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  • How to set up multiple users on a HomePod

    looplessloopless
    This is insanely complicated and I barely managed to get this working and I consider myself pretty knowledgeable on iOS. Apple needs to clean this up. One tip , you can ask Siri on the home pod “who am I” to check if it knows your voice.
    watto_cobrageekmeefirelock

  • Missing message issues plague Mail users in macOS Catalina

    looplessloopless
    3 computers , 3 upgraded to Catalina, all using Gmail and exchange..zero issues. It must happen under certain use cases.
    command_fkozchriswatto_cobrajony0

  • A first hand look at the best features of Apple Watch Series 5

    looplessloopless
    What about the glass on the various models. Did they change anything there? My Al S3 scratched a bit too easily.
    williamlondon

  • How to decide if investing in a big Homekit setup is right for you

    looplessloopless
    I love HomeKit..it works extremely well in my experience. The one very annoying thing not specific to HomeKit is the requirement of ,say, Hue and Lutron hubs (that do not use WiFi to talk to their devices ) to be physically connected by Ethernet to the router. That can be a problem if the location of the router means the distance from the router to the Hue devices is too far and communication is patchy or fails. The only way I solved this was to buy a mesh WiFi (orbi) and connect the hubs to a satellite WiFi..
    GeorgeBMacwatto_cobra

  • Purged screen time monitoring apps misused enterprise tools, Schiller says

    looplessloopless
    OutdoorAppDeveloper said:
    The apps only "misused enterprise tools" because Apple refused to provide an official SDK that let the app developers do what the users wanted. Make no mistake this is fully intentional on Apple's part. Apple is very interested in limiting what users can do with their devices. This is why there is no real WiFi SDK, why the Bluetooth SDK is crippled, why apps are extremely restricted when they run in the background or with the screen off, why there are no third part Apple Watch faces, why you can't modify the user interface to suit your needs, why you can't side load apps, why there is no third party app store, why there is no professional mode, why their are no real code compilers on the iPad, why there are no virtual machines, why you can't mine cryptocurrency, why Home Kit sucks ...
    If Apple gave unfettered access to all features of a device, we end up with Windows. And we know how that ends up. Apple very carefully opens up the device via SDKs only after careful consideration and research into unintended side-effects. As they say 'the road to hell is paved with good intentions'. For example, NFC. Apple has been very careful to only support a very limited set of NFC protocols. Now that the NFC market has matured and all the security and user issues are mostly sorted, they are apparently opening up to other NFC protocols and presumably SDK access in the next iOS release.
    cornchipn2itivguywatto_cobra