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     Replacing the battery on my iPhone should not require rebooting my Mac
                                        
It wasn't as bad as that time 2½ years ago [1] (no, really! (Nice job Apple!
You narrowly avoided someone drunkenly spending tons of money!) [2] you have
(El Capitan is the captain around here, not me) [3] no idea (Aaaaaaaaaaaa­
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!) [4] how bad (iCloud this and iCloud that.
What about uShutTheXXXXUp!) [5] it was (I leave this without comment) [6]
back then (El Capitan is the captain around here, not me, part deux) [7]) but
it still left a bad taste in my mouth. The battery on my iPhone wasn't
lasting as long as it used to. I would be lucky get to a day's charge out of
it, and I don't really use it all that much (using Shazam [8] was a death
sentance for my iPhone—I'd usually get one use out of it before the screen
would go dark).

On Thursday, Bunny and I stop by the Apple Store [9] only to find out that a
battery replacement would require an appointment, and the first one was for
Saturday. Okay, Saturday it is.

At the appointed time on Saturday, we arrive at the store. I will say we
didn't have to wait all that long, but on the down side, I would have to
leave the phone overnight for the replacement.

Okay, picking it up on Sunday it is.

Today, I got the phone back. It works. I was able to check multiple songs
with Shazam with no discernible battery drain, so things are looking up.
Until I decide to pull some pictures off the phone.

Usually, I just plug in the phone to the Mac-mini I have, run the Photos app
and import them. Only this time I coudn't. What should have been a minute
operation turned out to be a grueling half hour torture test trying to find
out what happened to the “import function” of Photos. I was able to finally
resolve the issue by rebooting the Mac-mini!

Seriously, Apple? You're better than Microsoft! This shouldn't require a
reboot! Come on!

I swear, they really need to bring back Steve Jobs.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/10/04.1
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/10/06.1
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/10/12.1
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/10/14.1
[5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/10/14.2
[6] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/10/14.3
[7] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/10/18.1
[8] https://www.shazam.com/apps
[9] https://www.apple.com/retail/bocaraton/

Email author at sean@conman.org

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