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Robot_Embryo t1_j9rhnnz wrote

Reply to comment by dynamic424 in iPhone 14 Pro's Dynamic Island Gets the Android Treatment in Latest Copycat Effort by StrongInteraction594

That's cool.

I spent 2h trying to figure out how to disable the unnecessary password prompt for free apps from the iTunes store on an iPad.

After 3 different walk-throughs all leading to dead ends (because they apparently keep changing where they hide the damn setting), I finally discovered that the toggle was disabled, greyed out, on my particular (and latest) OS model.

Wanted to share some files over Bluetooth between my Android and iPad, but the iPad couldn't do it.

I returned that shit the next day.

This has been my consistent experience at every level with iOS.

There's one way to everything, and one way only. If you need to do something that the smug design team at Apple never thought of, or they didn't think you would need to, or if there's a bug in software and you need to troubleshoot by doing it a different way, too bad: you're SOL.

The thing is I want to like iOS. I have a MacBook Pro, and it'd be nice to have a phone that plays nice with it (but Apple intentionally makes it difficult to interact with non-Apple devices).

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Romeo9594 t1_j9rwahh wrote

If you're spending that much time on something that simple you need to improve your Googling, reading comprehension, and critical thinking skills man

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Robot_Embryo t1_j9rzjn6 wrote

Check YOUR reading comprehension.

I read through 3 different detailed guides, and each one CONTRADICTED one another, because this silly little option-toggle getting moved around when OS was updated.

In the end, I was never able to toggle it off, because on the that version of iOS (the most recent at the time, Spring 2021) on that iPad had a bug, and the option toggle was disabled.

A tech savvy person shouldn't need to comb through guides to find an parameter toggle as trivial as that; the option should been under App Store settings. THAT would be the intuitive place to change an App Store parameter, but instead, it was buried somewhere in the phone master settings.

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Romeo9594 t1_j9s06xe wrote

Maybe you should have included your OS version in your Google search and save yourself some headache? Google also has a "tools" option to let you only see results from the past week/month/year/etc you can use so you don't follow outdated guides

You're welcome

Lol, u/Robot_Embryo blocked me after leaving his comment. All I wanted to do was teach a self proclaimed "tech savvy" person how to use Google

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Robot_Embryo t1_j9s3v5i wrote

I did? News to me. Maybe you should learn how to use your iOS device.

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Romeo9594 t1_j9s48y1 wrote

Oh, so weird how I can all of a sudden view your profile again. Anyway, I hope the lesson on how to Google was helpful to a "tech savvy" person such as yourself. Seems a basic lesson but I'm willing to offer it for free

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Robot_Embryo t1_j9s18jr wrote

My god, you iPhone fanboys are worse than Trump supporters.

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dynamic424 t1_j9s1t1j wrote

"How to *insert what you want to do* ios version *your ios version*" Litterally that simple.

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Robot_Embryo t1_j9s3vqo wrote

I guess if I were an iOS user I'd be used to that, but in 13 years I've literally never once had to Google for a walk through on how to find a such a trivial parameter with Android, because they usually are put right where you'd expect them to be.

>Litterally that simple.

You know what's literally simpler?

  1. not requiring a password input for free apps by default on the Appstore

  2. putting an AppStore setting parameter in the Appstore settings menu, not somewhere completely unrelated

  3. not arbitrarily moving the toggle to a new sub-menu everytime the OS is updated.

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dynamic424 t1_j9sakcv wrote

Ive never had to google either. It just seems like some cant manage on there own, and have to look up guides on how to do shit, on IOS of all places lmao. You can quite easily make password input be your face, or touch. It seems like you werent capable of doing that either. The appstore settings are.... where you (didnt) guess, the settings menu. Sure they shouldnt change where it is, but your dumbass cant find out what the setting name is called, and use the handy dandy settings search, that searches the name of literally every setting. And will let you change it.

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dynamic424 t1_j9s1oe8 wrote

>Wanted to share some files over Bluetooth between my Android and iPad, but the iPad couldn't do it.

Use any other third party app. Becuase apparently anroid users are alright with downloading third party software for fixes. Apple users just use airdrop, text, or google cloud.

If thats your contasnt experience, would hate to see you use android lmao. Apple makes some of the most dumbed down settings, and everything for user experience, if you cant figure it out, thats pretty sad.

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Robot_Embryo t1_j9s2h58 wrote

Yup, dumbed down, and since there's only one way to do things, there's no way to troubleshoot.

When I'm having an issue with Android, since there's multiple ways to do things, I can usually maneuver around it.

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dynamic424 t1_j9s3a4a wrote

theres no way to troubleshoot, cuz unless your fucking stupid, theres no way to actually fuck it up. Ive seen like 5 examples of actually messing it up, not the users fault.

To send files, you use google. Or airdrop, Or text. Nope, definitely not multiple ways to do things, lmfao.

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