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I looked up upgrade prices on my phone carrier here in the UK for the 15s and I think I might actually get a Pro when it's still less than £50 a month.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Is anyone else having issues with parental controls? I set a daily time limit for my kid's social media apps and like clockwork, within a couple days, the limit deletes itself. I had screen time just stop enforcing limits a few weeks back. Disabling and renabling seemed to fix it.
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Sep 15, 2023 20:54
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Question about those deals through carriers. I'm looking to get a new phone number anyway, and AT&T has a promotion where if I open a new line and trade in my 13 Pro, I get the 15 Pro "free", with the money from my 13 Pro financing the 15 Pro for 24 months. Does this mean I am locked into them for 24 months? Or, if I chose to get a larger amount of storage, am I locked in for 24 months or can I choose to just pay off the difference of what I owe?
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Sep 15, 2023 20:58
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Just wondering: does USB-C charge faster than Lightning? What are the specs on that? Like USB 2 USB-C in the regular 15 vs. Lightning and USB 3 USB-C in the 15 Pro vs. Lightning.
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Sep 15, 2023 21:02
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Rageaholic posted:Just wondering: does USB-C charge faster than Lightning? What are the specs on that? Like USB 2 USB-C in the regular 15 vs. Lightning and USB 3 USB-C in the 15 Pro vs. Lightning. The iPhone 15 spec pages do not list any changes to fast charging speeds and there was no mention of it in the keynote. Probably won't know until someone runs some tests.
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Sep 15, 2023 21:04
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Question about those deals through carriers. I'm looking to get a new phone number anyway, and AT&T has a promotion where if I open a new line and trade in my 13 Pro, I get the 15 Pro "free", with the money from my 13 Pro financing the 15 Pro for 24 months. Does this mean I am locked into them for 24 months? ATT is actually 36 months, so enjoy not being able to upgrade for another 3 years! It's what I do, but I steal my kid's upgrades to upgrades for myself if there's a new phone that I want.
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Sep 15, 2023 21:08
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You can also pay $6/month to trade your phone in and upgrade at 12 months. I believe you also sign another 36 month contract though.
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Sep 15, 2023 21:35
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Ah, right, it is 36 months or the additional fee. What's the general consensus on doing these carrier upgrade deals vs. what I've been, which is using AT&T's prepaid plan + buying the an unlocked phone outright and trading in via Apple every few years? I don't like the idea of being locked into to things and the prepaid plans are a little cheaper, but also AT&T works extremely well in my area compared to the other carriers so I don't really have plans to change services.
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If you’re gonna stick with ATT, what about apples upgrade program?
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Sep 15, 2023 21:57
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Anyone else not get a confirmation email? I was charged for both iPhones I ordered this morning but never got any email.
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Sep 15, 2023 22:08
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Jose Oquendo posted:If you’re gonna stick with ATT, what about apples upgrade program? Well the enticing thing about AT&T's offer is getting $1,000 for trading in my 13 Pro. I never looked much into the carrier finance plans before because their monthly fees are higher than prepaid. But AT&T finally offers an unlimited post-paid plan that is the same price as their pre-paid unlimited plan (with auto pay) for one line only. Which is perfect for me. It says it's $50 a month, but are there added fees? I know I'd be adding whatever I owe on the phone on top of that plus the fee for more frequent upgrades, but is there anything else?
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Sep 15, 2023 22:13
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Ah, right, it is 36 months or the additional fee. What's the general consensus on doing these carrier upgrade deals vs. what I've been, which is using AT&T's prepaid plan + buying the an unlocked phone outright and trading in via Apple every few years? I got my wife an iPhone 13 Pro using AT&T's $1k trade-in deal at the time (same as they're offering now). You're locked in for 3 years, so she had 1 year left. I wanted to upgrade her to a 15 Pro, and as part of AT&T's pre-order process I paid off the remaining balance and will now trade in her 13 Pro for the 15 Pro. It's a slightly better deal than if I paid the full MSRP for the 15 Pro and sold her 13 Pro privately. I'm losing out on 1/3rd of my original $1k trade-in, but I probably would have only been able to sell the 13 Pro for ~$650 at best (her screen has a lot of micro-scratches). I'd rather take the guaranteed payout from the new $1k trade-in than struggle to find a legitimate private buyer. The real downside is I'm locked in for a new 3 years, but the risk of wanting to switch carriers is low.
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Sep 15, 2023 22:19
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gregday posted:Anyone else not get a confirmation email? I was charged for both iPhones I ordered this morning but never got any email. I got a confirmation email about 10 minutes after ordering. Check the orders page on the Apple Store to see if the purchases are in there.
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Sep 15, 2023 22:26
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jabro posted:I got a confirmation email about 10 minutes after ordering. Check the orders page on the Apple Store to see if the purchases are in there. Yep, all there. Just didn't get any email.
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Sep 15, 2023 22:36
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Euphoriaphone posted:I got my wife an iPhone 13 Pro using AT&T's $1k trade-in deal at the time (same as they're offering now). You're locked in for 3 years, so she had 1 year left. I wanted to upgrade her to a 15 Pro, and as part of AT&T's pre-order process I paid off the remaining balance and will now trade in her 13 Pro for the 15 Pro. Oh ok, so like, if for example I bought the base model 15 Pro (128gb), this makes the phone "free" to me from my $1,000 trade in 13 Pro. There would be nothing to pay off, so next year I could in theory just upgrade again and start another 3 year contract?
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Sep 15, 2023 23:30
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Oh ok, so like, if for example I bought the base model 15 Pro (128gb), this makes the phone "free" to me from my $1,000 trade in 13 Pro. There would be nothing to pay off, so next year I could in theory just upgrade again and start another 3 year contract? If you try the same thing again next year — trade in your 15 Pro phone to AT&T and get new credits — they’ll burn your remaining two years of credit. So you’ll effectively have gotten only $333 of credits for sending them your 13 Pro.
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Sep 15, 2023 23:35
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Vegetable posted:Your $1000 credits are spread out over your three year contract with AT&T. You get a tiny installment of it every month with each bill. Ahhh. Right. Thanks for the help guys, the carrier contracts have always been confusing to me. By design, I assume.
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Sep 15, 2023 23:38
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The one thing you can be sure about is all their schemes make them money off you.. there are no actual bargains.
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Sep 16, 2023 00:03
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Shredder posted:My friend has an iphone and wants to take dirty pictures. I found the hidden album, but it's my understanding that this syncs with iCloud, and she has other devices on her account that her children use, so I assume these will sync up with all her devices. Subjunctive posted:Yeah that’s a better way but it sucks if your kids have a bunch of game state under your Apple ID since there’s no good way to transfer it all She's going to have to create separate Apple IDs for her kids (and add them to her family - not strictly required but she might as well do it) at some point anyway, so might as well start now. She could also turn off iCloud Photos on the kids' iPads, but better to do it the proper way.
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My wife still has an XR and is totally happy with it EXCEPT for the camera being hot garbage. My initial plan was going to be to give her my 13 Pro and upgrade myself to the 15 Pro. But I’m super ‘meh’ on the 15 Pro, so I think we’ll just upgrade her to the 15 vanilla for “free” thanks to Verizon’s trade in. Will the vanilla 15’s camera take photos that are better than, or at least comparable to, my 13 Pro? I’m tired of her asking for my phone all the time to take pictures 
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Sep 16, 2023 10:06
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OldSenileGuy posted:My wife still has an XR and is totally happy with it EXCEPT for the camera being hot garbage. My initial plan was going to be to give her my 13 Pro and upgrade myself to the 15 Pro. But I’m super ‘meh’ on the 15 Pro, so I think we’ll just upgrade her to the 15 vanilla for “free” thanks to Verizon’s trade in. I moved from a XR to a 14 and the images are far better. I imagine a 15 should be even more substantial change with the move from 12 to 48MP.
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Sep 16, 2023 11:50
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Oh yeah, I have no doubts the 15 will have substantially better images than the XR. I’m just wondering how it’ll compare to the 13 Pro because if the 13 Pro still has better pictures then it won’t solve my issue of her constantly taking my phone to take pictures
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Sep 16, 2023 11:55
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I think you’ll be fine, resolution alone is huge, it’s just missing teleobjective  Sorry for the German but you’ll get the gist I guess
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Taima posted:Yeah I mean you're definitely making a good point. Do you want me to check your account ? This could all be the case and you don’t qualify , but I could at least give you a better answer.
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Ahhh. Right. xzzy posted:The one thing you can be sure about is all their schemes make them money off you.. there are no actual bargains. Everyone is correct that the carriers are deliberately confusing, but I don’t think people are considering that on the flip side that for me, and me specifically, it provides excellent job security. Until they eventually outsource me  iPhone launch #13 for me, this one was way busier than last year. More people got the regular vs pro than normal , that surprised me. Pro and Pro Maxes are naturally backordered to end of the month to middle of October already, which we will see whether that is accurate or if they’ll get more inventory early.
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Duckman2008 posted:iPhone launch #13 for me, this one was way busier than last year. More people got the regular vs pro than normal , that surprised me. Eh I’m not surprised really. Just looking at the iPhone comparison tool on Apple’s website it looks like the only things the Pro gets over the regular are: 120Hz screen, always on screen, and a telephoto lens. There’s other stuff of course but they’re all spec bumps that most people don’t care about or will even notice (A16 vs A17 etc) and I can’t imagine anyone would buy a phone specifically for the small bit of metal it’s made out of. Also considering how people janitor their phone batteries I can’t imagine the AOD being a positive selling point so all in all it’s really only the 120Hz display and the telephoto. And the telephoto prolly doesn’t matter to most people as long as they can zoom in and if you’ve never had a 120Hz screen before you prolly dgaf for it either. I decided against upgrading this year but if I did I definitely would have gone from 12 Pro to 15 Regular especially cause the colors are better. Boris Galerkin fucked around with this message at 13:05 on Sep 16, 2023 |
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Sep 16, 2023 13:02
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Will the new iOS allow what they demoed at some Apple event where I can put my iPhone in a cradle and FaceTime through Apple TV? Are they going to sell cradles or will people just lean them up against something on the furniture? Legit excited for this as facetiming family to family is a chore.
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Sep 16, 2023 14:33
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The 14 was a pretty garbage update over the 13, so not surprising if people who skipped the upgrade last year are going for the 15 now.
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Sep 16, 2023 14:37
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I’ve been wanting what they’re calling Standby for like 15 years. My Motorola Droid in 2009 had a little stand that would active a docked mode and turn it into a fashionable little alarm clock calendar thing. I don’t know why it took Apple this long to do it.
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Sep 16, 2023 14:38
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I’ve made a shortcut to turn on the “Switch Control” accessibility feature alongside a few other things but for some reason, switch control only turns on very rarely when I run it. If it didn’t work at all I could try to rule something out but it’s unpredictable as to when it’ll work. Any ideas? (Or alternatively, any better way to have my iPhone or iPad work as an auto-clicker for gacha games?) Question Mark Mound fucked around with this message at 14:52 on Sep 16, 2023 |
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Sep 16, 2023 14:48
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smackfu posted:The 14 was a pretty garbage update over the 13, so not surprising if people who skipped the upgrade last year are going for the 15 now. This is a good point. Rolo posted:I’ve been wanting what they’re calling Standby for like 15 years. Apple was too busy having the courage to remove the headphone jack.
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Sep 16, 2023 14:56
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It is weird they never took advantage of an always on display or screensaver type stuff considering they've been using OLED for 6 years now.
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Sep 16, 2023 15:00
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Seriously. I didn’t care much until I got this sexy little Anker MagSafe stand for next to my bed. I’ve been reaching behind my night stand for a cord for years and I never threw money at the annoyance until now.
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Rolo posted:I’ve been wanting what they’re calling Standby for like 15 years. My first smartphone was the Motorola Atrix, aka the phone they sold as a laptop replacement that came with a dock you could use and connect a keyboard and mouse (that I still have) into. I never used it for that but the stand did charge the phone and prop it up so sat happily next to my bed for the entire time I owned it. I absolutely want a stand to use a phone like an alarm clock again.
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https://www.amazon.com/Belkin-MagSa...rd_i=B0B5XWJW36 https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B09CG8P8X5?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title I got the Anker one and so far recommend it. Charges my phone, watch and pods through magnet magic. The belkin one charges faster and doesn’t use old USB A charging for the watch but it’s pretty spicy on the wallet. 
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Rolo posted:https://www.amazon.com/Belkin-MagSa...rd_i=B0B5XWJW36 Can you turn the LEDs off? I don't want any indicator lights in my bedroom
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Hed posted:Can you turn the LEDs off? I don't want any indicator lights in my bedroom I don't think so, luckily its high enough up and I'm blind enough that my eyes don't catch them. Also I'm sure they will eventually but it would be nice to have more than 2 widgets in standby. I don't need half my phone just to see what the battery is at.
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Hed posted:Can you turn the LEDs off? I don't want any indicator lights in my bedroom Just get these to solve all your problems LightDims Black Out Edition - Light Blocking LED covers/Light Dimming Sheets for Routers, Electronics and Appliances and more. Blocks 100% of Light, in Minimal Packaging. https://a.co/d/dmBsxU7
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Sep 16, 2023 18:19
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Meanwhile the soviets just used electrical tape.
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withak posted:Meanwhile the soviets just used electrical tape. It works but doesn’t look as classy and tends to start curling up at the edges. LightDims are a pro choice
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