Sunday 04/07/2024
Today I went down to the T-Mobile store in Mountain View thinking I would exchange Jet Black Beauty for an iPhone 15. (“Jet Black Beauty” is a reference to the old Car Talk show on NPR. My last two phones have been black and both named Jet Black Beauty.)
Just into the store, which was busy, I was looking at the iPhone display and realized that, one, the iPhone 15 was only a little bit larger than the SE, which pleased me; but also that the iPhone 15 Pro, with a better camera, was the same size and like only $80 more. So while I was waiting for a sales person I made up my mind to get the Pro instead.
But the salesperson had to tell me that sorry, they had a black 15, but no black Pros. So I thanked her for her time and left, thinking I would buy one from Apple and take it to the Palo Alto store to have it baptized or blessed or whatever they have to do to make it answer to my account and number.
Then I thought some more, and checked MacRumors.com, and you know? There’s an iPhone 16 coming this fall. But the reason I need to upgrade right now is this stupid problem that I synced the phone to the computer and as a result iOS set aside a bunch of space for “synced data” so there’s no space left to install the new iOS upgrade. Why don’t I solve that problem, and then wait for the newer model?
So I googled the issue and it turns out that a whole lot of people have been having this problem, where syncing their phone adds multiple GB to their space usage, and there’s a lot of contradictory advice about what to do. But heck, if it’s syncing that’s the problem how about I don’t sync? I connected the phone to the computer and went through all the settings related to the phone and turned off every option that had to do with syncing. And rebooted the phone and hey whattaya know, there’s enough space for the iOS update and more besides. It can easily last now until the end of the year.
Other than that it was a normal quiet Sunday.
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