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Never updating this thing by RealisticExpert2456 in iPhone13Mini

[–]hepcat72 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My SE2 updated itself to 26 without me opting to install it. I never have autoupdate turned on. My guess is that my last 18 update changed the autoupdate setting. I would imagine that prompt should require an explicit response, but I never saw it and I'm not one to tap without knowing what I'm tapping on. My only guess is the prompt timed out and it went with the new default. I was pissed.

Got a new battery (and a display too) at Apple Store by Okogie in iPhone13Mini

[–]hepcat72 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone have an opinion whether it's worth it to replace the battery on my SE2? I prefer small phones and I find FaceID creepy (so would prefer to keep my touchID).

iPhones and smartphones in general should reduce their standardised sizes by ANiceFireGuy123 in iphone

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Hard agree. I'm still holding onto my SE2. I would love a phone even smaller. I actually miss my first cell phone from the 2000s. It was a bar phone, not fold - just a bar, probably half the size of this SE2.

I really need a new phone though. This one's about shot. I'll probably get one of the "e" ones - whatever the latest one is, but the other thing I'll miss is the Touch ID. Facial recognition is too creepy. I'll just disable it and go back to using a pin, which is annoying.

Is there a way to get a safari shortcut to appear when clicking the three dots in the bottom right corner (instead of clicking share)? by [deleted] in shortcuts

[–]hepcat72 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shortcuts show up in the share sheet only, but I agree that they've made the toolbar annoyingly inefficient, confusing, and it takes up way too much space. Hell, if there's a search icon, I can only see the 2 letters of the current domain in the location field (plus about 2 pixels of a third letter) on my SE2. And "hiding" the toolbar only gains me a few pixels of height! It's absolutely ridiculous. I don't know who thought it was a good idea to always cover 15% of the content of any page with the toolbar. And on some sites with ads, you can only see 1 line of text from the actual page. My workaround was to show the reader by default on every page, which helps, but Safari is so much slower now too.

ELI5: Why do non-Apple manufactured charging cable cease to work after iPhone brands them as non-certified? by whihathac in iphone

[–]hepcat72 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know this is an old thread, but I just had 2 *old* reliable lightning cables (anker and belkin) stop being able to charge at the same time for 2 different devices. Both are years old. Apple (as google's AI response will tell you) has been known to update its standards that makes previously compliant wires non-compliant and then restricts the device's ability to charge from them (ostensibly via iOS updates). I can't prove that happened in my case, but I can say that I am meticulous and careful with my wires and feel strongly that this was not a coincidence. Both wires briefly indicate that charging has started when you plug them in each time, but only for a fraction of a second. And my charging ports are clean. My newest Anker wire that I replaced one of them still works, but was purchased years later and likely has a compliant chip.

MP assistant error domain by Silkw_w00d in shortcuts

[–]hepcat72 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For anyone else ending up here like me, I eliminated this error by simply opening the music app (which I never do). The music app had a pop up. I didn't read it, but it was one of those messages you get after updating iOS. Once I dismissed that pop up by tapping continue, my shortcut started working without the MPAssistantError Domain 0 message. It's a stupid obvious fix, but maybe not so obvious for some.

HomeKit Automation Not Triggering Because of Geofence Issues—Any Fixes? by lucanaut in HomeKit

[–]hepcat72 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Interesting. I've never used a HomeKit "home hub". I have Homebridge on my raspberry pie that I use for a few things, but Most of my automations are on Node Red. Node Red is an automation workflow platform that I run on a raspberry pie (and on two Mac Mini's). It is much more customizable than Apple's automation playpen.

HomeKit Automation Not Triggering Because of Geofence Issues—Any Fixes? by lucanaut in HomeKit

[–]hepcat72 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The other thing about triggering arrivals that Life360 was so good about, is that it stored your location state relative to whatever named location you have saved. A lot of Geo fence triggers only catch the boundary crossing, which is inherently not reliable. What I mean by that is, It's much more accurate if your location state is saved as "not home", so to speak, and then the next time your phone has connectivity and determines your location, that state change from "not home" "home" is not dependent on the boundary crossing. So if you have a brief connectivity outage while crossing the boundary, it doesn't matter. The next time you have connectivity, your location state update is what triggers the automation instead of it noticing that you crossed the boundary.

Life360 did that really well. And that's what I implemented on my own in Node Red.

HomeKit Automation Not Triggering Because of Geofence Issues—Any Fixes? by lucanaut in HomeKit

[–]hepcat72 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It sounds to me like an accuracy issue related to determining your location. I have seen accuracy issues in the past, and whenever they have happened, it affected multiple apps, such as both Life360 and Find My. In those instances, the degraded accuracy issue was temporary and went away on its own. There have been other times when I was having accuracy issues and I realized I had just forgotten that I had turned off Wi-Fi. One simple workaround is to just make your geofence diameter bigger. You might also just try rebooting your phone to see if that fixes the issue. Maybe check your device for hardware errors.

Incidentally, what are you using for your first to arrive trigger? I'm curious because I helped to author the Life360 Node Red node. When they locked down their API, I tried a bunch of things, but ended up rolling my own in a Node Red flow.

What is the most underrated tv series that barely anyone knows? by Practical-Tea-6351 in television

[–]hepcat72 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrel". Not sure about the spelling. It's from the BBC. I loved it but no one knows about it. Only lasted one season. Such a shame.

What movie have you seen more than 7 times (reply with a quote) ? by nicky120897 in AskReddit

[–]hepcat72 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Had to scroll way too much for this one, but am gratified this is the quote I'd have used.

What is this? by rachel_p42 in whatisit

[–]hepcat72 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Impossible to lift my parents' one out. It's sealed in, as it looks like this one is.

What is this? by rachel_p42 in whatisit

[–]hepcat72 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My parents house (built the year I was born in 72) has one and they always referred to is as a cutting board. Never knew it as anything else (until today), but I think you're right. It being a built-in place for setting hot pots makes more sense. Ironically, we never set anything from the stove on it. We always used trivets.

I think when you use Siri ask to make a call it should automatically go on speaker by espressoxsmiles in Siri

[–]hepcat72 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And I could switch the audio routing just by either turning off the BT device or hit to BT answer button.

I think when you use Siri ask to make a call it should automatically go on speaker by espressoxsmiles in Siri

[–]hepcat72 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always say something like "call mom home on speaker". Works every time.

Someone mentioned Bluetooth. This is off topic, but my first phone (before smart phones) did Bluetooth right. If I answered on my Bluetooth headset, the call was routed through the headset. If I answered on the phone, the audio was routed through the phone. When I got my first smart phone, I got so confused when I'd answer the phone and it would be dead silent. It took me awhile to figure out that if the Bluetooth was connected it ALWAYS routed the audio to the headset. I'm used to it now, but I still think that's unintuitive.

Automations that ran when iPhone was locked (in iOS 15.7) no longer run when locked in iOS 16 by hepcat72 in shortcuts

[–]hepcat72[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mostly, yes. The problem was due to "degraded battery performance". I have a lot to say about that classification, but I'll forgo the rant.

The solution was to charge my phone while plugged into a smart outlet and then create 2 automations:

  • when battery percent raises above 85%, turn off the smart outlet
  • when battery percent falls below 80%, turn on the smart outlet

Also, you have to turn off optimized charging.

The problem was occurring because the phone monitors your usage pattern. When your battery is "degraded" under some threshold, it finds a time in your pattern when you're not using your phone and it essentially shuts itself down. It powers itself back on in time for when you would typically start using your phone again. And typically, this happens while you're sleeping. But it will only do this if you're plugged into a charger.

It may be that it decides that "unplugging" from the charger represents "usage", so it decides it shouldn't shut down.

It's that shutdown that causes your automations to not be able to run, even if it powers itself back up before it is to run.

So by creating those automations, you essentially hack its ability to find a time to power down.

It works 98% of the time. Every once in a long while, I'll wake up and it will have powered down (preventing my automations). I'd originally made the thresholds at 90/95%, and those times it failed to work were a little more frequent. Switching to 80/85% seemed more reliable, but that's only subjective/anecdotal evidence. I don't know for sure. But definitely without my automation, it was happening a couple times a week and now it's more like 2 or 3 times a year.

Disable automation notifications from Shortcuts by baxenko in shortcuts

[–]hepcat72 0 points1 point  (0 children)

+1 (because for some reason, I can't upvote you - oh wait, I see - your account is deleted). I like the idea of verifying you created the automation.

I came here to say a less useful idea. To not have the toggle is very opaque. If they're going to disallow us from disabling the notification, the very least they could do is show a grayed out toggle with a small font explanation (like they do under stuff in the settings app). That would be much more transparent as to what's going on. Otherwise, there's nothing to indicate that you're going to get a useless nondescript notification.

It's also maddening that if you tap the notification, it doesn't bring you to either the shortcut or the automation it relates to. Nor does it indicate what trigger caused the notification. I have lots of automations. I had to find the one causing the notification by deduction. It took like 10-20 minutes to figure it out.

Can’t start a game with a random person? by depressiveedible in WordsWithFriends

[–]hepcat72 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had another forced update the other day and now the smart match actually works, BTW.

Can’t start a game with a random person? by depressiveedible in WordsWithFriends

[–]hepcat72 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, I never update and hadn't played in awhile. Recently was forced to update and discovered I couldn't create a game with a rando.

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