Questions tagged [ios]
Apple's operating system crafted specifically for mobile devices.
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Is there a way to force the iPhone to use its own microphone when connected to a Bluetooth speaker?
I connect my phone to a Bluetooth speaker to play music. When engage Siri or try to use dictation, the phone wants to use the microphone on the Bluetooth device, which is either too crappy or too far ...
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How do I run iOS apps on macOS with Permissive Security enabled?
I use a legacy driver called HoRNDIS, which allows me to tether my Android phone's mobile connection over USB. However, because it doesn't use DriverKit, I have to set the Startup Security of macOS to ...
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Can I get Siri to not bleep out Bitches Brew when I ask to hear that album?
I use Apple Music and have HomePod and Siri audibly bleeps out words (and prints B**** on the screen for the example below) on song and album titles rather than pronouncing and displaying them ...
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Disable QuickTime setting time in status bar to 9:41 for screen recording of iOS device
When you record a video of your iOS device QuickTime helpfully tidies up your status bar, including setting the time to 9:41.
This is great in many cases, but I have several apps which display the ...
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Some of my iOS 10 apps are losing saved settings and information
Over the past week, may of my apps have started resetting, losing saved settings and information. I have an iPhone 6 on iOS 10.1.1 and a Watch on watchOS 3.1. I updated my iPhone to 10.1.1 on October ...
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No builds available for individual testers in testFlight
I have uploaded the first build of my react-native app to AppStore connect testFlight.
The invitations to App Store Connect Users are sent and they have received the email. But the individual testers ...
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Is there a way to toggle VPN in iOS shortcuts?
Is there a way to toggle VPN trough shortcuts in iOS 12?
Looked into it, but can't really find anything.
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Safari Remote Debugger on iOS 9.3.5 not working in High Sierra
I was just wanting to debug a JavaScript error in one of our pages that occurs for users with iOS 9. So naturally I plugged in an iPad 3 with iOS 9.3.5, opened the page in Safari and connected the ...
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Sending All Traffic Over VPN Tunnel (IKEv2) in OS X 10.11.5
I recently setup VPN connections on my Macbook Pro running OS X 10.11.5 via the Apple Configurator. However, I am having trouble sending all traffic across the VPN Tunnel rather than through the ...
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How to find out which apps aren't shown on home screen?
I have deleted a folder on my iPhone and removed the containing apps from homescreen. Now they are only in the App Library after the last homescreen.
I don’t know exactly what apps where in this ...
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Image Capture (macOS Monetery) - How to Force Refresh *Contents*
I have my iPhone connected to my Mac continously (I am a iOS developer). If Image Capture is already running on my Mac and I take a screenshot/recording on my iPhone then quite often (not always ...
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How do I trigger a shortcut automation when disconnecting from Wi-Fi?
I'd like to create a shortcut that does something whenever I disconnect from Wi-Fi. How do I do this?
I know I can go to Shortcuts > Automation > Create Personal Automation > Wi-Fi, but this will ...
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How to prevent Continuity / Handoff app icons in Dock?
Sometimes I open my iPhone while working at my Mac.
This often triggers a Continuity / Handoff app icon to suddenly appear in my Dock:
Safari
From iPhone
I find it extremely irritating to ...
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iPhone silencing text messages on Do Not Disturb even if contact is on favorite and Emergency Bypass
iPhone 7, iOS 12.1
I have a contact on my VIP (favorite) list and in the Do Not Disturb configuration I've enabled the option not to silence calls from that group.
The contact has also the ...
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Why does iOS 11 IKEv2 VPN lack Send All Traffic option?
I'm trying this on iOS 11.2 iPad.
L2TP VPN has "Send All Traffic" option, so that I can control whether I would use VPN server as my default Internet gateway.
Curiously, IKEv2 VPN does not have that ...
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How to delete cookies for a specific site on iOS Chrome
"How to delete cookies for a specific site" is a good question but seems to be about Chrome on a computer rather than on iOS.
This question seems to be just about iOS Safari (rather than Chrome).
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How to tell which email/phone number an iMessage was sent from
I've got a few addresses that I can be reached at, one phone number and two email addresses. I know which address new conversations are started from, but how can I tell which of my phone number/emails ...
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Can you unzip an IPA package without either changing the extension or having admin rights?
A colleague who I admin for has just asked me why, when he wants to unzip an IPA file, the GUI archive manager asks for an admin password when he tries to decompress an IPA that he has downloaded (his ...
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Secure VPN configuration in iPhone for malicious WIFI hotspots
I would like to use a secure VPN configuration in my iPhone (iOS 5.1), to be able to use Internet thru hostile wifi hotspots.
I have already configured an IPSec tunnel to a server I control. I can ...
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Does an iOS app have the ability to set iOS Safari cookies?
My specific interest is in the context of the Facebook for iOS app, but it can be asked of an iOS app really.
Given all the recent changes to Facebook and the way that Facebook cookies are not ...
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Apple Freeform app: stop geometry snapping to centre
In Freeform, if I insert geometry on top of an image, the top node snaps to the centre of the image and will not move. How can I move both the top and bottom nodes of the geometry?
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What is iOS “General” mobile data use?
I set up a new iPhone and am using a 1 GB data plan while traveling. I thought I would use it to just check my email and use gps maps while driving, and I thought this might be sufficient for three ...
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Disable pull to refresh in Safari
Safari on iOS 15.5 (iPhone 8) seems to have the pull to refresh feature baked into every tab for every web page. This is incredibly annoying, counter-productive and just a bad design choice for all ...
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Frequently Visited Sites has disappeared from Safari. How to restore?
At some point after the upgrade to iOS 15.x, the Frequently Visited Sites section in Safari disappeared. When I tap on the address bar, I only get Shared with You, Privacy Report and Reading List.
I ...
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iPhone no sound on incoming calls in Guided Access
I've got my 88 year old grandma the latest iPhone SE and Watch SE and set it up in Guided Access for the Phone app (see attached for the icon).
I also have it set up so she only receives the calls in ...
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iPhone missing from Screen Time on other devices
My iPhone SE 2020 doesn't appear in Screen Time on my Mac or iPad.
All devices are signed into the same iCloud account and fully updated to the latest operating system releases.
All have 'Share Across ...
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Where does the iOS Photos app store user-entered captions?
I understand that the ability to add captions to photos was added in iOS 14. Where are these captions stored? For example, are they embedded into the .HEIC file as EXIF or XMP or IPTC metadata? Or a ...
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How to export all Digital Touch sketches from Messages?
Over last couple years, my girlfriend sent me hundreds of her little pieces of the art, that she made using Digital Touch.
I tap “save” every time I get one from her. Now I would like to export all of ...
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Changing webpage encoding in iOS
Some webpages are encoded differently and not well-configured, so they may show up completely jumbled. One example is this page, originally in Japanese:
http://immanuel.sakura.ne.jp/hoby/osakaben/...
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How to create quick single-tap iOS webhook "buttons"
TL;DR: Is there an app (or some other means) that would allow me to create a grid of webhook buttons (which accept a json string) that work like the example in this video (i.e. single tap to issue ...
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Make Universal Clipboard fast and reliable
For me, the Universal Clipboard feature of Continuity has always been a bit spotty, but with newer hardware, it has become somewhat more reliable.
The problem is getting it to work consistently. I’ve ...
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Why is Photos not suggesting new Faces in the People Album?
When I first began using the People / Faces feature in iOS and Mac Photos, the app automatically listed a bunch of people.
I added names for all the people I knew. I thought this was a near-complete ...
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Default print settings on iOS
Is there a way to set default print settings on iOS? Whenever I print, I want to print double-sided and black and white with compatible printers. However, the print dialog forgets my last setting and ...
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iPhone screen recording without red bar suddenly appeared on my phone
This morning I woke up to a notification on my iPhone saying that the current screen recording session was stored to my camera roll. I didn't do any screen recordings lately (definitely not last night)...
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How do I accept the "Maybe:" contact suggestion in Messages?
Siri has correctly identified a few contacts who have texted me. Is there anyway to accept the suggestion rather than have to manually type in their names?
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Distributing a custom iOS app to a non-profit museum
My small company is building an iPad app for a fixed installation in a small, non-profit museum. This app isn't intended for the general public, and we do not want it listed in the app store (or need ...
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Transferring photos between iPhones keeping metadata
I want to transfer all photos from my old iPhone 6 to a new iPhone 7 Plus(both running iOS 10.3.2, if relevant). Since my iCloud is full, I first thought about iTunes, but many photos are shown as ...
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How do I know that this app is not secretly sending my data elsewhere?
How do I know that what I store in this app is only saved locally, and the dev doesn't have access to my files?
https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/foto-segrete-kyms-foto-video/id462182115?mt=8
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Why do some numbers in the call history have a share contact option but not others?
If I tap on the (i) for numbers in the call history then some have Share Contact displayed as an option but others do not.
None of the numbers are in the address book so why should there be any ...
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What happens to existing face tags in Photos once iOS 10 and macOS Sierra drop?
I spent a lot of time organising Faces in Photos.app. I use the iCloud Photo Library, so the library in OSX and iOS was one and the same, and you could even search for people's names from the iOS ...
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How to whitelist remote image loading in iOS Mail app?
In the iOS Mail app (9.3.3), is there a way to whitelist senders for whom I wish to load remote images? Thanks!
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How do I verify a certificate when installing it on iOS?
I am installing a self-created certificate authority SSL cert onto a modern (iOS-9.3.2, iPod6) iOS device. It is self-signed and obtained over an untrusted transport. In normal, e.g. desktop, ...
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Lost all email composed and sent while in airplane mode
I just returned from an international flight that did not feature wifi access. While my iPhone was in airplane mode, I replied to a number of email messages attached to my exchange account and sent ...
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Adding custom email headers on iOS
I use Mozilla Thunderbird on OSX but I am considering getting an iPad. Thunderbird allows me to add any kind of custom email header. For me, this feature is essential.
Will I find an iOS app that ...
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On iPad in Chrome, How to disable address bar autohide?
Is it possible to disable address bar autohide feature in Google Chrome on iPad?
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Need British Siri & date formats, but US Google. Possible?
I'm a Brit living in the USA. I use the UK English Siri so that he understands my accent. I also like dd/mm/yy dates. I'd like to have my iPhone default to USA Google though, since that's where I am. ...
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Can't restore iPhone in order to downgrade
I just downloaded the iOS 11 beta from Apple's developer website, but I'm having such a headache downgrading back to iOS 10.3.2.
I installed their provisioning profile from their website, as ...
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How do I disable sending or receiving "effects" in iOS 10.1 Messages?
For reasons past comprehension, the new iOS 10 Messages app allows applying "effects" to messages. It used to be possible to disable the ability to generate or receive these abominations by choosing
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Privacy settings do not allow shortcut to load external web content
Since updating to iOS 17, some of my Shortcuts fail to work on some web pages in Safari (only). For example I have a shortcut to use Mail to send the current webpage to me, but now on about have the ...
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What is the easiest way to select all photos from a certain time period in iOS?
I'd like to select all pictures, say from 2022, or Dec 2022, and AirDrop them to my Mac. I know I can filter them by year and month, but selecting all is kind of a pain (even with the dragging-...
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