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    December 02, 2017

    Apple Free Talk Friday - Casual Friday Discussions

    Free Talk Friday - Casual Friday Discussions

    Posted: 01 Dec 2017 04:13 AM PST

    Hello, /r/Apple, and welcome to Free Talk Friday!

    This is a casual discussion thread for discussion on any topic! What are your Summer plans? What's your new hobby? What do you think caused the Argentinian debt crisis of 2001/2002?

    Let us know your thoughts.

    There are no specific rules for this thread, but we do ask that you abide by /r/Apple's rules and Rediquette. Archives available here.

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    MacOS update undoes root bug fix

    Posted: 01 Dec 2017 03:43 PM PST

    iPhone X is the best phone you can buy right now according to The Verge

    Posted: 01 Dec 2017 11:09 AM PST

    iOS 11.2 released

    Posted: 02 Dec 2017 12:12 AM PST

    iOS 11.2 just got released https://imgur.com/a/4Dz9G

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    PSA: iOS devices may get stuck in a respring/reboot loop once the date rolls over to Dec 2. (x-post from /r/iphone)

    Posted: 01 Dec 2017 08:00 PM PST

    It seems that everyone who texts a photo to me isn't aware that they've sent a Live Photo which includes audio. I've heard some very interesting things that I imagine the person who took the photo didn't know would be heard by me.

    Posted: 01 Dec 2017 08:16 AM PST

    For example, I've heard the voice of a different person in the background that if known to others would be awkward at best to explain their presence.

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    Apple will stop accepting 32-bit Mac apps starting January 1, 2018

    Posted: 01 Dec 2017 02:12 PM PST

    Apple Reportedly Planning to Release Most Affordable 9.7-inch iPad Ever in Late 2018

    Posted: 01 Dec 2017 04:50 AM PST

    I've been on Android for 9 years and finally got an iPhone. My thoughts after 2 weeks...

    Posted: 01 Dec 2017 09:43 AM PST

    I've been exclusively using Android for 9 years, since the HTC HD2 release in 2009. I recently bought the iPhone X because I found the hardware offerings on Android incredibly compromised this year and I need to upgrade my old phone. I would have gotten the Note 8 but I swore-off Samsung 4 years ago and I won't be going back any time soon.

    After 2 weeks of using the iPhone X, here's my pros and cons of the new iPhone and of iOS in general. Sorry, it's a long one.

    Hardware

    Pros

    • The thing just feels incredible to hold. I've never held a phone quite like it, it's a very solid and beautifully designed phone. It's a real shame to put it in a case, but the Apple leather Case happens to be the best case I've ever owned, the metal buttons are a nice touch.
    • The notch is not a big deal at all, and I've actually grown quite fond of it. Apps that support it look awesome.
    • I appreciate the way Apple cares about the small details, especially on fundamental things like the way buttons feel or even the vibration motor - so many phones get it wrong and you end up missing calls and messages because they use a petty little motor that you can't feel in your pocket. The iPhone's vibration/haptic motor is absolutely perfect, I never miss calls or notifications.
    • The silence switch is super useful, more phones should have it.
    • For some reason 3D touch makes the phone feel really premium to me. I think it's because there's this extra layer of control you get that doesn't exist on anything else, and it has a lot of utility.
    • The Camera is amazing. Great dynamic range, accurate colours, plenty of details, and finally the iPhone can handle low light situations, something I've noticed previous iPhone's are terrible at compared to the competition. Here's a couple of photos from last weekend - I think I took them in square mode? I'm still figuring the camera app out, but I like the features it bundles a lot.
    • The microphone quality is excellent in videos, when I compare it to my previous phones it blew them out of the water. Though I haven't tried it in loud situations yet.
    • AirPods… holy cow they are incredible. To me, they are a legitimate reason to buy the iPhone, they are that good. I think Apple is at least another 1-2 years ahead of the competition with AirPods.
    • Battery life started off bad, but is pretty good now. Not amazing, but good. I end up on 40% most nights at 12pm after unplugging the phone at 7.30am. My Nexus 6P used to be dead by 3pm, so that's been nice.
    • Touch latency feels amazing, something iPhones have always been good with. I just wish it was a 120hz/Pro motion display :(

    Cons

    • Lack of USB-C is stupid in my opinion. It was really useful being able to carry one charger on trips to charge my Macbook and my Phone.
    • Although I don't mind the Notch overall, it makes the landscape experience crappy. Videos are either heavily letter boxed, or if you zoom to fill the screen it cuts out the top and bottom of the frame AND the notch sits over the edge.
    • The charger in the box is extremely slow which can be annoying. But if it puts less strain on the battery compared to using a fast charger, I'm okay with it.
    • The camera is a bit slow with HDR on. A lot of my photos have turned out blurry because I like to keep HDR on.

    Other

    • Some people will say no LED notification light is a con, but I always found it distracting and unnecessary. I disable as many notifications as I possible, I'm kind of militant about it. This article sums up my thoughts.

    Software

    Pros

    • I really like iOS so far. I enjoy the design, it feels very user friendly, modern and fluid, it gets out of the way for the most part. I've seen a lot of negativity here about iOS 11, but I haven't had any issues. At a high level I really appreciate how well designed and coherent iOS is compared to Android due to Apple's stringent human interface guidelines. As a designer, I cannot stand UX and UI inconsistency, and Android is in a pretty ugly state right now with its app experiences varying between Google apps, the amount of duplicate apps they have (e.g. messaging), and they can't even get the little details right, like icons - Androids icons are a joke.
    • iPhone 3rd party apps are just better. On Android I always felt like a second class citizen because many developers tend to favour iOS before Android, we'd have to wait for iOS exclusive apps to come out on Android, or wait longer for updates to come through, often Google will even update iOS apps before Android gets them.
    • Face ID was one of the factors that persuaded me away from this phone initially, but I really enjoy it now. I do find it a little inconvenient when the phone is on my desk and I kind of have to learn over it to unlock it, but otherwise it just works really well and feels effortless.
    • Something I didn't expect, Apple lets you uninstall a lot of the pre-installed iOS apps. On Android there are very fews apps you can uninstall, some allow you to disable them. Oh, and no bloatware or duplicate apps! I owned two Samsung phones and they both had 5-15 Samsung apps that do the exact same thing as the apps already bundled in Android. Don't get me started on carrier bloatware.
    • Apple Pay works as advertised. It feels kind of weird paying for things with my face. I will note that Apple Pay and Android Pay seem to be right on parity, they look and feel very similar.
    • Control center is really good, maybe even more useful than Androids quick settings with the use of force touch on the various panels.
    • As an Android user I naturally enjoy the lack of a physical home button. Even better is the gesture navigation, I love it and it feels totally natural now - I keep trying to use the gestures on my Nexus and being disappointed that they don't work.
    • Minor, but this is the first phone I've used where auto-brightness is pretty damn good, I rarely need to manually adjust it, which is saying something because I'm a massive brightness control freak.
    • Airdrop rocks. It's simply the best file sharing experience period. Android has PushBullet, and it's unreliable, and it need to upload your files to a server, then download it on the recipient device, it's stupid.
    • Night shift is wonderful. I had this feature on my Nexus for about 4 months, and then Google went and disabled it one day so I had to rely on garbage 3rd party options that don't work properly. Nice.

    Cons

    • Safari has this "Share" icon right in the middle of the bottom nav bar. Why have Apple bundled actions like 'find in page' and 'request desktop site' in this share menu? It took me way too long to figure out how to find a word on a page.
    • Notifications don't come anywhere near Android's notification system, but they aren't that bad. Good thing I disable most notifications anyway.
    • You can't make new folders locally in the files app? I wanted somewhere to store a few PDF files locally, but there's no way to make a folder locally, only in iCloud. Seems like a fairly useless app to me.
    • Some more ways to customise the home screen would be nice. e.g. Allowing you to move widgets out of their prison cell on the left and free to mingle with the app icons if a user wants.
    • I cannot find a good Calendar app on iOS. Readdle's Calendar app is the closest thing I can find to pure awesome that is Business Calendar on Android. I tried Fantastical, but didn't like it. I just want a really powerful month view, and it doesn't seem to exist on iPhone.
    • Quite a few of the in built iOS apps just have awful UX. I haven't used them all, but the podcasts app in particular is downright baffling, I develop and design software for a living and I can barely figure out how to use that fucking app. I got the Apple Music 3 month trial and ended up trashing the app after an hour of being frustrated by bad the experience was. Google Play Music isn't much better, but damn I rely on Youtube Red too much now.

    Other

    • I had high expectations for iMessage as there is a lot of praise out there I had been hearing for years, but it's really not that great in my opinion. There's an infinite amount of other messaging competitors that ostensibly do the same thing. Also the confetti/lasers/etc messages are ridiculously pointless.
    • Not a fan of True Tone. I want my whites to be white all the time, I don't care about the environment I'm in, I just want colours to be consistent. But it can be turned off, so it's not an issue for me.

    TL;DR: Loving the iPhone X and iOS. The pros of switching from Android to iPhone have severely outweighed the cons for me. Very happy.

    Note: Apologies for any spelling mistakes, I wrote a lot of this on my iPhone while I was still getting used to the smaller screen and keyboard.

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    The Power of RAW on iPhone, Part 1: Shooting RAW

    Posted: 01 Dec 2017 11:05 AM PST

    Is it just me or has the quality of Apple software been on the decline as of late?

    Posted: 01 Dec 2017 10:48 PM PST

    No hate to Apple but to me it seems that ever since Yosemite launched, the quality control of the Operating Systems have been on the decline; more bugs, more issues, etc. Does anyone else feel the same way?

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    iPhone X delivered by UPS, box was empty, happen to anyone else?

    Posted: 01 Dec 2017 04:00 PM PST

    Had an iPhone X shipped directly from China delivered today, expect it wasn't. Box was completely empty, but luckily the UPS driver was still there, saw that i opened it and nothing as there, recorded it in his system and took the box back. Told me to call Apple and UPS to report what happened.

    Anyone else have this happen to them? How long did the process take before a new phone was shipped out?

    As an aside, when i told the driver the contents where a phone, he told me two people were already arrested today at UPS for stealing phones.

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    iOS 11.2 released, fixes restart bug

    Posted: 02 Dec 2017 12:25 AM PST

    Apple just released iOS 11.2 With Apple Pay Cash, Faster 7.5W Wireless Charging, Date Bug Fix and More

    Posted: 02 Dec 2017 12:25 AM PST

    Apple releases iOS 11.2 Developer Beta 6

    Posted: 01 Dec 2017 10:04 AM PST

    Apple decided to donate money from App Store and Apple Pay for World AIDS day

    Posted: 01 Dec 2017 11:06 AM PST

    iPhone 7+ black screen>spinning wheel>lockscreen

    Posted: 01 Dec 2017 11:33 AM PST

    So I'm hoping you guys will be able to help me out. My mom's 7+ started acting weird all of a sudden. As the title suggests, her phone is doing just that. We unlock the phone, use it for like less than a minute, then it goes to black with the spinning wheel icon for a few seconds, vibrates and then brings us back to the lockscreen.

    I've searched online and done all of the suggestions:

    • holding both power button and volume down; power button+ volume down+home button to force shutdown---did not fix it.

    • I did a full factory reset and the problem is still there.

    None of these worked.

    At first, I thought it was an auto-lock feature, but it isn't.

    Her 7+ is less than a year old, might be even less than 6 months old, I forgot when she got this.

    What could have possibly happened? We don't have an Apple Store here(we are from the Philippines), so worse case scenario is we bring the phone to our local carrier-- I'm hoping to avoid this.

    I hope you guys can help, I'm not Apple user as I use Android and Windows for my phone and pc, so I hope you can bear with me.

    edit: added word:(vibrates)

    edit 2: to add, her phone is on the latest update.

    edit 3: new behavior: phone is locked and screen is off buuut the screen somehow turns on, but in that black screen with the spinning wheel then goes back to the lockscreen, screen turns off, a minute or so passes, it goes through the loop again. it is still happening for some reason!!

    edit 4: sorry for all the edits, I'm waiting for iOS 11.1.2 to finish downloading through iTunes.

    edit 5: done restoring, the problem is still there. . .will wait if others have any input regarding this. . .other than that, will be forced to bring this to our carrier.

    edit 6: so a bunch of people have been chiming in. are OTAs(Over the Air) updates a thing on Apple(iOS)? If so, maybe that is what's causing our phones to be behaving like this?(so far affected are: 6{no sim inserted}, 7, 7+, X).

    edit 7: I'm going to talk to Apple Chat support, same as /u/rikaisuru. Hoping this can easily be resolved.

    edit 8: had to sleep for a few hours, basically spent the entire night looking into this since my mom woke me up at like 2AM. Anyhow, this kinda blew up.

    some temporary fix that I'm seeing from people:

    • either change the date to something earlier than December or change the clock

    • Deleting the Headspace App IF you have it.

    EDIT 9:

    • Clock app is bugged. But turning off all notifications fixed it and it's now working again and the problem seems to be gone. Will slowly turn on each app and will see which one is causing the problem.

    but this has got to be a bug. . .but it seems so random. . .since people from Europe, China, and the Pacific are experiencing it.

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    2018 iOS and MacOS - year of fixes?

    Posted: 01 Dec 2017 07:23 PM PST

    With iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra being as broken as they currently are, what do you think the odds are that we get a "maintenance year" next year?

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    People who like macOS over Windows (with significant experience on both), why do you prefer macOS?

    Posted: 01 Dec 2017 06:48 AM PST

    No, I don't want to start a war. I'm an independent software dev, looking to identify holes in what Windows provides that I can fill (and maybe earn some $$ doing it).

    What I'm looking for is specific examples, as objective as possible, some things that macOS (the OS, not the hardware) does decidedly better than Windows.

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    iPhone X Models With Qualcomm Modem Still Have Faster LTE Speeds Than Those With Intel Modems

    Posted: 01 Dec 2017 01:51 PM PST

    Is the battery icon supposed to disappear?

    Posted: 01 Dec 2017 09:52 PM PST

    Has anyone made a hi-res desktop wallpaper of the Siri waveform? It's really pretty and would love to have it!

    Posted: 01 Dec 2017 03:48 PM PST

    Siri Logo

    I briefly tried searching for a wallpaper of the Siri waveform, but I've only come across mobile wallpapers and I've had no luck trying to find a slick, hi-res version for my desktop.

    Bonus points for widescreen and 4k compatibility!

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    iPhone X keep respringing

    Posted: 01 Dec 2017 07:59 PM PST

    As the title says, my X keeps restarting after about 1minute of doing anything. I've tried restarts, deleting apps, changing some settings like background refresh, deactivating cellular, enabling airplane mode and I'm fresh out of ideas other than resetting all settings. Anyone have a fix pls

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    iPhone X

    Posted: 01 Dec 2017 11:38 PM PST

    Does anybody else's iPhone X pop a bit when your firmly holding the sides, it also makes a large pop sound when I apply bending pressure. Anybody else?

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    I really want my 2010 macpro to finish updating its OS but it won’t.

    Posted: 01 Dec 2017 08:07 PM PST

    All I have is a grey screen, Apple logo and progress bar. I let it sit over 24 hours hoping it would finish, but nothing. I tried to start in safe mode (command+r) and nothing happens.

    Thoughts?

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    PSA: If you live in Canada you can get your phone unlocked for free.

    Posted: 01 Dec 2017 07:39 AM PST
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