Moved to an iPhone 17 Pro Max recently and the keyboard is driving me nuts.

On Android I had the comma right next to the space bar on the main page. One tap, done. On iPhone there's no comma key on the main page. You either switch to the 123 page or use a hold-and-slide gesture.

Before anyone says it: yes, I know you can hold the full stop and slide to the comma, or press-and-slide from 123. I've tried them. They work, but that's not the point. I want a dedicated comma key on the main page, one tap, like Android has had forever.

The 123 page throws me off too. On Android, ? and ! sit right next to backspace, so my thumb just goes there. On iPhone the ? is stuck in the middle of the row, and I keep hitting the wrong key. Small thing, but it's years of muscle memory.

What gets me is Gboard. Same Google keyboard, but on iOS it copies Apple's layout. No comma key, no real number row, and the 123 page follows Apple's order too. SwiftKey at least has a number row, but still no comma.

And it's not an Apple restriction. Apple's dev docs say third-party keyboards can design their whole layout, so a comma key or Android's 123 order is totally doable.

So:

• Anyone found an iOS keyboard with a comma key on the main page and an Android-style 123 page (with decent autocorrect)?
• Has Google ever explained why Gboard on iOS is so different?

Since update to ios27, I can’t delete this particular folder and its files in Files or a copy of it in other apps. I get the error This Operation can’t be completed OSStatus error -5000.

Folder/files is an uncompressed Windows application folder and no I was not trying to run this on the phone lol.

I can delete the parent folder BUT can’t empty the trash.

This folder can be deleted on ios18.

Now I have multiple copies of it from trying different things like deleting the app and restarting the phone.

Any ideas what else I can do?

Thank you.

Preface: iOS 27 is fine, but the hype over the beta period as well as Apple’s promises were so high that it’s impossible not to be disappointed. 

Performance and battery life: No changes from 26 for me, 26 already performed fast and smooth on my Air, with occasional micro stutters and dropping below 120Hz ProMotion that we’ve come to expect from Apple, equal on 26 and 27. No noticeable changes to battery either. 

Liquid glass: 1 step forward, 2 steps back

Dark mode liquid glass is now grey, and blurred background is replaced with a tinted background. 

The reduced contrast and lack of blur is giving me readability issues I never had on 26 (and they said their goal was to increase readability?)

Moving the slider towards clear lowers the white tint and helps with contrast, but since they removed the background blur it makes readability even worse.

I can move the slider towards opaque, great, readability fixed, also everything is ugly now.

Making it look like 26 is not possible. 

Light mode is improved but I don't use it

Siri AI: Mixed bag 

Initially impressive, as anything is an improvement over the old Siri. But the more you use it the more frustrating it gets. Randomly dismissing itself mid request, refusing to answer, giving bizarre answers, slow. 

As an LLM it feels dumber than the first version of ChatGPT from 4y ago, and for regular Siri tasks it’s somewhat better than before but slower.

Returned to Gemini in action button

Overall: while this was a list of complaints, iOS 27 is fine for daily use and I assume most people are content. But after Apple announced this to be a "stability and performance update" and after we’ve had an entire summer of beta testers telling us beta 27 is faster and more stable than 26, that it doubled their battery life, it's disappointing that I'm seeing no improvement and actually some regressions. 

This is all after a month of using 27, indexing is done.

Also the one battery test I can find online shows iOS 26 winning on all phones.

If you’re using an older iPhone and iOS 27 genuinely made your phone faster than i’m happy for you 

For the minority that really wants 26 back, downgrading is still possible, I did it 2 days ago.

My friend has an iPhone 14 on iOS 26 and recently got some spam/marketing texts from Michaels.

Concerningly, when they opened the text, it **already had a draft reply, saying something like "Send this text to subscribe to recurring automated personalized marketing alerts (e.g. cart reminders) from Michaels."

I've never heard or seen this before where a marketing text inputs information into your own phone where normally only the user could type. This is a huge security vulnerability for a number of reasons. Has anyone else had this happen?

To be clear, this is a risk for at least 2 reasons:

1: In the past, iPhones have been crashed by typing in certain text/characters into a text field: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/189045/why-do-some-unicode-text-messages-crash-the-iphone-os

2: This could be used maliciously to make it look like someone wrote something they didn't. I could see it happening in a lawsuit where someone's phone becomes evidence and now there's evidence that "they" drafted specific text on their phone (but didn't send it).

According to my iCloud settings, I have over 200k messages stored in my iCloud. I’m guessing this is stuff from years ago? I do not have 200k messages on my phone and the fact that this is taking up such a huge chunk of iCloud settings is incredibly annoying. So I had no other choice but to turn off iCloud messages.

After turning it off, it still says that 53gb of my iCloud storage is taken by Messages. I’m assuming because it hasn’t been 30 days yet? If I wait 30 days and then turn iCloud messages back on, will this number go down to 0gb and I can start fresh? Or will all these messages just sync back up to my phone?

Thank you!

I recently purchased and activated a new iPhone, and I need to move my WhatsApp data from my old iPhone to the new one.

What is the best way to do this without losing any of my chat history or media? I've heard about using the built-in QR code transfer method as well as iCloud backups, but I'd love to hear your experiences on which method is the most reliable. Any tips to ensure a smooth transfer would be greatly appreciated!

EDIT : Done using WhatsApp’s inbuilt chat transfer feature. It was super simple. Thanks everyone for the advice!

I was trying to update my iPad to the latest iPadOS version when the update failed, leaving my iPad stuck in recovery mode. I spent hours troubleshooting and researching the errors. I watched several YouTube videos and read discussions from other users. The majority of people I came across suggested that it was probably a NAND storage problem or another hardware issue, and that I might need to take my iPad to Apple for diagnosis. Honestly, I was worried that my iPad had developed a serious hardware fault.
I encountered:
Error 9 during Update and Restore
Error 75 during an Update attempt
Error 1109 during Restore
I tried three USB-C cables, two USB-C ports, updated the Apple Devices app, restarted my Windows laptop, and attempted recovery/DFU procedures. Nothing worked.
What finally worked: Before my last Restore attempt, I turned Maximize Compatibility OFF in my iPhone’s Personal Hotspot settings. I tried restoring again, and Apple Devices confirmed that my iPad had been restored to factory settings.
I can’t guarantee the hotspot setting was the actual cause, but the restore succeeded immediately after I changed it.
If you’re experiencing these errors, don’t immediately assume your iPad has a hardware or NAND failure. These error codes alone don’t prove that the hardware is faulty. Hopefully, this helps someone avoid unnecessary stress or a repair bill.

Lately for some reason im unable to purchase items on ios inapps for eg snapchat prem Instagram prem items in game its just stuck in a infinite loading loop ive tried logging out and in for the app store and restarting vpn everything yet i cant purchase anything how do i solve this issue? Im on ios 18.7.2

Is there any way to change the altitude that an iPhone reports without physically changing elevation?

I'm curious whether it's possible through software, settings, or some other method. I'm not talking about changing the altitude displayed in a specific app, but actually changing the altitude reported by the device's sensors or system.

Has anyone experimented with this?

I only have a Linux PC tho.

Hi, Croatian user here. I'm looking for more experiences from people who listen to similar music; mostly west balkans artists - both ancient songs and the chart-topping ones - with occasional global pop/rock hits. The original automix was doing really well and mixing almost everything (it was nothing groundbreaking, it'd mostly beatmatch but was still much nicer than regular crossfade), however with the ios27 update the quality has completely dropped. In most cases it doesn't do absolutely anything and in the rare case that it tries to mix, it completely butchers it to the point where it's a giant bother - I've disabled it until further notice. Does anyone else share the same experience or is it just me, is there any way to revert to the old setting?

Hi guys,

Last night my phone installed IOS 27.0.1 and this morning my phone suddenly does not want to work for long period of time because the “overheating” temperature pop up thingy keeps showing even though my phone is not overheating or anything. No my phone hasn’t fallen nor got in contact with water. I restarted my phone several times but it does it still. I can only stay on my phone for several minutes before my phone shows that the temperature is too high even though i barely did anything.

I don’t know what to do, i’m scared. Any tips ?

I’ve been having this issue since mid July maybe mid June sometimes it’s low and doesn’t jump much but sometimes like recent after a while it jumps like crazy compared to how it was before. Has anyone else noticed this issue on their phone as well? It seems to have popped out randomly. Anyone have any ideas?

I just updated to ios 27.2 beta

idk if this is a silly question but hi. using an iphone 14 plus, 85 percent battery health. i keep getting like several 20 percent battery notifications despite being on low battery life mode. its like once i click it it comes back up again. what do i do? had this phone for a year or two and this has never happened before. it will not cease. do i need a new phone? also on ios 26.6.2. hope im not hacked :,D

How to change control centre buttons for landscape mode.. If anyone knows please help.

I want to change the location of my screen recording button and put it where my Shazam button is. I’ve tried switching their positions, but it is not changing in the landscape mode.

Context: I was walking down the street in the Boston area and I asked Siri to call 911, as someone just got hit by a car in front of me. Not only, did she not call, she flat out refused to dial. I had to yell to people around me to call, as I was in the road, helping the individual who got hit.

Can we get this to Apple somehow? I tried using their support line but there was no option for critical safety feedback. I just want to get this to the right person / department.

Attached is a screenshot of the conversation.

Wondering if there is a downside to adding "IF FOUND PLEASE CALL XXX-XXX-XXXX." it would be my number and i could call voice mail from another phone to retrieve the message. is there any security issue with this?