Yes that’s just what Reddit needs, more terrible dad jokes and lame puns in a thread where someone’s asking an actual question lol

Apple letting people decide how their device works? That is actually surprising

Being able to block apps entirely from accessing the internet. Not just from accessing cellular data. Ironically iPhones sold in China have this feature

you guys are so fucked and nobody is going to feel bad. this dude literally included a link showing the EU trying to force browsers to trust government issued certs, and you’re talking about “apple fanboys”. when your entire phone can be read by the government with zero warrant I don’t wanna hear one fucking complaint from you, just sit down and be quiet and have no privacy.

The part you are wrong about is where you think people are smart enough to understand this. They are not. Full stop. They just aren’t. They’re shortsighted, emotional, and naive. They will only cry about how it’s bullshit that their phone scans their photos, when it becomes reality. Right now they think they can have some centralized authority that controls what features must be in a phone, but somehow prevent that authority from using that power against them. That is stupid. They cannot answer the question “how are you going to feel when the EU mandates an unpopular change?” – that you asked of them. They can’t answer it because they simply think it won’t happen.

Most people do not understand, or refuse to accept, the reality that there are tradeoffs to every decision. Yes it is annoying that Apple won’t open their walled garden. Yes it is obnoxious that I need to pay $100 a fucking year just to write an app to use on my own goddamn phone. That pisses me off. But if the alternative is letting the government MANDATE that I am allowed to install that app, I’ll pass. Because I know the next mandate will be an app I very much do not want.

I look forward to when we have no legal encryption anymore. People will blame left wingers, right wingers, capitalists, communists, anyone but themselves.

Hope USB-C and sideloading is worth it.

That is hyperbole

I think I may have answered my own question: Apple’s website for watchOS 9 says the following:

compatibility.

watchOS 9 requires iPhone 8 or later with iOS 16 or later and one of the following Apple Watch models:

“Or later” means that I should be able to use my Apple Watch on WatchOS 9 and simply not upgrade to WatchOS 10 even with the new iPhone. But I am not 100% sure if this is the case.

Can someone who has specifically done this (used an Apple Watch that isn’t updated to WatchOS 10, with an iPhone 15 that is on iOS 17) comment on it?

The watchOS 10 site does explicitly say you need iOS 17.

Could easily be fake cops.

Okay first of all, I’m not a lawyer but I would not voluntarily allow my property to be searched.

Secondly, this sounds like a scam. I’d call the local PD and ask if they have any record of sending officers to my house. I’d suspect they’ll tell you no, and the “cops” at your door weren’t cops. They were dressed up to case your house

Expand photographic styles to include some that have way less sharpening

Don’t you dare. Clippy was goated

I have an iPhone X. Debating keeping it because I dislike a lot of the new camera processing, but the 15 Pro would be my choice. The upgrades are meaningful, tbh. I don’t really care about 120Hz, but ProRAW photos and ProRes are real upgrades.

My prediction is Apple will build an impressive local LLM for iOS 18, multimodal with lots of capabilities, but hardware lock it behind the iPhone 16 models for some dumbass reason like how it needs the Neurobionic Supermegathicc Engine that they built into the SOC instead of using the existing neural engine

What else would they even change… it’s a metal rectangle with a screen, processor, memory and a battery.

Safari for Private relay

I’m going to come back to the 2026 thread titled “US and EU pass laws mandating on-device scanning” and watch everyone who was warned about the consequences of having governments demand features in tech products pretend they didn’t know. All the people who said “sLiPpErY SlOpE FaLLaCy” will be fun to talk to

Americans have way more disposable income (yes, even after accounting for healthcare expenses) on average than Europeans, so you’ve been taking that W every year, at least.

The pro moniker is just marketing.

This is basically an air with the 120hz screen, more ports, etc.

It will be popular