Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

unless you're within like three blocks of a 5g tower it's not going to do you any good anyway

Apparently mine is coming tomorrow!

Unboxing video ftw

well it feels absolutely massive compared to my previous SE but i'm sure i'll get used to it. nice and thin is a bit of compensation i guess.

the process of switching from an old iPhone to a new one is pretty wild now. there's a kind of swirly circular QR code on the new phone that you line up in the camera of the old one, and then it starts transferring stuff.

What colour did you get?

black. they all have black bevels so black's the only one that looks right to me. the others look a bit like you've added a decal wrap to the back or something. actually transferring /updating is taking FOREVER.

mine is out for delivery

I bought an 8 plus exactly a year ago because I wanted the button and didn’t like the X - I can get $250 trade in for it now so one of these would be $150 out of pocket. My battery life isn’t shitty yet but is getting lower. Is it worth it? I imagine my trade in value will be significantly lower 12 months from now.

I’d say yes, for a fresh battery, better camera, more RAM and faster chip. As long as you don’t mind the smaller display size

i loved my original SE but god it's easier to read things on the new one.

photos are incredible.

i does feel like it's always about to squirt out of my hands, though. and i can't believe they don't include a headphone adapter! fuck's sake.

re: size, i can juuuuuuust stretch my thumb up to the back button on ILX so i'm good.

In zing? You can just swipe from the far left to the right. No need to reach for the back button.

uh uh UH MUH GUH

That works in almost all apps with an idea of “back” btw

and now I understand why!

There’s also a system setting (called Reachability iirc) which lets you double tap Home to slide the top of the screen down within reach

mark me as another who was happy to just learn that

why is it so slidy

bring back matte backs

finally caught my iphone xr squirming off the table the other day. this piece of shit absolutely cannot wait to fall off any object it’s currently on.

in all other respects i like the phone. apart from the mail downloads, the keyborad/autocorrect, the odd ability to inadvertently turn the torch on without realising it (still not sure what i’m doing there) and slightly janky approach to wifi (tho i’m not sure this is the phone)

but begob its a slippy motherfucker.

I like these new wallpaper options

https://i.imgur.com/St7cILF.png

are those part of all ios devices or just new iphones?

this reminds me that my wallpaper is from an ex who did me dirt and i should change that shit

Xp just the new ones

I swear to God this thing just squirmed off my desk all by itself.

Put some protection on that thing

I swear to God this thing just squirmed off my desk all by itself.

Archive of all iOS wallpapers (including the latest)
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNi8VN2pw2Ya_xCV8eFgzEZmiXDy1-GwhXbqFtvXoH3HypF10as9puV8FdoVZpOZA?key=WkZjQTIxQTM5a01oZkNUYTE2ZllKTVJKZk1CMTR3

don't forget all new iphones come w a free year of apple TV+

not sure if there's anything good on it tbf

yes my finger keeps hovering but not pressing that button

mainly because still not availabile for PS4 lol

Thank you for being the early adopter here, TH - thinking about one too. I’d made my peace with 4” phones never coming back and was ready to seek out a refurbed 8 until they announced the 2020 SE. So I need to cough up for a headphone adaptor and some kind of grippy case, yeah?

This magic transfer from old phone to new - this circumvents restoring backup entirely?

it didn't work for me. it stalled out. I was never able to re-summon the swirly magic circle. So I had to restore from a backup. Which felt like it took way too long. Otherwise fine.

Yep I've got a cloth (!!?) case and a jack winging their way towards me as I speak.

I hesitate to mention the camera on to you Mike because I know what I great photographer you are but the camera is absolutely outstanding compared to my old SE.

It is big enough that I am needing to relearn things - particularly the back button which as mentioned I can only just stretch to now. But I'm sure in a few days I won't even remember that I did it any other way.

It definitely feels more 'different' - more luxurious - than my SE felt from my 5S.

My 13yo recently told me that "big cameras are a boomer cliché" so, who knows, I may actually be back in her good books if I start taking more phone snaps.

Still weighing up the numbers before taking the plunge; can't really spring for an extra £17/month over my current SE + SIM-only arrangement, so I'm hoping to find a decent deal. The routine every couple of years has been to "live chat" the folks on the EE website and wangle myself something better than they're advertising. Not surprisingly, that's not an option at the moment. Either hoping for SE-2020 on a contract for only a bit more than I'm currently paying, or change the SIM-only deal to something even cheaper, and buy the handset from Apple.

Of course, the original SE has been *just fine* these last few weeks. Barely going anywhere, not searching for 4G signals or streaming audio, the battery lasts all day... It doesn't really need replacing.

Don’t replace it then - don’t allow yourself to be manipulated into an unnecessary purchase. When the time comes that you *do* need to replace it, your options will be better and/or cheaper.

My old SE was fine but my son had smashed his phone's screen (my old 5S) and no way was I going to spring for a screen replacement for a phone that old and knackered. So the SE went to him, and I get the new one. Hakuna matata.

I just love capitalism

Yeah, the next-generation pressure isn't from wanting the latest thing, it's literally from the next generation :) Kids now both have 5S handsets from 2014-15, which do have a tendency to spontaneously shut down, so naturally they're clamouring for my next cast-off. Can't please both of 'em, though - their Mum switched to a cheap Android last year so there's nothing else in the hand-me-down pipeline.

Yeah been there - actually I bought used SEs for both my daughters and both are going strong after a year and a half.

This is a bit shit of them:

Fwiw. this is not a bug. It's not an ideal situation for me (I use notification actions dozens of times a day every day). Haptic works in many other ways on iPhone SE, but not on notifications. https://t.co/2SqFKKGlZG

— Matthew Panzarino (@panzer) April 27, 2020

young angry dude in my house went into a rage and headbutted his ipad air when it froze and it seems to be bricked now. I'm hoping it is just the connection between the screen and the CPU that has come out, which has happened before when he has done this. Does anyone know of a UK based postal repair service that is reputable and will repair at a reasonable price. I know, probably not much of a chance but no harm in asking.

I looked up how to repair this fault on youtube but am too heavy handed and clumsily fat fingered to try it myself.

i've had good experiences with iSmash. they do a mail-order service now and the page for iPads is here:

https://www.ismash.com/pages/ipad-repairs

thank you tracer, much appreciated

I just found someone who literally lives 10 minutes from my house who is continuing his town centre ipad repair business from home. Will see how this goes - he get's good reviews.

amazing!

this morning i woke up to a dead iPhone.

i’d forgotten to charge it!

what freaked me out though was that the home button didn’t “click” at all! it was like the whole phone was just a solid immobile slab. the button doesn’t click?? what flavour of badness is this?? once i got a charge it started clicking again though. extremely strange. how can a physical button become deactivated?

it's not a button iirc. it's just a haptic motor

yeah, it doesn't actually move it just fools you into thinking it's moving with haptic feedback. it's really eerie the first time you feel it "dead"

what?????? i’m clicking it right now and i would swear on my copy of “shades of jae” that it’s moving

well it's vibin