It didn't mess with my photos or anything, but it did force me to download the Podcasts app instead of being able to listen to podcasts from iTunes.
You should be backing up regularly anyway
Is the iOS7 podcast app any less horrible than its predecessor?
I had no issues with the upgrade deleting anything, but I can't specifically speak to photos, because I had to move them all off my phone to make room to upgrade in the first place.
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I upgraded last night, after backing up like a good girl. I haven't had enough time messing with it to notice any performance problems yet. I haven't even checked if all my apps are there. My former gin rummy app disappeared with my last upgrade, for no adequately explained reason.
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I never knew it went to that level, but concern about things like that is why I've refused to grant iTunes access to the files on my computer. I may not be doing it properly, but whenever I fire up iTunes and it asks if it can sync with my computer, I always click "No."
I make it a policy to not buy music through iTunes; if I buy music online, I buy it from someplace like Amazon, so that I can download an mp3 and save it on a protected disc.
I've sometimes wondered if I was being paranoid. Now I'm wondering if maybe I've been insufficiently paranoid.
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Yeah like WTF!?
They once gave people free music, free music and people complained about them messing with their files behind the scenes. Why would they ever think that just trashing files with no user input was a smart idea?
It's an interesting space saving idea, if we really needed to save space, but 2TB drives and hundreds of GB flash for reasonable probably means space doesn't need to be saved.
According to a class action lawyer friend, apple's license agreement is pretty strict on forcing you to arbitration if you wanted to sue, and prevents many class action lawsuits in cases of fucking up your computer files.
Edit to add: There's a cloud bubble that exists in tech cities. The easy access to high speed internet has allowed a lot of amazing things, like Siri, but a lot of people working at large tech forget that not everyone wants to rely so heavily on the cloud as they do.
I saw that one, too, and didn't really find it all that convincing. She's out of hand dismissing the claims that it's deleting people's personal files, but then she kind of waffles toward the end, and his is not the only account of that happening.
Ultimately, it really doesn't matter whether it's a feature or a bug or really even just a common user error. What matters is that a lot of people are reporting this happening to them, and there is no clear and definitive explanation from Apple itself.
(Seriously, don't. If you care about your data, don't give others access to it in exchange for minor conveniences. Digital natives? More like digital naives.)
Having been accosted with a technophobe whose laptop -- a "thin" book of some variety with no USB or headphone ports, let alone VGA ports -- carries an Apple Keynote presentation containing un-exportable movies and music, which must be shown in less than 24 hours...
We're scouring friends in the vicinity desperately, searching for anyone with an apple laptop with VGA port. Since this requires having bought the right adapter, this is about as rare as a unicorn which pisses gold and farts dreams. If we pass this hurdle we'll likely have to shell out the ten bucks for keynote. Her presentation is probably going to be an exported PDF, at best, and dead air, at worst.
That's a good idea for next time. This time, we managed to find our . There were several almost-unicorns, but only one of them actually had the right adapter and keynote (key files can also be seen in basic apple preview, but don't support media quite right, and can't advance slides quite right. Might have been different if her keyboard had a civillized pgdn button.)
Another partial solution was exporting it as powerpoint in apple icloud, which I had because I was given an iphone. This came heartbreakingly close to working, but all her text disappeared. On the upside, by upgrading my icloud version I have guaranteed that icloud will never work with my phone, so my phone won't ever be clouded by accident, go me.
So with your nice new 1mm thinner iPhone you will either have to buy special lightning connected headphones, bluetooth headphones or a probably overpriced and poorly made dongle to allow your standard headphones to plug into your phone.
Their excuse besides their weird obsession with making everything as thin as possible is that it will produce better audio making audiophiles happy. Because as we all know audiophiles just love listening to MP3s or AAC on their phones for optimum music quality.
As a lifelong mac fan, I'm getting tired of this shit.
All I want to do is access a photo I took an hour ago on the Mac.
That's it. Why is it so hard? Why does sometimes, it work, and sometimes I'm sitting here wondering why Apple can't get this most obvious use case correct?
All I want to to tell my fucking iPhone to send the photo I just took to the iCloud. It's been a fucking hour now, and both devices are on my very capable home network. Why can't I just tell my iPhone to upload the latest picture to the cloud.
..and if it did, why can't I tell Apple's stupid Photos program to go and look for it?
I Wouldn't be so angry if both the iPhone and the Mac are telling me my photos are updated "just now" when I can so clearly see that the two photo streams are different.
Why is this so hard? It should be the easiest fucking thing in the world, and I guess it would be if Apple software worked like it was supposed to.
Now, I'm just angry, and the bottle of wine I consumed in the meantimes is only making me more.... emotional.
1) turn off wifi and turn it back on.
After I did that, the photos app finally decided to inform me that my disk space was too low to upload my photos. Nothing like silent failures to piss off a user.
2) remove something to get more space available.
According to some random schmoe on the Apple discussion board, if the iPhone has less than 300MB available, it won't upload pictures. Why Apple feels it needs to have 300+ Mb available to upload a <2 MB photo is unclear, and since this doesn't come from an official Apple support person, the only reason why I suspect it worked because it finally did.
One technology journalist said the technology could frustrate consumers.
No, really?
Anyway it was filed in 2011 and has just been granted (that is the news angle) and may be of more appeal to event organisers than consumers (no, really?) but will be easy to subvert not least by not using consumer devices that subvert consumer freedom.