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17/10/2025 0 Comments The frustrations (and time) associated with setting up a new iPhone (Updated)! Update 17th October 2025If you read the below report of my initial attempts to set up my new iPhone, you will see I was having persistent issues with syncing of iCloud data to the new iPhone and had to resort to re-setting my phone to factory settings and starting again. While this did resolve the issues with downloading of my large Notes library (which got 'stuck' and wouldn't continue, leaving me without access to my important Notes), it did not help with the downloading of my big Photos library. Several days after the reset, the count of downloaded Photos in my Photos library was not changed. A call to Apple Support proved fruitless. So, a week after the reset, I resorted to manually forcing the download of photos. I selected a year's worth of photos at a time, then chose the Share option, then Save to Files. This forced the download of the selected photos and, when that download was done (which took a while each time), I cancelled out of that Save to Files process. This left the photos downloaded By the 14 day mark, I finally had all my photos on the iPhone - and syncing has been working OK since. Phew! I am none to wiser about what caused the download issues, but have seen on forums that this issue has impacted lots of people. One suggestion was that it may be caused by an overload on Apple servers, wit lots of people who, like me, have recently received their new iPhones, setting up these new iPhones at the same time. One thing I also need to correct in my original article. The iPhone 17 and 17 Pro do have SIM card trays for physical SIMS. It is the iPhone Air that is eSIM only. So I was able to put my Belong physical SIM into my new iPhone without converting it to an eSIM. Here's the full article, reported 4th October 2025I received my new iPhone 17 Pro on Monday this past week, and it has been quite the exercise this time getting set up on my new iPhone. In fact, after 6 days, my iPhone is still not set up.
It is now Saturday, and it has been a 'work in progress' for the past 5.5 days - even though I restored from an iCloud backup, which should have brought everything from my old iPhone to my new iPhone. Unfortunately, even with an iCloud Backup, there is still lots of setup to do when you get a new iPhone and data to download from iCloud. Here's my list if issues and setup tasks so far - and I'm sure that there will be more that I discover each time I use an app/account for the first time on this device.
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  When you get a notification on your locked iPhone or iPad, does that notification show a 'preview' of the content of the notification?
For example, if you get a verification code sent as a text to your iPhone, does the code show even though the screen is locked? Or does it perhaps show the content of messages from others - messages that you may sometimes not want read by someone else who can see your device's screen? For my own devices, I choose to only show previews of notifications when my iPhone and iPad are unlocked. When the devices are locked, I see a notification appear and see who it is from, but no other details of the notification are shown. Here's how to adjust your device's notification settings to protect your own security and privacy.  Our household is probably a little more complex than most when it comes to technology. We actually have more than one Wi-Fi network in this house.
The problem I have been encountering lately is that my iPhone keeps joining the Wi-Fi network that my son has set up downstairs - instead of the network that we have for the rest of the house. (I joined it recently when sitting outside, because it was the closest and gave the best connection.) When my device joins that network from upstairs, the internet is quite flakey - because the router is just too far away (and there are lots of obstacles between here and there). So I fixed this problem this morning with a simple change in my iPhone's settings. Here's how. 8/9/2017 0 Comments Do your eyes (and sleep pattern) a favour and turn on this feature on your iPad and iPhoneToday we were discussing kids and technology, and the issue of teenage sleep being disrupted by technology. In particular, the discussion was around the impact of screen brightness on sleep. Melbourne psychologist Tena Davies writes about this in her blog article: Night time technology use and sleep. A key suggestion Tena makes is to be sure that all iPhones and iPads in your household use a feature called 'Night Shift' at night. The Night Shift feature changes the colour spectrum of your iPhone's/iPad's screen to a warmer, less blue 'temperature'. It is not just teenagers who benefit from using this feature. I had a client recently who told me she had found she could not read at night on her iPad because of the impact the device's light had on her sleep pattern. She would find herself waking up very shortly after falling asleep. After showing her the Night Shift feature, she was able to once again use her iPad for reading at night - it made all the difference! Once you have used the Night Shift feature at night, you will be amazed at how bright the screen looks when it is not in Night Shift mode. Setting up Night Shift on your iPad and iPhone Night Shift can be set up to turn itself on and off according to a schedule. This is done in Settings -> Display and Brightness -> Night Shift.  Slide the Scheduled setting to On (green), then set the from and to time that you would like Night Shift to start and end. You can also adjust the Colour Temperature slider if needed. I just leave mine at the 'maximum warmth' setting. You can see in the image above the difference in the screen lighting. Night Shift can also be manually turned on and off at any time during the day from the Control Centre (accessed by swiping up from below the bottom of the screen).  5/5/2017 0 Comments Stop your iPhone or iPad from going to sleep so quickly, and delay how quickly it requests your passcode
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 I thought I worth including this handy hint in this week's newsletter, as it is one that comes up so often in classes and appointments at iTandCoffee. Just how do you stop your iPhone or iPad from going to sleep so quickly? How do you stop the screen going black when you haven't touched if for, say, a minute, and returning to the lock screen. Additionally, when it goes to sleep, is there a way to stop it from requiring you to enter you passcode to wake it up again. This is a topic we covered way back in 2013 when we first started this Handy Hint Newsletter (subscribe here if you are not already receiving this free fortnight newsletter). While the settings for adjusting the locking and requirement for the passcode are still available, they have 'moved' since we recorded that hint. So, here is the updated 'handy hint' for iTandCoffee Club members, detailing how to adjust your 'autolock' and 'password delay' settings. (Not yet a member of The iTandCoffee Club? Find out more here›) Related Handy Hints and ArticlesHandy Hints
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