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Did you lose your AirPods?

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Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by radicality »

sneak wrote: post #389
radicality wrote: post #258

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I do believe apple’s e2e encryption promises on iMessage content, and don’t think it should interfere with their ability to control for spam / bad actors. But I also expect them to know the sender/receiver, and I imagine if I click “Delete and Report Junk” button, that I would probably submit the unencrypted contents of that whole conversation to Apple. And they should have also have metrics of total sends vs reporte…

The vast majority of iMessages (99%+), including normal/unreported ones, are readable by Apple because either the iMessages themselves or the iMessage cross-device sync keys are escrowed to Apple in the non-e2ee iCloud Backup. In the latter case the messages are readable in realtime. This is documented (not the 99% figure, but the situation) by Apple in knowledge base articles on the apple.com website. The e2ee in iM…

Fair enough, though this is probably useful people for most non tech people, who might forget their passwords / lose keys, and don’t want to lose all access and data.

Personally, a few months ago I enabled Advanced Data Protection (ADP) which afaik does make iCloud backups (including messages), Photos, iCloud Drive and few other things inaccessible to Apple.

- https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651 - https://support.apple.com/guide/security/advanced-data-prote...

Whether you trust that Apple actually did throw away their keys after enabling the feature is a different story, but it’s good enough for me.

When enabling ADP there’s multiple warnings about how you’ll end up completely locked out if you lose all your devices / lose recovery keys / lose all hardware authenticators. Iirc I was also forced to register at least 2 yubikeys. For anyone tech savvy you should enable ADP.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by reiichiroh »

jmaker wrote: post #220
csomar wrote: post #194

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It's an iOS bug. It happens now and then for me, and when it happens it drains all the battery juice. Still no fix to this date.

My Apple Watch regularly gets burning hot and drains the battery. Sometimes overnight, sometimes during the day. Very annoying. Reset several times, Apple Care was of no help, no fix to this date either. Only way to alleviate is to reboot the Watch.

I get this if I use a usb c extension

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by iggldiggl »

whstl wrote: post #304
yungporko wrote: post #283

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must be location dependent. i've only ever had the standard 3rd world country script support employees, but they do tend to eventually transfer me to an irish guy who is allowed to speak freely after enough going around in circles.

I never used the support in an english-speaking country, so that might indeed explain my experience.

I had to use support for some purchases on the iTunes music store, and if I remember correctly, the support options offered on the homepage varied depending on which language I had set. I think the "write a message describing your problem" option for example was only available in English, and you had to play around a little with the possible options of categorising your problem to get it to appear.

But past that hurdle, at least my actual problems got resolved satisfactorily.

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Post by 71bw »

firefoxd wrote: post #376
pomian wrote: post #214

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This seems brilliant. No batteries to fail, etc. No tracking, no databases, simple. True hacker solution. I assume we can print our own bar code on paper, and using clear tape, attach it to most things.

Yep, you can print it out. My goal was to provide the printing. You can purchase a bundle of QRs stickers, or print it for free. Next year I'll do a show hn.

Anxiously awaiting.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by gcanyon »

matwood wrote: post #256
gcanyon wrote: post #252

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Mine sometimes don't charge in the case, and can either end up with the case fully charged and the airpods fully drained, or if they charge/discharge through the night with the airpods at a random charge and the case somewhat drained. I seem to be the only person this happens to, but the won't-charge-in-the-case problem was so bad with my original airpods pro that Apple ended up replacing the case, then the airpods p…

If you don’t know, make sure the light blinks when you drop each AirPod in. That will show it hit the contacts correctly. My APP 1s also had this issue way more often than my second gens.

Thanks! In my case (pun intended) the AirPods will sometimes just refuse to charge. I have spent several hours holding the case open and wedging one AirPod up… slightly… to get it to charge, and another several hours trying to replicate that delicate configuration with small shims of various design.
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