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While trying out the new method after reading the article, I saw something I've never noticed before: When I press any of those 3 buttons, the edge of the screen bulges in a little at the button's location. A clever way to confirm a button press I guess. 

And the bigger pill to swallow is having to also purchase a new Magic Keyboard and Apple Pencil with the latest iPad Pro’s. As much as I’d like to upgrade, I just don’t want to spend that much. 

I get occasional false alarms because I’ve always worn my watches on my right wrist even though I’m right handed. Usually triggered by hammering or similar pounding motions. I try to remember to move my watch to my left wrist before sustained hammering/pounding. I’m glad for the feature. Correctly detected a bike fall 1x. With another fall it didn’t detect it. I hope it is learning from my responses to each false alarm. 

Does anyone else find it surprising that the “executive protection team” members didn’t already have CCW’s individually before being hired, by virtue of being a trained security person? 

GRKostur said:

I am glad that my equipment is repaired by factory trained technicians using factory approved parts. One of my friends had a third party technician replace his iPhone 6 OEM battery with an after market battery and now he has no end of problems now with the iPhone. Apple won’t fix it and I don’t blame them, they are not responsible for someone else playing amateur repair tech. 

Your choice. Your friend was unlucky. There probably was nothing for Apple to “fix”. Most likely needed another new battery, which Apple should have put in for $60. Apple actually charges a reasonable price now for replacement batteries, if you want it done by them. As a “amateur repair tech”, I’ve replaced several past warranty broken screens and batteries for myself and friends that worked fine, saving many hundreds of dollars over an Apple repair, or new iPhones. Thanks to ifixit, many iPhone and MacBook the repairs are doable. If you have a product failure under warranty, by all means get Apple to fix it. Of course Apple can refuse to “fix” any damage done by a repair shop either before or after the warranty. No one would expect otherwise. Let us have the choice: Do I put a new battery in myself for $20-30, or buy a new $800-1,200 iPhone. Hmmm. Not a hard choice.