I HATE APPLE

www.apple.sucks

tonight my watch suddenly had 25 mb free and went haywire. i restarted it and it recovered to 450 mb, then dropped to 400 mb within a couple of hours. i changed the system language and it jumped to 2.3 gb free.

this is the second time i've replaced a chunk of the music stored on it, and the second time it's lost entire gigs of storage (the first time i had to factory reset). it's like it's caching all the music i removed without reporting its usage accurately or even cleaning it up. there are no reports of this anywhere, so i don't know what's going on.

fwiw there's no way in hell i could have maxed out the storage because the music app will only store 2 gb of music, which is less than half the usable storage (around 5.5 gb iirc), and i don't have anything else storage-hungry on there.

ime after a system update the photo preferences will often "magically" switch on features like "icloud photo stream" and other nonsense, you might want to check those

thanks, that stuff is off (0 photos syncing).

Somehow the chess.com app doesn’t work on the X, but Zing works and scales perfectly

Somehow the chess.com app doesn’t work on the X, but Zing works and scales perfectly

my watch is playing locally stored music and measuring my bushwalk (not in workout mode) with a 6% battery hit per hour, while my 8+ is in low power mode and has lost 40% in 7 hours. i’ve barely used the fucking thing.

my watch is playing locally stored music /and/ measuring my bushwalk (not in workout mode) with a 6% battery hit per hour

six hours of music playback, 11 hours of hiking, dozens and dozens of time checks, numerous dictated replies to messages, about to go to bed and the battery’s on 56%. i cannot run this thing down. meanwhile the 8+ needed topping up twice.

which watch is it?

s3 non-lte

Stuff keeps going in unintentionally on my new phone, Music starts playing or Voice control goes on, presumably due to some kind of haptic snafu.

Actually suspect this may be happening due to slightly loose lightning adapter for headphone

Maybe finally time to switch to Bluetooth

Just did it again. Turned on Spotify and made a starting up sound that was different from the one made by the remote on the earbud wire

And now I leaned over and it turned the thing off again

This sounds like impacted fluff in the lightning port. Have a rummage about with a toothpick

Oh yes, good idea. Phone is new, but still. Usually use rubber of plastic toothpick for this

Still suspect it may be a side effect of the rat tail pigtail junction between the adapter and the male earbud jack

Using factory issue Apple air buds doesn’t seem to be triggering this

Also: how do I shot power on for Mac mini?

Never mind

Exactly

Got 10 gb of old pics lying around my phone, which won’t sync with Photos or iTunes. Impossible to get rid of

install dropbox, turn on camera upload while connected to wifi. delete from phone once synced to dropbox.

or image capture?

Or install the 99c iOS app Deleter (which I think by default deletes all except your favourites - but I think you can tell it to delete those too)

Thanks. I finally got Image Capture to recognize the 5000 pics on the phone. Now I’m fretting about pressing the delete button, worried that there might somehow be some unsaved pictures in there

save them to your computer first?

Image Capture stalls when trying to import and Photos considers them "already imported". I'm just being paranoid, these are all on icloud and my HDD, so I just need to go through with the deletion (no idea why all these pictures are lying around on the phone despite having iCloud Photo turned on)

ah wait, I understand your problem now. iCloud library is *terrible* about getting rid of old already-downloaded pictures (it will aggressively and expensively upload new pictures taken that day rather than move old ones).

If you're sure they're already on iCloud (eg you can see them at iCloud.com or in Photos on a Mac), then the only way to get rid of them is:
a) Back up your phone -- either to iTunes (with a cable) or iCloud (from settings)
b) Erase all Data and Settings (to wipe the phone)
c) Restore from the backup

That deletes all the local copies and replaces them with the iCloud proxy assets. I had to go through this just last week and it drove me crazy until I bit the bullet and wiped/restored.

If you try and delete them with an app like Nick is suggesting, that will delete from your iCloud Library too, which I don't think is what you want.

Right. Thanks a lot. Just ordered a new iphone so I guess this will resolve itself when migrating but what a hassle. It took me ages to understand why my phone is inexplicably filling up.

so I did indeed fix the problem by restoring. The problem is that I now have a bigger problem: 80% of my apps are greyed out and stuck on "waiting" or "loading". I've tried manually synchronizing, rebooting, fiddling in the app store to unfreeze the load process but nothing seems to work (sorry for turning this thread into apple support).

have you signed out of and into your app store account? that might kick things up the arse a bit

Restart the phone

thanks tried restarting, logging out of app store, of icloud, but nothing :(

I've had this before but … can't remember the solution :/

Me too. I think I had to try and buy something so I could agree to updated terms and conditions

Dear @AppleSupport, we noticed a *HUGE* security issue at MacOS High Sierra. Anyone can login as "root" with empty password after clicking on login button several times. Are you aware of it @Apple?

— Lemi Orhan Ergin (@lemiorhan) November 28, 2017

wot's going on here lol

jfc

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/28/root_access_bypass_macos_high_sierra/

mike hanle y weighing in?

wow at this one weird trick apple doesn't want you to know about

more elegant solution would've been to put a nice sudo button on the touchbar of the macbooks pro of course

You can set the touch bar to authenticate sudo for you. Not that we need authentication anymore like

(Seriously, fuck Tim Cook’s Apple already. Even the “iTunes installer wipes your external HD” era wasn’t as bad as this)

long, slow, grim deprioritization of macos iirc

I'm gonna buy a grey box from a local PC builder next time I buy a computer

maybe put freebsd on it

I can’t really explain exactly why but Mac OS is just so much more graceful and polished than windows, which despite countless iterations still feels keep kind of clunky.

lol @ iOS Music still not remembering what i was doing in the app, or where i was in a song/dj mix. even Dropbox is able to remember where i was in a song, days after the last time i played it!

This is amazing: the bugfix for the password issue breaks file sharing. What the hell is going on with Apple QA?

there isn't any