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Shaocaholica posted:Ok I don’t want to say criminals are dumb because a lot of them aren’t but it seems like every week there’s a video of an Apple Store getting robbed in broad daylight when it’s most convenient imo. But I’m pretty sure these robbers know these units are all going to be locked so what happens to these stolen iPhones/ipads/macs? Are they being parted out? Is the money from that even worth the risk? Aren’t most Apple parts soft locked anyway to their T chip these days? Are there Apple chop shops? I am told, based on Find My data from people who had their phones pilfered, that the phones are immediately shipped back to China (usually around or near Shenzhen) to be disassembled and used for parts (by the thieves) if possible. So yes, there are Apple chop shops, on that side of the Pacific Ocean.
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Quackles posted:I am told, based on Find My data from people who had their phones pilfered, that the phones are immediately shipped back to China (usually around or near Shenzhen) to be disassembled and used for parts (by the thieves) if possible. There have been a string of posts in r/scams where someone's iPhone was pilfered, ended up in China and someone from the chop shop tries to tick and then threaten the victim into turning off Find My. If they can't sell the stolen phone, they gut it for parts.
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We also had one of those in this thread a couple of months ago.
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Aphrodite posted:We also had one of those in this thread a couple of months ago. Yeah I remember it. My friend got his phone stolen too and they went the whole scam, then threaten route. They all end up in some coastal Chinese city where they try to social engineer the keys to the kingdom before being chopped up
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Feb 21, 2024 21:45
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Shaocaholica posted:Ok I don’t want to say criminals are dumb because a lot of them aren’t but it seems like every week there’s a video of an Apple Store getting robbed in broad daylight when it’s most convenient imo. But I’m pretty sure these robbers know these units are all going to be locked so what happens to these stolen iPhones/ipads/macs? Are they being parted out? Is the money from that even worth the risk? Aren’t most Apple parts soft locked anyway to their T chip these days? Are there Apple chop shops? There are absolutely Apple chop shops, and they’ll either fraudulently sell them claiming they’re clean or sell them for parts. iPhone theft and robbery is still a huge issue.
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Feb 21, 2024 21:52
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Also if you’re coming across weekly smash and grab videos in your regular news feed I’d look at where you’re getting your news from because stuff like that is usually used to fear monger about rising crime and all the various political intricacies of promoting that type of content.
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Feb 21, 2024 21:59
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American McGay posted:Also if you’re coming across weekly smash and grab videos in your regular news feed I’d look at where you’re getting your news from because stuff like that is usually used to fear monger about rising crime and all the various political intricacies of promoting that type of content. I get it but it’s just like local news abc7. It’s like if you watch one you get fed all of them even if it isn’t some racist influencer but just local news videos lol. I may be wrong but I don’t remember broad daylight casually clearing Apple Store tables being a thing pre pandemic. It’s definitely a new trend.
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Feb 21, 2024 22:10
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American McGay posted:Also if you’re coming across weekly smash and grab videos in your regular news feed I’d look at where you’re getting your news from because stuff like that is usually used to fear monger about rising crime and all the various political intricacies of promoting that type of content. Counter point it’s actually happening a lot here in LA which is why it’s making the local news
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Feb 21, 2024 22:14
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Shaocaholica posted:It’s definitely a new trend. https://www.google.com/search?q=-si...F15%2F2020&tbm= It's literally always been a thing to the point that the products apple puts out aren't even fully specced/capable products, just demo models. Calling it a "new trend" is falling for the exact thing fear mongering news aims to do.
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Feb 21, 2024 22:18
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Shaocaholica posted:I get it but it’s just like local news abc7. It’s like if you watch one you get fed all of them even if it isn’t some racist influencer but just local news videos lol. I may be wrong but I don’t remember broad daylight casually clearing Apple Store tables being a thing pre pandemic. It’s definitely a new trend. quote:It is the one great weakness of journalism as a picture of our modern existence, that it must be a picture made up entirely of exceptions. We announce on flaring posters that a man has fallen off a scaffolding. We do not announce on flaring posters that a man has not fallen off a scaffolding. Yet this latter fact is fundamentally more exciting, as indicating that that moving tower of terror and mystery, a man, is still abroad upon the earth. That the man has not fallen off a scaffolding is really more sensational; and it is also some thousand times more common.
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Feb 21, 2024 22:21
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Shaocaholica posted:Ok I don’t want to say criminals are dumb because a lot of them aren’t but it seems like every week there’s a video of an Apple Store getting robbed in broad daylight when it’s most convenient imo. But I’m pretty sure these robbers know these units are all going to be locked so what happens to these stolen iPhones/ipads/macs? Are they being parted out? Is the money from that even worth the risk? Aren’t most Apple parts soft locked anyway to their T chip these days? Are there Apple chop shops? I have no idea the actual answer but I assume part of the equation is selling the soon to be hosed or already hosed phones ASAP below market value to unsuspecting buyers and disappearing with the money before the buyers figure out they got hosed.
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Feb 21, 2024 22:44
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Quackles posted:I am told, based on Find My data from people who had their phones pilfered, that the phones are immediately shipped back to China (usually around or near Shenzhen) to be disassembled and used for parts (by the thieves) if possible. This happened to me after I attended a music fest last year. The week of slowly-escalating until they got pretty unhinged threats were pretty funny. Funny as getting your 2-week old iPhone 15 Pro stolen can be, anyway.
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Feb 21, 2024 22:50
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MarcusSA posted:Counter point it’s actually happening a lot here in LA which is why it’s making the local news It might not even be some sort of dog-whistle journalism, but maybe a real product of living near a major seaport that routinely has ships going back and forth between China. I mean, if you're in the business of boosting iphones to get them to China, SoCal is probably a pretty good place to do that.
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Back to charging for a sec, I saw someone's phone that wouldn't charge to 100% on their wakeup time. It seems like it might be trying to use your commute as the "charge to 100% step" which is clever, if perhaps fraught with exceptions where it won't work.
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I dunno, the Apple sports app is kinda exactly what I want? I just want to know the score of the games I care about when they’re happening, and not having to load an ad and tracker-laden pile of dogshit webapp or page is precisely what I want. Get the NFL and Dynamic Island support (always show me a live Blackhawks score, please, I need to know if they’re going to lose their 30th straight game in real time) in there and I’ll never load espn.com again.
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smr posted:I dunno, the Apple sports app is kinda exactly what I want? I just want to know the score of the games I care about when they’re happening, and not having to load an ad and tracker-laden pile of dogshit webapp or page is precisely what I want. Get the NFL and Dynamic Island support (always show me a live Blackhawks score, please, I need to know if they’re going to lose their 30th straight game in real time) in there and I’ll never load espn.com again. Siri/Search actually has a nice little sports tracker built in. Just pull up search on your phone and type "nba scores" or "mlb scores" and it's give you a list of games, times, scores, stats, what channel they're on, all kinds of good stuff. I use it a lot during NFL season
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smr posted:I dunno, the Apple sports app is kinda exactly what I want? I just want to know the score of the games I care about when they’re happening, and not having to load an ad and tracker-laden pile of dogshit webapp or page is precisely what I want. Get the NFL and Dynamic Island support (always show me a live Blackhawks score, please, I need to know if they’re going to lose their 30th straight game in real time) in there and I’ll never load espn.com again. I feel the same way. Wish it did more sports but I’m sure they’ll add them. I don’t even care about Dynamic Island stuff, I don’t want to be spoiled, and normally those auto notification sports apps are ahead of the streaming services. I watch soccer at the bar a lot and one guy’s phone would go off like 30s before someone would score and we were getting ready to beat him up.
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Is there a way to do computational daytime long exposures on a 15 Pro Max? E.g. to smooth out or show the movement of bodies of water. Something along the lines of how the default camera app on newer Pixels does it (which I assume takes a burst of exposures then aligns them and then blends them together to show the movement) rather than using a camera app w/ manual controls + tripod to leave the shutter open for some number of seconds. This is the main feature I'm missing coming from a Pixel 7 Pro, as the implementation works really well and doesn't require any extra steps. From what I've read it sounds like this is possible via the default iOS camera app, albeit with an extra step, if I turn on Live Photos (which I've had off), so I guess I'll give that a try, but any trip reports or other recommended approaches would be appreciated.
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https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sports-alerts/id432450349 Don't worry about the new apple one for a while. This is excellent and only has a minimal ad in it. It reeks of being programmed out of spite that all the other sports apps were terrible.
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I want to save photos directly to a specific photo album. What’s the best way to create a shortcut that works everywhere via the share icon?
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Apple launching a sports app without dynamic island or live activity support is crazy to me. Regardless of how useful you think those things are, the whole point of Apple's tightly controlled ecosystem they have between their hardware and software is so they can do stuff like that. I just use the ESPN app for all my sports, works fine.
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MY WIFE has a new iPhone 15 Pro Max, and sometimes when she picks it up the display is off (she uses AOD) and when she presses the power button it shows that it’s booting from off. it’s happened 3 times in the few weeks she’s had the phone, and I can’t figure out what might be causing it. battery is fine each time, wasn’t on a charger, no OS update indicator maybe a defective unit? it’ll be annoying to try troubleshooting steps because it’s so infrequent…
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Subjunctive posted:MY WIFE has a new iPhone 15 Pro Max, and sometimes when she picks it up the display is off (she uses AOD) and when she presses the power button it shows that it’s booting from off. it’s happened 3 times in the few weeks she’s had the phone, and I can’t figure out what might be causing it. battery is fine each time, wasn’t on a charger, no OS update indicator Hard to tell if it's hardware or software. Usual steps for troubleshooting poo poo: Make sure phone is on the latest iOS hard reset wipe/restore wipe/restore but do not load backup if the issue persists call apple.
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yeah it’s all up to date but we haven’t tried reinstalling. it would be hard to know if it got fixed without just waiting a month(?) to see if it happens again, bleh
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Subjunctive posted:MY WIFE has a new iPhone 15 Pro Max, and sometimes when she picks it up the display is off (she uses AOD) and when she presses the power button it shows that it’s booting from off. it’s happened 3 times in the few weeks she’s had the phone, and I can’t figure out what might be causing it. battery is fine each time, wasn’t on a charger, no OS update indicator Could it be the case that's not fitting properly?
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glassyalabolas posted:Could it be the case that's not fitting properly? well that’s an angle I hadn’t thought of. can’t imagine getting her to go without a case for a week or two, but I’ll inspect it closely and see if it looks like it’s encroaching on the power button thanks!
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Subjunctive posted:well that’s an angle I hadn’t thought of. can’t imagine getting her to go without a case for a week or two, but I’ll inspect it closely and see if it looks like it’s encroaching on the power button When Apple first added the "call 911 when you hold down the power button" feature, it went ham and called 911 repeatedly on my wife's phone while she was driving and getting on the highway. She was trying to explain she had no idea what was going on and the 911 operator was getting pissed. Once they'd hang up, it would just call back again. I think she either ripped her case off mid-drive or turned the phone off. She had me turn the option off when she got home. So yeah, cases can cause errant button presses.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:This happened to me after I attended a music fest last year. The week of slowly-escalating until they got pretty unhinged threats were pretty funny. Funny as getting your 2-week old iPhone 15 Pro stolen can be, anyway. gently caress, sorry to hear that. Did you have the level of applecare to replace a stolen phone?
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:gently caress, sorry to hear that. Did you have the level of applecare to replace a stolen phone? NOPE $1500 later, I do now though!
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Sri.Theo posted:I want to save photos directly to a specific photo album. What’s the best way to create a shortcut that works everywhere via the share icon? 
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So if I’m signed into iCloud on a phone or iPad and I sync 1000s of photos then I sign out of iCloud those photos remain. If I sign back into iCloud will I now have a duplicate of every photo?
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Shaocaholica posted:So if I’m signed into iCloud on a phone or iPad and I sync 1000s of photos then I sign out of iCloud those photos remain. If I sign back into iCloud will I now have a duplicate of every photo? No, it's the cloud that now has duplicates (assuming your phone/tablet is set to keep the originals), but in the Photos App, you only see one copy of each image, because it knows they are the source.
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Mister Facetious posted:No, it's the cloud that now has duplicates (assuming your phone/tablet is set to keep the originals), but in the Photos App, you only see one copy of each image, because it knows they are the source. But that’s still bad tho. I don’t want duplicates in the cloud. I guess I’ll delete them before signing back in.
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Shaocaholica posted:But that’s still bad tho. I don’t want duplicates in the cloud. I guess I’ll delete them before signing back in. If you want to remove cloud copies but keep the originals, go to Settings > your name/iCloud > Photos > Manage Storage > Turn Off and Delete From iCloud But MAKE SURE "Download and Keep Originals" is checked!
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I want to know why, when I'm listening to a podcast in the car via bluetooth from my phone, about once a month or so when I'm maneuvering into or out of the slow streets near my house, the playback speed will suddenly switch to 1.5x or 2x without being asked to do so. This has happened for years now, living in three different neighborhoods in two different states. No I would really like someone to explain this
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Data Graham posted:I want to know why, when I'm listening to a podcast in the car via bluetooth from my phone, about once a month or so when I'm maneuvering into or out of the slow streets near my house, the playback speed will suddenly switch to 1.5x or 2x without being asked to do so. You can blame some guy named Einstein for this. You see time is relative and to the Bluetooth device it’s moving faster than you so it’s time is sped up.
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Data Graham posted:I want to know why, when I'm listening to a podcast in the car via bluetooth from my phone, about once a month or so when I'm maneuvering into or out of the slow streets near my house, the playback speed will suddenly switch to 1.5x or 2x without being asked to do so. you know how npr talks about "driveway moments" where you keep sitting in your car after you get home to listen to the end of a story? this killed a lot of people from carbon monoxide poisoning. apple is just trying to help you finish the episode before you die
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Weedle posted:you know how npr talks about "driveway moments" where you keep sitting in your car after you get home to listen to the end of a story? this killed a lot of people from carbon monoxide poisoning. apple is just trying to help you finish the episode before you die Wait, people were apparently killed in their running cars in large numbers because they were too into talk radio or podcasts? Were they like, mostly activists or something?
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NPR and carbon monoxide are a dangerous double dose of soporifics
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Tiny Timbs posted:NPR and carbon monoxide are a dangerous double dose of soporifics ira glass has the highest body count of any serial killer
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