So, I was trying to download PicsArt and it says that I need a 10.0 IOS version. And that's happenning to almost every awesome app and games in the App Store. And that's the problem, I almost can't download anymore because of that. Now, let's go to the question, How do I download the latest compatible version of an app that I haven't purchased before? Please answer because I'm trying to download not just PicsArt but many more...

I like to read PDFs on iPad (manuals, articles etc.). For some reason, unlike on macOS Preview, the thumbnail side is shown permanently. This seems to me a SERIOUS design flaw: it deprives the user of control over the presentation, wastes precious screen space, and, most importantly, RANDOMLY – which I think is the worst quality of a design – reduces focus without ANY gain (the thumbnails could show up by tipping the screen, just as all other additional controls are and/or show up when scrolling). Did I do something wrong or is there really no way to hide it?

So I know what iCloud does backup: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207428 But I couldn't find any source on what it **doesn't** backup I accidentally bricked my phone and loaded my backup onto another phone (it's been a while), but I did notice a few things (I'll continue adding things to these lists as I use my phone, in case anybody wonders the same thing): Things that did not backup/move over to new phone: ----- 1) There was **no** call history, that **didn't** get backed up 2) Apps that were no longer available in the app store did not get backed up 3) Apps that I had developed and deployed to my phone were not backed up (icons still there, though) Things that did backup/move over (somewhat surprisingly): ----- 1) Apps that saved session tokens still persisted (was still logged in to a lot of apps) 2) Probably for the same reason the session tokens were backedup, my downloaded Spotify songs also came along 3) I would've guessed that only iMessages would've been backed up, but looks like all of my SMS texts to android friends also got backed up which is nice 4) It did backup my iOS settings, I had sleeping screen turned off, and it was brought over Main reason I'm asking is because I wasn't sure if I should go through the effort of trying to revive the phone to get any obscure data off of it. In an ideal world I would get an exact copy. I'm OK just throwing it out otherwise Not sure if anybody's ever kept track, if there's a resource somewhere out there that has a list, that would be great closure for me. Thanks!

I have a problem with Safari on iPhone and Mac. History and iCloud tabs sync but Bookmarks not. I tried to: turn off/on iCloud backup on both devices, turn off/on devices, reset Safari, use the answer to https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/333912/bookmarks-not-being-synced-from-macos-to-ios , and still nothing. Any solutions?

I have been using Google Tasks to manage my todo list. However, when I ask Siri on my iPhone to remind me of something, the task gets put in Apple Reminders. How do I add a task to my Google Tasks list through Siri?

On my iPhone running iOS 18, in iMessage, I have multiple sender addresses including 3 phone numbers and 3 email addresses. Different from https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/468103/how-to-use-different-sender-address-in-imessage-when-messaging-different-contact , where the OP wanted to use different sender addresses intentionally, I only want to know which address I am actually using in each existing conversation. Contacts are not all using the same default address to contact me, because I notice that iMessage will use the address that I received the message from to send responses. This starts to become an issue as I plan to remove one of these email addresses that I no longer want to use. I would like to know which contacts I need to send this update. Likely there are not many such contacts, so I don't want to send the update to everyone. Also, if I just remove it blindly and start to send messages using my new default address, then some contacts could spam my messages automatically because they don't have my new address in their Contacts.

I have iPhone 11 with latest OS 18.6 (as of today). now I have some voice memos on my iPhone, and I want to move them to my Windows 11, so I did the following but it did not work:- 1) Download and Install iTunes inside windows 11 2) Connect my iPhone to my laptop using USB cable. 3) Open iTunes, click on the phone icon >> under music, I select to Sync, so it says that it is performing 4 steps, then iTunes mentioned that it is waiting for changing. and nothing got moved to my laptop. I tried to create new test memos, and those did not get moved as well. So, what about this is not workable? and can i benefit from the "Phone Link" app inside windows 11?

I am looking to record my iPhone screen with visible indicators of where I tap the screen, like a dot or ripple effect. The indicators would make it easier for recording tutorials or demonstrations. I know how to use the built in screen recording on iOS, but it doesn't display touch inputs by default. Is there some way to enable this?

Is there a way to switch off voice input for Whatsapp on iPhone? I have switched off Siri but Whatsapp still allows voice input. A friend has created voice chats accidentally because she presses the microphone accidentally.

On Tuesday, July 8, 2025 something very weird happened to my iPhone 16 on T-Mobile with an eSIM in the U.S.; personal device. Sharing the just in case anyone else experiences similar.

 This all happened on an iPhone 16 (MYD33LL/A) running iOS 18.5. At around 7:00pm, I was looking at my iPhone home screen and noticed that the temperatures my weather app on my iPhone 16 (running iOS 18.5) suddenly changed from Fahrenheit (U.S. region) to Celsius. Like it was 80-90F and the app was showing temperatures that were 20-30C. Very odd because I didn’t do anything that would cause that. *** **PS**: I didn’t receive any SMS messages, emails or notifications of anything about anything. I simply saw temperatures in Celsius and my “Language & Region” set to “world” which is not a region that is offered by Apple during the initial iPhone setup or even afterwards in “Settings -> General > Language & Region.” Very odd. **PPS**: No other Apple device that is associated with the iPhone Apple ID was affected. Two-factor authentication for the Apple ID is set, its password hasn’t been changed but again, two-factor authentication is set. **PPPS**: I just sent an email to product-security@apple.com that is basically a condensed version of this post just in case this is a novel (aka: zero-day) exploit.

I have an iPhone 14 running iOS 17.1.1. I have disabled most iCloud stuff for my iPhone, but I just noticed that iCloud Drive under Storage in Settings comes with a note saying that files stored in iCloud Drive (and probably data used by certain third party apps) are downloaded on-demand. I want those files on my iPhone. If I turn off iCloud Drive syncing, then they won't be on my phone and would instead be deleted from my phone. How do I fix this?

I currently am using iphone and ipad (iOS 17) and MacOS High Sierra and Monterey. On iOS, return adds a newline. A separate icon is used to send. On Mac OS, Return sends the message. You can get a newline with option-return. shift-return acts as return. Even the use of option-return is problematic. Many user interfaces (e.g. facebook, and reddit's web interfaces) allow the use of shift-return to add a line break without sending. Both of those interfaces treat option-return as a return. I would like the Mac behaviour to be like the iphone behaviour. I want to have to explicitly send the message. Since I use messages, reddit and facebook a lot on all three devices, I'd like a solution that does ONE of the following: * Defaults messages on Mac to use return as line break. Sending the message can be any key combination the developer desires. Command-Option-Shift-MetaCoffeecup-Down-arrow * Alternative MacOS app that can use Apple's Messages protocol. * Changes Messages on Mac to treat shift-return as line break. *** Research: This is a recurrent question on the Apple Help Community. There are several mentions of the Option-return workarouond, and some mention of shift-return. On this site, it comes up in this thread. It's only somewhat parallel as the problem is with a bluetooth keyboard on iPad. https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/412770/how-do-i-disable-message-sending-using-the-return-key-on-ipad-or-iphone-while-u/475798#475798

In Safari on iOS, go to https://translate.google.com/ . Configure it to translate to some language. Type in a word. Wait a second. Bookmark the page and then copy the URL using the "Copy" button in the panel brought up by pressing the button on the toolbar with the square and up arrow. Compare the copied URL to the one saved in the bookmark. They will be different. Why is that and how do I make Safari save the copy-to-clipboard URL as the bookmark URL? Note: This happens on some other sites, too. Editing the bookmark after saving it is NOT the solution, because I shouldn't have to double check that the right URL got saved.

I'm a developer. My code is working as expected on Google Chrome and Firefox. But I tried it on Safari and it's a disaster. I would like to know what's wrong, what is different in those cases, and if I should report bugs. My coding objective is to select options in the list. This will automatically select options for the two others in the list. One can be edited, not the second one. This is fine on Chrome and Firefox, as I said. On mobile (iOS 18.5, iPhone 16e): - The list that can be edited is well auto-selected, not the second one - The second one can be edited (even if it should not) I enabled dev mode, but it doesn't seem to change anything. On my Mac Mini (macOS 15.5): - The list that can be edited is well auto-selected, not the second one - Cannot edit the second list, so it's fine - I change the code of a JS file, refresh page -> no change. I go to Chrome, refresh -> see changes. Is there a specific refresh needed?

Please bare with me my english isnt to good. I am looking to read the chat.db file from another computer on mine. I coppied the whole message file from other computer. I deleted my messages folder and replaced it with the one from other computer. When i restart computer i dont get to see any of the messages. Any thoughts? If i cant do that way is there a easy program that i can load the chat.db file into and read like it was imessage or some thing simular. I tried using sqllite and was so lost my head spinning. I know a little about computers but nothing close to this. Any help greatly apreciated.

I have developer versions of 2 of my own apps running on my iPad under OS version 15.6.1. I would like to be able to check the expiry date of the provisioning profiles without going to my development computer and running Xcode. Web searches tell me to look in "Settings - General - Device Management" or "Settings - General - Profiles" or similar names of locations, but those don't seem to exist for this version.

I am running macOS 13 (Ventura) on a 2020 Intel MacBook Air with an iPhone 11 Pro running iOS 16.1 and a iPad mini running iPadOS 16.1. I started to use Wi-Fi syncing for my iPhone and iPad again after years of not doing that. Just decided, “Hey! Why not try it again?” Turned it on while hooked up via USB cables, have successfully synced a few times with purely Wi-Fi and no issues. Great! Smooth syncing and backups with no wires! But I experienced an odd issue: If I “eject” the iPhone and iPad mini I can only get them to show up after rebooting the MacBook or oddly just waiting a while. No real logic as to what triggers them to show up again. Is there any explicit way to get an iPhone or iPad that are set up for Wi-Fi syncing to show up again under “Locations” after ejecting them? FWIW, I found this official Apple doc titled “Sync content between your Mac and iPhone, iPad or iPod touch over Wi-Fi ” which states: > “Important: If you don’t see your device in the sidebar, choose Finder > Settings, then select the CDs, DVDs and iOS Devices tickbox.” But when I go to settings, I get this crazy situation where a search shows “DVD or CD Sharing” in the search results but when I go to the actual “Sharing” settings I see tons of options and 100% no “DVD or CD Sharing” item? What’s up with that? Screenshot below.

I was reviewing my iCloud settings just now and noticed Phone & FaceTime have an entry there. What sort of data do those sync to the cloud exactly? Is it just the call history? Is it all the contacts? Does anyone know? I was also surprised to see clock in the mix. Is there a way to see what data is in the cloud for a given app?

I have iphone 13, but downloading the single .pfx certificate didn't show any option to install it, the guides on the internet suggest mailing it, so I've tried sending it to my gmail but that also doesn't show any option, how do I do it?

I have XCode 13.2.1 and can't upgrade it because I'm using a 2013 Mac. My iPhone auto-updated to iOS 16.3.1 and now I can't run apps on this phone because it says unsupported OS version. Is there a place that lists the maximum iOS version that each version of XCode supports?