Unless I am performing an update, I never turn off my phone.
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Macs and iPads I turn off overnight, iPhone only gets turned off/restarted for updates.
I also regularly clean up my SSDs and back up stuff to cloud/external drives that I don’t need on the internal drives. On iPad/iPhone, I delete apps I haven’t used in a while or at least offload them.
Oh, and I clean my keyboards regularly. As in, wipe down with disinfectant, brush out whatever dust I can etc. And I can’t stand smudgy screens so they get cleaned ASAP when I see smudges.
I also regularly clean up my SSDs and back up stuff to cloud/external drives that I don’t need on the internal drives. On iPad/iPhone, I delete apps I haven’t used in a while or at least offload them.
Oh, and I clean my keyboards regularly. As in, wipe down with disinfectant, brush out whatever dust I can etc. And I can’t stand smudgy screens so they get cleaned ASAP when I see smudges.
email: inbox is either empty or contains only emails that I need to action. The rest are deleted or put into another folder.
photos: I download them all to my laptop, back them up, then eventually delete the iCloud copies.
phone: turned off every night. Same with my laptop, most nights.
photos: I download them all to my laptop, back them up, then eventually delete the iCloud copies.
phone: turned off every night. Same with my laptop, most nights.
It sounds like you fail to grasp how computers handle image data. Image data is always referenced by pointers. A folder somewhere is similarly pointed to, or perhaps more accurately the folder points to the data defined as "in" the folder. One folder's data may actually be located all over the mass storage.
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However, if that user wants to go back and review a contemporaneous record of what was happening on October 11, 2016 he could easily do so. Or those emails may be organized into smart folders, etc.
Folders is so 1980. Once Apple indexes and classifies, it’s easy search. Places, people, pet identification, and other text based search makes folders redundant. Life is too short maintaining and creating stuff for past habbits.
I use smart folders. And yeah, I can easily go back to over a decade to find the information I need.
My iMac I turn off when not in regular use. Otherwise I will put it to sleep if I’m coming back to it within a short period of time.
Email: I really really dislike digital clutter and hoarding, so I cleaned my gmail from 102k emails down to 630 about three months ago.
I only have three devices now: My MacBook, watch and iPhone. MacBook gets shutdown for the whole weekend. Phone gets rebooted but rarely turned off, except when I'm on an extended camping or backpacking trip. I charge my phone and watch in another room so it doesn't bother me at night either way. The gal and I don't have or use any electronics in the bedroom.
Photos is a wash...sometimes I delete, sometimes not. I do an annual cleanup and delete a lot of DSLR photos that are just dupes over and over of me changing settings and retaking.
I only have three devices now: My MacBook, watch and iPhone. MacBook gets shutdown for the whole weekend. Phone gets rebooted but rarely turned off, except when I'm on an extended camping or backpacking trip. I charge my phone and watch in another room so it doesn't bother me at night either way. The gal and I don't have or use any electronics in the bedroom.
Photos is a wash...sometimes I delete, sometimes not. I do an annual cleanup and delete a lot of DSLR photos that are just dupes over and over of me changing settings and retaking.
No, I don't fail to grasp that. You're on a micro level concerning disk storage. We are discussing a macro level of organization, i.e, where the pointer is actually stored in a folder heiarchy.
If I move an image on my Mac from folder A to folder B then the image 'exists' in folder B and is not pointed to for the contents of folder A. If I copy an image from folder A to folder B then I have two pointers to the same image.
But within the Camera app on an iDevice, Apple only allows the representation of a copy - not a move. Thus a pointer exists in both a folder/album AND the Camera Roll (or All Photos). Both point to the same place, but you can't get rid of the one in the Camera Roll unless you actually want to delete it - and deleting it there also deletes the pointer in the folder/album.
I turn my iPhone off and back on at least once a day in order to clear out the RAM and to get any other benefits that a restart provides.
I also turn my iPhone off and back on, and do the same for my Mac using "Restart", immediately prior to backing up my iPhone to my Mac. I do that because I want to minimize the chances of anything going wrong during a backup.
I also turn my iPhone off and back on, and do the same for my Mac using "Restart", immediately prior to backing up my iPhone to my Mac. I do that because I want to minimize the chances of anything going wrong during a backup.
Everyone is different. If you no longer have to conform to a 1980s folder system, why must I conform to your method?
Thankfully, while this stuff is present, Apple isn't forcing me to use it.
One Mac I reboot a few times a week - because it has a volume for work, and a volume for personal.
Otherwise, no... reboots get done at updates, usually, on other Macs - iPhone - Watch - or iPad.
Email are all marked read (so no Badge) but left in place, last time I "Archived" email (maybe for local space reasons or maybe for server space, don't remember) was probably a decade ago since my current inbox goes back to 2013. Currently I'm using 9GB out of 25GB allowed by my email provider.
Photos, I try to go through and delete out-of-focus or poorly framed shots, or screenshots that I only needed temporarily. I also try to stay on top of "Faces" and sorting stuff into albums, but I'm not great about it. I have some 10,000 photos and 500 videos so plenty of space left on iCloud before I have to worry about storage (currently using 80GB for photos - and total Family iCloud usage is about 300GB, so we're on the 2TB plan... gonna take a while to fill 😉)
Otherwise, no... reboots get done at updates, usually, on other Macs - iPhone - Watch - or iPad.
Email are all marked read (so no Badge) but left in place, last time I "Archived" email (maybe for local space reasons or maybe for server space, don't remember) was probably a decade ago since my current inbox goes back to 2013. Currently I'm using 9GB out of 25GB allowed by my email provider.
Photos, I try to go through and delete out-of-focus or poorly framed shots, or screenshots that I only needed temporarily. I also try to stay on top of "Faces" and sorting stuff into albums, but I'm not great about it. I have some 10,000 photos and 500 videos so plenty of space left on iCloud before I have to worry about storage (currently using 80GB for photos - and total Family iCloud usage is about 300GB, so we're on the 2TB plan... gonna take a while to fill 😉)
Never said conform to my or any system. Just don’t expect device manufacturers to cater to 80s crowd.
I don't expect that. This complaint (and others share it) isn't new, but for me it's not a dealbreaker to staying with iPhone/iOS. I don't like it, but I'll live.
Do you use shared albums at all? My biggest challenge is not adding duplicates to that shared album because I have no easy way to tell if I've already added a picture or not.
I used to switch my phone off every night however these days, as I operate 100% wirelessly, I rarely switch off my iPhone as it charges overnight on a MagSafe puck.
I’ll probably switch off my iPhone once every 2 weeks if I get to charge it early to 100% before going to bed.
I’ll switch off my M1 MBA each night and my iPads are probably turned off overnight once per week and are on the rest of the time.
I’ll probably switch off my iPhone once every 2 weeks if I get to charge it early to 100% before going to bed.
I’ll switch off my M1 MBA each night and my iPads are probably turned off overnight once per week and are on the rest of the time.
I use shared albums, they are just pointers to same images. I like it that way, as I can share same picture with multiple shared albums with out duplicating. I am not too hung up on these, these are devices to make life easy, not baby sit them at granularity. Never had duplicate issue though, I may try it next time I use sharealbum.
I had a lot too and eventually turned off the notification badges. My Home Screen looks much cleaner now.
I’m notorious for not cleaning up my messages, emails and photos that I no longer need. On my next 3 day weekend, I plan to delete photos that I no longer need. Everyday I told myself to spend 10 minutes deleting 1000 emails to reduce the number of Unread emails. I shut down my iPad Pro when I’m not using it, because I don’t use it daily as I use my Mini 6 daily. I only shut my Mini 6 and iPhone down once a week to clear out ram or any lag I might be experiencing. Sometimes I forget to shut down my iPhone and can go a month before I do. my watch rarely get shut off.
I don’t know how people live with badges on. Drove me nuts. Happy to see I’m not the only one who does this. Lol
That’s why I wouldn’t create an Album based on a person, place or some other characteristic that could be searched.
For everything else I create an Album.