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oldappleguy said:

WTF is DFU??... and how does it differ from Recovery Mode?

DFU mode lets the device interface with iTunes, update the firmware and restore the OS without automatically installing the last downloaded version. It's useful for installing older versions of iOS if a beta persistently hangs your phone, or if a jailbreak goes bad.  That is the difference.  Recovery Mode downloads the latest iOS version and installs it.

Anilu_777 said:

Who the heck would even expect the phone to arrive before the 23rd???

When I bought the iPhone 4 back in 2010, it arrived a day early by FedEx, before the official release date.

TouchID was mediocre at best.  It rarely worked.  If the Home button was dirty, from touching it all day, TouchID would not recognize your print.  If your hands were dry or if you did any physical labor with your hands and scuffed them up, TouchID did not work.  Wearing gloves made TouchID useless.  TouchID in a power button is even worse.  One, the button is barely wide enough to recognize your print.  That is probably why it is on the thicker iPad so they could make the button thicker.  But how secure is it really when it is a thin rectangle instead of a larger circle to identify more of your print?  You will never see that in a phone because the button is too thin to recognize anything.  Second, the power button is a poor location.  I bet many will turn off the iPad Air when they authenticate.  Many people pushed the Home button to authenticate and left the app they were in because they could not seem to rest their finger on the Home button.  They always pushed it.

Granted COVID messed things up for everything.  We won't be wearing masks forever.  There will be a vaccine, just like every other disease we fought off.  When it comes to FaceID and the people that claim it does not work, they were setting it up wrong.  Just like TouchID.  People set up TouchID by placing their thumb perpendicular to the phone on the Home button to set it, and then when they used it, they naturally placed their thumb on it from a 45 degree angle and it never worked.  Once they set it up with how they naturally pressed the button, it worked.  Same with FaceID.  When it says to move your head in a circle, keep staring straight at the phone and maintain direct eye contact the entire time you move your head in a circle.  Do not look left, up, right, down to make a circle.  It is not reading your face that way.  Like when the eye doctor tells you to stare at the wall and move your head so he can watch your eye movement without losing site of the spot on the wall.  Do the same with FaceID by staring at the phone the entire time you move your head around in a circle maintaining movement with the green indicators, it will be set correctly and it will unlock every time, even in the dark, with glasses, with facial hair, etc.  It is super fast to unlock the phone by looking at it and swiping up, rather then trying to get your finger in the same spot when you set up TouchID.

mike1 said:

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

Glad to see that you can now purchase a new iPhone on day one without having to be a subscriber to one of the big three cellphone companies.
But why the heck would you buy a phone locked to a cellphone company if there is an unlocked phone available for the same price?

If you buy from Apple, the phone is only locked if you use the phone company's installment plan. Otherwise, it's unlocked as stated on the Apple site.

But you are still 'locked in' until you pay off the phone over a period of years.  It might not be locked to a carrier, but you don't own the phone.  But yes, his point was more specific to being locked to a carrier.  We did payment plans on our iPhone X models with AT&T and when we were a few months away of paying them off, we paid them off early and unlocked them through AT&Ts website and switched to Spectrum Mobile.  So I bought the SIM-free version of the iPhone 12 Pro because I can transfer my SIM card and not pay any activation fees.  It is unlocked, and I own the phone.

Just got my SIM free 12 Pro 256GB Graphite using the Apple Store app and got Oct 23rd delivery. Store didn’t open until about 5 minutes after. Kept force quitting the app on iPad and reopening until store opened. Had phone saved as a favorite since yesterday.  Got into the store at about 5:04 AM.