I just replaced my iPhone 13 Pro screen with a soft oled screen from ifixit store and I read that true tone would be disabled due to Apple hardware pairing. But it seems to work fine: my screen lighting becomes slightly orange when I turn true tone on, as it was before I broke the original.

Is it standard nowadays or do I mistake this behaviour with something else? (not confusing true tone with night shift)

Thank you

⟐ Commented August 06, 2026 at 20:03 MST

Today I was taking a picture at a white background and I noticed this dark shape on my camera. I thought that it was dust or something on my lens and cleaned it carefully with some cotton and some cleaning substance for lens and they looked clean with no scratch or anything. When I opened the camera app again, the spot was still there. I never dropped my phone in water or anything. I dropped it from like 40cm on its face, but it's been like a month since then and i checked my old photos. The spot wasn't present.

Definitely it's something in there. When i zoom in, the spot gets bigger. When i zoom out, it immediately disappears, no matter the zoom out value under 1. Also, in portrait mode the spot isn't visible.

What can it be? A friend of mine told me that it can be a software problem but i doubt…

Thank you!

⟐ Commented August 06, 2026 at 16:12 MST

⟐ Answer accepted August 06, 2026 at 14:41 MST

⟐ Answer edited August 06, 2026 at 10:07 MST

⟐ Commented August 06, 2026 at 8:59 MST

⟐ Answered August 06, 2026 at 4:15 MST

⟐ Answered August 05, 2026 at 16:04 MST

⟐ Commented August 05, 2026 at 13:46 MST

So a family member gave me their iPhone 17 to look at. It is currently stone dead. No signs of life at all. They said the battery was at 1% and then the screen went black (assume battery died). After that they said they could not turn the phone back on. They left it charging and still could not turn it on.

I took a look myself and see it is completely dead. There's nothing on screen. There's no battery icon or anything to say it's low on battery. The screen just remains black.

I tried the force restart method (says to quickly press volume up, then down and then hold the power button until Apple logo appears) which did nothing. I've tried multiple cables, computers and wall outlets. Still same.

I have a USB amp meter and I can see when I connect cable, it cycles between different watts. It regularly jumps from 0 to about 2.1W. I see frequent 2.1W readings but it keeps going back to 0 and then up again (sometimes at a lower wattage). It's like it's trying to charge, but can't for some reason.

The phone is still in warranty period, so it can be returned. However, I'd like to check if there's maybe anything that can be done to bring it back to life as it does seem weird that it just died after the battery went out.

Anyone know what could be wrong? If it's a hardware issue, then I'll just send it back for a replacement. But I am hoping there's a way to bring it back to life as this will be faster than waiting for a replacement. It's not looking promising though.

⟐ Answered August 05, 2026 at 7:29 MST

This is going to be very descriptive so please read all.

I bought an iPhone 4S marked as faulty. It was known to have smashed screen and stuck on an iTunes screen. I repaired the screen and that was working 100% fine. I then went to charge it (I have 3 batteries, 1 original iPhone battery what was 2 years old, but still worked, I have a eBay battery what worked perfect on another iPhone 4S I had, and I have the battery what looks like a replacement one what came with this iPhone) I managed to charge all three enough to get to the recovery mode screen, I don't think the seller realised that it was simply getting it out of recovery mode. I used RECBOOT on my iMac and I got it out of recovery mode but after that it ended turning on for 5 seconds and then just switched off. It cannot be a battery problem as 2 what I used worked on another iPhone 4S, I do not own that other iPhone anymore, and I am guessing the iPhone what I bought, battery does work as well, as its working the same as the other 2 what definitely works. Can I point out its not boot looping. After that 5 seconds you have to press the power button again to get the apple logo on. One more thing, the power button does not work as the connector what reads the home button on the charging port is damaged looking at it. So I can't put it in DFU mode or anything else. Is it best I buy a new charging port so my home button will be read and works?

Think thats everything, hope someone can help.

Thanks, ADAM

⟐ Answered August 05, 2026 at 4:56 MST

⟐ Answered August 05, 2026 at 4:02 MST

I recived this phone for parts from my brother since he drowned it and he just bought a new one. Still i started checking and replaced the screen with the battery and it runs, but there are some problems:

• The phone reboots after 2 /3 minutes and i know that it's just an easy check in the panic logs but i entered the password wrong a couple of times and now it's constantly stuck on 5 minute waiting;
• I charged up the battery to about 80% before pluging it in and it shows a constant 1%;
• When i tried connecting the charging port it started yelling about liquid, so i dried it and scrubbed with ipa, but still nothing, so i just replaced the charging port, but the only thing i get after connecting it to my pc or a charger are just some shakes from the taptic engine and that's it. It doesn't draw any current.

I tried checking for shorts on the mb, but i don't think i'm going the right way.

I would be really grateful for a few tips or if someone would point me in the right direction.

For the sake of learning to repair i'm willing to do board lever repais myself since this phone didn't cost me anything.

⟐ Edited by author August 04, 2026 at 22:58 MST

⟐ Answered August 04, 2026 at 8:22 MST

So I think that the nand is faulty as iv only seen this error before on bad nands. The problem I have now is I can replace the nand, as I have plenty spare and do it countless times on ipads, but I dont know the serial number, so if I write a new serial number to a new nand it wont activate ?. Is there anywhere on the logic board where the serial number is, or any way ipbox can retrieve it from any other ic etc, I know its written to the baseband, but cant think of anyway of retrieving it. I have asked the seller if he still has the original case with imei, so will see if he comes back with anything.

⟐ Commented August 04, 2026 at 3:33 MST

⟐ Answered August 03, 2026 at 19:09 MST

Can anyone shed some light on what this issue is and what I need to do to get it resolved

⟐ Commented August 03, 2026 at 18:47 MST

Here are some photos of what my NFC antenna currently looks like:

⟐ Answer accepted August 03, 2026 at 4:13 MST

After my iPhone 16+ was dropped I now have no cellular connection or wifi anyone seen this before or have any ideas?

Thanks

Ollie