I HATE APPLE

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

fall out of the iphone and i'm never looking bank

lol exactly how i was thinking

Since I upgraded to Big Sur a few months ago, the finder hasn't been able to search in roughly half of my documents, and rebuilding the index hasn't helped.

same

in new Mac OS safari they've swapped the location of the tabs with the bookmarks bar. so the tabs are now above the bookmarks. why why why

Gruber did like 5 rounds on this and actually got Apple to soften some of their goofy UI ideas.

yeah. another weird thing is that the browser title bar changes depending on the color scheme of the website you're on...but you can turn this off in settings. guys...just...leave shit alone...a browser is not a cathedral

Gruber did like 5 rounds on this and actually got Apple to soften some of their goofy UI ideas.

Went into the Apple store in Grand Central yesterday to get a replacement usbc charger for a MacBook Air that was bought a couple of years ago. "No, those are sold out everywhere," the guy working there told me. I went to the Apple website and ordered one, which was of course in stock. Really shitty thing to say to people though, the implication obviously being that we should all immediately shift over to the new laptops with different chargers.

I did pretty much the exact same thing last week but must have had a different guy.

I didn’t have an Air though.

Apple Stores are disgusting places where you’re always made to feel like an outsider, imo.

I just bought a refurbished phone from Apple that doesn’t turn on at all. I charged it for an hour and did that stupid restore button sequence too

I just bought an Apple branded usbc to lightning cable in a vain effort to make my laptop recognise my iPhone 7, but noooo

Works fine with my iPad of approx similar age, but iPhone noooo

Maybe dust bunnies in the lightning port?

Tried that alas, also switching ports on the computer, resetting everything, blah blah blah. Wonder if the port's damaged ...

Safari takes about 1 - 2 minutes to open the google webpage.

Update: this is now solved by emptying caches in the 'Develop' menu every so often, but that's less than ideal.

I don't know what to do about Spotlight not working. It's how I find things on my computer. But now I search for, like, the work 'lake' and it won't find an image that actually has the word 'lake' in the title. But I can't detect a pattern. In any case vast reaches of stuff have closed off to me... but I don't know exactly which!

People say to run: mdutil -E

but it hasn't done anything for me that I can tell.

WTf? $275B? How does a deal like that get done "secretly?"

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-ceo-tim-cook-secretly-signed-275-billion-deal-with-china-in-2016.2326558/