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Apple iPhone 6S |OT|
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pottymouth
Member
I said gat dayum after looking at how much more space I'm using with camera/video compared to my 5. So I exchanged my 64gb 6S+ for a 128gb.
Fyi Apple Store will most likely allow 30 days for exchange or return not the 14 that's on the receipt.
Fyi Apple Store will most likely allow 30 days for exchange or return not the 14 that's on the receipt.
Zeyphersan
Banned
Depends on if you activated the phone. If it was bought device-only or SIM-free then yeah, the Apple Store will usually work with you even if it's outside 14 days. If you activated it with a carrier plan (like a subsidy or payment plan) then 13 days is actually the cutoff and there's nothing they can do about it. On that 14th day the contract is set in stone and you gotta go to your carrier
Neverender
Member
Does anyone else have trouble with the 'go to last page' arrows on mobile gaf using safari? I try to to 3D Touch to preview and open in background but it doesn't really work, not sure why. Holding down on the link sometimes works but it takes longer than it should.
Long press on the Gaf ball at the bottom of a page to open the forum in a new tab doesn't seem to pop up the menu until I remove my finger, whereas on the iPad it pops up after a second while you're holding your finger down. Strange.
Yeah, this happens all the time to me with both a 5S and an iPad Air.
It was one of the things that pushed me to a different browser than Safari, but got back to Safari after Apple implemented the content browsers.
Sucks we can't really have a really superior browser in all aspects.
Neverender
Member
Yeah I used to use Chrome last time I had an iPhone, and I tried to go back to it because of this but it seems like they've removed some features like swiping the side of the screen to change tabs. Neither browser has an easy way to change tabs!
What do you need it for?
Not related to the 6s but... Anyone see the new OnePlus X? Think it looks like a blown up iPhone 4?
https://oneplus.net/x
Haven't seen many phones imitate that look, but I know it had its fans (I among them).
https://oneplus.net/x
Haven't seen many phones imitate that look, but I know it had its fans (I among them).
In that case I'm sure it will be fine. I have iCloud Photo Library enabled, but I use OneDrive to actually backup/share my camera roll.
That phone definitely caught my eye. I was a huge fan of the Nexus 5.
I'd be shooting myself in the foot if I did that. I'm caught in Apples ecosystem.
Thank you
Any reason you go with OneDrive rather than iCloud Photo Library?Applesauce
Boom! Bitch-slapped!
Thank you
I like OneDrive because it lets me tag and search all my stuff. The app will also visually tag all your stuff, which is alright, but I like tagging everything myself as I upload. This makes finding specific pictures a heck of a lot faster for me.
Plus, as an Office365 subscriber I get 1TB of storage included.
From my point of view it's because I have 1TB "free" with my Office account, so it means I can back up without having to worry about limits. I have iCloud Photo Library enabled as well, but if I hit the ceiling on that I can start deleting things knowing I have them backed up elsewhere.Thank you
Thank you
Onedrive is also handy if you tend to flip flop between iPhone/android as it keeps one centralised photo library - iCloud is apple devicesonly
freenudemacusers
Member
Yeah I like how iCloud works with my apple shit (since I'm 100% apple shit) but the raw value of office 365+ one drive is hard to beat.
Nice phone, shame it's ugly as hell
Yup, same here. OneDrive works really well, also do the OneDrive+iCloud combo
I use both iCloud Photo Library and OneDrive for photo and video backup. iCloud Photo Library is great for keeping everything in sync. OneDrive is great as it makes a back-up and is accessible from basically every device. It was also great to use on Windows, until W10.
I also use Google Photos, but only as a back-up if my OneDrive account ever gets lost (or vica versa).
I also use Google Photos, but only as a back-up if my OneDrive account ever gets lost (or vica versa).
I don't like how you can't delete photos from the phone without deleting them everywhere else. I'd prefer to at least have the option to keep the online version.
6S+ is not getting voicemails/visual voicemail. I can call my number and listen to them, but I have no notification that they are even there, nor can listen on the phone "app".
it started last week when I missed a call, but had no voicemail, when I plugged in my phone (i think after a restart) it popped up which would have been like 6 hours later.
missed another call, no vmail, reset network settings and a vmail popped up right when the phone turned back on, but had a call later in the day and they left a vmail but there was no notification at all, and restarting didn't make it pop up.
online faqs/forums are not helping. how can I make vmail work again?
it started last week when I missed a call, but had no voicemail, when I plugged in my phone (i think after a restart) it popped up which would have been like 6 hours later.
missed another call, no vmail, reset network settings and a vmail popped up right when the phone turned back on, but had a call later in the day and they left a vmail but there was no notification at all, and restarting didn't make it pop up.
online faqs/forums are not helping. how can I make vmail work again?
My 6s Plus is barely lasting 10 hours with what I would call light use – typically some Safari browsing, some music listening and some texting, but seldom all at the same time. Background app refresh is turned off, Hey Siri off, Bluetooth off, auto-brightness on, mail set to hourly fetch, location services only when using apps, all apps not being used are fully closed and so on, though without activating Low Power Mode. I know the battery is smaller than the 6 Plus, but this feels like a significant downgrade from the battery life I've gotten used to over the past year. Did I get a lemon, or is this what's expected when you lose the chip lottery like I have?
Stop doing that. Force closing apps makes your battery life worse.
Kabuki Quantum Lover
Member
You got a stinker. I'd exchange it.
Pilgrimzero
Member
Got a 6S+ last week and it seems my voice volume goes kind of up and down when I'm talking on the phone. The person on the other end says i fade in and out.
Ive also noticed that the volume fades in and out when I'm listening to podcasts, though I assume its because its trying to alert me to an email or something.
Anyone else have this issue?
Ive also noticed that the volume fades in and out when I'm listening to podcasts, though I assume its because its trying to alert me to an email or something.
Anyone else have this issue?
Why don't you just get your pics & videos off your iPhone to your PC using the lightning cable???
That's what I do. I don't wanna rely on a service that sends the pics & videos up to a cloud service for it then to be downloaded to my comp. Just a straight cable transfer and job is done.
neurosyphilis
Definitely not an STD, as I'm a pure.
When you do this do you upload them to the could or the SSD on your Mac ? I'm tempted to start just doing this instead, but my MacBook Pro's SSD is pretty small at 128GB.
neurosyphilis
Definitely not an STD, as I'm a pure.
The Apple leather case gets way better with time. It's real leather so it has to wear in first. Give it a week or two. I love mine, its the only case I'll ever put on my phone. But right now I'm rocking it naked because I got the Saddle brown leather case, and I don't like the way it wears in. I may just get the black one. Or may just go naked, but I already dropped it and it has some scuffs on it.
Onedrive is more convenient if you don't have a lightning cable constantly connected to your computer. Often if I'm just taking a quick photo to sell something, I'll take it with the phone and by the time I've booted the computer it'll already be uploaded to onedrive and then synced down to my computer. So functionally identical to using a cable, but more convenient.
I don't know if I might try the cable for importing to Lightroom if I take some proper photos rather than just snaps, plus I might want to download the movie segments of Live Photos.
I use a NAS to backup my phone photos. It automatically backs up any new photos/videos when I'm at home and on wifi. The drawback is that have to give the app location service privileges, because that's the trigger for it to run the backup. But it is nice since it doesn't require any action on my part besides the initial setup.
Haven't used it on iPhone but on android it was automatic backup to online storage, and then on your computer you can set it to mirror a local copy so it will automatically download to your computer
Hidden One
Member
Of my beat-up og iphone? okay I'll take a pic once my 6s comes in
Guess it didn't arrive?
My iMac has a 1TB hard drive and all photos go to that. Plus I have an external hard drive attached which runs hourly Time Machine backups. Just to be sure that I don't lose them.
As I'm running a desktop comp I have a lightning cable permanently connected to one of the USB's. I take a LOT of pics & videos, sometimes 40 in a day. So plugging the iPhone into my comp at the end of each day to charge it and transfer pics is a painless exercise for me.
I've taken side by side pics of my OG iPhone side by side with my 6S. Both displaying the same content. It's interesting to see. At work now but will post when I get home.
//ARCANUM
Member
when you say 10hrs, do you mean 10 hours of USE? Or just 10hrs off the charger? If it's 10hrs off the charger, then you got a lemon. If it's 10hrs of actual USE, that's not terrible.
okay, i've had my 6s for a month now and i keep having this one major issue which is driving me nuts.
has anyone else experienced this? i feel like i've tried everything so i presume it's an iOS bug on some certain phones.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7234672
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7268691
has anyone else experienced this? i feel like i've tried everything so i presume it's an iOS bug on some certain phones.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7234672
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7268691
That's actually a really good idea, thank you. Copy across onto the PC via USB and then delete from the phone once I'm done. Ty!
Its a bad phone, i have the 'lesser' chip, and i can do 2 days with my battery with light/moderate usage.
I have a crack in my 6s+ screen. It seems to have appeared overnight. I've never dropped it and have used a bumper since day 1. Never had it in a pocket with keys or anything like that. I am surprised and disappointed by this, and don't know what the cause could possibly be.
I was scratching at it for three minutes thinking it was a piece of dust... Didn't even consider it could be a crack at first.
I am really bummed by this. The only thing I can think of is someone else scratched or dropped my phone while I was unaware.
I was scratching at it for three minutes thinking it was a piece of dust... Didn't even consider it could be a crack at first.
I am really bummed by this. The only thing I can think of is someone else scratched or dropped my phone while I was unaware.
Lord_Balkan
Member
Yeah that is definitely a bad phone, I can do 2 days on just a 6s.