Poll: iPhone 6s & 6s Plus Thread

[uvarvu]

Anyone else suffer with a dodgy charging/dirty port on an Iphone 6?

Getting to the point where I'm going to have to clean it somehow.

I do now and then. I normally take it to an apple store and ask them to clean it for me, no genius bar appointment required.

Kenu Airframe+, it's superb.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kenu-Airframe-Portable-Mount-Smartphone-Black/dp/B00LU5LWQK

When I first bought this I would have voted for it too but the spring in mine is wearing out now. By the end of my drive the phone has slid down and gone silent as the volume buttons have caught on the side of the mount.

 

[Captain]

Well today confirmed how poor the Iphone 6s battery is, 100% @ 10am, 1 hour and 50 minutes of google maps and my phone was completely dead, no other apps open, brightness turned down, absolutely pathetic. A £650 phone shouldn't die that quickly, we used my friends Galaxy s6 edge for google maps and that lasted 3 hours with 30% left over.

 

[ChrisD.]

That doesn't sound right.

 

[Captain]

It was using a 4G connection but still, less than 2 hours is appalling.

 

[DirtyJester]

It was using a 4G connection but still, less than 2 hours is appalling.

Agreed.

Though having moved from a 5S to a 6S I've been nothing but delighted at getting by on a single charge per day without any top ups.

We're talking 12hr shifts with lots of use.

 

[Alpherah]

It was using a 4G connection but still, less than 2 hours is appalling.

I get more then 4 hours doing the same - somethings not right

 

[Dempsey22]

I moved from HTC One to 6S+ and ridiculously impressed with the battery.

 

[Captain]

Maybe a hard reset is due, I'll do if over the weekend and see if it improves.

 

[trentlad]

Is a way to fully cache a single YouTube video so you can listen/watch later?

Found a method, all you do is insert DLV into the URL!!

Example:

STANDARD
m.youtube.com/watch?v=waymSm5lP-k

CACHED
m.dlvyoutube.com/watch?v=waymSm5lP-k

Obviously we're using safari so it's not downloading anything but instead it wipes from the cache once you close the tab just like watching a regular youtube video in safari (which you can only do by replacing www. with m.)

 

[matthewwhitton]

Quick question, is a phone on the 3 network unlocked to the other networks as well?

 

[Feek]

Quick question, is a phone on the 3 network unlocked to the other networks as well?

I think (and it would be nice to get confirmation) that iPhones supplied by 3 are not network locked. They stopped shipping locked phones a few years ago.

 

[Ghosteh]

I think (and it would be nice to get confirmation) that iPhones supplied by 3 are not network locked. They stopped shipping locked phones a few years ago.

As far as I am aware they still lock iPhones at Three. The don't lock their other phones I don't think, just iPhones. This was just over a year ago I checked when I was looking at getting the iPhone 6, so it could have changed since then.

 

[MagicBoy]

If you don't by the iPhone from Apple themselves (as SIM-free) then it locks to the first mobile network used on the device.

 

[scrivz69]

I would not buy anything from them after reading this. http://www.androidauthority.com/repaired-iphones-brick-when-updated-671915/

 

[MagicBoy]

Replacing the Touch ID sensor with knock off parts is a potential security exploit, so I can understand the reasons behind it.

Remotely locking devices later via an OS update without communication is not a consumer friendly move from Apple though.

Imagine the Daily Mail headlines : "Local Market trader empties iPhone customer bank accounts" ...

 

[Ghosteh]

It states the repair was to the TouchID module, which is used to secure the device. There could quite easily be code in that 3rd party hardware/firmware that could pull your finger print data off and send it to where ever, so I am totally with Apple on this, locking 3rd party repairs on the phones security module. If they do it with screens then I'd be more annoyed, but that doesn't appear to be the case.

And the guy should have backed up his data, not being able to access anything is his own fault. I take a photo on mine and its instantly in the cloud, along with any other documents I work with in iOS. It also does a full system backup every night. The fault of not being able to access his data lies with him. Maybe the communication from Apple wasn't the best, but that's another matter entirely.

 

[dlite]

I would not buy anything from them after reading this. http://www.androidauthority.com/repaired-iphones-brick-when-updated-671915/

More like an incentive to stick with iphone. Someone actually looks after security of my phone.

I don't want a phone repair shop to be able to replace my touch-id sensor with a 3rd-party part that has a FBI (or someone elses) backdoor in it.

I'm not worried about my fingerprint data going somewhere. If someone wants to steal mine, they can easily follow me to a pub and take my fingerprint from a pint. However, this is far from being enough to hack TouchID. Not to mention that NSA has had my fingerprints for a decade or so due to crossing US borders.

 

[uvarvu]

Agreed. It's a non story to me and I'm glad the security is in place!

 

[peige]

Its a non issue to me as long as its just the security related components. If it stops me replacing the touchscreen for example then its over the line.

 

[MagicBoy]

Did you leave the house this morning, leaving all the doors unlocked and your banking documents on the table also?