New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

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.

And fuck Apple for not allowing users to downgrade.

my battery does seem to be burning down faster than normal, but not catastrophically so.

ios 11 seems fine overall, but the animations are a bit on the jovial side with all the boinging and swooping and such. now that i’m on 11 i’m wondering if i can squeeze one more year out of this phone.

Screen shot options are great

yes! love that

quick watch series 3 impressions:

• quick, responsive, no lag to speak of
• it's 6 pm and the battery's on 85% which i did not expect at all (i took it off the charger at 7.30 this morning)
• i've already filled all my rings, but all i did was go to work and shop for groceries idk
• the haptic feedback feels like a pen fell on my wrist, which was embarrassing the first time
• there's a bug where it changes to 12 hour time whenever you update the watch face, which is trivial in the scheme of things but still shits me
• very glad i bought this thing, excited to see what else it can do

Teeny music controls on control centre now a lot more difficult to hit accurately

(on phone)

For the first time, I've started to get interested in the watch as a means of breaking free of my phone addiction. Curious to hear back from new users, esp. those not interested in the fitness/running stuff.

it was cool to take messages without getting out my phone, and replying to the easy ones while i was fumbling for the lift. paying for groceries without going into my pockets was nice too. not indispensable so far though.

tracer: you can get proper music controls by swiping down for notifications, but so far i’ve found myself swiping up for control centre, going “agh shit”, swiping down to clear the control centre and swiping down again to get to the full controls. annoying.

where i can see the watch being properly useful is when you’re waiting for a text/email but you don’t want to anxiously crane your neck into your phone every 30 seconds. the watch will tap you when the message comes in. for someone as fidgety as me it could make a real difference.

xpost idgi. when i swipe down on lock screen nothing happens. if i unlock then swipe down i just get my notifications. in neither case do i get audio playback controls.

Not ideal I know, but just checking you know that if you do a long press on the audio controls they expand?

ha wow i did not know that!

nice!

weird that i can see the music player in the notification centre but you can’t. i’ve no idea why.

huh. i have an SE. maybe smaller screens don't get it.

Ah - while music is playing I get a nice full size player on the lock screen

Teeny music controls on control centre now a lot more difficult to hit accurately

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Doesn’t matter if you have Bluetooth headphones as the controls don’t seem to work most of the time, on the headset or on control centre.

For the first time, I've started to get interested in the watch as a means of breaking free of my phone addiction. Curious to hear back from new users, esp. those not interested in the fitness/running stuff.

Seems like this is not the version for that. Battery life is terrible without a phone nearby to do the heavy lifting

i’ve been playing with this watch a tonne tonight and it’s still on 73% battery

stet: do you mean the lte version? many reasons i didn’t buy that version, battery life being just one

Rumors already flying re next year:

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/25/apples-2018-iphone-lcd/

Which if true makes the iPhone 8 the last of its size for the future.

these are the ways in which ios 11 is shitting me on my iphone 6:

• music judders regularly
• this morning i couldn’t stream music at all until i changed the phone language
• my watch tells me what my phone is playing five seconds before my phone ui can catch up
• orientation lock randomly ignores me (i’ll lock my phone in locked portrait orientation, and when i unlock the phone it’s locked in landscape)
• apps crash so frequently it’s like being on an android
• just general lagginess across the board

So my wife should not bother updating her iPhone 6 then?

(And for the record, I switched from an iPhone to Android this year and have never had any apps crash on me)

So my wife should not bother updating her iPhone 6 then?

she should definitely definitely wait for a more stable release. this is beta quality.

on my SE I've noticed no problems fwiw

ditto

weird that the se is more immune than the 7, but that consistently seems to be the case

i thought you had a 6?

i do, but people with the 7 are feeling it too

e.g. veg grrrrl & nhex mentioned upthread that ios 11 is hitting their batteries