I wouldn’t be surprised if they continued to gate it to the “pro” models and the “regular” iPhones never see these features no matter how new. That’s why the 15 pro has an “A17 Pro” chip so the iPhone 16 will have a non-pro chip that can’t do AI stuff

Also the iPad Pro has 4 speakers and the air has 2, if you care about internal speakers the pro is much better

Anyone else sick of people posting in “Apple enthusiast” that start with I am not actively using any Apple products and then launches into a negative spiral?

This is not the sub for you. Go complain in a general tech sub, this is for people deep in the ecosystem not people looking in from the outside

Also the ONLY one on the market that doesn’t rainbow with polarized sunglasses

The flolab is the only screen protector I’ve ever used I didn’t rip off within hours. People don’t even believe me I have one installed it looks just like the natural screen!

https://testflight.apple.com/join/MelFP11Y

I am currently using a M2 mini with 8gb of ram for Plex/Jellyfin/SSH and Time Machine and the ram is plenty! But I am happy I went with 512 for the faster storage chips

If optimized charging was the culprit, it should show a pause symbol on the graph. The issue is likely related to heat or a bug, but I would recommend leaving optimized charging enabled for long term battery health.

I don’t need to keep it on my phone. The thumbnail cache is only about 20gb

No, that’s what iCloud photos is for :) not sure why I’m being downvoted, it was my intention to say 128 is enough for most - including me.

My photo/video library is 1.4tb but for most people (like my parents) 128 is plenty

heif is correct, it is an image format derived from heic for video. It is pretty spectacular especially compared to the aging jpeg, but yes best to stick with uncompressed formats for non-natural imagery such as screenshots of digital UI and text etc.

Edit: Reading this, looks like HEIF is the container and HEIC is the codec. You’re right!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_Format?wprov=sfti1

Typical 12mp heif image is ~1mb

Nope, it’s what used to be called iTunes money now.

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Shouldn’t the keyboard be tilted back to be ergo not up? That doesn’t make sense to me, tilted up (like the wedge shape) puts even more strain on my wrists. Flat is better

I have the m3 max, but my partner has an m2 air (24gb memory) we’ve been playing together and it plays great! For the air settings on mostly high and ultra except shadows at medium, resolution set to native on the built in display with FSR set to performance taa on and a frame rate cap of 30. It holds a very solid 30 for extended sessions. Turning the settings lower than high/ultra don’t seem to have any performance benefit so it didn’t seem worth it to try and hit 60, which is ok for a game like this. I wouldn’t try playing it on a 4k monitor/tv or anything like that, which my m3 max has no trouble with at perfect 60 with everything turned the max, fsr on quality. I bet an m3 pro would be able to hit 60 on the built in display, maybe not on a 4k monitor.

I’m nervous about long term battery health with that mod, also lap comfort

While you’re definitely right the M3 is more efficient for day to day, all I know is when I boot up BG3 the fans are louder than they were on my M1, and ofc I’m going to push both machines to their max that’s what I paid for!

I wonder how the thermals will be. My M3 max definitely runs hotter than my M1 Max did, but isn’t a problem with a fan