I HATE APPLE

it's just awful, and yet https://pitchfork.com/news/apple-music-now-has-more-paid-us-subscribers-than-spotify-report/. who are these people? i've never met one afaik.

I have apple music, it integrates well with my iTunes library, have no complaints about selection or whatever, sorta serves as a music backup with iTunes match. the only people I know who use spotify are on ilx.

I've bounced between Apple Music and Tidal out of some Spotify-avoidance for the last year. Apple Music had six free months from my Verizon plan so I'm currently on that.

I think Spotify's tech-wise the best, Tidal's exclusive content and some of the new album recommendations have been good, and Apple Music is kind of a muddle. The radio/special content seems middling and targeted at an audience that's not me, and the searching sucks. I feel like it makes the experience of having my library available (I've used iTunes Match) actually worse because there's not a clean delineation and purging Apple Music-only content from my library when I drop the subscription (as opposed to getting the "please resubscribe to view this") is necessary and also messy.

Probably going to Spotify after this

not sure what milo's talking about -- on a listing screen you can do the push-to-add stuff, but if you're on an album on AM you just click "Add +" and then it switches to the "download" icon if you want it on your current device

I use Apple Music because way back when Spotify had two tiers of paid plan, which made me annoyed and unwilling to subscribe, and then Beats Music came along so I gave that a shot, and then stuck with Apple Music after Beats got acquired (remember that lol)

xp - if you search for something you can do that but if it comes up on a playlist you have to lightly hold and swipe up then hit the heart or plus or whatever.

Every now and again Apple Music really just the spot with its new music playlist, I had a really good run of interesting jazz in last week’s. On the other hand apple’s rather broad definition of folk tends to land me with a lot of sub-Eoin McLove and Celtic moods type drivel which makes me think they think I’m a Missouri housewife trying to get in touch with her ‘Irish roots’

Isn't there an apple music vs Spotify thread that would be a better home for recent posts itt?

no

thinking of becoming one of those people who quits all my apps

“I force-quit your app every time I get out of it and for some reason that’s causing issues”. Surprise! pic.twitter.com/14PiCvynlw

— Guilherme Rambo (@_inside) April 21, 2019

it's a fresh start

like a juice cleanse

Had the weirdest thing happening with my Pandora app and battery drain. Noticed yesterday that my iPhone 7 was draining much faster than usual, went into the Battery settings and found out that Pandora had been running for over 7 hours each day for the past 4 days, in the background.

Thing is, I can't even remember the last time I opened that app. It has probably been more than six months. Checked the app settings and background app refresh was turned off for it. So I have no idea why it suddenly started running.

Googling was inconclusive, but I did see some comments about some music apps starting up automatically when you switch from WiFi to Bluetooth.

Ended up deleting the app since I never use it, but hadn't encountered something like that before. It never showed up on my lock screen or anything, so I never would have noticed that it was mysteriously running if I hadn't caught the battery drain.

Anyone else ever had any luck backing their iPhone selected mobile apps and settings to iCloud via their desktop iTunes? I back up to "This Computer" which works fine, but whenever I'd tried backing up to iCloud via iTunes it acts like it's going to do it, displays a little progress bar, then the progress bar vanishes and it just silently stops trying and iTunes continues to say "Your iPhone has never been backed up to iCloud".

I got a similar thing recently and I think it might have been because my laptop wasn't plugged into the mains and it made some sort of calculation that the juice would run out before the backup was complete.

yeah this is just to a Mac Mini that's plugged in all the time.

jesus christ diving into my iCloud is like running through soup. i have no idea what's connected to what. I've got iCloud contacts, gmail contacts, Exchange contacts, and they're all kept in different places. I've got iCloud drive which is backing up my Whatsapp, but i've got plain ol' iCloud which is syncing my Reminders. i've turned most of the photo shit off, thank God.

iCloud photos works great for me and as far as I can recall it has since I turned it on

My one gripe is it won’t sync over cellular and there’s not option to turn that on. My phone plan gets 80gb of data a month, let me decide how to use it. The 150mb limit on App Store downloads over cellular is an occasional pain too.

I never knew that swiping up was "force quitting" an app

My one gripe is it won’t sync over cellular and there’s not option to turn that on.

https://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/xlarge/public/field/image/2018/05/adjust-cellular-data-icloud-photo-library-screenshot.jpg

(turn on iCloud photo sync over cellular there)

Thanks

Gotta say I love using Apple Pay online bc I have had more than enough of e-commerce checkout flows for this lifetime.

what's the difference between that and like Paypal?

Not huge, especially if it PayPal onetouch; although PayPal has some legacy workflows which have some sucky interface quirks such as having to put in addresses in multiple times. This is definitely more on merchant implementation than than on PayPal itself.

9:22
Absolute Manage has installed 2 softwar packages on your computer.
(shut down) (i will restart later) (restart now)

clicks restart later.

9:25
Absolute Manage has installed 2 softwar packages on your computer.
(shut down) (i will restart later) (restart now)

clicks restart later.

9:28
Absolute Manage has installed 2 softwar packages on your computer.
(shut down) (i will restart later) (restart now)

...

moves popup window to bottom left of second screen and prepares to ignore it for the rest of the day.

moves cursor to primary screen and hits enter.

popup window still has focus so computer restarts.

pah.

Next time kill it from Activity Manager and it won’t be back

really not happy w Apple Mail returning "Top Hits" when I search

I just want the most recent messages containing my search terms, thanks

I just got a spam alert on my ical (it arrived at the same time as an email with the same message) that i'd won an iphone x. I can understand spam email but spam ical alerts? is this a new thing?

If the email had a date or iCal attachment in it, I could see that happening.

I just got the same thing on Google calendar! Repeating event so it showed up like a million times. I thought it was bc I used some website's 'auto add to calendar' thing for an appt. i made but it was a legit service, + now I see this post... Weird!

I got it too. I've had them occasionally before. There was a time when they were harder to get rid of and there was a spate of them.

I just got this! I saw somewhere that if you have "automatically add events from Gmail" turned on in settings, it may still pick events out of your Junk mail folder.

As a lawyer I really fucking hate the way iPhones organize email threads, where you wind up with both internal and external (e.g. to opposing counsel) emails in the same thread and the reply buttons are placed such that it would be really easy to accidentally reply to the wrong email. This causes me constant terror.

As a lawyer you really shouldn’t be trusting email

My advice to anyone sending sensitive communications is “don’t use email”

those bike guys, that's the way to go

Good excuse for me to recommend bike messenger drama Premium Rush starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Michael Shannon!

lol @ not using email

I suppose lawyers should all switch to Signal for their clients. That’ll go over well

yeah what

anyone with kids successfully configured Downtime in IOS? I swear this was working last year but now it doesn't appear to do shit unless you also configure app limits, which....then what's the point of the 'downtime' feature? I set this to shut off at 10pm and you can still log right into the phone. googling this just takes me to 100s of pages that tell me to turn 'downtime' on. Yeah I did that, thanks wikifuckhow.

I feel like my kids have figured out how to get around Screentime/Downtime in some cases. Like I set all apps to an hour but it show they were on YouTube for an hour and a half..?

Possibly multiple devices?

it's supposed to span devices if they're under the same ID. frankly I think downtime and screentime are fucked and broken. and apparently apple yanked almost all apps in the app store that would serve as replacements for this; we used to use OurPact which was annoying but did work to an extent, but they kicked it out once they released these features in the OS. I think NetNanny's new apps are the only ones left; net nanny was a fucking piece of shit when I used it before but apparently they were purchased and all their software completely rewritten. maybe I'll give it a shot.

It turns out 'downtime' is frankly just a suggestion, I think. Like, it tells you time to get off, but doesn't actually restrcit anything and you can choose to ignore it. Thanks Apple, that's very useful. You need to put the time limits on the apps (or groups of apps) too. Why they don't just have a 'turn this phone off at 10pm' feature that works is beyond me.

I cancelled my spotify premium because I didn't use it enough. Still had the three-month trial option of Apple Music so I thought I'd give it a try and HOLY FUCKING SHIT ABSOLUTE STATE OF THAT.

don't get the criticisms on Apple music - I find the UI and layout much easier and relaxing than Spotify. Question of habit I suppose

I think the UI and apps are much better, but the curation/algos on Spotify are vastly better. AM has a tendency to be either v. square, unhelpfully obscure, or blatantly label-promotion

I think shoving Apple Music in with the Music app is kind of a shitshow when it comes to the mingled library. Searching for a particular album in the streaming service is OK, but the organization of individual artist pages sucks

The suggestions and playlist stuff are a complete pain, and the suggestions are wack

Yeah don’t really use curation and suggestions. The mingling with local libraries is precisely what I like about AM