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The thing I’ve found most frustrating about Apple’s wee iPhone 6 battery problem is the blogosphere/applefanboy’s willingness to parrot the party line and not think critically.
Techcrunch said yesterday that replacement batteries were now available – however only in the US, and only if they’re in stock at Apple stores.
Which doesn’t help customers in the rest of the world very much.
When is a replacement programme not actually a replacement programme?
Following a fairly justified public/media backlash about how Apple handles/manages battery life on iPhone 6s, just after Christmas Apple allegedly ‘solved’ the problem with a ‘message to customers about iPhone batteries and performance‘ which ends with an offer to set up a programme to start replacing batteries at a more reasonable cost – starting at the end of January 2018. Continue reading “Apple: Apple’s tone-deaf iPhone 6 battery replacement announcement”
Arguments about Apple’s lousy iPhone batteries* have got lost in a black hole where technology writing, the blogosphere and applefanboy-ery ‘overlap’.
*not a rhetorical statement: I have a dud battery, officially confirmed by a Genius.
If you have (and still use) an iPhone 6/6s/6Plus you’ll know them as once impressive phones that are now increasingly unreliable and erratic. Lots of people are in denial about this Continue reading “Apple: Apple, ‘old’ iPhones 6s, and poor battery life”
For me the sign that autumn is over is when evening temperatures have dropped to the point where my phone battery suddenly dies on the walk home.
I do wonder what the operating window for iPhone 6 batteries actually is*. You can see support threads complaining that the phones don’t work in -5C – which is amazing as my battery life collapses when temperatures drop below 10C…
*Apparently 0C to 35C.
Sonos sells itself on not just its sound quality but also on its ease of use. It’s lack of integration with Apple products is a serious weakness when you come to play music, but I found out the hard way that even once you’ve got it set up it’s not quite as flexible as you might think. Continue reading “Moving your Sonos isn’t quite as easy as you’d expect… (or Sonos vs. corporate WiFi)”
Do you remember the update in iOS 10.2.1 that sort-of-kinda-maybe helped with battery problems with iPhone 6s? (10.2.1 added software that monitored the battery and tried to catch situations where the power fluctuated and caused sudden unexpected shutdowns.)
iOS11 has (effectively) removed it. Thanks Apple.
Apple says iOS 10.2.1 has reduced unexpected iPhone 6s shutdown issues by 80%
If, like me, you’re in the unlucky 20% who find the upgrade to iOS 10.2.1 doesn’t really help., this just means your phone will randomly die less often. The two things that tend to lead to random iPhone deaths are cold weather and listening to Apple Music.
The real solution? Carry along a spare battery back. I’d recommend the Omaker portable charger, but they don’t seem to be available any more.
Apple says iOS 10.2.1 has reduced unexpected iPhone 6s shutdown issues by 80%
If, like me, you’re in the unlucky 20% who find the upgrade to iOS 10.2.1 doesn’t really help., this just means your phone will randomly die less often. The two things that tend to lead to random iPhone deaths are cold weather and listening to Apple Music.
The real solution? Carry along a spare battery back. I’d recommend the Omaker portable charger, but they don’t seem to be available any more.
To my slight surprise it actually sounds pretty good – better than I expected, particularly for the price. Continue reading “Sonos Play 1 first impressions”
Here’s a filter you can use to convince WordPress to remove CSS classes for tags, categories, pages, posts and taxonomies.
Cross-posted from edinburghwp.com
If you like to customise how WordPress builds RSS feeds, this code will stop WordPress adding ‘srcset’ attributes to images in the RSS feed.
Cross-posted from edinburghwp.com
If you want to only load a file (or action or filter) only on the login page, then use this logic snippet.
Cross-posted from edinburghwp.com
A code snippet that will limit the number of extra CSS files WordPress and JetPack try to load when a user is on the WordPress login page.
Cross-posted from edinburghwp.com
I’ve just given up on probably my fifth or sixth attempt to get iMessage working on my MacPro. Long story: don’t bother. Short story: it’s broken. Somewhere. Continue reading “Apple: The absolute and total un-debuggability of iMessage”
Make sure your variable names are prefixed or otherwise clearly part of your code. If you use generic variable names like $post and $category and $template you’ll run into conflicts with WordPress global variables.
Cross-posted from edinburghwp.com