You’re welcome! I believe this was added in iOS 15, but could be wrong.

That’s it then. As someone else just said, it pings a particular person if you use their name in a chat.

Is your name Casey?

Can you show an example? Just copy a random link from a random site like Apple or something and paste what you get.

Also, rebooted lately?

Again, need more context. Where are you obtaining said link from? Does this happen with all links in all apps?

http://www.Apple.com

What happens if you copy this one?

Gonna need more context here.

That said, a lot of links in emails have a bunch of extra stuff at the end that lets the site in question know how the link was obtained, i.e. email campaign or other. Are you sure you’re not just seeing that bit at the end, and if you scroll to the left you’ll see the actual url?

Try pasting it into your notes app and see what appears.

I’ve had almost every model between the 4s and the 13.

Never have I had a port be loose. I had lint get stuck inside my 8 Plus’s port but that was it, and that was easily taken care of!

“I want a phone with the security of a wet paper bag.”

It works, it has current software updates, why wouldn’t it be?

Good luck!

In all seriousness, that’s a Bing issue and not an iPhone issue. I’d ask in a Bing sub, if that exists!

Long-press on Bing.

Delete app.

Because batteries can start failing more dramatically the worse they get.

Your phone is throttling performance hard right now.

Battery is the issue. Get it replaced.

Phone model? Battery health? These are two useful pieces of info.

New battery, definitely. Get that replaced and she’ll notice a large difference.

You were told you can’t. Then you keep going on with “but what if” over and over, and it was damned annoying.

Sweet reason didn’t seem to work, so I dropped subtlety altogether.

Since you deleted your post, I guess the message finally sunk in that what you want isn’t possible.

I’m not sure how my previous statement was in any way ambiguous, but here goes:

YOU. CANNOT. INSTALL. IOS. 16. ON. YOUR. IPHONE.

Beta profile doesn’t matter. You cannot do this.

You cannot run iOS 16 on an iPhone 6s. At all. Whatsoever. Period.

If the lack of a developer mode is your sole make or break item, then please just smash/sell the phone and get some crappy $60 prepaid android device.

You’re being downvoted because you’re complaining about something utterly pointless and you sound silly for doing so.

Given that you spent $60 on a used iPhone, I doubt Apple is worried about you never buying one again.

Yeah, I honestly think you’ll be happy with either! The main difference is that extra GPU from the 13 Pro they brought over to the 14. It’s definitely not a leap like the Pro is in terms of display, for example.

Best of luck to you! And…I really wouldn’t put much stock in that guy who commented and keeps calling iOS “satanically evil,” they seem just a little bit unstable. :)

“Satanically evil” kinda makes me dismiss this massively tl;dr post as a long unstable rant.

The base non-Pro 14 is essentially an iPhone 13 with the 13 Pro’s processor, slightly improved cameras, crash detection and that satellite emergency communication capability.

So if any of those factors are important to you, by all means go 14! Or if you want the best damn battery in an iPhone, go for the larger 14, the Plus. Bigger screen and a massive battery. Part of me wanted to make that jump just for the battery, but I’m also happy with my 13’s battery. Plus I have an Apple MagSafe battery pack if I really need the extra boost.

It’s a big decison, especially leaping into a new ecosystem! As someone else did mention in a comment, Apple has also been very privacy/security-focused, which is another big reason I’ve stuck with them.

Whatever you end up getting, I wish you well with it! Even if it ends up being another Samsung. :D

These days, Apple products just last.

Only Google with their previous Pixel models had anything close to as much OS update availability that iPhones have. Other companies are starting to realize that longevity is something their customers actually prefer but Apple’s been there nearly from day one.

Heck, I’m using a 2016 MacBook Pro and still happy with it. It’s six years old and still runs as well as it did the day I got it. Just got left behind on major macOS updates and I know I’ll make the jump to an M1 or M2 in the next year or so…but it lasted and will still make a nice secondary machine.