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Amazon’s search function is misleading when “HomeKit” is requested, and so the HomeKit link in this article also misleads. Searching Amazon for “HomeKit” returns many items that do not support HomeKit, and sometimes the non-HomeKit versions of products that do support HomeKit.

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  • Apple tells users to erase, restore iPhone and Apple Watch to fix Workout GPS data bug

    weyland_jonweyland_jon
    The upgrade to iOS 14 & iPadOS 14 both cleared out Notes, which have each taken ~2 weeks to completely download from iCloud.com. Notes is important to me, which makes this workaround unappealing.
    Alex1Nwatto_cobra

  • Apple News+ fails to bring in new subscribers despite impressive launch

    weyland_jonweyland_jon
    I think Apple’s done a good job with the app, but many of the mags in N+ aren’t that strong. I’d like to see a variety of narrowly focused specialty publications. Enough with People, etc. Also, access to newspapers & magazines in languages beyond English would be interesting.
    yojimbo007Rayz2016

  • Review: Apple Card is more of an experience than a reward generator

    weyland_jonweyland_jon
    “Another drawback to titanium is its rigidity. The American Express card is denser, as it is stainless steel, but is more flexible than the lighter titanium Apple Card. On certain card skimmers, such as those on some gas station pumps, require the card to flex a bit. It can be difficult, if not impossible to use the Apple Card with these. 

    “Fortunately, we are all moving away from swiping to chips, and from chips to contactless payments.”

    There’s another problem with my local ExxonMobile pumps:  Apple Pay using Apple Card is not accepted, even though Apple Pay works just fine with Amex and another MasterCard. Pump seems to think there’s a debit card behind the Apple Pay. The Apple Card is also not accepted when inserted directly into the pump. 
    watto_cobra

  • Evernote might be in trouble, so here's how to get your notes out of it completely and saf...

    weyland_jonweyland_jon
    Good article. I exported 15,500 records from Evernote last year, imported them into Apple Notes, and immediately bogged down Notes’ synchronization over iCloud for the next 10 months. To recover, I had to clean out these imports almost note by note, which was difficult because Notes had mostly ground to a halt trying to synchronize (it wouldn’t delete more than a few notes at a time). Also, syncing lost integrity across my several devices, and it was bogging down iOS & OSX for unrelated activities. So the article’s recommendation to transfer small numbers of files at a time is critical.
    sweetheart777watto_cobra