I HATE APPLE

have you tried compressed air? there's often some pretty exciting lint in iPhone ports in my experience.

Compressed air won't work. You have to take a tooth pick to the port and pick out all the lint that's gradually accumulated in there over the last year. And I mean really scrape at it. You'll be surprised how much fuzz comes out. That's what's interfering with the charger connection.

compressed air might work! and it's fun. toothpicks are fun too. basically you're going to have a really satisfying five minutes with your phone. don't use a metal implement though.

lol it is very fun. I used a metal thingy (a seam ripper) and it worked great

i used needle nose tweezers and my phone immediately powered down like i'd just shorted two pins that shouldn't be shorted.

I had to replace the charging port on my previous iphone; cost about $70 from a local independent shop. The headphone jack was part of the same module; both jacks were flaky on my phone.

i use bamboo toothpicks because the regular compressed sawdust toothpicks aren't strong enough. caek otm about the gnarly lint though

anyone who has migrated to android or whatever and is happy with it?

did it last year, never looked back.

i just need phone, internet, music and a company that isn't going to fuck my shit up on a regular basis

samsung have not fucked up my shit yet. their music player isn't the best - neither was the iphone app iirc - but it's functional, other options may be available but i've never bothered to investigate (99% of my listening is via spotify).

How come it’s so hard to make good devices in 2018?

Androids are a different adventure, but at least I feel more like part of the world now than locked inside someone's - forgive me, I hate this phrase too - "walled garden".

Just to be able to hook up my phone via USB and drag photos out of my DCIM folder without having to go through a whole separate shitty app like Photos or iTunes is a breath of fresh air.

I have never had any mobile phone other than iphone, and I have only ever dragged photos directly out of the DCIM folders.

i have an iPhone SE. i hate how when you run low on space it tells you the top of the settings menu with a little helpful button but clicking on it only brings you to a wizard to sign up for the cloud. there's an option to clear out recently removed files that would be super convenient to have for that one button fix but instead i have to drill down into several menus for that. no doubt this is designed this way on purpose.

I have never had any mobile phone other than iphone, and I have only ever dragged photos directly out of the DCIM folders.

Do you use a third-party app? It's not like the phone appears as a drive on your desktop when you plug it in.

pplains, if I plug my iPhone into my work PC running Windows 10, the phone asks if I want to grant the computer access to Photos/Videos and it shows up as a device with a DCIM folder

I am getting an iphone SE - only 110$ refurbished which is the only way I would buy an iphone - mostly I want that damn good camera

PC running Windows 10

THAT'S the difference.

(I.H.A.)

i still have a windows phone.
last man standing.

haha You are a rare breed indeed! I honor you

must be nice to be able to use Windows 10 start menu

it's pretty decent tbh. I have tiles turned off, though

i genuinely love the simple groove between my w10 laptop and windows phone.
no problems at all.
other than there are no add on apps available.
phone/txt/camera/music/twitter : i am good.
the more i read threads like this the more i hug my phone.
and yes, i am aware that even MS have dumped the tech.
as i said, last man standing.
re tiles : always switch off both on phone and W10.
basic fight club rule.

I still really think my current phone is the best phone-shaped little computer I have owned

I also find it useless or fiddly to organize a myriad of apps past the home screen, which means I find apps half the time by using search. Which is fine, until I have to click on the icon to uninstall it or w/e and it's unfindable

I really want to order the red 8 even though I already have a 7 plus...just love the color

Do you use a third-party app? It's not like the phone appears as a drive on your desktop when you plug it in.

yeah, it always has appeared as an external drive on Windows.

Take it to the I LOVE MICROSOFT thread.

Just use Dropbox. Drag and drop photos there and access them on your phone or the web.

Xpost lol
Agree
This is a hate Apple thread

I hate Apple's OS so I use Windows.

iPhone : Windows
Android : macOS

https://i.imgur.com/dlqDRjQ.gif

Just use Dropbox. Drag and drop photos there and access them on your phone or the web.

― dan selzer, Tuesday, April 10, 2018 9:14 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Dropbox for iOS is the devil IME. It quietly reserves more and more storage for itself until you realize your phone is almost maxed out, and the only way to clear its cache is to delete and reinstall the app. I had it swell to 15GB over the course of two days for no damn reason at all

compressed air might work! and it's fun. toothpicks are fun too. basically you're going to have a really satisfying five minutes with your phone. don't use a metal implement though.

it did!! a small speck of dust flew out and suddenly charging worked again. this incredible, magnificent, expensive device, nearly completely ruined by nature's most basic element.

just dunk it in the sink to rinse it all out :)

https://sixcolors.com/link/2018/04/report-homepod-sales-lagging/

i had completely forgotten that it existed tbh

Apple weirdly manages to maintain the glow of a company that always succeeds in spite of a long history of failed and disappointing products. I don't think Apple TV is a huge success either compared to Roku and amazon and google's products.

yeah, it's alarming, to be honest. Apple was angling to run the home entertainment department a few years ago and it hasn't succeeded at all. Gonna be interesting to see how its huge investment in content plays out, given that it'll be for platforms that aren't widely used. It's next chance at a game-changing breakthrough is probably self-driving cars.

It doesn’t help, as Gurman points out, that touted features like multi-room support and stereo pairing are still MIA, a couple months after the device’s release.
hilarious

Anyone else having the stuttering iPhone audio issue since upgrading to iOS 11.3? Apparently mostly impacting the 6 and 7 models. More here: http://piunikaweb.com/2018/04/12/ios-113-users-reporting-music-audio-skipping-problem/

It happens to me in podcasts, the native Music app and Spotify. Both streaming and locally downloaded music/podcasts. Restart gets rid of it for a short time, but it keeps coming back.

Yep I’ve got it, really annoying

No way I’m updating to 11.3 then.

Yeah, I would definitely hold off if you haven't. There are apparently lots of other issues, including apparently some folks who've had their screens repaired by third parties getting completely locked out and issues with floating icons. Sounds like one of the buggiest roll-outs for the older models in some time.

I do a lot of stuff with synths on my SE so it sounds like a massive don’t for me

No issues with 11.3 on my SE, though I probably wouldn't have updated if I'd known

no issues with 11.3 on my 6+ (yet)

took advantage of the 29$ battery thing, too. Waited 3.5 months but finally got it. Has given my oldy a little spark of new life.

I had the skipping issue after the 11.3 update but in a very particular way -- only in the podcast player and only when I was listening on the lightning-cable earbuds. never with the bluetooth. I restarted a couple days ago and it has never come back.

I'm still getting the skipping issue from time to time, it seems (for me) to be tied to the lock screen. I seem to be mostly able to avoid the issue if I start playing music or a podcast, pause it, lock the screen, then wait a few seconds and start it up again with the button my headphones. Works about 98% of the time and I'm glad it's a workaround, but c'mon, fix it.

I guess I'm lucky though, lots of reports of the skipping happening on calls too.

thanks for including a "Do Not Ask Me Again" tickbox on your update prompt which apparently does NOTHING AT ALL

is High Sierra ok yet?

i think so