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IUG
Jul 14, 2007


Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

actually there are AT&T data plans where you get like 3GB/month and after that it's "unlimited" data capped to poo poo-tier speeds

i'm on this plan with my wife. you get a text message at 75% usage, 90%, and when you're over and on 256kbs (for the rest of the month, and when your month ends).

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IUG
Jul 14, 2007


poty posted:

rip apple

can you lose money not shipping something no one was going to buy?

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


The Management posted:

in order to buy this I would have to believe there are people still working on iWork, which seems dubious

i use it to make better looking graphs and (pie)charts for Excel, that's it.

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


ufarn posted:

i love the part where apple people brought up the fact that the imac pro can run firewatch at 60 fps :captainpop:

firewatch is good, and i lost my poo poo a little when i found out it was published by panic software. there's even an easter egg-ish thing where they put audion in the game.

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


AWWNAW posted:

apple’s tv remote in iOS control center doesn’t have keyboard input and their remote app still hasn’t been updated for iPhone X

it does for me (with a second gen AppleTV). i just go to a page to type in something (like a search) and my phone vibrates and then switches to the keyboard right away. i hit return and then I can arrow over to the right side to pick the search result.

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


Silver Alicorn posted:

why do I have Ice Age and Ghostbusters (2016) in my iTunes library? I did not purchase these!

did you sign up for movies anywhere? they were given as freebies for linking accounts

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


it's me, the itunes sperg

make a smart playlist, pick "kind" and tell it to only have music in there. play from this playlist instead.

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


bump_fn posted:

I’m TRYING to delete things off this phone cause my best guess diagnostic is some locally stored mp3 is corrupted and when the music app tries to read its info to list it it crashes. my phone literally won’t let me. like if you go into settings/music there’s a list of locally downloaded and it lets me “delete” music but f I exit and come back they reappear lol

Why not backup and restore? Music is always the longest part of a restore anyways (since you're trying to delete it anyways).

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


Backup is just settings and what apps you had on it. It'll download the apps, put the settings back in, etc. But it will have to sync your music from your computer again (or download it from the iTunes store I imagine if you have the Music subscription, I don't know). And then bluetooth and fingerprints have to be done again. But otherwise it's pretty lean for a backup. It's not an image.

IUG
Jul 14, 2007



i had this phone, or one of them. it was good.

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


NEED MORE MILK posted:

i used to do this because i refused to install a separate app to view facebook messages and then they got wise and disabled that functionality through the mobile site so i just dont use my account at all anymore

if you press the share button, and then press request desktop site, you should be able to see them. i think i had to reload a time or two, but it works enough.

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


infernal machines posted:

fun ui question: why the gently caress is "request desktop site" under "share"?

i don't know, but i also might be giving that icon the wrong name. the one with the arrow pointing up straight out of a box.

edit:

Doc Block posted:

it’s the “action” button, not the “share” button. some sharing options are in there once you hit it, but the button style is UIActionButton.

there we go.

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


hobbesmaster posted:

tell them to print out a keyboard chart for the main programs they'll be using and tape it next to their monitors like its a flight sim

this works, unless you have a boss like mine who opens safari, ignores the google bar and will type "www.google.com" into the search bar.

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


could you not just make a "ringtone" that is a few seconds of silence, then a quiet tone, then louder, until full volume?

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


echinopsis posted:

oh that’s right i forgot you have to take that watch off every few hours to charge it

analog watch wearer here. i take my watch off every night to sleep. goes on after i shower and put on clothes, comes off before changing for sleep. hth

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


i just want a good phone to be announced tomorrow. my 6s has a crack on the screen I've been putting up with for over a year, the 128 gig isn't enough for my music collection, and the battery life is bad enough now for it to need a charge twice a day. iphone SE 256 gig would be ideal.

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


graph posted:

source your quotes

myself. i want to buy a new phone, this one is dying. this thread says android is worse. please send help.

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


HAIL eSATA-n posted:

hello, have you heard of the iphone SE?

yeah, i'm hoping they make a 256 gig version. or they somehow go cheaper tomorrow.

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


Boiled Water posted:

what pray tell will you do with this space?

20 000 flacs?

I have just under 10,000 mp3s on my phone now, and that's just under 90 gigs of space. My iTunes has about 13k songs I think. I don't want to deal with shuffling music off/on the phone with iTunes' broken sync function.

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


OldAlias posted:

why don’t you use iTunes Match or smth ? i think that’s what this is for and has a limit of 100,000 songs. you could also diy media server I guess. otherwise streaming services are the path of least resistance. of course no service will have everything, but you could prolly pare down a lot

e. ^ yeah that works too. I’m p sure you can stream from remote cloud storage w/ the free VLC app too lol

I tried this once, but it didn’t suit my needs. I have playlists that cycle out stuff I listened to recently, but match couldn’t do this. Plus I have probably over 500 CDs at this point, so I do t want to pay $15 a month for what I already own.

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


Someone upthread posted about how it’ll replace your music with the clean, live, or radio edit versions of a song unknowingly. or they lose rights and pull it unless you have your copy of the track to upload. or I can pay the ten dollars a month for the larger hard drive for the 3 years I have the phone.

also my wife doesn’t like my garbage music

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


I didn’t know that iTunes was “bespoke”, lol

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


I tried it but it never seemed to update or sync. I would add a new album but it didn't show up elsewhere. I don't know what magic you need to do to get it to update, but it didn't even after waiting overnight, so I got a refund.

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


I would love it if it did, because then I could listen at work from the iMac rather than my phone, but :shrug:

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


Apple fucks up, leaks their phones right on their own website.
https://www.engadget.com/2018/09/12/apple-website-leak-iphone-xs-iphone-xr/

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


qirex posted:

lol at babies melting down at three whole phones, exactly the same number as last year, they just have dumber names

can't wait for my new dumb (name) phone

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


BIGFOOT EROTICA posted:

literally the only people i see with the plus models are women

Can confirm, my wife has the 8+.

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


Vintersorg posted:

ios 12 is very good

the music lockscreen is already better by matching your background



Nope, it's darker on any screen. I have a bright lock screen and it's just as dark.


jit bull transpile posted:

i haven't found a single use for siri shortcuts yet

I was thinking of making a PYF topic about it, just so I can see some useful ones. But I haven't found one of my own to even offer up for the OP.

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


GATOS Y VATOS posted:

lets get apple to get startup apps to march across the bottom of the screen.

isn't that what the dock is for?

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


VomitOnLino posted:

Speaking of garbage fires and Apple Music/iTunes. Is it just me or doesn't shuffle work anymore on the iOS Music app?
It selects *one* song at random then proceeds in playlist/album order.

not just you. I don't know what triggers it, but occasionally this will happen to me as well.

I'm more annoyed that I can't add a playlist to Up Next. every time I do it brings up the prompt for Apple Music instead. I can add the tracks within one by one however.

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


Bulgakov posted:

lots of time wasted 3d scanning ears and averaging them out into another uncomfortable earbud design

i just want a humanistic option :shrug:

i legit wonder if they could use that dot scanning thing on X phones to scan an ear, and then let you know what in-ear headphones would work best. like if that's some app on the app store or something.

because the current apple earpods sure don't fit me well. the old ones did.

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

as far as im concerned itunes still has the best ui for managing a local library. yes its clunky and bloated and the ui is actually not very good, but what are u going to use to manage 25,000+ songs, foobar? vlc?

if someone finds the answer to this, please let me know

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


Lambert posted:

Please add me on Ping



If they bought Last.fm and used that with Ping, I would have loved it.

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

apple tried this already, here's what you can expect



I would take this if it meant that I didn't have to unplug/plug in my phone because "connection reset", "couldn't find iPhone", or just it hanging on occasion during the sync process.

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


Wifi sync has pretty much always been bad. Even for me, who had it work for years up until recently when it stopped. And if it stall out during a wifi sync then I have to either restart iTunes, or restart my phone, depending on what's stuck. At least with a USB sync I can unplug and plug it in so that I can have it try again. But this morning I had to do that twice for the two syncs I did before leaving for work.

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


yo women's pockets are straight bullshit though.

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


if only the drives were user serviceable still, then people could buy whatever dogshit they wanted!

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


I've been using kodi since the first xbox but you're doing exactly what I want. are your bluray rips iso files or what?

right now I've only done my DVD collection since kodi can play the isos that way, like if they were in a DVD player with the menus and everything. I want to do the same with my blurays.

IUG
Jul 14, 2007



Is this what Chevy Chase is up to after Community?

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IUG
Jul 14, 2007


KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

im kind of surprised there still isnt an SA emoticon ios keyboard. i would use that on the regs

There is. You get it when you get the Awful app.

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