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    Apple Daily Tech Support Thread

    Daily Tech Support Thread

    Posted: 06 Feb 2021 03:00 AM PST

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    iPhone 12 mini May Stop Getting Produced in Q2, 2021 Due to Seemingly Weak Demand

    Posted: 06 Feb 2021 08:05 AM PST

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    BlackSight: Computational night mode camera app

    Posted: 06 Feb 2021 11:23 PM PST

    Hello everyone,

    I am proud to present my first Appstore app BlackSight. It is a computational photography app designed to take better low light photos. It supports iPhone 6s and above and work on all cameras including the ultra-wide camera of iPhone 11. It makes use of long exposures by capturing several images to reduce noise and smartly merging them to enhance your low light images. All these operations are done on device itself, completely offline thereby protecting your privacy.

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    The app is free, so you can try all the features in the demo. The only limitation is a watermark on the photos in demo version which can be removed by a one time in-app purchase.

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    Below is a list of all the features available:

    - Compatible with all cameras (front, ultra-wide, wide, telephoto)

    - Manual focus

    - Timer

    - Soft torch for illuminating super dark scenes

    - Photo format (HEIC/JPEG)

    - Shoot lower resolution image for faster processing

    - Grid

    - Mirrored selfies

    - Front flash

    - Smart white balance correction to reduce yellowish tint

    - Tripod mode for taking brighter and noise free images for very dark scenes

    -Manual white balance selector (coming soon)

    Do check it out and send me your feedback:

    https://apps.apple.com/us/app/blacksight-night-mode-camera/id1544295544

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    Apple: Everything We Expect to See in 2021 and Beyond

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    I made a free, clean, ad-free unit/currency converter using SwiftUI

    Posted: 06 Feb 2021 10:51 PM PST

    Edit: Happy Promo Sunday! It's called MiniConverter! In case you wanna search on the App Store.

    Link: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1546357720?pt=95873805&ct=Reddit&mt=8

    Hi everyone! I'm an indie developer that made a unit/currency converter for iPhone & iPad. You can convert 24 categories of units (temperature, length, weight, etc), as well as many currencies. The user interface is clean and modern, and it's incredibly efficient to use.

    It supports all the modern iOS features. Dark Mode, Dynamic Type, Split View + Slide Over, External Keyboard, Apple Pencil Scribble, and VoiceOver. Your privacy is important, which is why I did not include any third-party advertising and analytics frameworks.

    It was made using SwiftUI, which was really fun to use, and I used SF Symbols for the icons. Translating the different currencies and units took a really long time though.

    Let me know what you think! What other features should I add? Any questions about how I developed the app? Any feedback is appreciated.

    Edit: It works great on Apple Silicon Mac!

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    Learn guitar from your Apple Watch!

    Posted: 06 Feb 2021 09:14 PM PST

    Hi r/Apple

    For the past two years, our team has been working on a new app that redefines how we use and develop for Apple Watch.

    Using an inner wrist position and rotated watch screen, we've been able to create a hands-on learning experience like never before. Kind of like a very basic form of AR, on your wrist.

    I'm proud to announce that our MVP has been accepted on the app store, and is now available to download for free!

    Please check out Chords & Scales for Guitar by our startup Wristruments.

    This is our first version, which we will be updating soon with a song library, before expanding to other instruments.

    Please consider checking out the app and I promise you won't be disappointed :)

    Here is the link to download. Here is the link to download.

    Thank you and we look forward to hearing what you think!

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    Why iPhone 12 Pro Max's camera is so exciting to pro photographers

    Posted: 06 Feb 2021 06:58 AM PST

    How to spot a $5M/year scam on the AppStore, in 5 minutes flat

    Posted: 06 Feb 2021 06:51 PM PST

    Up to now, I've been in the "Apple wants to do the right thing" camp. But my viewpoint is starting to change.

    Here's how I spotted a $5M/year scam on the App Store, in 5 minutes flat:

    First, the ratings of this app: 4.6 stars, with over 83,146 ratings, and a glowing 5-star "featured" review:

    ★★★★★

    Astronomy fun

    I've been using the app for a few months now and decided to add some things to the review. First of all it definitely lives up to my expectations even this far down the line! The daily updates astronomy news is what makes me come back for more and in my opinion what makes this app stand out from the rest of the stargazing apps out there. That doesn't mean the stargazing functions are not great, because they are, it just means that it news section is my favorite part. Ok the rest of the text is from my original review. Lovely app that really does what it advertises. If you are looking for something to keep you busy and at they same time learn from, this app is perfect! I have absolutely no idea how they do it, but just point your phone up the sky and move it around to identify Stars, planets, satellites constellations and other awesome things. While previously, you could only analyze constellations with charts, maps, telescopes or pay a visit to the nearest planetarium today you can use this mobile app to uncover a vast amount of information about what's happening overhead at any given time! Simply amazing how far along the technology has come. Not only can you do that with this app, but you also get daily updated astronomy news to keep you updated what's going on in our wonderful universe. Definitely a must have.

    Now let's slide over to the next review in the carousel:

    ★★☆☆☆

    Not what it advertises

    Have to hit continue three times upon opening app. The third screen is Reg update screen with a small option to "restore" at the bottom of the screen. I accidentally hit continue the upteenth time I opened the app and instantly received email stating it was going to charge me $9.99 a week. No thanks.Point screen at one part of th sky infront of my house says one thing then point it to the back of the house and ironically it says the same. Somehow the sun is up in the dead of night and should be shinning at me through the pitch black sky. I'd post photos if this review had an option or I could send to admin IF I had the option but can't find support anywhere.

    Hmm... maybe that was an outlier. Let's check the next one:

    ★☆☆☆☆

    Have to resubscribe every time you use it

    Very disappointed. I signed up to use it and it was a decent tool the first time I used it, but when I went to use it a second time (on the same iPhone 11 I bought it and used it on the first time, it made me sign up again as if I had no subscription. It worked fine the second time, but still I had to take the time to resubcribe. Then, the third time I went to use it it did the same thing and I didn't want to take the time to sign up again, plus I wanted to check my iTunes account to make sure I wasn't paying multiple subscription fees for the same app, so I didn't use it that night. The fourth and fifth time, the same thing. Very poorly designed in that way. I should be able to sign up for the recurring subscription, as it states it is, and every time I open the app on my phone it should recognize me as a paid subscriber and let me use the app. What a pain in the ____!!

    Ok, this definitely warrants to keep scrolling:

    ★☆☆☆☆

    Seems like a monetary vampire app that's more advertisement than actual app

    I installed this to track stars not for the app to immediately try to sell me on a better version of the app, AND a premium service with reoccurring billing immediately after opening. I naturally wasn't impressed or lured in, but the real problem was the ad in the app wouldn't let me actually use it until I tapped a tiny bit of text at the bottom. Please, stop doing this with free apps. Now I DEFINITELY don't want anything to do with the paid app or the recurring service. It's probably further riddled with micro-transactions, which is a problem I see more and more lately. Since the app asked me to rate it twice in the first ten minutes of use, here you go. Also the compass is bad and inaccurate. Looks like your advertisement didn't work....

    Now I'm starting to see a pattern here:

    ★☆☆☆☆

    I'd give zero starts if could!

    First of all took forever to even get to use the app because of all the garbage up selling. Then had to sing up for a trial to even use it since they demand $9.99 month before even using to see if it's worth it. It's not and within 5 mins I closed out and cancelled trial. It's literally the only trial I've closed out that fast.I point to the sky and it shows the moon and some other stars that I absolutely wasn't even pointing the phone at. Not even close to it. Then I go to a different location and screen doesn't change at all. You have to manually move the screen and then you have no idea what location those images are actually at since screen doesn't lock onto what it's actually looking at.I can use a star map in a book and get better help than this garbage app. Don't waste your time or money on this at all.

    Last one:

    ★☆☆☆☆

    Useless even if you pay

    I thought this would've been a great app. Unfortunately, even after paying it's pretty outrageous cost, it still could not identify a constellation. In fact, it left it up to me to identify ANYTHING. The App was perfectly happy when I tagged Jupiter as the North Star (I am in Southern California). Other 'free' apps work significantly better. Don't spend your monthly "subscription" (what is a subscription here? Does our astronomical view change that much each month!? For a monthly fee why can I not get an approximate daily view of where the ISS is? Or the new NeoWISE comet? Or show me a constellation, or a planet? ) This app did absolutely ZERO of any of these things. I got a better view when I pointed my App and Camera at my lawn ..😢

    Let's dig in with AppFigures and look at the star breakdown of just the reviews - there's only 835 of them (!):

    ★★★★★ 109

    ★★★★☆ 6

    ★★★☆☆ 9

    ★★☆☆☆ 31

    ★☆☆☆☆ 680

    Their average stars?

    1.6 stars

    ONE. POINT. SIX.

    In these reviews, people are desperately trying to warn others not to make the same mistake they did:

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    ★☆☆☆☆

    DO NOT PURCHASE

    This app charges a ridiculous amount of money to use it ten dollars a week ****** Definitely not worth that much money it really should be illegal!!!!!!!!!!!!!************

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    ★☆☆☆☆

    PREDATORY COMPANY

    PREDATORY COMPANY - DO NOT DOWNLOAD - THEY WILL ROB YOU

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    ★☆☆☆☆
    Thieves Stay Away

    I downloaded this app and canceled my subscription within 5 minutes and guess what they charged me 9.99 Surprised Apple is providing platform to this thieves.

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    ★☆☆☆☆

    Hard to believe these reviews are genuine

    I don't write reviews, but this one warrant one. This one has all the signs of a scam. I hope I'm wrong, but I doubt I am. [...] Apple should be worried since this app has over 70k of 5 star

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    ★☆☆☆☆

    BAIT AND SWITCH

    This app requires a subscription to use at all. There's no trial/test/preview, just enter your credit card details. Just charge for the app, not this bait and switch. Is apple reading this!? Terrible experience. Ffs

    Let's look at their ratings over time. Blue line is new positive ratings per day. This is a completely unnatural pattern here, when overlaid with their download numbers.

    The featured 5-star review is there because the scammers made sure to also long press on it and mark it as "Helpful", alongside submitting all their fake, bought ratings.

    This scam has been operating from Indonesia for years, although "operating" is giving it too much credit. The app was last updated in 2019, so they are literally sitting and collecting the stolen money.

    When you download and open the app, you HAVE to start a $10/week subscription to proceed. UNREAL.

    Apple is doing nothing. In fact, they're even sending the scammers a cool $400k per month.

    The scam: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/star-gazer/id1474038335

    Their "website": http://textystories.com

    Another image from their support website reads: "Life is wonderful, let our games be part of it!"

    This is some utter BS. Honest developers are getting fooled by all sides. I am furious.

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    A Hand-Built, Original Apple 1 Computer Is Yours for 'Just' 1.5 Million Dollars

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    Title pretty much sums it up.

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