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Ugh the only carrier for Watch in the UK is EE. Fuck that

― stet, Tuesday, September 12, 2017 10:37 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is EE terrible? I was about to switch to them.

I'm with EE. Never had any problems with them and 4G coverage fairly good

good coverage but if you ever need customer service HAHAHAHAHAHA

Yes, for my mental health I had to eventually give up trying to get them to unlock my out-of-contract iPhone and had to sell it locked to EE instead. Then I quit them for Three and haven't looked back.

Battery life is now noticeably worse on my 7 plus after updating to IOS 11. Apart from that, not much difference so far.

control center is super nice

trying to figure out if my first gen watch is having battery issues or if something was screwed up

hopefully it just sorts itself out under the new watchOS

Upgrade dude.

now when my phone wakes up, instead of just fading into my desktop, it starts at a brighter color and then changes. It's ugly. And the calculator icon is ugly. Some of the visual design choices are weird.

Pro tip buy PCalc and you get your choice of icons and a better calculator.

The PCalc has AR too!

yeah i am definitely not upgrading my 6, sounds like a flaky release all round

(to ios 11 i mean, will probably get an iphone 8 at some point though)

can't fathom being reluctant to upgrade a phone and blase about a desktop os upgrade that force upgrades the filesystem (unless it's one of the disks they can't reliably upgrade yet)

I was all set for my usual "I have an old handset (6) that'll be slowed down so I'll avoid this as long as possible" and then I read something that convinced me to give it a go anyway and I'm so glad I did: if launch times are slower I haven't noticed and the speed gains from the new control centre make it totally worth it.

It helps that I finally discovered that holding down the new tab key in Safari allows you do close all tabs at once – I had hundreds and I can now get to the url box much more quickly after launch Safari, which is still my #1 way to search despite Gboard.

The new screenshot management and screen recording function are really nice too.

great safari tip dude, didn't know about that one

nice! so i wonder why some 6 users have chronic lagging and some are fine

upgraded my 6 - it doesnt seem any better or worse lag-wise. I can't really figure out though why people are raving about the new control center. How are you guys using it?

I can't really figure out though why people are raving about the new control center.

just having the stuff you need on one single pane relieves a world of hurt imo

can't upgrade to iOS 11 because not compatible with flappy bird

New control center was great, then realized night shift button was gone and couldn’t be added via customization and I hated it, then found it by holding the brightness slider and love it again.

Also it feels much faster on my 6s. Touch ID unlocks in a fraction of a second now which surprised me.

i like this so far but there's a lot of zoomy reveals in email particularly that i find distracting - you'd think "reduce motion" would have put paid to that sort of FRIVOLITY

On phone, you can’t add particular apps to the control center right? Just the limited choices that are offered in settings?

I wish you could remove screen mirroring. Ain’t got no time for that.

Main things I like about the new control centre, apart from it all being on one page again:

• tweaking of airplane mode now being persistent: eg if I turn airplane mode on then turn bluetooth on, it now defaults to that configuration next time I'm in airplane mode (great for going to bed but carrying on with uninterrupted wireless listening)
• being able to quickly create a note from anywhere by adding that icon and doing a long press. yes, i'd rather if it let me use Evernote, but this OK as a scratchpad
• adjusting the timer quickly with the long press
• having accessibility shortcuts: I use the assistive touch in bed to avoid the clicking of the home button disturbing my wife but like to be able to turn it off again quickly

- shifting everything DOWN so it's CLOSER TO YOUR THUMB 👍

uh
https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/20/16340460/apple-ios-11-control-center-wi-fi-bluetooth-tricking-users

doesn't work w/Exchange servers whoops

Zing seems to not be able to scroll all the way to the end of threads in iOS 11. And it broke KRFT!

Yeah I meant to post about that. You get to the bottom of a zing thread and the last post is partly obscured by the bottom bar

Same thing for me at the top if I click individual posts

oh, nevermind, Xcom:EW not dead after all?

https://macdaddy.io/apfs-backup-software-developers-perspective/

hmm yeah

I’m far from a filesystem expert but the skepticism about apfs features seemed really odd, considering the features like write-on-modification as opposed to write-on-copy are pretty much what you want in a modern filesystem

I get that some tools messing around with internals would need changes but others I’ve used, like winclone, have been happy apple has cleaned up some things that required turning off system protection (which was not about apfs, but connected in scope) to work in the prior os but now work cleanly

I’ve used in-place reformatting tools with mixed results for years but recent experiments have been good! I’m trying to remember what tool I used to use on pc that was a little pricey but good way back in the late 90s as a reference. Hrrm.

Got my 8 today, upgraded from the 6. Took me a bit to get used to the haptic/3D touch stuff that’s been standard for a while, but it’s satisfying once you get it. Feels like the home, uh sensor, is an actual button. Was genuinely confused by it for a minute.

But yeah, I’m late to the party with all that. Not sure how it compares to the 7, but it’s lightning fast. Glass back makes it weightier and significantly more grippy, feels more secure in your hand. Seemed like a boring upgrade, but I’m definitely impressed coming from a 6. It’s fun to use.

typing from high sierra, upgrading all my homebrew packages now. seems good so far.

xpost — yeah same here, got mine yesterday. Enjoyable changes — need to test out the camera.

bought a series 3 watch so now i have to upgrade to ios 11 damn it

"would you like to look at some accessories? cases, screen protectors..."

"do you sell screen protectors for apple watches?"

"...no"

Were you actually hoping you could paste some awful sticker onto your watch

no

i was surprised they'd sell them, but it turns out they don't and the guy was just flogging any old shit at me

ios 11 on my iphone 6 seems to be snappier! did not expect that at all.

no substantive comment on the series 3 (no lte) watch as i’ve not done anything with it yet, but it’s quick to do things. the last time i played with an apple watch it was so slow that i gave up. this is nice.

ios 11 on my 7 is nice but seems to be more of a battery suck? i’ve tweaked background refresh & location services & it’s better-ish but still kinda :/

same here

hmm not great for a one year old phone. there'll have to be a point release addressing it if it doesn't settle down in a few days.

my 6 has been plugged in since i upgraded, so i don't know what it's done to battery yet.

I have a 4 and a 4S, both maxed out to the latest compatible OS, which has caused them to function in slow-motion. So I think the ideal OS for one of these things is the one it ships with.