They only put the notch in the iPhone X screen so that they can remove it for the 11, right?

Does anyone use a form or know how to block bastard pop up sale scammers?

My nearly 3 year old daughter plays on my iPhone 7 using Youtube but occasionally it goes into a sales safari and then gets pop ups. She then clicks okay and before I know it I’m signed up and being charged for a subscription service. I’ve had a go at Vodaphone as IMO it should take a lot more than one click of ‘okay’ to subscribe (eg password, finger touch etc). They claim no responsibility although they are the ones charging me.

Is there a setting or an app that can stop pop up sales scammers?

Hopefully.

Why DO they have that?

well, since the 11.1 update things have improved considerably thank goodness

Yes battery life is back to normal again!

Phew did wonder why the battery suddenly dropped quickly. Got iPhone 7 yesterday and got to wait 24 hours before I can use iTunes/apps because the previous main email addy isn’t used at all anymore and I’ve forgot password :jerkit::wallbash: and cant retrieve it from that email address :D. Hopefully it’ll be sorted later today.

Its well worth using a website called resolver they wil help with offciail letters and tracking cases there is even a list of the right nos to call if you need to so your not passed round switchboards etc free to use and really good!.

Ive used them twice not for your issue but I think you may find them useful :p

hth

Has anyone bought a refurbished/second hand iPhone for a good price?

The brand new prices are eye watering, but considering the likes of Music Magpie/Envirofone. Not sure I trust the likes of Facebook Marketplace or Gumtree!

just taken a look at Envirophone would love another 6s+ as mine got nicked earlier this year, a 64g is over £400 sadly.

My kids have refurbs. Seem absolutely fine.

The X is brilliant.

That I seem to accidentally have (and paid for) two of them is less brilliant

Only just seen this, thanks. Latest news is their deadlock team have cancelled two calls to me saying they are waiting for further information from another department. I think I will try and approach the ombudsman directly.

ignore i found the answer

Anyone else have the iphone 6 (not S) and upgraded to ios11? If so, how have you found it?

Have seen news about battery drain/lag etc on ios11 for some older models like the 6, so trying to decide if i should stick with ios 10.3.3 or not.

Replacement batteries now £25 via Apple directly

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/app...le-now-2866941

Saw that, also i just ran battery life check on my iphone 6 and my battery wear for my 3 year old phone is only 9% and it seems that recommendations is you should consider replacing the battery if it goes over 30% wear.

Still does not really help me decide if i should go from ios10 to 11 due to the "slowing down" factor on older models like the 6. Not sure if its a blanket slowing down no matter the state of your battery, or almost no slowdown if you have low battery wear level like mine.

I have one of the first iPhone 6 (not sure how old that makes it but it was bought in the first month they came out) and the app suggested by 1905 (thanks for that) shows 14% battery wear. I have kept it updated with every iOS update. I have noticed a couple of apps seem a bit sluggish - particularly WhatsApp on opening the app, but to be honest nothing I'm overly concerned about.

I'm on a 6, with 24% battery wear. Will get the battery replaced with Apple's new discount. Still on ios10 as no advantage upgrading.

Is it just me or are these phones getting too big? I had the 6, but recently got an SE 64gb off eBay brand new for a stupidly cheap price. Perfect

Thanks for the link - just checked and my iPad is 18% battery wear, and new phone is 1%. No worries for me then

ooof, 42% battery wear on my 5s. I have had it for 4 years or something so I shouldn't be surprised

I got my iPhone 6 on launch day in the UK and until the recent updates it’s been great and I’ve generally only charged it every other day and it’s been fine - unless I’ve been out in the middle of nowhere shooting or fishing where there’s been no mobile or WiFi signal, when it invariably dies if I forget to put it in aircraft mode - but since the latest iOS updates, if it’s a really cold day then it will go from roughly 20% battery to dead in a matter of minutes. If I then shove the phone in my pocket to warm it up, ten minutes later i can restart it and I’ve got a working phone again.

HTF Apple think this is a better customer experience is beyond me. It’s really pissing me off as, at this time of year, I’m outside most days whatever the temperature and, come to use the poxy phone to say when I’ll be back and it just dies. I hope Apple do the decent thing and reduce the price for a battery replacement in the U.K. but when I looked a couple of days ago there was nothing on their U.K. website.

Have you taken a look more than once? I ran that battery life app this morning at it said 17%. I just took another look and it said 23%. I’m not sure why the fluctuation within a few hours.

Still showing 14%

Back to 17% now... odd.

iphone users
 

Just bought a second hand 6s and the battery life app is showing

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Have I lucked out or does the phone need to go through a few cycles before getting an accurate measure??

Edit: on the 'wear level' screen it says 1%

A lot of 6s phones got free new battery...mine did so could explain it

If you are planning on going through Apple to get your battery replaced under the new shiney £25 discounted offer, be careful...

I arranged for my 6s to have the battery replaced, they did the diagnostic and I sent it off to the repair centre after paying the fee. Checked the status today and they have flagged that there is a fault with the speaker (that is literally all the info supplied) and the repair cost was now £260.

They refused to replace the battery unless I paid the full amount to fix something that I neither noticed nor wanted fixed, saying that they have to fix every fault they find if a phone goes in regardless of what the customer wanted doing to it. Obviously I told them to send it back and I’ll get the battery replaced by a third party shop.

did my daughters last week no probs at all , but as i dropped it off in the evening I had to pick it up next day :)

Both my wife's and my iPhone received calls from our own numbers this morning. Neither of us answered the calls, and no messages were left.

Did a quick Google search, and it appears it could be another scam attempt. Advises not to answer the call as if you do it can lock into the number for future use or something like that.

Our phone numbers are consecutive, so a robocall devise may have been going through a sequence of numbers.

Anyone else had experience of this happening?

This used to be a hot thread which shows how much Apple has fallen behind with the last post being in 2018 but I do have a question. Why doesn’t the iPhone close a website when you ask it ? I end up every month doing a clean up to close all the 100s of open tabs. Why? You don’t do that on a Mac why on a phone?

Mine closes them if I ask it.....if you mean on safari, just press the little x on the top left corner

If you open a web page there isn’t an x so you press the home button. To go and do something else then the open tabs all pile up and you have to close each one or nuke them all

If I finish a page, I just click bottom right window page then close it.

Not that hard is it?

The battery on my iPhone 7 and my wifes are both knackered. Is the best best replacing them at an apple store? Looks like it's £45 each.

I took my 7 to a place in Crawley recently and they supplied and fitted a new one for £30. Been good as gold since.

Haha haha in all these years I have never thought of doing it that way. Rep sent :)

Ha.

Sorry, I realised that may have come across a bit sarcy but that wasn't my intention. Enjoy!

That’s exactly what I meant too :)

Been playing with this a couple of weeks now and it still bugs me. Why do I have to go to box bottom right then hit the X why can’t the simply allow you to hit the X in the first place and shut the window? How does android do it? And my god Siri is a pile of crap. Not as bad as bixby but still shocking. Google and Alexa are streaks ahead

I agree. Took my 5 year old iphone 5S to a place called "ismash" in Brighton (I know, I know) and they replaced the battery for £40. Takes half an hour.
They made a half-hearted attempt to upsale a couple of things but a polite no thanks was enough.

First charge gave me 3 days of battery - undreamed of luxury.

Post-Steve Jobs Apple, sadly. A c*nt of a company.

Sadly true. I have 18 months left on my contract and my son keeps showing me all this cool stuff on his new Galaxy. As soon as its renewal time I'm off.
Funny enough my final straw was nothing to do with phones but the Apple printing service. Each year for the last 10 I made an Iphoto calendar and made 4 copies to send to family. I also made another 6 or so with Vista or Bonus print. The Apple ones where better quality and cost £25 a pop vrs £5. But I was happy to pay it for the Grandparents. This year they have sold the printing to some other company £50 a calendar they wanted :wallbash::wallbash::wallbash: **** off you greedy bastards. Q some slightly disappointed Grandparents, but at least they got a printed mug as well to make up for it for less than the orginal £25

I've just bought myself a new Android tablet and it's the first Android phone/tab I've ever used as always had iphones/ipads. I'm just finding more and more (especially as I'm into streaming), the restrictions with Apple are becoming more and more annoying. I'm quite pleased with the new Android tab and can see me putting the iPad way to gather dust.

Interesting as I posted about tablets on another thread and it was a distinct Ipad all the way know one else is close. I had a look at the Surface 10" on Tuesday and it looked great. Same price but with a keyboard etc. I use my Ipad for the odd app but mainly for media. I do add films but now Iplayer Now TV etch all support downloads havent added a film for ages. What I am getting fed up with is each IOS upgrade that I get suckered into performing, for whatever reason, slows the thing down more and more

Yep, that’s the thing. My iPad is quite a few years old now and is slow sluggish which it never was before. I’ve done a full factory reset and still the same. It was great when i first got it. I went into the Apple store to look at the big ones recently but you’re looking at a £1000 to get a decent one. I don’t know if the Android tab will also go slow In the future (like they make Apple products) but it’s great for what I paid for it (refurb from Argos). More so the fact I can do and download/sideload what I want.

what one did you get?

I got one of these as the projector intrigued me and it's decent. Time will tell of course as it might turn to a sack of shit after a while but as an intro into Android it does what i want. I only paid £275 for the refurb. It's a shame it doesn't run on a newer Android version though although I'm hopeful with updates they might bring one out. It's a gazzilion times better than my old iPad is though. iOS is slick, but immensely restrictive.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lenovo-YOGA...18026785&psc=1

Ok they have f65ked me up AGAIN. It miraculously did an auto update last night. Again another bloody moan that they keep trying to make you do it by changing which button to press. Now the films I have ripped from my DVDs have gone. I don’t want to buy shit from them I downy want to subscribe to their shorty service I just want to see my films ...........:veryangry Sorry for the outburst but can anyone help I can’t find them in the new Apple TV app. Google has been no help . Thanks

Ignore that I found the answer. Again for some reason the update deleted my films I simple had to ad them back and a new drop down of downloads appeared like it was in the old app phew

These thing are getting far to smart for their own good to the point of being patronizing...

My wife and I go every Thursday to a certain area that has various restaurants one after the other withing a short walking distance of each other.

As I get in the car to drive over there yesterday evening my phone pings and a Maps message pops up saying it is going to take 8 minutes to get to ***** street.

I'm 99% sure I did nothing to activate this, so can only assume the damn thing has been learning our habits... bloody talk about Big Brother!

Do I really need to be told in is going to take 8 minutes to get to somewhere I'm very familiar with... surly this is just the phone showing off!

Yep, mine does the same when I go to the gym, the times I go do vary, but it always seems to know, it's a bit weird.

GPS tracking.

I think this can be 'silenced' in Settings but then you'll get prompts if you use maps and other apps like transport e.g. trains, buses etc.

I saw the other day that Alexa stores for all time, every conversation while switched on. Amazon say everything is incripted and data protected but is never deleted!

Big Brother indeed.

CIA spying device.

I have a question about the Calendar on the iPhone. Looked up my question on Google, and not really seeing a definitive answer.

I downloaded from an airline my ticket/flight information to my calendar. I noticed that the return trip is showing the departure time in my time zone here, not the local time where I will be when taking this flight, i.e. there is a 3 hour time difference, and the flight is at 4:30pm local time, but shows on my calendar as 7:30pm.

Question: Does this automatically adjust to the correct local time when you are actually in that time zone?

I'm sure with so many worldly travelers on the BBS, someone would have experienced this before.

I don’t use the calendar on my phone, but can check this for you next week if you like

:p I was rather hoping you would see this, as I thought you were a good candidate to have an answer with all the traveling you do.

I'm not flying until the second week in September, so if you think of it, I would love to know how it works.

Actually I'm starting to wonder if it is an American Airlines error/glitch rather than the iPhone calendar. The outward journey seems to account for the time difference, but not the homeward flight.

Would be an obvious convenience ......... Our company software does something similar with flights and flight times.

It does adjust to the time zone you’re in. It will be correct when you’re at your destination.

Thanks I guess we will find out when the time comes.

Being a bit cynical, anyone who relies on the calendar on their phone to be reminded when their flight is, probably deserves to miss the flight!

My son did the 9am and 9pm mistake once, don't know where the fault was but he missed the plane by 12 hrs.

I hope it doesn't run in the family.

Guess the good new is he only had to wait 12 hours for the next one.

Yes but it cost him.

Asking for a friend... if you drop an iPhone, or any phone for that matter, in the toilet, the sea or a swimming pool, does placing it covered in rice over night really fix it/save it, or is this an urban myth?

It absorbs the water, but chances are that the electronics will have shorted already unless it is one of the newer so called water proof versions

I'll update you in the morning after a night in the rice.

Sorry... my friend will update you in the morning!

Well, after sitting in rice overnight the screen is dead, and I can't get a dial tone. Plus it is rattling so I think rice got inside!

I think that myth has been busted.

Dial tone? **** I'd forgotten about such things!

Yep, the rotary dial keeps getting jammed also...

Just got an iPhone 7. The sound quality on phone calls is much poorer than my previous 5c and it seems to be a common problem with 7s. Any ideas on how to improve it?

Thought it was just me Ive got and 8 and its poor for reception and call quality compered to my previous Iphones

I haven't noticed any problems with reception, just the sound quality, which is tinny, dull, with a touch of reverb thrown in for good measure. It seems to be ok on wifi/internet calls.

Same here, terrible reception. Thought it was carrier (Virgin), invariably I end up using my landline

Funny thing is if we are out and I have anything less than 3 bars I use my wife’s 15 year old Nokia candy bar. 10 times better sound and reception :(

Sorry, I mistook 'reception' as the ability to receive calls, which is not a problem for me. The quality of 'reception' is indeed crap. Iirc, my 5 was unable to receive 4g. The 7 does. Is this a factor?

No you are right I can get them but the bars AND the quality are shite. Nokia candy bars are the future ;)

Yeah, stop buying iPhones.

It's almost as if iPhones are wildly overrated.

It was actually a cordless land line phone not a mobile that went in the water, hence the dial tone.

The rice got inside went rocket scientist here took the batteries out and left the battery cover off thinking it would be good for the rice to dry out that area, but now I (ops... my friend) looks at it there are areas where the rice can get inside the phones workings.

It's actually working this morning (switches on and off, has a dial tone and can call out and receive calls), only issue is the little screen is not functioning, although lights up.

By the way the time zone thing worked

Great, thanks for checking, especially as you say you don’t use the calendar App. [emoji106]

Now the screen is actually working... guess it dried out.

I may reassess this rice myth. I think it's get some merit, although I do wonder if just letting the phone sit for a few days would have the same affect.

New iPhone launch next Tuesday

Release on the 20th

From what I have seen online the '11' seems a relatively small increment. I am hoping that it pushes X's down the price scale as I will be changing handset soon.

Indeed, looks like allot more worthwhile changes will be around for the 12 release next year (not least 5G) - still happy with the 8 at the moment.

Slightly improved camera, slightly improved processor, slightly improved battery life. Yawn, seems like that’s been the case for about the last three years. Think I will stick with my 6s plus for another year.

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/09/10...ne-11-pro-max/

The X is a step above but this is meh!

Have to agree, I went from a 6plus to the X and really feel the difference. No point upgrading version to version now, can wait 3 to 4 upgrades before making it worth the jump

Wonder if James has finished drooling yet?
:)

Not 5G :jerkit:

Which network actually offers 5G in St Albans?

No 5G means that I won’t be going for a new iPhone this time around. Not because I always want the newest and best, quite the opposite in fact, but because I hold onto my phones for a few years I don’t want to splash out on a new handset which will be outdated in a couple of years time. For those who upgrade every year or so then I agree that lack of 5G isn’t a problem though.

Going to hold onto my four year old 6s plus for another year.

I tend to upgrade every other year and currently have the iPhone X. Lack of 5G means I won’t bother this year though

Im upgrading to the 11, simply cause I have the 7, its paid off and the phone now overheats and battery life is crap. Can still get £135 for it too if I sell it now.

EE, Vodafone and very soon to join will be SKY and O2.

Neither EE nor Vodphone offer any 5G coverage whatsoever in St Albans. :confused:

Has anyone updated to iOS 13 yet?

Looks like a hell of a lot of changes for one update. A bit too many for my liking... I think I'll resist as long as possible.

No.

13.1 is being released on Tuesday.