r/iphone

If you've ever heard a sound coming from your AirPods at night, when everything is silent, a sound that seems to come from inside the case, here's my explanation after some research and analysis.

I'm at my wits end with this one.....

I have tried Google, and tried Apple Support and can't find this...

I have a 2022 Toyota. I have an iPhone 16 running iOS 27.0.1. ALL of my music is bought through iTunes and downloaded to my phone and I do not own a HomePod, nor have i ever connected the phone to anything aside from my vehicles and my bluetooth speakers.

As best I can figure, since getting iOS 27 I can no longer play music via Siri - e.g. "Hey Siri, play Nathaniel Rateliff on shuffle".

Immediately Siri says "Now playing Nathaniel Rateliff on shuffle....There was a problem playing music. Check that your TV is plugged in and on the same WiFi as your HomePod." When I look on the control centre, it shows bluetooth connected to my vehicle like it should.

I can still play music over the stereo but only if I physically select something..

Thinking it would be quickest, I just wiped my phone (I was having issues with the phone not scrolling as well, so 2 birds, 1 stone kinda thing). Fool!

I have hard reset my vehicles audio system and updated it as well.
Tried pairing my phone to the truck - pairing is fine. Tapping a song on the screen is no issue at all.

Asking Siri to play any music/artist > immediately I get that error!

Renamed my device, re-paired it - same error.
Reset all network settings on my phone - same error.
Reset ALL settings on. my phone - same error.
Wiped phone to factory & ran all available updates - SAME ERROR!!!

I have confirmed in both my Siri settings, and in Cellular settings that there everything is turned on.

I tried this in my other vehicle using a generic bluetooth audio adapter (since it's an older vehicle) - same error, so I know it's not the vehicle.

I commute for about 1.5 hours a day and I'm losing my "first world problem having" mind. The only *possible* fix I can come up with is to downgrade it to iOS 26.X from an old phone backup I have or buy a new phone (which it's own problem).

Anyone have any other suggestions?

Did iMessage and FaceTime stop working for anyone else today, 10/09, around 4:00pm PST?

Both my daughter and my iPhones iMessage and FaceTime settings are stuck at “waiting for activation.”

A friend of mine who has Verizon says their iMessage and FaceTime work just fine.

System Data was eating a huge chunk of my 128 GB iPhone, and I was stuck on an older iOS version because I couldn't free enough space to update. My storage screen showed 105.59 GB used, even after I'd already removed a bunch of apps.

I went down the Reddit rabbit hole and tried the suggestions, starting with the easiest:

• The 4K camera trick: didn't work for me.

• Moving the date/time forward: helped clear a few GB.

• Aggressively deleting apps: combined with the above, I eventually got to roughly 28 GB free—enough to attempt the update.

A factory reset was the big remaining option, but I really wanted to avoid the hassle of wiping and restoring everything.

I was worried that installing iOS 26 would eat up the space I'd just clawed back and leave me unable to reinstall my apps. The upgrade took about 30–45 minutes.

Then I checked storage again: 44.37 GB used out of 128 GB. That's 83.63 GB free! The enormous System Data section had shrunk dramatically.

https://preview.redd.it/msayglejziuh1.jpg?width=2046&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=48fa293d365bdd90d492f9a7c0035bb7901397a3

Across the cleanup and upgrade, total used storage dropped by 61.22 GB. I can't separate exactly how much each step freed, but the jump after updating was a huge surprise.

I'm so relieved I avoided a factory reset. Sharing my experience in case anyone else is stuck in the same 'not enough space to update' loop.

Guys, I suspect I found a real issue. I was testing some code that reads EXIF data from photos for a utility, and kept getting a confusing result from an iPhone. Took me a while to work out it wasn't my code. Same phone, same session, iPhone 16 Pro on iOS 18.7.8.

If the user taps "Take Photo" and shoots it there inside the browser, the website receives nothing. No GPS, no timestamp, not even the camera model.

If you choose a photo from your library instead, everything is there, starting with date and precise coordinates.

So it is Safari doing it, not the camera. It is tracked as WebKit bug 207088 and the behavior has changed over the years: everything stripped up to iOS 16.4, EXIF kept from 16.4.1 but location still removed, and from iOS 17 there is an option to include location. On macOS Safari it never happened at all.

Heads-up: if you ever check a photo with one of those online EXIF viewers and it tells you "no data found", that may only be true of the copy Safari handed over. The original still sitting in your camera roll can have everything in it. If you want the real answer, pick the photo from your library, not from the camera.

I tried a couple of the popular online EXIF viewers and neither explains this. They tell you your camera had no location permission, or to turn on geotagging. As a result, the user will walk away thinking the photo is clean, which might cause troubles. WDYT?

EDIT: to be clear, I think Safari stripping it is a good thing. My concern is only that it makes EXIF checkers report "no data found", which sounds like your photo is clean when the original on your phone still isn't.

I have a 15 pro max, unfortunately though the internal screen has been damaged by high impact. I have two option, either a very similar Oled to og priced at 280 (not dollers) and another that’s high quality, but it’s only problem is it’s 1mm thicker than the phone, priced at 180. I’m willing to spend on what’s better but if it’s not that difrence I’d rather save the 100. What do y’all recommend

iPhone 14 plus

I simply want to add some sounds of my own to my iphone. I have tried dragging and dropping it in Apple Music or in Finder but nothing happens.

Can anyone guide me? I do have iTunes on a Windows laptop but it doesn't seem to work there either.