I bought an iPhone 17 Pro to upgrade from my iPhone 14 Pro, what a nightmare it has been trying to move from one phone to another

I was excited by the new cameras of the iPhone 17 Pro, so I was pretty excited to move over, but the move so far has been a nightmare. First off I use a local backup of my phone as it saves passwords and is much faster than the cloud, but boy it has been anything but quick. First I had to enter all my info on the phone and sign into iCloud, and then to restore from computer I had to wipe the phone with a restore (which took hours) and I was hoping it would then sync, but then I had to enter all my info again, and then the sync from the computer started. After a 12 hour backup, this took a good part of the morning, and then hung with about 500 songs to go (out of about 15,000). And every time the sync screwed up or something I had to restart my computer to get another one started, which would be fine if my finder wasn't unresponsive for 5-10 minutes almost every restart (though not every one), I think it is because I have so many hard drives attached for editing. So the sync failed and I restarted to see if I could finish, but every playlist had just a few songs, which wasn't the case this morning. And when I removed all the files (with another sync) trying to put them back was only with 4000, songs instead of 15000. This took hours to figure out, but it had corrupted my Apple Music library, and I had to go back a day and recover the library file to regain all my playlists! How did that even happen? So here I am on day 2 of my new iPhone. I have had it for 24 hours, and it is once again syncing my music. And I left about 10 playlists out so I can sync them later so they can show up at the top (my most recent albums) sync I can't favorite playlists without activating iTunes Sync which I will never try again after it almost wiped out my entire iTunes music library years back! This is a fucking Nightmare!

Appleinsider on Apple and it’s Chinese productions lines

Appleinsider has a great article on Apple and its production pipelines in China., and why Apple will likely never build iPhones in the US. And automation just isn’t there yet. Tesla tried the whole automation route and it really didn’t work. So making automation to make factories would cost a huge amount and likely take a lot of skill the US doesn’t really have. And all the estimations of Apple iPhones costing so much if made here, what about Teslas which are completely assembled here, but almost 100% manufactured in China. How much would that cost to make here? A lot more than an iPhone, but presumably Elon Musk will be given an exemption that Apple will not. And with Trump’s insane 125% on goods coming from China, which is and will harm American companies and boost foreign companies! With iPhones made in China costing as much as $3000 or more and only 10% tariffs on Korean products like Samsung. Meaning Trumps anti China policies will hurt American companies and boost foreign companies. How is that America First? Of course the Tariff’s were meant to bring manufacturing back to the US but have been used instead to make new trade deals, so it was never about bringing manufacturing back here.

Why does Apple sleep alarm move to watch but you can my do the same with other alarms on Apple Watch

Ok so this is something that has bugged me for sometime between the Apple Watch and the iPhone. If you use the Apple Bedtime and Sleep settings and are wearing your Apple Watch instead of the alarm happening on your phone, your watch will vibrate. Some people hate this, but I love it, as it doesn’t disturb my wife or newborn baby. The weird thing is there are no controls for this it just happens and you can’t say have the alarm on both your watch and the phone or even just the phone. Even weirder to me if you set alarms on your phone they don’t alert your watch even if your phone is set to silent (when it should default to vibrating your watch). Apple really needs to have settings for this and they should be global. If I have on my watch and have my phone set to silent I should be able to have all alarms go off by vibrating my watch, but there are no controls for this whatsoever. And the only cross alarm that happens is in the sleep/bedtime alarm mentioned earlier.

Are Technica on Mac OS 15 Sequoia

From Andrew Cunningham, his annual coverage of the annual Mac OS Release is always a must read to really get to know the new OS. This is always the best post about the OS that you will read! It is a must read. I am not working right now cause I am taking care of our baby, so I upgraded (mainly because of SoftRaid working), and honestly it is a pretty impressive OS so far. My biggest complaint has to do with iPhone Mirroring. If you want to automatically log into your phone, it automatically sets the sleep to having to enter your password every time you login, which I don’t want on my computer at home. The work around is to use an Apple Watch to automatically login. The problem is my Apple Watch 5 side button has frozen up, so I can’t use it for quick logins (or to ring the location of my iPhone)., though it does let me login.

Why is Mac sync to iPhone so damn bad and so damn slow!

I have been syncing my mac to the iphone since the iphone first came out, and the problem is that it has never gotten better. I sync a bunch of live music that isn't available on streaming, so I sync to my computer Iplus it means my phone is backed up with passwords so if I restore I get my full working phone, which people on iCloud do not, they have to re-enter all passwords), but the actual sync is so awful. First off unless you turn cellular, wifi and bluetooth off, the sync takes forever, but if you turn it off it is very quick, we are talking muti-hour sync vs 30 minute sync so it is huge. Why can't apple fix this? Obviously they don't care at all. I hate having to do workarounds, but syncing my iphone with my mac via lightning cable means I have to switch my phone to airplane mode and that is fucking bullshit! If Airplane mode fixes the issue, then Apple could easily fix it, and they don't care, as they do not want you to backup locally or put your own music on your iPhone.

Any One Else get locked out of their Apple Accounts yesterday or today?

Was watching a movie on my apple tv yesterday, when I git kicked out of my Apple account, on all of my devices. My Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, and it fought me on entering my correct passwords, then said my account was locked, and I had to change my password, then re-enter it on each device (ever try and enter a long password on an Apple Watch? My account is an old .Mac account, but my password is only 6 months old. I was glad to see I am not the only one having this issue, check out Macrumors, Forbes, Gizchina, and Engadget,

PVC’s Ian Anderson on Editing in HDR

https://www.provideocoalition.com/non-editors-are-editing-in-hdr-and-you-could-too/ Yea, I would consider more if my monitors could handle HDR better, but without that, I guess I could monitor on my iPad pro.

Apple announced the iPhone 15 Pro and it will shoot Spacial Video for Apple Vision Pro

So Apple has announced the iPhone 15 Pro, and it has some pretty interesting video features, from being able to record to an external hard drive (at higher rez) better low light, and later this year it will be able to shoot Spatial Video for the Apple Vision Pro. Coming later this year, iPhone 15 Pro will add a new dimension to video capture with the ability to record spatial video for Apple Vision Pro. Users will be able to capture precious moments in three dimensions and relive those memories with incredible depth on Apple Vision Pro when it is available early next year in the U.S. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/09/apple-unveils-iphone-15-pro-and-iphone-15-pro-max/ So it will be able to shoot 3D footage? Or is it 2D with a depth map, like Portrait mode, which could be very exciting for compositing. I was actually wondering if they were going to use the depth map of portrait mode to make 3D photos for the Vision Pro since you can already make them 3D in Facebook, and since it is Apple photos, Apple must be able to do that as well.