Another "...breaks..." article. I'm guessing it won't be long until the next one is published. #TimApple
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iOS 16.3.1 Breaks Google Photos App [Fixed]
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Google photos must have been actively using the exploit, then. That’s the only takeaway I see here.
It’s not a backup to you deleting photos. But it is a backup to you losing or smashing a device and logging back into the same apple account and still having all your photos.
I wouldn’t use google photos precisely because it doesn’t keep things in sync the way iCloud Photos does.
Is it apple’s responsibility to test every app available? There are betas for that.
Don’t get me wrong, apple’s qc regarding software isn’t at its prime right now, but I don’t think they are to blame on this one.
Wasn’t there? Usually there are betas.
Anyway, if the security risk was high, maybe there wasn’t a beta. Not much of a big deal, though, the fix from google came so fast.
Whatever you want to call it, I do the same. I use pay for both iCloud storage and Google One storage for that exact reason; photo backups. It actually paid off this past weekend. My daughter plays travel softball and there was a tournament in Wis Dells. She made a triple and I happened to catch it on video. After the game, we hit the pools and do what I always do with my iPhone, take it in the water and take pics and videos of my kids playing. It took overnight for my phone to die from water damage. Long story short, got it replaced and noticed that cloud photos was missing that video of her but google photos backed it up as expected. I have a 4k recording of her triple thanks to the G
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For all the snark about Google Photos here, some of us have to use it as we have elderly relatives with non-Apple devices. For them, Google Photos is the only option, so it makes sense for everyone to use it to share photos, even if some of us have Apple devices and would rather use Apple Photos.
Lol apple powered search engine would be total disaster… try search in apple music and multiply that ****** experience by billion.. here you got apple search experienceI'm waiting for Apple own's search engine. I hope Apple is still working on that.
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This idiotic Google bashing makes no sense at all. In fact 16.3.1. breaks other apps, too. E.g. Magnus Play Chess and Tactic Frenzy are also affected. I think that it is Apple, who is to blame here. To fix a problem the changed the behavior of an API, not caring for any side effects. Those, who believed that the could purchase an app and use it as long as they like, are mislead. After the next security fix from Apple you can only pray that the developer might deliver a fix. And even if he does, it takes much too long before Apple approves the fix.
You can get multiple free trials of iCloud. Target and Best Buy both have it.
I have a subscription to Microsoft 365 and Google is generous with their Storage. I really don't need to pay for storage.
Good ole Google was exploting every vulnerablity available. Heard this story before, surprised they fixed it fast.
Suprised? Apple apps never have any issues? Stupid comment,..Apple is Google's biggest customer! 🙄🤦♂️
In fact they are such close partners, that it wouldn't suprise me if they simply worked together on this quick fix.
Project much, never said anything about Apple not having issues.
They updated it, so maybe that's what's actually happening. Unless you deleted and reinstalled the old build my guess is the download is a new version since that got pushed out this morning on the app Store.
I remember, years ago, that a rumor was going around that in the year before his death Steve Jobs filmed a product introduction for an Apple search engine that was 100% about retrieving information, not collecting advertising data.I'm waiting for Apple own's search engine. I hope Apple is still working on that.
Apple Pushing to Launch Search Engine to Rival Google
Apple is working on an online search engine to rival Google amid wider improvements to Spotlight search, according to a recent report from The...
Imagine if that were true, and in the coming years Apple Search is released that is every bit as effective at retrieving information like the 2010’s Google (before it became polluted by the cottage industry of SEO) and will never accept advertising as a principle.
They’ve had web crawlers running for well over a decade now….
Anywho, that’s more of a wish fulfillment for me than actually thinking it was a thing. I just hate how utterly useless search engines have gotten at retrieving historical information. If a term is in a hot news story today, good luck getting what you’re looking for from something that happened in 1993. You have to wade through 5+ pages of ads, news articles, and garbage websites generating clicks by quoting the news articles before you get to what you’re looking for.
Gotta wonder how many of them use YouTube. I knew one guy who hated Google with a passion, but still made an exception for YouTube
