Apps and Technology
I am now a Meta-free social media user. That felt good. 💻🧘🏻♂️
I’d stop using Facebook as well, but for the writing group I’m part of. 💻
Pretty sure I’m going to deactivate Instagram and, by doing so, Threads. So much guff to wade through there, despite the accounts I actually want to follow. It’s just not enjoyable any more, sadly. Will concentrate on Micro.blog and Bluesky. 💻
Notifications on Apple devices are an irritating minefield, however I set them up.💻
Apple Journal remains one of the most infuriating apps I try to use. Podcasts still utterly refuse to show up, despite everything being checked and allowed. Everything else? Faultless and helpful. Music, Fitness, visits to town - fine. Just podcasts. 💻
It seems my recent NordVPN purchase and download may well be responsible for the missing emails. 💻
My first (as far as I know) experience with important emails disappearing who knows where? in Apple Mail. Company definitely sent them, but they’re not in Junk, nor anywhere to be seen.💻
Look at me using microhooks to customise my new blog, like a big-boy. 💻
I’ve also set up another blog that I plan on using to show how I use Apple native apps and Ulysses to plan my writing. 💻
Right then. Now I’m back using Micro.blog as my primary hub, I’ll spend a few hours tomorrow making sure everything is up to date (reading list, etc). 😐💻
The Double Tap gesture on Apple Watch 10 is beautiful. 💻
Does anyone else still use Apple Journal and are you also having issues since iOS 18? Mine won’t show Podcasts in ‘recents’. Generally it had ‘Morning Walk while Listening to…’, but since the update it’s totally unreliable. Music wasn’t showing for a little while, it’s suggesting time at home as a ‘visit’. 💻
My Apple Watch is suffering horrendous battery drain since I updated it to 11 this morning. 💻
They’ve removed the Siri watch face on WatchOS 11. Not happy at that move. 💻
Delighted to see Reminders finally visible in the Calendar app with iOS 18. Apple may be slow, but they get there eventually. 💻
Again, having to Google how to do something that should be simple on an Apple device (deleting all downloads from Apple Music) shows that it’s an appalling experience trying to navigate the Apple ecosystem at times. 💻
My, quite frankly, promiscuous flirtation with whatever app looks pretty at any given time is stopping me from actually being productive. 💻
I’m starting to see the benefits of using Scrivener over Ulysses for my planned novels. Don’t get me wrong I still adore Ulysses, but once the way Scrivener works clicks its potential starts to become clear. 💻
And Apple autocorrect is adding random words and letters again, terrific. 💻
Just when I dip my toes back into Ulysses for writing, for the first time since I started using it the app is glitching. I’m not losing anything, but it’s certainly making life difficult for me. 💻