I HATE APPLE

i'm sure i've done split view before it updated to catalina though, and searching suggests that previously if you held down the green button until the window floated then you could drag it left or right and it'd tile.

(i don't think it's as nice an experience as the windows version, or the linux Mate version fwiw)

if you held down the green button until the window floated then you could drag it left or right and it'd tile.

Nope, this is not happening for me. Holding down the green button does nothing.

yeah, might be an 'after version x but before version y' thing. i think i was on sierra before this. our work builds only *slightly* newer than your work builds obv. (stackoverflow answer was from 2015, someone reported it working in 2019, but no OS mentioned either time)

The Linux "tiling" windowmanagers - you can always see all/most open windows, there's no overlaps and they're automatically arranged - are really interesting and might solve it, but I've never used one so they might also be bad.

― stet

tiling window managers are the business

i like em on linux but the macos ones always felt like trying to make water run uphill. do you have one you like?

Rectangle is great and I use it all the time even if I only use like a handful of the commands. Keyboard shortcuts to move windows between multiple displays is something I got way into this year as I worked at home with a second display all the time.

my main (sole?) use of it is to put the browser on the left 2/3 of the window and my terminal on the right 1/3.

i like em on linux but the macos ones always felt like trying to make water run uphill. do you have one you like?

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek),

oh not for mac no, I've installed a Moom trial a few times but never got into it, I just stare at a small portion of my huge screen

I've always used SizeUp for simple window management. Throwing windows into corners/sides, between monitors. i've never taken to Spaces. I sometimes wish SizeUp had sticky/hot corners but I do it all with numeric keypad commands.

I can't remember why I chose it over the more feature-filled Moom. Maybe it was just more basic and I liked that.

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

is there any fix for that? install swiftkey i guess?

I agree with Apple on this one. Better to not include swear words in the dictionary than have them there and potentially surprise you autocorrecting to them in the worst possible places.

it’s only a ducking suggestion

Try going to Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> text replacement and then just add swear words as shortcuts for themselves, ie fuck = fuck, fucking = fucking etc

(that’s iPhone - don’t know about OS X)

what kind of monster leaves autocorrect turned on on the computer

i tried that woof but it doesn't fix the problem of those words not working with swipe to type

14.8 is very uh oh

How so, uh oh

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/technology/apple-software-update-spyware-nso-group.html

Yup

No more third-party screen replacement.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/09/26/face-id-stops-working-if-you-replace-the-iphone-13-screen-with-third-party-repair-video/

Well, you can still have third-party replacements if you don't mind losing the Face ID, right?

Well, yes. I forgot some people turn that off.

Mac and iPhone on same wifi, both ten feet away from router. Sync can't start.

Wifi sync has never worked properly for me, ever.

I think for me it's worse that sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Same devices, same network, same proximity to each other and the router, but a total crapshoot if it will work or not.

That's my experience with AirDrop. Drives me mad when it for some reason decides not to see my MacBook that it's shared to 100 times before.

Has anyone found the new Focus mode useful? I'm struggling to. What I'd like, for example, is for WhatsApp (or maybe all app notifications) not to vibrate while I'm in work mode, but instead flash up messages silently. But that doesn't seem like something Focus is able to control.

AirDrop is peer-to-peer wifi (with some Bluetooth element to establish the link initially?) and it’s just as bad with cameras that have this functionality in my experience. Won’t work a significant minority of the time for no reason.

iOS has broken storage info on my phone (I supposedly have 60 of 64GB free). 15.0.1 doesn’t fix this. Trivial, but weird.

"There is now an unprecedented level of fragmentation with Apple's color options across its product lines. The ‌iPhone 13‌ and ‌Apple Watch Series 7‌ now contrast with the iPad Air and AirPods Max models, as well as the 24-inch iMac and iPhone 12, with other devices like the ‌iPad mini‌ overlapping the divide."

OH MY GOD

Sounds like something Gruber should be losing his mind over.

I hesitate to say this, because “iOS update killed my battery life” is such an old chestnut, but iOS 15 really has. I installed it more than two weeks ago so it’s had ample time to bed in, do whatever reindexing it needs to do. And my two-month-old iPhone 11 Pro rarely gets through a day any more, despite 99% battery health. What a swizz.

So every iPad app is still a crippled version of the desktop web version huh. or worse, an overgrown version of the iPhone app.

except the official weather app!

Fixed my battery drain issue - Spotify was the culprit. Although I’d seen stuff about some bug doing that to some people’s offices, I’d discounted it as a possibility because it wasn’t showing particularly high battery usage in Settings. But I no longer trust that – as soon as I’d deleted it and all its data and reinstalled it, the problem went away. Getting through the day on one charge again no problem.

People’s phones, not offices!

Battery going down to 99% health after just two months sounds bad though? 100% health should last a bit longer than that.

My Apple hates are all related to iMac in the Big Sur 11.6 era: Music is slow to load and prone to crashing (which means an agonising slow checking music library wait on reopening), Mail is also very slow to load and often seems to have problems displaying a message except in a preview panel, Safari takes about 1 - 2 minutes to open the google webpage. None of these problems occur with my iPhone 12.

Battery going down to 99% health after just two months sounds bad though? 100% health should last a bit longer than that.

That doesn't sound abnormal to me. My current phone max capacity went down really fast

I’ve probably lost touch with what’s expected. iPhone battery health anxiety seems to fill my Quora feed, but I ignore it as any advice seems so hopeless and contradictory. My iPhone 12 is still on 100% since I got it in April (my own yardstick).

My SE2020 is at 91% after 17 months. Hopefully I can get at least as long again out of this, as I'm going SIM-only again next year to save some cash. The 12s and 13s of this world can wait. (All the upgrade pressure comes from the kids, waiting for the old phone... as long as they have something that isn't obsolete they can cope. Currently both have 6S handsets (with my old SE in a drawer somewhere) - all still support iOS 15).

My XS Max is at 90%, purchased in September 2018. Definitely seems like more though.

I think the x / xs design was almost perfect in terms of size and materials

Music on the iMac is just such a frustrating laggy waste of time now. If I pause it to take a telephone call, then there's a spinning wheel problem and 'connecting' status for a while when it resumes

Oh ell, I guess this will be quietly improved in a forthcoming update after a period of complete denial of any problems.

Performance is about the same for me as iTunes but boy did the library stuff get messed up when I integrated with Apple Music and later tried to recover lost tracks from a backup

My iTunes library and Apple Music shall never meet

Snow leopard 4 lyfe

Apple makes me want to smoke crank