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iOS 10 |OT| Siri, you're free
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restore via iTunes, i suppose
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Easy to do? What would she lose?
Everything since the last backup.
Unless an update through iTunes fixes it: https://support.apple.com/en-us/ht201412
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Damn, hopefully an update may fix it
You did the update, not restore, right?
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
I think it's automatically backed up, so I assume its downloading the photos back now
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Apparently it hasn't automatically downloaded the photos
Apps gone too
Shame, least the phone is turning on now though
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Always make sure to have iCloud backup and syncing turned on. Enable iCloud Photos Library. Purchase a $1 50GB plan if you need to. Be prepared for the future. Never lose anything again.
Personally I use both iCloud services and I manually backup to iTunes on a daily basis out of habit. I'm always prepared. One day I accidentally deleted an important text message thread but hadn't backed up for that day. So I restored from iCloud, which had coincidentally just backed up like a few hours before. Saved my skin. Restored slow as heck though.
Personally I use both iCloud services and I manually backup to iTunes on a daily basis out of habit. I'm always prepared. One day I accidentally deleted an important text message thread but hadn't backed up for that day. So I restored from iCloud, which had coincidentally just backed up like a few hours before. Saved my skin. Restored slow as heck though.
brianmcdoogle
Member
I have a question. I always call a certain contact via FaceTime Audio, but I have in their contact info their cell, home, and work numbers. I can't just say "Hey Siri, call Jane" and have it do a FaceTime audio call, and saying "Hey Siri, FaceTime Audio call Jane" is kind of cumbersome to say. Is there a way to set up a default number to dial when I say "Call Jane" through Siri without having to create a different contact card?
Zeyphersan
Banned
Not that I'm aware of. Siri still asks me "which number" when I tell her to call my dad because I have both his home and cell number there, even though I've literally never had her call the home number
On that note, it's ridiculously easy to delete an entire message thread from a user. I think it's because it has the confirm delete or something where it usually has the cancel. At least in the past.
These days you can just swipe to the left and just delete the whole thread, no confirmation required. I just tried it lol
Download Google photos and use that for photo backup. It's free and unlimited. 👍Apparently it hasn't automatically downloaded the photos
Apps gone too
Shame, least the phone is turning on now though
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Google Photos is great but it hurts not being baked into the OS like Apple Photos is. Uploading to Google isn't as seamless like it was when I used Android.
I use both now. I prefer Google's. Apple really needs to make free and unlimited photos happen.
I use both now. I prefer Google's. Apple really needs to make free and unlimited photos happen.
The Real Abed
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Destructive operations are SUPPOSED to have clear confirmation. Or at least an undo.
But it wouldn't have been a major issue if I could have just cherry picked what I want to restore from the backup. I don't understand why you can't. You can pick what you want to restore when upgrading your Mac. Let me do it on iOS.
But better yet, just fucking sync our Messages database to iCloud so they can actively sync to our Macs and iPads instead of passively syncing and risking not getting certain ones. I hate that if I want to delete some messages, like a bunch of GIFs or photos I texted or got texted, I have to do it on all my machines. Just sync that shit already so it happens on all devices at once. And when I get a new phone, it can just restore my messages from the cloud instead of requiring me to restore a backup (Which I really don't want to do since all the good stuff is already on iCloud) just to get Messages database back.
And while we're at it. Give us an export feature for messages that lets me export a whole thread to PDF even if it's over 2 years long and has like tens of thousands of messages in it. It's bullshit that I can't jump to the beginning of a message thread. And if I need to scroll to it, I have to spend an hour tapping the top of the screen until I get there, and if I accidentally put it to sleep, it FUCKING RETURNS TO THE BOTTOM OF THE THREAD.
The real problem is how garbage the Spotlight and search feature is for Messages.
TheCochese
Banned
Why doesn't maps have a setting to manually toggle night mode? It's like I have to perform a ritual for it to work, each time something different. Having CarPlay blind you with a white map at 9pm is even more annoying.
Zeyphersan
Banned
Mine seems to do it naturally after sundown?
TheCochese
Banned
Tell me your secret.
Zeyphersan
Banned
Just tested it, its based on ambient light. I started a route, it was white, I covered the light sensor with my palm and it faded to night mode
Possibly tied to auto-brightness as well?
TheCochese
Banned
I can only get it to go in night mode if I set a destination. Otherwise, nothing else matters.
Ambient, night shift, auto-brightness...no difference.
Zeyphersan
Banned
Ohhhhhh. I was referring to mapping as well. I don't think there is a night mode when you're just searching and setting destinations. It only switches if you're actually navigating
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Oh my god seriously.
I don't think it even takes you right to the position in the thread at all. Like what's the point?
Zeyphersan
Banned
As of iOS 10 it started taking me to the thread position. It didn't in prior releases
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
How far back though. Even if it's the first message in a thread with 5000 strings?
I'd be shocked if it could.
Zeyphersan
Banned
Well it only shows you one result per thread. So if you said the same phrase or word multiple times in a conversation with someone it only shows you the most recent one
TheCochese
Banned
That's the dumbest fucking thing. This is why I like Android Auto better.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
its my sister that needs it, I already have a google drive sub, she says she's not fussed and her friend had some saved so she seems happy enough
I can't look at certain pictures in Photos.app anymore. When I tap on the thumbnail, the full picture appears for a moment, then the app crashes immediately. So far I found three pictures affected by this. I've taken those three consecutively.
Like.. what the hell?
edit: The Mac app does not crash. Still no fucking idea how I'm gonna sort this out. Removing and re-importing them, maybe?
Like.. what the hell?
edit: The Mac app does not crash. Still no fucking idea how I'm gonna sort this out. Removing and re-importing them, maybe?
Ghostshark
Member
Regarding google photos, it does back everything up, but it seems to be using double space. It seems to be making folders in google drive full of the same pictures, but I'm not sure why that's happening. Is it safe to delete those?
Zeyphersan
Banned
There's a setting you can check/uncheck that says "Play HD over Wi-Fi only". Gives you a small amount of control
Just updated to 10.3.1, not sure what bugs it may have introduced but man my i6 is so snappy now. It feels as fast as when i bought it.
Hopefully the battery drain and the obnoxious bug that killed brightness when battery went from 50 to 49% are gone.
Works same as usual for me.
Hopefully the battery drain and the obnoxious bug that killed brightness when battery went from 50 to 49% are gone.
Works same as usual for me.
dc3k
Member
Maybe something fucked up when I upgraded, but I can't find any apps w/ search. Now I have to figure out what folder everything is in
Zeyphersan
Banned
Maybe something fucked up when I upgraded, but I can't find any apps w/ search. Now I have to figure out what folder everything is in
I was having some intermittent trouble with spotlight search on the betas. Quick reboot fixed it up each time
Update: thankfully the brightness bug is gone. Battery is still shit but it's a 30 months old phone that i use... way too much every day so i guess i can't really complain about that.
Maybe something fucked up when I upgraded, but I can't find any apps w/ search. Now I have to figure out what folder everything is in
Have you tried a soft reboot?
Uh, a few more pictures are now also causing crashes. However, when I tapped an unaffected picture and swiped to an affected one, the app did not crash. And afterwards, tapping the affected picture didn't cause a crash anymore. Huh.
Zeyphersan
Banned
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