Linked List: September 16, 2016

Friday, 16 September 2016

The Talk Show: ‘Hey Bruh You Bumped Muh Hat’ 

Jim Dalrymple returns to the show. Not much to talk about this week.

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iPhone 7 No-Click Home Button Requires Contact With Skin to ‘Click’ 

Myke Hurley:

So here’s a thing.

Cover your iPhone 7 home button with material (like from a t-shirt) and try to click it.

I think I worked it out, the TouchID sensor is what’s making the connection.

No sensor connection, no click.

Never occurred to me to try this. It’s the capacitive ring around the Touch ID sensor that needs contact with skin — that’s what turns on the sensor. This means no home button clicking while wearing gloves — yet another reason to cast a stink eye in the direction of this new home button.

Update: Serenity Caldwell proves that the button does work with capacitive gloves.

How to Switch Your Apple Watch to a New iPhone 

This is easy to screw up. If you want to switch your Apple Watch to a new iPhone, you have to do it in this order:

  1. Unpair your watch from your old iPhone. This creates a fresh backup of your watch on your iPhone.

  2. Back up your old iPhone, either to iCloud or to iTunes. If you use iTunes, be sure to encrypt it, otherwise your Health, Activity, and passwords won’t get backed up.

  3. Restore your new iPhone from the old iPhone’s backup.

  4. Pair your watch with your new iPhone and restore your watch from the backup.

We got a few new iPhones here at the Gruber household today and I botched this, by forgetting step 1. Had to do it all over again with two phones and watches. It wasn’t fresh in my memory because last week when I was setting up my review unit iPhones, I also had a review unit watch, so it was natural to unpair my old watch before starting.

How to Find the Shuffle and Repeat Buttons in the iOS 10 Music App 

Kirk McElhearn:

Lots of people have been asking where the Shuffle or Repeat buttons are in the iOS 10 Music app. And it’s true, they’re not easy to find.

The problem is, the screen where you swipe up to reveal them doesn’t offer any sort of visual indication that there’s a reason to swipe up. There’s no reason to suspect there’s anything that would be revealed by swiping up, just by looking at it.

The Marvel Symphonic Universe 

Every Frame a Painting’s Tony Zhou on why you can’t remember the music from Marvel movies.