Showing posts with label iPhone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iPhone. Show all posts
Sunday, July 20, 2025

Tip: Let your ai tell you what's new and novel in an iOS or macOS release

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I like to wait a month (iOS) or six months (macOS) before applying major updates. By the time I apply them all the useful tips and tricks I ...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

Bug in iOS 18.5 eSIM removal - you have to let it update your contacts

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When Tello failed to transfer my CenturyLink number I canceled their service. I then tried to remove their eSIM from my phone. Apple's i...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

Porting a landline number to a secondary Ting eSIM on iPhone with primary AT&T account

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This was much harder than I expected it to be. Below is a simplified account of what eventually succeeded. I actually started out by trying ...
Monday, April 21, 2025

Managing the incredibly annoying Apple Wallet notifications on Sequoia

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I loathe Apple's notifications center on macOS. The notifications constantly get in the way of my work, and the most unstoppable ones ar...
Saturday, July 13, 2024

End of software support for the Fujitsu (Ricoh, PFU) ix500 document scanner

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Many years ago I bought a (then) Fujitsu ScanSnap ix500 document scanner. The hardware has been superb but the MacOS desktop software was al...
Friday, June 07, 2024

No message sound for one iMessage correspondent? User message thread can be both silenced and not silenced.

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I thought I'd fixed Emily's messages not generating a tone or haptic notification as per my 4/29/2024 post below. Then the bug recur...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Not receiving SMS two factor authentication codes for Facebook, Instagram, others: remove blocked numbers

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A friend was not receiving Facebook SMS two factor authentication codes on his iPhone. I removed all his blocked numbers and he received the...
Friday, April 28, 2023

iOS App Update hangs without an error message in infinite download: a general approach

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Apple's FairPlay DRM management is notoriously fragile. It can be confused by family sharing, Screen Time controls, payment method chang...
Saturday, April 22, 2023

iPhone Recovery Key attack vector kills your iCloud access: Workarounds pending an Apple fix including Apple ID protection

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Someone who has your iPhone passcode can lock you out of your Apple iCloud and Apple ID services -- as well as take control of your iPhone a...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Apple's App Store Apple Account balance: updated due to transition to Apple Cash

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Update 5/1/2023 - a few months after writing this I realized Apple is in the midst of a very poorly documented multi-year transition. There ...
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Apple Family Sharing and reviewing family member charges

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Apple's family sharing is complex and problematic. Family member charges are paid first from the Apple Account balance then secondarily ...
Monday, February 27, 2023

Managing sync issues in the Apple Notes app - what I do

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I use Apple's Notes app fairly often. It's come a long way from early days but it has its share of bugs. The two I run into most oft...
Saturday, February 18, 2023

Apple Watch Sleep App: Reinstallation and setup

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My son has an Apple Watch SE running watchOS 9.3.1 (current). I'd never touched an Apple Watch but we wanted to get some data on sleep i...
Sunday, February 05, 2023

Family member not getting iCloud+ family subscription for 2TB storage - "Use Family Storage" in Settings (Family Sharing)

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A family member was seeing only the default 5GB of storage. I prepared to the usual fixes like restart phone, upgrade iOS, leave and restore...
Friday, October 14, 2022

Apple Music subscriptions stop working when I changed my Media & Purchases Apple ID

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Apple digital rights management (DRM, FairPlay in this case) is very complex, particularly when one adds Family Sharing or has an atypical A...
Monday, September 05, 2022

Managing multiple Apple Store Apple IDs in Monterey: how to sign out and thus change default Apple ID for app update and purchase

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There's a lot of complexity in Apple's software, but my nomination for the ultimate complexity is the web of undocumented and slowly...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Wi-Fi Calling not working? Your probably SIM-swapped and your IMEI is wrong and you don't have HD Voice

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When Emily complained of poor call quality I tried enabling Wi-Fi calling on her 13mini -- and got this error message: Oops!  We've hit ...
Saturday, March 05, 2022

The AT&T / Apple eSIM activation fee scam: $30 "discount" and a $30 activation fee

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This is what you see when you go to buy an iPhone from Apple these days and pay full price: You can choose "Connect to a carrier now...
Sunday, February 20, 2022

1Password WiFi broke with my new iPhone - how I fixed it (for now)

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I pay about $4 or so every month to 1Password because I have not yet been able to replace it. Reason enough to dislike them, but there's...
Friday, February 18, 2022

Can you edit photos in Halide App? (No, you can't)

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Halide  is a popular image app. I've had it for a while but only with my iPhone 13 Pro did it feel worth using. The manual focus in par...