I’m fuming right now because the new Siri is an absolute useless garbage. It cannot even play or pause podcasts, doesn‘t understand the difference between a chapter in an episode and an episode itself, and every single thing takes 5 to 10 seconds. How can they even ship something like this? I don’t need to discuss my day or plan a vacation every single time I talk with Siri, but I do need to pause something while I’m in the shower, or turn the freaking lights on when I’m in a difficult situation at night. It’s a complete shit-show.

When taking a screenshot, there is plenty of space at the top to add a single-tap "Save to Photos" button. This would be much faster than tapping the checkmark and selecting "Save to Photos" from the slow and annoyingly animated context menu.
ai-slope concept suggestion attached.

How is sending a text with my voice still this frustrating in 2026. Apple dictation is actually driving me insane. I say a sentence and then spend longer fixing than it would've taken to type. WHY.

Ans the alternative make this even more annoying. WHY is Apple's dictation so crap but they are blocking literally every other software trying to solve problem? Brother Im replying "yeah sounds good let's meet at 3AM" to a message . Why are we doing all this.

I use Willow voice on my Mac and it's a DREAMMM! no drama whatsover. Which makes me going back to dictation on my iphone so much painful because I KNOW how good this can be. Ive resorted to replying to all of my messages and emails on Mac because Willow voice just gets everything Apple dictation doesnt

Apple please please please wither fix your dictation or let me use something else without the whole app switching routine. I do not have this muchh patience for a microphone button

EDIT: sorry, to the left 😅

This error comes up whenever I try to create a temporary shared album. Please give me a fix.
-iPhone 15 Pro, iOS 27.0.1

I just want to edit the number i’ve circled in red but i can’t find a way to change it other than deleting everything after it and writing it all again. I know ive gone and done the thing where you spend 20 minutes writing a reddit post about an issue with a 5 second fix but what if you’ve written out a super long equation and need to go back and edit something near the beginning after taking multiple measurements or something? Even the $20 casio scientific calculator i normally use has a cursor for editing things, so i don’t see why there wouldn’t be a cursor in the iphone calculator. I’m also aware that math notes is a thing, but if you’re gonna tell me about that i’m sure you also know that math notes genuinely sucks nuts and doesn’t work a good 85% of the time on iphone. I am specifically asking about the scientific calculator function in this app. If you have an answer, thanks!!!

I rarely have my ringer on, but have been occasionally flipping my silent switch off.

Is it still an ongoing glitch to have the volume reset to full loudness despite always setting it to minimum?

Latest iOS and iPhone 13pro

Is there any way to workaround or otherwise stop Siri forcing me to unlock my iPhone before it can confirm what time an alarm is set for? I’m not wanting to set an alarm, change an alarm or delete an alarm, just check if one is set and what time for, but it forces me to unlock my iPhone before it’ll tell me. Am I doing something wrong?

How come I can control my entire home via Siri without my phone being unlocked, but I can’t confirm what time an alarm is set for‽

I’m having some bugs with my iPhone 15, so I’m planning to back up my entire iPhone to iCloud, factory reset it, and then restore everything from the iCloud backup.

Is this safe? Will my iPhone be exactly the same as it was before the factory reset, including my apps, settings, photos, messages, and other data?

I want to back up and restore using a computer, but I don’t have access to a PC or Mac. That’s why I subscribed to Apple’s 2TB iCloud+ storage.

Can anyone explain how this works and whether there’s anything I should be careful about before resetting my iPhone?

I finally have a working version of my first Apple shortcut build worth mentioning after an admittedly steep learning curve the last few months.

The shortcut fixes the EXIF dates on an Instagram archive dump I recently pulled from my account. I was able to do it all without leaving iOS or using the terminal!

When I pulled the IG archive, I was unhappy to find that the export had hundreds of photos spanning years, but all stamped with the same export date. The only surviving date info was the folder names ( YYYYmm ). The shortcut makes a backup archive then reads those folder dates, and rewrites each photo’s EXIF capture date to the first day of that month.

I used the Shortcuts Actions app, since Apple gives you no native way to write EXIF dates. It works, but I’m sure a more experienced eye could tear the build apart. Anyone want to review the shortcut or trade notes on handling the video files? Happy to share the link and the full breakdown.

Or if you just need your IG dump EXIF dated, I hope you can use this!

The messages are being sent and received but not in order I think, at least not properly, it’s not at all ordered based on time I sent, clumped up in the bottom with all my sent messages not according to the order I sent You see the blue bar at the top going from left to right, that’s the problem wtf is that doing there when there is plenty of internet connection

Ps: It happens in all chats, ICloud is full but iMessages is on for backup, everything works fine for a while when I restart the phone, also sometimes it’s all my messages disappeared and only the replies I got is shown on the screen on the left side stacked up, else it’s all my messages first then all of their messages under it.

I really need some effective advice it’s been happening since 2 days and it’s really annoying and bugging me.
Where are the top experts and troubleshooters 😭😭

So i just updated from 27 to 27.0.1 and the visual image search within the screenshot tool got removed? It was available with 27 and now it disappeared.

Edit: I just went to double check my Settings again, hoping to find something, and under Display & Brightness, at the very bottom, I'm pretty sure there's a setting that wasn't there before. "Display Zoom" was set to Larger Text, and changing it to Default immediately brought everything down to a size that actually seems even smaller than I was able to get it before.

I suppose I received some kind of update it just didn't tell me about? I have no idea why Larger Text would be the default setting, when the smaller option is literally called Default. But that seems to be problem solved.

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I've just woken up and went to check my notifications, and everything on screen is noticeably larger. Notifications, text in apps, the keyboard, even navigation buttons in Safari are running into each other. Bizarrely, the only thing that doesn't seem to be blown up is the Settings.

Zoom is not enabled, I have the text size set to the minimum it will allow (which was already larger than I really wanted it to be), and I did not restart the phone of receive any updates that I'm aware of.

I can't find any information about this happening to anyone else, or even a hint at how to possibly fix it. Is there any way at all to get the text size or display scaling to go any smaller? A third party app or a hidden developer setting? Do I need to jailbreak my phone just to get reasonable text sizing? It feels like nothing fits on the screen and it's borderline unusable.

I'm on an iPhone 17 running iOS 26.5.1

[EDIT: I somehow started an AMA from my draft as I posted, and immediately ended it. Just in case anyone saw that, it was a mistake! 🤦‍♂️]

Since joining this subreddit I’ve already learned enough small tips about iOS to seriously alter the productivity and ease of access in my day to day use of my iphone. I’m genuinely surprised and grateful.

So, I am hoping to find a hidden gem to cure this frustration of mine: using the functions for selecting a word, selecting a group of characters, and the hellish “select all”.

It is frequently my experience that web content (like a pdf opened in Safari for example) allows no way to bring up the select all menu, and it is infuriating. I run into situations where I find myself pulling the text selection box slowly down a huge wall of text I need to copy. Sometimes that selection can even just go haywire and unselect. The rapid pressing for selection also causes me a lot of inaccuracy and frustration. Some other things seem intentionally clunky or illogical.

I’ll admit that some of the literally opposite ways of performing tasks between Apple / Mac and Android / PC style are uber annoying, BUT NOT hard to adapt to.

However, THIS overall quirky method of selecting text in iOS with rapid, precise clicks, cursor dragging and tapping un-intuitively to open standard menus has been my main source of angst for the year since switching from Android. I’ll admit the cracked screen doesn’t make it easier, but the design and seeming lack of any tutorials besides the nearly useless Tips app in iOS make me unhappy. This part of iOS is plainly awful.

I’m going to terminate here and ask my question:

Am I missing something? Does anyone have any tips or ideas to help improve the way this all works? Android selection is so intuitive and simple that the same function in iOS seems like an overthought and then intentionally minimized nightmare.

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For Reference Only It is my understanding that-

• double press (click) selects a group of characters / word • triple press (click) selects a broader range of text / sentence or paragraph • the spacebar (hold and slide) cursor is a precision cursor locator (which is a saving grace) • holding down a finger and sliding allows another smooth cursor locator, this one with a nice “loupe” magnifier. — holding down over a word without sliding, an astonishingly useful way to select and raise menus in Android, does not have use. • the paste and select menu is accessed by un-highlight any selected text and pressing /clicking any open cursor space next to any selectable character once, and then a second time (awkward IMO). Also appears when first clicking into an editable field from elsewhere. • the “adjustable fence” style text selection highlight tool is surfaced by any of the three aforementioned methods. • when text is selected, holding down and dragging from the selection allows you to move blocks of text within the page or move • a ‘secret’ (not obvious to newbs/my former self) menu is opened by a 3 finger click on the text field and allows for a more robust cut / paste, undo / redo experience

just updated my phone to the newest iOS this week. Since then my phone stops charging around half way through (does not start back up) and my alarms I have used for years do not make and sounds anymore. Please help!

I’ve been trying to backup and both times I get the message that it failed due to network. I was close to the backup being completed both times but I keep getting this message.

Is there anyway I can fix this?

Swiping only opens the camera. Long press only gives me "use pass" option. I'm not at any reader.