I HATE APPLE

If you see a cheap i-pod touch on e-bay that is described as i-cloud locked does that make it unusable ? I even know what i-cloud is and would buy one of these if it meant music could be still loaded onto it.

I don't* even know

it means it's basically unusable because someone owned it and locked it to their account. it's a theft-prevention measure. so someone didn't check it before buying it, or it's stolen.

if you ask someone at apple very nicely you might be able to convince them to unlock it, but probably not

Thanks for that mh. I'm glad my bid failed because I don't want stolen or lost gear.

You're having trouble using hyphens aren't you.

You're having trouble being a worthwhile human being aren't you.

Blue light reduction on iOS is pretty great

About time for color calibration

omg i can't wait for that

get it now! just sign up for the beta program and download away

https://twitter.com/cdespinosa/status/627290421438210048

nice

What's up with the vibration motor in the 6S? I finally upgraded from a 4S and I'm missing calls and texts all the time now. I can feel it if I'm holding the phone in my hand, but on my desk, in my bag, and even in my pocket I don't notice it. Never had that issue with the 4S.

And is it normal that my screen goes black/phone goes back to sleep within seconds of the alarm going off? If I want to snooze I have to remember in my half-awake state to not use my thumb to wake up the phone so I can hit snooze, otherwise Touch ID logs me in and turns off the alarm.

Kinda hating Apple right now.

Apple has the worst user forums. The answers are always wrong, and always have the same smug "It's not Apple, it's you" attitude. And the people giving these unhelpful, incorrect answers are always "level 10" or whatever, which means they must be sitting on the forums all day doing nothing but giving bureaucratic, obstructive "answers". Is this what DMV employees do for fun?

Like look at this one. This poor guy is trying to clear the cache, the CACHE associated with a particular app on his phone; and it's like the other users are intentionally misunderstanding him, telling him to delete files from his Dropbox account. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4982518?start=0&tstart=0

And every thread I've ever seen on there is exactly like this! The consistency is amazing.

the larger the platform, the more self-styled technical experts who browse the forums

The cache issue bugs me for a lot of apps. Wish you could clear it on a per app basis.

it's pretty easy, you just have to delete your dropbox account (see upthread)

Yeah, but that's annoying too. Although I have done it.

i found the 6s vibration too weak so I had to switch to one that vibrates 5 times in a row and it's much more noticeable

did you guys know you can make custom vibration patterns? it's a little hidden but you can tap out your own

yes tied to different incoming numbers if you want - possibly my favorite feature

just think about it folks, we are the first humans who have ever lived who regularly experience a buzzing sensation in our pants pockets that then turns out to not actually be happening

who the fuck is linc davis, how does he reply to every thread i've ever seen and why do his solutions never work? so many mysteries that haunt the apple support forums

do any of you have experience w/ using a prepaid SIM w/ an unlocked iPhone? I just got the unlock OK from AT&T and it says to wipe it and then restore it and my phone will be ~unlocked~

And then once I get to Europe, do I just buy the SIM and pop it in? Will I have to restore it again?

Once it's unlocked you can swap sims as much as you like, unless you get one of the sims that bloody lock the phone again. I think Three UK did that, not sure if they still do.

The changing numbers can also confuse iMessage a bit, need to watch for that.

yes you can just change sims. no restore/reset. takes a minute to connect to the network. sometimes imessage gets confused for a while (more common in the US ime).

change to ting in the us now you're unlocked imo

So I'll just have a new phone number for a week and a half, that's fine. Is there any way to still check my actual voicemail during this time w/o popping the sim back in?

Yes, most networks have an external number you can call so long as you've set up a pin

I think the unlocks go over the air now, but previously the way to do it was to connect to a computer and sync in iTunes, it'd download the unlock

trackpad on the retina macbook pro suddenly doesn't "click" anymore. managed to connect a bluetooth mouse and enabled "tap to click" but it's super annoying not being able to use the trackpad normally. going to cost $300 to replace since it's non-serviceable (another apple product so tightly constructed that when dust and crud gets in, no way to get it out). once i fix this i'll have dropped $1000 on out-of-applecare repairs to this thing. i wish they'd hurry up and bring out the next-gen macbook pros so i can just get a new one and stop sinking money into this one.

Is iMessage extremely hit and miss at the moment, much more than usual, or is it just me? I'm not getting "delivered" notes on about half the messages I'm sending.

Apple has the worst user forums. The answers are always wrong, and always have the same smug "It's not Apple, it's you" attitude. And the people giving these unhelpful, incorrect answers are always "level 10" or whatever, which means they must be sitting on the forums all day doing nothing but giving bureaucratic, obstructive "answers". Is this what DMV employees do for fun?

https://medium.com/@johnslegers/the-decline-of-stack-overflow-7cb69faa575d#.ktd12bfn4

interesting. was wondering if i was imagining that sort of thing

You're holding it wrong...

Why did the fbi spend so long pretending they couldn't unlock a phone ffs.

incompetence and dishonesty

my colleague and I spent hours crafting his Stack Overflow question so as not to get angry responses, we put in everything he had tried, we said what we had tried and what we thought it wasnt, and why. Then we got my other colleague over and she had some input, and we thought ok we must be safe with this, we've covered ourselves, we won't get any terse responses. And we posted it, we threw it into the bearpit, waiting for people to rush in and tear the question limb from limb, and we retreated to a nearby bar, ready to pick it up again in the morning

The next day, we waited until all 3 of us were in, and timidly opened the browser, there was our question, surely we'd worded it well enough to pass muster.....there were no responses of any kind. A year later I looked at the question again, it now has one response, 3 months later, from my colleague, with the answer

Why did the fbi spend so long pretending they couldn't unlock a phone

Consensus seems to be that they thought this would be the perfect case to establish a legal precedent (because even if they can open this one, eventually there might be one they can't), and didn't expect public opinion to be so divided.

http://i.imgur.com/r7EDtOE.png

reading that in ahnold voice

I can't think of a single thing more representative of Apples total decline in user interface than the specific fact that when searching the apple music catalog via iTunes, the entire catalog appears under the "NEW" tab. Drives me nuts.

for years i backed up my iphone and ipad to icloud with no problems, but last year (after an os upgrade iirc) my iphone backup started exploding in size. it's been hitting 5 gb for several months, even though i kept deleting sms/mms and turned off most of my app backups. i don't even use photo stream. there's no way to see what the culprit is because apple doesn't bother stating the actual discrepancy between the total backup size and the sum of everything that's backed up, i assume because apple's as shit at icloud as it is at siri, apple music etc.

this crap i wouldn't mind so much, but apple has nagged me daily to pay for extra storage, through emails and pop-ups on my phone. i'd be happy to pay a buck fifty for storage of my own volition, but i won't be bullied into it due to shit software. instead i've ditched icloud for itunes backups which are more comprehensive anyway.

it's this weirdly desperate nagging which is the least appealing part of apple now. occasionally the music app still nags me to sign up for apple music before letting me access my own music (i've since buried the music app and use ecoute by default), and last month when i was away the phone constantly hassled me to upgrade my os, with no option to turn off the nag pop-ups.

http://i.imgur.com/CeZ5AKh.jpg

iPads Pro

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/27/a-brief-guide-to-everything-thats-annoying-about-apple

i keep thinking that apple will get as irritating as microsoft was when they were at this market position, but i'm not there yet

No animated office supplies suddenly appearing on my desktop, I'll give 'em that.

only things on that list that really grind my gears are the U2 thing and wet fingers. been thinking about adding the shower-swollen version of my fingerprint to the recognition to see if it'll recognize it as a second fingerprint