Any particular test I can run for you?
One man’s ’oh It seems alright’ might not be enough?
I’m getting this in BD9
I’ll get some in the city around Kirkgate Market.
See how it compares to my home test.
Literally said they should have a trusted location solution several months back:
Its a good first step, I would like a bit more choice on whats locked out but we will see how its implemented.
Do you really think your iPhone doesn’t know where you live/work?!
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It’ll be interesting to see how they do define ‘home’ and ‘work’. If it’s just based on what’s on your contact card, then I assume they’ve added extra security to that to stop someone being able to edit your contact card, setting your address to somewhere else, and then being able to reset all the rest of your security…
My guess is a combination of user tracking and self set. It knows your most regular locations so if you set something else as “home” it’ll take a while for it to accept this. At least in my case.
I’m liking this feature idea so far. It should give that firebreak to be able to report the phone before the thief has chance to wipe it fully.
Time will tell if it works in real life though.
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I’m sure my iPhone many years back worked out where home was and where work was, and used to let me know how long it’d be to get to work (I’d never told it, it just knew where I was spending a bulk of my day!).
I’m sure it also used to show me bus times.
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It still does, but you can manually update it via contacts too
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From my understanding it does. It’s all done on device but it makes a guess as to where your home is and work is.
With Apple stating:
“Your iPhone will keep track of places you have recently been, as well as how often and when you visited them, in order to learn places that are significant to you. This data is kept solely on your device and won’t be sent to Apple without your consent. It will be used to provide you with personalized services, such as predictive traffic routing.”
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It once directed me to McDonalds thinking that’s where I wanted to go 
#FatShaming
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My Apple Watch Series 5 updated to the latest Watch OS last night.
Two good things I’ve noticed.
- The podcast app now has a digital time left display.
- You can now change Watch face by swiping (it’s turned on with a toggle in the Clock app).
One bad thing.
The Watch face takes a while to update. When changing to a face with a fitness complication, for example, all the numbers are zero for about half a second.
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It’s a decent thing, I do it to get an email that’s personal but still runs through my iPhone mail app. Easy peasy.
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I have all my domains with Cloudflare - they’re good value for money. I purchased directly, though - not via Apple (and don’t host them using iCloud email, either).
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I prefer to do all the setting up myself. It’s part of what I did when I was working as a Systems Engineer. I host some domains with Fastmail, a couple with Proton and the rest on my own mail server built from scratch.
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Oh I know you don’t need to, but Apple made it super easy and clear to do so on a whim for £4.99 a year I did it.
For a lot of people, the idea of your own domain is fairly daunting or just unclear. Doing it through iOS this way demystifies it.
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I’ve had a similar problem with video podcasts occasionally.
I fixed it (temporarily) by force quitting the Podcast app.
If that doesn’t work restarting the Apple TV might.
Not sure why you would not be able to view the location on icloud.com
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I had to read their post a few times but I’m with @l33t - why wouldn’t you want to view the phones location on iCloud? (if your phone was stolen)
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My other half is my recovery contact. It just doesnt make a lot of sense to me because if its stolen (or lost) going to icloud.com is one of the first steps.
The password alone lets you track location it appears:
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