Tag Archives: Apple

icloud photos delete hint

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If you’re like me and you’ve found yourself with photos in icloud and you want to delete them, apple doesn’t make it easy. They really seem to want to make you click one by one to get rid of them using the ctrl or command-click. And if you mess up and click off a photo, you have to start over. There isn’t a shift click method or a select all method. I would say this is cause you to end up in depression about clicking hundreds or thousands of photos one by one to delete and just suck it up and pay for more storage. I think apple would say it’s a design feature so you don’t inadvertently delete the photos by accident.

 

However, I have found a faster way, if not a complete way. On the right side of the screen when you are looking at the photos, you’ll see the share button next to a group of photos. Click on that. It’ll ask where you want to share them. Don’t click (unless you do want to share them). But you’ll see that the photos are ALL selected in that group. Now just click on the trashcan and poof. Photos gone. Repeat for each group that needs deleting and you’ll be done quicker than selecting one by one.

-SFA

Jailbreak

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I have to admit that while jailbreaks are becoming harder and harder for the community to come out with, I want to say that I really appreciate their efforts to jailbreak the iphone and hope that there will be one for the iphone 8 and ios 11. My phone again lost the semi-tether for several hours and it’s painful. My folders are set at 5×5 icons instead of the annoying 3×3 that apple restricts you to. I have six icons in the dock instead of the four apple also restricts you to. My productivity being jailbroken is so much more than the apple walled garden. I understand their reasoning for fighting the jailbreaks… security. But honestly, many apple ‘ideas’ were simply taken from the jailbreak community and pushed forth as some innovation from apple. I don’t see apple innovating much these days, just tweaking and changing as technology improves. *sigh*.

I’m just glad rejailbreaking is simple for what I have right now and my device is back to normal. I hope not to have a restart anytime soon. What a hassel.

-SFA

things i miss going from android to ios

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I upgraded recently from a galaxy note 2 to an iPhone 6s plus because of a stupid mistake on my part ruining my note 2. I had planned on going to the note 5 until it came out and screwed up my plans by essentially taking the apple path of being sealed as well as only offering only a max of 64gb (a lot for most people but not enough for me). I don’t mind the apple ecosystem for some things. I’m typing this on a macbook. Perhaps I get too hidebound and just want things to work the way I want them to and don’t like being told something is better when it’s not better for me. Continue reading →

WWDC 2015

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Apple’s WWDC was probably more directly exciting for the developers, as it should be, than for me. I will benefit from the ‘improved’ apps that will come out. iOS9 will have have stability improvements. As well power use will be decreased and the overall size will be smaller than iOS8 which is good news for a device without a changeable battery nor can you add memory to. As an android/iOS/windows/OSX user, iOS 9 and El Capitan will be bringing ‘new’ features that I already have in android and windows such as being able to have two apps running side by side. Apple Notes will be more like Evernote and Apple Maps will be more like my Google Maps. I don’t use carplay, I don’t develop apps. I don’t have an iwatch (which requires an iphone) so those enhancements aren’t as important to me for now. Apple Music seems to be the biggest thing to come out of this. I’ll wait for it to come out before I decide if it’s worth getting excited over. I still hope to see new ipods and a new apple tv this week at some point.

-SFA

lack of corporate responsibility

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since i can log in and see my idevices (https://supportprofile.apple.com/MySupportProfile.do), it would be very nice and helpful from apple if i would be able to flag an item of mine (like my missing product red ipod nano 6th generation) and maybe even put in a lost item message so that the good samaritan that found it and hooked it up to their itunes would have a message pop up (since it’s the same serial number) with my message about a lost/missing item. there is no tracking software for it apple so i can’t use icloud to find it. apple doesn’t get directly involved in that way with the message as i see it. just a user service. so we can try and get our items back. i am one of those that is less willing to buy a new one knowing that apple keeps track of the serial numbers registered but isn’t willing to help get our items back.
-1 apple since you can manhunt for your lost products but won’t help us