That said, I have an older iPad Mini2, MF075LL/A, 16 Gb, runs iOS 12.5.6, happily, but it’s from 2013, rarely used… Buyourmac offers $2 for it… Not worth the postage… So it has become a token of what was… Nothing is on it I can’t do without… It belongs in the bin in the garage of old Apple products, books, like the Apple //e out there… Interesting but not so useful any more…
IF it were me, I guess I’d have gone for the current model, but the days when I updated nearly every year are past, no more MacWorld Expo or other events to crank up the needs…
Sorry I missed the Vintage tag…
BTW, MSFT has also stopped supporting Office 365 for my Mac Pro that is blocked at Mojave, we keep the subscription going for my DW’s newer iMac, but I’m stoppered until I am forced to move up to a Studio or an iMac…
I’m in the process of trying a restore from my latest backup. It went great until about 30 minutes in, and now has been stuck with 5 GB remaining, at the step it says it is restoring books (for the Books app, I presume). Been stuck for 6 hours now. I don’t think it will ever get farther unless I do something, but I’ll let it run all night “just in case”. Then, if it’s still not done, I’ll call Apple again tomorrow before I stop the restore and perhaps cause further problems. I did find one thread online where someone had the same problem and eventually just restarted his iPad, at which point the books finished installing in 15 minutes. But it’s not clear to me whether he actually hit the button to stop the restore or just restarted the iPad. I’ve also not found any documentation about whether you get any further options if you press the button to stop the restore. E.g., is it supposed to simply pick up where it left off? Seems like maybe that’s what happens, but I need Apple to verify that. Incidentally, all my other apps and data seem to have been restored ok.
I know it is really late for me to be asking this, but have you done a hard reboot of both iPads, the old one especially? Where you hold down the power button, then swipe when prompted, and then restart where the Apple logo appears with a progress bar showing how it is going?
Well, the old iPad is not involved when the new one is in the process of the restore from backup. But after contacting Apple, they did confirm that the “standard” way to make a restore from iCloud backup continue when it seems to have become stuck is to perform a hard power off (simultaneously hold down power button and volume up button, then “slide to power off”), wait a minute, then hold the power button again to power on. So, I did that and it actually DID start to continue the restore again, but got stuck again at 3.5 GB remaining. That’s an improvement from being stuck at 5 GB remaining before, but I wonder why it keeps getting stuck. I will wait an hour and repeat the process as many times as is needed. …But, as I’m writing this, I have to wonder if the drop from 5 GB to 3.5 GB just reflects a more accurate measurement and not any real progress. We shall see.
Any further progress? That must be a large number of titles, and the software should have a way to get past any corrupted files, then just tell you afterward what couldn’t be transferred… But that would make too much sense, I guess. That’s how image files are handled if I try to import a mixed batch into Photos, the oddball formats/files are simply reported as not moved/copied…
I’ve pretty much decided not to bother further with trying to get a good backup of the old iPad Air 2, or trying to get a totally 100% complete data transfer to the new iPad Pro. I’m going to enable iCloud in the Books app on the old iPad, so that all the books (PDFs in my case) get “synced” to iCloud, then when that hopefully completes successfully (although I suppose it might get stuck part way like the data transfer), enable iCloud in the Books app on the new iPad and hope the result is a merging of the missing PDFs from the old iPad onto the new iPad. But frankly, after calling Apple today, and speaking to someone who barely knew any details more than I already do about how this will or is “supposed to” work, I’m nervous about even attempting it. I feel like the Books app is not getting Apple’s full attention and half expect it to be “retired” in the not too distant future.
Well, as much as I’m hooked on my various Apple products, there are some of their Apps that have been ignored for a while, I suspect that the development group for those apps have moved on, and the push to fix, improve them has slipped away with them… In my case it’s OS apps, nit iOS, but maybe the same problem. Calendar, iTunes need updates, as does the way iOS apps are handled from the OS owner… We used to be able to rearrange iOS apps in iTunes, gone. Calendar doesn’t remember user settings for printing. There are workarounds, or 3rd party apps, but why not fix the originals…
Out of curiosity does Apple have a decent weather app? I’ve got two on my iPhone one is the Weather app (from the Weather Channel) and the other is an app from a local TV channel. The local TV channel gives me the best predictions but as a golfer when it says 80% chance of rain I stay home. Guess what? It turns out to be a beautiful day. Just wondering if Apple has a weather app that’s reliable and worth downloading. Temperature and wind speed is important too.
Apple has their own weather app. As of iOS 16 it’s supposed to incorporate the features and accuracy of the erstwhile Dark Sky weather app (see https://blog.darksky.net), but the complaints I’ve seen say that so far, it’s a poor substitute. See Weather on the App Store
No… Apple bought it, and have announced that it will be Unavailable as of 1/1/2023. Dark Sky’s forecast technology is now enhanced and integrated into the updated Apple Weather app.
What makes Dark Sky stand out for me is less the forecast technology than the simple, uncluttered, functional user interface. Needless to say the UI didn’t get integrated into the updated Apple Weather app.
In the first half of 2022 when I learned Dark Sky would be sunset and that the Apple Weather would be its replacement - I looked at it and it stunk.
When the announcement on the watch saying 1/1/23 was terminal, I looked again. I did install the Apple Weather app and like it just fine. It is different than Dark Sky, but if I am honest, my greatest criticism is “It is different”
I use the Apple weather app and its pretty simplistic, but it gives me the weather. I also use a weather station that I bought and it connects to the internet giving me up to date weather forecasts…doc
