Help me Oppo. Also, I have an Iphone Xs in my hands, AMA?

"Spanfeller is a twat" (theaspiringengineer)
09/29/2018 at 12:41 • Filed to: None

My mother got a new phone, she also got a new phone number. But she did everything wrong after that. She’s not exactly techy unless it comes to photography.

She came to me asking for help migrating her WhatsAp p account. Since it’s an Iphone, the backups go to Icloud and it’s a pain in the ass . So I asked her if she had backed up her information before, she hadn’t. She then told me the clerk at the carrier store told her to just migrate her phone number. I told her that if she did that, she’d lo se all of her information since the backup was still being made.

Literally the only cool thing about an Iphone X

I told her not to do it, but she went ahead and did it anyway without the backup completed . So now she’s got her old Whatsapp acount with Phone Number 1 with all of the previous chat information, and a new Whatsapp account with Phone Number 2 with all of the group chats.

By migrating her account Phone Number 1 got signed out from all of her groups, so now if I delete the new account and re-start the migration procedure, she’s going to loose all of her group chats. If I migrate the new phone number into the old account, thereby signing in all the group chats, She loses the backup, at which point it’s kind of pointless. I am deeply confused by this clusterfuck.

I don’t like Iphones that much, shamefully a series of bad decisions landed me an Iphone 6 and later on an Iphone 8. But if you like these phones, I currently have this Xs Max in my hands. My mother’s reaction after the data miss-handling was to throw the phones at me and shout “Then solve it.” so that’s that.... if you have any questions about it I could answer them.

DISCUSSION (22)

HammerheadFistpunch > Spanfeller is a twat
09/29/2018 at 12:44

I hate iPhones and I will tell you why - My mother has one and thinks I can trouble shoot it. I don’t have an iphone...I’ve never had an iPhone, I find them frustrating and unintuitive. Call your other son that steered you towards an iPhone!

Spanfeller is a twat > HammerheadFistpunch
09/29/2018 at 12:45

Iphones are made for non-techy people . So we might see a stupid phone, but they see an uncomplicated phone.

HammerheadFistpunch > Spanfeller is a twat
09/29/2018 at 12:48

I understand that they are supposed to be simple and intuitive, but I have an iPad (company) and I have an Android tablet and I never use the iPad, and neither does my wife. We both find them frustrating. She’s non-techy and loved all her apply products from her past. Sorry Steve, a back button is actually a very useful button and its worth including even it it disrupts the aesthetic.

Spanfeller is a twat > HammerheadFistpunch
09/29/2018 at 12:50

Apple really stands for Aesthetics...

But even then their new phones look like blobs now... I don’t find them at all appealing, specially compared to a Pixel.

cluelessk > HammerheadFistpunch
09/29/2018 at 12:52

“ Oh it’s an Apple product. I can’t help you”

I had a fist gen shuffle my Mom got for opening a bank account. It along with iTunes turned me off from buying anything Apple.

DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! > Spanfeller is a twat
09/29/2018 at 12:54

God it’s pretty.

HammerheadFistpunch > cluelessk
09/29/2018 at 12:55

You have no idea how many times I’ve said these words. “Mom, I don’t know apple stuff...call your other son.”

“but he can never help me”

*to myself* so STOP taking his advice on stuff!

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > cluelessk
09/29/2018 at 12:59

iTunes has always been garbage. I uninstalled it from my MacBook.

Spanfeller is a twat > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!
09/29/2018 at 13:02

Pretty stupid

HammerheadFistpunch > cluelessk
09/29/2018 at 13:02

Also, I’ve never paid for an apple product, they’ve all been bank account type things. I have a 3rd gen shuffle I was going to use on the boat because the stereo has, inexplicably, a 30 pin apple connector but NOT an aux in....Anyway we don’t have internet there and so I spent the better part of a day trying alternative methods to get music from my laptop to my ipod before giving up and using my phone to download itunes and install it. 300 mb of my data plan gone. WHY?!

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!
09/29/2018 at 13:12

I might be biased but I think my S9+ is even prettier

404 - User No Longer Available > HammerheadFistpunch
09/29/2018 at 13:14

It would be good if the back button wasn't all the way up in the top left corner.

webOS gestures FTW

HammerheadFistpunch > 404 - User No Longer Available
09/29/2018 at 13:32

top left corner?

Rico > HammerheadFistpunch
09/29/2018 at 14:16

Nearly every single app is swipe right to go back or back button in the upper left corner.

404 - User No Longer Available > HammerheadFistpunch
09/29/2018 at 14:17

In the iOS interface, apps almost always have the back button on the top left corner. That’s why I’m frustrated as hell when someone hands me an iPhone.

Rico > Spanfeller is a twat
09/29/2018 at 14:17

Lmao

Future Heap Owner > Spanfeller is a twat
09/29/2018 at 14:43

How big is it really

DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
09/29/2018 at 15:11

Definitely biased.

DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! > Spanfeller is a twat
09/29/2018 at 15:11

I’ll kill you.

Spanfeller is a twat > Future Heap Owner
09/29/2018 at 15:20

Its fucking huge, it feels bigger and heavier tuan my nexus 6p

Spanfeller is a twat > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!
09/29/2018 at 15:22

I’ll throw it at you and the mere weight will kill u

Rico > 404 - User No Longer Available
09/29/2018 at 20:26

Here’s a tip, swiping right in any app is the system wide back button.