After reading this I'll be definitely be giving it a miss on my 4S
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/09/ios-8-on-the-iphone-4s-performance-isnt-the-only-problem/
― Alba, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 19:44 (nine years ago) link
Am I crazy if I just stop updating apps too now? I feel like it's just showing signs of getting annoyingly sluggish and I'd rather not risk anything that could make it worse until I finally decide to get a new handset.
― Alba, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 19:46 (nine years ago) link
avoiding app updates probably is a bit paranoid, you'll get better stability improvements by deleting stuff if you're below like a gig of free storage on your phone
― Spirit of Match Game '76 (silby), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
yeah, being really low on space seems to still be performance death on iOS/OS X
― ⌘-B (mh), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
I've got a 64GB one and have 17GB free. It's not really slow, but it's not as fast as it was, and I can only assume that apps making greater demands of it are the reason. If there's some other trick, do let me know.
― Alba, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 20:05 (nine years ago) link
fwiw I didn't intend to, but I ended up completely wiping when installing iOS 8 and then restoring my settings from a backup and it seemed to make a reasonable difference in performance
then again, who knows
― ⌘-B (mh), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
this happened to me too, when I installed iOS 7. i get the feeling their upgrade procedure is less efficient than restoring from backup.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
iOS 8 quite underwhelming so far
― the late great, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 21:35 (nine years ago) link
also LOL @ emoji button
― the late great, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
whats it got is there any point
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link
afaict not much!
― the late great, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 21:38 (nine years ago) link
emoji button sounds good
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 21:41 (nine years ago) link
double-tap menu has recent contacts across the top, you can send audio messages, siri has integrated shazam, you can have family members share app purchases, it will eventually ask you if you want to let diff apps do shit in the background (it detects lots of background activity and sends you to settings if you want)battery usage by app is also available, letting you know what's draining things
― ⌘-B (mh), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 21:41 (nine years ago) link
SwiftKey keyboard looking pretty good
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 21:49 (nine years ago) link
1password integrated into safari is a very welcome addition (also i think it's free for ios now?)
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
you can send audio messages
My dad had a pager in the 80s that looked like the talkee part of a walkee-talkee. His customers could call the number and say their message. In a few moments, that thing would go off and you'd hear this garbled CB voice come shredding out of it.
No, it's great that we've gone back to those halcyon days.
― pplains, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 21:51 (nine years ago) link
http://www.whoisu2.com
― Spirit of Match Game '76 (silby), Thursday, 18 September 2014 04:36 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/zbuX32q.jpg
*annoys all of you*
― 龜, Friday, 19 September 2014 11:30 (nine years ago) link
A commie hacker friend of mine is thinking about getting a smartphone finally. I jokingly mentioned how grateful I am that Tim Cook allows me to install custom keyboards now but then halfway through realized it wasn't a joke. :/
― ugh (lukas), Monday, 22 September 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
iOS 8 won't install on my Air because it needs 7gb space free. On a device they ship with 12gb free that's definitely I Hate Apple territory.
― stet, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 00:29 (nine years ago) link
i have 2gb+ on my 4s showing up as "other" which, a quick google tells me, is actually ios8 downloaded on to my free space even though i didn't download it, permit it, and all signs point to me not installing it on a 4s. That's also definitely I Hate Apple territory.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 00:35 (nine years ago) link
i mean, seriously, where the fk do these people get off? taking up 25% of the free space on a device that i own and paid a pretty high price for without my consent.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 00:38 (nine years ago) link
If you connect it to a computer it takes a lot less space iirc
― ⌘-B (mh), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 00:38 (nine years ago) link
in that case, thank you apple!
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 00:42 (nine years ago) link
2GB pretty big for a U2 album
― Spirit of Match Game '76 (silby), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 00:47 (nine years ago) link
I always have 4-5 GB allocated to some mysterious "other"
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 08:06 (nine years ago) link
http://www.american-buddha.com/pervertguideideol.20d_small.gif
― fields of salmon, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 09:10 (nine years ago) link
dont even try to confess to that shit
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 14:17 (nine years ago) link
yeah i def recommend updating via USB rather than via wifi (much smaller!)
― EMA Sumac (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 19:06 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/25/6844021/apple-promised-an-expansive-health-app-so-why-cant-i-track
― caek, Monday, 29 September 2014 23:58 (nine years ago) link
really good question imo
― ⌘-B (mh), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 00:43 (nine years ago) link
wonder if the watch cld sense that somehow
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 00:45 (nine years ago) link
pheromone sensors
― ⌘-B (mh), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 00:48 (nine years ago) link
An example of how OS X baffles me these days. I turned on my Mac, and some messages were popping up asking me to log back into iCloud (I'd recently changed my password). I was on the phone at the time and just closed the windows thinking "I don't want to deal with this now". I come back to it later, open the Messages app to continue a text conversation I was having on my phone to a new contact and of course I'm not logged in. Is there anywhere in that window to log in? No. If it was a conversation with an existing contact I could at least fairly intuitively start typing a message in the window, hit return and then get prompted to log in. But because it's a contact I've not established in the desktop version of the Messages app, I'm left dangling. Turns out I have to go to Preferences – Accounts, the check a checkbox called "Enable this account". That's just the kind of crappy UI people used to take the piss out of Windows for.
― Alba, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
you're texting on your computer, of course it's going to be messy! when you fly to close to the sun you get burned, iirc
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link
system-wide standard iCloud auth widget would be the preferred way to do it, in addition to the service that runs in the background that throws up the annoying prompts
― ⌘-B (mh), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 21:18 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, at one point I thought: "There must be a system-wide thing for iCloud – I know: I'll go up to the Apple menu and see if it's there. Nope. Just 'the other sort of login'.
― Alba, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
yeah iMessage is great while it is working and staying in sync, and infuriating the times that it's not
― Spirit of Match Game '76 (silby), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 21:46 (nine years ago) link
While I'm on the subject of terrible Apple UI, have you ever used Image Capture? For a while my MacBook was set for it to open automatically when connected to my iPhone.
How to stop this happening? At a loss to think of a system-wide setting for how to handle iPhones when connected, I searched within Image Capture itself. I was on the point of giving up when I noticed a tiny triangle in a box on the bottom left corner. Click on it and you get the options for what application (or none) should open.
http://i.imgur.com/TT6s6oY.png
― Alba, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 21:56 (nine years ago) link
one of the things i hate about apple is that they don't seem to understand their own question "do not ask me again".
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 22:37 (nine years ago) link
TBF, Image Capture is still the best general purpose free scanning app.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 01:00 (nine years ago) link
ya i use it to scan, also get the pictures off my iphone
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 01:13 (nine years ago) link
This Lagerfeld Wintour Ive menage a trois signals the jumping of the shark
― calstars, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 01:58 (nine years ago) link
idk I'm into it
― Spirit of Match Game '76 (silby), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 01:59 (nine years ago) link
everyone saying apple out of their zone w this watch otm
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 02:48 (nine years ago) link
I'll take the other side of that bet
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 02:50 (nine years ago) link
well they could be outside their zone and be successful with it or they could be outside their zone and fail so not sure what youre so amped to bet on, fwiw most people noting that this is a leap into uncharted territory seem pretty confident of their success but i have my doubts
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 02:54 (nine years ago) link
communing with fashion people is of course the perfect symbol for how theyre trying to go somewhere theyve never been
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 02:55 (nine years ago) link
One thing I do fucking hate, speaking of fashion, is iphone cases. I bought one, because my toddler fucks with my phone all the time, but it's so gimpy looking compared to the simple elegance of the phone, even the minimal profile "slim" case I bought.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 02:57 (nine years ago) link
yah case suck
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 02:58 (nine years ago) link