I've got an iphone. Last year I joined the ranks of the 'young trendies' and bought myself an iphone4S. A month later the iphone5 came out and I no longer had the most up-to-date phone.
I love my iphone. I wouldn't be without it. But to be honest I'm spending a lot of money on it each month considering I don't even know how to use 10% of what it can do.
I check my emails & I look on Facebook. I don't even make a lot of calls or send a lot of texts! In fact, for most of my life I've managed perfectly well without a mobile phone.
.............And this rant isn't about mobile phones - though I'm sure I will have a mobile phone rant at a later date.
..............It's about iphone updates........................
A few days ago a message popped up in my 'settings', I read it, I didn't understand it, so I ignored it.
Tonight I clicked on it again and it said something about an update........................ So I just kept clicking on OK to everything it asked me. And then it asked me for a 4 digit code................ So I gave it one.
Goodness only knows what it's updated??? Everything I think.
And now I seem to have to key in my 4 digit code every single time I want to use the phone. I think this is some sort of security thing??? Ie, if someone steals my phone they won't be able to use it because they don't know my 'secret 4 digit code'??? So somehow I must have bypassed this facility when I first set up my phone?! I'm not sure if it's better to have a 'secret code' on the phone so that if it's stolen it can't be used - or to not have a secret code so that if, for example, I was in an accident and someone needed to call the emergency services and they didn't have a phone they could use mine??
Isn't life complicated these days? In the 1980/90's I travelled all over the world and the only way my parents had of keeping in touch was by letter which took more than a week to arrive back in the UK. The only time I ever phoned home when I was abroad, was on Christmas day because it was so expensive. And now everybody has to do constant updates of their life on social media sites 24/7. OK this is definitely going to be another rant.
And to get back to iphone updates:
Everything on my 1st page is a lot brighter. I guess that's OK.
When I want to send a message I actually have to scroll down the phone to get to the message bit because it now pops up with 'face time & notes'. I've only ever been on 'face time' once - and what on earth does 'notes' mean? Is there someway of writing notes that you want to send in your text? Or are notes something you write down when you receive a text? I haven't a clue.
Just where does one find all the new information and what the updates have updated? Possibly in some very small print somewhere, but who's got the time to read through all that?
Also, I just tried to take a photo and even the camera has popped up with new stuff. What on earth does 'HDR off' mean? What does 'HDR' stand for? And then there's a thing that says 'square'? Haven't a clue what that does? I don't seem to be able to make it do anything?? And how do I record stuff? I've just pressed the video button and all I've got is a photo of my computer screen?!!!!
It's just all so annoying and I hate it. Much as I'd love to be the most techie competent person in the world - I'm not!!!!
I was only just getting to grips with what my phone could do after a year and now it's all changed.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr..............................
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