I HATE APPLE

I've been ruined by Star Trek most assuredly, but the "processing" time for Siri always feels too slow to me

google’s much quicker so yeah

"play my favourites"

"here's what I found about 'your favorites' on the internet"

"Call goomah"
"Call mom?"

watch out if you're managing external disks you might ever need to read from a non-high sierra mac https://mjtsai.com/blog/2017/09/29/unwanted-conversions-to-apfs/

Updated to 11.0.1, and battery life on my iPhone 7 Plus is improved...But just had the first complete frozen screen ever, and had to hard reset.

11.0.2 and my battery life is still a fucking disgrace

the question I have about the iPhone X is, does it make phone calls?

yes but only to high net-worth individuals

really not looking forward to a year of "actually it's pronounced iphone ten"

i have an iphone 6, my battery life has been poor for ages, doesn't seem any worse with this update, maybe I got lucky

Hm, (my 5S) battery life definitely improved on 11.0.1, should I be careful updating to 11.0.2? (going by autumn almanac's post...)

honestly i have no idea. i think my battery life was better in 11.0.1 than 11.0.2 (and 11.0) but not 100% sure. imo the more likely explanation is that many of the bugs are manifesting inconsistently across apparently identical devices, which potentially makes debugging/testing a total nightmare.

one curious bug that’s fucking me right off is when i reply to a text directly from the notification, and after typing 2–3 words the whole thing suddenly disappears. i’ve not read about this one anywhere so have no idea how many people are impacted by it.

far more app crashes under 11.0.2, definitely

Thanks. I’ll wait for .3 to appear.

i had been putting off updating to 11, based on this thread, and awoke to find that my phone had updated itself automatically overnight (something it's never successfully done ever, even when i wanted it to)

lol at single user console on a 15inch retina. it's like they've etched it on a grain of rice.

is icloud photo library reliable?

It is the nearest thing to reliable I’ve ever seen from Apple. It once failed to reliably sync a few deletions across devices but that’s about it

If you want reliable, diy

buddy you have not seen what happens when I do things

thanks stet. sounds like it’s worth doing.

calstars: i already back up all the important photos to external hdd, google and onedrive. iphoto cloud library would just be for convenience, and because ‘er indoors wants all her stuff to be easy.

fair enough

So for convenience only, yes no prob

fantastic, thank you

fwiw apple music also seems to be decently solid now. no real issues beyond every single song being unavailable (grey) until you restart, which is probably just another ios 11 bug

bought airpods, the frequency of dropouts is sort of ridiculous

take em back, I've experienced that maybe once the entire time I've owned them

thanks mh. at first i thought it was my shitty phone buckling under the weight of ios 11, but the sound dropped out a few times with the apple tv as well, although it got better when i moved the apple tv.

looking on the web, dozens of reports of dropouts when people put their phone in their pocket, and only when they're walking outside. that's what happened to me. seems weird that bluetooth contention (or something??) would defeat a <2 foot connection when it was coping with 60+ feet in the office.

You probably bought Bluetooth shielding pants by accident.

oh hey my whole music library on my iphone disappeared, that's cool

songs greyed out or vanished altogether?

You probably bought Bluetooth shielding pants by accident.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 03:32 (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha probably

all gone, only the 3 or 4 albums that I bought from the iTunes store many years ago remain

reminds me of years ago when i made a balls up with my iTunes library and all i had left was this:

https://imgur.com/n1dV5ML

let's try again:

https://i.imgur.com/n1dV5ML.jpg

that's a good library

MART SPLAYLIST

jesus

marcos: apple music, or your own files you transferred directly via itunes?

re airpods: flawless playing from my watch. i did the phone/pocket thing again (re-paired), fewer people around this morning but it seemed fine, except when i put my hand in my pocket and presumably blocked the bluetooth circuitry. perhaps i just need to learn how transmission works.

it’s training you not to keep your hands in your pockets all the time

ha pretty much.

honestly i’ll be thrilled if i can get this sorted because these things are so impressive. when apple totally nails the user experience it’s like nothing else.

Gotta say that's some pretty shitty antenna design.

marcos: apple music, or your own files you transferred directly via itunes?

― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, October 9, 2017 5:41 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Own files from iTunes. obv not a huge pain to re-upload but still it was kind of weird

maybe it’s improved since my iphone 6. following the enforced death of headphone jacks it’d bloody need to improve tbf xp

xp weird that your own files disappeared suddenly. did you upgrade the phone os just recently? (sorry if you’ve already mentioned it, i can’t go back through the apple threads just now)

okay so the airpods have been a load better today, probably because i (a) kept my hands out of my pockets and (b) stayed away from street-level electrified tram tracks (it only dropped out when i was crossing the road)

more dropouts when walking (it wasn't the tram lines after all) and with the apple tv well clear of other wireless/bluetooth things, so i spoke to apple. they told me:

• (a) airpods aren't explicitly certified for use with an apple tv (i checked, believe it or not this is true),
• (b) apple officially recommends not storing the phone in a "bag, purse or pocket" while listening with airpods, but they didn't tell me where i should put the phone while walking around, given that i don't have a wheelbarrow or fishing rod, and
• (c) i should try removing the (official apple leather) case and going naked, which is a super dumb way to get about with a thousand buck phone

also it was weird how they rattled off all this almost-legalese "you're holding it wrong" type language followed by "i hope you're very satisfied with my service" and "thanks for being in the apple family!!" uh okay.

i mean i contacted apple to see whether there was a known problem (e.g. the iphone 6 is shit with bluetooth) or whether there was an easy fix. i absolutely did not expect a "you're holding it wrong" type solution. that's the second time i've ever had a duff interaction with apple (the first was when their philippines call centre told me compulsory compliance with australian consumer law was a "one-time" special favour).