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<\/p>\nRUSH: Just take one minute here, folks, just one minute. They took it out! (interruption) They took it out. Aw, damn it, this ruined my day, took it out. It isn\u2019t there. Okay. So I\u2019m not upgrading. I\u2019m gonna hold on to it. You know how much this matters to my life? Zero, and yet it has ruined my day.<\/p>\n
Okay. I have to explain this. When Apple introduced iOS 11 last June, that\u2019s when they tell developers, they show \u2019em features and make promises about what\u2019s coming in it. It\u2019s released every September. They said there\u2019s gonna be a feature in this thing, two features. One was AirPlay 2, and the other was messages in iCloud. Now, AirPlay 2 is what will allow you to use two home pods in stereo or basicically to connect two different audio sources from one device, one phone, one iPad. Well, AirPlay 2 they can\u2019t make work. They promised it in September. It\u2019s not in the release today, even though it was in the first three betas.<\/p>\n
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Now, messages in iCloud, they promised this in a release in September in iOS 11, and its objective was to put all of your iMessage data on iCloud synced to all of your devices. The reason for this was to lessen the amount of space on your phone with all that — you know, people have iMesssages for years and years, and that\u2019s a lot of data, and the purpose of messages in iCloud was to keep it in the cloud, not on your device, which would give you more storage data on your device, and it would reduce the amount of time for backups.<\/p>\n
Well, when they released iOS 11, it wasn\u2019t there. It was removed in beta 5. And along with its removal was the syncing of significant locations from device to device. That\u2019s something else I am weirdly desirous of. Well, iOS 11.3, the beta was started, the beta process, in late January. And the .3 release always happens in March. And it\u2019s always a big one. So when I saw messages in iCloud in iOS 11.3 beta 1, I was all happy, all right, all right. So it\u2019s been in every beta up through beta 6, which was released two weeks ago on Friday.<\/p>\n
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Now, they\u2019ve been having problems with it. I mean, I will admit it hasn\u2019t been working. What\u2019s supposed to happen with it, like, if you\u2019re looking at your iMesssages on your phone and let\u2019s say there\u2019s a conversation there with somebody you don\u2019t want, just delete the whole conversation, it deletes that conversation on every phone, every iPad, on your Mac, but keeps it on iCloud. So you don\u2019t lose it, you\u2019re just not looking at it on your phone until you need to go get it.<\/p>\n
Well, I noticed even during the beta process, if I wanted to, the biggest space taker uppers are photos. And people send photos through iMessage all the time, so I\u2019ve been testing it by deleting a photo on one phone and seeing if it deletes on another. And sometimes it has been and sometimes it hasn\u2019t been. So it hasn\u2019t been working right. They\u2019ve been working on this since June, and they can\u2019t make it work right!<\/p>\n
So the release version of 11.3 hit today an hour and 10 minutes ago. Now, I\u2019m still running the beta. Mine is not updating because the last beta was a gold master of sorts. So even though your phone is showing 11.3 today, mine isn\u2019t. It\u2019s still showing the old one. And on mine, messages and iCloud is still there, and it\u2019s still working, not perfectly, but it\u2019s still there. It\u2019s still on the beta of the Mac version, 10.13.4.<\/p>\n
Snerdley, he just updated to 11.3, I had him bring his phone in here to me so I could see if messages in iCloud was there, and it isn\u2019t. So I know they\u2019ve taken it out, and AirPlay 2 is nowhere to be seen, which means the home pod doesn\u2019t have even half of its value.<\/p>\n
So I don\u2019t know why they can\u2019t get this stuff out. It\u2019s really frustrating and maddening. They used to not promise things. They just released them when they were ready, but when Steve Jobs died that became a bit of a philosophical change. So I will still have access to it unless they listen and will now remove it from my account because I\u2019ve been ragging on it.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s cool. When it works it\u2019s very cool. It does reduce the amount of data that\u2019s used on your phone. It makes the backups happen even faster, but you don\u2019t lose the data. If you want to go get a conversation you delete, it\u2019s there in iCloud, except they obviously haven\u2019t been able to make it work.<\/p>\n
They make everything else they sync work, but this for some reason they haven\u2019t. I know it\u2019s a lot of data, lots of lines of code and so forth, but — I shouldn\u2019t let this kind of stuff bother me, but it does. I can\u2019t explain it. As I was telling Dawn, it has absolutely zero effect on my life, and yet here I am ticked off about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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