Archive of all iOS wallpapers (including the latest)https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNi8VN2pw2Ya_xCV8eFgzEZmiXDy1-GwhXbqFtvXoH3HypF10as9puV8FdoVZpOZA?key=WkZjQTIxQTM5a01oZkNUYTE2ZllKTVJKZk1CMTR3
― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 25 April 2020 16:28 (four years ago) link
don't forget all new iphones come w a free year of apple TV+
not sure if there's anything good on it tbf
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Sunday, 26 April 2020 18:48 (four years ago) link
yes my finger keeps hovering but not pressing that button
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 26 April 2020 20:23 (four years ago) link
mainly because still not availabile for PS4 lol
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 26 April 2020 20:58 (four years ago) link
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?
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 26 April 2020 21:15 (four years ago) link
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.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 26 April 2020 23:01 (four years ago) link
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.
― Michael Jones, Monday, 27 April 2020 09:55 (four years ago) link
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.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 27 April 2020 11:06 (four years ago) link
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.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 27 April 2020 11:10 (four years ago) link
I just love capitalism
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Monday, 27 April 2020 11:37 (four years ago) link
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.
― Michael Jones, Monday, 27 April 2020 11:57 (four years ago) link
Yeah been there - actually I bought used SEs for both my daughters and both are going strong after a year and a half.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 27 April 2020 12:16 (four years ago) link
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
― stet, Monday, 27 April 2020 23:40 (four years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Sunday, 10 May 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
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
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 10 May 2020 20:25 (three years ago) link
thank you tracer, much appreciated
― calzino, Sunday, 10 May 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Monday, 11 May 2020 09:53 (three years ago) link
amazing!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 May 2020 09:55 (three years ago) link
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?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 17 May 2020 12:51 (three years ago) link
it's not a button iirc. it's just a haptic motor
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Sunday, 17 May 2020 12:52 (three years ago) link
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"
― stet, Sunday, 17 May 2020 12:54 (three years ago) link
what?????? i’m clicking it right now and i would swear on my copy of “shades of jae” that it’s moving
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 17 May 2020 12:56 (three years ago) link
well it's vibin
― maffew12, Sunday, 17 May 2020 13:03 (three years ago) link
The 6 and 7 series were so thin, it was great. My 11 feels twice as thick
― calstars, Sunday, 17 May 2020 13:59 (three years ago) link
aw man stet just redpilled tracer!!!!
― j., Sunday, 17 May 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link
in modern parlance, i’m screaming
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 17 May 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link
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.
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 17 May 2020 16:44 (three years ago) link
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.
― Alba, Sunday, 17 May 2020 17:35 (three years ago) link
I find myself *mashing* the 7 / 8 home button. Muscle memory expecting the concurrent depress still there
― calstars, Sunday, 17 May 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
And any button or facsimile is superior to swiping up
― calstars, Sunday, 17 May 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
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.
― karmic blowback for dissing pip and jane baker (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 18 May 2020 10:02 (three years ago) link
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.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 11:16 (three years ago) link
yeah, the camera is top notch
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 11:17 (three years ago) link
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.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 11:41 (three years ago) link
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
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 12:14 (three years ago) link
Cool. Ordered one. Thanks! Yay consumerism
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 13:34 (three years ago) link
Good to know about the camera!
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 13:36 (three years ago) link
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.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 13:44 (three years ago) link
Ah earplugs thing is no bother, I have tinnitus and never listen to headphones anyway!
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 13:46 (three years ago) link
can someone recommend a wireless charging pad that takes advantage of the SE's fast charging?
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 13:54 (three years ago) link
do you want one that charges well at a reasonable price, or do you want to peacock it
― mh, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 14:04 (three years ago) link
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
― mh, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 14:05 (three years ago) link
i think fast charging is a wired-only proposition? could be wrong here tho...
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 14:09 (three years ago) link
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
― mh, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 14:14 (three years ago) link
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
― mh, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 14:15 (three years ago) link
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.
― stet, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 14:16 (three years ago) link
buy Anker stuff as default imo
― mh, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 14:17 (three years ago) link
fs thought this was a simple question
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 14:21 (three years ago) link
go to thewirecutter.com and buy whatever charger they say
― mh, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 14:22 (three years ago) link
Fast charging requires a USB-C power adapter that offers at least 18 watts.
got it
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 14:23 (three years ago) link