I HATE APPLE

i lost my 64go iphone a couple days ago, luckily my gf has an old iphone i can use. problem being that it's a 16go iphone so i can't restore from backups of my previous phone as they're too big. unless i'm mistaken there's no option to allow me to restore only my contacts and text messages from the backup?
anyone know of a way to retrieve only contacts and messages from my backup? ideally one that wouldn't cost anything

you can deselect what you want to restore i think. take a look at this post:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/had-64gig-iphone-5-now-16gig-not-enough-space-to-restore-backup.1631639/#post-18639238

thx, i'd seen this but it looks like apple fixed this issue as i can't click through the tabs when i get the warning message

this is probably a really basic question but is there a way of getting microsoft word on a macbook without paying??? i need to do editing work that involves tracking changes and openoffice isn't compatible with the client's end :((((

steal a copy is all i know

office 365 free trial https://products.office.com/en-US/try

The people who complain about the finder are almost always pre OS X mac users. For them "better than windows" is damning with faint praise. They are otm

yeah i still feel like a permanent moron about the whole file-browser-window paradigm yet persist in treating everything as much like finder folders as i can vaguely recollect, bc dammit things were better then

holy crap. just randomly noticed Apple finally put the "open playlist in new window" feature back into iTunes.

Oh nice

i can't drag a photo from Photos to Twitter

wtf is the point of an operating system in 2017 if it can't do this

All anyone wanted was a MacBook Air with a Retina Display, and Microsoft gave it to ‘em. https://t.co/pGXmL4dQbi

— nilay patel (@reckless) May 2, 2017

https://9to5mac.com/2017/05/01/siri-speaker-kgi-wwdc-home-ai/

KGI’s Ming-Chi Kuo has published an industry report today claiming that Apple will likely announce a Siri Speaker product (branding unknown, Kuo calls it ‘Apple’s first home AI product’) at WWDC in June. The device will compete with the Amazon Echo and go on sale in the second half of the year.

Surely that is already the Apple Watch.

would you believe i completely forgot about the apple watch

changing keyboard ON IPHONE triggers the control centre at least 50% of the time and it's really

fucking

annoying

I upgraded to OS Sierra! Everything is faster!

Except TextEdit ie the program I do all my work in. Every time I save, I get the spinning beach ball, sometimes for a few seconds, sometimes a crash that necessitates forcing quit. How do I fix this? Why would TextEdit of all things be screwed by an upgrade?

(on a Macbook Pro)

I have used a Mac for 5 years at work and still squirm with rage daily at how annoying these fucking things are to use.

A MAJOR source of irritation is using two screens and switching between different windows. I realise I have no right to expect Mac OS to work like Windows, but it's always annoyed me that I cannot choose to have CMD/tab to switch between different windows rather than applications. But whatever, I'd be fine using CMD/` to switch between windows of the same app if it actually fucking worked. Instead, I've got Chrome focused on one screen, Chrome on another, but CMD/` takes me to Word and then flips between Word docs. Maybe there is some logic to this that has escaped me over all these years, but how I hate these shitty machines.

Same arrangement: one Chrome window on the left screen, another on the right. Every time I click in the Chrome on the right, Word comes into focus on the left. There is no combination of clicks/movements that makes this not happen. So annoying.

at completely random times i'll click a finder window to give it focus, and it'll suddenly leap across the screen. this has been happening for years.

Hit ctrl tab to switch between apps, only the mouse is in the area the switcher pops up in and the highlighted option pops to the mouse, which is never what I want...

(alt tab, I think I mean. I'm still not sure which of the 4 ctrl keys I need to press to get it to do what)

fuckin extrernal hard drive cant be read by my new hand me down imac - now I shell out 20$ for paragon ntsf reader! FTS! (fuakdatshit)
of course I dont have much other option - the imac is clever tho - the garphocs card is haunted an dweird triangel randomly appear on scren making me kind o flove thiscomputer

is it.. is it Hanle y??

oh FUCK THIS UPGRADE I can no longer sync my Android (Samsung Galaxy 4.1.2) with iTunes. Literally just doesn't recognise the phone

FUCK UPGRADES FUCK UPGRADES FUCK UPGRADES

What use is it to have Siri if THE THINGS I USE ON AN EVERYDAY BASIS NO LONGER WORK

I can no longer sync my Android (Samsung Galaxy 4.1.2) with iTunes.

how were you ever doing this?

iSyncr

I think DoubleTwist would have worked too

But my phone won't even connect to the Mac in the first place any more - prompts me to download Kies (which...isn't available for Macs any more???). Tried the Kies alternative, Smartswitch, which also doesn't recognise the phone is connected

kies was replaced by smart switch iirc, worth a try?

Tried Smartswitch and it doesn't recognise the phone is connected

installed on the phone and the mac? (just checking)

so because I'm not spending $$$$ for an iCloud account, and I want all my data backed up, I have iTunes set to make backups to the computer instead of iCloud
so because I have my phone backing up to the computer and not the cloud, every time I want to add music to my phone, I have to go through a 20-30 minute sync process
I did this the other day and my phone ran out of space and 6 songs didn't make it, and after clearing up some more room to put the 6 songs on, it took like another 15-20 minute sync, <10 seconds of which was actually getting the songs on

am I doing something wrong?? Can you add music to your iPhone without doing a full backup and sync??? I don't run into this often bcz I have Spotify Premium but sometimes stuff isn't on Spotify!

Try just syncing certain playlists. The caveat to that is, yeah, you have to create a playlist whenever you want to add six songs, but it saves a lot of time.

"I don't run into this often" might be your problem. I do the same thing, but I sync every couple of days and as far as I can tell it only backs up things that have changed since the last backup so doesn't take more than a few minutes at most (64GB phone with less than 2GB free space). Maybe regular backups would speed things up?

I used to manage music by just dragging and dropping, avoiding the full backup/sync, but that caused lots of issues for me. Syncing a playlist solved everything.

I go to this well a lot but I'm honestly impressed with all you folks still plugging your phones into your computers; I last did that years ago and I'm afraid to ever do it again

now that Xcode has wireless support, I never will again! I could get that Macbook now.

I just figured out that if the exchange rate was still pre-Brexit, the iMac Pro would cost a possibly achieveable £3k rather than the miserable £5k it looks like it'll be. Argh

my iphone 7's lightning headphone adaptor just shit the bed, £9 for a new one wheeeeeee

Create a smart playlist that is "most recently added, limited to 80gb" or whatever, and include that in the list of playlists the phone syncs then you don't have to manually add new stuff.

I have "most played 80gb" and "added in the last 12 months"or something like that

You can get more complicated with caek's approach if you want - say you want the most recent 5GB of mixes, most recent 2GB of audiobooks, and most recent 23GB of everything else. It's fun!

^ this is the way forward

smart playlists useful in this regard

I go to this well a lot but I'm honestly impressed with all you folks still plugging your phones into your computers; I last did that years ago and I'm afraid to ever do it again

― softie (silby), Thursday, 8 June 2017 00:43 (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for me it's (a) itunes backups are more comprehensive and (b) got sick of removing stuff from my icloud backup to get it under 5 gb

How much the 50 GB option where you’re from? Over here, it’s $.99 a month, so I just pay it.

And I don’t connect my iPhone to my iMac.

itunes backups are free and limitless

only to iCloud, and they're not limitless in that you can run out of space!
additional space is cheap, though

I linked my phone to work email, though, and part of doing so was installing a security profile that disabled iCloud backups, among other things. I'd imagine it's pretty standard, since it's an Office in the cloud mail setup

Sometimes living in the Apple ecosystem makes things very easy. I’m an Apple Music subscriber; unless they changed something, all I have to do is add an .mp3 to iTunes on my iMac and it should be accessible from the Music app on my iPhone.

apple's services seem to have become more robust in the past couple of years. when apple music launched it was a shitstorm of bugs and inconsistencies, e.g. you'd upload songs and icloud music library would force-match them to live versions.

only to iCloud, and they're not limitless in that you can run out of space!
additional space is cheap, though

not sure whether this is in reply to me, but itunes backups go via cable to my hard drive. additional space is definitely cheap (and just this week the 1 tb plan became 2 tb for the same price!), but i already have a onedrive/office365 subscription and unlimited google photos.

they had itunes match and apple music working off separate systems even if you had both and it'd be glitchy as fuck, I believe they finally integrated