Hi Mark, Thanks for bringing this up - I would not have thought to do it. I don't have battery issues, but it strikes me that if my phone is going to automatically join wifi networks without asking me, that disabling the radio is also a good security practice. Cheers, Donna > On Jan 28, 2018, at 5:21 PM, M. Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Donna, > > I appreciate your comments and your candor on this topic. > > Those iPhone x owners, with whom I personally interact, on either a daily or > weekly basis, definitely share your sentiment. > > You know, one thing I've gotten in the habbit of doing is to tell Siri to > turn off my Wi-Fi radio, whenever I leave my house. I began doing this when > I first discovered that upon each new update to the OS, A T & T Wireless > resets its auto-joining Wi-Fi preference to on. Now that I think about it, > Apple does the same thing. > > Unless this feature is manually disabled, each time you're in range of an A T > & T Wireless public Wi-Fi hub or inside or near and Apple Store, your phone > will automatically join the public Wi-Fi hub. I was absolutely infuriated > upon discovering this. Personally, I think it is a total violation of my > privacy rights. > > Since I live in a densely populated area of the country, virtually everywhere > I go has free public cellular provider Wi-Fi hotspots, including Apple. > > I mention A T & T Wireless, specifically, but all of the major wireless > providers do the exact same thing. It should be noted that this auto-joining > feature does not respect the Do Not Automatically Join Network setting. That > setting only applies to non-carrier/Apple Wi-Fi hubs. > > So, for me, it's just safer to turn off my Wi-Fi chip, altogether. > > Oh yes, I forgot, the reason why I brought this matter up is that disabling > Wi-Fi when out-and-about will increase the length of battery life. > > (smile) > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Donna Goodin > Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2018 11:36 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: iPhone X: 5 things in Apple's best phone that drive us crazy, > CNET > > I completely agree about Face ID, and the absence of the home button. If I > had it to do over, I probably would have gone with an iPhone 8, precisely for > the home button and touch ID. Both are faster than FACE ID and the new > gestures. The author is right, the new gestures do pretty much become second > nature. But, they aren't as fast as just touching the Home Button. And > frankly, Face ID is a pain in the ***. It often doesn't work when I need it > to, and if it fails, you are probably better off just entering your password > than turning your phone off and on again. I don't know how apple can fix > these issues. But I have to say, given half a chance, I'd go back to Touch > ID in a heartbeat! > Cheers, > Donna >> On Jan 28, 2018, at 1:14 PM, M. Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> iPhone X: Five things that drive me absolutely nuts >> >> There's a lot to like, but Apple needs to rethink some things for >> 2018's iPhones. >> January 28, 2018 4:00 AM PST >> By Sarah Tew, CNET >> >> For well over two months, my days have ended and begun with the iPhone X. >> Compared to older iPhones, the X feels impressively fast, slim and, >> with 5.8 inches of screen space, satisfyingly spacious. But as I've >> grown to appreciate some of its finer points, I've also discovered the >> traits that make me roll my eyes, gnash my teeth and occasionally >> erupt with a well-chosen expletive. >> >> The funny thing is that almost all of these ire-inducing "quirks" stem >> from Apple's redesign of the iPhone X, which removed the home button >> and installed a bunch of swipes and taps to cover all navigation bases. >> On one hand, Face ID and gestures prove that iPhone users can live >> without a home button. On the other, learning the ropes takes time, >> and the swipey stand-ins don't always make a lot of sense. Some iPhone >> X gestures feel half-baked. >> >> So here we go, my five personal worst iPhone X navigation offenders. >> Stay tuned for a future piece on some of the things I truly do love >> about the iPhone X. >> >> Face ID never works when I most need it Face ID, Apple's replacement >> for the secure fingerprint reader, uses the iPhone X's front-facing >> camera to approve mobile purchases and unlock the phone. >> It works by making a 3D map of your eyes, nose and mouth -- except >> when it doesn't. Face ID recognizes me often, but fails enough times >> to make me notice. For example, I have about a 50-50 success rate >> while wearing my polarized sunglasses. >> >> Face ID doesn't work when your face is stuffed in a pillow. >> When it doesn't work is when I want it to most: as soon as I wake up >> in the morning. Part of the problem is biological. I'm near-sighted, >> which means that when I first reach for the phone while my glasses and >> contacts are resting in their cases, I wind up holding the phone >> closer to my face than the 25 to 50 centimeters that Apple recommends. >> And then there's the fact that in my groggy morning state, I'm lying >> on my side with either one eye closed, or my face buried in my pillow. >> There's no way Face ID is boring its way through that, and it's not >> Apple's fault. >> What is Apple's fault is that the iPhone X doesn't have a satisfying >> backup plan to my morning squinty-eye. With Face ID, you don't get an >> immediate second chance to biometrically unlock the phone, not the way >> you do when the fingerprint scanner on a home button fails; you just tap it >> again. >> No such luck here. You can wait some long seconds only to have to try >> again, or lock and unlock the phone to kickstart a new Face ID scan. >> More often than not, I wind up typing in my 6-digit password, which is >> faster than waiting for Face ID to maybe or maybe not unlock. This >> gets annoying when you do it multiple times a day, every day. I'd love >> a biometric backup, or a faster do-over time if Face ID misses the >> scan the first time around. >> >> Bleh battery life >> If you're switching from an older iPhone with battery life that can >> barely hobble through a single day (especially if Apple did this), the >> iPhone X is a fantastic upgrade. At least at first. >> >> The iPhone X will last longer than your old iPhone, but not as long as >> a >> $1,000 handset should. >> After two months, I noticed a steep battery decline. Of course your >> charge will take a hit every time you stream music or video, or use >> navigation. >> That's life with a phone. But even on days when I didn't engage these >> things, I found myself topping up the power reserves before going out >> for the night, unconvinced my phone would make it through the evening >> activities. >> When you live on your phone -- texting, looking up stuff online, >> reading e-books -- that uncertainty makes the difference between a >> device you can trust and one you have to constantly manage. >> This isn't just anecdotal, either. In CNET's looping-video tests, the >> iPhone X lasted just shy of 11.5 hours average after 9 tests. That's >> two hours less than the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus results with the >> same test, and six hours less than the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 (17.5 hours). >> >> Anecdotally, it lasts longer than the iPhone 8 in real-life use, but >> peters out before the 8 Plus loses steam. >> >> These time windows don't seem so short in a vacuum, but when you >> compare the results across the board, the iPhone X -- the most >> expensive mainstream phone you can buy -- drains as quickly as some >> midrange phones that cost less than half the price, if not faster. >> >> To make matters more frustrating, Apple hides the iPhone X battery >> percentage meter; it isn't visible at a glance. Instead, you have to >> swipe down from the top of the phone on the right side of the notch to >> call up the Control Center. Only then can you keep a detailed tab on >> how much juice you have left. >> >> Maps navigation shortcut only goes one way Tap this to get back to >> your ongoing Google Maps navigation. >> I use maps navigation quite a lot. When you pop out of either Google >> Maps or Apple Maps to do something else, the iPhone X helpfully puts a >> tiny blue Tic Tac around the clock, turning it into a nifty little >> button you can tap to pop back into the map again. >> This is great, but Apple stops short. See, you can toggle from any app >> back into the map, but you can't toggle from the map back to what you >> were doing before. So if you're reading an article, you can pop into >> the map to check on the directions (using the shortcut) but won't be >> able to return to the story (no shortcut). >> When you get used to pressing that shortcut button a couple dozen >> times during a long trip, you'll be cursing Apple that it only goes one way. >> Hopefully a future version of the software will make toggling a >> two-way street. >> By the way, the shortcut also works with the phone app (the button >> turns green), voice memos (red) and some third-party apps. >> >> Is the alarm on or what? >> I'm an inveterate nervous-alarm-setter, even on weekends. I just can't >> relax unless I know I won't oversleep (yes, I have problems). >> That doesn't stop me from waking up bleary-eyed in the middle of the >> night second-guessing if I set the alarm for the right time, or even >> set it at all. I would like to be able to glance at the iPhone X and >> immediately see the alarm clock icon reassure me, before drifting back to >> sleep. >> This is how it was pre-iPhone X and still is on the iPhone 8 and 8 >> Plus. Yet for some reason, Apple has decided to bury this information. >> You can still see it -- and your remaining battery percentage -- but >> you have to pull down the Control Center first. >> I don't want to mess with my phone at 4am. I don't want to swipe a >> screen or use more brain cells than I have to. In short, I don't want >> to do anything that could wake me up and make falling back asleep >> harder than it needs to be. >> >> But the biggest problem is. >> iPhone X in photos >> The first iPhone was so beloved because -- in a world of hard-to-use >> phones that acted like mini computers with file systems, keyboards and >> styluses -- it was simple. Anyone could pick it up and figure it out. >> 10 years on, you can't use the iPhone X without a tutorial, which >> Apple does provide. Things that should be easy are complex. For >> example, don't you swipe the camera icon to open it from the lock >> screen? No, you hard-press and then release it. Why not simply add the >> option for both? >> >> Ten years on, the iPhone X is rife with hidden gestures you just have >> to know, including powering down the phone. >> Apple's also changed the buttons you press to take a screenshot and >> power down the phone. If you mess this up, you might find yourself >> accidentally calling 911. >> You have to know which side of the Notch to swipe for the >> quick-controls in Control Center (the right side) and which to swipe >> for your notifications (the left). And now, you double-press the lock >> button to finish installing an app and hold it down to fire up Siri. >> While these changes are absolutely learnable, and even become >> second-nature over time, the iPhone X's navigability is a far cry from >> the logical layout that made the iPhone stand out from every other phone of >> its day. >> It's not that I wish the iPhone X reverted to the stripped-down style >> of the original iPhone. It's that Apple, in paving the way with some >> new technologies, had the opportunity to rethink how we use a phone, >> and wound up making it more complicated to use -- not less. >> >> Original Article at: >> https://www.cnet.com/news/iphone-x-worst-features/#ftag=CAD-09-10aai5b >> >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >> Visionaries list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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