Category: Apple

Works flawlessly for me when I actually want to use it. I have a rig setup to put my phone in place as webcam since the image is unquestionably superior. Only issue I’ve had is that it can be troublesome getting the computer to use the built-in webcam and NOT connect to my phone. I’ve… Continue reading Has anyone actually had success with continuity camera?

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

The user has issues with every single OS version and OS point version. The user never lists any troubleshooting done. The user needs to plug into power and run system diagnostics to verify it isn’t a hardware issue like a failing drive. The user then needs re-install the OS from internet recovery and post findings.

Hello, I bought Apple watch a few days ago. Today, when I was check Health app on my iPhone, I noticed that much more data has been collected since then, including my body measurements. And I must say, my weigth and height are measured really accurately! But my question is how Apple found these pieces… Continue reading [Question] How the heck Apple knows my body measurements?

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

I think the term for finally losing your mind in a fit of rage after attempting to use Apple products for years, only to finally realize that Apple deliberately configures things to not work properly, is called Appleplexy. I recently discovered that in order to get ANY multi channel output on your HDMI (but Apple… Continue reading Appleplectic fit!

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Anyone have another method for submitting a software change request? Type applefeedback:// in Safari, tap Go and then tap Open. Login with your Apple ID, tap the button to create new feedback in lower right corner, select iOS and select Contacts under “Which area are you seeing issues with”. Under What type of feedback, select… Continue reading Nowhere to suggest Apple Contacts app feature?

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

It’s honestly the worst thing Apple has ever done. Their hardware/software works seamlessly and great with other Apple HW/SW but wireless CarPlay relying on other HW/SW from auto manufacturers is seriously the dumbest thing ever. CarPlay is fantasist, and wireless CarPlay is how it should be, however as soon as I go from wired CarPlay… Continue reading I Absolutely Loath Wireless Apple CarPlay

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First of all, as a user of many Apple products, I agree that they should fix the software, but that has nothing to do with upgrading the hardware of some products. If they make A series chips every year, they can just put them inside existing products. If the price stays the same, it’s only… Continue reading Apple’s Next iPad Mini Is in the Works, Analyst Says

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Got one today. It’s the gold and so beautiful. I want to rock this baby caseless. I did get Apple Care of course. What are some naked experiences?

Yep. I think there are amazing benefits to a handheld device that can transform into a small tablet. I definitely want one but the drawbacks currently outweigh the benefits. Since Samsung is the current only option in the US, the price, the middle crease, the software supporting it, the drop in durability, the soft screen,… Continue reading Apple Likely Won’t Make Big Move in Foldable Products Anytime Soon, Says Analyst

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Pretty much expected results. Google and Samsung use minimalist AODs, so their battery life is less impacted when it is on, compared to apple’s full screen AODs approach. All of them uses LTPO panels at similar sizes and resolution (probably all made by Samsung anyway). When off, their rankings pretty much revert back to their… Continue reading Always-on Display: How does it affect battery life?

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You’re definitely going to get downvoted on this sub for this, but he does speak a lot of truth here. The product-specific subs (/mac /applewatch etc.) are a lot better at handling criticism than just blindly defending the company. E: case and point I guess 🤷‍♂️

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

You make it sound like they’re colluding with Russian authorities. Sitting in a back room, chain smoking cigarettes with an occasional muah-ha-ha-ha being uttered. What they’re doing is following local laws. If US Congress irritate outlaws VPNs tomorrow then they’ll be gone from the App Store in the US as well.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Here in Japan, Android phones are pretty rare, except among old people and those who get them from work. But I’m seeing more Pixels among my college students lately. I asked one student how she liked it. She said, “The camera is fantastic.” Basically, since the rise of Instagram, especially for girls, the camera is… Continue reading MKBHD smart phone camera blind test

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I am a high school student majoring in AP Computer Science (at my high school, students choose majors), and last Friday, my major class took a field trip to NJIT to visit their computer science and computer engineering majors. On the bus back, we were thinking about other tech-related field trip ideas and that’s when… Continue reading How realistic is this idea?

Title edit: sorry, should say Apple Music voice preview! Long story short: using CarPlay I asked Siri to shuffle tracks by an artist that I have albums for on my iPhone. This is my music that I’ve synchronised from my computer. I have no need for Apple Music and have always hidden it using the… Continue reading PSA: Using Siri to play your local music may sign you up to the Apple Play voice preview

Not sure why there’s a body text requirement, but just reiterating that the requirement to interact with a “sales associate” instead just letting people buy things they want to us really stupid and makes the purchasing experience annoying. Bad customer experience. Edit: additionally, I was unable to complete my purchase with Private Relay active based… Continue reading Why do I need a “sales associate” to help me purchase what I already want to buy? It’s just embarrassingly inefficient and feels low tech.

I have an iPhone SE and an Oontz Bluetooth speaker. I play podcasts through my blue tooth when I go to sleep. This isn’t a problem on workdays because I wake up before my ‘do not disturb’ settings open up. But when I take random naps and listen to music or something there is always… Continue reading I wish I could only hear the music through my bluetooth speaker and not my ringtone.

I think this may be one of the cases of, just cause you don’t have a use for it, doesn’t mean it shouldn’t exist. These are very high end, high margin PCs that are typically bought by corporations to do compute heavy tasks like video editing and rendering. The Mac Studio is just not going… Continue reading It might be time for Apple to throw in the towel on the Mac Pro Opinion: Making the case against Apple’s most expensive—and most ignored—Mac.

If for some reason I need to feel disappointed about something, I use Dictation. It has never failed to amaze me how Dictation find the most creative ways to misspell words, even in quiet environments and even when I clearly try to articulate extra carefully (I already have low standards for Dictation). Btw, I’m a… Continue reading Everyone agrees that Siri is terrible, but lets talk about the disappointment that is Apple’s Dictation and voice-recognition technology

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

If Apple does this, to me, it signals a fundamental shift in their business model and how they will approach customers. If they’re going to just try to be Google, then I’ll use Google services again. I don’t feel like being a beta tester, again, for a service that is going to take years to… Continue reading Apple Pushing to Launch Search Engine to Rival Google

Hi all, pretty straightforward question. Using Pages has caused a surprising number of problems – people can never seem to open the documents I send or print them when they are in Pages form. I have to remember to export everything to PDF, but then I can’t edit those documents. Is there a simple way… Continue reading Any ways to improve the functionality of Pages?

Dear community, apple’s file management system sucks and there are some simple reasons why. “Syncing” is a very poor replacement for an actual file browser. You can easily loose track where each file is stored and in what quality. Apple also does not support standards like cover art jpgs, converting them is a pain and… Continue reading Apple’s file management sucks

Is there an implication that Microsoft/Linux has no legacy logic in its operating systems? Regex registry would disagree. And people generally choose Linux for server deployment over windows mostly because it works significantly better then anything with windows. And Linux barely changes anything. Because there is no reason to. I’ll do on a hill arguing… Continue reading Gatekeeper’s Achilles heel: Unearthing a macOS vulnerability – Microsoft Security Blog

It’s been a feature for years in Google Docs. And now Notion has added it to their free plan. There’s plenty of stories of people accidentally deleting parts or entire notes, leaving the note, and then coming back to find theres no way to Command+Z. It’s is gone forever. I’ve personally experienced this and it’s… Continue reading It’s time for Apple Notes to add note history.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Freeform is great, but lacks some features that are basic to me: Dark mode support Image rotation, flipping, etc The “perfect shapes” thing, just like notes Tags and smart folders, just like notes Free drawing on the Mac In-app audio and video playing on the Mac, like it does in iOS/iPadOS Handwritting recognition, just like… Continue reading How come Freeform doesn’t allow free form drawing?

With streaming services that provide on-demand replays so prevalent these days, it should be very clear that if the user is going to ask “WHEN” a sporting event will take place, it obviously means said user has not watched the sporting event yet. It shouldn’t matter if the event already started and ended, even the… Continue reading There’s no excuse for Siri to spoil sporting event outcomes.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Would’ve been nice to be able to create a poll, but just wanted to ask how do you keep you Maps app theme as? Automatic (System) Light Mode Dark Mode I’ve always been set to automatic, but I’m leaning more towards setting it to Always on Dark Mode, as I’ve found the contrast to be… Continue reading Maps app theme: Dark, Light, Auto?

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Hello. My question is the title basically as I need to know the important things to do before selling my iPhone and moving on to android. I am aware that a simple web search would get me answers but those were from years ago and maybe there are some updated stuff one may need to… Continue reading Steps before selling iPhone

Comparing the Iphone to the apple computer, there were a couple of things that kinda surprised me when it comes to on-device processing. For example, the Iphone is able to process some siri requests completely offline while the macbook has to always have an internet connection. Or more recently, the apple music sing feature (which… Continue reading Why do Iphones seem to have more on-device processing features than macs?

Apple Watch feature has a very minor, tangential, non-specific, poorly sensitive role in some good outcome, and the sub goes wild. Apple Watch feature wastes time with non-specific, poorly sensitive reaction, and the sub downvotes it.

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There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Technology is essential to our daily lives; it is unrealistic to go without a smartphone. Every manufacturer you could buy one from has exploited someone to make that happen. Don’t expect this to change until we see some real legislation that penalizes corporations that use exploitative labor, either… Continue reading iPhone City

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Earlier this week, Apple released an app called Freeform, a whiteboard app that allows iOS and Mac users to collaborate in real time and share brainstorming ideas. Have you used this app yet? How would you compare it to the Apple Notes app?

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Dark Sky was the most useful and accurate weather app I had ever used. It legitimately is one of those apps that made my life better. Apple’s weather app is a joke when it comes to accuracy. Ex: Right now I have heavy snow (Dark Sky agrees) the Apple app says it’s drizzling. There have… Continue reading Apple killing Dark Sky for their own far less accurate weather app is infuriating.

So, with the introduction of Sing to Apple Music, I find continuing disappointment that only a random few Songs from the Eagles have lyrics to them. Being one of the biggest bands of all time, the fact that all songs are under same record label, and that a few popular songs but mostly obscure ones… Continue reading Question about what songs do and don’t have lyrics on Apple Music

I don’t think it’s a feature that serves a purpose I think it’s a technical limitation of how “sing” works Basically, apple uses AI machine learning to isolate the vocals from the rest What I think it does, roughly: Initializing the tensor cores, loading the ai model into memory, feeding the music into the ai,… Continue reading Really annoying feature with Sing

Yesterday, I took my family on a day trip to another state to shop a little bit. I love using Apple Maps and the multiple stop feature. However, Siri/Apple Map announcements were so embarrassing. (I hardly ever use the guidance feature so I hadn’t really experienced this before.) Sometimes the name of the road would… Continue reading My family and I had a good laugh at Apple Maps guidance

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Hey, I noticed that the red Iphones cost the same as any other color. You would guess that they should cost that amount more, that apple is donating to charity. The only thing I can think of, is that they hope to pull people from other brands, who dont have such a product. Side note:… Continue reading How does “product red” generate money for charity if it costs the same? why would you buy any other color then?

They’re already supposed to separate “time sensitive” notifications from regular ones, so that the regular ones go into your notification summary and time sensitive alert you. But I’ve noticed a lot of apps, even ones like Uber that actually have “time sensitive” notifications aren’t tagging any of them correctly. That way you can’t reasonably silence… Continue reading Feature Request: Force apps to split toggles for “important” notifications and literal advertisements

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

All the apps people will want are going to disappear into other app stores. The Apple app store will just become a store for other stores. The Spotify Store, the Amazon Store, the Google Store, the Microsoft Store, the Epic Store, the Meta Store, etc. You’re going to end up with as many ‘store’ apps… Continue reading Sami Fathi: New Post: The #EU is out of line. The #iPhone doesn’t need sideloading or alternative app stores, and allowing either on #iOS will only stifle Apple’s ability to innovate and rip users of the ability to use a safe, private, and secure platform.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Makes perfect sense. In order for that to occur the iPhone needs to push battery status information to the watch. This I assume has not been done, not only that, I assume there is no application on the watch to obtain this information. I suspect there may be third party applications that can do this.… Continue reading Why does the iPhone let you know when your Apple Watch is fully charged but the Apple Watch doesn’t do the same when your iPhone is fully charged?

Disclaimer: This only applies for users who might face a determined and advanced attacker. This is not intended for the average person! Bit of context: Your iCloud Keychain (and everyt end-to-end encrypted iCloud service, as they all rely on Keychain) uses a service called „iCloud Keychain escrow service“ which safely provides you with a backup… Continue reading PSA: Refuse to enter your device pin when you‘re setting it up

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Hey there, the new advanced data protection feature says, the keys are only stored on the devices themselfes. I’m aware of how encryption works. For a lot of data, a symetric encryption is used, so there is the same key on all devices to read and write data. When you get a new iPhone you… Continue reading Advanced data protection – where does the key come on new devices?

Having a picture from the selected Up Next show makes it easier to tell which show you have selected, but I look at the What to Watch section all the time anyway. That’s where I found Shantaram which is what I’m currently watching. I’d prefer they hadn’t made that change, but I spend a good… Continue reading Here come the ads

I had to manually whitelist seekingalpha.com for my son who is looking up information about stocks for a school project. How would that end up on a block list? What other sites are erroneously on this block list and how can I find them so I can whitelist them? Or should I just turn off… Continue reading Why is seekingalpha.com blocked by Apple Screentime’s “Limit Adult Websites” filter? What does Apple use for a blacklist?

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I came across this research, which I find rather depressing: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/apple_google.pdf I guess that is the gamble privacy enthusiasts take? “Just do as we say, and you will be safe”. Is the message from the manufacturers. Then we find that we have swapped safety for autonomy and suddenly the amazingly useful device we paid good… Continue reading Mobile Handset Privacy: Measuring The Data iOS and Android Send to Apple And Google

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Hey everyone, I just finished reading the biography of Steve Jobs, and I was blown away by his incredible story. If you haven’t read it yet, I highly recommend it. Jobs was a visionary and a true innovator. He saw the potential of technology to transform our lives in ways that many others didn’t, and… Continue reading Wow, what a book. Truly inspiring book about Steve Jobs.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Apple needs to know absolutely everything about the devices you own for security, antitheft, insurance, repair, and yes, marketing purposes, but not necessarily the data on the devices. In that, I do consider them better than Google after some extensive study. Especially after the recent full-phone encrypted backup news. The dealer’s line is just a… Continue reading You can find the serial number of any device you used with your apple id through your privacy data

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

I’m wondering why many icons for iOS have this circle in a square design. Is it just a trend that they do? I would link images so it would be better to know what I’m talking about but this subreddit doesn’t allow that. Edit: minor spelling mistake🤓

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Hackers have made it abundantly clear that it is very possible to support older devices. On top of that, they’ve done it for free in their spare time. The lack of older support might not necessarily constitute “anti-consumer behavior” in the US, but it may in the EU (who’s been pretty good at calling Apple… Continue reading Are there any lawsuits floating around Venturas lack of support for older devices?

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Short rant. I’ve been a long time Macrumors follower since the early, early days. I’ve been disappointed to see over the last couple of years that they’ve sold out to now cover things not Mac related whatsoever. For instance their nonstop coverage of Twitter/Elon. The editors argue that since it’s an important app on the… Continue reading Macrumors has lost its way. Now just a tech bro gossiping tech blog. Anything Elon or Twitter they post on their front page. Shame

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Damn. Stage Manager was the feature that made me interest in Ventura and it was enabled on day one, but after a little over a month I cannot stand it anymore. This thing is So. Damn. Buggy. So buggy that makes macOS a bigger chore to use than it already is, I do not want… Continue reading Stage Manager is a buggy pool of suckage that makes windows management harder than it should

In my opinion stage manager is a fail and does what it wants way too complicated. Instead of having a computer-like system for multitasking you have to remember which app you opened beside another one. This creates many „desktops“ when coming from the traditional macOS experience. When you want to go back to an app… Continue reading The reason stage manager sucks

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Hmm it makes sense economically but it differs from Apple‘s past strategy as Gurman says. Their focus was on building the best product not just something that conquers market share. I guess this happens when you become the biggest company in the world but it is still a bit sad to see them go this… Continue reading Apple’s Plans for Car and AR Headset Reflect More Pragmatic Era

In Word you can’t even move images unless you go into the submenu and have them wrap behind or in front of text, it’s so Byzantine it’s almost funny Back on topic, yeah, moving stuff on the Home Screen is just shockingly bad, it’s like those guys who had to carry the bottle of nitroglycerin… Continue reading Why Is Reorganizing Home Screen So Laborious?!?

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

No. It is actually complicated. If both SIMs are on AT&T, Verizon, or T-Mobile then calls started from your Mac might use the iPhone to do the call (and at such point chances are the iPhone will decide which number to use), or it may use WiFi calling if that is setup and as far… Continue reading Two Phone Numbers w/ Mac

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Good. It barely worked the few weeks I tried using it, and I eventually uninstalled it myself because it is not compatible with some of the new security modes a corporate MFA can be configured to. In particular the (new?) manually-type-in-the-digits-shown-on-your-screen mode which, on the proper iOS app, shows location of the sign-in as well… Continue reading Microsoft is ending support for Authenticator on WatchOS

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Self-explanitory. To me, Messages in iCloud is one of them. For me, at least, text messages don’t sync very fast on my Mac or on my iPad, Meanwhile, they appear as they come in on iPhone (which should make sense) as well as my Apple Watch.

It’s all fine and dandy until they pass laws that make it impossible Laws that are horribly flawed, but get passed because “it’s to protect the children”, or some other reason

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Not sure if this is a known issue, but I recently got some APMs and was very disappointed with the tuning. The bass was extremely loud and muddy, as if it were a parody of what people make fun of Beats users for. I went through the spatial audio settings and turned on/off personalized spatial… Continue reading PSA: If your AirPods Max sound terrible, toggle Headphone Accommodations twice

So the new Sing feature works pretty well, but getting it to work is pretty hard. I’ve managed to get a workaround to get Sing to work. Fully close Music Turn Low Power Mode on Open Music Play the song with supported Sing Open the app switcher (don’t close anything tho) Go to Control Centre… Continue reading Apple Music Sing glitch workaround

Hello, I have been on stalking this sub for fixing the pitch/ringing in my left AirPod. I’ve searched through post and tried every method mentioned in the comments and from outside sources as well. However, no worked, but now, I can confidently say the problem is fixed. If wondering how, I ordered the extra small… Continue reading Problem Fixed: Ringing/Pitching in AirPods

I know that push notifications sent by apps are routed through Apple and Google servers without any sort of end-to-end encryption with the client, so presumably they can? If so, that’s a lot of data flowing through these two companies with potentially very private information (e.g. DMs).

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

When Advanced Data Protection is enabled, access to your data via iCloud.com is disabled by default. Users can turn on data access on iCloud.com, which allows the web browser and Apple to have temporary access to data-specific encryption keys. This makes me question if I should turn it on or not. I have viewed iCloud.com… Continue reading Expanded iCloud Encryption Can’t Be Enabled From New Apple Devices Right Away

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Hello! I’m looking to purchase a wifi router/mesh network that allows me to connect a storage device to the the network that can still be accessed by iCloud. I’ve talked to Apple Support (they are always super helpful) but they don’t really have the ability to provide recommendations on third party products (which makes sense)… Continue reading Home network drive with iCloud support

It’s no big deal to wait until a high resolution picture loads from iCloud, but sometimes, especially in poor covered cellular areas, waiting for a video to load is just rubbish. Anyone with ideas on how to address this?

Sad that education and opportunity are not equal across the board and people have to work multiple low paying jobs just to survive. Also, if all of the adults left, people would be complaining about lack of service and no one wanting to work anymore. Believe it or not, many of these jobs are necessary… Continue reading Apple will begin negotiations with union workers at Towson store

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

I always just close the lid, because it’s quicker to resume work the next day and macOS works fine without being rebooted for months. If I’m flying with it or know that I won’t be using it for more than two days, I will turn it off But you do you, either way is fine… Continue reading Quick survey, do you put your macbook on sleep mode or always turn it off when done using? And why?

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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Who pissed in your chips fella? I have better things to do than pore over release notes for fun – I simply saw the feature appear as an option on my phone after updating, went to activate it and was mildly disappointed to then see a “not available for you” note on it. Thought it… Continue reading “Advanced protection not available in your country”

There seems to be a lack of critical thinking on the Internet. People are quick to condemn others, companies, etc. Few things you mentioned are they really fact or just an exaggeration or partial truths? Do I trust Apple, in this situation regarding encryption, yes. Other situation like removing the power adapter from iphones to… Continue reading Do you trust Apples’s promises?

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I’m still a little vague on this. Does this actually somehow include your voice into the music using a mic somehow? Or is this just you being able to sing over an instrumental while having lyrics available? I was always under the opinion that is what makes karaoke 🎤 🎤 🎤 , karaoke.

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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I’m slightly doubtful. Implementing true end-to-end encryption and remaining user-friendly is hard, we all need to remember that even though iMessage is end-to-end encrypted during transfer, those same messages exist in iCloud backup in an unencrypted form for ease of use by regular people

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As you’ve just discovered, shortcuts are buggy. I’ve had the same experience and my response wasn’t to troubleshoot anything, I just went back to doing things the way I’ve been doing it my whole life, without using shortcuts. I don’t have the patience to troubleshoot things unless someone is paying me to do it. So… Continue reading Why isn’t there more discussion about shortcut automations here?

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I said something seemed weird about what happened in St. Louis a couple of days ago, and with something like this coming to light it sure seems like a possibility. People there said the Union misrepresented what would happen or what the position would be, and I now I wonder if they found misrepresentation, or… Continue reading Apple illegally interfered with union organizing in Atlanta, labor board finds

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I use Siri a lot in my car to play music, but I’m having a problem with Siri recognizing musical groups/songs not in English. French is really awful, I often have to pronounce words completely wrong in order to get the results I want (for example, Siri doesn’t recognize ‘les’ unless I pronounce it like… Continue reading Siri and multiple languages?

Has it been confirmed that anyone can take with an iCloud account can take advantage of this, not just iPhone users? Because Android users can take advantage of Proton, so that’s still a win. But if Advanced Protection works on the web interface of iCloud as well, then yeah, really bad timing.

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I noticed this too, but the other way around, the tips are just slightly too large for me. Planning on picking up some new replacement small tips from the Covent Garden Apple Store next time I go into the office. I swapped the small tips to the medium ones, as on the small ones I… Continue reading Noise cancellation sound worse? Check your apple airpod pro ear seals

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It sure will be a success, like the Zune, the Windows Phone and so on. Microsoft has a habit of breaking into an already established market with a badly designed product and trying to become the winner. Then throw some more money on the failing product and in the end abandon it altogether.

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Preview.app It has just always been a solid feature of MacOS, you can automate it, it does basic image adjustments, pdf forms, signed signatures, it’s super easy to merge pdfs or rotate pages, or create bookmarks…

Wanted to gather thoughts on what things you would like to see Carplay gather from the car to to Apple Carplay. My first want would be when I am low on Gas it would trigger Apple Carplay to bring up closest gas stations. I would like to get my MPG information where I could do… Continue reading Carplay the other direction (upstream data)

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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Apple News was complete garbage IMHO, when I tried it out earlier this year. I would open some stories and it would give me a few sentences of introduction and then link out to an external website… Then there are the ads… which I wasn’t expecting to be there a after I paid for the… Continue reading Biggest Apple News+ magazines may be having a tough time

Interesting that the Union cites “hostility” as the reason for withdrawing, whereas employees say there was no hostility and it was instead the Union that was acting recklessly and misleading staff. As always, this is a PR game for both sides – however it seems in this case the Union will be burning more bridges… Continue reading St. Louis Apple Store employees explain U-turn on unionization effort

Plays youtube videos without ads by default. There is also a playlist feature that allows you to play the videos while offline, locked or in picture in picture mode

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Same AirPods, better sound, and better noise cancellation?! Makes no sense and you should know. Noise cancellation works even if not paired to any device, so that’s easy to verify. Since it’s the AirPods decoding the song file and producing the sound in both cases, then if both devices are sending the same file for… Continue reading Why does iPad auto quality sound way better than the iPhone’s?

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Earlier today, while I was talking to my wife on the phone as she drove home from the store, I heard her scream, and the line went dead. Within several seconds, I received a notification from her iPhone telling me that she had been in a crash and giving me her exact location. I rush… Continue reading Thank you Apple for SOS

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Hi! Can we all just Acknowledge the dumpster fire that is the intersection of Siri, the Home app, and any given smart device? I can’t be the only one here who wants to break their phone and shoot themselves when I ask Siri to run a command and Siri completely shits the bed right? Like… Continue reading HomeKit and Siri are trash.

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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I have said it before, MacBook with Apple silicon is just too good right now: performance, battery, usability and longevity. For people who don’t game or use specialized engineering software, MacBook is the best option atm. They might cost more than non-premium Window laptop, but would also last much longer with less issue. In a… Continue reading Microsoft is forcing me to buy MacBooks – Linus Tech Tips

Apple obviously want to become a media company with  TV and have invested millions. Why not create a website with very high quality video just like the trailers website they have? By having a tube tv website it can showcase the quality of the iPhones camera even better. It would be a new place… Continue reading Apple should really consider doing a YouTube competitor.

I am writing here because Apple deletes my messages in the Apple community forum. Apple prides itself in products that work together smoothly, however that is apparently not the case. It hasn’t been like that for some time now. Other headphones connect better to my Apple devices than airpods/AirPod pros AirPods switching over to another… Continue reading What’s happened to Apple

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Adding on to this, a persistent notification that comes up an hour or two before an alarm from which I can stop just that next occurence of the alarm, if I get up before it goes off. I hate forgetting to turn off an alarm and having it go off while I’m in the bathroom… Continue reading Name simple things Apple should have fixed on the iPhone a long time ago!

In the end the reason apple will never adopt RCS (at least in its current form) is for this to work Appel would need to expose an api that lets Google inspect if a given phone number is an iPhone and check if that phone is online. Furthermore while googles (out of spec) extension does… Continue reading Apple ‘Dragging its Heels’ on RCS Messaging Standard, Says Google • iPhone in Canada Blog

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There isn’t really any need to shut them off anymore and they provide a lot of use being on in the background. There isn’t really any need to pretend to shut them off by disconnecting all devices but still keeping the radio powered on. I like this far better. Let’s me disconnect an audio source… Continue reading Control Center Toggles

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Apps like Uber/Starbucks/Lyft that were showcased (minus Lyft, I think) during the keynote still haven’t added support for live activities? Is there a technical reason for the slow adoption? Or something else? Because I’d like to think that a feature like that would make the app that much more interactive and useful right?

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Getting occasional messages from strange sources is a fact of life these days. And as far as the global Internet is concerned, we’re all naive children, mostly ignorant of threats that might be lurking out there. A stranger says hello? A message alerts you to your package status when you haven’t ordered anything? On iOS,… Continue reading Reminder: Don’t accept candy (or Messages) from strangers

Apple claims “When you make a purchase, Apple Pay uses a device-specific number and unique transaction code. So your card number is never stored on your device or on Apple servers. And when you pay, your card numbers are never shared by Apple with merchants. Your purchases stay private.” But they save your cards in… Continue reading Apple wallet and card numbers

Hey folks, Apple support are being as helpful as ever so hoping someone can help here. Simple question: when you preorder a book on Apple Books, do you definitely get charged the price at which you preordered (similar to Amazon’s preorder price guarantee)? The book I’ve ordered is on offer at the moment and don’t… Continue reading Apple Books Preorder

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I remember reading that Steve Jobs once said Google had too many products and, because of that, they weren’t able to do great things. Apple now has AirPods, iPad, Apple Watch, Homepod, iPhone, iPad, Macbook, Apple TV, ATV+, Apple Music and other less important services. Everyone is sharing their Spotify wraps and yet Apple Music… Continue reading Does Apple have too many products now?

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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I don’t see why you couldn’t. I’m not sure it’s the best method, though. If they carry an iPhone, enable sharing and use Find My. If they don’t carry an iPhone, they might not track accurately, since they need to be within distance of an iPhone to work. We use Find My to track my… Continue reading Can you put an AirTag as a necklace for your kids?

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Hahaha boy does this sure bring back memories. After hearing his joke about the boat anchor, I did try taking an old decommissioned Emac out on my pontoon and used it as a boat anchor. Worked pretty well until the handle somehow snapped off. Now in a lake somewhere, there is an emac sitting at… Continue reading an apple ad parody – blast from the past!

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Well this is dumb. He’s mad that a corporation is doing exactly what he does to his users. He has gone on a censorship brigade and closing down accounts of those that speak negatively about him. At least in Apple’s (and Google’s when they choose to also take measure) defense, they have a pretty detailed… Continue reading Tensions grow between Apple’s censorship practices and Elon Musk’s Twitter

Of course the person complaining is Ron DeSantis… I don’t get Republicans… they want to avoid regulation of companies, but only when it fits their narrative. “But mah free speech!” Well? It’s Apples right to boot apps off the App Store if they willfully violate the conditions of that contracts… if Elon doesn’t like it,… Continue reading Governor declares Apple should face Congress if Twitter is pulled | AppleInsider

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

There are a lot of rumors even on Reddit who are saying Apple will do more ads and people are going crazy about it. Let me explain you, why this isn’t a bad thing what Apple is doing here: For now, developers don’t have a lot of tools to promote their app in the App… Continue reading Apple isn’t really doing more ads respectively the end user will not see more ads!

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Well, yes and no. Apple’s DESIGNING its own chips is new (the PowerPC was a joint venture with IBM and Motorola), but they don’t actually MAKE chips. TSMC does. Then Foxconn and several other assemblers put the devices actually together. Apple USED to build stuff in the US (and for a short time in Ireland),… Continue reading Is Apple making more stuff by themselves?

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I have contacted Apple many times but still don’t grasp why they don’t fix this. First, once you connect HomePod to AppleTV you have to manually disconnect it from AppleTV or by Airstream via another device to sever the connection between HomePod and AppleTV. Say you left it connected and then told Siri on HomePod… Continue reading Shocked by how poor the integration between Apple TV, HomePod, and iPhone are.

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Alarm clock is such a simple concept but somehow I always find myself fidgeting with it every night. Sometimes I wake up earlier because I have a meeting. If I don’t then I sleep in an extra hour. Sometimes I need to drive to work and it kinda depends on the traffic that day. Weekends… Continue reading Would you like a better alarm clock?

I typically have used a laptop and a phone together, though am contemplating an iPad. I am curious to learn how those of you with all three devices use them – what does each device do for you and do you find there is significant overlap, or is there enough specialization of each that having… Continue reading Those of you who have an iPhone + iPad + Mac, how do you use all three?

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Once a season is out, all retail store demo Watch straps – even ones that were displayed under glass – are shipped off to be destroyed. Even ones that were never taken out of their box and used. Even ones that are in perfect condition. They’re not offered to staff (free or discounted). Just sent… Continue reading Apple destroys hundreds of demo watch straps per store

It’s honestly pretty pathetic. Yesterday afternoon I was trying to email someone in Ukraine and wasn’t sure what time it was over there. I said “Hey Siri, what time is it in Kyiv, Ukraine?”, to which it responded “I don’t have any information about Kyiv, Ukraine.” (or something similar). Ok, maybe I was too specific…… Continue reading Apple is becoming an ad company despite privacy claims

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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First thought it MacBook Pro because I need it for work but I could get along with a Linux laptop if I had to. Probably iPhone would be the thing I least want to give up. I’d give up my watch before my AirPods I think. iPad would be last in the list probably, or… Continue reading What Apple Product Are You Most Thankful For?

like others have said, they tried this before and they couldn’t compete with the other browsers and gave up. i don’t think things would be any different this time around. and the only reason Safari is so dominant on iOS is because of apple’s anti-competitive behavior on that platform. apple should focus on making competent… Continue reading Opinion: Apple should make Safari for Windows/Android

This may be a bit too technical for here, but I’m genuinely curious. I’ve noticed that when I run lipo -info on common system binaries/applications like /bin/zsh and just general utilities that all of them are fat/universal binaries. Only one half of the binary is used, so I’m wondering why Apple just doesn’t ship just… Continue reading Can anyone tell me the reasoning for Apple shipping “Universal Binaries” of core system utilities like stuff that’s in `/bin` on macOS?

Not for the first time, Apple has canceled an order I’ve placed via delivery because a “Courier” never showed up to pick up the item up from them. This was for something that was time sensitive to me (traveling and needing to use it while away). I had a choice of a few options and… Continue reading Has anyone else had a “courier” issue?

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Sure and the app developers will develop apps for his OS, like they did for WebOS, Firefox OS, Windows Phone or Blackberry. It’s not about a device, it’s about the entire eco system.

Yes! Searched for this happening earlier today and didn’t find anything. Glad I’m not alone, I guess. No idea how Apple handles it specifically, but I’ve been dragging each one of them to my Junk folder, hoping that Apple is watching that action and adjusting its filters accordingly. They seemed to have stopped for the… Continue reading How does iCloud Mail handle spam / junk mail?

Hello all, I have been an avid reviewer on Google maps for years now and really enjoy it. I’m really hoping that Apple Maps will soon be up to scratch where I can contribute reviews and photos natively. I see now that I can do that. I have a few questions for anyone that already… Continue reading Apple Maps rating/ review system

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This is a big one for me. For a long time I’ve been able to explain my decision to buy the expensive thing in large part by saying, in effect, “once I’ve paid, I’ve paid.” Unlike some other companies, Apple didn’t need to extract (much) revenue from you after purchase, you’d already paid the high… Continue reading What is the biggest gripe you have with Apple?

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Apple seem to be always ‘rumoured’ to be taking over everything. Every time some company is either coming up for sale, or potentially struggling or whatever…Apple Apple Apple Apple. Remember the Peloton stuff?

While it is normal for Americans to bunch all European nations together, it is not for people who live in any country in Europe. Every country has its own specific Mac-oriented websites, so the best thing to do is look it up in Google, in your own language.

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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This is a question for the parents to see how many go through the same annoyance as me 😂 Scenario: Try to use my AirPods on my iPhone (like say to meditate with some calming track). But then (!) the iPad ACROSS THE HOUSE Bluetooth picks up my AirPods and I start hearing Cocomelon or… Continue reading Parents: AirPods connecting to kid’s iPad?

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

I am planning a short trip a few days from now and I have a few stops to make. I put them all in the apple maps and input the date and time, and that was it? I hit the done button and nothing happened. Once I close the map app, everything is gone. What… Continue reading What is the point of Route Planning if you can’t save the route?

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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The rumor is they’re putting a screen in the outside that in effect makes the goggles look transparent, like ski goggles almost, by displaying the users eyes on the outside screen. If you are doing AR and interacting with people who are physically in the room with you, but your eyes are blocked entirely by… Continue reading VR Headset

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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This problem may only exist on the windows client, but it highlights a huge problem in iCloud architecture that it can happen at all. You could theoretically be one developers fat finger away from your photos being available to the world. That’s a problem. I bet you that most of those photos leaking are from… Continue reading iCloud for Windows Users Complain of Corrupted Videos, Photos From Strangers

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From the article: Apple is allegedly able to identify a user in analytics it collects, according to security researchers, via a unique identifier that can be associated with a user’s iCloud account. As a privacy-focused company, Apple’s introduction of App Tracking Transparency, as well as assurances it would not collect identifiable data on a user’s… Continue reading Apple’s App Store analytics may be able to identify users

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I like the tab-switching behaviour in Chrome/Firefox and wanted Safari to have something similar. Another wish of mine was for it to be a web extension that feels native to the browser vs an app extension that looks out of place. After waiting long enough, I decided to build one myself. A little preview of… Continue reading I am building a Safari Web extension (not an app extension) to switch between tabs. Something I really wanted to exist!

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I have a library of PDF and ePub files of over tens of thousands of items. Up to now I’ve organized this collection with Zotero. I want to try Apple Books. Does anyone have experience storing and organizing large collections of items in Apple Books?

Never going to happen. Always-connected cars like Teslas aren’t going to cede control of the entire in-car experience to Apple or Google. That in-car experience will be monetized with things like app stores, advertising, etc. It will be especially important once self driving becomes more of a thing and the people in the car are… Continue reading Confirmed: Apple Music is Coming to Tesla Vehicles [PICS]

Twitter is a festering cesspool of transphobes, homophobes, racists, misogynists, and insurrectionists posting whatever the hell they want without any content moderation. Which one of those is Phil Schiller? Can’t wait until Twitter goes bankrupt because every last advertiser pulled out of that shithole. I hope that doesn’t happen. It is the absolute best way… Continue reading Apple Executive Phil Schiller Deactivates Twitter Account

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Apple Translate is mostly done on-system, and is still in its infancy. Think of it like typing prediction but between languages. A step up is Google Translate which calls home to get the “best” solution. Neither will provide you with a natural language equivalent though; they’re mostly effective for helping people with no knowledge understand… Continue reading The translator app is garbage

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What do you guys think of Apple Watch being able to run wireless CarPlay down the line? I’m starting to hate phone culture. People (including myself) just glued to their phones is honestly cancerous. My watch texts, makes phone calls and plays music which is really all I need. If it could also do CarPlay… Continue reading Apple Watch Wireless CarPlay

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Asking Siri to text my wife (and others too) is something I’ve done countless times and she’s never had a problem until yesterday. I had my toddler in the car and she had spilled water all over her so I wanted to text my wife to let her know to have a fresh set of… Continue reading Siri made me pullover and text because she couldn’t text for me. This isn’t okay.

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Yeah, that’s how they build supercomputers……. I mean if you really wanted to you could build a supercomputer from Apple Watches. As long as you have enough of them and find a way to connect them all together.

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After a month of difficulties with searchability of my mails I finally made the step to Outlook. I have a very new, very clean MacBook Pro, updated to Ventura and tried every trick in the book to make it work but mails refuse to come up when I use the search option. I also tried… Continue reading Leaving Apple Mail behind – I can’t be the only one?

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And we will finally stop adding what device a tweet was written on (waste of screen space & compute) below every tweet. Literally no one even knows why we did that That’s Musk’s tweet. It makes me kind of sad because this feature was added to promote Twitter’s third party apps, back when twitter was… Continue reading Android Promoters Won’t Get Caught Tweeting From iPhone Anymore With Upcoming Twitter Changes

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I have encountered this in the security side of my work. One of the vendors at work sent out a blog post with a tutorial on backing up databases regularly. They suggested a specific application+service. It was not one I had heard of so I investigated it. My days in compliance analysis have made me… Continue reading Russian notification software found in US Army, CDC apps

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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iPads are tiny. Pro apps should focus on the full screen experience And If apple just figures out and unfucks stage manager then it’s gonna be fine. Simple fix: let iPadOS position windows automatically as it currently does, but then the second the user grabs an app, just let the user position it freely

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They need to fix the constant Spotlight freezes first. I will type in something, and it will hang on it. If I use it as a quick calculator I’ll usually get my first result but if I delete what I wrote and replace it Spotlight will not update. It’s terribly annoying. It happens with opening… Continue reading Apple Losing Talent to Google Amid Push to Improve Spotlight and Launch Search Engine

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I’m struggling to see how this is supposed to benefit Apple. They’re selling devices at a wholesale price to resellers, obviously, and I’m not sure how they’re supposed to benefit from reducing that. Obviously, they’d have a concern with resellers selling stolen or repaired devices as new, but not enough to invest the millions of… Continue reading Amazon and Apple ‘Colluded’ to Make iPhone and iPad More Expensive, Says Antitrust Lawsuit

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It seems it is possible to tell Siri to play songs on Spotify on every other apple product BUT macOS. The functionality already exists for Apple music on macOS. There are threads going back years asking for this functionality. How is it possible that we still cannot ask Siri to play a particular song on… Continue reading No Siri Spotify integration in macOS is unacceptable

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This might be obvious or expected to many, given that an an aluminum frame is basically a faraday cage, but I wanted to try it anyways since they would fit so neatly into the tube where the saddle is mounted in. But you cant find it or reach it to play a sound anymore, even… Continue reading PSA: AirTags won’t work when stuck in a bike frame

The process has been there for years. It used to be responsible for huge CPU spikes, but with newer processors it is less noticeable. Yes, it is sending a hash and may be related to the announced, and then suspended, CSAM program. https://futurism.com/apple-scan-iphone-images-child-sexual-abuse I fail to understand how this connection is needed for local facial… Continue reading Every time you open a photo in MacOS Ventura…

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Hold on while I click through this tracking link that redirects to another tracking link that takes me to a Gizmodo page filled with trackers so that I can read about the scary tracking Apple is doing… Ignoring the issues of the source article, the allegations seems mostly OK anyway. Apple is tracking all of… Continue reading Apple – Privacy Analysis

After upgrading to Ventura and turning on the stage manager, an everyday use case I found myself encountering is that in stage manager, I fit multiple apps in a “stage” and need to switch these apps frequently in this “stage”, I will always accidentally switch to another stage because I used command+tab. A workaround I… Continue reading macOS Ventura Stage Manager switching apps in the same stage

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Yeah and Apple specifically stated many times not to do it when people started doing it when Airtags dropped I never did personally to my dog, but like….this story IS enticing… doesn’t hurt to have a backup plan, or that extra security

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The short-term solution is to simply delete health data, but what does the long-term look like? What if we want to keep all of our health data? (I’ve seen some Apple users report that their health data is taking up gigabytes, and sometimes even terabyte(s), of storage space, particularly Apple Watch users.*) So, what I’m… Continue reading Health App Data Size & Storage: What Does The Future Look Like As Personal Health Data Continues To Accumulate?

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Apple already has that. You have Screen Time to set limits for app usage and look at statistics on how much time you spend in certain apps, how often you open them, how many notifications, you get, etc. And in Cellular settings you get a Data usage breakdown, how much data you used in which… Continue reading Like Android’s “Digital Wellbeing” but for Apple. How much data you use and where do you use it?

Hi I have a few thoughts to think about aloud. I think Digital Island is a cool new feature in Apple’s history, but it’s really unused. For example, why doesn’t it work in a horizontal position!? It may work the same. Only the thumbnails should be replaced. Another thing is multitasking. This is a great… Continue reading Digital Island

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I don’t know anyone who uses it, nor do i know anyone who wants to use it. I have no idea how much money they make from it but I don’t understand the thought process. Some game look sorta good but why pay a monthly fee for app games? Maybe i’m not the target demographic… Continue reading Does anyone use Apple Arcade?

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I can’t imagine wanting to use a foldable. The fold itself maybe, for the huge screen, even if that means you sacrifice functionality in certain apps. However, where I live they’re really pushing the flip. And I can not imagine a genuine use-case. It has the crease, it’s still thick as hell in your pocket,… Continue reading ‘That’s What We Do, We Wait’ Says Fake Apple Employee in New Samsung Ad Mocking Lack of Foldable iPhone

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The people I live in a house with fall asleep to tiktoks. Problem is, is that the iPhone doesn’t switch off when there’s video playing, even if it’s the same one looping…forever. So I have to sneak in and switch it off for them It’s Aggravating. The software doesn’t know that the iPhone has basically… Continue reading iPhones need an option to switch off if left on a video for more than x amount of time

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He also basically mismanaged Nest into the ground (after the initial large success with the thermostat, which was dope), saved by a nice purchase by google. Everyone I knew who worked there in the early days quit as soon as they got their stacks, and had rather unflattering things to say about his inability to… Continue reading Former iPhone Leader Joins Arm to Bring More Chips Into Your Life

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A lot of guys are indoctrinated to corporate horse-race cheerleading, and they LOVE following and posting meaningless info like that. They think it’s inherently newsworthy and significant, like the entire world is a portfolio valuation club. Even though they’re not getting paid like an actual public relations person is. They do it for free.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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Tim Apple can go fuck himself. I’m slowly finding myself less and less interested in the premium Apple systems. The more they keep jamming ads into their products, the more I’ll be looking at other venues for my needs. I’ll rip out Apple TV and put in a small box for Plex or another service.… Continue reading Looks like Apple is setting up for advertising to come to the TV app.

Full-screen apps – why? The menu bar is useful. Some of us don’t like full-screen. AITA? Resizing windows. Both Linux and Windows have figured out a way to resize a window to occupy the full real-estate of a screen…. without going into full screen. Dragging the window up in Linux does it right away. Double… Continue reading My UI grievances

Anyone with insight know if Apple bothers to consider/read/not delete immediately the feedback coming in through their feedback channel in the support app? I’m okay if they are too busy with putting ads on my lock screen but if I know me asking for them to: Return split key board to my iPad OS like… Continue reading Is feedback considered and if so to what degree by Apple?

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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I don’t get it. With Stage Manager enabled, when I view Photos app, I can’t see the desktop icons. When I click on the desktop then I can see the desktop icons, but the Photos app shrunk. There is no way to drag desktop icons to add to the Photos app because dragging the desktop… Continue reading Stage Manager how to drag icons from desktop to an app?

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It would be interesting if anyone over there in Glasgow reading this knew the reason why they decided to unionize, and could tell us why. I ask because unions tend to form in places where the workers are treated poorly by the higher-ups, and the workers want the proverbial pendulum to swing back towards equilibrium,… Continue reading Trades Union Congress on Twitter: BREAKING 🚨🍎 | Apple retail workers in Glasgow have voted to become the first UK store to unionise. Historic.

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Some exerpts: Amazon seems to be able to pull off the same “email the customer” tactic that Apple just prohibited Spotify from using […] I’m not writing this to call out Amazon for skirting Apple’s rules — I’m writing this because… well, what even are Apple’s rules? Apple approved Spotify’s email approach, then later retracted… Continue reading What are Apple’s audiobook rules, anyway?

For those that just want to know how to turn off ads (according to the article): Here’s what you do to turn them off: Open Settings. Tap your name at the top of the screen. Choose “Name, Phone Numbers, Email” Scroll down and turn off the toggles for “Apps,” “Announcements” and “Apple News Updates.”

Hopefully this ends up being the case outside of the EU as well. It’s about time people be able to install what they want onto the devices they own without Apple having to approve of it first. If the App Store is as good as they claim, and sideloading is truly a minority thing, they… Continue reading New EU Law Could Force Apple to Allow Other App Stores, Sideloading, and iMessage Interoperability

I’d actually really settle for just making them all operate in a browser window without phone permissions. WhatsApp is designed to be basically unusable without access to every privacy setting including contacts, location, camera, and microphone. And what happens when you give it all that? Suddenly you get Facebook friend suggestions for every client you… Continue reading New EU Law Could Force Apple to Allow Other App Stores, Sideloading, and iMessage Interoperability

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Meh, Apple Music sent a notification telling you about its own subscription. Nothing new. It’s been the case for years now, especially with iCloud’s low storage warning. I’d be more worried if Apple started sending irrelevant notifications about apps I haven’t downloaded, or worse, about buying other Apple devices. These notifications can be disabled in… Continue reading Ads on iPhone

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I’m genuinely curios, what benefit does stage manager actually have? All I can see is good external monitor support? I can never see my tablet as my single work machine as well, my tablet is a portable media machine and for studying, not to get stuff done unless I’m in a tight spot

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Make it customizable, or even functional, too. Like if you have focus or DND on, the apple is a different hue, so people around you know not to bother you. Could auto-switch to it, too, if on a call/video meeting.

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Rightly or wrongly, China is one of few countries with the population, large scale industry, low enough wages for workers, and worker mentality that make large scale production of technology products possible. It is not easy to replace that. The beginning of COVID is not a long time in logistics and production planning. Apple are… Continue reading Apple: Chinese workers flee Covid lockdown at iPhone factory

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they already rewrote the rules of the internet a few years ago before the rule was “visit a website, view the content”, and now the rule is “visit a website, click yes i accept cookies, then view the content” i expect this to go about as well as that

Every time I go to Target’s tech section there is no one there to help so I just stopped going to that section. Also I don’t think this is an unpopular opinion but I don’t think many people care about having a few months free of Apple Fitness or Apple News.

They have the technology and years of do’s and don’ts experience by looking at other companies successes and failures. A huge percentage of world population uses iPhone right; mostly USA and European countries at least. If the keep the goal on just creating an Ad free social media app that comes along with the iPhone… Continue reading What is stopping apple from creating a built-in social media app for iPhones and becoming probably the biggest social media company?

Air New Zealand has banned some battery powered baggage trackers including AirTags. Below is from their website: https://www.airnewzealand.co.nz/travelling-with-lithium-batteries#prohibited “Baggage Trackers (battery powered) Only battery powered baggage trackers that can be turned off i.e. are not in sleep mode, will be accepted in checked baggage. Some devices have an automatic On/Off feature, but not all. Always… Continue reading Air New Zealand bans Airtags in checked luggage

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It’s something that I’ve never understood about Apple’s philosophy. I think all devices should have (optional) external LEDs (they should all have the option to turn them off if you don’t like them). In my opinion: For Computers: It’s nice to have an LED to know when the computer is powered on. That way if… Continue reading How come so few Apple products have external LEDs?

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I wonder how receptive antitrust regulators would be if someone wanted to make a kid safe AppStore on iOS that banned all apps with gambling, predatory microtransactions, loot boxes, hidden recurring payments, etc. I’d guess the answer would be: “Very receptive, until Apple slips a fat cheque in their back pockets!” lol

The gold Milanese loop looks like trash anyway. On the website they’ve turned up the yellow but in store it’s pale as hell. Was going to get it for my partner – she wears a gold bracelet on the other wrist – but the colour is so far off gold, it would really clash. Not… Continue reading It’s a shame Apple no longer sells gold aluminum products.

From iMessage videos sent in tiny frames, jumping about when you try and open them to HomePods not responding. Apple Maps giving driving directions to places over oceans; it’s become a frustrating joke. Simple things are getting complicated. What has happened? Every time I seem to open an apple app it seems to be nagging… Continue reading Nothing ‘Just works’ anymore .. 🙁

I mean god forbid I should actually use my phone while listening to music on it at the same time. Have music playing but want to scroll social media? No music for you. Already manually muted social media/website audio through the app/webpage itself? Too bad, we’re still gonna pause your music to prioritize the muted… Continue reading Why is audio routing still terrible on iOS?

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Saying “white lives matter”. How is that anti-black? By that logic saying “black lives matter” is anti-white. If you’re seriously asking, it’s because these statements don’t exist in a vacuum with no context. “Black lives matter” is a social movement attempting to highlight systemic oppression against black people in the USA, especially but not exclusively… Continue reading Apple Music pulls Kanye West ‘Essentials’ playlists, first streaming service to take action

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For the few of us who are rocking these inexpensive but otherwise decent sounding earbuds, take note the two Beats Flex specific options (magnetic earbud detection and automatically answer calls) aren’t configurable in the new System Settings app in Ventura. Apple must’ve forgot to port this over from the old Bluetooth preferences, although in fairness… Continue reading PSA: Beats Flex options missing from macOS Ventura

Companies, especially traded ones, have to provide constant growth to make shareholders happy. Constant growth is not really sustainable: when you sell one device to each possible user, you saturate the market. So Apple has to release version-specific features (hardware and software) to nudge people towards new hardware. Personally I am not aware of any… Continue reading iCloud Shared Photo Library only MacOS Ventura – WHY?

I really wish that I could open my remote control by swiping from right to center on the Lock Screen rather than doing this to access the camera app. I know that Apple wants to encourage people to document their lives (and to share of course) by placing this here, but why not make that… Continue reading Customizable Lock Screen controls

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Seems like you can change the frequency of backups in Time Machine now instead of just every hour. Not tried this yet but also seems like you can have multiple backup destinations instead of just one too, with different backup frequencies for each destination.

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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Ads coming to Maps? Apple really is going to become a shitty advertising company. Combine this with the endless hardware & software issues over the past couple years, and it doesn’t look good for the future. “Hey Siri, give me directions to the grocery store.” “One sec. I can do that, but have you thought… Continue reading Story updated with the following statement from an Apple spokesperson: “We have paused ads related to gambling and a few other categories on App Store product pages.”

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Kind of a hacky option and would need to be tested, but you could schedule a shutdown (this could be done several ways) and kill the power to it once it’s shut down (using some kind of smart plug). Enable start up automatically after power failure (in the energy saver settings), and trigger the power… Continue reading PSA: macOS Ventura Removes the Ability to Schedule Shutdown and Boot

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This is a legitimate issue to complain about. Not only are these gambling apps scummy, but the ads for them appear in the “you might also like” section, despite the fact they may have absolutely nothing in common with the app the user is previewing on the App Store. That’s just bad user experience.

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Bad algorithm Edit: I’m not saying Apple isn’t responsible ultimately. I meant the juxtaposition is obviously not intentional. The algorithm needs to be corrected and of course that’s Apple’s responsibility.

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I really think there is no chance they go portless and I don’t know why this rumour persists. Wireless is a mostly bad way to charge phones with a couple of good applications (MagSafe phone mounts in cars, and desk/bedside docks). They’re less energy efficient, they’re bad for the battery, they’re slower, they are less… Continue reading Greg Joswiak: Apple Will Have to Comply With the EU and Switch iPhone to USB-C

look into the networksetup command line tool. I did that eben before jumping to Ventura because I use a second set of DNS-settings to access BC from abroad. I used to do that via locations, now I have two little command line apps on the desktop that switch DNS settings for both ethernet and Wi-Fi… Continue reading PSA: macOS Ventura removes Network Locations

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Apple apparently told Spotify that it can send customers emails about online purchases, but Spotify is not able to offer a button inside of the app to request emails. The feature was designed with Spotify’s legal team involved, and Apple initially approved the update in September, but later reversed course, rejecting subsequent updates. Spotify designed… Continue reading Apple Rejected Spotify’s App Update Adding Audiobook Support

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Has anyone enabled Shared Photo Library yet? Had heard of some rough bugs in beta, been literally waiting for the feature for years, but don’t want to take any chances of losing photos… For those who have enabled it, how’s it seem to be working/does it do what you were hoping it would?

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I realise this is a known, and much lamented issue, but holy moly: Why is this user experience so bad? It’s basic things, like when I find a new podcast it will drop me on the latest series. Call me crazy, but would the average user not prefer to start listening….from the beginning? Even within… Continue reading Apple Podcast App UX

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I know that this program caters to some people, but MacBooks can usually last well over three years. This can even be a selling point over “regular” laptops. Also, why plan obsolescence when the product doesn’t need to be obsoleted?

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Now you’ve got someone who was considering the base iPad potentially considering the Pro and spending more money. Or realizing they don’t need an iPad because a laptop is more than enough and they just don’t buy/upgrade.

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iOS uses the TestFlight system to restrict app distribution to development and beta build users. Continuous delivery pipelines automatically distribute the compiled builds into TestFlight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TestFlight You can’t run an unsigned executable unless it is side loaded, or the iOS device is jailbroken. iOS is ultimately built to prevent this.

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In some ways they kinda do -HOLD to say this isn’t defending Apple just explaining reasons why also annoyed with this-, investors just want to see up and up and up and up and up with no stagnation or decline what-so-ever. Apple now jumping into the ads stuff is partially a symptom of that, as… Continue reading Apple Announces More Ads Coming to App Store Starting Next Week

Solidarity with our striking friends in Australia. RAFFWU is the only union of the three that support Apple workers that have the ability take industrial action. So glad to see them exercise it.

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It’s because Walmart has a major, vested interest in people using Walmart Pay, their own little payment application, which their payment terminals support using in a contact-less method. If you try to use Android Pay* or Apple Pay or contact-less cards at those same terminals, they won’t work as the contactless hardware is disabled or… Continue reading Walmart Still Doesn’t Accept Apple Pay in U.S. Despite Many Customer Requests

I saw this and posted it to r/AppleAR and r/AppleMR I just saw that it was posted here though. Did no one yet notice the box on the table says “View” in shiny black lettering? Maybe they’re calibrating apple views for some reason. If they’re getting ready to show them off, this is at least… Continue reading Tim Cook | Our engineering teams in Austin are hard at work on powerful next-generation silicon chips. Great to see them in action today!

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Hi folks, I’ve been curious about this for a while: Despite Safari’s privacy features (DNT), couldn’t a website or service just ignore the request? Then I saw it written verbatim in Adobe’s privacy policy: “These rights may be limited, for example, if fulfilling your request would reveal personal information about another person, or if you… Continue reading Sites that don’t respond to “Do Not Track” in Safari

Even for all his faults, Jony is irreplaceable. He pushed the boundaries even if it fucked him. I don’t think USB-C would be nearly as ubiquitous if they didn’t drop everything and go all in on USB-C on the Mac. I also don’t play into the narrative that it was Ive’s sole decision to remove… Continue reading Apple’s Industrial Design Chief Hankey to Leave Three Years After Ive

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I primarily use wired charging and only charge when I’m in my bed or at my desk. I use the phone when I’m charging and then it’s primarily in my pocket. I’m guessing people being OK with not using the phone when wireless charging probably: Have multiple wireless chargers so they can always use one… Continue reading How do people use wireless charging?

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Seems to be its only an issue if you are swapping phones constantly like this guy is. That said it does seem dumb to have the only way to transfer being in a phone call which obviously takes a shit while you are on the phone. At least Apply seems to have it sorted out,… Continue reading I went all in on eSIM and I have regrets

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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Hey Guys, is someone completely in the Apple Ecosystem (iPhone, Watch, MacBook, AirPods) but uses Google Home instead of Homekit? Do you miss anything? I have enoug of Siri and the Nest Hub with Display instead of the HomePod Mini looks nice. Also I use Google TV instead of Apple TV (too expensive).

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Posting to r/photography might be a good idea as well. In terms of online storage, I use One Drive. I’ve used Google One and Flickr before. You’re welcome to stick to iCloud. Off the bat, UI is probably the most important thing and finding one that works for you is key. Format wise, I’ve done… Continue reading What are Some Advanced Photo Storage and Categorization Techniques?

I know I can’t be the only one who would love to see Apple revisit the Airport router product line — especially in this day and age where homes in the U.S. are adopting fiber optics so rapidly. They can utilize the Apple magic to enable super easy device set up and organization, along with… Continue reading Return of Airport

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Comparison image (Source: ZONEofTECH on YT) We’ve had eight iterations of the rectangular Apple Watch and lots of opinions on whether or not Apple should release a round option. Well, seems like Google’s entire design ethos for the Pixel Watch was “Apple Watch, but round.” So I’m curious—now that we’ve seen the Pixel Watch and… Continue reading Now that it’s out, does the Pixel Watch make you want a round Apple Watch more or less?

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The Quest Pro example wasn’t anything impressive because it’s just a multi-monitor setup. Nothing more. Apple has developed Universal Control and Stage Manager and has the potential to do much more. Without being restricted to virtual screens. Real spacial computing with your app windows wherever you need and want them all around you.

How do we get Apple to listen to all us parents who can’t use Apples broken “ask to buy” feature? Since it’s inception, this feature has been completely useless. The feature has clearly been designed buy someone at apple who haven’t got children with iphone or ipads them selves. Here’s how the feature is marketed… Continue reading How do we get Apple to fix Ask to Buy

I have occasionally noticed changes to films I have purchased digitally through Apple. For example, a long time ago I purchased the extended edition of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Sometimes there are new scenes that were not there the previous times I have watched it. I am not sure if some scenes… Continue reading Purchased Movie Content Changing

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The sad thing is that she seems to have been trying to do a good thing, and would likely have gotten support and approval from Apple had she asked. But yeah you don’t shoot TikTok influencer videos from your corporate office without that permission.

Everyone: Make iMessage work better between operating systems! Apple: Boom. New exclusive features.

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I mean unless your union agreement has a “me too” clause (they’re a thing in union bargaining, usually it’s government unions that trigger if a separate union/bargaining unit gets a better raise or something), then you are only entitled to exactly what’s in your union negotiated contract. That’s how union contracts work. And while a… Continue reading Unionized workers at Apple in Towson are preparing for bargaining amid reports of unequal treatment

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I’d like to curb my scrolling addiction by hiding away my phone and just using an Apple Watch for basic communication and navigation as I go about day to day activities. I’ll pull out my phone only when I really need it. Is this practical? Can anyone who does this describe their experience? I already… Continue reading Does anyone use an Apple Watch with cellular service to substitute their iPhone for daily use?

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There’s a whole additional layer of broken problems too: what if the album title is long, or you have multiple variants of an album (example: “SNES” vs “Arcade” soundtrack) so that you need to see the crucial last word in the title not the first few words? Same problem in both music and podcasts. For… Continue reading How do you get album titles to show up?

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I also used Safari for Windows for a while. Back then I feel like I was trying every browser under the sun. Netscape, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome. I settled on Firefox for a very long time, then switched to Chrome like everyone else, and now I’m back to Firefox haha.

Largely, I only hear from Android friends who complain about the green bubbles (which they don’t even see on their device). Usually when it’s a mixed group, we just use WhatsApp. For what it’s worth, humans can see more shades/hues of green than any other color in the spectrum, so by that logic, green is… Continue reading One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”

The digital life suite of iTools / .Mac. iSync was a really great tool. It’s silly to think about now, but back then, syncing data across devices was a painfully manual process. iSync just let you plug a phone or iPod in and sync your contacts, calendars, and notes. iPhoto was also my most used… Continue reading What was the apple product that got you addicted to their ecosystem?

I’ve recently started shifting all my accounts to Apple’s SSO approach. But, as I started going through my many accounts, I quickly realised that many of them were using hidden emails using the Hide My Email functionality from iCloud. It got me thinking that there’s a massive flaw in Apple’s SSO in that you can’t… Continue reading Is Sign in with Apple flawed?

I find myself browsing the majority of the internet via the Safari app, even if a site I like (such as Reddit) has a dedicated app. The novelty of downloading an official app has worn off over the years, especially as iPadOS’s Safari has improved. On top of that, having all those different apps- and… Continue reading iPad Web Browsing Question

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That’s true! They can also strike. They have choices. If Apple is unhappy with striking workers, Apple can pay more. Or Apple can fire them all. Apple has choices. And depending on Australian labor law, which I know nothing about, if the government is unhappy with Apple’s actions, the government can sue. The government has… Continue reading Apple Retail Workers Vote To Strike

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It’s not supposed to replace your phone. With my watch I get motivated to exercise because I want to close the circles, it helps me sleep tracking, helps me get reminders to take vitamins, and I can look and quickly respond to notifications without having to take the phone out of my pocket or pick… Continue reading US teens report claims almost a third own an Apple Watch

Most people don’t just get excited by tech for tech’s sake. No-one has told a compelling VR story yet. Legless avatars in cartoon space stations isn’t going to do it. The iPhone and Apple Watch are a luxury product that signal success, like it or not. VR at the moment signals … at best nothing,… Continue reading Teens are still excited about iPhone & Apple Watch, less so about VR

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Did Apple mention that they used a neural network to train their detection model? If that’s the case then I guess it’s not as straightforward to fix as I thought in an earlier thread. If a neural network is being used then the only way they are going to fix the false positives is to… Continue reading Apple offers a deeper dive into crash detection

It’s aleady an issue without Apple having anything to do with it. There are apps which cause music to stop, even though they should not be playing any sound at all. The CNN app is one of them. It’s very annoying, and developers seem to have no interest investigating it.

„There’s a scam app claiming to be Midjourney, and it’s charting in the App Store. What’s amazing is how the scammer, @nickjsheriff brags about his scam.“

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Why can’t we check the timer on one device from another? I regularly use my HomePod to set timers while I’m cooking, but use my iPad to refer to the recipe, which leads to an annoying issue. If my iPad is unlocked and I ask my HomePod how much time is left, my iPad automatically… Continue reading Annoying issue with a seeming simple fix.

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The car guesses that you are the driver because you usually pair your phone with bluetooth or connect via USB for CarPlay. That’s not a good signal for Car Crash detection because you may be a passenger without that connection.

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I originally discovered it as a feature of the HomePods. I’ve been using it with a sleep timer for a white noise generator for over a year (Ocean and rain are quite nice). I’m guessing some people who don’t have HomePods, may use their phone (often beside their bed), in a similar way. Why is… Continue reading YSK: iOS has a built-in background noise generator (white noise/rain)

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I’m shocked that even the most detached and aloof airline executive would think that a ban like this is enforceable. If they aren’t under any delusions that it’s enforceable, I’m shocked that they thought this messaging was a good idea. On a recent trip, AirTags confirmed for me that my bags were left behind at… Continue reading Lufthansa “bans AirTags in luggage” after passengers publicly shame it with location of lost bags

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Yes, but I’m pretty strict about properly categorising instant/scheduled/no notifications. Things I use scheduled summaries for: Uber (as time sensitive notifications break through, such as “Uber is arriving”) Most forms of social media (Instagram/Snapchat/etc…) Apple Health Finance transactions Missed calls New podcast episodes of some podcasts Turn based video games I find it very useful.… Continue reading Do you use “Scheduled Summary” feature on iPhone?

I remember using this app before it was a subscription service. It was great to have everything in one place. No chance though of getting me to pay an annual fee for something that can be done for free with UPS/FedEx apps.

Was just messing around with settings today and I realized how excited I was about this feature called app clips during iOS presentation , like for parking, restaurant menu etc but I have never once had a chance to use this. The feature benefit for me was not having to install apps that I don’t… Continue reading Has anyone ever used App clips?

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Obviously you would choose which threads you archive on your own device. If you say something that someone else deems worth archiving, congratulations! If you’re afraid someone would archive everything you say for reasons you can’t think of… one of you is at fault, stop talking to that person.

I won’t ramble for too long (narrator: this was a lie) but here’s a random thing I was thinking about. I tried to switch to Google Calendar a while back literally because they have this lovely feature where certain words will add an illustration to an event in a certain view and it looks really… Continue reading Do you think Apple would ever (or should) include more illustration throughout their apps and OSes?

https://i.imgur.com/jgjmZWc.jpg Which theme do you prefer when reading books in Apple Books? Original Quiet Paper Bold Calm Focus I usually use Original or Paper. I started using Paper lately and somehow it just makes my eyes feel more like I’m looking at a book.

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I was all for it since the beginning. Unlike a lot of people I never liked the notch and although I agree that for videos it looks better than the pill (less eye soaring), for anything else I think the pill is much better. Lots of annoying pop ups from IOS now appear inside the… Continue reading Have you gotten used to the Dynamic Island yet?

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That’s more significant than most people realize. We try to generalize so much because most us don’t understand the intricacies of this economy we have developed. When someone asks me what I do I say I’m in IT, but I could not manage AWS’ back end to save my life. Nor could I build an… Continue reading Today in Apple history: Michael Dell says he’d shut down Apple

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Definitely sounds like the start of your typical American frivolous lawsuit. Especially the part where he ignores Apple’s advice and continues messing with the watch, ending up injured. Trust me, they will absolutely retain the evidence of the user not heeding their warning. It’s not smart to ignore the NDA attempt by going to the… Continue reading Apple Watch blows up and sends user to hospital

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It seems like the animation of moving from AOD to lock screen has to finish, before it can accept input. Watch the clock and how it “grows” when you tap the screen. It won’t register touch input until that growing animation is done. Annoying and I hope they fix it. I don’t think it’s tied… Continue reading Always on display take to wake slower

For a social media type app that is simply opening some web content, sure. But, as always, you can’t make these categorical statements because there are many instances where an in app browser is essential. For example, needing to access an institutional SSO login page from within an app, or transition to an external payment… Continue reading Get rid of all ‘in app’ browsers

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Anyone just deal? You know it’s got so many issues. Always has. But you stick it out anyways? Why? What is it about the app that keeps you from jumping to Kindle or something else? I’m seriously curious. Every so often I think I’m going to go to Kindle. Buy an eink device. Get a… Continue reading Does anyone stick with Apple Books?

Upgraded iMac, no Updated iPad Pro, you bet!! Apple teased a collection at WWDC that we have heard nothing about since. I’ll bet money there’s a key element of this app that will be revealed in conjunction with either new iPad Pro hardware or a new iPad Pro accessory There’s also a redesigned standard iPad… Continue reading October Apple event/press release, let’s talk!?

Since the pandemic, Apple started to pre-record their events and publish them on YouTube. Something that I’ve noticed but didn’t really understand is that Apple chooses to broadcast their events through livestreams instead of using the “Premiere” feature that YouTube offers. (You can check for yourself on previous Apple events) But why do they do… Continue reading Why does Apple livestream their events instead of using the “Premiere” feature on YouTube?

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It’s not any crazier than what a website could do Any website (or app) can make arbitrary requests to any URL on the user’s behalf, without the user knowing. This is exactly how trackers like facebook and google operate This has less impact since the image needs to be stored on your device – which… Continue reading [Matt Hodges/@hodgesmr] macOS is background scanning images on my computer and, when those images are QR codes that point to URLs, it’s decoding the codes and requesting the URL

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Mine’s solid. I’ve taken it camping quite a few times, and on many, many flights and hotel trips. The silicon exterior material has held up very well and kept it’s shape, as have the keys. No wear on the edges, and I throw it in the work bag all the time. I clean it with… Continue reading White Magic Keyboard Owners – Any noticeable blemishes?

Scroll reader here. Had the same problem and after about a week my muscle memory has gotten used to it. However it IS a weird UX paradigm no matter how accustomed you get to it though so i feel your frustration still. Incase you didn’t know, when you accidentally add the bookmark, if you’re in… Continue reading Apple Books Bookmark

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All jokes aside, the annunciation and clarity of Siri is leagues better than the other voice assistants on the market. Apple has the resources/marketshare to open more Siri APIs to developers and make it a much more competitive platform. Maybe they don’t see it as a profitable segment?

How do you think Apple will release their VR Headset? At one point I had theorized that Apple would tease it as a “One More Thing” at the Far Out event last month or at a possible event this month, but now I find there won’t be an event this month and Apple will only… Continue reading VR Headset Reveal

So I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and it’s especially notable if you look on the Apple One website. Every Apple service except Music and Arcade have a + sign behind the name, even those like iCloud that were already paid but didn’t have them at first. It’s obvious that Apple is moving… Continue reading Apple “Music+” and “Arcade+”?

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In their blog post, they say that existing customers retain the features they had before the update. And I guess from this comparison chart they put out, the free version is not losing out on anything meaningful other than the “Sent from Spark” line at the end of your emails. Hopefully they don’t backtrack from… Continue reading Popular Email Client Spark Gets Major Redesign For Mac, Moves to Subscription Model

that’s not the dock… the dock is the row of apps that sit permanently at the bottom of screen no matter which page you swipe to in your home screen. that line is the home bar you’re talking about, which you swipe up to go back to home screen officially apple wants it there to… Continue reading Question

It depends where you want developers to focus their efforts. If you want them to focus on making the product better for existing users by continually reinvesting in operational excellence and improvements, subscriptions make a lot of sense. If you want them to focus on flashy features that may or may not actually be useful,… Continue reading Thoughts on subscriptions?

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If I’m going all digital, Apple Reminders + Calendar. For todos, I’ve been moving away from Reminders and using pen & paper with Analog (index cards). When I stumbled across Analog, it was setup almost exactly like my Reminders app (Today, Later, Someday), so it made the transition pretty painless. I just like being able… Continue reading What app do you use for your daily todo list / task management?

I know that the apple card is exclusive to the USA, but what happens if citizens from other nations want one? However it’s not accessible to them as applying for one requires you to live within the US as they ask for your address and phone number along with other details. Is there still a… Continue reading Why the apple card isn’t available outside the USA?

tim apple: “this new feature is not possible on the old hardware due to necessary components not existin-“ fucking users: “LOOK guys this new shit works on my old shit!” tim apple: “wait no please don’t use that it’s a bug”

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After seeing the Mac Studio, I don’t really understand what the theoretical Mac Pro could bring to the table. This article speculates that they could make it more modular or whatever, but we all know that’s not really possible with the M series chips. They could give it a bunch of PCIe slots for extra… Continue reading The next Mac Pro: Everything we know

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what happens with crash detection if your iPhone breaks during the car accident. Happens all the time. Are you just SOL? I’m sure screens may crack but I’d have a hard time believing an iPhone (or any phone) is completely bricked during an accident, frequently. I understand the call needs to be put through after… Continue reading What if your iPhone breaks during car accident? Crash Detection

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Every time I listen to my AirPods Max/HomePod/MacBook speakers I am amazed by their audio capabilities. Apple should really make a portable speaker or smart speaker. The connection with iPhone would be awesome and they clearly have the audio capacity to do it. They’re also clearly better at waterproofing/rugged design. HomePod is incredibly efficient so… Continue reading Apple NEEDS to make a portable speaker

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I wish that the UI for the buttons was a bit more similar to that of a remote. For example, the volume up/down buttons could be sitting on top of each other, and divided from the other buttons. Also, I love/am made lazy by Control Nearby Devices since I set an alarm on my iPad… Continue reading “Control Nearby Devices” has so much potential

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I wish Apple could bring support for multitasking using the Dynamic Island. Hold the Dynamic Island to start the app in split screen it drags the app up and then you can select another app from app drawer. If Apple can’t support dynamic resizing of apps like Android does then they could possibly just use… Continue reading Multitasking using Dynamic Island

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Literally there’s just a few features like pop-up notifications, showing apps that are running on the background, and most importantly to mask self cameras and other sensors next to it. Apple users have recently said that they use the dynamic island less than they expected, thinking its just a lil waste of money. So…? Update:… Continue reading I think Apple could do the Dynamic Island better.

I mean it’s not like they fired him. The video of him became popular and then he leaves the company a month later. A Bloomberg article says it was his decision to leave the company. It was apple employees and apple supplier employees who raised their concerns about his comments because he’d been championing the… Continue reading Apple VP leaves company after vulgar comment goes viral on TikTok

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This is funny, but it also is a glimpse at a strange future. Right now you can tell if somebody is reading from a Teleprompter or notes during a talk, but soon that script will be in their AR lenses. Nothing wrong with reading a script for a speech, but what about during meetings or… Continue reading Tim Cook: Not Too Long From Now, You’ll Wonder How You Led Your Life Without AR

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This is just my opinion I might be wrong. (BTW I change my mind it’s not a big mistake it’s a mistake) I think that in the Intel days I can understand why Apple didn’t really care about gaming. Their computer mostly couldn’t run games that well and yes, most of their costumers don’t care… Continue reading Apple not courting game studios is a big mistake.

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Even the three dots at the top right which is Apple’s “if there’s no more screen space left, we put options here” button doesn’t have a ‘Go to Artist’. I don’t know how this behaves when you have the subscription but big red buttons are meant to be pressed and do something. When are we… Continue reading When I’m in an Album in my local Apple Music library why does tapping the massive red artist name not take me to the Artists album list?

Dude, I was just thinking about that today! I was thinking that the Watch does not have an easy way to track sport scores, unless you ask Siri or have the Siri watch face. The News app actually has a way to see all the scores and schedules, but only for a specific sport. Not… Continue reading Dedicated Sports App

Hi All, Just thought I’d let you know about an issue I had this morning. Woke up, tried to update apps and was given the “Your account has been disabled in the App Store and iTunes.” This has never happened to me before so I jumped onto the online chat and the person literally linked… Continue reading Your account has been disabled in the App Store and iTunes. Don’t use the online chat, call your support line.

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I like how despite the explanations by Linus over and over about clickbait and the youtube algorithm, the sheep knee jerk downvote this and complain about it. Oh wait, it’s an LTT video so the Apple fanboys auto downvote even if it didn’t have the title.

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Roskomnadzor called the restrictions “discriminatory” and said they violated Russian internet users’ right to free information and communication. Hahaha, love this Russian explanations 🤣

If memory serves, they said it would be coming early this year and that deadline has long since passed. They haven’t mentioned it since. I wouldn’t get my hopes up that we’ll see it this year. Edit: if this was the only mention of a release timeline, then I was mistaken about them specifying it… Continue reading Apple Music Classical app references again spotted in iOS code, when do you think it’s being released?

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I’m literally only interested in what was said. Yet no one will even fucking tell us. This is the equivalent of “hackers send something to millions, trust us it was bad, here’s them apologizing”. I want to read the news, no matter how “offensive” it is. Fucks sake we can post about toddlers finding guns… Continue reading Apple News possibly hacked? Someone left a wild message on the push notifications for Fast Company.

I really like spatial audio, but only if it feels like the band is in front of me. Currently almost all songs I found just play in the center of my skull. If you have any songs that aren’t like that, please comment!

By doing what, exactly? Not paying the subscription? Apple isn’t going to interpret that as “oh gee maybe we should stop running ads”, they’ll view it as “this is why we show you ads, so we’re making money off you regardless”. Voting with your dollars is effective for multi-billionaires and C-suite executives of trillion dollar… Continue reading Apple News ads are irksome

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People have been overdoing it with watches for ages. One of my clients is a chubby small guy who made a business selling fake tactical watches. I believe the best take on the issue is John Gruber’s recent post on Daring Fireball.

I think that this is a great change considering I call a lot with my long distance girlfriend. It would be so annoying to be unable to hear youtube video’s or other audio content while calling. I haven’t seen this being mentioned anywhere?

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I can’t believe there isn’t a way to mute/block/disable calls one one phone line without turning off that line completely I’m on vacation and would like to mute business calls but still have access to LTE data on that line since my personal line has no data (voice/text eSIM)

Avoid using a Live Activity to display ads or promotions. Live Activities help people stay informed about ongoing events and tasks, so it’s important to display only information that’s related to those events and tasks. Please let this be something that rejects apps if done vs a suggestion…

This is in line with the pricing – the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus, which I assume are (or will be) made in India, are priced not too far from a straight USD conversion. They’re still more expensive than they ideally should be if made in India, but the premium isn’t too high. The iPhone… Continue reading Apple begins making the iPhone 14 in India, marking a big shift in its manufacturing strategy

level 1 · 1 hr. ago It’s incredible that we need to buy new phone so that some UI elements become less annoying iOS has had compact banners since iOS 13, I don’t get why aren’t they utilised more instead of only showing for switching silent mode on/off Vote

Welcome to the Daily Advice Thread for r/Apple. This thread can be used to ask for technical advice regarding Apple software and hardware, to ask questions regarding the buying or selling of Apple products or to post other short questions. Have a question you need answered? Ask away! Please remember to adhere to our rules,… Continue reading Daily Advice Thread – September 26, 2022

I’m in the same situation. I got my 14 Pro Max last Wednesday and set it up as a new phone. It goes on charge every night just like my 13 Pro Max, and I’m not using it differently. The battery life so far isn’t good. I have the screen brightness set low, and AOD… Continue reading What’s your iOS 16 Battery Drain Story?

The program: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/airpods-pro-service-program-sound-issues I have a set of airpods pro, made in sept 2020 and they’re telling me they don’t qualify even though they failed their own testing, and were verified as legit. I’ve called twice, and gone into the store twice, they’ll say they should be covered but when I try to have them… Continue reading Anyone else get rejected from Apples AirPods Pro Service Program lately?

Am I the only one? And no, I’m not talking about phantom vibrations.

I used to be able to play music on my Apple TV/HomePod minis through AirPlay, and then continue to use my iPhone for other apps or whatever. Now (post update?) if I’m playing music and open tiktok or something, it plays that audio as well, instead of on my phone speakers like it used to.… Continue reading Did AirPlay get worse?

Same. A bit of maneuvering gets me a SS Apple Watch every year or two (buy Apple gift cards for 75-80% value, sell last years model for 65-70% of MSRP, nothing out of pocket). I buy the latest iPhone on a 24-month payment plan. After 12 months, buy outright ($550 out of pocket) and sell… Continue reading What is your device upgrade life cycle?

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There is a bug where your AirPods tone volume preference is ignored while listening to music. Notifications will always play at full volume while something different is playing in the background. Any idea if there is a fix coming? Or do I just have a faulty pair? You can test it yourself by setting the… Continue reading PSA: You can change the notifications volume of AirPods Pro 2nd gen

For 11 years ever since its release, Apple’s free plan has always stayed the same, while over the decade photo and file sizes increased exponentially, especially with 4k video. Google Drive has 15GB of free storage. Mega.nz has an even more generous 20GB of free storage. Apple falls completely out of the competition. What will… Continue reading Will apple ever increase the 5GB free iCloud capacity?

Hi all, I’m the indie developer who’s been working on the CardPointers app which launched on the App Store almost exactly 3 years ago and I’ve been cranking out update after update since then thanks to awesome user feedback. I just released a huge 4.0 release alongside iOS 16 last week, and I’m over the… Continue reading I made an app to maximize points and cash back on all of your credit cards called CardPointers, and Apple is featuring it in the App Store with the iOS 16 launch! Lock screen widgets, 1,000s of app shortcuts, focus filters to hide cards with int’l fees or toggle business cards, & more iOS 16 goodies

When I saw WWDC this year and that WatchOS9 would include advanced running metrics, I was stoked and immediately inspired to create an iOS app to visualize them. I created Deets.Run with a number of objectives in mind: Summary of all the new metrics in a compact convenient way per run, but also that allows… Continue reading Deets.Run – Running analysis and visualizations, powered by the new Apple Watch running metrics

level 1 The verge website designers must have had the same issue. level 2 The verge always taking shots in the comments in this sub 😂 level 2 It was my go-to for quick and easy news on tech. Now however I can’t even read the god damn thing without feeling like I’m on a… Continue reading Apple Pay Later is reportedly facing ‘technical and engineering’ issues

Assuming this is true, my off the cuff guess is that they’ve realized when they do a standard and pro segmentation on iPhones, people are opting for the Pro and the better features that come with it despite the price uptick. Articles lately have come out that Apple has been a little surprised how little… Continue reading iPhone 15 ‘Ultra’ Could Replace Pro Max Model Next Year

A few months ago, Gurman claimed that the M1-based Mac Pro was cancelled in favor of an M2-based version. “They also had an M1 Mac Pro ready to go months ago. But they scrapped that to wait for the M2 version.” With the company scrapping its plans for an M1 Mac Pro, Gurman says in… Continue reading Gurman: Upcoming Apple product announcements could come as press releases, not an October Event

I’d also have to say, my watch 6 appears to be about as accurate as my Garmin for running, I did notice on 1 ride when I was recording with both my watch and my bike computer that the watch was behind a few hundred meters, but I think that may have had something to… Continue reading Apple Watch running data analysis

I had an 11” 2018 iPad Pro for a few years and it was amazing! But, I wanted to go bigger. So, I considered a 12.9” 2020 or 2021 iPad Pro. However, I thought, why would I need to get a 2020 or 2021, when the 2018 is amazing still. So, I bought a refurb… Continue reading Current 11-Inch iPad Pro Now Been Available Longer Than Any Previous Model

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I have been an AirPods Pro owner since they came out. I also bought the AirPods Max when they came out, and have just received my AirPods Pro 2, as soon as they were available. Like others, I noticed a reduction in my AirPods Pro active noise cancelling over the past month or two. I… Continue reading AirPods Pro and Max ANC issues

So I bought a refurb Mac Mini online for $169. It was able to run Monteray but was sooo sluggish. I wanted to try an expiriment so I bought a $52 512GB SSD and basically transferred the OS to that drive and made the 1TB Sata internal drive my Time Machine. It made such a… Continue reading Kept life for an old Mac Mini

level 2 · 18 hr. ago I’m curious on your opinion since you work in IT security; do you think apple genuinely does a good job at managing customer privacy? Better than other brands? Or do you think it’s mostly just a marketing thing? Personally I think apple does a better job than most other… Continue reading What’s your favorite recent Apple commercial?

Out of curiosity, does anyone know where the medication database comes from that Apple is using for the medication reminder function? I’m sort of amazed by what it has and doesn’t have…particularly the presence of specialty multivitamins but not the general multivitamins of lines like One-A-Day, Centrum etc. level 1 You guys get a database?… Continue reading medication database?

level 1 · 17 hr. ago Officially, no. However, if you already have Windows 10 on Boot Camp, you can use the same trick that people who have otherwise capable computers without that stupid TPM thing use. I had success with it, apart from accidentally erasing all of my stuff on that partition because I… Continue reading Windows 11 Bootcamp

level 1 Websites like rtings take actual measurements of ANC sound reduction. These don’t correlate perfectly to how we perceive the ANC (because human brains are more sensitive to certain types of sounds), but it should be detectable if something has truly changed. level 2 That site doesn’t seem to have a way to compare… Continue reading I’m convinced the AirPods Max active noise cancellation has gotten worse – The Verge

Posted by3 days ago 2 1.They have really improved the sound quality,I been using my airpods gen 1 since the day they got released so once I put the airpods gen 2 on I was able to tell the difference immediately,the sound is much richer and crisper. 2.I personally couldnt tell much of a difference… Continue reading I got the AirPods gen2 this morning,and after a day of use here is my opinion.

NOTE: This survey does not require you to sign in to Google, so results might be skewed as anyone can vote multiple times. Hey r/Apple! In an attempt to curb the number of threads about pre-order choices/configurations, shipping statuses, etc, we are asking that all discussion about it remain in here. We are setting the… Continue reading Pre-Order and Shipping Megathread | iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max and AirPods Pro 2nd Gen