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I just wet a rag with some warm water and add a little dish soap, no reason to go fancy with cleaning or blast your phone with water directly.
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buglord posted:
Put it in an autoclave.
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Dec 11, 2018 21:27
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tuyop posted:Put it in an autoclave. Is there any danger of water getting under my screen protector?
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Dec 11, 2018 21:29
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Put it in a balloon with some helium
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Dec 11, 2018 21:42
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Avalerion posted:...so the screen doesn't get scratched. Any reason I shouldn't? The regular phone glass should prevent the vast majority of scratches unless you are regularly keeping the screen around metal or sand. I have virtually none on my launch X without being overly careful. And yes, a big negative IMO is you're changing how the screen feels to interact with.
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I dropped my X from a bus onto the ground and there's a small scratch on the display so I'm going to buy a screen protector hoping that the adhesive fills in the scratch and makes it less noticeable
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Dec 11, 2018 21:49
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Something Offal posted:The regular phone glass should prevent the vast majority of scratches unless you are regularly keeping the screen around metal or sand. I have virtually none on my launch X without being overly careful. And yes, a big negative IMO is you're changing how the screen feels to interact with. Dunno where they came from, but my old one has quite a few of these after a few years so it's something I want to avoid for the new phone.
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Dec 11, 2018 21:55
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I use (generic brand) Lysol cleaning wipes to clean my phone, and have for years. There's zero chance I'm not properly santizing this thing just about every day after all the disgusting poo poo I touch at my job.
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Something Offal posted:The regular phone glass should prevent the vast majority of scratches unless you are regularly keeping the screen around metal or sand. I have virtually none on my launch X without being overly careful. And yes, a big negative IMO is you're changing how the screen feels to interact with. A tempered glass guard doesn’t change the feel and protects against impacts that would shatter your screen, so they are a smart investment. I have had good quality and poo poo quality ones, and none caused trouble with the touchscreen for me, and I have issues with skin conductivity due to chemical burns as a toddler making my skin very dry.
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Pivo posted:I dropped my X from a bus onto the ground and there's a small scratch on the display so I'm going to buy a screen protector hoping that the adhesive fills in the scratch and makes it less noticeable Fill with chapstick first?
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eSIM is awesome. I travel to Ireland a lot from the USA and usually have to fumble with my bag-o-SIM cards on the plane to my Irish card to avoid getting hosed by AT&T for international data. It was always worth it because for €20 I get unlimited data in Ireland and 6GB in the EU for 28 days. Great. The downside was that i would miss any calls to my American number until I got back home and more importantly wouldn’t get texts from the few applications that don’t support a proper TOTP app for 2FA. But now I have best of both worlds! Data and primary phone activated via my Irish sim but also can get texts and be alerted for missed calls for my American number that I can then call back for free via google voice. Question though - if I’m on WiFi and my eSIM reports it’s connected via AT&T WiFi, I can call and text from that line all I want for free right? Since it connects via the internet and not an international roaming cellular network?
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I can’t wait for the inevitable “help I’m being billed $69,420 for roaming data on holidays what do I do” stories.
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dutchbstrd posted:Question though - if I’m on WiFi and my eSIM reports it’s connected via AT&T WiFi, I can call and text from that line all I want for free right? Since it connects via the internet and not an international roaming cellular network?
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https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00KV30IHG/ Amazon lightning deal, $100 ITunes card (physical) for $85.
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Endless Mike posted:Probably, but you're better off asking the AT&T thread (or AT&T themselves). Yeah based on what I read on the AT&T forums anything you on AT&T wireless is free / as if you were in the US - so you can receive any call or send any text. But you still pay for outbound international calls, which makes sense.
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iTunes is saying I've got 20gb of 'Documents and Data'. Is this the new 'Other' where it might as well be garbage and needs a full restore to clear out? I'm travelling in 2 days and want to sync some stuff to my phone to watch so the more space the better, but at the same time I don't really want to go through all the rigmarole of rolling out a restore in case something like my bank app fucks up and I don't have time to resolve it before I go. Just had a brand new battery installed in my 6 and feel like it's still draining quicker than expected when idle, so it's gonna get a restore at some point at least.
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First thing I would do is, on the phone, go to Settings - general - iPhone storage and check the app list, to see how much of the 20GB is legit and maybe see if a couple apps are big offenders. Tapping an app will break down app size and “documents and data”. “Other” still exists, on iOS devices at least. Seems to be close to what is listed as “system” way at the bottom of that app list.
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Yeah, I'd looked through that list before in case there was something obvious eating up a ton. I added up everything that was 100mb+ in Docs/Data and hit 6.5gb. Tons of apps were under 10mb in usage, so even with lots of little things added up it stlil feels like there's only about 1/2 in use compared to whats being reported. Photos use up <1gb as I have a 50gb iPhoto account and it's told to store everything there. No music as I have Match and do everything over the air. Have a handful of podcasts and some files in VLC that total 2gb but that's the only 'big' stuff. The bar in iOS is calculated differently to iTunes too it seems, with Apps supposedly using about 1/3 of the capacity (so I guess it's the Apps + Docs/Data from iTunes) and Other using up about 1/6, and the entry at the bottom says that's 11gb. Not sure how big that is usually these days? But I think I'm a minor update behind so maybe a chunk of that is install data, so I'll bring it up to date and see if that reduces stuff down by a few gb. E: ran the update which claimed only to be using 500mb anyway, and now the breakdown shows this. Excellent work Apple. 
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There's no harm in trying out a screen protector, they cost very little and if you hate it they come off very easily You should use a slightly damp cotton or microfiber cloth to clean your phone, as soap will gradually degrade the screen coating(s). This is right there in Apple's official advice https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207123. As I'm sure we all hate that late stage of a phone screen's life where it is just constantly oily, you should probably listen to them to avoid that oiliness as long as possible emdash fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Dec 13, 2018 |
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In my experience, if you're signed out of itunes on the phone, any stored music on your device will end up lumped into the "other" category. This assumes you keep music local. Once you sign in all that storage flips over to the media label.
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There *shouldnt* be any music on here, but maybe when I moved over to match some got stuck. I’ll sign in and sign off of iTunes and see if that frees up anything. There really shouldn’t be much on here at all to be honest. A restore is probably the best path but I can get away with the free space I have for the next few weeks at least.
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xzzy posted:In my experience, if you're signed out of itunes on the phone, any stored music on your device will end up lumped into the "other" category. Yeah, it's not going actually remove anything, it'll just deallocate it and lump it in "other". EL BROMANCE posted:There *shouldnt* be any music on here, but maybe when I moved over to match some got stuck. I’ll sign in and sign off of iTunes and see if that frees up anything. There really shouldn’t be much on here at all to be honest. A restore is probably the best path but I can get away with the free space I have for the next few weeks at least. I was under the impression that "other" was clawed back as needed by iOS. What is driving the need to janitor your phone? Has your phone been having issues from this?
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Proteus Jones posted:Yeah, it's not going actually remove anything, it'll just deallocate it and lump it in "other". I thought OP wanted to put a bunch of anime porn on their phone for their work commute or something.
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tuyop posted:I thought OP wanted to put a bunch of anime porn on their phone for their work commute or something. He’s an Uber driver?
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Proteus Jones posted:
In my experience iOS does a very poor job of managing that, because I cheaped out and got a 32gb phone I'm constantly seeing low storage warnings.
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Cartoon Man posted:https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00KV30IHG/ I’m just curious, how many iTunes gift cards have you recently purchased? (Keep posting these please).
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I follow this: https://mobile.twitter.com/itunescarddeals?lang=en I don’t buy every deal or spend it all at once, but I always get the deal if it’s 20% off.
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Is there a recommended private photo/video vault app? Keeply hasn't been updated for X/XS screens and I don't think it's even on the app store any more. iCloud or wifi sync between devices is fine so long as it's got decent encryption. No need to ask why I need the app. You know exactly why.
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Question Mark Mound posted:Is there a recommended private photo/video vault app? Keeply hasn't been updated for X/XS screens and I don't think it's even on the app store any more. Doesn't Snapchat achieve this pretty well with its 'chat' feature? WhatsApp? I've never used Telegram etc but does that allow photo sharing? Congratulations on your fun life. The app thread is probably better for that question: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3668654
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I am upgrading from an iPhone 6 to an XR so i'm a bit out of the loop as to how drop proof phones are these days. I currently have a bumper case on mine which seems like the best combination of protection versus not hiding the entire phone behind plastic or rubber, but since bumper cases seem a little rare I was just curious if I needed one, before buying online and dealing with international shipping.
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xzzy posted:In my experience, if you're signed out of itunes on the phone, any stored music on your device will end up lumped into the "other" category. Music or podcasts streamed can end up there too, and downloaded iOS files sometimes too (they are supposed to end up in files but, well . . .  dissss posted:In my experience iOS does a very poor job of managing that, because I cheaped out and got a 32gb phone I'm constantly seeing low storage warnings. It's gotten better over the years but is still pretty bad, and it's something that seems to completely break at least once every number release beta cycle which leads to the fun of clearing 2 gigs of stuff you're actually using to install the next update.
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There used to be a program that would “clean up” your iPhone storage. Is there anything like that out there still? I also noticed the massive amount of “other” data on my phone as well.  Looking through apps, all of my music from Amazon music gets placed in the “other” category. Combine that with your system data, it would be easy for “other” to reach 20 GBs. But doing nothing other than checking this app and going through storage info has now led my Apps category to increase and Other to decrease. 
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tuyop posted:I thought OP wanted to put a bunch of anime porn on their phone for their work commute or something. Ha, transatlantic flights and staying at places where the only entertainment might be UK OTA TV, so always useful to have a bunch of shows and stuff to hand. I still have a decent amount of free space so all is good, as long as the phone isn’t just permanently storing crap it doesn’t need to and is letting up the space when needed, that’s fine.
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Is there a way to get rid of the word Siri suggestions but keep the frequently used/ recent apps when using spotlight? I use it quite a bit but the word suggestions populate a second or two delayed and often I mistakenly hit those instead of the app I intended to. So far I am only able to disable both by turning off Siri suggestions for spotlight.
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So I'm replacing my 6S+ with an XS today. How crazy would I be to go naked with my new phone? anybody got anecdotes about dropping the XS?
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The Lord Bude posted:So I'm replacing my 6S+ with an XS today. How crazy would I be to go naked with my new phone? anybody got anecdotes about dropping the XS? The Xs Maxxxx is slippery as gently caress. I wouldn’t do it 
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I have to grip the phone a lot harder while typing if I’m not using a case. It’s uncomfortable and I wouldn’t recommend it.
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The Lord Bude posted:So I'm replacing my 6S+ with an XS today. How crazy would I be to go naked with my new phone? anybody got anecdotes about dropping the XS? The XS is super slippery so I'd suggest a case for it. If you're against that then at least get AppleCare.
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The Lord Bude posted:So I'm replacing my 6S+ with an XS today. How crazy would I be to go naked with my new phone? anybody got anecdotes about dropping the XS? It still has a camera bump right? Not being able to set it down flat would be a pain no matter how slippery.
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Skeezy posted:The XS is super slippery so I'd suggest a case for it. If you're against that then at least get AppleCare. I'd sooner get a case than AppleCare.
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