Sep 29

Can’t transfer photos from an iPhone to your Macbook wirelessly!

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I have an iPhone 13 and a new model 14inch m1 MacBook Pro. I’d love to copy the photo’s from my iPhone to my MacBook Pro. I can’t find a way to do it easily. The only option seems to be using a lightning to USB cable, but even then the processes painfully slow. There are some paid apps on the App Store that claim to allow transfer over wifi, which reinforces to me the idea that it can’t be done over wifi without extra software. I’ve done a lot of searching and can’t see that anyone has an answer yet. If you do find a solution, please let me know in a comment below.

wifi sync

There is an option from finder to do a wifi sync of a phone, but even I you select ‘Sync’ for photos it doesn’t’ copy the photos from the iPhone to the computer.

iCloud

iCloud is obviously Apple’s preferred way of doing it but it requires you to pay for extra iCloud storage space. I just want to transfer the photos directly form my iPhone to my laptop Photos library.

Plug-in lightning cable

Apple offer the ability to copy photos from an iPhone directly to Photos app. But to do so requires a physical connection, you can’t do it over wifi. I found the copy process to be tediously slow. I connected my iPhone to my laptop before I started writing this article half an hour ago and it’s still sitting at ‘Preparing to import from “Wayne’s iPhone”‘

Airdrop

Airdrop is an option that works, but you need to select the photos one by one, and it drops them into the downloads folder of you MacBook (not into the Photos app).

If anyone has found a way to do this, drop a comment below!

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Apr 16

How to fix your Fuji Xerox Printer in Monterey 12.3.1

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I just upgraded to OSX Montery 12.3.1 and it broke my printer. The printer just comes up with an error saying ‘Filter Failed.’ I downloaded the new Fuji Xerox drivers but that did not fix it. I reset the printing system (Apple’s suggested fix) but that did not fix it either. In the end I tried making a new printer with the generic PCL driver and that worked. I’ve lost all my custom printer features, but at least it prints!

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Apr 16

Apple admits that Pages cannot print in greyscale.

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Last month I described a bug in Apple Pages which caused Pages to place hidden color information in greyscale documents. This is fine if you are printing at home but if you take those documents to a commercial printer you will be charged at color copy rates instead of black and white. At our local Officeworks store this means paying 65 cents per page instead of 8 cents.

Today Apple support contacted me to say that they are very sorry but that this is not a bug. It is the way the software was designed. Apple Pages cannot print a greyscale document. It can only print in color. They suggested that I could put in a ‘feature request’ to request that Pages print in greyscale.

This is outrageous. Apple in its software clearly gives the impression that it is printing in greyscale. When users discover the extra costs they have been incurring this potentially opens Apple to litigation. The color selector tools in Pages are clearly misleading. Let me explain.

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Apr 12

Apple printing bug costing users thousands of dollars.

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A bug in Apple’s OS X printing software could see consumers unknowingly pay thousands of dollars extra in printing bills. The bug causes some black and white documents to be billed as colour documents by an attached printer. Businesses on a commercial printing plan will be potentially paying thousands of dollars extra in printing bills.

The bug causes some black and white documents to be billed as colour documents by an attached printer.

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Oct 17

iOS11 battery drain problem update

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An update on What is causing the iOS11 battery drain problems. 

The problem did not clear up. I’ve been in contact with Apple support. They had me do a complete factory reset on my iPhone. They accessed it remotely and did some battery tests. The hardware is fine. The battery dropped from 100% to 75% while I was on the phone to Apple support! I have every possible feature turned off, no mobile data, no Location Services, no Bluetooth, no Background App refresh etc.  I now am waiting a few hours for the phone to be able to be able to collect some usage data and then Apple tech support will call me back. I’ll keep you updated.

Another Update: The factory reset did not work. Apple remotely ran some more diagnostics on my phone.  They did a test where I had to let the phone battery drain for 4 hours without using any apps in airplane mode. Then Apple got me to download a diagnostic app to my computer which downloaded a 350Mb file from my iPhone and these results were sent to Apple engineers who are analysing them. Apple will call me back soon.

Yet Another Update: Apple need to do more tests. I took my phone into an Apple repairer today.

Final Update: Apple Sent me a new iPhone. So there’s a major problem with iOS11 that can cause an iPhone do die such that Apple need to replace it to fix the problem. If you have an iPhone SE or 6 that’s battery life is problematic since iOS11 and it’s under warranty I’d suggest you take it back.

 

1:13pm Battery is full

 

3:13pm Battery is half used after 2 hours.

 

4:53pm – battery is flat

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Sep 27

Facebook slow today

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If facebook is not working well this week, don’t panic. It’s not you computer or iPhone or browser that’s causing the problems. Apparantly Facebook are having some problems.

There’s no fix that I know of other than to wait it out and try again a little later.

This site allows you to check if others have reported a problem too.

 

 

 

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Sep 20

Does your iPhone give you sore thumbs?

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I tend to get sore thumbs from over-using my iPhone. Here’s something interesting that I noticed when I used an Android phone for 6 months. My sore thumbs disappeared. To tell you the truth, I didn’t really notice this until I switched back to the iPhone again, then after about 1 week my sore thumbs reappeared.

On both phones I was using my thumbs to type. So I think the difference is the iPhone home button.

It’s not a huge force that is required to press the home button, but because it needs to be pressed  reasonably hard, and it is used a lot (every time you open a new app) it seems to give me sore thumbs.

So I’m excited about Apple’s move to get rid of the home button altogether with the iPhone X. Looks like they will be using an up-swipe to go back to the home screen. In the meantime, if you get sore thumbs, I’d suggest trying this trick.

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Sep 18

iPhone “cannot be synced because there is not enough free space to hold all of the selected items”

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I just went to sync my iPhone and I was given this message. This ‘lack of space’ is not a lack of space in your computer, the ‘lack of space’ is on the iPhone. This is somewhat of a bug. I think it is because iTunes is wanting to do some updates to the iPhone and there’s not enough room on the iPhone for this to happen. Whatever the cause, the solution is quite easy. Just uninstall some stuff from your iPhone (e.g. movies, music or photos), sync it, then put the stuff back on. Here’s how.

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