Best to just wait. I have a Mini 4 and even on iOS 9 it lags sometimes. If you can maybe look at a refurbished 2017 "iPad", or wait until next year that's even cheaper.
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iOS 10 |OT| Siri, you're free
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Best to just wait. I have a Mini 4 and even on iOS 9 it lags sometimes. If you can maybe look at a refurbished 2017 "iPad", or wait until next year that's even cheaper.
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Yep, this. I hated the change at first too, but this fixed my issue with it. Now I can't ever imagine having to waste my time with slide to unlock again.
I have only read tutorials with people connection Hue Stuff with their Android phones. It can be that they used some Homeserver customisation stuff, but it always looked super complicated.
To be honest, I am always a bit worried that this may lead to a more worren out Homebutton and my conspiracy theory is that apple factored this in to get more money from Apple Store repairment.
The Real Abed
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iPhones from the 7 on will have non-moving home buttons so that won't be an issue. I'm sure by the time the button wears out on your 6 and below, it'll be time to upgrade anyway.
I wouldn't worry about it.
Also, you only have to rest your finger, not click, so it won't be wearing anything out.
Zeyphersan
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Dont really see how pressing it to unlock is going to be that much of a burden when youre likely using it 10x as much during the actual usage of the phone
Sometimes I feel like the complaints about Apple removing the slide to u lock the biggest hullabaloo about nothing.
So many people I knew didn't want to upgrade to iOS 10 because of it, and it's such a non issue. My mother got used to it, other people should be able to.
And they did.
Zeyphersan
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Its easier to press a stationary button one time than swipe across the screen in a certain direction. Hell there shouldnt be any difference because with TouchID you dont have to swipe anyway
Its not a burden, I just think the old swipe was easier to pull off.
And I am aware that i am making a conspiracy theory up for myself with the repairment.
This is the unofficial Apple products thread, yeah?
My Iphone 5 has started acting up (again). I recently got a new battery for it, but it got overheated while I did a charge+phone call at the same time, so the screen has some fairly large yellow dots on it, probably due to the battery swelling from the heat. Lately, it's been acting up with the power percentages, going up and down seemingly at random. If only it was true; I actually received %'s by using the phone :lol
Last week when I went abroad, switching telecom companies multiple times, an old Messenger message got stuck as unread and kept popping up as soon as anyone else wrote something to me. I tried rebooting the phone and uninstalled Messenger but it didn't help. After these reboots, the phone has started rebooting itself on its own very regularly. At first it wasn't that bad, after a handful of reboots it would stop and behave normally again.
But today, after doing a picture backup on my pc, I did a factory reset, and cleansed the phone completely, in an attempt to fix the battery icon. But now the phone is stuck in a basically endless reboot loop :/ I can barely reach the icloud-backup downloader before the phone dies, even with the charger connected! I eventually went with a fresh install, lost all my numbers, great! But now the phone is practically useless as almost any action causes a reboot out of nowhere, and sometimes the screen goes all "colory" with tons of vertical lines across it before it dies again. I have an IOS update waiting to be installed/downloaded but I can't get that far in the process :/
What can I do? It's obviously out of warranty and I've done countless hard resets and the factory reset only made it worse. Maybe another factory reset could help? Would a restoration via iTunes make any difference? I'm thinking of going back to the battery installer shop and complain, but I don't have any records of them working on the phone so I don't know how much it'll help. And it'll probably be really expensive to fix it too. But that new iphone 8 is still a fairly long ways off :/
My Iphone 5 has started acting up (again). I recently got a new battery for it, but it got overheated while I did a charge+phone call at the same time, so the screen has some fairly large yellow dots on it, probably due to the battery swelling from the heat. Lately, it's been acting up with the power percentages, going up and down seemingly at random. If only it was true; I actually received %'s by using the phone :lol
Last week when I went abroad, switching telecom companies multiple times, an old Messenger message got stuck as unread and kept popping up as soon as anyone else wrote something to me. I tried rebooting the phone and uninstalled Messenger but it didn't help. After these reboots, the phone has started rebooting itself on its own very regularly. At first it wasn't that bad, after a handful of reboots it would stop and behave normally again.
But today, after doing a picture backup on my pc, I did a factory reset, and cleansed the phone completely, in an attempt to fix the battery icon. But now the phone is stuck in a basically endless reboot loop :/ I can barely reach the icloud-backup downloader before the phone dies, even with the charger connected! I eventually went with a fresh install, lost all my numbers, great! But now the phone is practically useless as almost any action causes a reboot out of nowhere, and sometimes the screen goes all "colory" with tons of vertical lines across it before it dies again. I have an IOS update waiting to be installed/downloaded but I can't get that far in the process :/
What can I do? It's obviously out of warranty and I've done countless hard resets and the factory reset only made it worse. Maybe another factory reset could help? Would a restoration via iTunes make any difference? I'm thinking of going back to the battery installer shop and complain, but I don't have any records of them working on the phone so I don't know how much it'll help. And it'll probably be really expensive to fix it too. But that new iphone 8 is still a fairly long ways off :/
I have an iphone5, no touch ID, it doesn't bother me in the slightest. It took a few days to get used to sure.
You can get a refurb 5s (which is at least twice as fast as your 5 and has a host of other improvements and should last a year) for under $100 or an SE (which has a few years left of full support) for under $300.
Good idea, will probably be cheaper than the repairs.
RedAssedApe
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what's the fix if your device has stopped auto-updating apps? both my iphone 5s and ipad mini 4 no longer auto-download/install apps anymore. I always have to open the app store and hit update all to actually start downloading/installing them.
my app store settings have automatic downloads for updates turned on. tried logging in and out of my account and toggling updates off/on. still no go. not sure when this started happening but its probably been awhile now...
my app store settings have automatic downloads for updates turned on. tried logging in and out of my account and toggling updates off/on. still no go. not sure when this started happening but its probably been awhile now...
This happens to me sometimes and the only agreed fix seems to be logging out, restarting the device and then logging in again. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Thanks for your replies guys! This settles it then, will upgrade to iOS 10 later today. Good bye slide to unlock... you were so loyal to me since I got my first iPod Touch :'( I will miss you lol
The Broken Ska Record
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My mom was telling me she was messing around with camera settings and a lot of her pictures are gone now and her live photos don't work. Is there any way to recover them? They aren't in the "recently deleted" album. It's about 300 pictures.
Zeyphersan
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Camera settings? Did she turn off photo stream or something? Or iCloud Photo Library?
The Broken Ska Record
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Well she said she was trying to deposit a check with her phone and it was saying that the "camera wasn't available." She tried to reset her phone, but those photos didn't show up. I'm having her check those settings right now to see if that's the cause.
Zeyphersan
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Also check how much free space the phone has
SuperPac
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Wonder if she said "no" to allowing the camera in her banking app - or she somehow turned camera access off in it? The app can't bring the permission dialog up again, so it may have given a "camera isn't available" message instead.
I'll quote this again, because for some reason, knock on wood deluxe, the phone has managed to download the latest version of ios without my knowledge, and the phone didn't reboot during the installation! It's been fine since, so far, but I don't dare reboot in manually :lol
You mean reset as in restart the phone, or erase all data on the phone? Big difference, LOL.
Apparently there's something wrong with my iCloud backup. The phone works fine* as long as I don't download my latest backup. I tried redownloading it yesterday and the same issues with the reboots started happening instantly so I had to delete it once more.
* The issue continued for a few minutes after the cleanse but have since stopped. Safari has retained all previous bookmarks though, even though I did a complete wipe, weird, but who am I to complain?
* The issue continued for a few minutes after the cleanse but have since stopped. Safari has retained all previous bookmarks though, even though I did a complete wipe, weird, but who am I to complain?
iCLOUD HELP PLEASE:
Problem - my phone keeps telling me I have run out of space on iCloud for backup.
I've tried everything but can't seem to find a way to delete the 5.7gigs of storage it says are being used. Documents and Data are literally just a few k. The image below is from the app - showing that I am not in fact using 5.7 gigs of anything.
Am I missing something obvious? A quick google search showed lots of people with the problem but few answers.
Problem - my phone keeps telling me I have run out of space on iCloud for backup.
I've tried everything but can't seem to find a way to delete the 5.7gigs of storage it says are being used. Documents and Data are literally just a few k. The image below is from the app - showing that I am not in fact using 5.7 gigs of anything.
Am I missing something obvious? A quick google search showed lots of people with the problem but few answers.
iCLOUD HELP PLEASE:
Problem - my phone keeps telling me I have run out of space on iCloud for backup.
I've tried everything but can't seem to find a way to delete the 5.7gigs of storage it says are being used. Documents and Data are literally just a few k. The image below is from the app - showing that I am not in fact using 5.7 gigs of anything.
Am I missing something obvious? A quick google search showed lots of people with the problem but few answers.
Are you backing up photos as well?
EDIT: Ah never mind. If you did it'd show up in that list there. I just downloaded iCloud for Windows to check myself.
Zeyphersan
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iCLOUD HELP PLEASE:
Problem - my phone keeps telling me I have run out of space on iCloud for backup.
I've tried everything but can't seem to find a way to delete the 5.7gigs of storage it says are being used. Documents and Data are literally just a few k. The image below is from the app - showing that I am not in fact using 5.7 gigs of anything.
Am I missing something obvious? A quick google search showed lots of people with the problem but few answers.
On the phone itself, what does it say is taking up all the space? There should be a bar under settings->your name at the top->iCloud
"docs" - which seems unlikely anyway, and I've deleted everything that's deletable. And if I select "manage storage" from there, it then shows that docs and data take up 146k.
How many devices have you backed up to iCloud? My iPad an iPhone backup adds up to 5,8GB which is remarkably close to your 5,7GB figure. Thats without photos and apps of course, just the device data.
iCLOUD HELP PLEASE:
Problem - my phone keeps telling me I have run out of space on iCloud for backup.
I've tried everything but can't seem to find a way to delete the 5.7gigs of storage it says are being used. Documents and Data are literally just a few k. The image below is from the app - showing that I am not in fact using 5.7 gigs of anything.
Am I missing something obvious? A quick google search showed lots of people with the problem but few answers.
A few years back I had some mysterious thing take up my iCloud storage. took a few days of back and forth with an Apple engineer to sort out. Maybe give Apple a call.
Two, but I "emptied" them during this process.
Yep. I guess that's the next step.
What's the full email address? They only put the contact name as contact@apple.com
Zeyphersan
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Duane Cunningham
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unnecessary capitalization of the word "is" in the first sentence
bad grammar in the second sentence
unnecessary hyphen in "log-in"
bad grammar in the third sentence
"identity" unnecessarily capitalized in the third sentence
new line between "to" and "concerns" for no reason
unnecessary capitalization of the word "is" in the first sentence
bad grammar in the second sentence
unnecessary hyphen in "log-in"
bad grammar in the third sentence
"identity" unnecessarily capitalized in the third sentence
new line between "to" and "concerns" for no reason
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Is this legit? Looks fishy to me.
If this is a serious question, you need your Internet rights revoked.
Is this legit? Looks fishy to me.
Of course It serious, It come from contact@apple.com, you need to tap links straight away to re-enable your Identity.
Is this legit? Looks fishy to me.
The Internet will be expecting your nude photos shortly
Agent_J
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Does anyone else have an issue where the YouTube app is not turning the time stamps into links like it should be doing? I upgraded to an iPhone 7+ a few months ago and it's been bothering me that something I used often on my iPhone 5S no longer works. Is it a YouTube issue or a phone issue or a software issue? I've googled and found no answers.
Those time stamps should be blue and have the ability to link me directly to the correct time. They no longer function correctly.
Those time stamps should be blue and have the ability to link me directly to the correct time. They no longer function correctly.
They aren't clickable on my 5S (latest stable iOS 10) either, must be on YT's end. They seem to have found some kind of satisfaction in breaking or removing features in their apps recently lol
Seriously, it's not legit.
That string of letters under the email is probably the real email address.
It's not apple's typical format.
The grammar is not good (though better than most lol).
It states your Apple ID is disabled but then later says it will be if you don't check. It's inconsistent.
It's generic as all hell. "Other IP"?
Any official email would more explicitly state "...used to sign in from a device/location previously not used." Or some such. Stuff like "log-in" and "IP" are jargon they probably wouldn't use.
They also tend to refer to you by first name. Any email that refers to you via your email address probably doesn't know your first name and should be one red flag.
I get how this stuff fools people though.
In any event, never click links in emails. Even if it is legit, you usually should just go to the website itself. Apple typically direct you their main Apple ID sign in page, so you should go through Apple.com yourself.
If your account is locked, you also wouldn't be able to access device details for iCloud in your settings app so you can check there before even going to a website.
I think you know the answer to that.
I would tend to say the general level of attention to detail would have stuff like that get missed.
It's funny though, right? Because Apple do send out emails to notify unexpected sign ins. You'd think the fishers would atleast copy that exactly.
I've seen some that are close, like near identical.
But then, I guess you don't need to be anywhere near close, you probably want to actually phish more gullible people, aim for the low-hanging fruit so as to not get swamped and/or noticed. I dunno.
Erebus
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Lmao, I think you people should calm down a bit. I was in the car, panicked and thought I'd rather be sure before doing anything; by the time I posted it here I had already noticed the suspicious address behind the "contact@apple.com" handler.
So yeah no one's gullible or naive, it just tripped me because somehow it went past outlook's filters and got into the Focused Inbox.
I know plenty of elderly or younger but not tech-savvy people who could easily fall for it, so I don't know maybe try not to be so judgmental and rude the next time?
So yeah no one's gullible or naive, it just tripped me because somehow it went past outlook's filters and got into the Focused Inbox.
I know plenty of elderly or younger but not tech-savvy people who could easily fall for it, so I don't know maybe try not to be so judgmental and rude the next time?
I wasn't being judgemental.
It can happen to anyone, even those who are usually aware, like if you get it at just the right time (you're particularly tired, distracted etc), and the email is 90% there.... your autopilot may even get you to click on a link.
I generally make it a habit to NEVER click links in emails, even when legit! I disable tap to touch (I always end up clicking things when I don't mean to with that on).
But yeah, I've been getting a lot of phishing spam recently towards my apple ID. some of it is actually pretty close to looking legit.
Zeyphersan
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For the record I was being judgemental
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