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My missus has got a 6S (16GB). In theory she's had it ages but the specific phone she has is a warranty replacement after the battery failed.

She needs a new one. I'm not big on the specifics of Apple stuff despite being a mobile dev, but I've tentatively recommended the XS 64GB at I think £629. It's out of production but you can still buy it. Her criteria are basically a decent upgrade from her current one (obviously) and to last about as long as that - maybe three years.

Any thoughts?
 
mauvais said:
My missus has got a 6S (16GB). In theory she's had it ages but the specific phone she has is a warranty replacement after the battery failed.

She needs a new one. I'm not big on the specifics of Apple stuff despite being a mobile dev, but I've tentatively recommended the XS 64GB at I think £629. It's out of production but you can still buy it. Her criteria are basically a decent upgrade from her current one (obviously) and to last about as long as that - maybe three years.

Any thoughts?
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Get her agreement if it's a move away from iOS!
 
mauvais said:
Any thoughts?
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Wrap the XS in nice paper and leave it under the tree on Wednesday.

I’m really happy with my 8, it was an upgrade from the 5S and it looks like £407 with trade-In in the UK. I’m quite happy to be a few models behind and you still get the incremental improvements. The 8 has the Touch ID, I’m no sure I’d want to grimace at the phone to log into the bank
 
Heh, no chance of it being this Christmas.

I think trade-in of a 6S is about £40 which seems low enough to just hold onto the thing as a spare. Not very good - I got a lot more for upgrading my Samsung.

No chance of moving to Android either, locked in now.
 
mauvais said:
My missus has got a 6S (16GB). In theory she's had it ages but the specific phone she has is a warranty replacement after the battery failed.

She needs a new one. I'm not big on the specifics of Apple stuff despite being a mobile dev, but I've tentatively recommended the XS 64GB at I think £629. It's out of production but you can still buy it. Her criteria are basically a decent upgrade from her current one (obviously) and to last about as long as that - maybe three years.

Any thoughts?
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The 11 isn’t that much more expensive than that.

Alex
 
FridgeMagnet said:
So I've been using the camera a bit, including today when I was at a protest, and I think

1. The triple lenses are definitely handy, mostly the normal vs tele ones (the super wide is so wide it's not much use unless you are literally in the middle of a crowd, but that does happen sometimes). In the past I have often wished that I had more of a zoom and digital zoom/cropping on phones does not give nice results.

2. It's still a phone camera though. It may be a good phone camera but it will always be limited by the sensor size; it's obvious that these are pics I took on my phone. I've always been sceptical of - or just outright sarcastic about - the "who needs a dedicated camera phones can do it all now" crowd and I see nothing to challenge that here. I'm not knocking phone photography but anyone buying this specifically for the camera(s) should realise that for a couple of hundred quid they could get a pocket sized camera that has a real zoom (or interchangeable lenses) and takes wayyyy better pictures, and that the image quality from the new phone is not going to be sock-blowing-offly better compared to their old phone.
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The phone camera is annoying me now because of its weird colour response in anything but the most perfect light. I've just spent a good half hour with some XR pics I took this afternoon trying to fix saturation, white balance, any slider I can use tbh, and I'm one step away from just whacking a B&W filter on all of them because several are just not fixable it seems.

Granted that (a) I am probably more sensitive to colour issues than a lot of customers, having spent ages dicking around with tiny aspects of white balance over years, and (b) it isn't just this phone, it's pretty much any phone, but even so, they shouldn't look fluorescent.

I worry that this has now warped the colour perception of most internet viewers who will now think the colour I reckon is accurate is weird and flat.

eta: to be fair when I look at the final edits on my phone they seem better. Perhaps a MacBook Pro screen is not the best medium to edit phone pics with.
 
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Could any of you good folk help to a pea brain.

I have got an iPhone 6s, he's been very good to me and served well to his mom. But last year his battery started to get drained so fast to the point where I'd take him outside fully charged, and after checking the weather app and browsing on the net, the battery would go to 26%. WHAT THE FUCK!

I rely on the phone a lot when I travel for Google Maps, and because the battery wouldn't last, it stressed the fuck out of me on my last trip.

I've now learned that you can replace the battery. Will replacing the battery make the battery last longer? Is it just the chemicals in the battery that gave up and ready to die?

I really don't want to buy a new phone. Please help.
 
If there's an Apple Store nearby they will do it in 2 hours. We did the OHs 6S a few months back before she then decided to upgrade anyway.
 
cybershot said:
If there's an Apple Store nearby they will do it in 2 hours. We did the OHs 6S a few months back before she then decided to upgrade anyway.
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Did it massively improve the performance as well as the battery life? Worth the £50?

After they were outed for slowing down phones when the battery gets old, I'm interested to know first hand how much effect a new battery has. I might do it for the OH to give her iPhone 6 Plus a few more months of life.
 
skyscraper101 said:
Did it massively improve the performance as well as the battery life? Worth the £50?

After they were outed for slowing down phones when the battery gets old, I'm interested to know first hand how much effect a new battery has. I might do it for the OH to give her iPhone 6 Plus a few more months of life.
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Totally worth it.

Phone basically becomes as fast and lasts as long battery wise as it did on day 0. Think we've discussed in detail on here previously about the hows and whys they do this, and that if you're happy with the phone it's probably worth just doing the battery replacement rather than splashing out loads on a new phone.

iOS has a built in performance thing now, her's was at 86% of it's original capacity which Apple will say is still good enough, but it was annoying her enough to get the battery swapped. iOS 13 also has a new feature in that it will learn your charging patterns and only charge to 80%, and then do the final 20% before it thinks youre likely to take it off the charger, which again should help prolong battery. I generally try to keep mine always charged between 40% and 80% which has done me well with my X. Still at 98% capacity and fast as it gets on to it's 3rd birthday in September.

Apple will probably say it don't need doing, but equally the call is yours as to if you want to go ahead and get it done. Which is probably why it's better to do it person at a store in two hours rather than having the back and forth email conversation after posting it off and waiting days.
 
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cybershot said:
Totally worth it.

Phone basically becomes as fast and lasts as long battery wise as it did on day 0. Think we've discussed in detail on here previously about the hows and whys they do this, and that if you're happy with the phone it's probably worth just doing the battery replacement rather than splahing out loads on a new phone.

iOS has a built in performance thing now, her's was at 86% of it's original capacity which Apple will say is still good enough, but it was annoying her enough to get the battery swapped. Apple will say it don't need doing, but equally the call is yours as to if you want to go ahead and get it done. Which is probably why it's better to do it person at a store in two hours rather than having the back and forth email conversation after posting it off and waiting days.
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I think I'll do it then. Do you need to back everything up to iCloud before?
 
skyscraper101 said:
I think I'll do it then. Do you need to back everything up to iCloud before?
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They will recommend it, but again, won't force you too, you'll get all the T&Cs before you do it, and that it's totally at your risk, if they break the phone, they will give you a replacement of the same model. Which makes it toally worth doing at an actual Apple store for that peace of mind. You'll need to turn find my iphone off, which can obviously be done before you hand it over.
 
My trusty 6sPlus is fucking eating itself trying to download 13.3.1
Stripped all the apps and it’s still not having it. I’m out of contract so looking to upgrade to an 11 pro max. Not sure wether it’s worth getting a contract or just buying one straight
I’ve been on an unlimited data contract but they are saying in the last six months my data usage maxed out at no more than 5 GB a month so I don’t need to pay full tilt for unlimited data

more than happy to keep my old phone why do they ducking do this to Apple punters
 
bellaozzydog said:
My trusty 6sPlus is fucking eating itself trying to download 13.3.1
Stripped all the apps and it’s still not having it. I’m out of contract so looking to upgrade to an 11 pro max. Not sure wether it’s worth getting a contract or just buying one straight
I’ve been on an unlimited data contract but they are saying in the last six months my data usage maxed out at no more than 5 GB a month so I don’t need to pay full tilt for unlimited data

more than happy to keep my old phone why do they ducking do this to Apple punters
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Strange, I've just checked and my 6s seems to have installed it fine. I have everything set to auto, I don't even notice it doing the updates anymore.
 
"Apple, they let you use iPhones in movies, but, and this is very pivotal, if you’re ever watching a mystery movie, bad guys cannot have iPhones on camera."

www.cnbc.com

Apple won't let bad guys use iPhones in movies, 'Knives Out' director Rian Johnson says

Rian Johnson, the writer and director of "Knives Out," revealed that Apple will permit film productions to use its products onscreen, but with one very big caveat: Villains can't have an iPhone on camera.
www.cnbc.com www.cnbc.com
 
Yossarian said:
"Apple, they let you use iPhones in movies, but, and this is very pivotal, if you’re ever watching a mystery movie, bad guys cannot have iPhones on camera."

www.cnbc.com

Apple won't let bad guys use iPhones in movies, 'Knives Out' director Rian Johnson says

Rian Johnson, the writer and director of "Knives Out," revealed that Apple will permit film productions to use its products onscreen, but with one very big caveat: Villains can't have an iPhone on camera.
www.cnbc.com www.cnbc.com
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How exactly do Apple get to dictate who gets to use its products in movies? Surely that's not enforceable at any legal level.
 
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