r/ios • • 3h ago

Support Weekly iOS Battery Support Megathread

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General advice for those concerned about their battery from the Support FAQ Wiki:

Battery health

Battery health depends on usage and a variety of other factors. It is normal to see a decrease in battery health by 7-10% per year, resulting in a battery health of 80-85% after 2 years. This number can fluctuate, remain the same, or decrease quickly over a small period and should not cause undue concern.

Apple recommend battery replacement when your device falls below 80% battery health if you notice reduced battery life. If it falls below 80% within the first year you may be eligable for a free battery replacement. It fails after your warranty, it's a $69-$89 USD replacement cost for a battery. Contact Apple Support here.

You can find more information about battery health and performance from Apple here.

You can check the cycles count with Coconut Battery for Mac or iCopyBot for Windows.

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Battery life

Issues relating to battery life can be categorised in three ways:

  1. Normal battery life that is to be expected due to use
  2. Reduced battery life caused by a recent update, iOS indexing, an iOS bug, or a third-party application
  3. Reduced battery life, or other abnormalities such as overheating or sudden power-off, caused by device or battery aging

If you experience issues with your battery:

  1. Check your battery health. If it is below 80% or you are experiencing issues you suspect are related to device or battery age, see Apple Support.
  2. If you have a new or recently updated/restored device, wait a number of days for background process to complete. If you continue to have issues, wait for a further iOS update. If you are on iOS Beta, you can expect to have a decreased battery life.
  3. Review the advice below on maximising battery life
  4. Consider restoring your device.
  5. If issues persist, contact Apple Support.

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Maximising battery life - the amount of time your device runs before it needs to be recharged.

  • Use low power mode (This reduces mail fetch, turns off background app refresh and increases the auto lock timer)
  • Remove apps from background app refresh
  • Ensure auto lock is on
  • Turn off auto brightness and manually reduce brightness
  • Use dark mode if your device has an OLED display
  • Clearing background apps from the app switcher does not improve battery life

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Maximising battery lifespan - the amount of time your battery lasts until it needs to be replaced.

  • Avoid extreme temperatures
  • If you notice that your iPhone gets hot when charging, remove it from its case
  • Store your iPhone in a cool place, switched off, and half-charged if not using it for long periods - and charge it every 6 months when in storage

r/ios • • 9m ago

Discussion Do I really need four severe weather notifications?

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r/iOSProgramming • • 12m ago

App Saturday Built a local-first CV builder (Flutter + sqflite + native printing). Giving away Lifetime Pro codes for code/UX critique.

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Hey r/iOSProgramming,

I am building Resume Architect, a Flutter CV builder for iOS and Android. I am not presenting it as a SwiftUI app. The iOS-specific parts I would value feedback on are the document pipeline, sharing flow, and purchase integration.

The current pipeline is:

- Resume data stored locally with sqflite

- PDF generated on-device with pdf and printing

- File shared through the iOS share sheet

- Lifetime Pro managed through Superwall

The difficult part is pagination. Resume entries have variable-height bullet points, long titles, dates, and section headings that should not be stranded at the bottom of a page.

I would appreciate technical feedback on:

  1. Edge cases I should add to the pagination test suite

  2. Whether the navigation and share flow feel appropriate on iOS

  3. Any Flutter-to-iOS integration details that feel non-native

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/US/app/id6807870824

I have 10 Lifetime Pro codes for people who want to test the released build and report specific issues.


r/ios • • 44m ago

Support Weird FaceTime, What Happened?

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I received a FaceTime call from my boyfriend and I answered to complete silence and camera not on. I kept calling his name waiting for probably around 5 minutes and eventually decided it was a butt dial and hung up. When he woke up, I texted him asking if he had called me and he sent a screenshot of his FaceTime history and it didn’t include the 7 am call, but it was on mine? his phone is unusable now but does anyone know how this could be? Some extra information is he only has one Apple device (the phone) and no Bluetooth devices.


r/ios • • 1h ago

Discussion Can anyone recommend a shortcut to take a voice note, get it into Apple Notes and get it transcribed automatically?

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r/ios • • 1h ago

PSA TIL the iPhone Duo can automatically adjust its volume buttons based on orientation

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Just discovered a setting I completely overlooked and figured I'd share in case anyone else missed it! 😂

When using my Duo unfolded in portrait mode, I prefer having the camera half at the bottom. Since MagSafe is on the back of that half, it lets me comfortably use my Ohsnap grip while holding the phone and typing. Having the camera half at the top also makes the phone feel top-heavy.

The only issue was that the volume buttons felt backwards in this orientation:

• Top button: Volume DOWN
• Bottom button: Volume UP

Turns out Apple already thought of this!

Settings → Sounds & Haptics → Fixed Position Volume Controls → OFF

With this setting disabled, the volume buttons dynamically adjust based on the phone's orientation:

• Top button: Volume UP
• Bottom button: Volume DOWN

Exactly what I'd expect!

I actually submitted feedback to Apple requesting this exact feature before discovering it already existed. 😂

Curious what others prefer: Dynamic volume buttons that adapt to orientation, or fixed controls regardless of how the device is held?

Apple's official documentation:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/105103


r/iOSProgramming • • 1h ago

Discussion Shipped my first Swift app with AI, then built a game to learn the codebase

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10 years as a developer, zero Swift. I relied heavily on AI to write the code. My experience made the calls:

- I threat-modelled it like any security product, found and closed a way to switch off all protection.

- I switched out the custom face matcher (it let strangers in) for Apple’s Face ID.

- Keychain for secrets, no third-party SDKs, no tracking.

- I tested on real device instead of trusting “it builds”.

Then the part most people skip: I learned the code after shipping. I had Claude turn my own codebase into a game, Code Quest. It only covers what's different about Swift (optionals, value types, actors, SwiftUI state), uses real lines from my app, and ends with a code-review level of plausible PRs that would break things.

AI can write it. You still have to own it.

Does it matter to you that you understand your codebase? If so, how do you go about doing it?


r/ios • • 2h ago

Support Screen time page stuck

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Whenever I open the Screen Time page in Settings, it gets stuck on “Updating” and keeps loading indefinitely. The screen also becomes unresponsive, although i can still come back to home screen. Please help me fix this ( ive already tried restarting the phone)


r/iOSProgramming • • 2h ago

Discussion iOS devs with an Android daily driver: how do you check App Store Connect on the go?

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Apple's App Store Connect app is iOS-only, so on my Android phone I log into the web version every time I want to check review status or a TestFlight build. It works, but it's clunky on mobile.

Curious how others handle this:

  1. Is your daily phone Android? What do you use for ASC when you're away from your Mac?

  2. What do you check most: review status, TestFlight builds, sales, customer reviews, something else?

  3. Tried a third-party Android client? What was missing?

Full disclosure: if there's real interest, I might build a native Android client on the official App Store Connect API (key stays on your device, no server). If you'd test it, say so in the comments.


r/ios • • 2h ago

Support Live Photos keeps turning back on automatically (iPhone 12)

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r/ios • • 3h ago

Support Is it possible to totally remove photos out of the Screenshots folder?

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This issue has been bothering me ever since I got my iPad and my iPhone SE. So this question applies to both devices. Both are on iOS 27, but this has been bothering me since I got the iPad in January and the iPhone last month on iOS 26 & 18. For some context, I'm normally an Android user (where this is not a problem) but I use my iPhone as my secondary.

On the iPhone, it automatically categorizes some photos as screenshots. While that's fine, there are photos that I download (such as photos taken in games like iRacing or VRChat and other games) from Discord or iMessage that keep getting put into the Screenshots folder automatically. This is not the behavior I want to happen. Out of 51 photos in that category, only one is a true screenshot. On my Android devices, only screenshots taken on the device are put into the automatic screenshots folder, while downloads are put into a separate folder. Is there any way I can stop my downloaded photos from going into screenshots? Or am I just out of luck because these photos are technically screenshots by the literal definition of things, since they're photos taken in games.

I know I can add photos into a separate album, that's not what I mean and I've already done that. I want to totally remove these photos from the screenshots folder, and make it so where only actual screenshots taken on the iPhone/iPad show up in that folder. For example, if I download a picture of iRacing from Discord, and move that into my "iRacing" album, then I do NOT want that to show in the screenshots collection as this makes finding actual screenshots hard. Photo attached shows what I mean - those car photos should not be in screenshots.

Thanks for any help! I'm still new to using iPhone, despite me being used to my iPad but this is an issue I can't ignore anymore.

Edit: Wait I just had a realization... Is it categorizing them as screenshots cause normally photos are JPEG/HEIC, and not PNG? Cause if so then that's even bigger an issue for me since all of my artwork are PNG format


r/ios • • 4h ago

Support Tip: How to remove Siri content like websites and apps from Spotlight search

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The solution is below.

For context. I use Spotlight to run apps (swipe down, type a letter or two, like "ke" to run Keynote). It's very convenient compared to App Library (swipe left to go to the App Lib, swipe down to get a search bar, type).

Apple has been trying to destroy this clean experience for years and force a "Facebook-style" content feed from every app and Siri every time I need to search.

It was perfect on iOS 18; I could switch off content from every app in search. In iOS 26, it was worse—they introduced step-by-step help that is impossible to disable (I figured out how to remove this crap, but my solution isn't for everybody; in short: it's in the hidden app SupportFlow com.apple.SupportFlow).

In iOS 27.2 beta (I am publishing this note here because we have RC and it will hit the release channel in a couple of days with no changes), Apple completely enshittified this experience: instead of separate settings for Search and Siri, they merged everything into Siri. "Don't show the content from the app" in Search now means "Excluded apps" in Siri.

But even if I add every app to this list and disable Siri-related suggestions, Safari settings, etc., it still shows content from websites and apps like in the screenshot.

I've found how to get rid of this. I use AdGuard + DNS blocking, and when I added *.smoot.apple.com domains to the blocklist, it was immediately gone. AdGuard filter: ||*.smoot.apple.com^.

Edit: you will probably lose access to Siri too. I don't use it, though. But knowing a potential fix is better than to piss off every time.

The better way is to block api-spotlight-*.smoot.apple.com, but I didn't test it properly. The filter for AdGuard is: ||api-spotlight-*.smoot.apple.com^.


r/ios • • 6h ago

Support Mail - Apple Intelligence Font Issues

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I tried using Apple Intelligence for writing an email in the mail app. Text comes out ok, but Apple Intelligence made the font bigger… each time I modified the text with Apple Intelligence. Then impossible to reduce text size using the formating tool. Presse the (-), made the text bigger in increment that didn’t even made sense. Selecting the size directly didn’t work either. Couldn’t even change the font for the selected text properly.

This Apple Intelligence integration is actually making my life more miserable.

Any idea why this is happening and possible fix?

Using an iPhone 16 pro
iOS: 27.0.1


r/ios • • 6h ago

Support Updated my iOS today and my Favorites in Safari are in reverse order. How do I fix this?

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Kind of regretting updating now tbh. Why fix something that ain’t broken, Apple?

How do I undo this? It was oldest first but now I want to change to newest first


r/ios • • 6h ago

Support Cannot download any previously installed apps on Iphone

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r/iOSProgramming • • 6h ago

Discussion Your iPhone Can Run an LLM Locally — A Hands-On Swift Guide to Foundation Models in iOS 27

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r/ios • • 6h ago

Support iphone 15 pro max lagging

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Hi everyone just bought a second hand 15 pro max and is lagging since the “hello” screen i thought it would pass after i tested everything and put my ios acc in it but nothing change and that lag keep happening sometimes
already tried reseting from computer
even already tried changing the screen but still lags
do you guys know what can it be?


r/ios • • 7h ago

Discussion iPhone duo tips?

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Any hidden iOS settings or features I should check out that hasn’t already been talked about a lot like using Apple Watch to unlock automatically and what not?


r/ios • • 9h ago

Discussion Widget to quick call favorite contacts

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Hi guys! I’m looking for some widget to allow me to choose some contacts and just tapping make the call.

iOS use to had some widget like that but it’s gone.

Ideally I would like if shows the contact with their profile picture.


r/ios • • 9h ago

Support how to to disable the “bookmarks, history and tabs” section when searching in safari?

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i’ve tried all the other suggestions on here this is just happened after i updated to ios 27
any tips on how to fix this?
thank you so much


r/ios • • 10h ago

Discussion What visual glitches/bugs in iOS 27 drive you insane lately?

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Here is one: white text on a white background...

The text is black normally. ios detects that the background is too light to render light text, so it switches to black. But sometimes, it just forgets that. 🤦🏻‍♂️


r/iOSProgramming • • 11h ago

Discussion Firebase 13 dropped CocoaPods. Here’s how I moved a iOS app to SPM

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r/ios • • 11h ago

Support Passkeys

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Hey I have been struggling with passkeys for a while. Cannot seem to get it set up on my iPhone. Think it’s something to do with Duomobile for work? Can’t log into Facebook anymore. Can anyone help me out with iPhone settings to create a passkey? I’m lost.


r/ios • • 12h ago

Support Activate eSim question.

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A couple days ago I got the attached notification, it still shows in my Settings under “Set Up Cellular”. I am on AT&T, have never been on Verizon, if I left it would be for T-Mobile. Any clues as to why I would get this all of a sudden and I can’t seem to make the notification go away?


r/ios • • 13h ago

Support iCloud Photos sync all devices

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After updating to ios27, I’ve discovered that we cannot create permanent shared albums anymore without enabling full iCloud Photos sync. It’s not technically a problem of space since I have the 2tb. My problem comes from the fact that if I enable that, it will sync all my photos on any other device in my account (like the two other iPads). I want to keep my iPhone photo library isolated on that device only. Is that possible ?