Hey all,

I’ve totally fallen in love with the new iPhone StandBy mode and have this dream of turning it into a kind of smart dashboard - something that gives me everything I need at a glance without clutter.

I’ve spent quite a bit of time browsing for setups, but everything I’ve found so far either includes info I don’t care about or misses the stuff I actually need. I’ve played around with tools like Widgy and Widgetsmith, but despite their flexibility, I quickly realized I’m a bit out of my depth design-wise.

So instead, I made a mock-up of what my ideal dashboard would look like. I’d love to hear from anyone who’s tried building something similar - or if you have tips for how to actually make this real.

Here’s what I’d want it to include:

1. Large clock and date - Ideally with current weather and active alarms included
2. Activity tracker - Focus on steps, but cool if it shows other health data too
3. Audio controls - Quick access to music or audiobooks
4. Battery status - Ideally all connected devices at a glance (iPhone, Apple Watch, AirPods, etc.)
5. Detailed agenda/calendar view - Needs to show more than just 2-3 events, ideally scrollable to fit a full day’s schedule
6. Notification overview incl. lin to key work apps - Something that shows at a glance if I’ve got unread messages or pings in Slack/Teams/etc.

In my mock-up, I’ve grouped items 1-4 on the left and 5-6 on the right, to keep lots of room open for the calendar view.

Anyone managed to build something like this? Or have ideas on how to bring it to life? Would love to collaborate or hear what’s worked for others!

It seems like the option was never there before for Canadian users, now it seems we can disable AMBER alerts and make them silent since iOS 18.4.

It’s also possible I recently had an American eSIM and the options showed up because of this.

Am I doing something wrong? The settings search is beyond terrible. Doesn't bring up the stuff you look for, gives you weird seemingly irrelevant options instead very often.

I hope someone can help with some strangeness I have going on here. Plenty of screenshots provided to try and explain the issue..

iPhone SE3, running 17.6.

If I reboot the phone, my usual wallpaper is there when it reboots (picture 1), but as soon as I use an app - any app - and exit the app, it vanishes and is replaced by plain black (picture 2). It does it every time, and it is also the same on the lock screen (picture 3).

If I go into the customize page, it’s black again (picture 4) but as soon as I hit ‘customize current wallpaper’, it brings it up (picture 5). But, when I exit that without making any changes it’s black again. Same happens if I go into ‘wallpaper’ in settings (picture 6).

I haven’t made any updates or anything, I just restarted it, and it started doing it from then.

I also can’t find the image I had set as the wallpaper in my photos now either…I’ve had that wallpaper for years and years so I have no idea where it’s saved or the date, or if it’s vanished from the phone.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Just updated to iOS 18.4 on iPhone 16 and noticed something great – setting volume to 1% via shortcut is finally much quieter. Watching videos at night is so much better now. Anyone else noticed this?

Note: I never had this issue on iPhone 12, but on my iPhone 16 it was too loud until now.

Is it acceptable that the software render of the Dynamic Island often ends up leaving the designated location within the physical screen?

Not only that, but the notification area too is collapsed to the top of the screen.

Is this just iOS being buggy or does my device have an actual defect I should attempt to troubleshoot or get fixed?

I have 16 Pro Max and have updated to iOS 18.4. I am witnessing a lag after the update, phone doesn’t feel like 120 hz and it is quite noticeable in the notification centre. Is anyone else experiencing this?

I just deleted over 1000 photos and videos so where is all my storage pls help

trying to add a video, i converted it from mp4 to MP4/MOV (videocodec MPEG-4 and audiocodec MPEG-4 Audio/AAC), but it won’t sync on my phonr

How do I make it so YouTube actually turns off with my phone? I like using Picture in Picture, and music apps should keep playing, but when I turn my phone off, I would like the video to stop. It’s super inconsistent too and it’s very annoying when I’m trying to shut off the video quickly but instead it continues at the exact same volume and I have to open my phone back up to turn it off.

is there anyway for all my newly saved phots to be the most recent ones i see? im so tired of saving pictures and then having to find them because they were taken at an earlier date. i just want the recent phots i save to be the most recent one to show up

I have a recurring reminder for a direct debit on the 22nd of each month, when this day falls on a weekend the direct debit is instead taken on a Monday, is there anyway to make it be reminder reflect this?

Hello, I am using FaceID with an IPhone XS and just unlocked my phone with a photo of my face. I'd like to unlock my phone with FaceID. I have every FaceID unlock except that turned off but it is still possible to access my passwords in the settings with FaceID. Is there any way to turn this off or is turning off faceid my only option? (Password autofill is off, that's not my problem)

It's just fantastic, they have fixed the most obvious search bugs, but that was apparently a very hot fix. Looks like all their QA is indeed busy with AI. Do I maybe need to somehow re-index it?

iPhone 16 Pro, IOS18.4

Recently I’ve found that on occasions when I try to open an app by pulling down and searching, nothing is returned. Similarly, swiping over to the right and searching via the App Library does nothing. I have to scroll through the list and open the app that way.

I thought that this was possibly being caused by Focus settings. For example, when I plug in my iPad this triggers a Focus state using a Shortcut. The focus state is shared to other devices such as my IPhone. This may be the case but if so, I can’t figure out why. I’ve been using the shortcut for months and haven’t ever had the issue I’m currently experiencing.

I’ve restarted the device which seem to fix it temporarily but it returns. I can’t figure out what (other than possibly a Focus state) may be the cause.

Any thoughts or insights appreciated. TIA.

Got a new phone a few days, ago, got everything transferred, saw my iCloud storage usage shot up and saw that there are now two different backups for 5GB on my new phone and old phone.

Can I delete the old phone’s backup and no issue?

Someone I know accidentally permanently deleted our entire iMessage conversation from there phone but I still have all the messages. Is there anyway for me to share them so they can recover them? Edit: Is there an iCloud workaround with family share?

When I am on call over Instagram or FaceTime and I am on another app, the video call window automatically goes into Picture in Picture mode (video call icon appears in small box in one of the corners). This is sometimes annoying but I’d like to keep my camera on while hiding the icon. Is there any way of achieving this automatically?

I wanted to ask ChatGPT a question, but wanted to see if I can do it straight from Siri and it’d be smart enough to ask ChatGPT - spoiler alert; it wasn’t.

On a whim, I tried to ask the same question but preceded by GPT: and it actually worked. It went straight to ChatGPT with a new conversation. Honestly not sure how many people already knew this. Or maybe it’s just faster to open ChatGPT directly.

After the iOS 18.4 update i’ve noticed that almost all safari tabs I haven’t used in an hour or so display that enable JavaScript prompt, when entering that tab it disappears, i’ve checked safari settings and it shows JavaScript is enabled, has anyone noticed the same thing? (Sorry if flair is incorrect, first time posting here)

I’m drowning in them. I send outlook calendar invites to ~60 people for a 1-2 events per week and I’m so tired of receiving email notifications for the RSVPs.

Hi there! Could you please help me out with cleaning this data? I’ve noticed that it takes up a lot of space every time there’s a software update. I’d really appreciate your help with this. Thanks a bunch!

Can someone tell me the difference between the red „Delete“ and the yellow „remove“