FB12276856 - Missing option to toggle between Dock and Recents on Apple Watch Crown double-press.
Currently, the crown double-press brings up recents, but the old side button action allowed user to choose Dock or Recents. I use the Dock ALL THE TIME.
FB12356454 - Adjustable or smaller text in Calendar Widget in StandBy mode. The text on the calendar widget on the StandBy screen is far too large to be usable. Each event only shows the first couple of words.
Moving my @obsidian vault to Obsidian Sync and off of iCloud. I never really had any issues with iCloud, but I’m looking for ways to support Obsidian’s development.
Their sync service is fast (I can see edits in near-real-time across devices) and E2E encrypted. It’s also wildly overpriced for what it does. It basically only syncs text files for $8/mo with a 10GB data cap, which is really worth about $3/mo. No server side processing, no API. Just file sync.
@atnbueno I did the same when I was using iCloud. Moving off iCloud for Obsidian because I don’t like syncing my entire personal iCloud to my work Mac. There is no granular control of which folders to sync.
@H0W25 I paid like $900 for this iPad in 2018, so I feel like I’m getting a pretty good value out of it, hardware-wise. Much longer useful life than any other tablet I’ve owned.
I’m with you on the PWA thing, though. I understand why they don’t want to add the overhead from a techncial standpoint, but from a user’s standpoint it’s a bad look.
@jimmylittle iOS on EU will have no PWA because it's too much work for them to implement it with different engines (not an excuse for me). And I paid for a Fairphone, the price of those phones are high compared with the specs it has, but I never had any issue for years and I can simply replace each component, the ROMs I can intall on it are also open source as I like. I wouldn't mind high prices if behind the company is ethical and respectful with users.
The iPad mini is my go-to travel iPad. I don’t even consider my 12.9” Pro for travel anymore.
I’ve drilled a hole in the case and stuck a MagSafe magnet thingy to the back of the iPad. Now the mini can use a MagSafe PopSocket and a MagSafe tripod mount. It’s glorious. The iPad mini should 100% have MagSafe on the back like the phones do. Charging, battery packs, accessories would all be great on this thing.
The mini paired with a Bluetooth keyboard/trackpad makes a nice little writing setup.
@mikesax I like having the keyboard separate. On a plane, I can just have the iPad on the stand without the keyboard in the way if I’m just watching something.
I had a non-Apple keyboard case on the mini previously, but found the keys to be too cramped.
Incidentally, even an iPad mini is a credible second monitor via Sidecar for things like this processing progress window. A typical import takes between 5-20 minutes in this tool, so shoving this off to the side leaves it viewable without taking up screen space on my MacBook.
@matthewcassinelli Already done. If any Apple people are listening:
Revert Dock/Recents back to side button and move Control Center to the crown double-press: FB12276891
Missing toggle to select Dock/Recents: FB12276856
I generally use 2 web browsers. Chrome for work, and Safari for personal. I like keeping bookmarks/history/passwords/etc separate.
I’m going to switch to @arcinternet for the month of May for work stuff. Importing everything from Chrome was a breeze, and all the Chrome extensions I need work in Arc.
I will not switch my personal stuff from Safari, though. The iCloud-synced tabs, history, tab groups, Reading List, etc. are all part of my daily use, and can’t be replicated yet.
@jimmylittle@arcinternet Ahh okay! Then please feel free to disregard. I’ve see. A lot of folks having been shying away from chrome because of privacy changes so I assumed that you fell in that category.
While I’m all Apple for basically everything else, I haven’t worked up the courage to take the plunge into safari yet. Maybe I’ll take this convo as a good challenge to try!
@kevinbrill@arcinternet Safari (well, WebKit) does have some limitations because of its stance on using only “standard” web technologies that Chromium/Blink/Gecko tend to go beyond, but for any regular use it’s rock solid and fast (and easier on the battery, if that’s important to you).
I started thinking about this a bit more, and I really think it could be pretty great. With the “focus engine” that lets AppleTV hop between click targets, one could easily pop around a screen of widgets and select music/podcasts, photos, next tv show, etc. And a simple scroll down could bump you into the current AppleTV UI. Let’s do this, Apple!
@nickfoster Yes, and it’s maddening. Costco has sample stations in every-other aisle, and every one has a line occupied by people who have no sense of shopping cart spatial awareness, so I have to push my way through an oblivious mob just to get to the Irish butter.
@jimmylittle ughhh that sounds so irritating. My Costco will have like maybe 3 or 4 samples throughout the entire store, with 0-2 people at each one at a given time. At least that’s how I’ve typically seen it
Typing in the exact name of an app, and selecting it from the auto-complete dropdown list in the search bar, gives me the results pictured. (And I’m totally OK with search ads here, but none of these are ads!)
“Fin- budget tracker” in the search bar, and I have to scroll past Mint, YNAB, and Monefy to see the one I LITERALLY JUST PICKED FROM A LIST. 🙄
@jimmylittle Bad enough for you to choose an alternative?
Hate to be blunt, but even if your answer is yes, they've bet that most people will complain and then forget about it.
They've done the math and determined they don't have to care. Nobody's gonna get a bonus for fixing search because it won't have a measurable impact on any KPI.
I have an OLED TV hooked to a 4K AppleTV over HDMI. The CEC control works flawlessly. I also have a Sonos soundbar hooked to the TV over Optical.
Somehow the AppleTV remote knows to control volume over IR to the soundbar.
How does this work? Is there an optical “handshake” like HDMI? Is that how the AppleTV figures out there’s an optical soundbar on the TV? Or is it just assuming because it found the Sonos on the WiFi?
I’ve been time-boxing for a couple weeks now (I used to time-block from tasks, now I time-box for outcomes).
It’s taken a little tweaking, but it’s really helped me get focused. The key for me is building in Flex Time for when things go off-plan or letting my mind wander on YouTube or social media, and building in specific times of the day to deal with Slack/Telegram/Email.
@nickfoster@structured I did try Structured for a while. It’s a great system for tasks and time blocking, but I found it a little too task-manager-y for what I need and it was a bit too much overhead because I already have to maintain a task system and a calendar.
In my calendar, I already have my personal and work obligations/meetings, so I can just drop a time box next to it.
@jimmylittle I haven't tested it recently, but the Wait action did get extended recently – it might be possible for a Home Automation to Wait 20 minutes and then act again
I’ve completely stopped using Apple’s “Hide My Email” feature. I tried for a few months, but iCloud’s Junk/Spam filtering is hot garbage. I know I can turn off any generated email address at any time and all, but ain’t nobody got time for that.
Check out the screenshot. I deleted all Junk YESTERDAY, and today there are 675 messages that I get to delete again. I don’t have this problem with Gmail. Back to using my Google address for all the web signups, I guess.
@jimmylittle Oh. Duh. Slapping my virtual forehead now.
I think you hit on the key thing - there's so many "parts" to an email (that might have attachments, various types of content, etc. that I wonder if Apple has figured that it's too power-usery and folks would be confused understanding what "sharing" the email meant.
That said... as a power user... I see where you're going with it.
@techphotoguy I would be fine if Apple just surfaced a “Get Details of Email” Shortcuts action where I could build shortcuts to deal with body, subject, sender, recipient, attachments, etc. myself.