I began using this app yesterday. It uses Location Services and GPS in order to track your movement. Great for hiking. It also gives you lots of other useful stats such as calories used and a map of your progress. You can read more about Strava here.
Face Time Woes
January 29, 2019
Juli Clover at MacRumours:
There's a major bug in FaceTime right now that lets you connect to someone and hear their audio without the person even accepting the call. You can force a FaceTime call with someone and hear what they're saying, perhaps even without their knowledge.
We tested the bug at MacRumors and were able to initiate a FaceTime call with each other where we could hear the person on the other end without ever having pressed the button to accept the call. To exploit the bug, all you have to do is add your own phone number to a FaceTime call you've already initiated, which apparently creates a major FaceTime issue.
Adding your own phone number to Group FaceTime a second time causes the call between both parties to connect. You can hear the person on the other end and they can hear you, even though the call wasn't accepted.
What's weird about this is that I had an unknown FaceTime caller a few days ago. I've disabled FaceTime until Apple issue an update.
Walking
January 28, 2019
Finally got out today as the weather is better. Still cold but clearer skies.
Smart Battery Case Charging Time
January 26, 2019
Today I let the phone and case drain down completely - to the point where the iPhone shut down. Using a 30w USB-C Lightning connection, these are the times it took to charge. What's really interesting is that with USB-C, the case and phone charge in parallel.
1hr
- iPhone 85%
- Smart Battery Case 79%
1hr 15 mins
- iPhone 93%
- Smart Battery Case 90%
1hr 24 mins
- iPhone 96%
- Smart Battery Case 96%
1hr 30 mins
- iPhone 97%
- Smart Battery case 98%
1hr 32 mins
- iPhone 98%
- Smart Battery Case 100%
1hr 40 mins
- iPhone 100%
- Smart Battery Case 100%
Update:
When I left the iPhone unattended all night, by 10:30 am, the battery had dropped by 10%. I think this because I had Dark Sky constantly using Location Services. I'm also going to make it a practice now to have the XS Max on Low Power Mode unless I'm away from the house and keep Bluetooth disabled. This is because I have my computer and iPad, should I need them.
SubEthaEdit
January 22, 2019
This great application is now free and open source. I recommend this if you don't want to pay almost a hundred dollars for Panic's Coda.