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Sweet, thanks!
When I got my S9+ I was excited to be able to use the beautiful HDR screen to watch some HDR movies, but I wasn't able to watch a single one because none of the Android movie services seemed to support it (from what I could tell anyway).
When I got my S9+ I was excited to be able to use the beautiful HDR screen to watch some HDR movies, but I wasn't able to watch a single one because none of the Android movie services seemed to support it (from what I could tell anyway).
Any recommendations for a watch strap for running? Happy to use third party bands to save costs.
I love the Nike band for running. The holes make a huge difference, really helps your wrist breath. Hate the sport band, love the Nike.
Just to follow up on this, I think this ended up being a problem with the old iPhone 6 I used to replace my knackered S8, rather than a problem with the Air Pods.
The pods connected, but when I previously mentioned about them being in my pocket, that was only whilst I was still sat at my desk at work. As soon as I tried walking around with them I suffered some pretty major connection drops. They were unlistenable in any situation where I wasn't in a stationary position. Tested the same pair of Air Pods on my girlfriends much newer 7+ and they worked perfectly. Between the drops and never seeing the proper set up process, it's obviously a connection issue with the handset.
Not that I needed an excuse to order an X but.. here we go.
My Bose bluetooth headphones seem to reconnect to my iPhone waaay faster when I turn them on than the Airpods do when I take them out of the case. Practically instantaneous with the Bose vs. anything from 5 to 20+ seconds with the Airpods, sometimes depending on whether or not I take both of them out, usually just a random amount of time. I wonder if something's wrong with them.
I have £140 to spend on the UK Apple store after they REALLY fucked up service wise, I can't use it on multiple products nor can I add any money to it. There is nothing in this price range I want/need so I'm looking to buy whatever will get the most most cash on eBay - currently thinking a pair of BeatsX. Any better suggestions?
Hoping we see new iMacs soon. My parents' Acer PC is almost 10 years old and I'd love to move them into a 21.5" iMac. Ideally I'd like it to have a retina display so it's easier on their eyes and a SSD so it's speedy, but I can't get those on a current model without dropping $1500 on a BTO model from Apple, which means no Best Buy points or sale prices.
Hoping a SSD makes it into the stock $1300 or $1500 mode in the next refresh.
Hoping a SSD makes it into the stock $1300 or $1500 mode in the next refresh.
Hoping someone can help.
Sold my Apple Watch s2 on eBay. I erased all settings on the watch. Has this made it okay for someone else to activate on their iPhone? It was still on my find my iPhone app but have just deleted it from there. Thanks.
Sold my Apple Watch s2 on eBay. I erased all settings on the watch. Has this made it okay for someone else to activate on their iPhone? It was still on my find my iPhone app but have just deleted it from there. Thanks.
Kind of out of the blue got a really good deal on an iPad Pro and picked one up. Can anybody recommend some apps to really push this thing as far as gaming/multitasking goes? Also, is the Pencil really worth it at $100? I will be using it for school among other things so I would like to take notes on it, but it just seems like a tough pill to swallow.
It's worth it but I feel you. Everyone going to pay an extra $100, I'm looking at you Apple and MS, sucks ass considering you're already paying a premium for the device at hand.
I think that they intentionally made it harder to find that setting because people would disable auto brightness, set their screen brightness to maximum where it'd stay 100% of the time, and then complain about really terrible battery life.
This was done prior to the release of the X, so I'd take a guess and say it's to prevent people running theirs at max brightness all the time and quickly end up with burn in. Though the battery point seems also valid.
Speaking of which, close to one year in, are there any burn in reports from people using the phone normally? I guess it would have been THE news for a week and I haven't witnessed anything like that so probably not (which is good as it was one of my bigger concerns given the early reports on the s8 back then for example)
But that doesn't help - the brightness setting is still right there and if you drag it it disables the auto setting. I've been using it to lower the brightness while I idle Bit City and turning it back to auto is a PITA.
Didn't say the placement helped, just said what was described is a super real thing. I agree with you that it's a pain to get to, I do it after watching movies on my iPad and whatnot.
Unrelated, but I've grown to hate Apple's photo solution. Hate hate hate. I want my faces to sync reliably and they don't, not at all. They say that if you manually tag a photo it will stick, which is only sort of true. It will stick if all of your devices can agree on what counts as a face, which somehow, somehow, they all don't. I don't understand, it's all the same algorithm yeah? Well right now I'm staring at a photo on my Mac that recognizes two faces that I have tagged, my iPhone recognizes that tagging, and my iPad does not. Even though I've manually confirmed them. And why doesn't my iPad? Because it doesn't even see any faces in the exact same photo while the other two devices do. Seriously, how is this possible?
Apple, I appreciate the privacy, but this is insane. Just treat face data like any other metadata and spare this fucking nonsense. I'm so fed up.
Three days in and iPad Pro is bliss. The performance is excellent and multitasking is a joy on this device. The screen is awesome, speakers are A+ and every time I pick it up I can't help but marvel how light and thin it is which makes carrying it around easy as heck. I'd say just about my only qualm with it is the really poor charging speed.
First impressions of the iPhone X are immensely positive for me.
Face ID has been flawless so far. It's not failed me in any circumstance yet, other than when I've had sunglasses on (which I expected). Beyond that, using it for Apple Pay and unlocking the phone itself has worked every time, including first thing in the morning and in total darkness.
I'd guess that there's quite a large correlation between peoples experiences with Face ID and how much they miss the Home Button. The gestures already feel second nature to me, and I say Face ID hasn't caused me any headaches yet. Really impressive from a tech perspective.
Face ID has been flawless so far. It's not failed me in any circumstance yet, other than when I've had sunglasses on (which I expected). Beyond that, using it for Apple Pay and unlocking the phone itself has worked every time, including first thing in the morning and in total darkness.
I'd guess that there's quite a large correlation between peoples experiences with Face ID and how much they miss the Home Button. The gestures already feel second nature to me, and I say Face ID hasn't caused me any headaches yet. Really impressive from a tech perspective.
I think the biggest issue with Face ID is the seams it adds versus TouchID with multiple users. My wife and I regularly hand each other our phones, and it seems like FaceID can get confused and less effective because it's trying to train itself on another face. Maybe the alternate appearance thing in the next version will fix that issue.
Apple unfortunately ships iPads with their 12w charger; that's why they charge so slowly. It's significantly faster with the 29w charger, note that you'll need a USB-C to Lightning cable though.
I just got a Sonos One for my bathroom in anticipation of AirPlay 2 support. It won't let me do the sound calibration for some reason (perhaps because I'm running iOS 12?), so I guess I can't fairly compare it to my HomePod yet. It does sound good so far though.
Any word on when the Sonos One will get that update, aside from "July"? Sonos Beam releases on July 17th with AirPlay 2 support, but I'm not sure if that means everything else gets the update that day.
Any word on when the Sonos One will get that update, aside from "July"? Sonos Beam releases on July 17th with AirPlay 2 support, but I'm not sure if that means everything else gets the update that day.
I only found out about this a few weeks ago when I was charging my iPhone X from my MacBook and noticed it was charging crazy fast.
Okay, my Apple Watch is acting up. The screen went black and doesn't respond to touch/crown/side button input but I can feel notification vibrations and hear sound. At first I thought the screen is broken. However, it shows the Apple logo when hard resetting. It then goes back to the previously described status.
Any ideas before I contact Apple Support?
E: Solved it. WTF, the Watch seemingly activated the "Screen curtain" feature on its own?!? Thats why I couldn't interact with the screen no matter what. What a weird and potentially harmful bug. Imagine this happening when you're only out with the Watch and can't do shit. (It seems once in this state, you need an iPhone to turn off the setting) And no, I'm on the latest stable watchOS, not some beta
E2: After further research in case it happens again, you can tell Siri to turn off voice over which in turn will deactivate the screen curtain.
Any ideas before I contact Apple Support?
E: Solved it. WTF, the Watch seemingly activated the "Screen curtain" feature on its own?!? Thats why I couldn't interact with the screen no matter what. What a weird and potentially harmful bug. Imagine this happening when you're only out with the Watch and can't do shit. (It seems once in this state, you need an iPhone to turn off the setting) And no, I'm on the latest stable watchOS, not some beta
E2: After further research in case it happens again, you can tell Siri to turn off voice over which in turn will deactivate the screen curtain.
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You mean Mojave? it is supported.
After that i think it will be supported for another few years since the feature sets are kinda the same as the newer ones.
It's update it's update day
It's u-u-update day.
iOS 11.4.1, HomePod 11.4.1, tvOS 11.4.1 & watchOS 4.3.2.
No sign of 10.13.6 yet.
It's u-u-update day.
iOS 11.4.1, HomePod 11.4.1, tvOS 11.4.1 & watchOS 4.3.2.
No sign of 10.13.6 yet.
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As I often tell people, they're better than you think they are.
Does anyone know the ramifications of turning Use Listening History off in Apple Music on my iPhone? There have been times lately where I've been airplaying relaxing music in the background and it has started to affect my recommendations.
If I turn Use Listening History off, listen to whatever for a few hours, and then turn it back on... Does everything reset, causing me to have lost ALL of my history? Or did I just lose those few hours when I had it turned off?
If I turn Use Listening History off, listen to whatever for a few hours, and then turn it back on... Does everything reset, causing me to have lost ALL of my history? Or did I just lose those few hours when I had it turned off?
So, someone recently told me that my complaint about file management had been addressed with the Files app, so I was excited to try it out on my iPad Pro. But so far, it looks like you can only access files in your cloud storage, and there's no true local file storage (except for like, Pages and such). Am I missing something? This seems kind of pointless (to me, at least) as of now.
iPad Pro, why won't you let me love you more than a PDF/browser reader and let me be productive?
iPad Pro, why won't you let me love you more than a PDF/browser reader and let me be productive?
There's not really much difference between local and cloud storage, as long as you can download and view offline, which you can. I use it all the time. I open up an OpenVPN config file on my browser, save it to my device, load it into my ASUS router. Or I download a torrent, open Deluge on my browser, open it in there. Stuff like that, all works as it would if it were "local" except it's in a tmp folder on my Dropbox.
same. It has made it much less stressful in terms of backups - I don't bother imaging my device because it'll anyway be out of date regarding updates etc. As long as my files are synced online (and then back down to other family computers) I can just restore a fresh OS, set up my accounts and get on with things.
Yeah, good way of putting it.
I had a substantial list of things I was worried about before buying the AirPods and literally none of them mattered about 30 seconds after putting them in my ears.
Yup. I'm a lot less paranoid about PC issues now and look at them as more of a shell.
which has made me less likely to consider the price premium that Apple is charging for macs. That and the way that PC hardware has come on in leaps and bounds - decent 1080p screens, thin and light, SSDs, good battery life. No more DVD drives, horrible 1366x768 TN screens and physical HDDs.
I guess my main issue is that I'm out of cloud space. I want to directly use the memory on my device without having to do it by first passing it through cloud storage.
So I woke up this morning to my iMac stuck in a Kernel Panic bootup loop. It rebooted, got 75% through and crashes to a KP, reboots, gets 75% and crashes, reboots...
Disconnected all external drives. Still happens. Try booting to the disk chooser, there's no recovery partition. (Possibly because of the PB? Do PBs not have recovery?) Rebooted to Internet Recovery and used Disk Utility to scan the disk. Nothing terrible found on the HDD.
Now I've rebooted into Safe Mode and it is working fine. So It's not hardware related. I'm looking at the logs and I can't find much that helps. However the first part of the log says something about CPU 1 or something. Not sure. Tried saving the log to a TXT file to transfer through iCloud to my laptop for looking at here and of course iCloud doesn't upload as often in Safe Mode and while I'm waiting it Panics again.
So I'm rebooting into Safe Mode again to see if it happens again. If so I'm going to try and boot from my backup. However I don't know if it started the loop before or after the current backup and hopefully not during so the disk is still bootable.
I can't tell if it's hardware or software. Hopefully it's not something that will also happen on my MacBook. I'm afraid to reboot my laptop just in case. lol
I scanned the disk this time and it says some errors on the drive. Invalid fsroot tree. Could not be verified completely. Maybe HDD is dying?
The line in the crash log is as follows:
Cache related? No idea. Deleting caches to be sure. Snapshots related? No idea either. I don't even use snapshots but the OS seems to insist on using them.
Edit: I'm still booted into my backup and it's still running fine. I will probably just restore this to the main drive and see if it fixes it. Still no idea what is causing it. However caches have been deleted anyway.
Edit 2: Well it wasn't the caches. Something on the internal HDD is causing the crash. The backup clone is booting up and running fine. I've been using it for hours and it's still working fine. So something is on the internal HDD. Gonna reformat it and just clone back over I guess. Hopefully that works. If it doesn't I will have to assume the drive is dying and it'll give me an excuse to take it to the store and upgrade to a SSD. (At this point I'd probably just get a new Mac mini if they would update them already!)
Disconnected all external drives. Still happens. Try booting to the disk chooser, there's no recovery partition. (Possibly because of the PB? Do PBs not have recovery?) Rebooted to Internet Recovery and used Disk Utility to scan the disk. Nothing terrible found on the HDD.
Now I've rebooted into Safe Mode and it is working fine. So It's not hardware related. I'm looking at the logs and I can't find much that helps. However the first part of the log says something about CPU 1 or something. Not sure. Tried saving the log to a TXT file to transfer through iCloud to my laptop for looking at here and of course iCloud doesn't upload as often in Safe Mode and while I'm waiting it Panics again.
So I'm rebooting into Safe Mode again to see if it happens again. If so I'm going to try and boot from my backup. However I don't know if it started the loop before or after the current backup and hopefully not during so the disk is still bootable.
I can't tell if it's hardware or software. Hopefully it's not something that will also happen on my MacBook. I'm afraid to reboot my laptop just in case. lol
I scanned the disk this time and it says some errors on the drive. Invalid fsroot tree. Could not be verified completely. Maybe HDD is dying?
The line in the crash log is as follows:
Cache related? No idea. Deleting caches to be sure. Snapshots related? No idea either. I don't even use snapshots but the OS seems to insist on using them.
Edit: I'm still booted into my backup and it's still running fine. I will probably just restore this to the main drive and see if it fixes it. Still no idea what is causing it. However caches have been deleted anyway.
Edit 2: Well it wasn't the caches. Something on the internal HDD is causing the crash. The backup clone is booting up and running fine. I've been using it for hours and it's still working fine. So something is on the internal HDD. Gonna reformat it and just clone back over I guess. Hopefully that works. If it doesn't I will have to assume the drive is dying and it'll give me an excuse to take it to the store and upgrade to a SSD. (At this point I'd probably just get a new Mac mini if they would update them already!)
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As others have chimed in similarly on the topic. I have my NAS linked up via the Files app, effectively giving me several terabytes worth of storage all the time. I promptly stopped subscribing to iCloud when Files became a thing.
Is there a way to measure internet network speeds inside my home? I don't know why it's started recently, but streaming from my Plex server, which is on my home network, from within my home, has gotten to be slow. And, just today, I couldn't watch a video on an Apple TV without the internet halting on my iMac. Something fishy is going on, but I'm not sure how to check.
Still no idea what's causing the crashing. I spent hours restoring my backup onto a reformatted internal drive and it didn't even crash, it just got to 100% boot and sat there forever. Took 10 minutes to just get to 100% (Which it never does anyway, it usually fades to desktop around 90%) then sat there. So now I'm trying recovery mode. Turns out there is a recovery, they just don't show it in the boot disk list for some reason. I'm almost certain the drive is dying. Im going to try reinstalling Mojave onto the disk and see if it boots without problems. If it doesn't I'll probably take it to the computer store tomorrow and see if they can replace it. If it's the disk I'll see if they can just put a SSD in instead.
I'll also try Verbose mode while booting and see if anything shows up in the console printout that might confirm that it's the disk.
I'll also try Verbose mode while booting and see if anything shows up in the console printout that might confirm that it's the disk.
They better update the Macs soon, I need to replace this iMac. It's the first 4K 21.5" iMac, with the 5400 RPM drive, so it's ungodly slow and the processor/GPU can't handle the resolution. At all.
Well, it installed Mojave and is setting up now. But that's not a guarantee it won't crash so here's hoping. Migrating files over now.
Like if they updated both the iMac and the Mac mini, I'd probably very seriously consider a decked out Mac mini to connect to my TV instead of a new iMac. Providing it isn't a shitty upgrade. Maybe I can keep this iMac limping along for a while.
Yeah, after today I would totally consider replacing my iMac with something fresher. Though I'm pretty sure a SSD would make it as good as new anyway because my iMac is basically the same machine as my MacBook Pro with slight differences in hardware. Both from the same year. And ever since my laptop had its keyboard and trackpad and battery all replaced it's felt like a new machine. A SSD would probably do the same for my iMac as long as it's just a HDD problem.
Like if they updated both the iMac and the Mac mini, I'd probably very seriously consider a decked out Mac mini to connect to my TV instead of a new iMac. Providing it isn't a shitty upgrade. Maybe I can keep this iMac limping along for a while.