r/applehelp

I’d like to call family in Spain using my gimbal that has a tracking feature to keep my toddler in shot. If I then mirror my iPhone to sky glass and tilt iphone horizontally, it won’t fill the whole tv screen? Won’t won’t with FaceTime or WhatsApp but apps like camera, work fine

Where can i find this serial number in Apple adapter

Ok so I had a bunch of tabs on safari that I’ve been using for months now and today I checked it and it was randomly backed up to everything I had a few years ago, and I was wondering if there’s a way to bring it back to what I had because on the safari history it is still what I have now rather than the junk from a few years ago

How can I retrieve deleted text messages/iMessages from my iPhone 16.

I DESPERATELY need texts from one contact from March 1st 2026-March 31st 2026 from one contact. I deleted them but my I have iCloud back up, Ive downloaded additional apps to try and get them back, I cannot find them anywhere, anyhow. I am losing my mind. I HAVE TO GET THEM BACK. There was 3-400 texts I can retrieve others from before and after certain dates but 3-4 days worth are completely gone! I will be contacting my phone provider as well in attempt to receive transcripts from them but I HAVE TO HAVE THESE TEXTS BACK! IM BEYOND DESPERATE.

I am willing to have my phone professionally diagnosed at this point and pay for it as long as I can get them!

I usually update through my computer, but if I try to, it only lets me update to iOS 26.4

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I have no applications open but it says I'm out of application space.. I'll switch browsers from chrome in a bit but is there anything else i can do to fix things up cause I use spotify and that also uses a lot of memory.

Device: iPhone 13 mini (Starlight) – bought pre-owned from Cashify.

• Issue: Went for a paid battery swap at an APR (Unicorn). They returned it with a smudge inside the camera lens and screen separation.

• Evidence: I have a recording of the Manager admitting fault and a clean initial Job Sheet (no mention of the 3rd party black screws the phone has).

• Status: 40 days without a phone. NCH dockets filed. Senior Advisor is calling today to offer a resolution.

The Strategy (Need Advice Here):

I don’t want another 13 mini. I want to upgrade to the iPhone 17. How do I play this?

1. The "Store Credit" Move: Instead of accepting a physical 13 mini replacement, has anyone successfully asked for a CS (Customer Satisfaction) Credit/Gift Card for the full value?

2. Trade-in Value: If they force a 13 mini replacement, does a "Service Unit" (N-Series model) get a higher trade-in value at the Apple Store than a retail unit?

3. The "Goodwill" Ask: Since I’m a UPSC aspirant and lost 40 days of prep, I’m demanding ₹10k-15k extra as compensation. Can this be added to a trade-in credit to lower the iPhone 17 price?

4. Cashify vs. Apple Trade-in: If Apple gives me a brand new sealed replacement, should I trade it back to Apple or sell it privately to fund the 17?

So correct me if I'm wrong here, but when someone takes a picture on their iPhone, that picture is saved into the phone's internal flash storage by default, and if iCloud is enabled and synced, that photo is automatically backed up/copied onto it as well, right?

I thought it was as simple as that until I got the notification that my iCloud's storage was full and wouldn't be able to sync more photos (I've always had it enabled). A little while later, I log back into my phone to look at some pictures in the Photos app and see that more than half of them are missing. I checked the trash, and everything I was looking for was still missing. It wouldn't make sense to say that those pictures are missing just since they weren't synced with iCloud for some reason, because that would indicate that it wasn't actually backed up as a copy to iCloud from my internal drive; the file would've just gone straight to iCloud (not as a copy) instead of being saved on my internal drive.

The only reason I'm speculating this is because when I've tried to go back and few some photos in the past if my signal was bad and my wifi was down, the image would look like a low-res proxy to begin with before my phone took a second to download it to see in its original full resolution. But that of course got me thinking, "Wait, is this picture not actually stored in my phone's internal flash memory? Is the file only located in iCloud?"

Anyhow, immediately after I saw half my camera roll missing, I decided to just pay for iCloud+ to get the additional 50 GB storage. It didn't solve the problem, so whatever I'm not getting here is really throwing me off. All I really want is to get my photos back, but this whole iCloud conundrum shouldn't even be a conundrum to begin with. I always thought of it as an optional cloud storage system that you can use to backup all of your phone's data to, and although it technically still is, this is just adding a whole new layer to it.

What am I not getting here?

*iPhone SE 2nd Generation / iOS 16

Hello,

My family have a 13 inch white MacBook that was bought in 2009, and now it can’t link with internet properly, could you give me some advise so as to make it alive.

Thanks

Alan

6 Apr 2026

Hello.

I recently updated from iOS 26.3 to 26.4 and can't enter my password. It depends on characters which aren't present on the newer version of the keyboard. So, is there a way for me or a technician to downgrade my phone's iOS version such that I can enter my password, change it to something compatible with 26.4's keyboard, and update? I can't get into my phone at this point and would hate to lose all my photos.

I know we've seen these posts before but I don't think I've seen on here anything similar to my situation. My current phone is out of storage and I don't want to upgrade and pay the $10.99 if the solution is to simply clean out my phone and get rid of some stuff. I deleted 90% of my iMessages from my phone, went through the 'Recently Deleted' folder and deleted all those as well. Went on my laptop and wiped my all my messages even from there. When I went back to check on my storage capacity, all those hours of purging seemed to do jack shit and I still can't back up phone. I bought a new phone that I want to switch to, and give this current phone to a family member who can't afford one and needs one for work. Am I really supposed to wait the 30 days for everything to sync up so I can back up properly???? Is there a quicker way to do this so I can give my phone to my family ASAP?