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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

No issues on the 6 I updated, other than some general slowness, which was there already.

Same here. A few orientation missteps and a some slow animations but overall not worse than iOS 10

i've had zero problems on 7 so far

I am happy with my 8 so far although I'm still pissed about the headphone jack. I haven't looked, has anyone made a Lightning splitter?

(Would that even work? I haven't looked at any of the tech specs tbh)

Yeah, you can get splitters with two Lightning jacks or with a Lightning jack and standard headphone jack.

the iPhone dock has a headphone port and charge port. I have one at work because if I just have my phone plugged in, I'll screw around with it all the time

I've also used this sucker with a USB dac. Don't believe "camera adapter" terminology -- the newer devices support a handful of things via USB: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MK0W2AM/A/lightning-to-usb-3-camera-adapter?fnode=97

You can connect the USB ethernet adapter to it and use an iPad with ethernet. Useful if you're somewhere with network ports in the room but wifi that requires stupid auth.

My 6 has been great on 11 except for increased battery drain and some slowness with launching Siri. They just released 11.0.1

Is there no lightning-ready mini DAC on the market ?

https://www.google.com/shopping/product/9501457075919728060?lsf=seller:1057813,store:12938073204014769012&prds=oid:7234063464684290058&q=lightning+DAC&hl=en&ei=c5rKWZDkJ8TcmQGq36eIBQ&lsft=gclid:Cj0KCQjw9afOBRDWARIsAJW4nvzQJUbkO71LEo8olg6Tu5OUalwpOMdsCfM1Xp5SuUZ_26aUwVh5sS0aAmM3EALw_wcB

and many more

though reviews for that one say it's not noticeably better than apples own adaptor

there are, but if you have any usb dac or sound card you can go ahead and just use that

fwiw the iPhone dock has the same chip as the adapter dongle, afaik

11.0.1 has made quite the difference

Will try 11.0.1 tonight. 11 does appear to have impacted battery life on my SE, but I can't really tell if that might be down to (i) obsessively checking the Federer-Kyrgios score when I was in the park Sunday evening (it was basically an exhibition event!) and (ii) using it frequently as a *phone* due to impending house move requiring actual conversations. It's into the 20s by the time I get in from work, at 8:30pm or so, which is not great, considering how little I'm on it in the office.

On a contract with the SE until Jan 2019, so I hope this is resolved. 4s and 5s were well in their dotage(!) before they started having battery life issues. 4s still acceptable for the elder daughter, despite the hammering of YouTube. Really don't like the size of 6/7/8/X or the proposed 9 but I'll probably just fall into line with everyone else in a couple of years (me in 2010: "I will never need a smartphone"; me in 2012: "I have no interest in overpriced Apple crap").

High Sierra has had some odd effects on my 2014-ish MBP too. Keyboard just freezing after a few minutes of inactivity - unable to type in Notes, or Cmd+Tab to another app (getting "bonk" sound). Esc and re-entering password at lock screen solved it each time.

yeah I think I'm gonna stay away from high sierra for some time.

Hoping 11.0.1 does something about this awful battery situation. Wishing I'd avoided 11, hasn't given me much tbh

too many 32bit apps on my computer to comfortably update to High Sierra yet. Some are fun little old apps that will probably never get updated, some are current essential tools that probably will eventually.

I honestly don't know if I have any 32bit apps and I really should have made the effort to find out :/ Certainly my free battery health monitor has vanished from my menu bar.