What are some apps you use all the time but no one's heard of yet?

Here's a few I use:

LocalSend https://localsend.org/ Basically airdrop but it works with any device You can send files between iOS, android, windows, Mac, Linux. Beautifully designed. I'm not fully in the apple ecosystem so this is so useful for me. Completely free!

Transcriber https://transcriberforwhatsapp.com/ This one's a bit more niche but it's a transcription service for WhatsApp. I get voice notes from work all the time, often several minutes long. This is the best transcription I've found which also summarises the note at the end so you can see if it can wait till later. Useful on the go! Free with paid tier

Chrono https://www.chrono.me/ An all purpose tracker of anything, you can log anything you want and keep it all in one place. Really nicely made the dev has clearly put a lot of effort into this one. Freemium

Forecaster https://forecaster.dev/ A super clean weather app. Takes a minute to get used to but once you know the colours it's the easiest way to see the forecast for the week. No ads, completely free

What are some of yours?

For reference; no there is not the option to set them to English. There are also German options in “Partner” and “Partnerin.” I have all of these languages, as well as French, as options set up on my keyboard.

Hasn’t had a single update in years, you can’t purchase movies or TV shows from it anymore, and now that you can set your own ringtones in iOS 26 so much more easily, I can’t believe this app is still around at all whatsoever.

Maybe people already know this but just discovered a nifty trick and though I’d share. I was rearranging my icons but putting games into the “Games” folder one by one was tiring me because I have so many. But mistake as I was dragging one game to the folder, I discovered that if you are holding an icon and you tap another, they are automatically pilled together. What this meant is instead of me dragging one game icon at a time, I pilled 20 and moved them all into the games folder at the same time! You can also use the second finger to scroll between screens and tap icons as you go, collecting them. That saved so much going back and forth.

Just in case some people don’t already know you could this 😄

I have been using second hand cheap phones for along time and now I have the chance to own an IPhone, the only thing stopping me is a game I want to play and it's not avaliable in my country for very stupid reasons, since on android I can just apk it no problem since the game doesn't care how where you are and you can still play it.

But apple is restricting and only allows appstore downloads, I heard all I need to do is have two apple id accounts, but I also heard you need a billing address for it so iam confused, I have a yt premium sub on my main and I heard you need to cancel subs? Or can I just switch between the apple id accounts to update the app

I appreciate if someone can tell me If I can just have two accounts one with different region and switch between it without a payment method, the app I want is free.

Because iOS will routinely suggest irrelevant words despite me trying to type something that is already on the screen.

For example, I was replying to something that had “anthropic” on the screen. iOS autocompleted me to “Anthropocene” instead. Clearly not what I wanted. This happens so often that it is infuriating.

Use the context of words on the screen to better predict what I’m trying to write. After nearly 2 decades of iOS, Apple still hasn’t done it.

Any 2fa apps(like google authenticator) with widgets where i can set codes for specified accounts to be visible on my home screen.

I don’t know what this app is, and I can’t remove it. The tap and hold menu doesn’t pop up and simply clicking the X and taping delete doesn’t work. It’s not a web page shortcut and doesn’t exist in the apps list. If it wasn’t obvious I am talking about the app at the bottom right

Upgrading software isnt an option. I have reinstalled the app and rebooted the phone too. It automatically closes if i scroll the home feed more than twice.

Got the phone this summer and havent been able to redeem it since i joined an apple family, if its redeemable i would love to give it away!

Neither the phone nor the charger has been in contact with any liquid, still getting this notification. It’s not even 1yr with this phone. And I’m not able to charge the phone. I’ve used iPhone 5S, 7, 11 never encountered this issue earlier. Please help if anybody has any solutions.

Seems like instagram has been cracking down on Story downloading apps, because the one I was using is shut down.

Anyone have a current app that does the job?

Out of the blue iMessage and FaceTime have been giving me these same errors for days.

I have tried all posted solutions (I haven’t seen any recent ones) including Update to new version of iOS Date and time set to automatic Turn off iMessage + FaceTime Sign out of phone and restart Sign in and toggle them back on

My phone number and email address fail to activate and my texts have been sending green for over a week.

Any solution ? Carrier issue ? iOS issue ?

Image 1 - The iPhone Back Up which backs up all your choice apps

Image 2 - Directly saving to iCloud. This is connected to the Watsapp Back Up on the Watsapp app itself. Because when I disable iCloud for Watsapp the Watsapp’s own Back Up in the App’s setting also gets disabled.

Which of the 2 is better? I heard that keeping both is redundant and leads to more consumption of Cloud storage. Should I only keep the second one then (iCloud one) and remove the first (iPhone Back Up)? Since the latter is the one connected to Watsapp’s own Back Up as well

Three days ago I was pickpocketed and my unlocked iPhone 15 Plus was stolen. The thief was on a motorcycle, and people ran after him. Since my phone is set to lock the screen after 30 seconds, I assumed it had locked before he could stop the motorcycle, but God knows. The theft happened around 11:15 a.m., and by 11:40 a.m. Lost Mode was successfully activated. Shortly after, I requested the IMEI and line to be blocked.

I noticed that around 11:24 a.m. the thief changed the password of two of my Gmail accounts and connected them to his own iPhone. For the main account, I was able to change the password and remove his device in less than 10 minutes. For the old email I no longer use (which was inactive due to full storage), it took me about two hours to do the same.

My banking apps were inside a hidden folder, Control Center couldn’t be accessed from the lock screen, and he couldn’t change the Face ID/passcode without another secondary password. Apple’s stolen device protection mode was also enabled. The phone had an eSIM.

The only thing that happened after that, between Thursday and Saturday, were 2 phishing SMS messages sent to my recovery phone number, 1 WhatsApp message, and another WhatsApp message pretending to be Apple Support sent to my own number (which I had already recovered that same afternoon with my carrier). Around 5 p.m. I received a few emails as if someone was trying to access one of my email accounts, but nothing else happened.

From what I can tell, my WhatsApp wasn’t touched (it was open at the time of the theft, but if they logged out they would only be able to log back in with Face ID or my passcode), nor were my banking apps (which I also blocked almost immediately), or anything else besides the emails passcodes that was changed within two hours. My iCloud password and recovery phone number were changed on the same day, so the phishing attempts make sense.

The phone only emitted 3 location pings—2 of them within the first two hours after the theft, and the last one two days ago at a shopping mall in an upscale area of my city. I reported everything to the police, filed a report, etc. In the end, I decided to erase the device from Find My (not remove it), but it’s still showing as pending (obviously, my line was disconnected for a day and they weren't able to connect to WiFi, so I assume IF they're able to break in and connect to WiFi it'll erase in a beat, right?)

Honestly, everything seems fine, but I’m still worried they might have my data. When I enabled Lost Mode, did the screen lock instantly? Could they have put the phone in airplane mode and are using it without Wi-Fi? I haven’t noticed any further changes, but is it possible for them to bypass Lost Mode? Will the erase eventually happen? I feel calmer knowing I don’t seem to have been heavily affected, but I’m still afraid of what might be happening.

I need storage on my IPad in order to update it, and I saw that most of my photos I have were pics I took on my IPhone that got automatically transferred, I guess because of ICloud. Will deleting these photos from my IPad will also delete them from my phone? and is there a way I can stop them from getting on my IPad?

I'm wondering if it's possible for me to make multiple presets of app icons using shortcut and widgets.

For example, I made a few widgets called widgets a, then I changed the app icons into widgets b. If I change focus modes or wallpapers, am I able to create widget b an app icon b? If yes am I able to switch between them interchangeably?

Are the widgets and app icons still shared between different wallpapers or focus modes or is it possible to make them their seperate templates?

Sorry if this is hard to understand lol I'm trying to make a character themed wallpaper but I wanna hide it from others.

Hello. When i check how many apps are syncing to my icloud drive in settings (settings > icloud drive) it shows two , but when i check which ones it shows only 1. Could someone help me fix this , is this normal?

Apple should add contacts into the plus menu in messages. Sharing a contact in a message thread is completely disconnected. You have to go to phone or contacts, find the contact, find the dedicated share button and then even select what you want to share.

Could be so much better if you just could access contacts and send right from messages like so many other apps.

I’m trying to update my iPad and it says it needs 15.34 gigabytes of storage available to update. However, I have deleted just about everything possible and it still won’t let me update. I can’t delete my photos or it will delete them from iCloud. What can I do?

Hello! I just updated my iPad Pro (10.5, the oldest one) to IOS 17.7.1 (the latest one it offered) and as the title suggests, I cannot get anything using internet to work.

I’ve connected to the router, mesh and also my phone hotspot all fine, but anytime I try to use the internet on any apps in any way, there’s no connection.

Of course I turned it off and on again, checked that each app has permission to use local networks and I’ve reset my network settings, but no joy. I can’t find anything else useful to troubleshoot online. Since it also isn’t working with my phone hotspot, I am confident it’s not the router (internet is always working fine on other devices, apple and otherwise)

I ran the update about 12-14 hours ago and haven’t had any problems aside from the lack of internet, which is admittedly a pretty significant one for me - I need to access google drive daily.

Any help is much appreciated, thank you!!

Good morning/afternoon/evening,

My parents are having trouble syncing their iPhones (16 Pro and 16 Pro Max, both on iOS 18.6.2) with iTunes (Version 12.13.7.1), they connect the phone to their Windows 11 PC (Windows 11 Home 24H2), with all sorts of cables and different ports. They are able to receive power through these cables, but Windows and iTunes both do not recognize the devices.

When I connect my iPhone (15 Pro Max, iOS 18.6.1) with the same cables, on the same computer, same USB ports, my iPhone is recognized by both Windows and iTunes with no issue.

Does anyone know if this is an issue with iOS, iTunes, or Windows and if there are any solutions.

I've tried doing the reset privacy settings to reset the "Trust this Computer" prompt, and it never shows up afterwards. I've tried making sure the ports on their iPhones are clear of any dust or debris, I've tried restarting their phones and the computer, all to no changes.

The only thing i've not tried is downloading the Apple Music/Apple TV/Apple Devices app for windows, as i'm not entirely sure if it is safe to do that with my Father's Extensive Music library (currently around 200ish gb with ~35,000 songs), and also unsure if he could still manually sync the music to his phone (does not subscribe to Apple Music/iTunes Match).

Sorry for the long post, wanted to make sure I provided as much information as possible so as not have any gaps.

Thank you for your time and suggestions/advice in advance.

Sincerely --Jeff

Edit: Seems to also affect their Corded Carplay, unfortunately Mother's car does not have Wireless carplay.

I had my iPhone stolen and I’m waiting for my new iPhone, but to have peace of mind I decided to download WhatsApp on an old Android phone just to make sure the app was disconnected from the stolen iPhone (even though it hasn’t shown any activity on Find My for two days). I still have a 12GB backup on iCloud, but only after logging into WhatsApp on the Android device did I realize that it wouldn’t be possible to use that backup. Now my account is basically reset, but when I download the app on the new iPhone and restore the backup, will my account go back to normal, or did I ruin it forever?

So my iphone had no storage at all and it forcefully deleted so many of my videos and photos. Is there any way to get them back???