RE: New iPhone locked or unlocked

2022-03-10 Thread M. Taylor
That's great news, Brad. Thank you for letting us know. Mark -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Brad Snyder Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2022 7:36 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: New iPhone locked or unlocked There's no need for any

Re: New iPhone locked or unlocked

2022-03-10 Thread Brad Snyder
There's no need for any of this. When you order your new phone from the Apple online store, you provide your phone number and your carrier and your phone arrives ready to activate. It will automatically activate when you turn it on for the first time. All you have to do is confirm some

RE: New iPhone locked or unlocked

2022-03-10 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Phil, When you receive your phone from the online Apple store, you can either take the new phone to your local Verizon Wireless store and they will activate it for you or if you prefer, you can call Verizon Wireless and they can activate your new phone, remotely, assuming you can provide

Re: New iPhone locked or unlocked

2022-03-10 Thread 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries
An e-SIM may be an option in some cases, too. If you travel internationally, obtaining a SIM card from a local carrier for the duration of your stay is often better than paying what can in some circumstances be very heavy roaming charges from your existing carrier. From:

Re: Dropbox for Mac client, menu accessibility

2022-03-10 Thread 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries
Thank you – I’ll try the solution proposed. I also think they ought to fix the menu invocation. They have an accessibility page and a VPAT, but I couldn’t find contact details for their accessibility department. In any case, I only have a free account, so I’m not a paying customer at this

Re: New iPhone locked or unlocked

2022-03-10 Thread Phil Halton
So Brad, I’m assuming that when you make the purchase, you select to have them transfer your phone number (i.e. Sim card etc.) to the new phone and when you receive it you then have to activate it with the carrier? Maybe I got some bad info about it being locked to the carrier that way. Even

Re: New iPhone locked or unlocked

2022-03-10 Thread Brad Snyder
iPhones purchased directly from Apple via the website or the Apple store app, are always unlocked, and not tied to a certain carrier even though you may specify a carrier when ordering your new iPhone. I have purchased my last several iPhones from Apple this way, and can confirm that the iPhone

New iPhone locked or unlocked

2022-03-10 Thread Phil Halton
Because I don’t really want to go to an Apple store I’ve been thinking about buying a new iPhone and having it shipped to me direct. And, because I really don’t want to mess around with changing out Sim cards from my old phone to the new I’ve been considering just having the sim card set up

Re: Dropbox for Mac client, menu accessibility

2022-03-10 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi, I experience the same on my MacBook M1 Pro. I guess it's the new version which eventually is compatible to the M1 chips. Unfortunately it's no longer possible to see the status of up and downloads. To open this menu it's not enough to use VO Space. You need to route the mouse pointer there