@Alexbrooks thanks Alex!! November 10th. Lots to do before then.
iCloud+ update, I bought 6 terabytes (again) and downgraded my Apple One Premier to Family (again) and it appears everything is working. Wife's iCloud+ is showing as me sharing it with her and I'm now painstakingly downloading 500GB of music from Apple Music that was deleted when Premiere …
@Alexbrooks Keep up, man!
Despite everything I went through with Apple yesterday, I wake up to this.
Trying to save $10 with Apple iCloud+ Storage cost me 7 hours of time: https://adamchandler.me/blog/2023/09/18/tech-icloud-6-12-terabyte-plans-apple-one-premier-issues/
Blog post coming but at the moment, I'm back on Apple One Premiere with a 12 terabyte plan and told to just hang tight until October 18th when that plan renews before I call back. That's the resolution.
Apple One Hot Tip! If you have a family and you drop from Apple One Family/Premiere to Individual, you're going to have a really tough time when you realize your mistake and try to go back to one of those plans. The issue will be worse if you just added more iCloud data right before doing this …
I spent 4 hours with Apple on the phone today troubleshooting Apple One & iCloud+ storage. Still not fixed but at least they have stopped telling me "that option will delete all of your data if you want us to do that” ….so progress?
@mjtsai Maybe this shouldn't be published on your blog but Apple & Google NOT including vehicle restrictions is a product decision. The data is publicly accessible and easy to source and rarely changes. Both companies have chosen to offer a simple consumer/auto product w/o the legal …
@mjtsai You can see the screenshots for truck features here - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tomtom-go-navigation/id884963367 I still LOVE their UI relative to any free product (Apple/Google Maps & Waze).$29.99 is worth it.
@mjtsai I was pleased to see that TomTom's consumer app has been re-branded as Car + Truck and supports entering truck data. This was done just a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately, they chose to not offer this in their base subcription. TomTom's car navigation remains $29.99 a year but if …
FINALLY! I have been doing monthly deletes of videos from iCloud Photos to keep under 2 terabytes for over a year.
Ready for my ankle surgery.
Also ankle surgery scheduled for Thursday. Final medical thing to do before the baby comes.
Keeping the dream alive with these Sunday morning workouts.
S’more
Camping.
Apple Watch Ultra's new watch face is INSANE
Phew, it's ONLY Wednesday. Busy week. Maybe I'm taking on too much. maybe this needs a blog post. Days are pretty much 7AM to 10PM full throttle every day.
Approved to take the PgMP exam. Time to study.
Solid announcements today from Apple. I’m buying nothing (a first) but as I told my wife, I have an Ultra + iPhone 14 Pro Max and this year I decided to not upgrade any Apple devices and instead buy a Canon R5 and Leica Q2 so I think I have a pass. The MBP M1 Max + iPad Pro M1 and other Apple …
Looks like I'll be on crutches for 2 weeks, boot for 2 weeks. No running allowed for 2 months. Year of health & fitness still going strong! As soon as I can run again, the baby arrives just in time.
Pre-Op for my foot surgery. Going to get this fixed
Was out late last night (2AM). Woke up at 8AM. did a 10 mile hike. Exhausted. No way I'm working out today.
PMI has approved my PgMP application. $800 fee paid so now I wait for panel review. 50% of people are approved and 50% more don't pass panel review and then 35% pass the exam. Getting real tight on these passing odds.