Honest question here, and not denigrating Universal Control at all, but kinda puzzled. It’s a FANTASTIC demo, but what are the OMG use cases that make it compelling?
Dragging files directly between iPad/Mac is obviously useful (although Airdrop is already quite good). After that? I guess you can use a Mac keyboard/trackpad to operate the iPad, but since the iPad is physically right there, why not just pick it up and use it directly? I suppose UC saves buying an iPad keyboard, maybe, but I can’t see bringing a Mac and iPad to a coffee shop for that. Obviously, you’d buy an iPad Magic keyboard or similar.
And I guess there are iPad apps that don’t exist on the Mac, but again, I’d just pick up the iPad and use it directly for Instagram, or Twitter or whatever the app might be.
I’m not seeing the “I’ve got to have it” in UC. Sidecare, OTOH, makes perfect sense to me. But I’m mostly a Mac user.
I’d love to learn that this is just a failure of my imgination, so examples, please!
FYI, the deal with volume and orientation is that there’s a switch in Settings > Sound for Fixed Position Volume Controls. When that’s enabled, the Volume Up button increases the sound, and Volume Down decreases, regardless of the orientation.
Turn off Fixed Position Volume Controls and when you rotate the iPad to landscape, the Volume Up button, which is now the leftmost button, decreases the volume, and the Volume Down button, which is now the rightmost button, increases volume. This makes sense when the volume slider rotates because left is quieter and right is louder.
I have found another 2018 MacMini user who has also noticed the disappearance of the AirPlay to Mac feature. I am guessing there is some case statement that asks for the machine id. Your virtual machine doesn’t answer (or answers it with a newer model) and it is good to go.
There are reports of macOS 12.3 Monterey bricking Macs that had their logic boards replaced. I would hold off if Apple has repaired your Mac, since that’s a pretty common fix.
Sorry to hear that. I would check with Apple to be sure. In my VM, there is no model showing but I’m still surprised AirPlay works even just for audio in my case. The host is a 2012 Mac Mini i7.
However, it appears 12.3 has also broken Safari’s previous handling of website notifications. I have all those turned to ‘Deny’. But since I updated I’ve started getting Safari notifications whenever TidBITS Talk threads I’m following get new posts. Turns out, lots of websites now show up individually under Sys Prefs > Notifications (they were not there before) and they all need to be turned off again. Lots of unnecessary work.
ot/ What’s with this unhealthy obsession these days with getting popups all the time to nag you about insignificances anyway? Do people not have enough work? No purpose? No hobbies? Or are notifications the new “hobby”? Yikes.
Actually that made me imagine if I can easily ‘swipe’ my files over to the Mac or (literally) drop files from external monitor to the iPhone sitting underneath it - especially feasible if the devices are UWB-equipped. Or maybe using the iPhone as a big trackpad/numpad in a pinch - would be a good way to repurpose older iPhones…
Serious battery drain on my IPadPro 3rd gen. since downloading and using iOS15.4. I’ve had 15.4 since it was released-- way longer than “48 hours.”
I’ve tried all of the suggested measures to reduce battery usage.
Any thoughts, anyone?
I’d say the first place to start is to look at Settings / Battery to see what is reported as using the most battery usage by % and then tap again to see how much time the app is reporting used. If something looks bad, think about putting a restriction on that app in Settings / Screen time (in case, for example, you have a lot of background usage on an app. And you can also turn off background app processes for a particular app in Settings / General/ Background App Refresh and see if that helps).
But beyond that, when you say that you’ve “tried all of the suggested measures” without saying what it is exactly you’ve tried - who suggested, what did they suggest, etc. - it’s hard to give any more advice.
Thanks for the suggestions, Doug. These measures have been suggested previously. Virtually all the background app refreshes are off and I’ve already restricted some apps, but the problem is more basic: I haven’t changed my pattern and amount of use of the iPad when I activated 15.4. I’m doing exactly what I did previously. The apps I use most and least haven’t changed and the amount of time I spend on the iPad hasn’t changed.
But whereas before 15.4 a battery charge would last a full day with some left over, I now have to plug in by 2 or 3 p.m. The difference is dramatic. I am increasingly convinced there is a problem with 15.4 itself.
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It’s definitely not universal in 15.4, because my iPad Air and iPhone are not seeing these issues. I do know that people sometimes get these random and sudden battery drain behaviors like this with iOS and iPadOS and probably the next thing to try (if you haven’t already) is to make sure that you have an iCloud or an encrypted iTunes/computer backup (if not both, just in case) and do a factory reset and restore from backup. When doing this, just like when getting a new device the first day or two can have bad battery life as the iPad finishes its setup and indexing, etc., but then see if battery life is closer to what it was before. I think the theory of this as a solution is that the sudden battery decrease is caused by some system process that has a corrupted database that causes it to get in an abnormal state that can’t be fixed by any other means than the erase and restore cycle.
It may also be worth calling AppleCare and see what they suggest, if for no other reason to let Apple know that there may be an issue with iPadOS that needs fixing.
Never mind the above comment (I hope it’s not too late.) Apple has released iOS 15.4.1 and one of the update bug fixes listed is “battery may drain more quickly after 15.4 update.” I’m not sure if iPadOS 15.4.1 is available, but I’d try installing that if and when it is available and see if that does solve the battery drain for you.
Thanks VERY much. Just checked— 15.4.1 is available also for iPad. And thanks generally— Your suggestions are very much appreciated— and they’re in English (as opposed to computereze) to boot!
and iPadOS, macOS 12.3.1 & watchOS 8.5.1 primarily as a Security Updates and “Apple is aware of a report that [these] issue[s] may have been actively exploited.” so all eligible users should update quickly.
I use indigo, and it’s mission critical. The developers say that just including Python 2 doesn’t work. They thought they had until the end of the year to upgrade everything to Python 3, because Apple typically doesn’t make such big changes at the first decimal-place version level (so they thought they had until 13.0). Indigo is mostly written in C++, but major portions of it are in python, including all the user scripts. Furthermore there is an extensive library of user-provided plugins that are all written in Python 2.x. Each such developer has to upgrade all of their code to 3.0. Meanwhile I am stuck. What do I do about these zero-day exploits that are patched in 12.3.x versions. I sure wish Apple would release their security updates as separate installable packages for people like me.
While I can understand the frustration of Apple not documenting exactly when they would drop python2, I can’t stop thinking of a line from an Indiana Jones movie: “He chose… poorly. “
Python 2 was announced to be sunset by the python developers as of January 1, 2020, with a strong recommendation to move code to python 3. Two years ago.
Apple put items in the Catalina release notes warning of the deprecation of scripting languages in future releases and that if developers needed them they should bundle them with their product. There was also a warning to stop using Python 2.7. That too was well over 2 years and two major releases ago.
