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I’ve had Apple watchOS 9 since it came out. I have Watch Series 5. I see you have Series 7…maybe that is why you have but I don’t have that setting? Yep. The feature starts with Series 6. The watch is not even three years old…geez…and I used to get so pi**ed at Dell for (even from Small Business division) not supporting 5 years of next day in house warranty repair for desktops (they are supporting it again currently but were not when I purchased my XPS 8930) and an extended warranty… yet Apple is worse.

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Alex5723

That setting is not on my iPhone XR with iOS 16.0.2.

I no longer read any of the sites that talk about iPhone or Apple watch as they are mostly completely irresponsible in their writings. The author, nowhere in the article, mentions WHICH iPhones this setting is available on. The authors sound like spoiled brats to whom it has never occured that some iPhone owners, for a variety of reasons, might not have the very latest iteration of iPhone. Or maybe their ignorance is even worse in that they don’t realize that different versions of iPhone do not have the same settings.

Besides, why do they think iPhone users are so EXTREMELY IGNORANT regarding their phones? When I read your post I knew that my iPhone did not have such a setting. I would be a very remiss user if I did not know what settings are on my phone.

I love Stardock and been using their products for many years. But Microsoft owning Stardock or Stardock in cahoots with Microsoft…..nah.

I won’t even think about moving to Windows 11 on my current computer or buying a new computer with Windows 11 until Stardock gets WindowBlinds 11 available. I cannot fathom having to use Microsoft’s horrible Start menu and also not being able to skin Windows 11.

I haven’t had problems with Windows 10 Pro updates (and am fully up to date -even with the yucky .NET updates) but Apple….geez…every time there is a big update – especially Sept-Oct ones- my iPhone XR is usually just fine but my Apple watch Series 5 is usually a mess. The watch is mostly why I stay with Apple yet it is really affected adversely by major Apple updates.

The watch keeps asking for Apple ID (not the four digit passcode which I enter when I first put the watch on unless I am near the iPhone and hold the watch up to it to authenticate). It does this repeatedly after every major update even though it is fully updated to to whatever is the new current version. There is no way to even put in the Apple ID if I don’t have my iPhone with me. It does let me choose “not now” but I believe I recall that will stop after a bit. The watch is the indispensable item…not the phone and I don’t carry the phone with me that much ….especially not when out exercising.

Perhaps, it is partly due to my losing a little over 5% of my body weigh unintentionally in the past three months. The third puka (that I always used) for the watch band is now a bit loose but the second one is too tight. I’ve never understood why the watch doesn’t come by default with a stretchy band (or a band with no pukas and you take it to an authorized Apple repair store to have pukas put in customized for your wrist size as then it would fit every wrist properly). Not having an Apple store on this island doesn’t help.

iPhone XR says signing in with Apple ID on the watch enables features like Apple Pay which I LOVE. But I have no problems using Apple Pay on the watch even with it popping up and asking me repeatedly to sign in for Apple ID on the watch. This problem happens every time Apple has a major update so I blame Apple not my watch or iPhone.

I keep full support coverage on both the iPhone and Apple watch so I guess I will have to call Apple support. That is something that really SURPRISED me about Apple … is how poor their phone support is. Microsoft’s and Dell’s Small Business support is far superior. However, Dell’s support was a maximum of four years when I bought my Windows 10 Pro computer from small business division. It should be five years at minimum.

WCHS wrote:

lmacri wrote:

Browsing to the secure https: site didn’t help me. There’s something about the IP address of that ASoft.be site that both my Firefox v105.0.1 browser and my Malwarebytes Premium v4.5.14.210 Web Protection module don’t like

My Firefox 105.0.1 does not object to https://www.asoft.be/prod_netver.html . I do not use Malwarebytes, though.

My Fx 102.3.0 ESR shows no way to download .NET Version Detector. I have to use Edge to download it (happened with the previous version also).

Alex5723 wrote:

80% of smartphone users use Android with Chrome, Gmail, Google search…so they use the same on desktops and have no intensive to switch default browser…

Yep. ALL ARE SLAVES. It’s sad and a very dangerous situation as the foundation of democracy is at stake.

I BLOCK for twenty years now ALL Google stuff.

I find it hard to believe that Apple only has 20% of the cell phone market as you claim.

I switched to Fx. Hope it won’t freeze.

This screenshot shows my soft, yet beautiful and easy to read, link colors in effect here. But the site renders terribly if I have my link colors set to “Always”. If I set them to “allow websites to override my choices” then this site’s display ignores my choices on an erratic basis …usually honors one but not the other…so visited links might use my color choice but unvisited does not or sometimes vice versa. Sigh.

Fx really is the ONLY choice. It has lots of problems but it doesn’t freeze everything on the screen repeatedly or do other very irritating things.

I couldn’t add screenshots to the above using crappy Edge as trying to do so froze everything on the screen except items in the system tray. Luckily, I was able to delete the frozen screenshot and could then post this above comment. Stupidly, I tried again to add a screenshot and everything on the screen froze AGAIN. Edge is a MESS and so are most of the browsers. The one with the least problems (EXCEPT for user chosen link colors is Fx ESR latest version).

Geez….I thought in a new comment I would be able to add screenshots. Nope. Immediate and complete freezing of the screen when I clicked on “select file” except for items in the systray and Edge was using an obscene amount of power. Sigh. I don’t want lots of new tricks for different browsers, etc. I just want a browser that always works correctly and hasn’t had important elements that have been around for eons removed.

Ascaris wrote:

The prevailing point of view at Mozilla seems to be that people want to migrate from Chrome to Firefox, but are prevented from doing so by some barrier. The Firefox development strategy has been based on the notion that confusion over a different UI than people are accustomed to is the reason people don’t migrate. This article is another example of that same kind of thinking, where now it’s restrictions from Microsoft or Google that are throwing up barriers to all those Chrome users who really would rather use Firefox.

There ARE barriers from Microsoft or, I really hate to say this, from SOME websites. If I have Fx 102.3 ESR use MY CHOSEN Link colors THIS SITE is completely screwed up. Most sites though are fine THESE DAYS (but not in the past) with MY link colors. This problem has existed on some sites since I got my first computer in 1999 and immediately tried to get rid of the garish “Microsoft blue” link color on IE 4. I had to avoid IE because of that garish blue that would quickly bring on a migraine headache. I used Mozilla Suite as my default browser instead.

After all these years, why do SOME websites still refuse to honor user’s link colors ON FIREFOX AND FIREFOX PORTABLE? Link colors here were honored on Basilisk which was forked off Fx 52.9 ESR. Basilisk is, sadly, no longer kept up to date so I don’t use it.

I can choose my link colors in Fx 102.3 ESR settings and they are NOT honored here if I choose “only when using High Contrast themes”. I don’t use High Contrast themes as it is the COLORS used for links that bother my eyes not regular Fx themes having poor contrast. So, to get MY chosen link colors used at this site on Fx 102.3 ESR I am forced to choose “ALWAYS”. That choice completely screws up the proper rendering of this site (and some others) but far fewer sites today get screwed up. It’s a shame that a great tech site like this one has this problem if one is using current Fx or Fx ESR versions.

If you love vertical tabs, Fx is the best browser. I’ve used vertical tabs beginning with the first Fx extension which was actually for Mozilla Suite called Tabbed Browser Extensions back around 2002 before Fx. So, while Brave handles my link colors with zero problems, I can’t find a really good extension for it for vertical tabs. Edge handles my link colors fine also but it too does not do vertical tabs well. Plus, Microsoft seems to be so deaf to this issue even today that it has REMOVED any ability to choose your own link colors in Edge! This must have happened in a recent update. Evidently, I retain the personal color selections I made for Edge quite awhile ago but if I wantes to change them there appears to be no way to do that in the latest Edge. So absurd. Something so extremely basic as what link colors are used in a browser, yet browsers today, and websites today including tech oriented ones, can’t be bothered to allow this choice to users unless the user wants a completely screwed up browser on lots of websites because they choose “always” use my link colors.

b wrote:

Was it offered to you or did you go looking for it?

I said in my reply that “I looked for it” so, no, it was not offered spontaneously. I looked for Edge extensions for Windows 10.

It still wants to install on Edge. Makes no sense since it is part of Edge already and I was on Edge when I looked for Edge extensions and this one in particular. It must be the way Microsoft has set up getting and installing extensions on Edge on Windows 10. My expectation is that the “Get” button on that extension’s page looking from Edge browser on my computer should be GRAYED OUT since I already have it embedded in Edge. Seems to me that it should have told me “you already have this embedded in Edge. You do not need the extension.”

I don’t use Edge much but do have a few extensions for it. Maybe the extension is somewhat different from embedded Microsoft Editor so that’s why it is offered and it would fail to install if I tried? I’m tempted to just click the “Get” button that is active for this extension and see what happens but it could create a mess on a browser I don’t use often and not that familar with fixing problems for it.

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Just another Forum Poster wrote:

Actually it’s CC (Closed Captions) not Subtitles and YouTube started enabling them by default a few months ago.

I just watched a Youtube video and didn’t see closed captions. What did irritate me was that I was forbidden from seeing the video full screen from the website that was showing it. To see it full screen I had to go to Youtube. I haven’t had that happen before but I don’t often watch videos so maybe this has been around for some time? I did not login to Youtube.

Does seeing the captions by default now have to do with the browser in use? I was using my default browser Fx 91.13.0 ESR. This version of Fx is reaching End of Life today and should be auto updated on Sept 20 to a new path and version of Fx ESR. I sure hope I don’t get closed captions in the new version! I’d have to go hunt for my Youtube password (to login and disable there)…I can’t recall the last time I logged into Youtube…years ago I assume as I avoid anything to do with Google as much as I can.

b wrote:

What’s improper about the face recognition I use on my Samsung Galaxy phone?

Gee…I’m glad to know Samsung has face ID but I still would not consider it whenever I get a new smart phone:

“Samsung uses a 2D biometric method, and it’s nowhere close to Apple’s advanced 3D face unlock method. Someone who looks like you or uses an image of your face could unlock your phone.”

https://www.guidingtech.com/top-ways-to-fix-face-recognition-not-working-in-samsung-galaxy-phones/

I assume masks are a no-no also for Samsung phones using Face ID.

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Alex5723 wrote:

b wrote:

And then eliminated it. Did you miss this bit?:

..That is why they can’t implement proper secure FaceId.

Is that why no Android phone, even today, has secure Face ID? I’ve been wondering why for years now. I was a late upgrader from a Samsung NON smart phone almost 5 years ago now. Android phones were not even considered for my first smart phone as none had face ID…hence my first Apple product which I am still happily using (iPhone XR) with the notch and Face ID. I don’t notice the notch.

Paul T wrote:

No enhanced spell checking in Brave

I was wondering about that and was going to check it next. I don’t use Brave that often but do use it so thanks for letting us know it has no enhanced spell checking.

Just another Forum Poster wrote:

My 105.0.1343.42 version of Edge includes the Microsoft Editor and it’s not an extension

Yep. The Bleeping Computer article is out of date. I have been scratching my head about that article as Edge has included the Microsoft Editor for some time now. I couldn’t figure out why Edge was suddenly trying to correct my grammar since I had no extension for that installed. Turned out the Microsoft Editor got ENABLED on some recent update of Edge. Grrrr…

I did go just now (out of curiosity) and looked at the Microsoft Editor as an extension from my default browser (Fx 91 ESR) and, of course, it was not offered to me. Then I looked for it from Edge and weirdly it was offered to me! Weirdly because it is already installed and was set by DEFAULT to Microsoft Editor NOT to Basic. Of course, I changed the setting back to Basic. If Microsoft cannot see that their Editor is already installed and set to Basic on my Edge and thus I am offered the extension….geez….sigh…Microsoft just gets worse and worse.