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Coming from Iphone 8…. Damn I can’t decide….loving both, they’re so beautiful … but all test photos seemed more natural on the 13pro… they were much warmer in tone (yellowish) on the 14pro….. Could save a 250€ with the 13 also…. Help. I didn’t have the feeling like yeah the 14 is way better I take that.

The phone’s back camera wasn’t working when i used the normal camera app but it was working fine on snapchat. I rebooted my phone and turned on my camera and this is the pop up i got and it kinda overheated just after restarting though the camera app is working now. What should i do? The phone has got no other damage luckily, thanks to the case

Hi everyone,

I’m considering purchasing my first Apple Watch this year. I’ve worn a garmin for years and while it isn’t the most versatile when it comes to tech features, it is the top fitness tracking company out there.

Question is has anyone made the switch from Garmin to Apple? How did the AW compare to the Garmin on heart monitoring, sleep monitoring, stress monitoring? Was it easier to track workouts?

With the new series 9 out now is it worth getting the series 9 or the cheaper series 8?

My main draw to the AW is actually the loud noise detection. I have chronic tinnitus from loud noise exposure so have that notification would be helpful, but I actually want buttons on my watch lol.

Anyways any insights would be greatly appreciated.

I just recently noticed that my photos jumped from about 3GB to about 10GB yesterday, and now it’s at 22 GB and I don’t wanna run out of storage, and I have lest than 300 photos and 50 videos(about a minute long each). I have the free iCloud plan and it’s not maxed out. Please help me I don’t want to go above 75% storage capacity.

So far all I’ve done is update to the latest software and browsed safari, watched YouTube, play Raid Shadow Legends and listened to music. Does it all smoothly and I’m impressed how quick everything opens.

However at the back of my mind I’m wondering if I should send it back and spend a bit more for the 512gb model as someone posted on here it’s 50% faster despite no intentions of moving large files. Alternatively for the same price as the 512gb option I can get an M2 MacBook Pro 13” with the Touch Bar - however from what I can see it’s the exact same CPU with worse screen, display area and webcam but does have cooling.

Or should I just be happy with what I have?

I’m paying monthly as it’s like a mobile contract interest free and have about 4 weeks to return it if I change my mind. The other 2 options are an extra £5-6 a month over 4 years (though I get to upgrade for free after 3)

Will the 512gb model make a significant difference to daily basic use for things like web browsing, photography, very light gaming (App Store not your AAA games - those days are long gone), video streaming etc

Oh and lastly sorry - today the brightness is going crazy where it’s dimming all the way to 0. I up it back to 50% and after a minute or so it goes back to 0. It’s just on the bed as you see in the picture so not bright or dark here.

Thank you :)

I have an SE2 and i have been ignoring all my update notifications because of things i have been reading posts on here. I am still at 9.6 (i think?).. should i bite the bullet and update?

I’m 19 now, but I got my first phone and my current iPhone, a Sierra Blue 13 PM, in 2021, when I was 17.

I was never interested in getting an iPhone, since I was a big sideloading guy and I didn’t want an expensive phone at that age.

But my dad’s office plan is the only way by which we get new phones, and he swore that he’ll never buy anything outside of that, which is why I went with the 13PM.

Honestly, I’d say I was like every other teen then, except I made my phone the primary device of all my socials, music, etc etc (previously it was my dad’s phone)

But I took the phone with great care and tbf, even now, can’t stop appreciating the colour, the elegance and even the camera quality

Kids at my grade also gave me side eyes when they saw an iPhone in my hands (I was living in the Middle East) since most of my mates back then were either on mid range phones or had no phone at all.

It kinda bothered me, since I felt that I was giving off “rich kid” vibes, even though I ain’t very rich, but now that a lot of people have iPhones, I feel better about myself

How was it for y’all?

Hey all,

I just got an Apple 4K TV and set everything up. The picture’s great. The remote works perfectly in controlling the Apple TV itself. But I can’t get the remote to control my TV (power and volume). My TV is a Hisense H65N5300UK.

What I’ve tried so far:

• Tried the Auto, HDMI and TV via IR default settings in the remote settings

• Tried the ‘learn new device’. The progress bars fill up and I can save it. But it still doesn’t work

• Updated my Apple TV to the latest software and turned it off/on at the mains

• Reset the Apple TV remote (using menu + volume down button combo)

• Updated my TVs software and turned off/on at the mains

• Turned HDMI CEC off and back on in the TV settings. Of note, the TV says it’s detecting the Apple device in this menu

• Moving close to the TV and ensuring there is no block to the TV’s IR sensor

I’m out of ideas. Through all the above - regardless of whether I’m using IR or HDMI - I’ve never had the Apple remote control the TV power or volume once. It’s controlling the Apple system itself completely fine.

Also, it’s worth saying that throughout all this, I’ve been able to plug in my Google Chromecast TV and have it control the TV without any problem.

SOS

So obviously we can use our iPhones as a wifi hotspot, or as a wired hotspot over USB. But can we (either now or maybe in the future?) use them as a 5g router? So I could, in theory, use a USB-C>ethernet adapter and then use an ethernet cable to plug into a network switch to get a wired network online? I know we can use this adapter to get a wired connection INTO our iPhones, but can we use it to get a wired connection OUT OF as well?

While I know the app itself is not available, I don’t see the options to even mirror my phone’s Messenger notifications in the Watch app. Did they remove that capability as well? I can still enable notification mirroring for Instagram and Whatsapp though..

Yesterday my watch was running low on power and I turned on low power mode so it can survive the night. Now looking at sleep tracking and heart rate data it looks like it measured my heart rate the whole time. I'm confused because Apple's help page says

Low Power Mode turns off these features

• Background heart rate measurements

What's going on?

Do you think that is a good upgrade/worth it? What are the best upgrades I’ll notice?

I have an iPhone 12 and an Apple Watch SE2 and most of the time, I don't recieve notifications on my watch for my Messages app, no matter if it is regular SMS/MMS or is iMessage. Other notification works and sometimes Messages come through. I've reset the watch and the phone several times and it didn't solve the problem.

Note that I have a couple contact lists and some contacts are on both lists. That doesn't matter, because that's not the only contacts that have problems....

Some other popular apps are also not in app store. Like google maps.

The app isnt banned in my country. Almost everyone who has a smart phone in my country uses youtube app.

How do I get the youtube app?

In android its possible to install an apk from the internet. But this doesnt seem to me possible on iphone

You guys been telling me to get the black straps . Which I did and it’s looks amazing on this watch face

Hello everyone,

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I have a small question that's been bothering me. I have a MacBook Pro that I use for multi-screen setup with a docking station called "Oberster DC009". To extend the display to my two additional screens, I use an app called Instant View (a Chinese app). Since the last update of the Sonoma OS, I see a message saying "macOS Instant View is capturing the content of your screen." I'd like to know the best way to find out if Instant View is indeed capturing everything I do.

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Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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I want a premium case that covers front and back and have good grip feeling.

Always liked Otterbox Strada, but now the "lock holder" is so big a think it will annoy me, any tip?

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Hi guys i receive a notification pop up that my iphone is detecting an liquid but it didn’t even get wet if i click the override will it destroy my phone performance or functional?? Please help me

The Now Playing and Airplay changes with WatchOS 10 are driving me nuts and I'm wondering if theres something I'm missing to bring back the expected behavior.

I have two major use cases - Airpod Pro on my iPhone normally, and Jaybird Tarah with my Apple Watch 6 GPS when exercising. I do not bring my iPhone with me while exercising and the Airpods don't stay in for me while active. All audio files are local to the watch and I randomize all songs. My iPod shuffles did this perfectly for years. I never use my watch to control Audio on my phone.

Until WatchOS 10 this was fine. Normally I would go exercise and my music would resume onto my Jaybirds with just opening Music and pressing play. Worst case after an restartI would have to go into Music -> Songs -> downloaded -> Shuffle All. Too many presses but not always necessary.

With WatchOS 10, the watch always reverts to wanting to control playback on my phone. Therefore every workout makes me go and select the Jaybirds in Airplay (5 presses), then go to the Music on the watch only (another 6 presses). Its the same if the iPhone is within range or not.

Is there a way to revert this behavior? Or perhaps have it remember the last used device? I don't care to control non-watch audio from my watch.

Upgrading my MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2020, Intel Core i5, 256GB, 8GB). Have already decided I need more RAM. 2 deals going on at the moment that I can't decide between. Which would you choose?

Macbook Pro M1 (1TB, 16GB) £1650

Macbook Pro M3 (512GB, 16GB) £1709

I'm tempted to go for the M1 as doesn't look like the M3 has many advantages that I can see? On the apple website it even looks like the screen is the same? Might get more battery life with the M3.

Thanks!

I got a second watch, which is the series 6. Only use it when this one is drained. So I don’t loose even a minute of my measurements like blood oxygen levels and sleep automatically transfer over if you have auto switch on, in the Watch App.

So I was wondering about uptime, I got to one day and just a little over, would that be normal? Seems to drain faster even with a 20 W usb C charger.