r/applehelp • • 4h ago

Unsolved Is there really no way to stop Apple family members from using "find my" and buzzing your devices?

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Essentially, someone I share my family plan with likes to demand a response immediately anytime they need anything. So, if they call/text and you say now's not a good time, but they don't want to wait, they open "find my" and start buzzing all of your devices. If you don't answer the phone, they start doing find my alerts and making all of my devices ring. And it never ends until you answer.

I don't see a way to prevent this without removing them from the family, which I can't do. Is that really the only way to stop this or am I missing a setting?


r/applehelp • • 10h ago

Unsolved Can someone simply explain how to clear my system data?

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Having trouble with storage issues on my laptop. I do not keep much on here except for a few work/school things. Not sure why my system data is so full considering I don’t use it for pretty much a lot of stuff. May you guys help me?


r/applehelp • • 18h ago

Unsolved Liquid Detected - iPhone 17 PM not charging

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I did not spill any water or there was 0% contact with water, why is my iPhone showing this error from morning out of nowhere! Is it a software bug? It is charging wirelessly but is not accepting any type-C connectors. Please help!


r/applehelp • • 7h ago

iOS My phone keeps turning my ringtone/alarm volume all the way down

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My phone has been doing this for years and it’s only happening more and more. I have the toggle for changing my ringtone volume with the volume buttons off (because I don’t really see the point, my ringer is either on or off), but for some reason my phone will just turn the volume all the way down on it’s own, making my alarms, notifications, and ringtone near inaudible, and I have to go into my settings and turn the volume back up.

It’s really frustrating, and I’ve been waking up late and missing phone calls because of it, so I’m just curious to see if anyone else has had the same issue. I haven’t been able to find anything about it online.


r/applehelp • • 12h ago

Unsolved AirPods 4 suddenly stopped recognizing the right earbud

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r/applehelp • • 15h ago

iOS Не приходят письма с адреса @privaterelay.appleid.com

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После удаление я не смог получить код но я вернул его после того как обратно зашел я обратился в поддержку apple они сами не знают


r/applehelp • • 17h ago

Unsolved Question about Apple Watch

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I noticed in Vital parameters this symbol different from the usual, but I didn't understand the meaning.


r/applehelp • • 23h ago

Unsolved Apple repair box not arriving

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Hey all, I got a agreement from Apple support to have an send in repair box sent to me. And got the repair status email confirming my status and that the boxes typically get sent within 2 days.
Yet here I am more then a week and a half later with the status unchanged (sent on Oct 10). I haven't received an order tracking number.
However I contacted Apple support again two days ago, yet they just told me to wait.
What can I do in this case because the in person diagnosis for me is too far away. But I've also waited over the time they assured me they send one to me.
Thanks all 🙏🏼


r/applehelp • • 1h ago

Unsolved Iphone x doesnt turn on

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Hey! This is the cell phone that my mother uses for her basic things, this morning I tried to turn it on it and it said that it had no battery, they left it charging for several hours and it still didn't work, trying to turn it on with the charger connected I marked this screen, I did what it asks but my mac doesn't recognize the cell phone, any ideas?


r/applehelp • • 4h ago

Unsolved Disable front camera wide angle in FaceTime?

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r/applehelp • • 4h ago

Mac How to fix Apple auto-enhancing raw sony camera photos when previewing!?

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r/applehelp • • 5h ago

Unsolved “Other” in Messages eating 40gb of storage

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iPhone 16, have had it for 2 years. I changed the settings so messages are only retained for 30 days and cleared the recently deleted messages. I don’t have any messages anymore from before mid-September, and when I click on the “other” in storage settings it seems pretty blank, but it still says that messages is taking up 40gb (and, clearly, i’m running somewhat low on additional storage)

Any advice would be extremely appreciated, not really sure what to do here at all.


r/applehelp • • 9h ago

Unsolved ‘Managed device’ toggle appearing under location services

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r/applehelp • • 12h ago

iCloud hacked and lost access to icloud

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r/applehelp • • 12h ago

Unsolved iPhone 17 passkeys not working

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I upgraded to an iPhone 17 in June. Passkeys no longer work on my phone. When I’m on safari, it says to go to my settings to set up passkeys but they are already set up. It only suggests strong passwords and never saves my username or password. My screen also looks totally different from my friends for the passkey options. Photo is what my passkeys/password section looks like. How do I fix this? Thank you!


r/applehelp • • 14h ago

Unsolved iPad 7 with no image (touch still works) – how do I transfer everything to my new iPad?

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Hi everyone,

my iPad 7th gen (2019, 128 GB) got damaged and the display shows no image anymore. The touchscreen still responds though, and the iPad itself works: it charges and Siri answers when I hold the Home button. I haven't restarted it since it broke.

I want to move ALL my data (apps, settings, photos, Notability notes from university etc.) to a new iPad. I'm not sure if iCloud backup was ever turned on.

What I've tried so far:

- Windows PC with the Apple Devices app → iPad isn't detected at all. The PC had never been connected to this iPad before, so it was never "trusted".

- Original Apple Lightning Digital AV Adapter → HDMI monitor → no picture

- Cheap third-party Lightning-HDMI adapter → no picture

Thanks for any tips!


r/applehelp • • 16h ago

iCloud Do i cancel my icloud subscription

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I originally had a 200gb subscription. I recently bought an iPad that came with a 3 months apple one free trial. I obviously activated it for the free storage and apple tv. gemini told me they would pause my original subscription. im scared of loosing my storage and apple one. do i have to cancel it manually?


r/applehelp • • 16h ago

iOS Dropping background connection to Muse

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r/applehelp • • 17h ago

iOS iphone 18 Pro Recovery Mode

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Hi, i recently got a new iphone 18 pro and for some reason everytime i turn off the phone and turn it back on again then it goes into recovery mode which gets very annoying.

does anyone have a fix for this?


r/applehelp • • 17h ago

Unsolved Why is the settings app taking screen time even when I’m sleeping

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r/applehelp • • 19h ago

Unsolved My apple pen is dead and not connected and it won’t charge??

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My apple pen (1st gen) isn’t charging and won’t connect to my iPad A16.I’ve tried restarting my iPad, disconnecting it from Bluetooth (now my dumbass can’t connect it back cause it’s dead and won’t charge), my ipad is already up to date with the latest update and now It’s just connected to my iPad and resting on the side. It still won’t charge💔someone help I’m gonna lose my mind


r/applehelp • • 50m ago

Unsolved Forgotten Apple Passcode due to always using facial recognition to unlock iPad

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I NEVER use the passcode to unlock my iPad Pro, because I have facial recognition. For that reason, I cannot remember what it is. Today I tried to download a free app on the apple store, and it said I had to enter my passcode. I tried 3 times and it was failed attempts each time. Looking into this further, it seems that I can’t simply reset the passcode without wiping my entire device. What kind of process is this?? It’s infuriating…

I also do not have iCloud storage because I don’t need it, I purchased the top-end iPad Pro with plenty of internal storage so that I wouldn’t have to pay for a subscription. I think it’s very unreasonable that I would have to subscribe to iCloud storage just to backup my device before resetting the device to factory, simply because i don’t remember a passcode that I literally have never had to use until now.

Is there another way that I am not aware of, or something else I can do?? I already have 2-factor authentication, but that doesn’t seem to be an alternative option here. TIA!!


r/applehelp • • 3h ago

iOS iphone 14 suddenly won't work after iphone mirroring

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so i have a regular iphone 14 that i've had for about 3 years now. ive been meaning to update it recently but because the whole process is just so time consuming to move stuff from my iphone to my external hard drive (its a long story), i havent gotten around to it. that being said, i recently tried to iphone mirror with my macbook pro so i could pull up some art references but when i wanted to open up instagram, none of the buttons would work. confused, i went to my phone to just pull it up from there only to find that absolutely nothing works. when i try to shut off my phone entirely, pressing and holding the power button eventually causes all the apps to disappear or leave clear frames where they used to be. turning it off and back on leads to the apps reappearing. knowing that, here are the things ive tested that DO work in this weird state:

-the flashlight

-siri (responds to commands but nothing loads)

-pressing and holding apps (nothing comes from it though and im too scared to delete apps while its in this state)

-haptic feedback

-turning on and off (not to be confused with a full shut down. that does not work at all)

-changing volume settings

-changing brightness settings

-clock

-face unlock and password unlock

now, part of the reason why i think its this way is twofold. i think iphone mirroring might've done something somehow and also the fact that it hasnt updated in a couple weeks. my plan right now is to just let it die naturally (unfortunately time consuming considering its at 76% right now) and then charge it back up to see if that fixes everything. in the meantime, what do i even do?? i really hope i dont need to get a new phone because i have an upcoming trip in a couple days. all help is appreciated

edit: i tried to force restart it by pressing the two volume buttons and the power button and nothing happened other than the usual buzz you get when you try that. in fact, now my phone just will not shut off like at all. the screen still darkens thankfully. ive also discovered from this that screenshots still work but it doesnt help at all. in fact it kinda causes my phone to freeze up


r/applehelp • • 4h ago

Unsolved iPhone 13 green screen flickering after iOS 27 update – out of warranty 😭

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r/applehelp • • 4h ago

iOS How to stop face timing people on Snapchat/Whatsapp

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When I go to FaceTime someone on iMessages, it will ask me if I want to FaceTime them on Snapchat or Whatsapp and then just regular facetime. I have accidentally called so many people on Snapchat it's so annoying. How do I turn this off?