If you want to remove an app from iOS and it is a core app, it will remove it from the Home Screen, but shuffle it into the library at the very last screen. So you can’t actually delete Settings, say, but you can essentially hide it. I never use that last page, anyway.
From a UI perspective, I agree that mostly resembles what I was describing.
I don’t know whether iOS apps can be automatically started and run in the background without user interaction, but Android apps can. Disabling an app prevents the app from doing that, which means that app’s background activity is prevented from using battery, internet service, memory, or CPU.
But apparently iOS apps don’t need that, or else Apple decided users don’t need to be able to do that even if it were a useful capability.
Yeah, I don’t know what happens behind the scenes with iOS. We were simulposting, so I didn’t see your reply first. I’m not sure if putting it in the library will halt automatic updates, for instance. My guess would have been no, as I don’t actually know.
What happens behind the scenes with iOS is that disabling stuff does not actually disable them; it’s strictly for suckers:
Well, my guess was right, although that is a bit even more pernicious than what I was addressing in my remark.
If you decide you will keep the iPhone, and some of these suggestions are feeling frustrating to you (moving icons to another screen, turning off tracking, turning off notifications) you can go to an Apple store and they will do this for you. I am also pretty sure you can go to a store for your phone carrier (like Verizon) and they will do it too, as long as you go at a slow time like a weekday afternoon.
If you decide you want to switch to an Android, you can also ask for help configuring at the carrier’s store.
I do believe you can also set up an appointment with Best Buy’s Geek Squad to help with these configurations, of either type of phone.
What everyone is suggesting is pretty basic stuff but not for everyone. A person who is well familiar with phones can do all of this quickly and easily.
Well, I managed to turn off my pass code. My daughter in law is coming over for thanksgiving, she’s the one who does this kind of stuff for me so I’ll try to corner her. The phone is irritating in other ways that don’t have anything to do with the upgrade, like the fact that there is no simple way to get photos from my phone to my (apple) laptop. We figured out a rather complicated workaround because the way it is supposed to work just doesn’t. Crap like that.
Huh?
It’s trivial to configure the phone to transfer photos as soon as it’s connected.
If you want to do that via WiFI, it’s almost as easy.
How To Transfer Photos From iPhone To PC: The Ultimate Guide.
Nope, not trivial. Believe me. I read and did all that apple support stuff and it would not do what it was supposed to. Two savvy people worked on it. It’s only semi-broken. Luckily I don’t take many pictures.
Whatever you do, do not think any smartphone is better than any of the others.
Google is worse than Apple regarding this shit.
(Apple is worse in extracting your last cent)
Any smartphone running any piece of software from Meta is worse than either, Samsung is just as bad.
There is no getting away from the tracking. But turning to android (Google) to mitigate this is most likely counterproductive.
I could fix it in a heartbeat
I don’t have anything to add but I am amused thinking about the old days here when Mac vs PC discussions got so heated that they were banned.
I’m sure, and I bet I effortless do what you struggle with. So?
Why can’t you just use Airdrop? You say your laptop is a Mac so it should work no problem.
And the hugely problematic new security measures that you are upset about is a passcode?? Wow.
The new version of that heat is the attitude “If you can’t do this technical thing I can do, you’re just an idiot, and I don’t care if you’re 80 and blind, you’re still an idiot.” It’s quite pervasive.
True, but getting a new phone will require you to learn the new system, too. For an iPhone, you can just use the search function for “passcode” and you can find exactly where it is to turn off the passcode. I assume other phones will have similar functionality, but you still need to learn how to search that phone.i tell people switch to Apple the same thing. Are you sure? You’ll just have to learn a bunch of other stuff and you may not find it any more intuitive than your Windows/Android/Google product.
Hey, different phones have different problems. For example, due to the fact that I hate 2-factor identification, Apple demands I re-authenticate roughly every week, locking my account in the meantime. It sucks, but I put up with it. But having to type in my longish secure password into three different fields each time is a real frustration, and can be for others as well.
In terms of low-effort attempts to reduce clutter though (short term fixes) it’s sometimes worthwhile to throw all the apps that are hard to eliminate into one grouped icon / folder called “Useless” or “Junk” (the names are themselves relaxing) rather than hiding them on another page. Sometimes easier to find it on the rare occasions you need it).
Yeah, once when I got bored on a flight, I didn’t exactly hide my apps, but made folders for categories of apps. And then I promptly forgot how I filed some of my apps and some I didn’t file. So I end up having to use the search to find them. I wish there was a way it would show me where the darn app is, so I can file it again, because I have dozens and dozens of apps on my phone and I don’t feel like scouring my own folders again.
If you think that my problem is laughable, please do not post in this thread. You are exactly the person I was addressing when I said, ‘don’t try to make me love Big Brother’. I guess that went over your head. I’ll let you re enter your passcode every thirty seconds when your brain cannot memorize numbers, and hope it creates a ray of understanding.
Yeah, this thought did occur to me.