iPhone Daily Tech Support Thread - [October 01] |
- Daily Tech Support Thread - [October 01]
- Let’s talk Checkm8
- You are not safe only with two-factor authentication. Enable SIM PIN and change it!
- My experience upgrading my iPhone at the Apple Store and why resellers suck
- I love my iPhone XR!!!
- How do you have your apps set up?
- How’s that no one seems to talk about spatial audio of new iPhones?
- I made the switch to Apple!
- My Review Of The Belkin $40 Screen Protector With Installation At The Apple Store
- iPhone 11 Review: Too Easy!
- Has anyone compared Neuralcam on and XS to the night mode on 11 Pro?
- Apple News+ launches in the UK and Australia
- How the Combination of a Smartphone and Anxiety Affect Deep Work
- reading/black text white background/lcd vs old
| Daily Tech Support Thread - [October 01] Posted: 30 Sep 2019 09:08 PM PDT Welcome to the Daily Tech Support thread for /r/iphone. Have a question you need answered? Ask away! Please remember to adhere to our rules, which can be found in the sidebar. As usual, if you have a serious issue with the subreddit, please contact the moderators directly. Please be informed that any questions about bypassing iCloud lock, or anything similar that may infer that you are trying to get access to a locked iPhone, are no longer allowed and will be removed. Thank you. Join our Discord room for support: Note: Comments are sorted by /new for your convenience. This is the previous archive of all previous "Daily Tech Support" threads. This is best viewed on a browser. If on mobile, type on the searchbar [title:"Daily Tech Support Thread" author:"AutoModerator"] (without the brackets, and including the quotation marks around the title and author.) Here is a previous archive of all previous "Weekly Tech Support" threads, which has now changed to Daily Tech Support Thread. This is best viewed on a browser. If on mobile, type on the searchbar [title:"Weekly Tech Support Thread" author:"AutoModerator"] (without the brackets, and including the quotation marks around the title and author.) [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 30 Sep 2019 04:24 PM PDT This is a boot rom level security exploit announced late last week that affects every iPhone from the 4s to the X, every iPad from the 12.9in iPad Pro 1 and 2, the 9.7in iPad Pro, the 10.5in iPad Pro, iPad mini 1 through 4, iPads 2 through 7th generation, as well as iPod Touches 5-7, Apple TV 3 trough 4K, and HomePod. Devices NOT affected include the iPhone XR, XS/Max, 11, 11 Pro/Max, iPad Air 3, Pro 3 (2018) (both sizes), and Mini 5. Checkm8 is very serious, but also very limited. The threat level for the average Joe isn't much different than a week ago. If this is you, you can pretty much stop reading here. What is it? Bootrom is the first set of code run when an iPhone boots. It lives on a ROM or a read only memory chip. This typically can't be changed but can be targeted if there is a bug or security issue. These can't be patched almost at all, but it's Apple, never say never. This probably can and will be turned into a jailbreak somehow sooner than later. How it's limited. This has very limited, and very targeted potential to be made into an attack. This isn't something the everyman has to worry about. NOTE, THIS IS NOT AN ATTACK THAT CAN BE PERFORMED REMOTELY. IT REQUIRES PHYSICAL ACCESS TO A VULNERABLE DEVICE. Another limitation is that Apple has built a secure start up process that has every single step verified by the previous step, and if it detects something at fault, iOS just will not run. Checkm8 isn't persistent. It works by having code copied onto SRAM which is "wiped" every time the device is restarted. So, for an attack to actually be carried out over a long period of time, someone would need continuous access to your device. Keeping on with limitation, it can't do much with a device with the Secure Enclave (A7 or later) because it can't get past the hardware-based encryption. The only way this could be bypassed is if someone put a keylogger on using this method and captured your passcode/word. This is really impractical because if someone close to you wants in this bad, they can just do the ol' shoulder peek the passcode. A backdoor is so incredibly unlikely because of how limited the access is. They would most likely use a backdoor through a bad link, attachment, or WiFi hotspot. If you're concerned and rocking an iPhone 4s/5 JUST UPGRADE ALREADY. There are a million reasons why you should, but just consider this 1,000,001. This wouldn't even be in my top 5 list of security-based upgrade reasons though. The only people that will positively benefit is jailbreakers. They don't have to worry about this getting patched out as it literally can't be. If you're rocking 5s or later, you're for the most part, safe. If you feel like this could be an issue, I have reason to believe you're already upgrading frequently enough to have upgraded out of this issue. Huge thanks to Rene Richie, Ars Technica, and MalewareBytes for all of the information. [link] [comments]  | ||
| You are not safe only with two-factor authentication. Enable SIM PIN and change it! Posted: 30 Sep 2019 04:50 PM PDT One year ago my iPhone 7 Plus was stolen and the thief was able to deactivate "find my iPhone" even with the two-factor authentication on. I posted here on Reddit /r/apple what happened (https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/8h56zw/my_iphone_was_robbed_and_the_thief_was_able_to/) Well, yesterday my sister's iPhone X was stolen and the thief again was able to deactivate "find my iPhone". Before that, they changed her Google account password and probably got access to all her passwords stored in Chrome. My sister called her carrier company to block her phone line, but this guys seems to be really fast. So, my point is, when the thief have access to your SIM card, if he finds out your email he can reset your password from for example Google, Facebook and Apple using the SMS text and have access to all kinds of information, including passwords stored for example on Chrome or Safari. So, to avoid problems like this, ENABLE the PIN code on your SIM and CHANGE IT! It will make almost impossible for the thief to reset passwords that uses SMS, like Google, Facebook, even Apple Id uses it because it will ask for this code if the puts the SIM on another phone. But be careful because if you write your PIN code wrong three times it will block your SIM card and you will need to have your PUK code or ask for a new one from your carrier. Here is a link from Apple explaining how to change the PIN of your SIM card: https://support.apple.com/en-ae/HT201529 [link] [comments]  | ||
| My experience upgrading my iPhone at the Apple Store and why resellers suck Posted: 30 Sep 2019 04:47 PM PDT Requested tl;dr: spent extra time upgrading phone due to resellers cheating and skipping line, and Apple Store employees seemingly turning a blind eye. So today I decided I wanted to upgrade my iPhone to the 11 Pro. I had a ton of gift cards to use, and with the upgrade I'd pay almost nothing out of pocket. The Apple Store in Salem, NH (Rockingham Mall) had the model I wanted, so I went there. I quickly got a reservation and was told I just had to wait in line to get the phone. Great. Or so I thought. I got my reservation text at 1:17 PM. They told me it would be about an hour to get through the line. About 15 minutes after I got in line there was a minor commotion up at the front (there were about 6 people in line ahead of me and the commotion). Two men had walked up and got in the line near the front. Somebody behind them was objecting politely, and one of the men said they had been in line with their friend, but had sat down at the bench while their friend waited. The friend (who had been in line) confirmed this. Maybe 10 minutes after that I saw another person near the front motion to somebody behind me. I turned to see a couple of people who were at the end of the line come up to the front and get in line with the person who had motioned to them. The two people in front of me (who were together) were clearly perplexed as to why this would be ok, but did not seem assertive enough to ask why these people had just jumped into the line. As they were talking about it, a couple more people jumped in the line with the same group. I decided I would ask why all these people were jumping the line. They were clearly surprised somebody was asking them, but claimed they had gone to get something to eat, and had a reserved time. I told them I had seen them come from the back of the line, but they pointed at one of the Apple employees and said "just ask Carl, we were given a time over an hour ago." I had not been given a time, so I asked them specifically if they were saying they had a specific time. Yes, they claimed they had a specific time. Why are you waiting in the line then? "Just ask Carl", pointing to the employee again. Ok. I asked Carl. Carl said that they had been given out times earlier, but changed the strategy for the line, and were no longer giving out times. Ok, so maybe these people did have times. So I asked Carl why they made people who had times wait in line with the people who didn't have times. People already in line will not know about the times and think the line was being cut. He said something about "every customer's journey is different", and excused himself to go help people. I was annoyed that they would allow people who had times assigned just walk up and get in line near the front, and decided to tell the manager about my annoyance when it was my turn. By the time I got to the front, 6 people had jumped into line and joined people already there. By my count there were 8 or 9 in the group. Then I noticed something. For this entire group, each time somebody went in, they would start the process, and a man wearing a large backpack would go over and finish the transaction. The people would then hand the phones to him, which he'd put in his backpack. The people would then get back in line. He did this several times (the people would sometimes go in together and do 2 phones at once). Even worse, when getting back in line, they would get in line with one of them already in line, skipping everybody else. When I got to the front, I asked to speak to the manager. The person said "sure, he's right there, he'll be with you in a minute" - and pointed at Carl. I got to a very nice employee who started my transaction, and I told her I wanted to speak to the manager before I left. She asked me if it was about the wait. I said it was, and that it wasn't the wait so much as that one man was being allowed to buy so many phones by having people stand in line for him. She looked a little guilty and said "yes, I'd be mad if I was in your position too". Another employee went over to Carl, who looked over and then came over. He apologized and said that he had misunderstood. I showed him their process - the multiple (at least 9, possibly 12) people in line (now in a large group as they kept skipping everybody and joining their group as they got in line), would be brought in, be processed, and the one man (who was also in line now) with the big backpack would pay for and take the phones. They would go back out and get in line, skipping ahead to the person in their group closest to the front of the line. He stated they did not know this was happening, and he would address it right away. He told my person to get me a case and charge it to the store. This was a nice gesture, and not expected. I was moved to the back of the store, but I did see the ringleader with the bag was no longer in line, but the group working for him remained. I did find it amusing that they were all clearly talking about me, and would look away when I looked up at them. I estimate I spent at least 45 minutes in line solely because of these people - doubling my time. If I'd caught on to what they were doing earlier I could have stopped them from jumping the line so blatantly. So if you're at the Apple store, watch for these clowns and say something. I'm not sure if the employees really knew what was happening or not, but the reactions were a bit off, and they allowed the group who they already knew (by their admission, they had dealt with a couple of them more than once that day) were in on it to stay in line. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 30 Sep 2019 04:24 PM PDT When the iPhone XR originally came out, I didn't like it and thought it was overpriced and that you can get a superior Android phone like the Oneplus for the same price. I started having an issue with my T-Mobile edition OnePlus 7 Pro. It started lagging and freezing intermittently. I would also miss my alarm clocks 2-3 days a week since the phone would restart and my alarms would not sound. I had an old iPhone 5 laying around so I decided to set alarms on both phones for the morning and to my surprise, the iPhone alarm went off and the OnePlus 7 Pro alarm got canceled. Last week, I caved in and bought an iPhone XR since the price dropped (I bought it second-hand BTW). I absolutely love my iPhone XR! It's so smooth and lag-free that I hardly noticed the lack of 90Hz (Which admittedly looks beautiful). Haven't had a single issue so far and I'm glad that I have access to iMessage and FaceTime once again! Just my two cents :P [link] [comments]  | ||
| How do you have your apps set up? Posted: 30 Sep 2019 06:52 PM PDT Do y'all fill up the entire screen or do you leave a row blank. For me I kind of like to leave a blank row for me to "swipe" even though you can do that without a blank row. I'm in a dilemma right now because I don't want to create a new page lol [link] [comments]  | ||
| How’s that no one seems to talk about spatial audio of new iPhones? Posted: 30 Sep 2019 12:48 PM PDT I have my iPhone 11 for almost a week now and just remembered that on keynote they said something about better stereo speakers. I played some stereo content and OMG. The 3D effect is just so good. Totally different experience than from my old iPhone SE. I thought that this might be just coming from single speaker phone to stereo, but after comparing it with my fiancé's iPhone XR difference can still be heard. Don't get me wrong, XR sounds good, but not as good 3D effect as the 11. For those of you curious play any 3D sound on YouTube, I compared XR and 11 on this one in a silent room and volume set to 60-70%. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 30 Sep 2019 03:03 PM PDT I have been using android for almost 10 years now, and I wanted to try something different for once. So, today I went and bought myself an iPhone 11 Pro. I am also bored with the Windows OS, so I might move on to the MacBooks instead. This is the first step to using the Apple ecosystem, and I'm interested in the Apple watch as well! To be honest, Apple sure makes good quality devices and the updates on one phone are amazing since it can be good for 5 years. Is there anything I need to know about what Apple has to offer or particular options/setting with the newer iPhones? [link] [comments]  | ||
| My Review Of The Belkin $40 Screen Protector With Installation At The Apple Store Posted: 30 Sep 2019 06:17 PM PDT I just got an iPhone 11 Pro recently and decided to go full overboard on protection and whoring myself out to Apple. After putting on a $6 screen protector and being unsatisfied with the application and quality, I decided to venture to the Apple Store to see what their deal was all about regarding the Belkin $40 screen protector and proprietary application "machine". Everything went smoothly, but I wanted to write this to tell you about the pros, cons, and other important details. Pros:
Cons:
You may be asking - why is the fit too good a CON? Well, for starters it is felt every time you swipe up, which is obviously all of the time with no home button. Also, since it's SO close to being the size of the real screen, there's this weird angle that distorts the OLED brightness because it's not quite "over" it. Does this make sense? I would prefer a screen protector that covers every single bit up until the case, but I understand that would disable some cases. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW - If you go to the wall of products and select your own screen protector and bring it to the Genius Bar, the genius will simply open it and apply it with his/her own hands.. just like any of us could do. Luckily for me, my genius messed it up and went to the back where he brought out the same protector in a different casing. This one was compatible with their fancy Belkin machines that do it for you. Overall/TL;DR - Not a bad service. Easily, quick, and expensive. I wouldn't do it again if my current protector breaks, but it is a nice luxury to have. Please shake down the genius at the store until he/she goes to the back and gets the screen protector that is compatible with their Belkin application device. If they don't use that, you're paying $40 for an overpriced piece of glass that will be applied the same way you and I do it - with uncertainty and dust. Good luck! [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 30 Sep 2019 12:36 PM PDT
 | ||
| Has anyone compared Neuralcam on and XS to the night mode on 11 Pro? Posted: 30 Sep 2019 03:14 PM PDT | ||
| Apple News+ launches in the UK and Australia Posted: 30 Sep 2019 12:27 PM PDT
 | ||
| How the Combination of a Smartphone and Anxiety Affect Deep Work Posted: 30 Sep 2019 03:10 PM PDT
 | ||
| reading/black text white background/lcd vs old Posted: 30 Sep 2019 01:42 PM PDT Hello - for users out there that are familiar with both LCD and OLED displays, what do you find more comfortable for reading (mostly black text, white background). Most of my phone use consists of browsing websites (which is usually black text on a white background) or reading e books. I'm wondering what screen technology you all find more comfortable for reading. Most reviews I find seem to analyze screen interactions from the perspective of watching movies or playing games, both of which I do only occassionally. Frequently, when I read ebooks, I dim the screen way down. I do not like reading white text on black background (at least for extended periods). Please advise :) I am looking to upgrade my iPhone 6s... [link] [comments]  |
| You are subscribed to email updates from r/iPhone. To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | |
No comments:
Post a Comment