iOS How an iPhone Dies

[ninjenstein]

Regardless of platform, the best way to both get around this and also to keep your data safe is to get the native cloud plan (icloud in your case)
All your older data that has not been accessed in a while will get symlinked to the online copy instead of local copy - this happens in the background without user intervention

As end user, you will not notice anything major (except for example, maybe 2-3 extra seconds when loading a full res copy of an old photo)
However you will not run out of storage on your phone for the foreseeable future

PS: Non native cloud plans will also work but they will require periodic manual transfers and deletions which can get annoying very quickly

Thanks for the advice. I have considered this. Privacy concerns aside, I’m worried that once I enter the walled garden I might never be able to leave. I don’t know if iCloud allows you to easily export everything in case you want to move out, and even if it does, if it actually works. I don’t like that idea…

 

[Heisen]

Thanks for the advice. I have considered this. Privacy concerns aside, I’m worried that once I enter the walled garden I might never be able to leave. I don’t know if iCloud allows you to easily export everything in case you want to move out, and even if it does, if it actually works. I don’t like that idea…

You can access all your iCloud files on any device, windows/linux via browser, you can download/upload/delete/add stuff from the browser itself. No restrictions.

But yes the system is designed to suck you in.

 

[YeAhx]

Have a 1st Gen iPhone SE with me and it is not even sellable as battery is almost gone, will jump from 98 to 56 randomly at drop of a hat and such. Right now I have kept in home and activated facetime so if myself and wife go out, and kids are at home (there are other elder members too), we can call them on this phone and they can also initiate facetime calls to us.

Also, they use it to play some games.

Yeah battery is the first one to go out hardware-wise. Replacement battery also don't perform as good as original ones. Basically once the phone is open it can never be the same, or at least that's my opinion.

 

[Emperor]

@Emperor Can you delete one UPI app and re register? This is the main issue.

It's use for grocery/vegetable etc. daily purchase, so can't risk it, else, may force to buy new one, just for UPI !!!

 

[superczar]

Thanks for the advice. I have considered this. Privacy concerns aside, I’m worried that once I enter the walled garden I might never be able to leave. I don’t know if iCloud allows you to easily export everything in case you want to move out, and even if it does, if it actually works. I don’t like that idea…

Its actually a whole lot easier unlike Google. No need for export etc
You just need to keep the maintain local copy flag enabled on any one of your devices - could be a phone or a tab or a win/mac laptop
You can keep it off too and switch it on a day or two in advance of exiting and the local copies will get synced in some time (depending on size of data)

Its google That actually locks down your photos and makes this task extremely difficult , if not impossible
(Photos since 2019 do not sync locally)

But yes the system is designed to suck you in.

There are two kinds of suck-in
If you are sucked in for convenience and because you like the way it works, its a good/positive suck in

OTOH , if you dont like something and want to exit it - but you cannot because the process of exiting requires you to jump through thirty hoops - then that is a bad/negative suck-in

 

[nikola]

Correct me if I am wrong, but I think govt is not biased. Same restriction is also on android, it is probably working because UPI was setup before the ban and it will continue to work. If you delete the app and re-install, try to re-register your number for UPI, I don't think it will work.

official upi site states that it will work on android 5, I have iphone x and non of the upi app amazon, paytm, phone pay works but i can still use my banking app to do upi payment. So i think government is restricting it, not the ios or hardware or app issues. More exciting thing is my bank is public sector bank. Sometimes i laugh so much about it that how scuffed our country is.

 

[Heisen]

official upi site states that it will work on android 5

I found it.



Android API version 23 is android 6.0 which is Marshmallow. It crazy they allowed android operating system which is launched in 2015, and iOS version 17 was launched in 2023. The govt does appear to be biased.

Old iPhone users don't wipe your device, don't delete UPI apps, you won't be able to register UPI again.

 

[t3chg33k]

I found it.

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Android API version 23 is android 6.0 which is Marshmallow. It crazy they allowed android operating system which is launched in 2015, and iOS version 17 was launched in 2023. The govt does appear to be biased.

Old iPhone users don't wipe your device, don't delete UPI apps, you won't be able to register UPI again.

General internet posts blame NPCI (which is strictly not government) for the different UPI requirements.

But I had read the API documentation for some payment processor in the past and they mentioned the same Android 6 and iOS 17 requirements for their API. In that it was stated that Apple has strict SDK requirements for payment apps on the App Store for security reasons and they have to comply accordingly.