The iPhone Thread - The Airpods thread in disguise

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illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

Not sure where else to discuss this, but apparently Apple is getting a 0.15% cut of every purchase made with Apple Pay. It's going to count on people going through the hassle of getting their cards set up, but that's an incredible amount.

# ¿ Sep 12, 2014 22:14

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 15:50

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

Feenix posted:

What's up with Slow Mo video mode like, starting in normal speed then arbitrarily choosing when to slow down a few seconds later?

Must be an algorithm that detects motion within the video. It's adjustable after the fact, though.

# ¿ Sep 20, 2014 22:33

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

That's a real bummer if Beats is being shut down. I switched over to it from Spotify and like it so much more. The catalog is smaller but they actually do a wonderful job of curating. Albums fall under albums, EPs are appropriately categorized, etc. The library feature on the mobile app is way ahead of Spotify's as well.

# ¿ Sep 23, 2014 00:37

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

God drat, we're on iOS 8 now and the iPhone is still so loving bad at knowing when to let go of a weak wi-fi signal.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2014 03:49

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

Josh Lyman posted:

Your phone being able to connect with a weak wifi signal seems like something you'd want.

Not when it's so weak that it's functionally useless. It's basically me leaving my home in the morning, yet still seeing a Wi-Fi signal when I'm a quarter mile away. The phone sees a signal but it's so slow so as to be essentially a lost connection. Annoying as poo poo

# ¿ Oct 7, 2014 04:15

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

It's a short drive out of my apartment complex. Just wish the phone were better about prioritizing the LTE signal.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2014 04:18

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

Armchair Calvinist posted:

I just got my iPhone 6+ and love it except for one little issue:

Anybody else get the error "this accessory may not be supported"? What could be causing this?

Are you using a cheap lightning cable?

# ¿ Nov 12, 2014 19:01

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

Being smug about your poo poo not breaking is hilarious. Reminds me of my GameFAQs days as a kid where anybody mentioning a PS2 disc read error would be followed up by fifty people screaming "MINE'S WORKING FINE YOU MUST BE AN IDIOT BABY :smuggo:

# ¿ Nov 21, 2014 01:29

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

I hope Apple gets the new Photos app for Mac right. Using iPhoto in conjunction with Photo Stream on iOS is so loving frustrating with things that stay saved on the Mac end despite having been deleted from the phone (and ostensibly the Photo Stream) on iOS.

# ¿ Dec 8, 2014 05:15

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

Michael Scott posted:

Those things were always for weirdos anyways.

Yeah, to each their own and all, but I always thought it was kinda goofy to be carrying around an antique book phone case/wallet.

# ¿ Dec 12, 2014 07:14

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

Anyone having an issue with Spotlight where you enter a multi-word sesrch and then when it ends up in Safari, one or more of the words are truncated from the search? Like if I were searching for "brown dog fox", when Safari loads up the search it ends up as just searching for "brown"? It's been happening a lot lately and is annoying.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2015 06:52

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

Spotlight is a piece of poo poo. Decides seemingly at random when to allow you the option to "search on web" when you've entered text. Sometimes just sits there and does nothing.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2015 19:50

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

I find that surprising, since it works like poo poo on my iPhone 6.

# ¿ Feb 24, 2015 03:12

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

Residency Evil posted:

Oh definitely, I'm just hoping it works with an iPhone 6 still locked to AT&T.

If you try it, please report back as I'd be interested in the service as well.

# ¿ May 4, 2015 17:50

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

Random feature of Apple Music that I wasn't anticipating: integration with other third-party apps. Stuff like Genius and WhoSampled previously only worked with things that were in your music library, if you were listening on Spotify you were out of luck. Now it works with stuff you're streaming on Apple Music as well. Minor bonus but pretty cool.

# ¿ Jun 30, 2015 16:37

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

Apparently there's a new feature to automatically switch to cellular when Wi-Fi connectivity is weak. I hope it works well, that is easily my biggest iOS pet peeve.

# ¿ Aug 6, 2015 22:58

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

EL BROMANCE posted:

Agreed. I don't care how much cpu power or ram is in my phone, but I jump from safari to answer a text and jump back in 10 seconds later - it shouldn't be reloading.

Yeah it's loving terrible. I'm already pretty locked in but if they fix this bullshit and the whole "hold onto Wi-Fi for dear life even when the signal is dead" thing I'll be a customer for life.

# ¿ Sep 11, 2015 01:36

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

I think it's pretty obvious that they skewed the rose gold color toward pink so that they could sell a pink phone without calling it "pink", which I assume they feel is a color name that's "beneath" their flagship device. They could have made a more copper rose gold and deliberately chose not to.

# ¿ Sep 26, 2015 19:59

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

lol forever if you jailbreak your phone

also all of your home screens are wrong and it is really bothering me

Ahh. So close but sorry, Safari belongs in Music's spot.

# ¿ Oct 8, 2015 14:35

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

Rageaholic Monkey posted:

I've been getting this on occasion with my 6, so it's not just isolated to the 5C.

Same on my 6. I guess they shortened the time that you need to hold the button down to activate Siri.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2015 18:10

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

Taima posted:

or I guess you could take your phone out but doesn't that defeat the point)

While this is completely separate from how I feel about AirPods, I don't think it defeats the point. I don't mind changing the volume on my phone typically, I think the point is that they're wireless so you don't have to worry about the cord catching on things.

# ¿ Dec 13, 2016 18:18

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

Only jailbreak feature I miss from my iPhone 4 days is the one that gave me a three second window to cancel sending a text if I wanted to. Never had to worry about autocorrect typos back in the day.

# ¿ Jun 23, 2017 14:57

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

I'm pretty disappointed that TouchID is going to be removed from iPhone X, as it has become a pretty seamless part of the unlocking process for me. I hope FaceID ends up being similarly easy to use, but I think I'll miss being able to unlock as my phone is being pulled from my pocket.

# ¿ Sep 10, 2017 16:23

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

Virtue posted:

I'm seeing 56.16 for 24 months which is about 200 more than the 1149 base

That's because AppleCare+ is $199 for iPhone X.

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/9/12/16297886/applecare-plus-iphone-x-199-price-increase

# ¿ Sep 12, 2017 23:11

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

Dang man check your emails :stonk:

# ¿ Sep 12, 2017 23:53

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

Henrik Zetterberg posted:

This nicely sums up all my concerns about FaceID, even if it does unlock quickly:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/face-id-on-the-iphone-x-is-probably-going-to-suck/

Probably will just go with the 8+ until they re-add touchID to the X2 or solve these problems.

I like how buried at the bottom of the article he mentions that most people will just opt to enter a PIN. This is (in my experience) already the case with Touch ID. Most people just flat out can't be bothered to set it up.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2017 00:25

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

buglord posted:

I feel that the higher up you are on the design and marketing chain, the more likely it is that you�re huffing your own farts.

Not disagreeing, but this is the case at pretty much any company, period.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2017 22:38

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

Forgot how much easier the app is than the website.

# ¿ Sep 15, 2017 08:08

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

Does anyone know what the maximum charge wattage of "Fast Charge" is? I'm going to stick with my iPad 12W charger for now, but I'm curious as to how high you could go with a USB-C/Lightning charger.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2017 03:26

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

Back when your iPhone was most useful as 1. a phone and 2. an iPod, I think full screen album art made sense. I like it much better as a small icon now when there�s a bunch of other stuff going on

# ¿ Sep 20, 2017 14:52

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

One minor new annoyance (to me at least) is that adjusting ringer volume with buttons within the sounds menu actually plays the ring sound now. Makes sense logically but I liked being able to turn up the volume without it actually making a noise.

# ¿ Sep 21, 2017 17:33

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

Pivo posted:

so just use the volume buttons? even with mute off, when no audio is playing, volume up/down changes ringer without previewing your ring

No, that's exactly the problem, it plays the ring now when you use the volume buttons, even when your phone is on silent/vibrate. Before it only previewed the sound when you used the slider on the touchscreen.

# ¿ Sep 21, 2017 19:37

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

The Science Goy posted:

Here we go, I just got my 8+ set up and am in the process of transferring everything from my old Moto X 2nd gen, all that fun stuff.

As someone who hasn't used iOS in years and has never owned an iPhone, is there a way to set cellular data limits? I found that very helpful with Android, in case I started streaming audio and didn't realize I wasn't connected to wifi,etc.

Also,what was the non-garbage password manager that was recommended somewhere in the last 5-50 pages? I wasn't able to find it after a few minutes of quick searching.

Yep, if you go to Settings->Cellular you can get pretty granular about what apps are allowed to use cellular data.

# ¿ Sep 24, 2017 17:26

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

MrBond posted:

Depends on how much time you have. I still charge my iPhone using a 2.5W charger (e.g. standard USB2 power) that I got at the very beginning of iPhone ownership and it works perfectly fine for charging overnight. If you're in any kind of hurry though, probably not good.

Do you do this just for nostalgia's sake? Why wouldn't you use the 5W that comes with new phones?

# ¿ Sep 24, 2017 23:42

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

Ah, that makes a lot more sense. At work I just plug a cable into my laptop docking station and the pass-through wattage seems to be pretty decent.

# ¿ Sep 25, 2017 00:15

illcendiary: Dec 4, 2005; Damn, this is good coffee.

Minidust posted:

huh, even though this works in my favor (SE) I feel like it's kinda bad for them to be using long-touch and 3D Touch interchangeably. Counterproductive if they wanna teach your uncles/grandmas/etc the Correct Apple Way to do things moving forward.

I think it's intended to be a way to train people to interact with interface elements so they're used to the concept of "pressing through" (by way of long press as opposed to tapping and raising finger off screen), that way they're used to it when they eventually end up on a 3D Touch device.

# ¿ Sep 25, 2017 20:47