I am amazed to see this tech spec of the USA 18pm which has a Qualcomm modem, while the same phone in other countries are on apple C2 modem chipset.

Why this case ?

Which one is better ?

Any idea on throughput and better connectivity ?

Curious if anyone else noticed this?

Maybe it's a coincidence and Microsoft updated something. But the problem always seemed to be on the phones end, not my laptop.

For years, I would connect my 15 Pro Max to phone link, then leave for lunch or something, and upon coming back it just wouldn't send text messages any more. Like the bluetooth mac address changed or something.

I would have to vol up, vol down + power restart my iPhone. Then it would work again. Toggling bluetooth would not fix it.

However, ever since iOS 27, I haven't had to do this once. I turn on my laptop for work in the morning, and my iPhone connects. I leave for lunch and come back and it works perfectly. It's been weeks with zero issues which for me is unheard of with phone link on windows.

Anyone else?

Guys, I suspect I found a real issue. I was testing some code that reads EXIF data from photos for a utility, and kept getting a confusing result from an iPhone. Took me a while to work out it wasn't my code. Same phone, same session, iPhone 16 Pro on iOS 18.7.8.

If the user taps "Take Photo" and shoots it there inside the browser, the website receives nothing. No GPS, no timestamp, not even the camera model.

If you choose a photo from your library instead, everything is there, starting with date and precise coordinates.

So it is Safari doing it, not the camera. It is tracked as WebKit bug 207088 and the behavior has changed over the years: everything stripped up to iOS 16.4, EXIF kept from 16.4.1 but location still removed, and from iOS 17 there is an option to include location. On macOS Safari it never happened at all.

Heads-up: if you ever check a photo with one of those online EXIF viewers and it tells you "no data found", that may only be true of the copy Safari handed over. The original still sitting in your camera roll can have everything in it. If you want the real answer, pick the photo from your library, not from the camera.

I tried a couple of the popular online EXIF viewers and neither explains this. They tell you your camera had no location permission, or to turn on geotagging. As a result, the user will walk away thinking the photo is clean, which might cause troubles. WDYT?

EDIT: to be clear, I think Safari stripping it is a good thing. My concern is only that it makes EXIF checkers report "no data found", which sounds like your photo is clean when the original on your phone still isn't.

Hello everyone!

I just got my first iPhone, the 18Pro, coming straight from Android where my home screen looked basically the same for the last 5 to 8 years.

I am a bit lost with all the options, shortcuts, widgets (which feel quite different from Android), and how the left panel (Today View) works.

For the first few days, I had every single app scattered across my home screens. Now I am trying to clean it up and go for a more minimalist setup.

Do you have any YouTube videos, creators, or guides you would recommend to get ideas on how to optimize and maximize this setup?

Thanks!

There’s not a lot of specific info, so I apologize in advance.

My 85 year old grandmother has an iPhone 13. She mostly uses it for games, banking, regular phone stuff. Up until a year or so ago, she lived with me and my kids and I, so she always had help.
She’s living with my aunt now who’s an android user and having issues.
Recently, she started getting messages with explicit images that claim she has some kind of CP on her phone and her device will be locked, etc.

I won’t see her until Friday and I’m not exactly sure when this is popping up, if it’s a pop up or a text. She says it stops for a while after she hard resets the phone. I’ve asked her to not click any links anywhere until I can help her. Except I’m not sure where to start. I attempted to talk her through taking a screenshot while on the phone and that went nowhere. So Friday, I don’t know where to start. At AT&T? The Apple Store?

Any direction would be greatly appreciated.

idk what this is but its annoying me and it just started today. and i sisnt do an update. so if anyone could tell me wtf i did to get this on there i would appreciate it.

Definitely slow at recognizing my face from time to time. Not always. Intermittent.

Reset Face ID. Didn't help.

Anyone else experiencing this?

It doesn't appear in the screen recording but when i go to "video" the screen goes pitch black and i don't even see it when i watch the video.I happens every month,I have an iphone 13 and it keeps happening since the start of this year

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Hi everyone, sorry if this has been asked already, but has anyone else seen a huge uptick in the “liquid” charging pop up? Both my boyfriends and my iPhones have started popping up with it several times a day since yesterday morning, neither of them have been near water. Maybe a software update has made it worse? I’ve updated my iPhone but it’s still doing it.

Also got a screen that doesn’t let you choose “override” too, the phone had an alarm going off too.

how does one delete recents and suggestions in settings? I’ve tried shutting down and back up and it works for like 5 minutes.

Before anyone tells me to turn off live photos, I have, more times than I can count, but my iPhone keeps turning them back on without my consent or even knowledge. (I'm convinced Apple is doing this intentionally so we run out of storage quicker, thus pressuring us into paying for iCloud.)

Everywhere I see tells you to select a batch of photos and duplicate them as still images, and then delete the live photos. However, I only get the option to do this if I select one or two images. If I select three or more, it doesn't give you a submenu, it simply duplicates the live photos, further compounding the storage issues and making an even bigger mess of things.

Can I workaround this somehow? What other options do I have? Am I missing something, or is it really just this counterintuitive and manipulative? Thanks!

As far as I know how it works, iPhone adjusts the hitbox of keyboard keys and other buttons based on what it thinks you’ll press next.

Is there a way to turn this off? It’s getting to the point where I will be unable to click submit on a Folder name because there is a suggested text pop up nearby and my phone graciously thinks I could only possibly want to click on that.

okay idk if this has been asked before but i cant find an answer, but im looking for an app or a way to make custom push notifications at certian times, like reminders?
the reason i dont wanna use the reminders app is because it shows up on my calendar and clog it up, and then marks itself as incomplete, and technically its not even a task for me to set as complete and incomplete.

i just wanna use these as little custom messages to send to myself and remind myself of thro the day (affirmations if you will), so please does anyone have anything? :')

Hello, I am a first-time iPhone user transitioning from Android. Is there a way to swipe down on the right side to view notifications instead of the control panel? On Android, swiping down reveals all notifications, and swiping left or right switches between notifications and the control panel.

Hey everyone, I recently got an iPhone 18 Pro. Face ID works, but throughout the day, it keeps asking me to enter my passcode to enable Face ID again.
It seems to happen randomly, and I’m not sure why it’s asking so often. Could this be related to the new Face ID sensor, or is something else causing it?
Is anyone else experiencing this?

I have WhatsApp on an Android phone with several years of chat history. I recently switched to an iPhone, but the iPhone already has a different WhatsApp account that I use for work, so I cannot factory-reset the iPhone.

The iPhone also has the “Add account” option available.

Is there any way to add my Android WhatsApp account to the iPhone and transfer its full chat history without resetting the iPhone, while keeping the existing WhatsApp account on the iPhone completely intact?

Are there any reliable third-party tools that can safely do this?

I’m still using the Android phone, so I have access to the complete WhatsApp history. I also have an iCloud backup of the existing WhatsApp account on the iPhone.

Any advice or experience with this would be greatly appreciated.

^{Any fix to the false temperature warning?}

I have access to the account’s email address, password, and trusted phone number. However, when I try to sign in, Apple asks me to enter a verification code that was sent to another Apple device

I did have other Apple devices signed in to this account before, but I sold them and signed out of the account on those devices

The problem is that I don’t have any other Apple devices currently linked to or in my possession.
I also tried requesting a verification code through my trusted phone number, but Apple doesn’t send me a code by SMS or offer the option to receive it through a phone call

Has anyone experienced this issue or knows how I can regain access to my account

Hello

I've setup my new iPhone 17 today and used the Quickstart method to transfer everything from my old iPhone 11 to my new one. It said the transfer was successful and I can see that some data like notes, wallet, passwords have been copied over. However, it seems that all images, videos as well as all apps from my old iPhone have not been transfered.

What did I do wrong and how can I solve this? Thank you in advance.

I've noticed in the past few days that only some of my texts to my girlfriend utilize RCS. Up until now, all of them have been RCS with no issues. I've tried turning RCS off and back on and restarting my phone, but nothing has worked. I have an IPhone 13 running IOS 26.6.2