Christopher Breen Senior Editor, Macworld
Chris has covered technology and media since the latter days of the Reagan Administration. In addition to his journalistic endeavors, he's a professional musician in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Whenever an operating system or application changes appearances in a radical way, people can get lost. Such is the case with iOS 7. In the past week I’ve read complaints that can be addressed simply by having a better understanding of what goes where. Let’s walk through a few.
In iOS 6 I was able to choose a time zone when creating a calendar event. I now can’t. I hate iOS 7!
You’ll find that you hate it less when you go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars and, way down in the Calendars section, switch on Time Zone Support. When you do you’ll find that when you create a new event in the Calendar app a Time Zone entry is present and accounted for. Without Time Zone Support toggled on, this entry is missing.
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Christopher Breen Senior Editor, Macworld
Chris has covered technology and media since the latter days of the Reagan Administration. In addition to his journalistic endeavors, he's a professional musician in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Reader Drew Isaacs is unhappy with the latest Apple TV update. He writes:
After reading your first look at the Apple TV 6.0 software I was anxious to upgrade. Unfortunately something went wrong and my Apple TV became unresponsive. I’ve since unplugged it, plugged it back in, and now I see an iTunes icon on my TV screen. What should I do?
You’re not alone. Several people reported that updating via the Apple TV’s over-the-air mechanism caused similar unanticipated results. Apple pulled the update for awhile because of this problem but reissued it a couple of days later in a working condition.
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Christopher Breen Senior Editor, Macworld
Chris has covered technology and media since the latter days of the Reagan Administration. In addition to his journalistic endeavors, he's a professional musician in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Update Don't say I didn't warn you. It seems that Apple has indeed stopped signing versions of iOS prior to version 7. Therefore, until a technique emerges that allows you to skirt Apple's restrictions, those who have upgraded their devices to iOS 7 can no longer revert to an earlier version of the operating system.
Despite the many warnings that iOS 7 was going to have a radically new look and it was worth it for some people to take a slow approach to upgrading, many people ventured blindly forth and were unhappy with the results. While raging at the dying of the light is one approach, there remains another—downgrade to iOS 6.
But do it quickly.
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Christopher Breen Senior Editor, Macworld
Chris has covered technology and media since the latter days of the Reagan Administration. In addition to his journalistic endeavors, he's a professional musician in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Reader Dale Cardoza would like a unified interface experience among his iOS devices. He writes:
I have an iPad and an iPhone. I’ve become accustomed to using multitasking gestures on my iPad’s screen—pinching with four fingers to return to the Home screen, for example. I then move to my iPhone, try the gesture, and it doesn’t work. Is there anything I can do to have gesture control over some of the iPhone’s features?
In an effort to not begin and end my answer with “No”—thus making this an almost entirely useless waste of a browser page—I’ll instead respond with “Sort of.”
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Christopher Breen Senior Editor, Macworld
Chris has covered technology and media since the latter days of the Reagan Administration. In addition to his journalistic endeavors, he's a professional musician in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Reader Richard Applebaum wants deleted email messages really, truly deleted. He writes:
What I’m trying to achieve is a state where email in my Gmail account that I delete is entirely deleted. I find that when I delete messages they sometimes move to Trash, and sometimes go to Deleted Messages. I’ve also found that when I empty the Trash and Deleted Messages, the messages may still live on in Gmail’s All Mail mailbox. How, in Apple’s Mail, can I really get rid of these messages?
I’m pleased to report that MacRumors regular blairwillis his figured this one out. You’ll want to take a gander at the process as originally outlined but here’s the gist.
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