Also sorry Mordy that sucks
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 23 September 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
not smug about this at all, and i can't imagine how i'd be freaking right now if this happened to me, but i never turned on "find my iphone" precisely because it seemed like an attack vector, to use the phrasey-ology, that would some day some way be exploited
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 23 September 2017 16:53 (six years ago) link
I dunno, I've lost iPhones and iPads & iPod touches to thefts & burglaries (ugh) and I was happy to be able to lock them remotely. You can put a message on the lost device so we put our phone number & a few months later with the iPads I got a text from Tunisia from someone who wanted me to send them the passcode for the device because they couldn't unlock it. L O L was our reply obv but I'm glad that no one else could use the devices.
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 23 September 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link
I’m curious about how most people with a single email address handle apple’s policy of not letting the recovery email be the same as their appleid email
I woke up from a nap the other evening and had a half dozen recovery codes.... for my mom. When we set up her account I used my address because it was convenient, and that was how I discovered she has a new iPad!
I think it’s fine, I could probably have it sent to my dad’s email, but it was funny
― mh, Saturday, 23 September 2017 19:39 (six years ago) link
I've turned Find My Mac off for the moment.
― Alba, Saturday, 23 September 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link
You should be fine from this attack so long as both your Apple ID and recovery email account passwords are unique and secure. But eugh, it's time to leave passwords behind.
― stet, Saturday, 23 September 2017 20:41 (six years ago) link
Any word about how long they take to fix this? Is it a fifteen minute kind of thing or am I going without my laptop for a day or two?
― Mordy, Saturday, 23 September 2017 20:46 (six years ago) link
I think you'd have to go with whatever support says? I don't think anyone's reported back yet, but this is something where only they're going to know and afaik each person affected will have to call support, unless all of the requests came from one malicious person
― mh, Saturday, 23 September 2017 22:00 (six years ago) link
lol https://robservatory.com/apple-says-dont-use-time-machine-if-you-take-lots-of-photos/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 29 September 2017 00:34 (six years ago) link
Every review of the iPhone 8 is like , "it's a great phone, but who's it for?" What hogwash.
― calstars, Friday, 29 September 2017 00:58 (six years ago) link
The sentiment is hogwash, or the phone is?
― Nhex, Friday, 29 September 2017 01:29 (six years ago) link
It’s a reasonable incremental update and the majority of people treat phones as a commodity. Most will maybe get a new one when their carrier contract expires, and it’s a matter of having a thing you can do all the normal phone crap on, with a camera that’s better, maybe some tweaks
― mh, Friday, 29 September 2017 01:53 (six years ago) link
have had to hard reset my SE like 4 times since updating to 11.0.1, what, less than 48 hours ago
― Clay, Friday, 29 September 2017 04:43 (six years ago) link
i left my iphone 6 in aeroplane mode overnight and it lost 15% battery. this release is a mess.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 29 September 2017 21:58 (six years ago) link
I HATE APPLE
― calstars, Friday, 29 September 2017 23:12 (six years ago) link
aeroplane mode
I don't know why I find this funny
― El Tomboto, Friday, 29 September 2017 23:15 (six years ago) link
My battery’s draining faster than a velocipede!!!
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Friday, 29 September 2017 23:19 (six years ago) link
Yah same
― Spottie, Saturday, 30 September 2017 00:37 (six years ago) link
as incredibly good as this new apple watch is, siri still needs work. on the whole it’s the best it’s ever been by some distance, but the snarky responses get in the way of accessibility, e.g. when you ask what the time is (because sight impaired people would rely on questions like this) and it says “same time as it was yesterday hur dur”, and displays the time but doesn’t announce it. can’t believe they haven’t sorted this out.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 30 September 2017 00:59 (six years ago) link
I've been ruined by Star Trek most assuredly, but the "processing" time for Siri always feels too slow to me
― Nhex, Saturday, 30 September 2017 03:13 (six years ago) link
google’s much quicker so yeah
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 30 September 2017 03:42 (six years ago) link
"play my favourites"
"here's what I found about 'your favorites' on the internet"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 30 September 2017 08:45 (six years ago) link
"Call goomah""Call mom?"
― calstars, Saturday, 30 September 2017 11:26 (six years ago) link
watch out if you're managing external disks you might ever need to read from a non-high sierra mac https://mjtsai.com/blog/2017/09/29/unwanted-conversions-to-apfs/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 30 September 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
Updated to 11.0.1, and battery life on my iPhone 7 Plus is improved...But just had the first complete frozen screen ever, and had to hard reset.
― Luna Schlosser, Saturday, 30 September 2017 22:12 (six years ago) link
11.0.2 and my battery life is still a fucking disgrace
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 10:37 (six years ago) link
the question I have about the iPhone X is, does it make phone calls?
― calstars, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 11:28 (six years ago) link
yes but only to high net-worth individuals
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 11:30 (six years ago) link
really not looking forward to a year of "actually it's pronounced iphone ten"
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 11:31 (six years ago) link
i have an iphone 6, my battery life has been poor for ages, doesn't seem any worse with this update, maybe I got lucky
― akm, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 12:44 (six years ago) link
Hm, (my 5S) battery life definitely improved on 11.0.1, should I be careful updating to 11.0.2? (going by autumn almanac's post...)
― willem, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 14:40 (six years ago) link
honestly i have no idea. i think my battery life was better in 11.0.1 than 11.0.2 (and 11.0) but not 100% sure. imo the more likely explanation is that many of the bugs are manifesting inconsistently across apparently identical devices, which potentially makes debugging/testing a total nightmare.
one curious bug that’s fucking me right off is when i reply to a text directly from the notification, and after typing 2–3 words the whole thing suddenly disappears. i’ve not read about this one anywhere so have no idea how many people are impacted by it.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 23:58 (six years ago) link
far more app crashes under 11.0.2, definitely
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 5 October 2017 06:26 (six years ago) link
Thanks. I’ll wait for .3 to appear.
― willem, Thursday, 5 October 2017 06:44 (six years ago) link
i had been putting off updating to 11, based on this thread, and awoke to find that my phone had updated itself automatically overnight (something it's never successfully done ever, even when i wanted it to)
― gbx, Saturday, 7 October 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link
lol at single user console on a 15inch retina. it's like they've etched it on a grain of rice.
― sktsh, Saturday, 7 October 2017 21:38 (six years ago) link
is icloud photo library reliable?
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 7 October 2017 21:47 (six years ago) link
It is the nearest thing to reliable I’ve ever seen from Apple. It once failed to reliably sync a few deletions across devices but that’s about it
― stet, Saturday, 7 October 2017 22:18 (six years ago) link
If you want reliable, diy
― calstars, Saturday, 7 October 2017 23:06 (six years ago) link
buddy you have not seen what happens when I do things
― mh, Saturday, 7 October 2017 23:43 (six years ago) link
thanks stet. sounds like it’s worth doing.calstars: i already back up all the important photos to external hdd, google and onedrive. iphoto cloud library would just be for convenience, and because ‘er indoors wants all her stuff to be easy.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 7 October 2017 23:58 (six years ago) link
fair enough
― calstars, Saturday, 7 October 2017 23:58 (six years ago) link
So for convenience only, yes no prob
― calstars, Saturday, 7 October 2017 23:59 (six years ago) link
fantastic, thank you
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 8 October 2017 00:28 (six years ago) link
fwiw apple music also seems to be decently solid now. no real issues beyond every single song being unavailable (grey) until you restart, which is probably just another ios 11 bug
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 8 October 2017 00:29 (six years ago) link
bought airpods, the frequency of dropouts is sort of ridiculous
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 9 October 2017 11:25 (six years ago) link
take em back, I've experienced that maybe once the entire time I've owned them
― mh, Monday, 9 October 2017 14:04 (six years ago) link
thanks mh. at first i thought it was my shitty phone buckling under the weight of ios 11, but the sound dropped out a few times with the apple tv as well, although it got better when i moved the apple tv.
looking on the web, dozens of reports of dropouts when people put their phone in their pocket, and only when they're walking outside. that's what happened to me. seems weird that bluetooth contention (or something??) would defeat a <2 foot connection when it was coping with 60+ feet in the office.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 9 October 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link
You probably bought Bluetooth shielding pants by accident.
― Jeff, Monday, 9 October 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link
oh hey my whole music library on my iphone disappeared, that's cool
― marcos, Monday, 9 October 2017 16:33 (six years ago) link