It is now possible to save the incredibly realistic Gaussian splat format in USDZ file format. Yet iOS cannot display them. This is a massive gap in content flexibility and use case for users of iOS. Apple’s quick look would be a perfect fit for AR and model view of digital twins of products and buildings etc, enabling millions of users to have extended user experiences and designers extended platforms to display gaussian splats. Android can already display Gaussian splats in AR, it’s crazy that apple should restrict this format either from the website viewers, or by linked usdz file. I hope the Apple dev team will consider expanding this functionality to hugely improve user experiences, and allow a global platform to developers and marketplaces to create better digital twins, and product marketplaces.

Hi everyone. Since the update to iOS 26, we are no longer able to tap the person's name and view the certificate of a signed email and choose to install the certificate or remove it. This has always worked just fine but seems to be broken on iOS 26 and I have verified that it does not work on iOS 26.1 beta as well. The part that is strange is it does work just fine on an iPad running iPad OS 26. This makes it impossible to send encrypted emails to someone via the mail app on an iPhone. I have found a temporary workaround which is to install Outlook for iOS and install the certificates through that app which then allows me to send encrypted emails via Outlook. This appears to be a bug just with the iPhone as I have also seen a few other people online talking about the same problem. Has anyone found a solution to this?

After I updated my ios to ios26.1 Icons are bigger in homepage and alarm is alarming literally since it is way much bigger it occupies the whole screen of my phone. Also, accessibility menu like lock screen, home, screenshot needs to double tap before it functions properly. Its annoying

Hi Community! I have enrolled for an Apple Developer Account. Only 4 hours left until the 48-hour deadline runs out. On the account page it says pending in orange when I click on my name, but it also says that I need to complete payment. I have received an invoice and receipt from Apple confirming that it’s paid, so I’m not planning to pay again. Does this sound like everything is correct and I can just look forward to it, or does it sound like something is wrong? From people’s experience here, does it often take more than 48 hours? Petter

Hey team, I have an app in CarPlay where i was pushing the CPNowPlayingTemplate as follows: self.interfaceController.pushTemplate(CPNowPlayingTemplate.shared(), animated: true) This used to work perfectly, but suddenly I have started to get this error NSInvalidArgumentException: Unsupported object <CPNowPlayingTemplate: 0x119a0b5c0> <identifier: 6EE4E5A9-B1FB-4341-A485-78D7DDEBD8D0, userInfo: (null), tabTitle: (null), tabImage: (null), showsTabBadge: 0> passed to pushTemplate:animated:completion:. Allowed classes: {( CPActionSheetTemplate, CPAlertTemplate, CPVoiceControlTemplate, CPTabBarTemplate, CPListTemplate, CPInformationTemplate, CPContactTemplate, CPMapTemplate, CPGridTemplate, CPSearchTemplate )} How is this possible? Even on Apple docs, it says to pushTemplate Refer https://developer.apple.com/download/files/CarPlay-Developer-Guide.pdf https://developer.apple.com/documentation/carplay/cpnowplayingtemplate/

HiIm currently on iOS 11 Beta 2 (Build 15A5304i) With Update 1 Build 15A5304j just been released, will there be any difference since last weeks release?I can't update OTA to the new build released today.ThanksBarry

I’m experiencing an issue on macOS Tahoe (Developer Beta, July 2025) related to the new “Allow in Menu Bar” section in System Settings. After uninstalling the application Backdrop (developer: Cindori), the entry com.cindori.Backdrop.Wallpaper still appears in the list of apps allowed to show in the menu bar, even though: — The app and all its associated files have been fully deleted. — The LaunchAgents files in ~/Library/LaunchAgents and /Library/LaunchAgents have been removed. — Preferences have been deleted via defaults delete com.cindori.Backdrop and defaults delete com.cindori.Backdrop.Wallpaper. — The system has been restarted. It seems the “Allow in Menu Bar” section keeps phantom references to apps or agents even after complete cleanup. Could you please confirm if this is expected behavior (perhaps for future reactivation) or a bug? Is there any official method or recommended command to permanently remove such residual entries from this list? Thank you very much for your help and clarifications.

I am monitoring the battery usage of an app when it is running in the background and foreground. The app uses "Always" location permission, and we're observing 15 hours of background usage and 10 minutes of on-screen usage. The battery usage for our app is showing 44%, while other apps are showing around 14% and so on, representing the cumulative battery percentage. Based on this information, is it normal usage or my app is consuming more battery

I am using iPhone 16 pro, and I am running on the IOS 26.1 (23B5064e) in settings, going to Camera, then to formats, then in “Pro Raw and Resolution Control”, I am only getting “Pro Raw Format”(JPEG Lossless Most Compatible), but despite after numerous attempts I am unable to find the option for “Pro Raw Max”(upto 48 MP) or HEIF Max (upto 48 MP); please help me anyone I desperately want “Pro Raw Max”, moreover I cannot find the “Raw Max” option in the camera app, but only getting the “Raw” option; thanks a lot in advance…🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

in an iPhone with both sim (as default) and eSim (as secondary) contacts that are associated with eSim (secondary line) are being reaassociated with the default line when changing phones.

I've been trying to search for this particular issue, but what I've been finding doesn't seem to fit exactly what I'm experiencing, hence my post here. I can send and receive normal photos (ones that were taken with the camera) with no issue, however, screenshots do not appear when I receive them (or if I send one, the recipient also does not see them). They appear as a blank message "bubble" and when I click on it, the screenshot appears. Attached is a screenshot of what it looks like in iMessage. I'm curious if this is a bug, or do I simply have some settings incorrect? I'm on the iOS 25.1 beta 3, but this has been happening since iOS 25 launched, and I have a 17 Pro Max.

With macOS Tahoe, Launchpad has been replaced by an App Library–style mode within Spotlight. While the alleged intention is UX consistency across the Apple ecosystem, the result is both a catastrophic usability regression and a radical break in consistency with iOS and iPadOS. Predefined App Library categorization is functionally incoherent: On iOS and now macOS, Apple’s predefined App Library categories place apps with seemingly identical functionality into unrelated groups—for example, 3D scanning tools scattered across Education, Utilities, and Productivity. Instead of making apps easier to find, this effectively creates a labyrinth that users must traverse to locate apps whose names and icons they may not recall. However Apple defines its app categories, they are not only inconsistent but also hopelessly inadequate for the long tail of real-world applications and user workflows. Loss of user control: Launchpad enabled users to group and organize applications according to their workflows. This aligns with Apple’s own Human Interface Guidelines, which emphasize user control, discoverability, and predictable behavior. The new Spotlight interface removes that flexibility, locking users into predefined categories that both impede and mislead—and cannot be overridden. Consistency across platforms is broken: If the goal was to unify iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, this approach actually undermines consistency. On iOS and iPadOS, users can still rely on a customizable Home Screen—a Launchpad-like experience—as their primary way of launching apps. In Tahoe, that option has been removed. macOS now forces users to depend exclusively on Spotlight with App Library categories, while eliminating the very feature that was consistent across platforms. Catastrophic impact on my workflow: As an interdisciplinary artist working in 2D, 3D, and time-based media, as well as coding, I make extensive use of a constantly changing array of AI tools and experiment with many new apps and web services, which I often turn into Web Apps. I cannot possibly recall the names of every native and web app on my system. I need predictable access to groups of related tools. Tahoe’s new auto-categories split those apps apart arbitrarily, slowing me down and interrupting established workflows, forcing me to navigate the aforementioned labyrinth just to find what I need. Proposal: A constructive way forward High-level objective: Simply restore Launchpad—or restore the ability to customize app categories/folders and manually assign apps to them, overriding or augmenting the predefined categories. This ensures users can launch apps according to their workflow, without needing to remember exact names or icons. Possible solutions: Allow manual subfolders within Applications, represented hierarchically in Spotlight. Provide a fullscreen Launchpad-like organizer (with uninstall via long-click, etc.), either as a replacement or toggleable option. Retain Apple’s auto-categories for those who prefer them, but let users override or augment them with their own. In summary: Tahoe eliminates a working, consistent paradigm (Launchpad/Home Screen) and forces reliance on an App Library system that categorizes poorly and cannot be customized. This is both a step backwards in functionality and a break in cross-platform consistency. A constructive solution is to restore Launchpad—or at least restore the ability for users to organize apps in ways that fit their workflows.

Hello everyone. Can I download ios 17 on a regular iphone x, not an xs, but an x? How can I do this using the developer program?

Hello. I need to develop for iOS 18. I've recently updated Xcode and it says I have to download ios 26 platform. I don't need it, but I can no longer build my existing projects against ios 18, even though Xcode says it's still installed and used 13 days ago. How to I remedy this?

Hello, can someone invite me to TestFlight ?

With ios 26 the chapter images are not updating anymore. At first I thought this is carlay related but it also occures when the phone is connected only through USB or bluetooth to play a podcast. I tried Apple podcasts and other apps like Pocketcast or audible. Same problem. The phone shows the correct chapter image while my car shows the inital image all the time. Even tried a different car :-) I checked focus and settings but found nothing related. With ios18 everything works fine. Any ideas?

Apple told me to contact the developer, as they said that they only process payments. On October 6, 2025, I purchased SD, Standard Definition, Episode 1 of The Real Housewives of Potomac for $1.99 [as usual], but when I went to purchase SD Episode 2, it is $2.99. Will upcoming episodes also be $2.99 for Standard Definition episodes? I have been checking for several days, thinking the price issue will be resolved, but SD episode 2 is still $2.99. I haven’t checked other shows for purchases of episodes. Is this price going to be updated, corrected for SD, particularly, for the show mentioned above, to $1.99?

I have my mobile backup + WhatsApp backup enabled and I have subscription of icloud as well. Things went well untill yesterday I deleted whatsapp from my mobile. Installed whatsapp again then it asked to restore data and I selected yes. During restore process it allowed to click on backup and I clicked All my whatsapp non-text data got deleted as by this time only texts were imported and media files were yet to be downloaded. I lost data from 2019. I had purchased I cloud service mainly for media.

The new iO26 that was released recently is indeed a game changer as it overhauled all the features and outlooks, it is a great one, however it came with serious drawback on my phone. My phone started hanging after installing the new iOS26 update. It freezes each time I’m using it or when I want to pick a call. It only get resolved once i hit the power button and unlock again. battery drains faster I thought i0S26 .1 wil resolve it but no it didn’t my phone is iPhone 13 Pro Max The smoothness of the screen transition has reduce as it drags instead of smooth sliding. My battery drains faster, my battery went from 83% to 79 in less than two weeks of upgrading to the New iOS I can’t use the “set as ringtone” option from downloaded or created music, it just freezes. I thought i0S26 .1 wil resolve it but no it didn’t my phone is iPhone 13 Pro Max i need help please, let something be done to help me. I’m already frustrated and considering getting another operating system

I’m someone that test’s ipados beta update versions. But the whole entire point got ruined because when I select the version i want, The update that i selected dosen’t show up. And my iPad is compatible with the beta update i chose. For example when I Choose iPadOS 18 public and exit out of the page. The update just, doesn’t show up. It still says “ipados 17. Up to date.” No update. If i could link a image i would but for now just believe what i say.