I never knew that swiping up was "force quitting" an app
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 29 April 2019 22:10 (five years ago) link
My one gripe is it won’t sync over cellular and there’s not option to turn that on.
https://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/xlarge/public/field/image/2018/05/adjust-cellular-data-icloud-photo-library-screenshot.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 16:01 (five years ago) link
(turn on iCloud photo sync over cellular there)
Thanks
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 21:08 (five years ago) link
Gotta say I love using Apple Pay online bc I have had more than enough of e-commerce checkout flows for this lifetime.
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 02:42 (five years ago) link
what's the difference between that and like Paypal?
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 07:36 (five years ago) link
Not huge, especially if it PayPal onetouch; although PayPal has some legacy workflows which have some sucky interface quirks such as having to put in addresses in multiple times. This is definitely more on merchant implementation than than on PayPal itself.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 07:48 (five years ago) link
9:22Absolute Manage has installed 2 softwar packages on your computer.(shut down) (i will restart later) (restart now)
clicks restart later.
9:25Absolute Manage has installed 2 softwar packages on your computer.(shut down) (i will restart later) (restart now)
9:28Absolute Manage has installed 2 softwar packages on your computer.(shut down) (i will restart later) (restart now)
...
― koogs, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 08:29 (five years ago) link
moves popup window to bottom left of second screen and prepares to ignore it for the rest of the day.
moves cursor to primary screen and hits enter.
popup window still has focus so computer restarts.
pah.
― koogs, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 08:36 (five years ago) link
Next time kill it from Activity Manager and it won’t be back
― stet, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 15:09 (five years ago) link
really not happy w Apple Mail returning "Top Hits" when I search
I just want the most recent messages containing my search terms, thanks
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 15:14 (five years ago) link
I just got a spam alert on my ical (it arrived at the same time as an email with the same message) that i'd won an iphone x. I can understand spam email but spam ical alerts? is this a new thing?
― Funky Isolations (jed_), Monday, 26 August 2019 23:54 (four years ago) link
If the email had a date or iCal attachment in it, I could see that happening.
― DJI, Monday, 26 August 2019 23:59 (four years ago) link
I just got the same thing on Google calendar! Repeating event so it showed up like a million times. I thought it was bc I used some website's 'auto add to calendar' thing for an appt. i made but it was a legit service, + now I see this post... Weird!
― lumen (esby), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 01:25 (four years ago) link
I got it too. I've had them occasionally before. There was a time when they were harder to get rid of and there was a spate of them.
― Alba, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 10:31 (four years ago) link
I just got this! I saw somewhere that if you have "automatically add events from Gmail" turned on in settings, it may still pick events out of your Junk mail folder.
― Today he dances jazz, but tomorrow he will sell his homeland (seandalai), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 13:08 (four years ago) link
As a lawyer I really fucking hate the way iPhones organize email threads, where you wind up with both internal and external (e.g. to opposing counsel) emails in the same thread and the reply buttons are placed such that it would be really easy to accidentally reply to the wrong email. This causes me constant terror.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 1 September 2019 03:00 (four years ago) link
As a lawyer you really shouldn’t be trusting email
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Sunday, 1 September 2019 03:55 (four years ago) link
My advice to anyone sending sensitive communications is “don’t use email”
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Sunday, 1 September 2019 03:56 (four years ago) link
those bike guys, that's the way to go
― j., Sunday, 1 September 2019 03:56 (four years ago) link
Good excuse for me to recommend bike messenger drama Premium Rush starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Michael Shannon!
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Sunday, 1 September 2019 04:31 (four years ago) link
lol @ not using email I suppose lawyers should all switch to Signal for their clients. That’ll go over well
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 1 September 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
yeah what
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 1 September 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link
anyone with kids successfully configured Downtime in IOS? I swear this was working last year but now it doesn't appear to do shit unless you also configure app limits, which....then what's the point of the 'downtime' feature? I set this to shut off at 10pm and you can still log right into the phone. googling this just takes me to 100s of pages that tell me to turn 'downtime' on. Yeah I did that, thanks wikifuckhow.
― akm, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 14:11 (four years ago) link
I feel like my kids have figured out how to get around Screentime/Downtime in some cases. Like I set all apps to an hour but it show they were on YouTube for an hour and a half..?
― DJI, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 16:06 (four years ago) link
Possibly multiple devices?
― stet, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 16:10 (four years ago) link
it's supposed to span devices if they're under the same ID. frankly I think downtime and screentime are fucked and broken. and apparently apple yanked almost all apps in the app store that would serve as replacements for this; we used to use OurPact which was annoying but did work to an extent, but they kicked it out once they released these features in the OS. I think NetNanny's new apps are the only ones left; net nanny was a fucking piece of shit when I used it before but apparently they were purchased and all their software completely rewritten. maybe I'll give it a shot.
It turns out 'downtime' is frankly just a suggestion, I think. Like, it tells you time to get off, but doesn't actually restrcit anything and you can choose to ignore it. Thanks Apple, that's very useful. You need to put the time limits on the apps (or groups of apps) too. Why they don't just have a 'turn this phone off at 10pm' feature that works is beyond me.
― akm, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
I cancelled my spotify premium because I didn't use it enough. Still had the three-month trial option of Apple Music so I thought I'd give it a try and HOLY FUCKING SHIT ABSOLUTE STATE OF THAT.
― What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers (jed_), Thursday, 19 September 2019 11:02 (four years ago) link
don't get the criticisms on Apple music - I find the UI and layout much easier and relaxing than Spotify. Question of habit I suppose
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 19 September 2019 13:01 (four years ago) link
I think the UI and apps are much better, but the curation/algos on Spotify are vastly better. AM has a tendency to be either v. square, unhelpfully obscure, or blatantly label-promotion
― stet, Thursday, 19 September 2019 13:39 (four years ago) link
I think shoving Apple Music in with the Music app is kind of a shitshow when it comes to the mingled library. Searching for a particular album in the streaming service is OK, but the organization of individual artist pages sucks
The suggestions and playlist stuff are a complete pain, and the suggestions are wack
― untuned mass damper (mh), Thursday, 19 September 2019 15:49 (four years ago) link
Yeah don’t really use curation and suggestions. The mingling with local libraries is precisely what I like about AM
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
otm
― L'assie (Euler), Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
I’m wary of that initial integration with my carefully tagged local library. Last time I tried it it was a sh1tshow
― calstars, Thursday, 19 September 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
google sh1tsh0w, find calstars
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Thursday, 19 September 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link
Apple Music automatically plays African Herbsman by Bob Marley every time I plug my iphone into my car, and also automatically plays it anytime my iphone is playing something else through my car stereo and I stop it or close that app.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 19 September 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
As much as I love The Limiñanas' "A Dead Swan" over and over, autoplaying the first song when connecting to a phone is the stupidest goddamn thing ever. Updating the firmware on my car radio (2013-era Dodge uConnect system) stopped it whenever I connected via Bluetooth, but it still happens when I plug in directly.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 19 September 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link
can you upload something " " that's just silence?
― koogs, Thursday, 19 September 2019 21:06 (four years ago) link
(something called " ")
I have hard that's literally a thing people do
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Thursday, 19 September 2019 21:11 (four years ago) link
*heard
I stopped mine from playing Aaron Neville every time, I had to go in while the song was playing and tell it to shuffle on the now playing page.
That resets if I ever specifically choose anything to play and goes back to hitting me with "Hercules," so Apple Music (which I'm getting free because a friend signed up for the family plan and had an empty spot) is confined to library shuffle duty and I keep Spotify for when I want to listen to something specific.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 19 September 2019 21:15 (four years ago) link
‘A chicken ain’t nothing but a bird’ by cab Calloway every time I connect to a rental. Could be worse, it used to be ‘a bang and wimpy’ Attila the stock broker. (Yes, I’m not sure why Apple’s alphabetical sorting is not working quite right)
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 19 September 2019 21:16 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-b-WJe2nmg
― dan selzer, Thursday, 19 September 2019 21:31 (four years ago) link
Same.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 19 September 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
I made a silent mp3 called "__AA Silence" and synced it to my phone over this issue (xxp)
― DJI, Thursday, 19 September 2019 21:40 (four years ago) link
i always used to get aaliyah playing automatically on my old ipod when it would crash and reboot
― j., Thursday, 19 September 2019 22:46 (four years ago) link
apple music is head and shoulders above the unmitigated clusterfuck it was in its launch year. most of the bugs have gone and the ui is loads better, although not without its weird quirks. it got better while spotify got worse.
― times 牛肉麵 (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 20 September 2019 00:10 (four years ago) link
so... iPad or iPad air?
― heard about you (||||||||), Friday, 20 September 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
go to the store and balance them between hands a few times to get a feel for what’s comfortable the big ipad pro, you can toss it in the air like a pizza pie
― untuned mass damper (mh), Friday, 20 September 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link