Apple iPhone and related items (cont.)

[editor]

If you need a big range, I'd rule Apple out judging by this review:

Apple hasn't officially declared the range, but both Samsung and Tile give a maximum range of around 120 metres. This is a technical maximum range dictated by Bluetooth, but will be affected by the device you are using to detect it and the environment that you are in. We've tested all these devices outdoors on flat ground to compare the range.

Comparing the three devices side by side is revealing. The AirTag is the first to lose contact and we found we needed to be within about 10 metres to be connected to it. The U1 chip will guide you into the precise location when it comes to finding, but you'll have to be much closer than the other devices to trigger that process.

The Samsung Galaxy SmartTag will make contact about 40 metres away, allowing you to trigger the sound and use the signal detector to get you close to it.

The Tile Pro offers considerably more range and we found it was still in contact about 80 metres away. This would allow us to play the sound to help locate it. Tile Pro's speaker is also a lot louder, so you're much more likely to hear it.

The advantage of longer range is you're much more likely to be connected to the Tile, or reconnect to the Tile when you come close to it - the other devices will rely on others reporting the location or using the last known location to get you close to it. Tile is the easy victor when it comes to range.

In terms of the technology itself, at its core there's very little difference between them: both Samsung and Apple have used the system that Tile established and refined over the best part of a decade and given it a twist. But Tile's experience shows with the effective range of its devices.

Apple AirTag vs Tile vs Galaxy SmartTag: How do the trackers compare?

Which is the best Bluetooth tracker and which should you choose?

www.pocket-lint.com

 

[sim667]

I’ve got the airtag now, my other half got me it for my birthday, also got a few quid off using my work discount. It’s a neat little gadget.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

I’ve got the airtag now, my other half got me it for my birthday, also got a few quid off using my work discount. It’s a neat little gadget.

I'm trying to imagine the scene....."here you are, my love, have an apple tracking device as a present so I can keep tabs on you"

 

[sim667]

I'm trying to imagine the scene....."here you are, my love, have an apple tracking device as a present so I can keep tabs on you"

Tbf I asked for it. We share locations on phone anyway

I share it with my entire family too, and they share theirs with mine. Ever since my dad went missing and we had to report him as a missing person and he was found having a brain haemorrhage in his car in a completely random place he’d driven to because he was so confused.

 

[Sunray]

I'm loving the photo OCR feature on iOS 15, can cut and paste directly from the image.

 

[skyscraper101]

Facetime from non apple devices is interesting.

Not sure how much the other new stuff will be of use in the real world to me.

 

[cybershot]

Lots of good stuff yesterday, my personal faves, which some may find pointless (such as new look weather app, but as a weather obsessed brit the extra info and better layout is cool) Although with most new stuff that gets added to iOS, I either forget about it a few days later or just never use it! The iCloud storage boost for backups is welcome, especially if you need to transfer to a new phone, which as people will have done on here, know is a seamless process.

Everything that can support iOS 14 can support iOS 15 meaning the ancient iPhone 6S and original iPhone SE remains in support (av that Android) even better, you don't have to upgrade to the latest iOS anymore, if you choose to stay on iOS 14, you'll get security updates!

Will people use Apple's authenticator? too late to the party in my book, and organisations must be sighing at the prospect of supporting yet another 2FA method.

Will Android and PC users use Facetime? Again probably too late to the party, and it looks too limited. I don't think my sister has still figured out how to get her number off iMessage despite telling her numerous times how to do it. She must miss a shit ton of messages, but at least iOS now tells me the message can't be sent.

Keen photographers will appreciate the extra EXIF data.

Separation alerts for apple kit looks cool, very often lose my AirPods and can't remember where I last had them, and the find app never seems to work when I tell it to send a tone to them. Or will it just annoy me!

Apple Unveils New FaceTime Features Like Spatial Audio, SharePlay, Voice Isolation, and More

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Apple Reveals Redesigned Weather iOS App With Dark Sky-Like Notifications and Full-Screen Maps

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Apple Introduces iPadOS 15: First Look at New Features

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Apple Announces iCloud+, Combines Paid Storage With Privacy Features Like Hide My Email

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iPadOS 15 Allows You to Build iPhone and iPad Apps on an iPad

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Apple Unveils New Health App Features Like Walking Steadiness, Trends, Lab Results, Health Sharing, and More

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Apple Announces Range of New Home Features for HomePod Mini, Apple TV, and Apple Watch

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iOS 15 Compatible With All iPhones That Run iOS 14

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Apple Temporarily Expands iCloud Storage in iOS 15 for Backing Up Data and Transferring to a New Device

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New Separation Alerts in iOS 15 Let You Know If You Leave an AirTag or Apple Device Behind

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iOS 15 Find My App Lets You Find Devices That Are Turned Off or Erased

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[beesonthewhatnow]

It will be available for my 6s? Really? That’s amazing if so. A 6 year old phone running the latest software?

Yet again I have zero reason to upgrade my handset.

And people still say Apple kit is expensive

 

[Gromit]

It will be available for my 6s? Really? That’s amazing if so. A 6 year old phone running the latest software?

Yet again I have zero reason to upgrade my handset.

And people still say Apple kit is expensive

Indeed. I’d still be on my 6s if I hadn’t had the chance to pick up a VAT free Xs.

They’d replaced my 6s twice for free as it was.

 

[nick]

Long time iPhone user - first time caller

Upgraded to 14.6 yesterday - (forgot to back up first) . Have just discovered that 2 of my important apps (Pocket Money and omni focus) no longer work.
Now need to decide whether to investigate trying to roll back to an earlier OS, or whether there is a way to extract any data from these locked apps and transfer to another (or newer) version of the app

 

[Sunray]

It will be available for my 6s? Really? That’s amazing if so. A 6 year old phone running the latest software?

Yet again I have zero reason to upgrade my handset.

And people still say Apple kit is expensive

I recommend getting an X, they are £230-300 now, a huge upgrade from the 6s. Esp the OLED screen.

 

[Sunray]

Long time iPhone user - first time caller

Upgraded to 14.6 yesterday - (forgot to back up first) . Have just discovered that 2 of my important apps (Pocket Money and omni focus) no longer work.
Now need to decide whether to investigate trying to roll back to an earlier OS, or whether there is a way to extract any data from these locked apps and transfer to another (or newer) version of the app

You can roll the OS back.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I recommend getting an X, they are £230-300 now, a huge upgrade from the 6s. Esp the OLED screen.

Except there’s literally nothing I want to do with my phone that my current handset can’t manage. And I’d lose Touch ID.

 

[nick]

You can roll the OS back.

Starting to look into this, but worried about correct steps to take - the phone hasn't been plugged into a laptop for a long time, although I think I have it set up with iCloud backups.
Seriously worried about digging a bigger hole for myself due to lack of foresight

things like this don't fill me with confidence
2 reasons not to roll back from iOS 14.5 to iOS 14.4 (and 1 reason it’s impossible)

 

[cybershot]

Long time iPhone user - first time caller

Upgraded to 14.6 yesterday - (forgot to back up first) . Have just discovered that 2 of my important apps (Pocket Money and omni focus) no longer work.
Now need to decide whether to investigate trying to roll back to an earlier OS, or whether there is a way to extract any data from these locked apps and transfer to another (or newer) version of the app

Same happened to me for one app, but it had been removed from the app store. Some other older apps that haven't been updated in yonks, apple updated the cert for it themselves. If your cricial app has been abaonded by the dev, or had been removed from the app store, you're screwed. Find an alternative.

 

[Sunray]

Except there’s literally nothing I want to do with my phone that my current handset can’t manage. And I’d lose Touch ID.

Face ID is much better.

 

[nick]

you're screwed. Find an alternative.

Yes - this
The finance one "pocketmoney" stopped being updated when the developer died in 2013. Since then it has been taken over by another bunch - there is now another paid for version available (with bad reviews) that I will have to move to - but would love to find where the backup file was stored (if anywhere) so I can try to import historic data

The other is OmniFocus - there is now a new version - but it is about £40 for a to do manager, which I think borders on gouging . So I need to find a route to extract any saved data and then move to Reminders or similar

 

[nick]

Face ID is much better.

more so if you're not wearing a mask (or not wearing an iWatch)

 

[cybershot]

Starting to look into this, but worried about correct steps to take - the phone hasn't been plugged into a laptop for a long time, although I think I have it set up with iCloud backups.
Seriously worried about digging a bigger hole for myself due to lack of foresight

things like this don't fill me with confidence
2 reasons not to roll back from iOS 14.5 to iOS 14.4 (and 1 reason it’s impossible)

You may be able to retreive the data with the iMazing app (scroll down this page, or read the page for background info)

iPassword app not working or incompatible with iOS 14.5

According to multiple reports, it seems that the iPassword app is not working or is incompatible with the iOS 14.5 update.

piunikaweb.com

And agree with general consesus that the update should have notified you beforehand what apps were going to end up being incompatible. Feel for all those with that iPassword app being fucked over.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Face ID is much better.

It really isn’t.

 

[Sunray]

It really isn’t.

I held onto touch thinking the same thing. But using both for two years now (I've a mini 4), Face ID wins by miles.
The X's camera is a massive upgrade too.

 

[Spymaster]

I held onto touch thinking the same thing. But using both for two years now (I've a mini 4), Face ID wins by miles.

Agreed. I reluctantly upgraded from a 6s to an 11 earlier this year and having got used to the touch ID was not looking forward to the face recognition. I thought it would be clunky and failure prone but it's actually quite amazing. It's so seamless that I wonder sometimes if it's actually working and give it to someone else to see if they can get in.

 

[nick]

cybershot
Thanks for the iMazing suggestion
On the pocket money app I managed to use it to extract an SQL file for the old app, rename it and stick it in the directory of a new App - it seems to have worked

Omnifocus next

 

[cybershot]

Cool story.

AirTag sent to Tim Cook at Apple Park is returned with a letter - 9to5Mac

An YouTuber decided to sent three AirTags to different places. One AirTag was sent to none other than Tim Cook at Apple Park.

9to5mac.com

 

[Hollis]

I use my iPad mini 4 >a lot<. I've loved the weight since I 1st bought one. But I fancied a bigger screen, so I am looking at the new 11" iPad Pro. Went to the Apple shop today to take a look and see if the 150g extra weight is a massive deal-breaker. Sadly they didn't have them in the shop yet. Gah. Meant to be late May? I'll check it out next week.

Quite a thing, these new iPad Pros, with the M1 chip. It's creating quite a storm in the tech industry. These iPad Pros are essentially fully-fledged laptops without a keyboard running iOS for £750. Given most posh phones are more and not as powerful with tiny screens, and this is an Apple device, the price is all the more surprising. Works with the apple pen so can use it to write with handwriting conversion or as a drawing device.

If you've not seen the performance of the M1 chip here is
Linus reviewing the M1 mac and mac air

I used to have an iPad Pro (2018) through work - amazingly powerful.. It managed to handle an enormous spreadsheet pretty well, until I eventually broke it..

I miss that iPad.

 

[Orang Utan]

Just got the new iphone 13 pro and am struggling working out how to back up my music files to the icloud. I don't use itunes or the Apple music app as all my music is got from other sources and I use a third-party app to play the music. I have about 100gb of files, but I can't work out how you back them up. It seems easy enough to do if you have itunes or if you've bought music from Apple.
I don't have a PC or a Mac. I usually download the music onto my Chromebook and then upload it to Google Drive, then download the files onto my 3rd-party app (GoPlayer). Uploading files to Google Drive from my iphone never seems to work, so I'm loath to try that in case I lose the files. Most of them are already in the Drive but there's a few dozen that have been on the phone for a while and are no longer in Drive.
Any advice?

 

[cybershot]

Start from the beginning. Do you already have the files stored on your current iPhone? Or are you new to iPhone?

If you’re moving from one iPhone to another I’m prett sure as long as you have the old iPhone next to the new one when you set it up you can choose to just transfer everything from the old one to new one and it does it’s witchcraft.

 

[Orang Utan]

Start from the beginning. Do you already have the files stored on your current iPhone? Or are you new to iPhone?

If you’re moving from one iPhone to another I’m prett sure as long as you have the old iPhone next to the new one when you set it up you can choose to just transfer everything from the old one to new one and it does it’s witchcraft.

Yes theyre on the iphone 7 I'm using currently. Not new to iphone, but had a Mac or a PC before, so it was a doddle.
I've just set up that phone to phone transfer but I was led to believe it wouldn't transfer those files, just contacts and photos and anything else on Apple apps, but not third party ones

 

[cybershot]

Yes theyre on the iphone 7 I'm using currently. Not new to iphone, but had a Mac or a PC before, so it was a doddle.
I've just set up that phone to phone transfer but I was led to believe it wouldn't transfer those files, just contacts and photos and anything else on Apple apps, but not third party ones

Honestly. I can’t remember. When I went from X to 12 pro I’m pretty sure it just transferred the lot. I know it transferred my custom made ringtone at least. I could be wrong though. Nothing to lose as you’ll still have your old phone.

There are some 3rd party applications like anytrans which will do this as well I think. I might be able to source a cracked version! I’ll look in a bit.

 

[Orang Utan]

Honestly. I can’t remember. When I went from X to 12 pro I’m pretty sure it just transferred the lot. I know it transferred my custom made ringtone at least. I could be wrong though. Nothing to lose as you’ll still have your old phone.

There are some 3rd party applications like anytrans which will do this as well I think. I might be able to source a cracked version! I’ll look in a bit.

Well it's finished now and it transferred 9 out of 200+, so looks like I'm going to have to upload each file individually to Google Drive and then download onto the other phone