First impressions of the iPhone XS Max (coming from the iPhone 7+): (1) feels the same in hand; (2) UI looks ever so slightly blown up; (3) weird empty space between dock and last row of apps; (4) gestures mostly OK; (5) True Tone makes the 7+ look like garbage; (6) Face ID fine.
Just looked at my 7+ and the screen already looks tiny.
Better luck transferring from an iCloud backup. I don’t know if all my health data has come across but the Apple Watch recorded stuff is all there as far as I can see.
My attempts to transfer my settings to the iPhone XS haven’t gone well. I stepped down from a 128GB iPhone 7+ to a 64GB iPhone XS Max and my iTunes backup is too big to restore to the XS. Giving iCloud Backup a go to see if that fares any better.
I might be going to pick up an iPhone XS Max 64 GB I purchased this evening.
I might have purchased an iPhone XS Max 64 GB for pick up this evening.
I’m glad that Medium still supports RSS feeds but wish there were an easy way to just get the full articles. As it is, you get everything the person wrote, including the comments (of which you, maddeningly, only get one side of the conversation).
Ian Buruma being in the news reminded me of my unsuccessful attempt to introduce the term ‘connomming’ into the lexicon. The original post is up on my Tumblr but always a pain to find so I reposted it to my current blog.
I’ve been trying out Siri Shortcuts in iOS 12 with a simple ‘Resume Overcast’ shortcut. Holy shit is it slow. I don’t know if things are better on phones post the iPhone 7 Plus but I very much hope so.
I wish you could reverse the order of items in Safari’s reading list. I’d really like the older items to display first.
I’m not a huge fan of unnecessary haptic feedback. Why does Overcast give feedback if I press on a button on the screen? What does that add?
Interesting article on the failure of 3D Touch. It’s a little strange it doesn’t discuss the one instance that, at least for me, makes 3D Touch essential: keyboard cursor navigation.
Stayed up most of the night finishing the outstanding documentation for Tenji. Now it’s done, merged into master and I need to actually dogfood it.
I cannot get used to how fat the GPS icon looks in iOS 12.
Great to finally have favicons in Safari tabs but boy does it look weird.
It’s silly the extent to which this bothers me but the reactions to the Apple Watch Series 4 seems all out of proportion to the product. I try to explain why in this post.
So far iOS 12 hasn’t really rocked my world. Outside of Apple finally adding back notification grouping that they inexplicably removed previously, I haven’t noticed much difference.
I’m unreasonably upset by the lack of realism in the latest season of Thomas & Friends.
I quite like the new look to Gmail and Google Calendar that’s now rolled out to me.
It’s just occurred to me that the fact that E. Honda’s given name is Edmond makes no sense.