robin huber

Wow, a lot of experts here who seem to have a ton of inside knowledge about these cases. But seriously, most of these posts have a lot to say about the poster, not so much about the subject. 

I integrate Ring devices, Kasa (TP-Link), and a plug-in that pulls weather info from Darksky (damn near worth it just for this feature if you don’t have your own weather station).

I understand Apple purchased DarkSky and will soon kill it. 

I like my CarPlay, but it can be clumsy going back and forth between it and manufacturers UI for climate control and other auto functions. Worst problem for me is CPs lousy Sirius XM app—practically useless. I have to leave CP navigation and go back to Chevy UI to change channels. A pain. 

Upgrading my iPad 7 to an iPad 9 and at the same time going from iOS 14 to 15 has been a nightmare. I had updated the OS on the old iPad just before getting my new one. When I did the data transfer via iCloud I got a never ending message saying that I couldn’t update my OS to 15 until the iCloud download was complete—which it would never do. Support told me that I had a Beta OS on my old iPad which had caused the problem. I have never used a beta in my whole life. She guided me through a manual do-over which solved the iOS 15 problem, but lost all my apps. She said, no problem, just go to the App Store and re download them. App Store gave a message saying that it couldn’t do this because all were gotten using a different Apple ID, one that I changed years ago. No problem, she said, just download new copies. All 100 of them! Many required passwords that were lost or required re-payment. Subscriptions were also hosed. Like I said, ongoing nightmare. Seeing Genius today in hopes of fixing all this. My new iPhone 13 had no problems transferring all my old stuff, only the iPad choked. 

I don’t want widgets, but even after dumping them my old icons are compressed to the top of the screen. It’s like the spacing has been permanently changed to accommodate widgets even though I don’t want them. How can I go back to the same number of icons filling the whole screen?