Day One is good, but it has its downsides: you have to pay a subscription for it (I really dislike subscription model), and when it comes to privacy, I prefer Apple. So I had some high hopes that Apple Journal will be great, but it failed to meet my expectations. Hope they will improve it.
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iOS 17.2 Features: What's New in iOS 17.2
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Journal for iPad with Apple Pencil support seems like a no brainer. Ridiculous. Is there a good option in the App Store for journaling on an iPad?
im using apple note ....... much easier .. all todo , notes there.. at least can access everywhere.
** this battery life hmm aa 17.2
I was using the Journal app throughout the beta period. This was one of my gripes with it, I'd like to log my mood and things I thought about during my workout, I've just been adding it later on when it does finally show up.I find that Journal entry is not updating fast enough. I just finished a run in which I was listening to a podcast that gave me much to think shot and I wanted to respond to it. I’m done with my run and 10 minutes later I still don’t see my run plus podcast being as a possible activity to respond to
Are journal suggested entries that slow to be discovered?
Like all the data is already built into the phone, why isn't the Journal app instantly updating with these suggestions? I was really hoping this was fixed for the public release.
There is a new feature not listed - iphone won't sync with computer.
Some suggested to turn off the apple watch, wifi and bluetooth and turn on airplane mode and then do the sync:
but even without doing those things there is a rather more forceful workaround.
Open activity monitor and find the process MDCrashReportTool and kill it.
As soon as it is killed the syncing resumes and proceeds to completion.
It has also been reported in the macrumors forum at https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/odd-syncing-issue-of-15-pro-max-to-macbook-air.2406326/ but it has become worse with the 17.2 update.
I don't usually install ios betas but might start soon to see if they fix it.
Some suggested to turn off the apple watch, wifi and bluetooth and turn on airplane mode and then do the sync:
but even without doing those things there is a rather more forceful workaround.
Open activity monitor and find the process MDCrashReportTool and kill it.
As soon as it is killed the syncing resumes and proceeds to completion.
It has also been reported in the macrumors forum at https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/odd-syncing-issue-of-15-pro-max-to-macbook-air.2406326/ but it has become worse with the 17.2 update.
I don't usually install ios betas but might start soon to see if they fix it.
Is Notifications & Emergency Alerts a USA-only thing?
I do not have that on my UK 15PM - just Notifications. And no local awareness options.
And within that, only Emergency Alerts and Extreme Alerts with no options other than on or off.
Obviously, if it the UK does not support localisation, it sort-of makes sense. But rather less sense if travelling in places the option is supported by national infrastructure.
I do not have that on my UK 15PM - just Notifications. And no local awareness options.
And within that, only Emergency Alerts and Extreme Alerts with no options other than on or off.
Obviously, if it the UK does not support localisation, it sort-of makes sense. But rather less sense if travelling in places the option is supported by national infrastructure.
Apparently the future is 1080p 30fps video on our $3,499 Apple Vision Pro, LMAO.
Can this thing get any worse? It still has an M2 chip, though I kinda wonder if they’ll change that, like they weren’t ready to announce M3 yet so they might say for launch “Oh, and one more thing, it has an M3 chip.” Still don’t see them selling a lot of these, battery life is too poor and the unit is too clunky and it seems more like an iPad than a Mac so it will limit doing real work for the vast majority of people.
Can this thing get any worse? It still has an M2 chip, though I kinda wonder if they’ll change that, like they weren’t ready to announce M3 yet so they might say for launch “Oh, and one more thing, it has an M3 chip.” Still don’t see them selling a lot of these, battery life is too poor and the unit is too clunky and it seems more like an iPad than a Mac so it will limit doing real work for the vast majority of people.
Really wish there was a Journal app for macos too... Just like with photos, I feel like organizing and viewing a lot of entries is much easier on a large screen :/
1)Watch app still buggy, every time I close it from the multitasking, it reloads all the watch faces on iPhone 15 Pro.
2)The keyboard input is better now, even if sometimes the click sound continues not to be perfectly synced when I tap.
3)They still forgot to add "Forget username and password" option in AirPrint printers (it was there in iOS 16)
2)The keyboard input is better now, even if sometimes the click sound continues not to be perfectly synced when I tap.
3)They still forgot to add "Forget username and password" option in AirPrint printers (it was there in iOS 16)
Looked at it. Now forgotten about it. I’ll keep journaling with the notes app.
Just took a look at 'Messages in Cloud' on my iPhone. It says 2,606,180 messages. I've never deleted any. Should I??
I get it that they focus on privacy. It's very welcome and it's no doubt quite complicated to securely reach into the various flows of information which they use to source Journalling suggestions, so maybe this is why they focus on getting it right on one device first before they introduce apps across the fleet, along with iCloud sync between the devices. But that's small company thinking - the sort of thing a small development team would do. This is Apple. They absolutely have the resources to create and test Journal across all the device types.
Many people just don't spend all their time with their phone glued to their hands. I spend most of my time with a keyboard glued to my hands, and when it's not that, an iPad. So, Apple, Journal will be significantly more impactful and useful if it also works on macOS and iPadOS.
I know, that’s ridiculous.
Why wouldn’t one want to view and edit their journal entries on the iPad?
Sometimes Apple leaves me bemused.
Thanks for this, I had wasted quite a bit of time dealing with support on this and ended up filing a bug. I really appreciate your post.
Exactly! At the very least, if the Journal app doesn’t automatically update fast enough, allow us to do a manual refresh by, for example, pulling down on the screen. It wasn’t an option, however.
Meh... I think I'll just wait for my devices to auto-update on this one... Nothing interesting enough to manually update.
Apple’s journal app is too too busy. From the very beginning, they tried to tie in every single piece of Apple’s ecosystem that I cannot tell what’s what. It doesn’t look like a journaling app so I don’t feel like journaling in it. I don’t care about journaling my heart rhythm or step count or what music I listened to or what spam calls I answered or what photo memories Apple thinks I would like to write about. I just want to document what I think is important to me that day, for me and my kids when I am gone. All that other stuff is too distracting to be useful. It seems to go against their mantra of beautiful simplicity.
And yes, the subscription model costs more than a free app. But I’d rather pay for something useful and efficient than struggle to find the right balance in the free program.