Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

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

The 6 and 7 series were so thin, it was great. My 11 feels twice as thick

aw man stet just redpilled tracer!!!!

in modern parlance, i’m screaming

Yeah, the non-button button is pretty freaky. You get to choose your flavour of haptic feedback when you first set up the phone but I'm not sure I could tell the difference between the modes. My SE-2020 is somehow more convincingly clickable than Carolina's 7. The feel of moving a graduated dial (with a little "hump" at the zero point) when you edit photo attributes is nice too.

Camera is pretty ace. I think my IG feed is finally going to become truly "insta", instead of being proper-camera shots I transfer over hours or days after the fact.

I got my head around the fake button travel OK but then I started really freaking out when I thought for a while it was tricking me into imagining a click noise. Then I found out that it really does emit a click noise and I learned to have a little more faith in my own senses.

I find myself *mashing* the 7 / 8 home button. Muscle memory expecting the concurrent depress still there

And any button or facsimile is superior to swiping up

it’s weird going back to the old mechanical home button (e.g. the current ipad air) because the negligible sideways travel makes me think it’s broken. every time.

Has anyone got the new SE? Wondering whether to just replace my current SE with a renewed old model – as the camera is broken and I have an eight-month old daughter to take 12,000 pictures of every day - or go with the 2020 version. If anyone’s got one, what’s the camera like? Sufficiently better than the previous SE? I don’t use my phone for much else.

yeah, the camera is top notch

It's really very good. You'll get a lot of mileage out of Portrait mode with a kid around! If it senses a face, it applies a graduated blur to everything not in the same plane as the face; you can mess with this after the fact too - simulating deeper or shallower depth of field, studio-style lighting, etc. (Or turn it off). The Smart HDR of non-portrait mode is impressive too. These are two things (fake bokeh, HDR) which I'd always thought were cheap and nasty effects on phone-cams, but they've really improved. The back-camera itself is slightly better specced on the new model, and the front-camera is much better than the old SE.

Pretty happy with this. Get a grippy case though. Thing will slide off any surface.

yeah - really a vast difference w the camera

i got a nice 'tweed' case for it - actual cloth which i guess is glued to a form-fitting piece of plastic - and it's v nice so far

Cool. Ordered one. Thanks! Yay consumerism

Good to know about the camera!

Also (and I hope this isn't a dealbreaker, as you've just ordered it), there's no headphone jack, and no Lightning-minijack adaptor in the box. They do bundle in some Apple EarPods with Lightning connection, obv. They're better than I remember, but I did have to buy an adaptor (£9) to carry on using my third-party earbuds. And, for some strange reason, the adaptor only worked one way round initially. Ok now.

Wireless charging is nice too. I have a Qi pad on my bedside table (bought when the kids wrecked the USB port on my tablet), so I just lay it on that.

Ah earplugs thing is no bother, I have tinnitus and never listen to headphones anyway!

can someone recommend a wireless charging pad that takes advantage of the SE's fast charging?

do you want one that charges well at a reasonable price, or do you want to peacock it

I've got one of the Samsung Fast Charge wireless stands that holds the phone at an angle on my work desk so I can poke at the phone while it's charging

I've got the insanely overpriced Nomad charger that looks luxe on my nightstand, but it has two charging spots, a couple discreet extra usb ports on the back, and they have a model with a stand for the watch if you have one

i think fast charging is a wired-only proposition? could be wrong here tho...

yeah, it's not the "fast charge" standard, it's just uh... a charging pad that has higher than the lowest amount of charge for a charging stand

and yes, no charging pad will do actual fast charging

just plug it into a good charger that supports it, or if it supports even faster charging, get a usb-c charger and a lightning-to-usb-c cable

and get a good cable, too. I got a seemingly-OK Amazon lightning-to-C cable and it sucks: lots of "not supported" errors and charging failures.

buy Anker stuff as default imo

fs thought this was a simple question

go to thewirecutter.com and buy whatever charger they say

Fast charging requires a USB-C power adapter that offers at least 18 watts.

got it

thewirecutter lads are a bunch of yankee scoundrels who always cite model names that don't exist in the world's greatest country, blighty britain

yeah, I was going to add a caveat about that but then was like, eh who cares :)

If I'm really bored one day I might see how quickly the Qi pad charges vs regular Lightning cable vs the 12W iPad charger (which, seeing as it's <18W, may do nothing different). Can't really see fast charging being a major need tbh. Esp atm.

I just want fast charging because I often forget to even charge my phone - so when I do remember, it would be nice to give it the max amount of juice possible...

This is where I admit I’ve been abusing the fact usb-c lets devices tell the charger the maximum they’re allowed to charge at

so I‘be been using the ridiculous Macbook Pro charger that’s like 96W or something for everything from my Nintendo Switch to my phone to my laptop

(xp) Fair enough. I usually have a spare battery and cable in any bag I take out of the house, a habit formed in the summer of Pokemon Go. Of course that's now no good if I want to use earbuds too. I can see how zapping a nearly-dead phone up to 50% with a high-wattage charger would be handy if you're about to head out and not be near a power source for hours.

get a Qi charger than does 7.5W (not 10W, Apple products don't support that yet) and make sure it comes with a wall charger better than 5A so it can handle that mode, otherwise it'll be stuck at 5W.
usually the decent chargers will include a USB-C port, even if your Qi pad doesn't use USB-C.

altogether you don't need to spend more than like $30-40 on it

mh you haven't been abusing anything, this is the world we deserve, the world THEY said we couldn't have

do any of you know how to use an iOS device as a webcam for a mac laptop in clamshell mode using an external monitor?

There's an app I tried a while back – iView or similar (sorry, I've totally forgotten but will look it up). It was though, a bit crap - the image is good but there's an unavoidable lag

hmm, yeah I need this to be crisp and fast. I can just use the laptop camera but I'd rather be able to look forward than down.

I have bought a dodgy HDMI capture stick off ebay to see i can usably hook up my DSLR for the same reason, yeah