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  • Apple's iOS 17.2 gives Qi2 charging all the way back to iPhone 13

    jingojingo
    Hopefully this will resolve the issue with charging in my 2021 VW Golf? It has never worked since the car was new - you get a message saying "Currently unable to charge the mobile device. Please remove all other items from the mobile phone tray." Needless to say there are no other items in the tray.

    In addition when you pick up the phone it has changed to the Wallet and appears to be waiting for a payment to be made.

    Because the car is yet to have its first service I have not asked whether there may be a software upgrade to one of the vast number of different electronic modules in modern cars (particularly the Mk 8 Golf, seemingly). But it may be that iOS 17.2 will finally address this issue?
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • A practical guide for why spatial audio music is great

    jingojingo
    That’s all very well, but I personally don’t subscribe to Apple Music for a host of reasons that are valid to me. I am not alone n this although the article pretty much assumes that all its readers do subscribe.

    Spatial Audio has the potential to change that, but I am not aware of any way to try it without subscribing to Apple Music. Catch 22.

    if there is a way then this article should cover it. In the meantime I will continue to be ignorant of the strength of its claimed virtues. 

    And I am not about to sign up for a trial subscription that I then have to remember to cancel either, so don’t suggest that! I already have vastly too much stuff I need to remember to do!

    One other comment is that the article suggests that most Bluetooth headsets will be able to make use of Spatial Audio but only mentions Apple products as some that do. What codec or format support do headsets need to have in order that they will work? Will the Sony range work, or (my personal faves) the Anker Soundcore Liberty 4?
    neoncatbaconstangwilliamlondon

  • Mac Studio designed with customer feedback & Pro Workflow team feedback in mind

    jingojingo
    ComplEment not complIment.
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Apple execs explain why you should use Apple Maps over competitors

    jingojingo
    george kaplan said:

    You may want to revisit your Settings. You should have a choice of Light, Dark, or Automatic. 
    No, I just confirmed that the choices are "Always Dark" or "Automatic".

    Whichever I choose it is practically always in dark mode (I have once or twice seen it in light mode) which is nothing like as clear to follow as the light mode, but I have absolutely no way that I have found of forcing it into light mode. I can, however, set Google Maps into light mode so that is another reason I prefer to use Google Maps.
    williamlondon

  • Apple execs explain why you should use Apple Maps over competitors

    jingojingo
    Apple Maps has some really big UX fails which mean Imalways go back to Google Maps. In particular it is close to useless if you are the “navigator” while someone eslse is driving. A vast part of the screen is taken up with a panel showing details of the place when you search for a destination, and there are only two ways of seeing the map full screen (that I have found). Firstly you can click the X to close the panel, but then you lose the route. Secondly you can start the route, but there is no way of switching to a mode where you control what you are looking at, or lose the directions. 

    It surely should be possible to use it like a map book, but with the route displayed on it? This seems really fundamental to me but the UX designers seem to have almost wilfully stopped you from using it that way.

    Other things that bug me in CarPlay is that you can only have the display in dark mode or “automatic” when it seems to always be in dark mode as well. Why can’t you set it to always be in light mode? This doesn’t make any sense to me. The ideal scenario would be a quick and easy way to manually change it to the mode you want, not the mode that Apple seems to think you should want.

    Another failing is the difficulty in CarPlay of seeing what is coming up on the map a little bit further ahead than what is immediately in front of you. Viewing of the map is extremely limited.

    Finally another annoyance is that the warnings for speed cameras are only given when you are using it in routing mode. Why can’t you switch on the warnings even when you are not following a route?
    williamlondondewmeJWSCwatto_cobra