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stinkypete22 said:

Is the WiFi and Cell bars disappearing when you are not in an App something anyone else is seeing.  The second I open an App the bars come back.

Yes, I have seen this several times (iPhone 15Pro), exactly as you describe. Too soon to know it it's been fixed.

Hopefully they'll go on to fix some more bugs now! When I went to install the update, I noticed that all the info across the top of the home screen (eg time, battery, network etc) had disappeared (and not for the first time). The cameras also struggle in difficult lighting situations that my iPhone Xs took in its stride. Disappointing.

iPhone 15 Pro 256GB

retrogusto said:

A few years ago I wrote to Apple to ask for something similar for laptops. I mostly buy laptops, but 99% of the time I use them at home plugged in, and on occasion I use them elsewhere, but almost never far from an outlet. So I basically always use them plugged in, and like to just leave them plugged in rather than unplugging them every time I turn them off, ... Maybe someday…

This, at least, you can have. As I sit here with my MBP, it's plugged in and its battery is charged to 80% and the battery menu says "Charging on hold (rarely used on battery)" because I have been travelling only with my iPad lately. Perhaps someone did listen.

On Ventura (at least) look for it in System Settings > Battery > Battery Health and the 'I' in a circle.

I found the TouchBar almost useless and don't mourn its demise. Please don't try to give me a full touch-screen display on my MacBook: I'm not yet past all the things that Apple used to say about having to stretch over the keyboard to get to the display and am much happier with 1/2 hands on the keyboard (with 1 sometimes on trackpad or mouse).

And I hate finger marks on my display!

I also like Photo Stream, I've been using it since Apple introduced it. I take a lot of 'disposable' pictures on my iPhone so am happy to just extract those that are keepers. My main photo library lives on my Mac so I don't have any issues with resolution (the article is a little misleading on this, Photo Stream on Mac contains full res photos - see this page).

iCloud Photo Library is no alternative to Photo Stream, it's a different beast. Photo Stream automatically discards the photos you don't choose to keep*, doesn't use your iCloud storage allowance and is free. My photo library is curated, includes photos from my 'proper' camera and lives on external HDs with no subscription fee.

A certain Steve Jobs was also a Photo Stream fan. He described it during the introduction of iCloud as "maybe my favourite [feature]". This video at about 1:36:02.

*I'm not a good enough photographer to want to keep anything like all my pictures, even those from my ILC let alone my iPhone. I suspect many others are in the same category.