r/iphonehelp • • 1h ago

Help needed Help! iPhone showing phone numbers instead of saved contact names in iMessage

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I’m having an issue where certain contacts saved in my iPhone are showing up as phone numbers only in iMessage instead of their contact names. The names still appear correctly in my Contacts app, and this only seems to affect certain contacts, not everyone. I’ve already tried deleting the affected contacts and re-adding them, but that didn’t fix the issue. I’ve been back and forth with senior Apple tech supports and did a whole bunch of tests/troubleshooting, but nothing seems to work.
Has anyone experienced this or knows how to resolve it? This has only happened to me as soon as I switched to the iPhone 18. Any suggestions would be appreciated!
iPhone 18 pro max iOS 27.0.1


r/iphonehelp • • 9m ago

Help needed iPhone keeps using wrong sim line

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My iPhone 16 pro keeps using the wrong sim line. I checked all the settings (default voice line in settings, preferred line per contact set to “always use”, change settings and restart the device, etc) but it still uses the wrong sim line… I’ve searched Apple community and online, but there’s still no helpful answer, anyone knows how to fix this?


r/iphonehelp • • 1h ago

Help needed Dropped my iPhone 15 Pro Max into a pot of sunflower oil. How screwed am I?

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So yeah, I accidentally dropped my iPhone 15 Pro Max into a pot full of sunflower oil.
The oil was at room temperature (not hot), and the phone was completely submerged for about 2–3 seconds before I pulled it out.
The screen and touchscreen were still working perfectly fine when I took it out. I immediately turned it off and wiped off as much oil as I could with a cloth.
I haven’t turned it back on or tried charging it since.
I know it’s IP68 rated, but I’m not sure how well that holds up against oil rather than water. I’m mostly worried about oil getting into the speakers, microphones, USB-C port, or even the internals.
Has anyone dealt with something similar? Should I just leave it off for now, or take it straight to Apple?
How screwed am I? Any advice would be appreciated!


r/iphonehelp • • 6h ago

Help needed Even though I have storage I can’t update apps or take photos

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As titles says. I have deleted photos and apps, but still I can’t update apps or take photos. I can’t even send photos by sms. I don’t know if that has something to do with it. It’s an old phone, iPhone SE.
iOS 26.7.1
The text on the second picture is: storage is full.

Do you think it will be solved if I buy more storage?


r/iphonehelp • • 8h ago

Help needed My iPhone 13 was in the washing machine. What should I do?

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My iPhone 13 was in the washing machine for about one minute. When the washing machine stopped, I heard something moving inside. I checked and found my phone. In the washing machine I also used a laundry detergent pod, and some of the liquid came out into the water, so the water was not clear.

I turned my mobile phone off and I plan to leave it off for at least 48 hours before turning it on again. However what should I do now? Should I take my phone to a service shop before trying to charge it? Should they check it and replace any parts? Or should I just let it dry for a few days and see if it still works?

Has anyone had a similar experience with an iPhone? I would really appreciate your advice.

Thank you!


r/iphonehelp • • 8h ago

Help needed Why does iCloud/find indicates "No Location Found/Online" for my phone?

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(Note that I have not lost my phone; I was just doing a walkthrough to refresh my knowledge)

iPhone SE iOS 27.0.1

I have tried every suggestion from Google searches.

Find My Phone is on. No countdown when I check stolen device restriction.

I have tried being on WiFi and cell networks

The play sound function works OK.

It locates my wife's devices just fine.


r/iphonehelp • • 9h ago

Help needed No ProRAW option

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Can anybody figure out why ProRAW doesn’t show. Most know that this iPhone supports ProRAW. Help is appreciated


r/iphonehelp • • 10h ago

Unresolved My phone # keeps being removed/deregistered as a sign in option.

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How can i stop this from occuring?

{Iphone SE3 , ios 26.7}


r/iphonehelp • • 14h ago

Help needed Is this a bug

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Only happens in the final of the animation, only the privacy lights

iPhone 17
iOS 27.2


r/iphonehelp • • 8h ago

Help needed Why does Notification Center open full screen on the iPhone Duo?

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Hi everyone! I have an iPhone Duo, and I’ve noticed that when I swipe down to open Notification Center, it brings up the entire Lock Screen interface, as you can see in the video.
Shouldn’t it open as a smaller notification panel on the left side instead of covering the whole screen?
Is this normal behavior, a bug, or am I missing a setting?
Thanks!


r/iphonehelp • • 17h ago

Help needed IOS text size bug

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I don’t understand, why is the there FAMILY ONLY, for specific app slider

its been A bug for especially me

anyone knows a fix for this. I can’t switch to app specific, it will go back to ALL Apps Instead of Specific app that I want to make changes for.


r/iphonehelp • • 20h ago

Help needed apple keeps locking my account

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my 2 days old apple account keeps getting locked for no apparent reason and now matter how hard i try to log in it seems impossible to? recently i got an email from apple saying "Your request has been approved and you can now sign in to access your account" but i still cannot log in into my account?

iphone 12 pro, IOS 27


r/iphonehelp • • 21h ago

Help needed Outlook calendars via exchange randomly turning on in iOS Calendar app

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TL;DR How do I keep shared calendars from turning themselves back on in the iOS Calendar app?

I have Outlook 365 at work (exchange acct) and have shared that account to my personal iPhone 17 Pro with only my calendar turned on so that I can see work obligations in one place with my personal calendar.

In Outlook, everyone on my team has shared their calendars with each other. These calendars show up in the iOS Calendar app as expected. I have un-checked all of them and turned off the option to have their events block my availability.

However, periodically one of these shared calendars will randomly turn itself back on and start showing notifications. I go back and turn it off again and it stays off for a while, but today I had two different ones do this a few hours apart.

Has anyone else run into this? How did you solve it?

iPhone 17 Pro | iOS 27.0.1


r/iphonehelp • • 22h ago

Help needed Adding Emergency Contact with multiple numbers?

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I'm trying to add emergency contacts to my Medical ID. Seems easy enough

I followed the instructions here:

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/set-up-and-view-your-medical-id-iph08022b192/ios

However, my wife has multiple phone numbers: her cell phone and her work phone. She gets bad cell service at work, so I wanted to add her work phone as a number as well. However, it seems like you can only select ONE number for an emergency contact.

I was wondering if am missing something or if the workaround is to create a separate contact for her other number?

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IPhone 18 Pro Max iOS 27.2


r/iphonehelp • • 22h ago

Help needed lost iphone

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hello

checking lang ano kaya maganda gawin nanakaw yung phone ng jowa ko sa may sta ana hospital di ko malocate yung phone pero na lost iphone ko pa sya pinapatay nung nag nakaw yung phone tapos bubuksan uli ano kaya maganda gawin chincheck daw ng mga guard yung cctv


r/iphonehelp • • 1d ago

Help needed Help me

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I bought an iPhone 13 Pro Max with a cracked back, but all its functions seem to be working normally. WhatsApp audio messages, videos, voice recordings, and calls on speakerphone all work fine. However, when I make a call while holding the phone to my ear, my voice becomes very quiet, then cuts out completely, and subsequently returns to normal—it keeps fluctuating. I would like to know if this issue could be related to a drop the device may have sustained, and what might be causing it.


r/iphonehelp • • 1d ago

Help needed Help

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Comprei um iPhone 13 Pro Max que estava com a traseira trincada, mas aparentemente todas as funções estão funcionando normalmente. Os áudios do WhatsApp, os vídeos, as gravações de voz e as ligações no viva-voz saem normalmente. Porém, quando faço uma ligação com o celular no ouvido, minha voz fica muito baixa, depois para de sair e, em seguida, volta ao normal, ficando oscilando. Gostaria de saber se esse problema pode ter relação com alguma queda que o aparelho sofreu e o que poderia estar causando isso.


r/iphonehelp • • 1d ago

Help needed Iphone iOS 26.6 can’t sign in to Apple account update verification error

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I can’t update my iPhone. Every time I sign in with my password or even click forgot password to change it, it says an unknown error occurred. The same occurs when I try to sign into iCloud. as such, I can’t update any apps because this is also something I need to sign in for in order to be able to do.


r/iphonehelp • • 1d ago

Help needed PDF merging

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Hello everybody!

I’ve just scanned a car manual on my phone into PDF through the PDF scan tool in the iPhone files app. 800 pages! As it has a limit of 24 scans per file I’ve broken it into 23 groups of 20 or so pages. I need to merge these files all together into one file. When I select them and then press create PDF it just glitches and does nothing as the file is so big. I was able to get them into one document by selecting all and sharing to print and then sharing again to create a PDF which was a smaller file size like I need, BUT!! When I share to print they all go out of order. Page 1 becomes like page 230 which is useless to me. Any ideas how I can merge multiple PDFs into one and keep the pages in order. Thank you!!


r/iphonehelp • • 1d ago

Help needed Location time

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I check my spouses location periodically (yes they are aware and we both choose to have location shared). I usually check it from messages and it would show drive time. Lately its started showing walking time which is not helpful when they are hours of driving away. Find my still shows drive time. Is there a way I can change this or is this apple assuming i want walking or driving based on how I check ?

iPhone 18 pro, up to date os (27.0.1)


r/iphonehelp • • 1d ago

Help needed iOS 27.0.1 Alarm goes off at midnight without any alarm set

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iPhone 18 pro on i0S 27.0.1. Every night at midnight the phone sounds a full screen alarm at midnight despite having (1) no active Clock alarms, (2) entire Sleep Schedule disabled, including the toggles in Health (3) no alarm apps or shortcut automations, (4) close review of notifications, and sounds turned off, (5) close review of calendar events, sounds turned off. I have also deleted all other alarms, restarted phone, prayed to my gods, etc.

The only thing left seems to be a full wipe and fresh install app by app, I'd like to avoid that. Grateful for any assistance.


r/iphonehelp • • 1d ago

Help needed how to remove 3gb on maps, even though i have nothing saved on there and have had the app deleted for 2 years

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r/iphonehelp • • 1d ago

Resolved Bluetooth Headphones or Wired headphones

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Is there a way to connect my headphones to my Iphone and use the head phones for audio but i use the mic on my iPhone instead of my headphones.
So that when i call someone the audio stays in the headphones but the mic being used is my phones mic instead of the headphones ?


r/iphonehelp • • 1d ago

Unresolved iPhone calendar and contacts wiped

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A few weeks ago my iPhone (13 Mini) randomly completely wiped all my events from my calendar. I barely found anything about this while researching. Everything I tried did not work and eventually I gave up.

Today the same thing happened with my contacts! Completely wiped!! All gone.
Again I tried to load backups and all. Checked other accounts that I had connected and reconnected them. Nothing.

I do have to note that I have only little storage left. (1-5GB)

Anyway, I just wanted to make this post because I somehow find almost no one with the same problem. Is this a known issue? I don’t get how this can happen and you find almost nothing about it.


r/iphonehelp • • 1d ago

Help needed Download Text Thread Free

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I have a habit when I’m mindlessly scrolling – usually TikTok – to text interesting posts to myself so I have them to go back and research/reference later. AKA I have a shit ton of TikTok links sent to myself. 😆 I’d like to be able to export them all, put them into a spreadsheet, so I can watch them again and file them in certain categories so I can search for them if and when needed in the future. I get it, I’m a neurotic weirdo, but at least I love myself. ☺️ Point is I can’t manually pull them off my phone by connecting directly to my laptop. I found one service that will let you do it 10 at a time, but it also costs each time. Are there any options via an app, a website, or even a workaround I can do old school to pull all of those text messages into one file? I don’t even care if I get two of each, the sent and the received. That I can handle, I just want them in a file I can organize.

*\*Also if it matters, I’m not using standard cell phone service at the moment, just connected via WiFi.*