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Post by malshe »

xp84 wrote: post #440
malshe wrote: post #73

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I am facing this issue right now. I need to create a separate developer account because I am risk averse. Do I need a new phone number for this? Online some people say yes, others say no. I tried creating the account several times but it just doesn't work. At this point I am planning to just get a prepaid SIM card from US Mobile for the phone number.

Apple will allow you to have multiple Apple IDs tied to the same phone number -- my kids' ones have my number on them. So for some purposes it seems fine to just reuse the phone number for a second account -- like for your kids, or for a "sandbox" account to use testing your app so that you don't have to use your real iCloud account. However, for your purpose of avoiding Apple's capricious BS, I probably wouldn't go…

Thanks for highlighting this. I did not think about Apple/employee potentially linking phone numbers of different accounts and banning all of them.

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Post by kilroy123 »

deathanatos wrote: post #60

The emoji search box's search bar sometimes will just stop working, usually after a {input, erase input, new input} sequence. No idea why. Dismiss picker, try again. Sometimes the picker just refuses to be summoned. Bluetooth is a mess. File transfers will fail, who knows why? Certainly not macOS. Often I'll just punt to GoogleDrive-TP. Really random screen wakes. Left macOS alone for 5s? All your windows have decide…

> The emoji search box's search bar sometimes will just stop working,

No joke, this pissed me off so much. I made a silly emoji search to use instead!

https://emojistime.com

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Post by locao »

MobiusHorizons wrote: post #396
BitsAndObjects wrote: post #33

Trying to type this comment on an iPhone and that very last issue, text selection, is so so real. It’s probably the single biggest thing I hate about this phone that makes me consider switching back to Android (I was on Android for 12 years before trying out an iPhone for 3 years atm, and in general, on average, I can’t tell the difference… they both have strengths and flaws. Text selection is a pretty massive flaw o…

At least for editing text on the iPhone the key to moving the cursor is holding down the space bar: the keyboard transforms into a trackpad for cursor placement. This doesn’t really help for selecting text though, but it makes typing longer responses much more bearable.

I use Gboard (Google's keyboard) on iPhone and the space bar trackpad feature works way better than on native keyboard.

If Google ever discontinues the keyboard for iPhone I think I'll go back to dumb phones.

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Post by jmaker »

prmoustache wrote: post #454
jmaker wrote: post #405

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Why not just get an iPhone then?

Because: - I prefer running FOSS apps on my smartphone - I want to be able to install anything I want on it without relying on what is accepted by a "store" - I don't want an Apple account - I want to own and be able to have the shit I want running in the background (like syncthing) - I want to be able to access my file the way I want, including using a shell - I want to be able to run any linux app - and more inport…

I’ve been down that road, was fun, but growingly felt to me like too much maintenance that wasn’t worth the effort, distracting from more important things. Like desktop Linux.

Now I’m at a point where Android itself, even Pixels feel that way. I really tried to make the Pixel my daily driver. In hindsight, it was just too naive of me.

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Post by ripley12 »

vachina wrote: post #147
ripley12 wrote: post #72

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The search bugs in Mail are absolutely real. They might not affect every user but I've had major issues on both macOS and iOS mail, and eventually gave up and switched to Gmail.

Have you checked if it’s the fault of your mail providers? The search function queries the remote mail servers in addition to the local cache. If the mail servers return garbage you get garbage results.

This was with an iCloud email address.

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Post by fizwidget »

ryandrake wrote: post #385
ycombinator_acc wrote: post #149

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This one has always confused me as well. Tapping the screen, as the other commenter suggested, dismisses the whole thing too, so I have to fish for the stop button in the notifications every time. Maybe there’s “the Apple way” that we’ve yet to discover.

The problem is there is only one little button on the screen that actually stops the alarm. Everything else you can tap or do to the phone while the alarm is sounding will "snooze" it. It's infuriating.

Surely that’s by design? If stopping the alarm was “easy”, a half-awake person could accidentally stop it rather than snooze it.

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Post by system7rocks »

I am a diehard Apple fan. I stuck with Apple through the dreadful 90s and fought for their relevance as a needed computing alternative in education spaces. I extolled their virtues. I hung on until Steve Jobs took over and helped things improve... quite drastically, in fact. I could never have imagined the widespread celebration of the hardware with the m series of chips. Quite an achievement.

But even now, I acknowledge the latest macOS release is dreadful. Just absolutely dreadful.

And the fix is easy - hire new young talent. Hire kids out of college. Bring in fresh faces who are going to speak the truth, who are hungry to make it better. Listen to them and do what they say.

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Post by zapzupnz »

refulgentis wrote: post #365
zapzupnz wrote: post #191

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All of the things on this website have affected my experience of macOS and iOS for a long, long time. I definitely go straight to the Gmail website when I need to search for anything on my work account. Yes, I've got it set up to cache all the emails locally indefinitely. Have done for years. Even did so when my workplace used Office 365 instead of Google. On Hacker News, of all websites, giving yourself the "Works o…

He had it down as Mail search never works at the time of my comment. Never. Don’t appreciate the drive by “that’s okay because it doesn’t work for me, btw, works for me is bad”. It’s fallacious. I’m not ignoring your lived experience. I’m calling out slop.

And I'm calling out the unearned arrogance of somebody who doesn't understand what hyperbole is, a fairly basic rhetorical device.

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Post by roody15 »

Searching email in Mac Mail is truly horrendous. I honestly like the program and use it almost daily … but when needing to search I absolutely open a browser window and login / search. The search has been a disaster in Mac Mail well over a decade.

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Post by rgovostes »

nneonneo wrote: post #155

I have a fun one: my iPhone (12 Pro) refuses to acknowledge that it has eSIM functionality, even though the hardware exists. I'm fairly sure I know what the problem is! It was restored from a backup taken on an iPhone X that had two physical SIM slots (Chinese version). The new phone now seems to think it has two physical SIM slots: it shows an IMEI2 in About, but any attempt to use the eSIM functionality just fails…

I had eSIMs get screwed up on my iPhone a year or two ago when I deleted an expired eSIM. It asked me "Do you want to update contacts to use ?" and I knew I was in trouble.

I did successfully use a backup editor, iMazing, to exclude the telephony data from a backup in order to fix it, but it cost me $30 and hours (transferring my Signal data to a second device and back). For 99.999% of their customers this would require a total erase-install. All because Apple has an off-by-one error somewhere.

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