Apple Delivery Day - September 22
For those that ordered a new iPhone or Apple Watch, this thread will let you share with everyone your excitement of getting a new device....
iOS17 - Battery Drain Worse Than Recent Beta
Has anyone else seen a dramatic drop in battery life after updating to the final release of iOS 17?...
Woman rescued from outhouse toilet after climbing in to retrieve Apple Watch, Michigan police say (abcnews.go.com)
Apple pushes out critical iOS 17.0.1 update just days after iOS 17 release (macworld.com)
Not sure if someone has already posted this, but you can now see the moon in the background of the weather app in iOS 17 and iPadOS 17. (lemmy.world)
Apple makes three arguments for lack of 10x optical zoom on iPhone 15 Pro Max (9to5mac.com)
People hardly ever use 10x zoom...
Clean setup on a new iPhone
Hi folks, not sure if ‘clean setup’ is the right expression, but anyway… I’ve been sporting an iPhone X for 6 years and tomorrow I get my new iPhone 15 Pro. I was thinking of setting it up clean in the sense of manually adding my apps, email data etc, and not doing a simple transfer from the old iPhone....
Halide creators can turn iPad into an HDMI monitor for cameras and consoles with Orion (9to5mac.com)
Online Safety Bill passes in the UK w/o iMessage impact, but government not giving up (9to5mac.com)
What are your Favorite iOS 17 Interactive Widgets so far?
I’ve only been using the home widget and Timery so far, but I bet there’s a few really good ones out there many people haven‘t come across yet.
Fine Woven review from The Verge highlights the problems (theverge.com)
Kind of glad that I went with a Spigen case, instead. I can’t justify $60 for a case that is so delicate.
Apple adds pronoun fields with privacy focus to Contacts app on iOS 17 (9to5mac.com)
Apple polishing cloth on sale for $17 (usually $20) (lemmy.world)
iPhone 15 Models Finally Show Battery's Cycle Count (macrumors.com)
Shortcuts app allowing more background automations (i.imgur.com)
The automation in the screenshot would only prompt me to run the shortcut in iOS 16, but now has the option to run automatically in iOS 17....
Not getting new color scheme on iPhone 14 Pro Max after IOS 17 update
We have a 12 and 14 ProMax and I noticed the new color scheme change on the 12. For example, the yellow to red-orange change on the calculator buttons, and the blue to dark-blue change on the wifi/data/BT/airplane buttons in control center. However, it didn’t change on the 14. Anyone know if there’s a setting somewhere to...
Apple and Goldman Sachs Planned to Launch iPhone Stock Trading Feature Last Year (macrumors.com)
iFixit Lowers iPhone 14's Repairability Score Due to Apple's Parts Pairing Requirement (macrumors.com)
Repair website iFixit today announced that it has retroactively lowered its iPhone 14 repairability score from 7/10 to 4/10 due to Apple’s post-repair parts pairing requirement, just over a year after the device launched....
Long hold the + in imessage to bring up photos quickly
Basically the title. If it feels like the new method in iOS 17 of hitting the plus symbol, then scrolling up and then selecting photos in iMessage takes too long you can just long hold the plus symbol and it’ll short cut to pics....
Change the lockscreen status bar color? (lemmy.world)
Hey there,...
iPhone 15 can limit battery charge to 80%. Does this mean there’s now battery passthrough? (macrumors.com)
I limit my laptop battery charge to 80% with a third party software tool. Laptops can generally bypass the battery and directly power themselves from the wall....
Cracking/tinny sound on Apple TV 4k after TvOS 17 update
PSA...
Apple Answers of All Our iPhone 15 Pro Questions: 'It's Going to be the Best Game Console' (sea.ign.com)
Apple Explains What the iPhone 15 Camera Can and Can’t Do – and Why (petapixel.com)
Recent experiences with AirPods AppleCare+ battery replacement?
My 2 years of AppleCare+ are almost up for my AirPods Pro. It’s hard to tell whether my batteries have degraded significantly, but I’ve gotta imagine 2 years of use would take their toll, and frankly I’d like to get my money’s worth on the warranty. There are many reports on Reddit of people getting a no-questions-asked...