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New Control center is cool. Love having the Apple TV remote there.

 

I think updating my Apple Watch might have been a and idea. It worked fine right after the update, but it just got stuck on the Apple logo. And now it's like not aware that I have it on since it's missing standing hours and the like. Currently chatting with support to try to figure it out. Thrilling Tuesday night over here.

 

iOS 11 is pretty cool on the iPhone... it’s REALLY cool on the iPad... I think this might get me to use my iPad a little more or school...

 

I’m digging iOS 11

 

Scrolling in Safari is so smooth now.

 

ios 11 has turned my iphone 6 into a brand new phone. The optimize photos option is amazing even though I don't need it. It's nice to know that I could get away with less space if I wanted to. The screen shot feature is amazing how I can mark them up and delete the screen shot after sending it to someone. Honestly seeing an improvement with my battery as well. Amazing.

 

Just a hypothetical question here. I put a back up on my desktop of my iPhone as I always do before an update. Say that the phone kicks the bucket. Would it restore to iOS 10 from that back up or would it just bring over the app data?

 

Yes and yes. I've combed through every setting and can't find anything, so frustrating. Might walk over to the Apple Store on lunch.

 

iOS11 feels pretty snappy on my 6S. Not a fan of the big bold headlines in Message, Mail, etc. I know what app I'm in, I don't need a huge bold headline telling me and taking up space.

 

I think it looks good.

 

I think the bold headlines look pretty formal. I don't mind them at all.

 

Weird... I can see my Apple Music profile on my iPad but not iPhone

 

On your phone, under Settings > Music, is ‘Use Listening History’ turned on?

 

My brother who has 7+, can turn his phone to landscape mode on his home screen. I haven’t been able to on my regular sized 7 though.

 

Same. The first couple hours it was unbearably slow which seems to be common across all 6 users. But this morning it’s been speedy and smooth. Probably needed to index after the update is all. This is good

 

That’s been a feature of the plus models since the iPhone 6 actually.

 

Yup, even toggled it on/off multiple times last night and this morning.

 

Try this, go to:

Settings > General > Restrictions

and re-enable ‘Music Profile and Posts’ ... if it already shows as allowed then just disable and re-enable it and see if that works.

 

YOU ARE A LEGEND! THANK YOU! I would have never even thought to look there! It was the only restriction I had off, not sure how that happened in the first place.

 

It's not looking great for the Series 3 Watch.

Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE review: missed connections

Where do I start with the connectivity issues with this Watch?

It became apparent after my first full day using the Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE that something wasn’t right. My review Watch was paired with an iPhone 8 and was on an AT&T wireless plan. In one of my initial tests, I went for a walk with the phone on airplane mode, and tried to send text messages and use Siri to initiate phone calls through the Watch. Those didn’t work. I tried asking Siri basic questions. That didn’t work. Siri also wasn’t “talking back” to me, something that’s supposed to be a new feature on the Series 3 Watch.

Phone calls did sometimes work from the Watch, but I had to manually tap through my contacts or recent calls list on the Watch and initiate the call that way. (Calls through Bluetooth headphones sound good, but the Watch’s built-in audio isn’t ideal for extended conversations.) By 11:42 that morning, after 60 minutes of working out with LTE, multiple attempts to use Siri, and two seven-minute phone calls, the Watch’s battery had drained to 27 percent.

So Apple replaced my original review unit with a second Series 3 Watch, also connected to AT&T’s wireless network. Siri was now audibly responding, which the company later said was attributable to the fact that the first batch of preproduction units hadn’t been set up properly with Siri.

But that doesn’t mean the LTE connectivity issues went away. On more than one occasion, I detached myself from the phone, traveled blocks away from my home or office, and watched the Watch struggle to connect to LTE. It would appear to pick up a single bar of some random Wi-Fi signal, and hang on that, rather than switching to LTE.

Not surprisingly, using LTE impacted battery life on the Series 3, although the second review unit showed battery life that was much more in line with what I expected. We spent a whole morning shooting video last week, with the Watch operating independently of the phone — about three hours of intermittent LTE usage. By noon, the Watch had drained to 30 percent. So I had to charge it later that afternoon, but that was still better than the experience I had with the first unit.

Over the weekend, I had my iPhone with me most of the time, and the Watch lasted from Saturday morning through early Sunday afternoon. So without the strain of LTE, the Series 3 Watch clearly matches the battery life of the Series 2 model. On Monday, as I wrote this, I’ve attempted to use LTE on the Series 3 Watch a handful of times, but have mostly been in range of the phone. It’s 6PM, and the Watch still has 59 percent battery life left.

It’s worth noting, though, that Apple’s aggressive estimates for Series 3 battery life are based on 30-minute workouts while connected to LTE. So long-distance runners or hikers may find themselves sorely disappointed by the battery life if you go out for a multi-hour workout while the Watch is connected to both GPS and LTE. In fact, you’d probably want to go into the Watch’s settings and turn off cellular data until you need it, which in some ways defeats the purpose of having an LTE-connected watch.

 

Updated my phone last night. I'm liking the aesthetics of it (other than the giant text headers). Anyone having issues with their airpods though? Last night I was listening to an audiobook and then switched over to my podcast app, but instead of playing the audio through my airpods it switched to my iphone speakers so I had to select my airpods from the airdrop menu. Then it happened again when switching to a third app.

 

TLDR is the take away is the LTE doesn’t work well?

 

Precisely, along with poor battery life on LTE.

 

it's complete and utter bullshit that carriers are charging you money to use a Watch 3 when all it does is eat into your data that you're already paying for with your overpriced phone plan.

 

Loving iOS 11 on my 6S so far. It running WAY faster and cleared up a ton of space. Big thumbs up.