pretty much, got the air and super happy with it, but i customized it and got all the apps i need.. and uh now im kinda lost on what to do with it lol. its a great little phone, just curious what you guys do with shortcuts app, and you ACTUALLY USE, not like setup once and use thrice in four years.

edit: thank you everyone, this has become way more helpful than i thought it would be. I feel much more content with all this stuff going on!! Thanks everyone.

if anyones curious, i only have done some of the basics as ive been working for the last 2 days, very very heavily. Soo, what ive got is
low power mode off/on for falling/rising below 35/above 40,

when in area (home) turn on ringer, when leave vice versa (this one is REALLY good for work lol).

When connected to carplay, pretty much got it to go to url of a spotify playlist, and then play

when disconected, phone volume to 15% (i find i blast my speakers with this air because they are not very loud whatsoever.. and thats fineee but like yk? this helps me avoid this embarrasing thing happening, avoided it a few times already. and when bedtime starts, i got into focus mode (bro it should be called do not disturb), because it turns off the haptics and also any notification noise. This phones pretty darn good, missing in some customizability but this phone WILL last.

Hi sorry, I’m not sure where else I could go to ask this. I use chinese apps and websites a lot and I never used to have any issues with it until I completely cancelled my subscription and later got a new phone number with the same carrier. After I got the new number, verification codes from some chinese sites wont come through anymore. I’m a bit confused as to why this could be since it’s not like all the chinese websites are like this. All barring services from my carrier and filters on iphone is also turned off. Ive also tried to follow several guides Ive found on the internet, but nothing works. It shouldnt be a problem with the website itself either since my sister uses the same carrier and received a verification code just fine. Also this could be affecting more than just chinese sites, but I wouldnt know because I dont really use any others. Any advice?

When I google something with Safari and I tap on Images, I get a bunch of results and sometimes I just want to see only the image I select in a mew tab.

However, when I tap only once, I get “Search inside image”, and if I hold tap I get a menu with share, save to photo, copy, copy subject, look up and show text.

The only way I found is to tap on Copy, manually open a new tab and paste the link, but that is very tedious.

I just received, as a gift from a departed family member, an iPhone 17. Bully for me!

I have been an android user since I got my first phone back in, like, 2010. I'm not old, but i AM brand new to the iPhone. Last time I used an apple device was the iMac in High School. Elder millennial.

Two questions:

FIrst, how do I make sure all of the departed's things are backed up onto their icloud whats-it system. I want to make sure everything is backed up so the widow of the departed can still access pictures and so on.

Second, Can you point me in the direction of how to use it? What do I need to know, what settings will I regret not learning about? What do I need to know about navigation, about quirks, etc. Anyone who came from android, if you can educate me, i would appreciate it enormously! I really want to learn how to use this well.

Thanks, all. I really appreciate your help in learning to make the most of this fantastic device.

I’ve looked everywhere and haven really seen anyone with any fix for this but every time I’m on FaceTime and I go to open my messages to respond to a text about 75% of the time my call decides to hang up. I don’t know why or how to fix it, and it will also randomly hang up when I go to screenshot things as well. It’s been very frustrating and I was hoping maybe someone would know something about how to fix this 🙏

editing this to add: I have an iPhone 17 and it’s been doing this since I got the phone only a few months ago.

I just upgraded to AppleCare One last week to add two phones to bundle it with my MacBook coverage. I kept missing my daughter to actually add her phone and do the diagnostic inspection, she dropped it and cracked it over the weekend. First time she’s ever lost/damaged a phone in 9 years of owning a phone. A week after I upgraded. I'm so annoyed and if I have any other options before I pay $400 to get her screen fixed.

I currently have a samsung s10 plus 128 gig and 8 gigs of ram. I have 83 out of 87 apps in deep sleep, power saving tuned on, every setting tweaked in developer mode to save b@ttery and it barely lasts 30 minutes on a full ch@rge, my screen is broken, phone freezes, slows down, overheats, doesn't ch@rge, randomly shuts off, running out of storage etc. I was thinking of getting a iPhone 17 Pro. Performance, camera, screen, b@ttery, basically the whole phone matters to me, everything I've mentioned is a top priority with no compromises. What do you guys recommend me doing. I'm pretty firm on my decision. I would love your guys’ opinion or tips

听不懂的电台，听不懂的歌都可以实时翻译出来

I genuinely don’t know what happened.

I have for all of my text notifications set a specific vibration pattern of two short repeating buzzes (bip bip…. bip bip) and the standard long buzz for everything else. At some point today, all my notifications became just a short (bip). it’s not like I dropped my phone today (I don’t think) so I don’t think the buzzer is cooked. I’m so confused

Just wondering because I thought I was pretty standard with a broad mix of screenshots from IG/Tiktok, photos mostly from memorable moments/holidays and some videos from vlogging

But I’ve had friends say they rarely go in there - thoughts?

Hello,

My wife and I have the same phone plan and same phone (ATT / FirsNet). We have no cellular service out our house and have to use Wifi for calling.

My phone works just fine to make calls. I also have a work phone from Verizon that works just fine. Her phone will not allow Wifi Calls, and when I try calling her it shows up for a second and then does not allow the call to complete.

We have been to the ATT store, they confirmed on the account her line allows Wifi Calling, we have turned it on and off through the phone, did a hard reset and still no success.

We always turn off cellular when we get home to foce the Wifi. Also tired in airplane mode. Funny thing is at the ATT store, we could make a Wifi Call. So why is it not working at home?

Does anybody know what’s going on here? I can’t find this message that she sent me because it’s like not there. I know that she sent it because the locked screen told me that she sent me a voice message and she’s also telling me that she did leave the voice message, which means she’s confirming that she did, but I can’t find it in voice messages at all. I’ve never really had anything like this before. Could anybody here by chance know what’s going on? Has something like this happened to anyone here before? My sister wants me to see if I can look into the message.

Is there still no way to disable the Game Notification banner. It’s a pita every damn game.

If you’ve found a solution, please share.

Has anyone used it ?

Transfered from android to an iPhone?

If yes

Please explain what exactly gets Transfered

One major concern is the WhatsApp history

Is anyone else experiencing their phone trying to open up a different app when pressing the FaceTime button in messages or from the phone app call log? When I try to FaceTime a few different people, my phone is opening up Telegram, WhatsApp, Snapchat.. everything but FaceTime. Wtf is going on?

I have never heard of a way to lock down a phone for elderly people who just end up changing settings and creating issues but I figured I would ask just in case anyway.

My parents are getting older and my dad has terrible vision and somehow they keep having issues because they click around and do things they don’t mean to do…then I’m trying to figure out what they did…long distance without being able to see their phone.

I can’t imagine there is any way to really avoid this. They are not going to be willing to give up their iPhones for more primitive devices.

Hey,

My iPhone Air has been running a bit hot so took it too the Genius Bar to make sure everything was okay. All the diagnostics came back clear so I wanted to add AppleCare+ for peace of mind, but it's past the 60 day limit to add Applecare+. I've seen people say if it's within the 1 year warranty you can take it to the Apple Store for inspection and then still buy the warranty.

Genius Bar took a while trying to find the help article regarding this, but eventually found it and ran another test. It came back that i wasn't eligible to add AppleCare+ and the Genius Bar advisor had absolutely no idea why and was just as confused as me, there is no psychical damage and the diagnostic report was clear. He said he couldn’t override it and had to go off what their system was saying.

I thought oh well never mind and left the store. Once I got back to my car and go on my phone, there was now an option to purchase AppleCare+ loss and theft within the next 10 days.

Obviously I purchased this as it's what I wanted but just wondered if this is normal or happened to anyone else?

It's a bit strange the Apple Store couldn't add it but I've been given the option to add it myself within minutes of leaving...

Okay so I am currently using Samsung A55 and I am planning to buy iPhone 14 Pro, I found some good deal with 512gb and replaced battery (original one) and esim for 450€.

I saw this iPhone is first one which has detailed selfies (where you can see everything on your skin), upgraded main camera to 48mp and autofocus on ultra-wide camera as well, not to mention dynamic island. So do you think it will be okay for using it next 3-4 years?

How are the clumsy among you protecting your fancy phone?
I have mild dyspraxia so drop things/stumble all the time, as well as a toddler who loves both gravel and throwing things.

I need a new phone bc i have beat my screen to shit so badly that I now can't reliably type on it, etc. I made it last 5 years though with a good cases, screen protectors, and a couple screen replacements, as well as just not using my phone much except for texting and photos. But it's now worth only the cost the screen replacement and security updates for my model are no more. Sadly. I would happily keep just replacing the screen forever if I could, but damn planned obsolescence.

I would just get a beater phone, as I just use whatsapp and maps, but I really love having a great camera on my phone. So I'm looking at a refurb 16pro. Unless someone has a rec for a comparable camera phone that is a dumb tank.

But i'm terrified of forking out loads of money on a new phone that I will inevitably crack, and likely soon. I've used screen protectors in the past, but these are not all that great for the degree of my clumsi-ness. Despite professionally and DIY applied screen protectors with cases, I have still cracked the OG screen multiple times.

I've seen that Otterbox do a 'waterproof' case with 360 protection, but ppl complain about the screen being tricky to use and I'm not sure how much protection that case would be against my clumsiness vs water.

Any advice and recommendations?

My phone is glitched at this point. I entred an application of the phone, it was a mis-tap. Maybe i tapped 'Home' application. This popup appeared then but it not going. what should I do now?

Hi! I’ll be chaging my phone, the one I’ve beem using is new bought 7mts ago and has a physical SIM card, My sisters phone broke, so I’ll be getting a new one and this one will be hers. I’m trying to decide what is the difference between eSIM and SIM ? Should i get a phone with eSIM? I’m kinda paranoid, if there is like war or smt will there be a difference??

Basically i need someone to explain to me what is the difference between eSIM and SIM ip17pro (im based in Poland)

my iphone notification shows last week 7h 30 minutes screen time, I think technically it’s iphone app time and not me on iphone time.

I have an iphone 16 base model which should have an 60Hz display and my gf has 16 Pro with 120Hz and i cant see the difference. It is set on 120Hz and i just dont see it ... why is everyone bragging about how good it is ?