r/iphonehelp

Currently it renders markdown files as ordinary text files, no heading formatting or anything like that. I got the read.md app and it would be neat to auto-open markdown files in that, but I’m not seeing a way. Any help would be much appreciated, quite possibly just missing an option somewhere

iPhone version: 16 pro
iOS version: 26.6
steps taken to solve problem: downloaded read.md, clicked around the different options

I have a really weird issue that is stumping me. Ever since moving into a new apartment and getting a new router (Xfinity Gateway), power outages have left me without the ability to send/receive calls and texts or use data until I reconnect to a WiFi network. But my phone service is Verizon and internet is Comcast, so I don’t know how this is happening. I think explaining what happened today might be the best way to describe it, although this happens every outage:

A local storm took out the power to just my block for about 30 minutes today. Obviously my wifi goes out, but my phone still says I have a few bars of 5G or LTE, depending on where I am (service still available in the area- the tower did not go out). However, attempting to go online using data results in no connection. I also cannot send or receive calls or texts. I tried multiple things on my phone to fix it: turning wifi off, turning cellular data off+on, turning my phone off+on, changing data roaming options, etc. I even drove half a mile away to where I know I have strong data. But even with full bars of 5G, still nothing.

It wasn’t until after I connected to and disconnected from the WiFi of a local restaurant did my data and service begin to work again.

I’m typically ok at troubleshooting stuff myself, but I genuinely don’t know what could be causing this. Again, this only started happening after moving to a new apartment and getting a new router- outages at my old place didn’t cause any issues. Honestly it’s a little spooky… if something bad happens during an outage and I have to contact someone immediately, I just wouldn’t be able to (I’m assuming emergency calls would work but haven’t tried). Has anybody experienced something similar?

Some info:

Internet: Xfinity Gateway
Phone service: Verizon Wireless (unlimited family plan)
iPhone 13 Pro (iOS 26.6.1)

This is my first post to this Reddit, so, sorry if I leave out information about my iPhone.

I’m not sure why, but recently my iPhone 14, IOS version 26.6 has been dropping calls at random. When the call dropped I thought my boyfriend had hung up, and when I had texted him he informed me that we were still on the phone call, but on my end the call had dropped.

Also, I can’t seem to call anyone through my end. The phone won’t ring, and the other person doesn’t get the call whatsoever.

Powering off then back on didn’t work.

Why is this happening? How can I fix it?

My 83 year old grandfather has an iPhone (SE 2020 64GB) and we would like to be able to share his location with his son (my dad).

Now obviously I know how to do this with Find My. However the issue is two-fold:

1. we don't want him to know we're doing this because he'll be mad, but its truly for his safety because he still tries to do things that an 83 year old man shouldn't be doing (moving furniture or other physical tasks) and he's getting more forgetful so we're worried about him going to the store but getting lost.
2. he constantly deletes texts and calls. Like his messages screen is always empty. I recently discovered that this is why he stops sharing his location when I secretly share it. He deletes the texts he has with my dad, it asks him if he wants to continue sharing his location, and he chooses no.

So, is there a way that we can set up location sharing that he won't know about and won't send him alerts so he turns it off? I suppose an app like Life360 would be an option, though then my dad would also need that app. Are there any sort of parental controls we can set up so my grandpa can't stop the location sharing?

Thank you!

I cant connect it to my mac since the charging port stopped working.
I tired the hard restart and it didnt help
Tried other chargers didn’t help as well
The screen works but doesnt respond to touch
No physical or water damage what so ever

Hey everyone!

I have been using Samsung devices for ~15 years. I got an iPhone as a company phone, and it kindof made me excited to switch my personal to an iPhone - obviously I don't want to mix in my personal stuff with company stuff.

1 thing is holding me back tho. The alarm issues. I have read countless times, how people's alarms won't go off and they were fired/divorced/executed because of it. How can that happen? How prevalent this issue is?

I believe I'm fairly tech-savy and I tried re-create an alarm not going ott. I have set up DND mode, sleep mode, enabled the attention-requiring thing, muted the phone (and tried various versions of enabling/disabling these setting), but I could not re-create a single scenario where the alarm did not go off (with sound and haptics) except when I disabled both the haptics and sound for the alarm. Naturally, in that scenario, the alarm went off without sound and haptics.

Even tho my testing was kindof successful, I still can't accept the fact that so many people have this issue, that I could only re-create by being deliberately wrong. Will this be an issue for me?

Thanks in advance!

Edit 1; since automod suggested, I'm adding that I'm looking to buy a 16e, 256 gb model and will apply the most recent updates - I'M not sure if this helps the topic tho.

iPhone 12 mini running iOS 18.7.1. Purchases Dec 2021 for personal use

A few months ago my phone stopped letting me delete any apps. I can remove them from the Home Screen, but the option to delete it isn’t listed.
I believe it started shortly after my iPhones 64 GB storage maxed out, so maybe that caused some issues.

PS:Not sure if this is related. Recently tried to delete some photos (around 7000) because I have 20GB of photos. Got them to delete and also deleted them from recently deleted to make it permanent. Doing that I only dropped to 19.97 GB of storage (which doesn’t make sense because I have around 3000 photos left)

Any help would be appreciated 🙂

Hello

iPhone 17e running iOS 26.6. I use my phone for work - construction supervision & inspection - which means I take dozens of progress photos every week, download them onto my work PC then put them in folders which go onto a project Sharepoint (and eventually an archive). I use JPEG format and image quality isn't a massive issue.

There shouldn't ever be a need to edit the photos: they will end up on a dusty cloud somewhere or maybe in court evidence one day, if something goes badly wrong.

It seems that each photo I take has 4 files when I transfer: eg: IMG_0999; IMG_0999.AAE; IMG_E0999; IMG_O0999.AAE

1. Have I done something stupid in settings meaning I have two virtually identical image files? Can I change this?

2. Are the .AAE files metadata related?

3. There's a minor size difference between the basic image and the E-number version. What's the qualitative difference and does it matter which one I keep?

Thanks

Richard