iPhone Technical Help Thread

[creekster]

As further evidence I'm a tech dunce, why should I be backing up my iPhone? My email is through Outlook which is tied to my office, and that backs up nightly. Is there something else I need to save, other than my photo collection of reclining nudes of various CS members (sadly, all of them male)?

All the data in your apps (strava, phone info, contacts, maps, and so forth) music, photos, texts, documents you might have saved, notes and so forth. It all goes *poof* if you dont back it up and your phone is lost. you can re-downlaod all the apps form itunes through your apple ID, but the data saved by each app will be lost.

[Pelado]

As further evidence I'm a tech dunce, why should I be backing up my iPhone? My email is through Outlook which is tied to my office, and that backs up nightly. Is there something else I need to save, other than my photo collection of reclining nudes of various CS members (sadly, all of them male)?

Why exclusively reclining?

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[Walter Sobchak]

Why exclusively reclining?

There is Good Naked and there is Bad Naked. It's a scene man.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

There is Good Naked and there is Bad Naked. It's a scene man.

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[chrisrenrut]

As further evidence I'm a tech dunce, why should I be backing up my iPhone? My email is through Outlook which is tied to my office, and that backs up nightly. Is there something else I need to save, other than my photo collection of reclining nudes of various CS members (sadly, all of them male)?

A friend lost his phone to a swimming pool incident, and he lost years worth of contact info because he never backed them up. It was a huge pain for him.

[Donuthole]

Any help from the peanut gallery? As of this weekend, any text to a group text messaging thread which includes someone with an an android phone automatically creates a new texting thread/chain which includes the same participants but adds another recipient: me. Specifically, it creates a new text chain and adds one of the participants as "Maybe: [insert my name here]. So when I text, I then immediately receive the text. Also, it is making it exceedingly difficult to sort between text threads because I'm listed as the first participant in every thread. I'm wondering what could have changed over this weekend that would have caused this to suddenly start happening. And more importantly, what can I do to make it stop?

[Art Vandelay]

Any help from the peanut gallery? As of this weekend, any text to a group text messaging thread which includes someone with an an android phone automatically creates a new texting thread/chain which includes the same participants but adds another recipient: me. Specifically, it creates a new text chain and adds one of the participants as "Maybe: [insert my name here]. So when I text, I then immediately receive the text. Also, it is making it exceedingly difficult to sort between text threads because I'm listed as the first participant in every thread. I'm wondering what could have changed over this weekend that would have caused this to suddenly start happening. And more importantly, what can I do to make it stop?

I've had this happen several times. It seems to return to normal, almost as quickly as it appears. I assume it is some setting on the Android end.

Somewhat related. I hate how i can't make names for group texts, unless everyone has an iphone. It messes with my OCD to see a huge list of names/numbers versus a simple group title.

[Walter Sobchak]

There are people still using iPhones?!

[Bo Diddley]

There are people still using iPhones?!

I was about to say, "Talk me into using an iPhone." I've never used Apple for anything. Sorry, UT.

[scottie]

Any help from the peanut gallery? As of this weekend, any text to a group text messaging thread which includes someone with an an android phone automatically creates a new texting thread/chain which includes the same participants but adds another recipient: me. Specifically, it creates a new text chain and adds one of the participants as "Maybe: [insert my name here]. So when I text, I then immediately receive the text. Also, it is making it exceedingly difficult to sort between text threads because I'm listed as the first participant in every thread. I'm wondering what could have changed over this weekend that would have caused this to suddenly start happening. And more importantly, what can I do to make it stop?

Something I found from Googling -- could be that your "My Card" in Contacts needs to have your own phone number listed, with the leading "1":

- Contacts > click on Your Name (My Card) at the top > Edit
- Add phone (specify iPhone)
- Enter your number, including +1
- Done

[Art Vandelay]

There are people still using iPhones?!

Does your phone still respond to texts with a RE: Subject line?*



* Yep, that's a humblebrag. Walter occasionally texts me when is stops for ice-cream on his trips to Utah. What i really miss is YO wishing me happy holidays at 6am - central time

[Donuthole]

Something I found from Googling -- could be that your "My Card" in Contacts needs to have your own phone number listed, with the leading "1":

- Contacts > click on Your Name (My Card) at the top > Edit
- Add phone (specify iPhone)
- Enter your number, including +1
- Done

Thanks. I rebooted and it seems to be working again. However, I went into my contacts and it does have my "My Card" listed with a random, strange number and it has some other strange information in the my card (listed my brother as someone random). Weird. Has my phone been hacked?

[Uncle Ted]

Any help from the peanut gallery? As of this weekend, any text to a group text messaging thread which includes someone with an an android phone automatically creates a new texting thread/chain which includes the same participants but adds another recipient: me. Specifically, it creates a new text chain and adds one of the participants as "Maybe: [insert my name here]. So when I text, I then immediately receive the text. Also, it is making it exceedingly difficult to sort between text threads because I'm listed as the first participant in every thread. I'm wondering what could have changed over this weekend that would have caused this to suddenly start happening. And more importantly, what can I do to make it stop?

You shouldn't give out your contact information to anyone with an android phone... don't associate with those people.

[Katy Lied]

I want to switch over to another carrier, and I paid cash up front for my existing iphone. I have never been on contract with my current carrier, and never financed any of my phones. I verified with TMobile that my iphone was unlocked. However, when I tried to switch over to a new carrier, they checked my existing iphone's IMEI and told me that that particular IMEI was irretrievably linked to TMobile. What? I was never given a discount or anything when I purchased my existing iphone, and I thought it was like purchasing an iphone from Apple directly, but it looks like if I try to take my phone away from TMobile it won't work at all. Isn't that the definition of a locked phone? And why would it be locked in the first place? So now I have a 7 plus with 256 GB that I cannot use?

[Donuthole]

I want to switch over to another carrier, and I paid cash up front for my existing iphone. I have never been on contract with my current carrier, and never financed any of my phones. I verified with TMobile that my iphone was unlocked. However, when I tried to switch over to a new carrier, they checked my existing iphone's IMEI and told me that that particular IMEI was irretrievably linked to TMobile. What? I was never given a discount or anything when I purchased my existing iphone, and I thought it was like purchasing an iphone from Apple directly, but it looks like if I try to take my phone away from TMobile it won't work at all. Isn't that the definition of a locked phone? And why would it be locked in the first place? So now I have a 7 plus with 256 GB that I cannot use?

Did you go through the steps to unlock your phone? We just switched to TMobile, and we unlocked the phones we had purchased through AT&T. It was pretty seamless. My iPhone X transferred right over, though they told us my daughters iPhone 5s couldn't transfer. So I traded in an old iPhone 6 I had been using as an iPod, and got a $450 credit towards a new phone for my daughter. And now I just use the iPhone 5 as the iPod. I have to think you'd be able to trade your 7plus in for some decent value, even if it's true that it can't be unlocked.