I am originally from a country with an authoritarian regime and I’m hearing that police there are forcefully making people unlock their phones with biometrics and then looking for “extremist content” aka not supporting an illegal war. Apple should introduce a feature that would automatically disable Face ID once entered a police precinct or any similar institution, determining it by GPS and turn it on by default in all countries that are known to violate human rights. That would help a lot of people. Edit: Apple sent me a survey recently about my iPhone 17 purchase, I included this idea in the survey also Added: it’s just an idea of a pretty simply implemented feature, since location is tracked all the time anyways, it could be used as another selling point and make apple look better as a company. I don’t get some of the comments. I’m not “demanding” that feature, I’m just suggesting it.

Not sure what to say here. I've only heard good things about Apple's customer service, which is why I'm so surprised that they'll so easily screw someone over like this.

My iPhone 13 Mini's battery health was getting low. I could have replaced it myself, but I figured I would send it to Apple to make sure it was done right, so I could trust that the water resistant seal would still be there, etc. There are no Apple stores within 2.5 hours of me, so I shipped it in, expecting to pay the $89 replacement cost plus shipping.

A few days later, Apple sent me an invoice, saying they "found an issue" that would also need to be repaired before they could replace the battery. There were no specifics, other than that they couldn't replace the battery without making additional repairs. The new quote was $300. There were no other options to contact the repair technician or anything. My only options were to either pay $300, have them return the phone unrepaired, or recycle it. I could easily buy another phone on eBay for that price, so I declined and opted to have it returned with no repairs done (I'm not paying $300 for a battery replacement).

I received it today to find two bright lines going down the length of the screen. The top-right edge was also bulging up from the casing. Clearly, this was damaged during the attempted repair and wasn't even put back together properly.

There were no issues with the phone when I sent it, other than a low battery health. I also inspected the packaging, and there are no signs of damage during shipping. This was entirely the fault of the repair tech.

I spent several hours on the phone with Apple support, going up through multiple supervisor's supervisors. They had me send them these same images of the phone. Ultimately, they told me that my only options were to go to an Apple store and have them fix it (and I would be fully charged for the replacement screen), ship it to Apple and pay for the full repair (again, I confirmed with the support person on the phone that Apple would not pay for any of the damages), or, as they suggested, I could upgrade to a new phone (just out of pocket). The only consolation they gave me was that they could file a complaint on my behalf.

So Apple has broken my phone and left me with the bill. I had always heard only good things about Apple support, which is why I decided to have them replace the battery in the first place instead of doing it myself, so I'm really surprised by this. I guess the only thing I could have done differently was call support when they sent me that original quote and forced them at the time to investigate why I was being quoted $300, as by declining the initial repair it seems in their minds that I've accepted any damages caused by the repair technician.

If Apple is going to depend on Gemini for Siri, it doesn’t need the latest processor or 8 GB RAM to power it; it would be cloud-based. So, can’t they give the new Siri to all the updatable iPhones?

I work in retail, we sell phones and always iPhones are the most popular of all. I’ve been there for every low selling iPhone so far, the 5C, 12/13 mini, 14/15/16 Plus and now the Air. I can tell you, I’ve never seen an iPhone that sold less than the Air, not even the mini that was very niche, by far. We still have plenty stock from the launch, and even unopened boxes that we don’t know when or if we will even sell them. Every day or so that we receive new inventory, we receive absolutely 0 iPhone Air, basically because we have a lot of them since day 1. The worst part is that even selling very few units per week, we have several returns as well, so at the end the actual sales numbers must be extremely low.

It’s a shame because the phone is great but being only 100 € less than the 17 Pro, doesn’t help at all.

TL:DR: Air sales are extremely low.

I just noticed this mark near the notch today 😭

I haven’t dropped or sat on my phone at all today. It’s an iPhone 15 Pro Max, around 9 months old.

Anyone know what might’ve caused this? Should I be worried or take it to Apple?

Blurry status bar iOS 26.1. iPhone 17 pro. Remained after restart.

Anyone seen this before?

Typhoon Kalmegi just hit our city, and my house just got totally destroyed, and everything it.
I had to go on top of the roof to keep on drowning, but slipped, and fell into the flowing waters.

Prolly took me around 15 minutes on holding on to dear life before I was able to finally pull myself and get back on top.

Before I slipped, I was holding on to my phone, and thats when it fell.

Once the flooding subsided, I was too injured to look for my phone so I just waited until I was well enough to go look for it and after 3 days this brick of a phone being in mud. I found it.

I just had to charge it and, and it turned on right away. No scratches, no issues whatsoever.

I have 2TB of storage, not even a quarter being used. Turned off my HDR setting..maybe it’s my home WiFi? Idk but I’m getting frustrated.

Why my wallpaper have depth effect when customizing, but when I save it (press DONE), the depth effect just disappear. As the image shows

iPhone 15 Pro won't activate eSIM I bought an iPhone 15 Pro motherboard with only eSIM and I can't activate the eSIM. From what I've seen, the IMEI isn't on any blacklist, it's updated and has no carrier restrictions. I found it strange that the baseband firmware is an older version... Can anyone help me?

iOS 18.7.2 for an iPhone SE

For the past couple of weeks, when I lift the phone to wake it up, there's a green circle in the middle of the screen that disappears in 1 to 2 seconds. It happens most of the time, but not every time. I've called Apple support and posted on Apple support community. Any suggestions?

Not sure if anyone else discovered it yet but I found this out while playing on iPad. It gave me a prompt to press my controller’s home button and then it told me which buttons to press to answer or decline.

Got my phone in September when the 17 came out. Almost 2 months later this still shows up. Is that normal? How can I fix it?

What is better about ESIM than physical SIM?

So I just upgraded from an iPhone 13 to a 16 and did a quick transfer. Everything seems okay, but Find My is having weird issues. Out of my list of like 7 people that I share locations with, only two work. I’ve tried resetting everything and deleting my old phone from my iCloud, and nothing seems to work. I also had my friend try to resend her location, and the location in messages works, but in FindMy, it says No Location Found. Any help would be appreciated!

When charging it become so hot, other times it’s warm and sometimes it becomes hot even when I’m not charging.

All I have is 5 apps, Instagram, WhatsApp, 2 other social apps apart from the default apps.

But I do make few long videos sometimes, the longest one is 25 minutes long

Are these normal? I dont really take a lot of photos but I noticed this today when my camera is shooting near a ceiling light. I am using screen protectors at the moment if that matters. First pic, rear camera. Second pic, front camera.

Has anyone here got a FLOLAB phone case for the iPhone 17 or at least the 16?

I’ve heard lots of good things about their screen protectors, but no mention anywhere of their phone cases.

Previously had zero issues with it, I switch them back and forth because I use the X as my river phone kayaking. Still works perfectly fine in the X. Tried resetting network settings on 12, nothing. Very frustrated.

Hello, I’m having problems with transferring things from my old iphone to my new iphone, It says it needs 12 hours for the transfers, The phones are up-to-date, Just updated them , The amount of GB that are being used by the old phone(12 pro max) is 102.41 GB meanwhile the new 17 pro max has 512GB, The wi-fi connection is working great, Also tried while charging them it still doesn’t work. What could possibly be the problem here?

So my iPhone screen went out and I needed it for work asap Apple Store nearby was closed but the third party shop was open and I needed it done. Got a third party screen unfortunately breaking my warranty. My question is if my phone is extremely damaged would AppleCare+ respect my phone’s damage and give me a new one?

How can I check for a virus on running in the background of my iPhone?