Tethering is totally broken on my iPhone 17 Pro.
It might be the 26.1 beta it's running, but it’s completely unreliable. Frequently loses all connectivity until the phone is rebooted.
I've been spoiled all summer by how amazing it was with Tahoe's auto-connection to my 16 Pro (as it almost melted through the train seat).
@marcoarment Apple is preparing the market for Mac’s with cellular that is somehow a $600 upgrade only available on the models with all CPU cores and requires the 4TB storage space upgrade too.
@marcoarment Weird. Just installed 26.01 and the patch notes listed Wifi and Bluetooth connectivity issues as one of the fixed items.
Just curious… are you slamming it with throughput, like HD video?
@Chancerubbage No. Basic web/email stuff.
@marcoarment If the only new Mac that gets cellular is the budget A-chip model, would you buy it??
@marcoarment For me tethering itself works with my 15 Pro Max, but it’s annoying to get constant notifications on my Mac that the phone is low on battery (it isn’t) and suggestions to disconnect. This started in Sequoia and for a brief moment looked like it was fixed with Tahoe, but it’s a mess once again. My iPhone: ”I’m on 5G with 88% battery”, my Mac: ”No you’re not, to me it looks like you’re on 3G and almost dead” 🤷♂️
Shout out to one thing that got much nicer recently:
Music.app on iOS not only remembers the song you were playing through a termination or iPhone reboot, but it even resumes from the timestamp you left it at!
@marcoarment But does it also remember where you navigated in your library for longer than 5 seconds after an app switch?
@marcoarment I know that good state restoration isn’t the fashionable thing nowadays, but termination and app switching really should be indistinguishable in all apps. In 2008 it was indistinguishable by design, so you had to make it work.
@marcoarment Hi, I noticed you do stories on cybercrime and I'm in a lot of trouble. I filed a lawsuit against CVS. Víctor Orozco v CVS health in northern district of Texas & it grew incredibly out of control and fast on fraud and Civil R.I.C.O. & family is hacked with fake UI, we are attacked daily by over 22k hz over 100 DB and have lost access to evidence due to non stop surveillance. My phone's flashlight burned a blister on my finger, my head burns. They're gonna kill me🥺
@marcoarment It’s a sad state we Apple Music folks are in when these our our wins. In contrast…my mind is frequently blown when I am listening to Spotify at work on my laptop and then Spotify in my Tesla picks up where I left off (talk about surprise and delight) after I close my laptop and get in the car. I sometimes think of just how far apple is from that and 🫠
@marcoarment does it still automatically start the first song in the first album by alphabetical order when connecting to CarPlay? It’s been driving me nuts for years now
@marcoarment I submitted radars on this back when they were called radars. #betterlatethannever
@marcoarment resume at timestamp seems like a feature that mostly appeals to Phish fans (not that there’s anything wrong with that.)
Now I just need music.app to stop thinking I wanted to listen to music and overtaking Overcast as the current audio player.
@marcoarment not only that, it picked up at the same place for me after transferring to my new phone.
@marcoarment I want to be able to continue what I was listening to on another device, like my Mac or iPad.
@marcoarment Honestly it’s this kind of thing I’d like to see tech companies focussing on instead of jamming LLM shite into everything.
@marcoarment Any chance it does that with Apple Music Radio shows too? I would jump up just for that.
@marcoarment Total opposite here. Music.app is the one app giving me the most trouble. Won't BT to my car for more than a minute. Song keeps playing, just can't hear it. And then nothing makes any sound without restarting my car. Ugh. (FWIW, OC works great.)
@marcoarment Can it do handoff w macOS now? So hard right now to keep the music playing when you get to your desk.
