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Discussion in 'Technology Forum' started by Melody Bot, Jul 19, 2025.

  1. Mimestream
     
  2. RyanPm40

    The Torment of Existence Supporter

    Apple Mail because for some reason my Exchange Office 365 email that I still use from my college as an alumni doesn't have permissions to be set up in Outlook on desktop (but works fine in Outlook on mobile)

    Kinda hate Apple Mail though. I really like Outlook. But maybe that's because I'm used to using it every day at work.
     
  3. JamesMichael

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  4. Frank Lapidus

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    Spark although I've been on it for so long that I'm kind of itching to try something else.
     
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  5. dorfmac

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    I just use the Gmail website or app, but the biggest win I’ve found for email has been fyxer.ai

    it’s been a massive help for inbox organization and speeding up my workflow. I’m not a big AI person but this is the one area I’ve found helpful
     
  6. disambigujason

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    Recently switched to proton mail. Miss some quality of life features and speed from Gmail but I like it enough to stick with it.
     
  7. bradpetrik

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    Mail.app for me for my iCloud and nonprofit accounts. Outlook for my work account. Both aren't great. Nothing else I've tried is great.
     
  8. Frank Lapidus

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  9. macbethfan

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    In the same boat. I briefly tried the stock Mail app this fall just so to try out order tracking in the Wallet app, but it still sucks for daily use. I don't like the Gmail app, so I'm likely stuck on Spark until something like Mimestream for iOS is released.
     
  10. Frank Lapidus

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    At first glance Mimestream looks nearly identical to Spark. @Jason Tate didn't you used to use spark? If so - how does Mimestream compare?
     
  11. Similar, but Spark started doing so much surf like adding in calendars and AI and scheduling and all this extras “stuff” behind the subscription it just wasn’t working for me. And I really disliked the latest Mac app update. So that was the main catalyst. More straightforward, made by an ex Apple Mail developer. It’s just a nicely made Gmail front end and that’s perfect for what I need these days.
     
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  13. Max_123 Dec 22, 2025
    (Last edited: Dec 23, 2025)
    Max_123

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    Anybody had their Beats Studio Pros sound get very muffled and blown out sounding? I listen to them at a normal level so I can't imagine they actually blew out. Can't really find much help online other than unpairing them and repairing, which I've done a few times now. Only had them a little over a year

    edit: hmm after doing more testing it seems to be only downloaded songs playing from my Apple Watch series 6 on watchOS 26.2. Played the same song a few times while plugging in the headphone jack to my Macbook and sounded fine, played the same song streaming over wifi from my phone and sounded fine, but the downloaded versions of songs on my watch are the ones that sound blown out
     
  14. SeeTheLights

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    Welp. Lost my left AirPod pro while shoveling snow/the plow truck. Now to decide if I should just buy a AirPod replacement or get the pro 3’s lol
     
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  15. bradpetrik

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    My iPad Pro is very close to falling under 80% battery capacity. I think I'd be better served by replacing the battery for about $120 rather than buying a new one I may not use enough to warrant buying.
     
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  17. oldjersey

    Pro STREAMER ON TWITCH Supporter

    A friend of mine asked me not to send videos because her phone has no storage, can I really wreck someones storage by sending massive videos to them? Or theres a limit? Talking about iphone/imessage of course
     
  18. bradpetrik

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    iMessage, unless you set it up to delete after so many days, eats up a huge chunk of my phone's storage.

    I don't let it autodelete anything because I don't trust iMessage in the cloud.
     
  19. RyanPm40

    The Torment of Existence Supporter

    Anyone else have a weird issue where the IR volume control stops working on their Apple Remote until they force disconnect the remote by holding down the TV and volume down buttons? Glad I found an Apple Support post about it because it's happened twice in the last few months.. Even setting up the IR controls again from scratch doesn't help until doing the force disconnect.
     
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  20. macbethfan

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    Yeah, I have to fix this on our remote about once a month. really annoying. :eyeroll:
     
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  21. RyanPm40

    The Torment of Existence Supporter

    It's so weird how it affects IR of all things but not the Bluetooth connection to the Apple TV lol this is something that universal remotes have had figured out for decades
     
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  23. disambigujason

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    can you clarify what you mean? not sure if this is relevant but when I got a new phone I could now search in iMessage for countless texts I’d set to delete after 30 days or 6 months or whatever. I can now search back years.
     
  24. bradpetrik

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    Maybe they quietly improved it but the way it read was that automatic deletion would occur across all devices, not just the device you changed that setting on.
     
  25. bradpetrik

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    Something I'm trying to do this year is reduce my phone time so part of that is using my watch more and leaving my phone at home. I've used BookPlayer for audiobooks on my iPhone for a bit now but $50/year for the Watch app is a bit much. I'm considering podcast apps which allow for uploading of your own files for playback.

    I think both Pocket Casts and Overcast support this with their paid subscriptions (I have Pocket Casts Plus from a purchase loooong ago) and it'll work on the watch as well. Anyone have any insight?

    The funny thing is I'd probably just use it for audiobooks, not podcasts, as I've enjoyed some of the QOL improvements Apple has made to Podcasts.