Hi, I’m Isaac Smith, the founder and editor of PC Glance, a website dedicated to all things related to computers, laptops, and technology. Ever since I was a kid, I was fascinated by how these machines work and what they can do.
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Your app settings did not vanish, they moved into a row called Apps. That happened in iOS 18 rather than the update you just installed, and Apple has never announced it on a single consumer page.
Photo Shuffle gets the blame everywhere, and it is something you have to pick. A Focus swaps the entire Lock Screen instead, and it can fire when you arrive somewhere or open one particular app.
Swiping the card off your Lock Screen does not hide it, it ends it, and only the app can start another. Apple publishes no troubleshooting page for this, so the rules live in its developer documentation.
The controls that can silence a single person are not in the Notifications screen, and Apple documents them across four separate pages. One of them tells the sender. One of them cannot be detected at all.
Vibrate on Ring and Vibrate on Silent were replaced by one Haptics picker holding two options that are a single word apart. A switch in Accessibility overrides the lot, and Apple says it silences earthquake and tsunami alerts too.
How much went is the fastest clue you have, and some of what looks missing has only moved. Apple’s own sync fix says to move one setting whichever way it is not already set.
Almost every fix lives on one Settings screen, and Apple’s own turn-on step has a second tap that people miss. Plus what the connection advice everywhere else gets wrong.
Most of them were never closed. Safari keeps separate tabs for each profile, each Tab Group and Private Browsing, and one timer Apple does not document closes the rest.
Almost nothing is actually being deleted. iOS offloads, moves, hides or blocks apps, and each of those is undone in seconds once you know which one you are looking at.
Auto-Brightness is only one of several ceilings on the screen, and the newest one arrived with iOS 26 switched on. Here is what lowers it and what lets it back up.