I’m talking about the explicit wording used:
"The location of this iPhone will not be visible
Let’s say this was your phone that had been stolen, why wouldn’t you want the location of it to be visible on iCloud.com?
I feel dumb, but seems like a really obvious use case as to why you would want that
I feel dumb too. I’m sure there is a reason, I just can’t think what it possibly might be. Whoever has the phone will obviously know the location of the phone 
If it blocked the location of other devices so that the person with the phone couldn’t work out where you are that might make more sense.
I guess you can still enable lost mode etc on iCloud though, so you have an hour to sort this out. It seems like a good security feature that solves a real problem, just this but is strange.
Hey - so looking for a bit of ‘tech support’, which I suspect will be ‘take it back to Apple’ but I’ve got this weird thing with my iPhone 15 Pro where sometimes Apple Pay doesn’t work.
I double click the side button, get through faceID and it gets to the ‘Tap to pay’ screen ok but when I tap nothing happens - as if the NFC chip hasn’t activated?
It’s not at the same shop and it’s not every time - it seems completely random. Luckily, my Watch works fine - but it’s slightly embarrassing when you tap with the phone first and then have to switch…
Anyone know if this is a known bug or should I book an appointment with Apple to check/replace?
lol - no. Get an old stool (ish) 2010 Nissan Juke (with no wireless charger at all).
I’ll get Apple to take a look - just wanted to check it wasn’t something that was already known.
Normally this is something like a phone case getting in the way or a card behind the phone blocking it.
If you try it without a case, or front first maybe see if that works. Also when you double tap away from a reader it should say “hold near a reader”.
Some things to maybe try
Thanks - yeah I hadn’t thought of trying it front first so next time it doesn’t work I’ll give that a go.
It’s an official Apple Case so would hope it’s not that - but it’s definitely a bit frustrating.
I had a chat with Apple support and they didn’t seem to have any idea either though. They did a remote diagnostic on the phone and said that everything, including the NFC chip, was normal and there were no issues with the handset and that it might be a problem at the bank or merchant (even though I pointed out that it’s randomly with all the different credit and debit cards setup on the phone and it’s in random merchants in different towns).
He ended up by giving me the ol’ have you tried turning it off and on again? and to call back tomorrow if it’s still not working.
You haven’t moved from an Android recently have you? Because it took me months to realise the NFC chip was in the top edge of an iPhone not on the back 
although there’s a high chance that was just me.
From experience it’s normally pretty chill how you aim the device. It normally needs to be in top quadrant and almost touching the card reader, where the reader is.
Some have it on the side or in wierd places and this can make it look like Apple Pay isn’t working because it’s not actually close enough.
Though it’s plausible the iPhone is at fault id more think the terminal.
Let us know how you get on!
How very dare you…to suggest I’d use one of those. (But seriously - no I’ve been iPhone since the iPhone 3G apart from a brief flirtatious period with a Nokia Windows Phone, which I actually really liked and was sad when that went the way of the dodo…)
If it was just in one shop, then maybe. But it’s not in any particular shop, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t and it’s not even the same type of terminal - had issues with the ‘standard’ shop ones propped up next to the till with the key pad, and also with things like those more portable square ones that are linked to a mobile phone you see in a lot of market stalls (it’s Xmas market season…)
FWIW, looks like there’s a bug fix patch out today? Phone has just picked up iOS 17.2.1 (not sure about MacOS, TVOS or WatchOS)
MacOS as well as iOS
Nothing for iPads running 17.2, though…
I had that the other day in a poor signal area. I was waiting for my email to load and the phone spontaneously rebooted. iOS 17.2.1.
Like you, haven’t had that for ages.
TIL! And I’ve had an iPhone for 15 years!
It didn’t have NFC until the iPhone 6.
I find with Apple subscriptions it’s frustrating to manage too. Often times I can’t actually delete an old card because it’s linked to a subscription. I don’t see why it can’t be some option of “change linked card” for each subscription or simply have a card that you can change freely and will update for all subscriptions.
This widget is super buggy on the new beta. I found I’m unable to skip a song, it just starts playing the previous song again, and the behaviour persists.
The power of the icon badge. Apple know what they’re doing 
I’m updating because I have absolutely no will power, every time I see there’s a new beta:
Me: The one I’m on seems pretty stable, probably shouldn’t update
Also Me: Installing update
As much as I quite like watching the Brandon Butch videos I stop after about the second beta for this exact reason.
This might not be an iOS 17 thing, but since when has Siri described photos sent?
Was walking to work this evening and Siri read a message through my Airpods:
“Sam sent an image. It is of a green bottle on top of a table made of wood”.
When I looked it was an empty bottle of wine on the kitchen table.
I don’t recall Siri doing this before.