Apple iPhone and related items (cont.)

[skyscraper101]

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

I'm assuming you have limited space on google drive so aren't keeping a copy of the files on there once you've transferred to to your iphone.

If that is the case it may be worth considering upgrading - even if for just one month - to a Google One account with 100GB storage at $1.99 p/m (£1.46ish), so you can bulk upload everything at once and then bulk download it again rather than doing it piecemeal.

 

[Orang Utan]

I'm assuming you have limited space on google drive so aren't keeping a copy of the files on there once you've transferred to to your iphone.

If that is the case it may be worth considering upgrading - even if for just one month - to a Google One account with 100GB storage at $1.99 p/m (£1.46ish), so you can bulk upload everything at once and then bulk download it again rather than doing it piecemeal.

no, I have 200gb - couldn't bulk upload or download that easily though as they keep pausing and starting again, so had to spend a couple of days doing it file by file

 

[skyscraper101]

no, I have 200gb - couldn't bulk upload or download that easily though as they keep pausing and starting again, so had to spend a couple of days doing it file by file

Ah right. That may have been the same issue then as when you were transferring everything from phone to phone too. Possibly a weird limitation of iOS in handling massive file transfers? Hope you managed to sort anyway.

 

[Orang Utan]

Ah right. That may have been the same issue then as when you were transferring everything from phone to phone too. Possibly a weird limitation of iOS in handling massive file transfers? Hope you managed to sort anyway.

aye all done now, it's only an issue when i get a new phone

 

[On Fire]

 

[Orang Utan]

What is it?

 

[On Fire]

What is it?

Today's Apple Event. Not iPhone though, so I posted in wrong thread.

 

[Orang Utan]

Today's Apple Event. Not iPhone though, so I posted in wrong thread.

What did they announce though?

 

[On Fire]

What did they announce though?

New Airpods and new MacBook Pro with M1 Pro and M1 Max chips.

 

[Lazy Llama]

What did they announce though?

Also 3 new colours of HomePod mini.
Excitement is almost tangible.

 

[Orang Utan]

My excitement remains contained

 

[MrCurry]

New Airpods and new MacBook Pro with M1 Pro and M1 Max chips.

I was hoping for a new appletv so they sell out the current models with a price drop. Alas not to be

 

[Orang Utan]

Anyone get a pale red dot on the bottom left of the screen? You only really notice it in night mode. Does it indicate you’re being spied on?

 

[nick]

Anyone get a pale red dot on the bottom left of the screen? You only really notice it in night mode. Does it indicate you’re being spied on?

Orange dot on top right net to notch when it has mic or camera on.

To quote Mr Jobs "you're holding it wrong" - Is it upside down?

 

[Orang Utan]

No, googled it and there was lots of info about it a spot in top right but not bottom left, strangely. But there have been suggestions that my phone is listening to me

 

[nick]

This much is true

 

[Orang Utan]

Do you know how to stop it?

 

[nick]

A certain amount of leg pulling in my previous replies

I'm probably naive, but think that the orange / green "monitor notification" lights are probably honest - and that Apple are relatively good at keeping your data private from the world (doubtless so that they can monetise it better themselves). If the lights are on then it is watching / listening.

If you really want to be sure, gaffer tape a bit of blutac over the mics - but that is probably a bit too much "tin foil hat brigade"

If asking about a little light leakage on bottom left - I haven't ever noticed it on a 13 or an X

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

No, googled it and there was lots of info about it a spot in top right but not bottom left, strangely. But there have been suggestions that my phone is listening to me

Bottom left is just the screen, not any sort of system notification area. So it’s either coming from whatever app you’re using or the screen is knackered.

 

[Orang Utan]

Bottom left is just the screen, not any sort of system notification area. So it’s either coming from whatever app you’re using or the screen is knackered.

Nope, it’s only visible when in dark mode, and not all of the time. It’s a brand new phone

 

[MrCurry]

Nope, it’s only visible when in dark mode, and not all of the time. It’s a brand new phone

Does it appear in a screenshot, or visible only when viewing the display? if the former, it’s in the software. If the latter, it’s something within the display itself.

 

[teuchter]

Does it appear in a screenshot, or visible only when viewing the display? if the former, it’s in the software. If the latter, it’s something within the display itself.

Seeing as the screenshot will be displayed on the display though....

 

[MrCurry]

Seeing as the screenshot will be displayed on the display though....

A screenshot can easily be zoomed or rotated to use different parts of the display, viewed on a different device or even posted to this forum for others to compare results.

 

[Orang Utan]

Have stuck in night time to take a screenshot here:

 

[neonwilderness]

It looks like the Urban75 logo behind the keyboard.



It must be editor or Lazy Llama spying on you

 

[Orang Utan]

Ah, is that it!? Well that is annoying. I don’t use Siri though, so don’t know why I’m getting suggestions from it

 

[Pickman's model]

Anyone get a pale red dot on the bottom left of the screen? You only really notice it in night mode. Does it indicate you’re being spied on?

the master criminal always makes one fatal error and apple's was having a light which showed when they were spying on their customers

 

[neonwilderness]

Ah, is that it!? Well that is annoying. I don’t use Siri though, so don’t know why I’m getting suggestions from it

It'll probably just be a Safari shortcut with the same icon. The Siri thing was there on my phone because I had the thread open in Safari on my Macbook at the same time.

 

[Lazy Llama]

Fix your own iPhone (and M1 Mac) - with Apple approval...

Apple announces Self Service Repair

Apple parts, tools, and manuals — starting with iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 — available to individual consumers.

www.apple.com

Has to be a good thing, yeah?

 

[cybershot]

Now if only you could self upgrade the RAM and Storage of the Macs again.