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
songs greyed out or vanished altogether?
― Jeff, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 03:32 (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ha probably
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 9 October 2017 20:47 (six years ago) link
all gone, only the 3 or 4 albums that I bought from the iTunes store many years ago remain
― marcos, Monday, 9 October 2017 21:00 (six years ago) link
reminds me of years ago when i made a balls up with my iTunes library and all i had left was this:
https://imgur.com/n1dV5ML
― Fizzles, Monday, 9 October 2017 21:13 (six years ago) link
let's try again:
https://i.imgur.com/n1dV5ML.jpg
that's a good library
― mh, Monday, 9 October 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
MART SPLAYLIST
― El Tomboto, Monday, 9 October 2017 21:17 (six years ago) link
jesus
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 9 October 2017 21:41 (six years ago) link
marcos: apple music, or your own files you transferred directly via itunes?
re airpods: flawless playing from my watch. i did the phone/pocket thing again (re-paired), fewer people around this morning but it seemed fine, except when i put my hand in my pocket and presumably blocked the bluetooth circuitry. perhaps i just need to learn how transmission works.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 9 October 2017 22:07 (six years ago) link
it’s training you not to keep your hands in your pockets all the time
― mh, Monday, 9 October 2017 23:04 (six years ago) link
ha pretty much.honestly i’ll be thrilled if i can get this sorted because these things are so impressive. when apple totally nails the user experience it’s like nothing else.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 9 October 2017 23:19 (six years ago) link
Gotta say that's some pretty shitty antenna design.
― DJI, Monday, 9 October 2017 23:20 (six years ago) link
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, October 9, 2017 5:41 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Own files from iTunes. obv not a huge pain to re-upload but still it was kind of weird
― marcos, Monday, 9 October 2017 23:22 (six years ago) link
maybe it’s improved since my iphone 6. following the enforced death of headphone jacks it’d bloody need to improve tbf xp
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 9 October 2017 23:22 (six years ago) link
xp weird that your own files disappeared suddenly. did you upgrade the phone os just recently? (sorry if you’ve already mentioned it, i can’t go back through the apple threads just now)
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 9 October 2017 23:23 (six years ago) link
okay so the airpods have been a load better today, probably because i (a) kept my hands out of my pockets and (b) stayed away from street-level electrified tram tracks (it only dropped out when i was crossing the road)
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 02:14 (six years ago) link
more dropouts when walking (it wasn't the tram lines after all) and with the apple tv well clear of other wireless/bluetooth things, so i spoke to apple. they told me:
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 11:09 (six years ago) link
also it was weird how they rattled off all this almost-legalese "you're holding it wrong" type language followed by "i hope you're very satisfied with my service" and "thanks for being in the apple family!!" uh okay.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 11:17 (six years ago) link