I know I’ve said this before, and I’m sure I’ll say it again, but I HATE when my phone updates, and changes something basic about the way I use/view it.
I have an iPhone (I don’t even know the model, that is how little I care. Maybe 1 year old.) I guarantee I’m in the bottom 5% of people in terms of the amount and sophistication tat I use my phone. Basically, I make/receive phone calls and texts, check the weather, use the alarm, and do some occasional searches.
So the other day my phone said it needs to update when charging. FIne. After, the damned screen won’t rotate from portrait to landscape! WTF?
I looked on-line, and tried a couple of things, with no luck. I am not readily able to come up with ANYTHING I like to do less than fucking around w/ the settings on my phone. I’d rather clean toilets, pick up dog shit with my bare hands - you name it.
The alarm interface also changed in manner I find far less user-friendly, but I can live w/ that. I’m sure countless other things changed, but - like I said - I don’t do much of anything else.
I wish so much that folk who update devices would give the option of having your device not appear or function any differently.
Looking online, it suggests all manner of other things - like resetting all settings.
Like I said, can’t think of anything I’d less like to do.
Was working just fine BEFORE the update…
My android started doing that a couple of updates back. Turns out they added a ‘feature’ where it won’t rotate unless you allow it. Now a small icon shows up in the corner that you have to tap when you rotate the phone to let the screen rotate.
Yeah, I’m sure there’s an option to go back to the original configuration. I just haven’t been annoyed about it enough when I had time to look for the setting to actually do anything about it.
Yeah, I imagine I’ll just figure out how to stumble along w/ whatever settings occur. Reminds me of when I used to try to do macros on my work computer - they would do an update and my macros would disappear. So I learned not to even try to personalize it.
I just noticed that the phone no longer notifies me when I tap it of recent texts/emails. Yeah, I know I went in before to make it do that, but I’m not interested in going back and doing the same thing again.
And it keeps telling me it is not backed up, and needs to be connected to power and “shut down.” I place it on the charger every night, but that does not seem sufficient. Yeah, that helps me.
The “backup” notices are unavoidable, unblockable ads for Apple’s cloud-based services, which are dishonestly presented as warnings that your phone isn’t functioning properly.
I actually like my iPhone, and most Apple products, but they do have some annoying flaws, like the constant haranguing to subscribe to their cloud back-up services.