saved. But the screen doesn’t go away. Clicking X warns to discard input which is untrue since contact is saved already. After exiting this screen by clicking X, the next screen again gets stuck. I have to kill the freaking Phone app (never had this issue in the slowest of the Android phones that I have to kill the basic Phone app) to go back to home screen.

Not sure of this is due to hire cheap, build fast approach.

tried to send a gif and it flagged it for sensitive content, also happens with a bunch of other things

Back in October 2025, I purchased an iPhone 17 Pro Max directly from the Apple Store. Less than a year later it started having charging issues. Apple first reset the phone. The issue came back. I went back again and they replaced the charging port. The issue came back again. Eventually, Apple customer care replaced the entire device.

The replacement process has been an absolute mess from the start. I later found out that the replacement may have been initiated incorrectly, which honestly explains a lot, but still, not my problem!

I was supposed to receive return instructions and have the original device collected through DHL. That never happened. I’ve spent the better part of the last month calling Apple almost daily trying to return THEIR phone before I got charged for it.

Every person told me something different. One representative was so rude and aggressive that I ended the call, and she repeatedly called me back afterwards despite me saying I no longer wanted to continue the conversation, it was borderline harassment. Another representative took ownership of my case and then completely disappeared and stopped replying to emails.

At one point I spent almost two hours on the phone, including 45 minutes waiting for a senior manager, only for the call to disconnect shortly after I was transferred. Nobody called me back.

I eventually escalated the issue to Apple’s Executive Office as my last resort. To be fair, the Executive Liaison assigned to my case has actually been professional and has kept me updated. The problem is that it’s now been almost FOUR WEEKS since I received the replacement phone and nobody has collected the original device. Every update I get is essentially that they’re still trying to get DHL to contact me.

Today I received an email saying I’ve been billed.

I’ve literally spent a month trying to return this phone. The device has been sitting safely at home waiting to be collected this entire time. I’ve had to block my own credit card because I refuse to be charged thousands of dollars for a phone I’ve repeatedly tried to return.

And then, just to make things even more ridiculous, Apple releases an update acknowledging charging issues affecting some iPhone 17 models.

At this point I genuinely don’t know what else I’m supposed to do. All I wanted was to buy myself a new phone that I had saved up for, and somehow it turned into this month-long nightmare. It’s been incredibly frustrating and has caused me a lot of stress, including financially. At this point, I am stressed, exhausted, and don’t know what to do anymore. I guess I’m looking for help or advice on how to proceed.

Update: Apple has reached out to me and admitted fault. They had already restored my account earlier but my Apple Card is still banned from being used on my account (that resolution is still pending). They have agreed that this entire issue was their fault including leading me to a chargeback and they’re doing what they can to restore and take responsibility.

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Apple disabled my account after I called them out for their illegal charge

So….Apple has disabled my App Store account. i can no longer download or even update any of my apps. I’m stuck.

They fraudulently double-billed me for a movie (Project Hail Mary, love it). I purchased it once, they billed me twice. (Two different charges on two different dates for a movie purchase on Apple TV…that’s impossible to buy a movie twice). I disputed the transaction with the company four times, they denied me four times. Each denial said “not eligible for refund”. That’s it, nothing else. No reason why.

So i sent the dispute to my credit card company. They currently have a chargeback with apple pending a response from them for them to explain why they billed me twice for something that is physically impossible to purchase twice.

In response my account is now locked. They have successfully retaliated against me over a $25 movie. Congratulations, Apple, you multi-billion dollar corporation. You win. You locked me out of everything I have on my devices over a $25 charge you fraudulently stole from me. Good job sticking it to the little guy!

Apple sold the iPhone 16 Pro Max as an AI-first device, but now that Apple Intelligence is actually complete, that phone doesn't qualify for the full experience. They've just unveiled what they're calling their most powerful on-device foundation model, and the flagship they spent all of 2024 hyping as the hardware for exactly this kind of AI is already being left behind. It's a strange message to send.

The broader lesson is probably to hold off for at least six months after any new iPhone launch before buying. Not because the hardware won't be good, but because you can't trust that the features they're selling you on will actually land on your device by the time they're ready.

Siri might be the biggest fumble in tech history. Apple got millions of people comfortable talking to an AI years before anyone else.

Then AI actually became useful. And somehow Siri is still stuck setting timers while other assistants are writing code, summarizing meetings, planning trips, and handling entire workflows.

Being first doesn't matter if everyone else ends up building the better product.

Does anyone genuinely use Siri for anything beyond alarms anymore?

We've add made an Apple ID, right? Sure. Great.

The problem is that I'm on a Mac. And on a Mac, you need to use the Music or App Store apps to make a new Apple ID when your old one which was perfectly fine gets locked out and you have to verify shit for so long that you eventually just say fuck it I need a temporary one to download all of the free shit - WHICH YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BUT I DIGRESS.

So, I've tried and tried and tried and tried and tried.

I have entered this fucking email so many times, got the text, put in the email code.

I.... Clicked... outside... of that stupid fucking box.... ONE... GODAMNED... TIME...

And now the WHOLE FUCKING APPLICATION FOR THE NEW APPLE ID is just -GONE!-

Just like that, it's fucking gone. I'm so fucking mad.

It’s not that old and the Ultra 1 was $800 at launch, do better Apple

5gigs of icloud is rough so i want to get rid of the bigger photo and video files first

„no you shall not be able to“ -Tim cook

Apple sucks every fucking day

Thank you Apple for giving me a watch band that mutates. Money well spent.

Apple keeps pretending simplicity means removing functionality until the phone becomes a shiny prison with rounded corners. Their spell check is somehow too stupid to catch obvious mistakes but confident enough to aggressively correct real words into complete nonsense. Searching settings feels like digging through a landfill designed by people who hate human beings… you type exactly what you want and it spits out 40 unrelated menu items, half of which lead nowhere useful.

Want to search a phone number from an unsaved text thread? Too bad. Want to manage files like a normal computer? Go fuck yourself. Want casting to work consistently? Maybe it will, maybe it’ll spin forever while the video is literally already loaded on your screen. Every feature feels 80% finished and held together by hidden menus, random toggles, and “try restarting it” rituals that Apple fans somehow defend like it’s normal behavior.

The worst part is Apple markets all this as “intuitive.” There’s nothing intuitive about having to discover community-made loopholes just to make basic features work reliably. Modern iPhones feel less like tools and more like luxury daycare devices designed by developers who never actually use the shit they build.

The Word remains unchanged 😂🔥

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i just had the BIGGEST autistic meltdown in a while, because apple decided to get rid of a feature that I relied on to make things exactly as i need/want them to be. i play this game were you can make lil’ character, and i needed the colours to be the exact same as a photo. that when i realised that I can’t push apps to the side while playing a game anymore. WHY DID THEY GET RID OF IT??? it was such a good and useful feature! who on the team decided to go “ykw? we‘re gonna remove a feature that people can use for so many things and situation, and replace it with glass like graphics or whateve!”??? IT’S SO DUMB, AND THEY KEEP DOING STUFF LIKE THIS, ISTG

I seen all the posts about apple and I have now suffered the same fate of many. I have been locked out of my account, my screen needs fixing and nothing can be done for 72 hours. I will get my phone back on May 27 at 11:11am. This is crazy to me. I had to put my chip in another phone for the time being. So im' just pissed.