Questions tagged [ios]
Apple's operating system crafted specifically for mobile devices.
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Transferring to another phone, does it take up storage? [closed]
Soon, I will receive an iPhone 14 Pro Max (256GB). I want to transfer about 100GB worth of data from my iPhone 13 mini (128 GB). I want to ensure that I can use the full capacity without being limited ...
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How can I prevent my phone asking to confirm any "When the last person leaves home" HomeKit automations?
I have a HomeKit automation set up to trigger "When the last person leaves home," and my understanding is that it should run automatically without any user interaction. However, every time I ...
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How can I turn off restricted mode on YouTube on an iPad?
The option to turn off restricted mode on YouTube on my personal iPad is grayed out and it says that it is turned on by "the network administrator", but I'm using my personal network.
I have ...
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How to copy my own phone number to my clipboard?
When I go to Settings > Phone, clicking and holding "My Number" does not show any options (I thought it might show "Copy"). Clicking on "My Number" shows the number in ...
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How to play iphone notifications over Sonos speaker, when phone is charging
I have a phone charging station in my home that is separated from where my family spends most of their time. I'm interested in setting up an automation where: when an iPhone 8 is charging in the house,...
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How to restore the iPhone without downloading the latest version of iOS?
I am trying to unlock my old iPhone using the guide from apple. On step 4 "Restore your iPhone with your Mac or PC" it says
Your computer downloads software for your iPhone and begins the ...
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Cannot connect to iPhone / iOS physical device using XCode
At the risk of leaking PI, I see this:
and this:
and of course there are no logs:
I have this error trace:
! Error: iPhone (47) is not available because it is unpaired. Pair
with the device in the ...
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Matter development - Matter Accessory - Apple Ecosystem [closed]
What is the best way of logging the pairing / commissioning process of Matter and HomeKit Accessories (Console logs are encrypted / lacking).
I could not find any specific software or documentation ...
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How to get two apps out of folder on home screen?
Context: I previously had Settings and Messages as the first two icons on my home screen. But then "something happened" (I don't recall doing anything that caused a change) and now the ...
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Renamed flags on Apple Mail in Mac do not show up in Apple Mail in iOS
I have couple of emails that I flagged with Orange flag on Apple Mail in Mac. I renamed the Orange flag to something more meaningful. I am now able to search the flag with the new name on Apple Mail ...
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Recover iPhone clipboard after Mac replaced it
I cut text into my iPhone clipboard to paste into something that took a bit to load, and did a small thing on my Mac while waiting, which involved copy-pasting on the mac, then tried to paste on the ...
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How to browse videos in iPhone backup?
I have videos taken by my iPhone and stored in the camera roll and photos library.
I use macos' photos app to import and view these videos on macos. I don’t use iCloud for videos/photos.
I’m assuming ...
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How can I record the sound when screen recording a Telegram videocall?
I use the built-in screen recording feature on my iPhone 12 mini. It works fine for YouTube. But it fails to capture the sound on Telegram: neither my voice nor the the voice of the people I videocall ...
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Scheduled Summary notifications in iOS often won't open
The notifications are set to display as Stacks. The scheduled summary stack appears normally, but no amount of tapping, holding or dragging can separate the stack into individual notifications for ...
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How to stop sponsored notifications in Facebook iOS app?
This week suddenly I’m getting new, unwanted notifications in Facebook iOS app. They do not appear in FB’s website/webapp. They say:
You might still be interested in [Sponsor’s Name]: “[Advertisement ...
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Hotspot vs home internet
I need to know if when I’m using my hotspot, does it also use up my home WiFi? I’ve asked multiple people that question and as of yet, not received any clear answers. I go to my smart tv and go to ...
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Faster way to sync _one_ Music file to IOS?
A bug in Music sync that has survived many OS updates is that it sometimes fails to recognize a track that has changed. (It also wastes a lot of time copying files that have not changed onto IOS.)
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Shortcuts and metadata - How to copy and paste metadata from one photo/video to another using shortcuts app?
Can’t find answer to this anywhere!
Using the shortcuts app, is there a way to automate the process of taking metadata (or at least location, date, time) from a photo/video and pasting it into another ...
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In Shortcuts, how can I convert a time in plain text into a date?
I want to be able to write a text like "155pm" and have that get turned into a date and then into an alarm on the same day with that time. I tried the set of actions shown below (link to ...
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Is it possible to add custom Social Media accounts to contacts in the Contacts app?
I wanted to add a contact's Reddit username to their contact card. However, it seems like I couldn't find "Reddit" under the list of custom fields. Below are the only fields I could see. Is ...
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Why out of space, and incoherent information about space available on iOS 17.x?
My iPhone SE3 with 64 GB running iOS 17.6.1 reports 3.1 GB available in About but iPhone Storage reports less than 45 GB used and over 19 GB available. The top apps take about 10 GB. See the images ...
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iPhone 15 Pro Max uses more iCloud data than it should (iOS 17.6.1)
I've noticed something weird recently.
When I go to Settings > Apple ID > iCloud, it says I'm using 1.9 of 5 GB. Ok, sure. That's not really weird. I've turned off Photos backing up to iCloud to ...
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iOS - iMessage - Who is Actually Typing?
When I'm in iMessage and the other party is typing - do the flashing dots indicate that they are just typing at that moment - and it could be to someone else?
Or - do the flashing dots tell me that ...
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IOS shortcut to delete messages based on content
Please help! For many months now I receive spam messages (SMS) almost daily from two sources, each with a clear identifyer. I would need an IOS shortcut for my iPhone that runs - preferably ...
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Get Firefox's iOS app to show tabs in two columns
I use the "Larger Text" Display Zoom option. Until recently, when I switched between tabs in the Firefox iOS app, it would show the open tabs arranged in two columns. But recently, the ...
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Scan a page from a photo in the iOS Notes app
The Notes app has a nice feature to "scan" a letter by clicking the camera icon and selecting "scan document". This will use the camera, search for a letter-like object, correct ...
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Connection issue on facetime and share play
When I test "remote control" function on iOS 18 beta, I use two iPhones and connect them via FaceTime. But when I tried to share screen, if one iPhone sends a request for “ask for share”, ...
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Find & Replace with Carriage Return in iOS Notes
In Notes, how can I use Find&Replaxe and insert a carriage return (or a new line or a line break) as the REPLACE WITH entry?
PS: at the moment, I use a custom keyboard substitution, but this is ...
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Do third-party apps have full access to Files on iOS?
On iOS, when you want to use a photo in your photo library on a certain app, you will be prompted (at least for the first time) to select which photos you would like the app to be able to access, and ...
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Kid's new iPhone not showing in FindMy "people" but does show in FindMy "devices", how to fix this?
With the kid's old iPhone, I could see where they were either via the people tab or via the devices tab.
With the new iPhone it only shows in devices which is a bit annoying as it means it doesn't ...
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Can I modify my zip so iOS won't auto unpack it on download?
I maintain a free tool to produce books in DAISY format for the blind. One of the more widely-used DAISY reader programs is Dolphin EasyReader which has an iOS version. When "side-loading" ...
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Third-party charging cable not working after update to iOS 17.6.1
I have received an Otterbox charger from my employee with my iPhone 14. I've just updated to iOS 17.6.1 and found out that charging doesn't work anymore. As soon as I plugin an original Apple cable ...
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Definitive way to enable ESC-key-like functionality for Obsidian on iPhone [closed]
Has anyone provided a good solution to the lack of an escape key on iPhone yet, for vim mode? I feel like this needs a definitive solution, and I’d be willing to work on it if nobody has, yet.
Not an ...
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iOS how to place VPN into "Personal VPN"? and .mobileconfig
In the VPN settings there is a section called "Personal VPN". It's interesting that these VPN can work simultaniously with the ones above. This is what I need - two VPN working at once.
I've ...
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how to turn off swoosh sounds for sent and received text in iMessages on iPhone while I'm already in the thread?
when I'm using imessage and am looking at the conversation thread, new messages in that thread getting received and sent play "swoosh" sounds. I don't want to hear these, but I also don't ...
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How to bulk import contacts from a VCF file?
I have a list of contact cards in VCF format, all in a single file. For example:
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
PRODID:-//Apple Inc.//macOS 14.5//EN
FN:Tobias Funke
N:Funke;Tobias;;;
BDAY:1989-05-05
ADR:;;...
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Screen Time does NOT block web downloads -- alternatives/workarounds needed
In Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions > Store, Web, Siri & Game Center Content > Web Content, you can block sites either by blocking adult websites or allowing ...
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iPhone SE adding Gmail account return 500 error
I have an iphone SE first generation (2017) with last version of OS (15.8.3). I had to delete one of my email accounts because of some problems on the iphone.
When i want to add it again, i can add ...
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Volume buttons on hearing aid ends call
Older friend of mine uses a ReSound behind the ear hearing aid. These are equipped with a small volume up/down lever on the device itself, so he can tune the volume to match his environment.
Usually, ...
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Force website (add to homepage) to open as an app instead of in Safari
You can add websites to home page. However some (most) websites don't add this tag <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" /> so it opens up in Safari ...
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How can I make photos attached to reminders show up in notifications?
When I create a new reminder in the Reminders app with an image attached, I wanted the image to be shown in the reminder notification like shown below, it currently does not. I can make a shortcut ...
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Error 500 when adding Gmail to iPhone mail [duplicate]
I’m trying to add my Gmail account to my iPhone running iOS 15.8.3. I have successfully added it to my iPad and iMac email, but I get a 500 error code on the iPhone.
I go to Settings-Mail-Accounts and ...
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How to make deep links to iOS settings for reminders, without passing them through a shortcut?
Right now I have a reminder in the Reminders app with a URL attached, that passes in this deep link: prefs:root=DO_NOT_DISTURB* to the do not disturb section in the settings app, to a shortcut so the ...
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Is there any way to view DKIM information on the iOS Mail App?
I don’t use my iPhone or iPad for most of my serious work, but one thin that bothers me is that it’s harder to check for fraudulent emails.
Is there a way to view DKIM information?
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How to stop a keyboard from being selected?
I have English and Chinese keyboards on my iPhone.
There is a Chinese handwriting keyboard and a Chinese pinyin keyboard. When I press the globe icon to change keyboards, normally it cycles between ...
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Will the iPhone 15 Pro Max get Apple Intelligence when iOS 18 is fully released? [closed]
The iPhone 16 series will have something called Apple Intelligence.
Right now, there’s a public beta for some of the features that will be available in iOS 18. Apple Intelligence is being tested in ...
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Find Me App notifications
If I share a notification from my iPad with a family member, does it shows a notification on my phone or in an email? Meaning if I program find me from my IPad to share with someone…. Will a ...
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Does setting 'Inactive Tabs' setting to 'Never Move' restore or delete inactive tabs (iOS)?
Per the title really. In Chrome on iPhone there is an option to turn off the 'Inactive Tabs' feature. Currently inactive tabs cannot be bookmarked so I'd like to revert inactive tabs back to active. ...
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Contacts disappeared after re-authenticating with Outlook/Exchange
I sync all my contacts to my old Hotmail aka Live aka Outlook.com account.
Today I needed to look someone up through Outlook.com / People web-interface (normally I just do it on my phone) and I ...
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How to disable announcements for workout start in iOS 18 public beta?
I’m using the iOS 18 public beta and the watchOS 11 public beta.
Since upgrading, I use the automatic workout detection and I get the “announcements” when my watch detects I’m cycling - asking if I ...
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