Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

I just has about 30 sec of moving horizontal lines across my screen, jumping around/flickering. MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2016) with a Intel HD Graphics 530 1536 MB

Should I be worried about impending doom? At the time I was resting my iphone against the screen to watch Eurosport player while working, but don't know if that was related at all.

I have damaged the screen on my iPhone 8 and I'm unable to access anything.

So I have put the sim card into an iPhone 11 my wife doesn't need any more because she has a work phone. When I try to set it up, Apple is trying to send me a code to a broken phone that I can't access.

It's the only Apple device I own so the code can't be sent to another device. Obviously the code can't be texted to me because I don't have a phone that works.

I have phone Apple support and they seemed to think this was a highly unusual scenario but surely it can't be. All the guy could suggest was going through account recovery, which I have done even though there's nothing wrong with the account itself - I still know my password etc. I assumed that would be enough to get me in.

Apparently they will contact me in 24 hours.

Does this sound right? It's hugely frustrating at a time I'm trying to buy a house to not have a phone.

It seems like the only way I can expedite the process is to put my sim in a phone that will let me set up and receive a text without an Apple ID sign in or to have my old phone repaired at the cost of about £60.

This might work... might

Sign in to iCloud.com on another computer. Go into settings. Click on manage my Apple ID. Under security add your wife’s number to your trusted numbers. Hope that you can get the code sent to her number because those trusted numbers are used to set up accounts.

Might...

Edit - you could remove your number from trusted numbers to try to force it to use her number, not sure how you choose which gets used otherwise...

I can't sign in to icloud without a verification code being sent to my phone.

Sorry, when I tried it let me sign in without any code. Good luck with it.

Not trying to sound like an ass but why don't you just get the screen repaired quickly - you will want to keep using your iPhone anyways, right?

Do you have a different (non-Apple) phone you could put the sim in to get the text?

Even if it costs you £60, you can then use the old phone of your wife's and then just sell the phone and get your £60 back. Seems a bit bonkers if you ask me.

Set up the phone with a throwaway iCloud account - or none at all if they still let you do that.

Then sign into your own iCloud on another device and it will ask you for a code. Click the "didn't receive a code" link and it should give you the option to text you the code over SMS instead of over the secret Apple device message system.

It seems like the only way I can expedite the process is to put my sim in a phone that will let me set up and receive a text without an Apple ID sign in or to have my old phone repaired at the cost of about £60.

You should be able to use an iPhone 11 without an Apple ID (obv not iMessage, but normal texts should be ok)

Can you use the new one without signing into Apple ID to receive the text message to verify your account on iCloud online. Then once you've got the browser trusted you could try and use that to verify signing into the iPhone 11?

If you have a Mac you should be able to use the messages app on that for getting your iMessages, if that's the way they send the code

How do I get the contacts off an iPhone 7 and onto a SIM? You'd think it was easy, it isn't!

Why on earth do you want to do that? Surely there's a sync service you can use?

What are you trying to do?

Transfer to Android?

Transfer to a new iPhone?

It's complicated... We've merged with another org, I've just transferred to their email system which means my contacts which are linked to my old Gmail address will soon evaporate... On top of this, my work iPhone is now super slow after the last update so I'm getting a new Android handset on Tuesday...

Chucking everything onto the SIM seems like the simplest thing to do... No?

Export your contacts as a .CSV from Mac Contacts app or your Google account.

https://www.wikihow.com/Sync-iPhone-Contacts-to-iCloud

I actually just did this before seeing your suggestion... Hoping I'll be able to import the contacts into the new Android handset easily... IT changed my email address a while back (don't ask), I lost absolutely everything so I'm keen to avoid doing the same thing this time...

Anyone thinking about buying an M1, check the software you use plays ball. Capture One is unusable (and the lazy devd are saying another four months!), And the music producer that bought my laptop of me said he's had the same issue with some music software.

Had to go back to lightroom. Not loving it tbh.

That’s fuckin shit, 4 months for capture one to work.

Worse. Eight months since release, plus whatever dev time they were given before that. It's abismal.

Cheeky fuckers had the ordacity to ask if want to drop £100+ to upgrade to v21 yesterday. Which won't work.

Anyone recommend a good site for a replacement battery for macBook pro (A1278)? I got one from Replace base but it's not turning out to be that great.

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Anyone have any ideas why my new M1 macbook pro won't connect to my bluetooth Bose Mini Soundlink without me clicking on it in the bluetooth menu to force connection?

Lazy question but here we go:

Which large (32"?), good quality 4k monitor that connects with DisplayPort should I buy? For work and drudgery, not gaming.

tx x