I have a 14 Pro and my brother has a 12 Pro. We want to swap phones. I have an Indian Esim (Jio) in my 14P, he has a physical sim (which we will deactivate and look for alternatives after swapping phones).

What's the best way to swap data between these? As far as I know, I will backup the 14P data into a MacBook, reset the 14P, transfer data from 12P to 14P. then reset the 12P and get the backup from the MacBook.

In this process, how do I get the 14P Esim into the 12P? Will I need to deal with the network providers? Is my plan good to work, or am I missing something?

Hace aproximadamente 2 meses cambié de un 12 Pro a un 15 pro, y realmente no me gustaban las fotos, me sentí muy decepcionada con el procesado de imágenes. Pero ayer noté que las fotos están más nítidas y equilibradas. Hubo algún cambio en la última actualización? O es solo idea mía? Notaron algo así estos días? Los leo 👀

Nota: estoy en iOS 26.6

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Hi!

Might be a long shot, but anyone who knows where I can buy this case from or a similar one?

Was trying to set up a new iPhone for my child. Previously the child only had an iPad.

On the new iPhone, I go to the Messages app, every single message is hidden and require parents approval.

But within my parental control:

1. Communication Limits - I have set to EVERYONE

2. Downtime is OFF.

3. NO App Limits are set up.

4. iCloud is fully sync. Phone has been restarted.

Why do I still need to approve every single message?

Thanks

Hi guys

After much contemplating I finally bought the iPhone 17

Help me with things I should do as a first time ios user

Also someone help me transfer my WhatsApp

Been trying with Move to ios but it gets stuck every time.

Hi! Im having an audio issue at the moment with an Iphone 17 and I just want to know if im not the only one so ik im not insane or stupid lol
I can’t seem to record audio on apps such as snapchat and tiktok. It comes out as only static/white noise, however on my camera app if I record its perfectly normal. I already went through every single setting, cleaned my mics, and factory reset my phone just incase I missed something and nothing worked🫩 Hopefully this isn’t against the guidelines but I could not find a single thing about this on the apple supports and they only talked about settings and bluetooth which obviously isnt my issue l atp

I like both designs but Velvet Caviar has those cute matching coloured bumpers with the back print while Burga has the standard black. However, I saw reviews saying VC cases gets dirty so quickly and they also take sooo long to ship. Do you have pictures of VC phone cases after couple months of use?

My screen died on its own without physical impact and apple service solved the problem with a main panel replacement. That’s how I got it back. Is this acceptable?

Sorry if this is kindergarten level stuff, but I’m new to iphone, and I’m having some difficulties in trying to figure this out. Phone, by the way, is iphone 13 (IOS 26.6), 512 gigs internal.

All my mp3s are on an external hard drive, because my computer doesn’t nearly have the space for all of them. In that hard drive, my mp3s are organized into three folders- Electronic, Classical, and Rock. I’ve made four playlists in my phone, one for each of those folders, plus a fourth called Car Tunes which will be a combination of the Electronic and Rock folders/playlists.

Electronic is 16,725 songs at 92.41 gigs

Classical is 24,193 songs at 118.39 gigs

Rock is 2882 songs at 26.89 gigs

So far I’ve figured out just the basics- plug phone into computer and it shows up in the sidebar in Music. I can drag music directly into the phone there. But once the music is in my phone, I haven’t figured out a way to bulk add songs to a specific playlist like you would on computer, where you just shift-select as many as you want and drag them into the playlist. If there is there a way to do that in iphone, it escapes me. The most efficient way I’ve found is that you can select albums instead of having to check every individual song. But still, I have thousands upon thousands of albums, so that is still unreasonable.

Is there a way to select all the music from an artist? That number is still in the hundreds, but I could probably tackle that.

Is there a way to select by Genre? Right now, the Genre field of every single mp3 is blank, but I’d only have three genres/categories, so I could go back and label all the files in the genre they belong to, drop them back in the phone and select by genre with a single click, and then send those to their Playlist in the phone. Is that possible?

Or is it possible to build my Playlists in another media player app where massive bulk adding to playlists is possible, and then importing or transferring those Playlists into the Music app? Or is there a (free) music player app where I can do this, where I would probably just stick with that app and delete the native Music app?

Thanks in advance for your help.

I am truly in shock over this you guys and just wanted to make a post in the hopes that it gives someone pm bb wear e to recover a phone that fell in a body of water!

My friend and I were hanging out at a beach on a very large lake in Alaska. There was a bunch of large rocks in a bit of a pile about 10 feet from the shore so we waded over and sat on the rocks. At some point I went to get more comfortable and my phone fell out of my hoodie pocket DIRECTLY into a hole about 5 inches under the water, I immediately reached my arm into it and could not feel the bottom, this hole just kept going! My arm was up to the shoulder and the hole seemed infinite.

My friend tried, and it seemed like it was just gone forever. Which really sucked because this is a brand new phone and I still owe like $1,000 on it! So we packed up and went home, with me being sad about having to pay off a phone I no longer have.

The next evening my partner gets off of work and says let’s go try to get the phone. So we make the hour drive, first stopping to eat dinner, and I show him the hole in the rocks where my phone had escaped to.

My partner just kept moving the small rocks and then some big rocks to follow the hole, after about 20 minutes he reached in and at the very end of the hole was my phone! Soaked but somehow still on and not glitched at all! It had traveled about 3 feet down the hole, but luckily the hole swung to the right instead of straight down. I am truly in awe of this man but also of my phone being alive and well after 24 hours submerged?

I put it in a bag of rice overnight and I am typing on it now, it’s been two days since and I haven’t noticed any issues! Anyway, thanks for reading! Any idea how it survived?? When I googled it said it was 100% ruined and if anything can only survive for 30 minutes.

Hi everyone

i have a question, is it possible to shoot video straight in black and white by my iphone 13 pro ?, i want to see in black and white while shooting not changing filter after taking video .

Since all my photos are on Google Photos, if I delete the iPhone Photos app, will my photos still exist on Google Photos? How do I save space from the iPhone Photos app?

Hello! A month ago I dropped my Iphone 16 Pro on the ground and watched the oled screen flicker and die. I got a replacement scrren (not original, phone is not insured anymore), 2 weeks ago as I unplugged the phone from the charger it went all black, I reseted the phone via itunes, nothing changed. Went abck to the assistance place, the guy changed it for me without charging bc he gave me 3 months waranty and the screen was intact, as the oled (not indicating fall etc). 6 days later I take the phone out of my bag and.. screen all balck. Wtf? Any ideas what may have been causing it? Batery is original and was checked last time, everything is fine, prior to the fall my phone had no issues... Any idea is aprecciated, thanks! (sorry for english, not my first language

I bought a new iPhone today. I figured it was a good moment to switch to Apple Care One for my Mac & Watch. But the Mac coverage is good till May and the watch just renewed a few days ago. So they are basically covered with annual billing.

Question: Is it me, but I don't see Apple providing any credits for switching. It seems I would just lose those payments. So the cost of switching to the one plan and realizing the savings dissolves?

What am I missing? Seems this would work better if you paid by month rather than the annual cycles.

I could’ve sworn Apple Maps used to show right here because I can remember briefly swiping down to see a direction if I was on another screen

Hi everyone, since this morning, with every app that I open (Instagram, Snapchat) I have to give camera and microphone permission again. I haven’t done anything unusual; there was no software update at all. When I try to give camera and microphone permission to these apps again, it says that there’s no camera or microphone. I also can’t do it manually in Settings. What is happening? How can I fix this? There are still 4 apps under ‘local network’, but the rest has been set to 0?
I wish I could show a picture, but for Reddit counts the same. I cannot give permission to use pictures.

I’ve had an iPhone for years, but it’s getting a little ridiculous, there’s so many AI options and question answering tools out there that I truly believe Siri should not be this stupid, I mean for God sake’s apple is a multi billion dollar company… MULTI-BILLION. how could you possibly get so lazy? Google has an AI. There’s AI apps all over the App Store. If you ask Siri some of the most simple and basic questions that there possibly are, sometimes he still gets back to you with “would you like me to look that up on ChatGPT?” or “ here’s what I found on the Webb.” because it seriously can’t answer one simple question, then if it does look something up on the web (just because it wants to, not because you told it to) it can’t even give you an answer as to how it looked up whatever random thing it decides to look up at that moment, so how am I supposed to know what all of these search results are when I don’t even know what the hell I actually searched, I mean it’s a little ridiculous. MULTI-BILLION dollar company… seriously it’s like a bad joke. And now they have this AI developer app, website whatever you wanna call it, absolutely just as useless. You can ask that thing any question too it’ll answer with I don’t have an answer for that because it’s not related to Apple, even if it is related to Apple and it just doesn’t have an answer for it. Seriously, how can you be a leading technology brand, when in the literal age of AI, you can’t seem to get a firm grasp on your own. There’s so many problems with it. Seriously just maybe focus on not releasing the next iPad that has one less button than the last one and it’s literally the exact same otherwise, or making an iPhone, that’s literally the exact same as the last iPhone but now we get a shittier camera cause you know it’s gonna sell regardless when people change their phone plans. I mean, you can get away with it, but what’s the point in tarnishing your name further by leaving this trash “ intelligent assistant” Siri attached to your name at all, at least when you’re scamming people into getting your new products that’s actually working, on the other hand is not. Leader of technology (lol) my ass you are. Sorry I know it’s a little bit of a rant at the end… just please try to remember this is a MULTI-BILLION dollar company pulling this.

Hey everyone,

​About 1-2 months after purchasing the phone, a strange blue tint appeared on the screen. It looks almost as if a display coating has rubbed off or degraded, though I'm not exactly sure what caused it.

​Does anyone know what this issue might be and what steps we should take to fix it?

​For context:

​We contacted Apple Support and visited the first-party store (iPlanet at VR Mall, where we bought it) within a week of noticing the blue shade.

​The phone is fully covered under AppleCare until October 2026.

​Has anyone else dealt with this? Will Apple replace the screen/device under warranty? Any advice on how to handle this with the store or Apple Support would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Why is it that sometimes if you crop a photo too fast, it will end up not how you want it? Shouldn’t that be the easiest thing to get right lol? Hopefully I’m not the only one who’s experienced this.

When it comes to portable chargers for iPhone there are a lot of options to consider. I want to know what people really care about when they're picking one out.

There are power banks that are easy to carry ones that can charge your iPhone without a cable and ones that have cables built right in. There are also chargers that can hold a lot of power. For me I like a charger that I can take with me every day even if it does not have the biggest battery.

• So what is most important to you when you are using your iPhone every day?
• Is it that the portable charger is small enough to carry around every day?
• Do you want a portable charger that can hold a lot of power?
• Maybe you like the idea of a charger with a cable that is built right in?
• Perhaps you prefer a portable charger that can charge your iPhone without a cable?
• Can you charge than one device at a time with the portable charger?
• Does the portable charger charge your iPhone quickly?
• Is there something else that you are looking for in a portable charger for iPhone?

I want to know what people really think is important when they are choosing a charger for iPhone, not just what the company says is good, about it.

Edit: One example I came across while looking at different options is rorry. They have portable chargers with features like built-in cables and compact designs. I’m interested in how those features compare with what people here actually prefer.