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TheKingofSprings posted:If I do a factory reset, can I redownload any paid for apps without having to pay again? I managed to recover my photos by syncing my phone, and aside from my contacts (which I can get fairly easily again the old fashioned way), those are the main things I can think of that I particularly care about remaining on my phone.
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Cawd Rud posted:Yes, your purchases are tied to your Apple account. Also, you should really put your contacts on either iCloud or Gmail or whatever account you have, so in the future all you'd have to do is add that account and they'd pop in automatically. It's time for my annual attempt to actually delete some god damned contacts. I've got my contacts syncing with both gmail (not exchange) and icloud, and every attempt I've made over the past oh 4 years has always resurrected them. Outside of moving to icloud only (I also use voice, so not having them both in icloud and gmail is troublesome to me), any idea what I need to do? I'm sure I haven't given enough information here, but I don't know what else is relevant.
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im full of poo poo posted:If anybody just updated to ios9 and is mad about the podcasts app getting all hosed up again, this might help. They didn't remove the ability to create stations, they just deleted all your stations. You can make an "all unplayed" station again ("+" in top left from "my podcasts") and force it to play oldest-to-newest like the lord intended There's no way to make an "On the Go" playlist though? I used to just cherry pick specific episodes of a podcast to make a playlist, but it doesn't look like you can do that anymore. The closest is just picking episodes and adding to "Up Next".
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Other than being a lot easier to use, how is this different than text selection on an android? What was text selection like before? On android for me it's just a long press which brings up two moveable sliders with which you can select the region of the text you want.
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Baller Witness Bro posted:Other than being a lot easier to use, how is this different than text selection on an android? What was text selection like before? On android for me it's just a long press which brings up two moveable sliders with which you can select the region of the text you want.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:That's how iOS is as well, and it's still relatively imprecise and a pain. This new method looks great -- very similar to the two-finger touchpad functionality on iPad on iOS 9. It was also available on more iphones before GM, where it was cut to force touch only apparently. Fuckers. Edit: Boris Galerkin posted:What the hell is Paper? Alternative facebook app by facebook, supposedly has a better interface and I think maybe it was meant to be a companion despite having a fairly full feature set? I don't know, I avoid facebook whenever possible.
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Boris Galerkin posted:What the hell is Paper?
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Baller Witness Bro posted:Other than being a lot easier to use, how is this different than text selection on an android? What was text selection like before? On android for me it's just a long press which brings up two moveable sliders with which you can select the region of the text you want. Why does it have to be vastly different? It's an easier way to do an extremely common activity that most users do every day and that by itself is great. It's easy enough to login to a phone using a 4-6 digit code, or to buy apps with a password, but TouchID simplified this process. It's easy enough to pull out your wallet and pay with a debit card, but in many cases mobile payment made it easier and quicker.
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XyrlocShammypants posted:Why does it have to be vastly different? It's an easier way to do an extremely common activity that most users do every day and that by itself is great. It's easy enough to login to a phone using a 4-6 digit code, or to buy apps with a password, but TouchID simplified this process. It's easy enough to pull out your wallet and pay with a debit card, but in many cases mobile payment made it easier and quicker. Easy there tiger, you should reread my post without inserting an angry slant haha. I've never used a device with iOS, so I was legitimately asking. I agree that this method of being able to just slide left or right is WAY easier than trying to pinpoint exactly where you want to select. It's often clunky on android if you're trying to specifically select between two letters of a word, at least in my hands.
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I didn't assume you were angry :O, I just recently was thinking to myself how small things like keyless remote entry to my car and TouchID have changed my behaviors in everyday life. How often did I fumble around my pockets for my keys or, in the case of editing an important message, stop walking in order to make a correction because the process was so annoying. The sum of modern technologies simplifications are becoming a lot more apparent in my everyday life.
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Chakron posted:Thanks for the info! Can I straight up have things in the cloud that I don't have on my phone? Throw 6 months of photos up there, delete them on my phone, keep them in the cloud. Sounds like I should be able to but if not I know that non-apple services can accomplish the task. No big deal but weird. hotos added from other devices (be they computers, other iOS devices, etc) are kept in the cloud until you view them in full size, though it will still pull down thumbnails.
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Endless Mike posted:hotos added from other devices (be they computers, other iOS devices, etc) are kept in the cloud until you view them in full size, though it will still pull down thumbnails. I just spent far too long trying to figure out what hotos is an acronym for.
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If you're backing up your phone for the first time and you have 19 GB to backup, it should take a while, right? What are signs the backup to iTunes is working properly?
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Jealous Cow posted:Is that a Plus and the dude just has huge hands? Looks like a 5S to me
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Snuffman posted:There's no way to make an "On the Go" playlist though? Well, you just make a new station and call it on the go and add feeds to it, then delete the episodes you don't want. It sucks though, I agree.
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Since updating to 9.0 I'm only getting a sound from my text notifications sporadically- maybe one time in three or so. Anyone else having this issue and/or have a solution?
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IllegallySober posted:Since updating to 9.0 I'm only getting a sound from my text notifications sporadically- maybe one time in three or so. Anyone else having this issue and/or have a solution? Definitely getting this and already posted about it here, not only in Messages but with other apps as well. No idea about a fix, seems like flipping the switch on the side to mute and then back to ring works sometimes. I even tried rebooting the phone but it's still happening. Pretty lame.
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My iCloud settings seem to have been automatically changed after the update to iOS 9. Is this only me? Suddenly I got an email that my iCloud account was nearly full, because someone (probably the government) has turned on photos backup in iCloud.
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IllegallySober posted:Since updating to 9.0 I'm only getting a sound from my text notifications sporadically- maybe one time in three or so. Anyone else having this issue and/or have a solution? AHHHH I was wondering why I kept missing texts
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enojy posted:The only way of going about this is choosing to "optimize storage" on your iPhone. This keeps full resolution copies on the phone until you reach a particular threshold of free space available, and then it starts replacing those full resolution photos with small versions, all the while keeping the full resolution copies on iCloud. I believe once you get to something like 5% free space remaining, only then will it start completely deleting photos. Not the OP but I'll piggy back on this topic.. How does this work if the photos are consuming a huge chunk of space and you want to install a large app but aren't within the threshold where iOS starts dropping back to thumbnails? Is there any way to manually trigger a purge of full-res images? I've also heard bad things (completely anecdotally) about syncing performance, where changes on one device will take literally days to sync to another. I've not tried iCloud Photo Library (my library's ~30gb so it's not something I can just try easily) but my experience of Photostream would back this up. How's syncing been for you? Chakron posted:Thanks for the info! Can I straight up have things in the cloud that I don't have on my phone? Throw 6 months of photos up there, delete them on my phone, keep them in the cloud. Sounds like I should be able to but if not I know that non-apple services can accomplish the task. No big deal but weird. Completely out of interest, what other photo services are you considering? I don't like the idea of Google Photos as it sounds like there isn't a desktop companion app and everything's cloud-based. iCloud Photo Library is ideal for me if it works as claimed, but at this point I'm not sure whether to trust Apple on it. I'm really on the fence between upgrading my ageing iPhone 5 to a 6S or jumping ship to Android for the Z5 Compact. I know this is the iPhone thread (and it's not a decision I take lightly - I'm an iOS developer and heavily invested in the Apple ecosystem personally!) but I just have too many niggles with the 6 that the 6S didn't improve upon. Froist fucked around with this message at 11:19 on Sep 23, 2015 |
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Froist posted:Not the OP but I'll piggy back on this topic.. How does this work if the photos are consuming a huge chunk of space and you want to install a large app but aren't within the threshold where iOS starts dropping back to thumbnails? Is there any way to manually trigger a purge of full-res images? Does your carrier have that two week return policy? You can just try the phone out and bring it back if it sucks!
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Xabi posted:My iCloud settings seem to have been automatically changed after the update to iOS 9. Is this only me? Suddenly I got an email that my iCloud account was nearly full, because someone (probably the government) has turned on photos backup in iCloud. Didn't happen to me. Updated an iphone 6 and ipad air to 9. icloud photos were off on both, and remained off after the update. Just double checked, in both icloud and photos settings.
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Froist posted:Not the OP but I'll piggy back on this topic.. How does this work if the photos are consuming a huge chunk of space and you want to install a large app but aren't within the threshold where iOS starts dropping back to thumbnails? Is there any way to manually trigger a purge of full-res images? iCloud sucks in my experience, and it's a drat shame that OS X's Photos.app doesn't support other cloud services for photos. I'm not so sure what the hang up is (maybe millions of people constantly clogging it up) but I've had pictures take over a day to sync. I won't call myself a photographer, but the love of photography runs in my family, and it'll always be a hobby of mine. The super slow syncing kinda sours me on the iPhone photo-taking experience, as I wish I could take a 3MB photo and see it on my laptop a few seconds later, not hours later. Of course, this is hugely a first-world problem; I can just plug it in and sync over hardware. So it's not that big a grievance. iCloud just sucks at its job.
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tuyop posted:Does your carrier have that two week return policy? You can just try the phone out and bring it back if it sucks! I'm in the UK and it's cheaper for me long-term to stick on my SIM-only contract and shell out for the phone up front than to switch to a contract including the phone. Good idea though.
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Violator posted:My folks have iPhone 4 they refuse to upgrade because they don't want to lose their unlimited data plan with Verizon. No matter how many times I explain they're only using about 500 megs a month they won't upgrade out of principle. Can they use Apple's iPhone Upgrade Plan to get new unlocked iPhone 6s's and just switch the SIM cards to keep their current plans? Can they request new SIMs from Verizon since I think the newer phones use a smaller SIM than the old ones? The Verizon iPhone 4 has no SIM since it's CDMA and doesn't have LTE. I suspect Apple will be able to provide a nanoSIM for Verizon and move your folks over in store since they require the phone to be on a major carrier for the Upgrade Program. If not, Verizon corporate stores will be able to provide a SIM and help with changing the phones without changing the plan.
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enojy posted:iCloud sucks in my experience, and it's a drat shame that OS X's Photos.app doesn't support other cloud services for photos. I'm not so sure what the hang up is (maybe millions of people constantly clogging it up) but I've had pictures take over a day to sync. I wonder why it's so inconsistent. I can take a photo and in just a minute it shows up on my Mac/iPad/iCloud.
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Jose Oquendo posted:I wonder why it's so inconsistent. I can take a photo and in just a minute it shows up on my Mac/iPad/iCloud. And photo stream has always been rock solid from day one. Syncs photos in like 30 seconds. Of course, the photo stream album isn't on in my Photos.app, and that seems like a strange problem because my cursory googling returned nothing. I don't think I'd use photos.app if I used my Mac for photography anyway. Importing into a Lightroom catalogue via Dropbox would make a lot more sense, especially since I don't know why you'd use photos for DSLR RAWs when you're probably going to want some developing settings and photoshop integration right in the library.
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xzzy posted:A full backup and restore has always brought in all apps for me, same folders and everything. It brings the apps back (slowly) if you have icloud backups too, but will lose the state in many of them. Logins, podcasts, data, music etc. will all be gone if you do not sync all the apps from your phone to your PC first, then sync them back after the restore. e.g. podcasts, downloaded files, videos. EL BROMANCE posted:I never understood why everyone clamoured for these crappy 3rd party keyboards in the first place. I just presumed they were non-iPhone users trying to find a reason to hate, and because the default android keyboard is (was?) so bad, they presumed the iOS one was shite too. The stock Android keyboard is currently much better than the iOS one btw, try it sometime. The iOS keyboard *used* to be much better, but that was largely a function of the OS as a whole being much less laggy. It always had it's problems though, exacerbated for me by the screens being so narrow (now fixed). tuyop posted:The good news is that the iOS keyboard is by far the best touchscreen keyboard I've used, and other people in the thread have echoed this sentiment. The bad news is that third party keyboards are a shitshow and really not worth using unless your habits avoid the bugs. I've never tried the predictive text thing because it takes way longer to parse the words on the top than it does to muscle memory+glance for the correct character. I totally disagree about the iOS keyboard, it's had significant problems for a long time (like the just fixed keycaps not showing case), and has far slower access to symbols and numbers compared to the stock android keyboard. It also has no swipe functionality, which is incredibly useful for one handed use. Have you used a (recent, stock) Android phone or Windows 8 Phone recently? I think 3rd party keyboard support in iOS has been deliberately starved of attention to slow adoption and prove Apple's earlier design choices were correct. While not deliberately coded to be broken, the functionality must at least be assigned to a below-par team, who do not use their own code - noone with the power to fix it would put up with this brokenness for years. wooger fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Sep 23, 2015 |
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Know what else is useful for one handed use? Non-huge phones.
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POCKET CHOMP posted:Definitely getting this and already posted about it here, not only in Messages but with other apps as well. No idea about a fix, seems like flipping the switch on the side to mute and then back to ring works sometimes. I even tried rebooting the phone but it's still happening. Pretty lame. Quantum of Phallus posted:AHHHH I was wondering why I kept missing texts Cool. Hopefully 9.1 that's already in beta or whatever fixes it because this is annoying as hell.
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TheKingofSprings posted:If I do a factory reset, can I redownload any paid for apps without having to pay again? I managed to recover my photos by syncing my phone, and aside from my contacts (which I can get fairly easily again the old fashioned way), those are the main things I can think of that I particularly care about remaining on my phone. What bug are you talking about?
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IllegallySober posted:Since updating to 9.0 I'm only getting a sound from my text notifications sporadically- maybe one time in three or so. Anyone else having this issue and/or have a solution? 
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IllegallySober posted:Since updating to 9.0 I'm only getting a sound from my text notifications sporadically- maybe one time in three or so. Anyone else having this issue and/or have a solution? POCKET CHOMP posted:Definitely getting this and already posted about it here, not only in Messages but with other apps as well. No idea about a fix, seems like flipping the switch on the side to mute and then back to ring works sometimes. I even tried rebooting the phone but it's still happening. Pretty lame. Quantum of Phallus posted:AHHHH I was wondering why I kept missing texts IllegallySober posted:Cool. Hopefully 9.1 that's already in beta or whatever fixes it because this is annoying as hell. They've obviously slipped this one in there deliberately to get you to buy an Apple Watch.
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Froist posted:They've obviously slipped this one in there deliberately to get you to buy an Apple Watch. No joke. I have no idea if I'm experiencing this problem as well because all notifications have been going just fine to my watch. Haven't missed a one.
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fordan posted:The Verizon iPhone 4 has no SIM since it's CDMA and doesn't have LTE. Hot diggity! Thanks for the info!
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