It's always sounded pretty hit and miss with Lightning Cables. I have some friends who are on their 3rd or 4th cable already, and some who have never had a problem. Maybe some bad batches?
I am going to guess that might be where my issue is as it seems like I am in the minority here. The thing was lightly used so I'm baffled how it could be dead already after a couple months.
I've got a weird situation. So I bring my iPhone and iPad to my office every day. I hook my iPad up to the office wifi to access work related stuff. I like to listen to spotify or rdio on my iPhone, but because the office wifi blocks those sites I want to stream using my LTE connection.
Here's where it gets weird. If I turn on wifi on my iPad, my phone automatically connects to the office wifi too. How do I get my phone to not connect to the office network when I connect the iPad? I have gone into the wifi settings on the phone and told it to forget those network settings, but the next time my iPad connects so does my phone.
I've got a weird situation. So I bring my iPhone and iPad to my office every day. I hook my iPad up to the office wifi to access work related stuff. I like to listen to spotify or rdio on my iPhone, but because the office wifi blocks those sites I want to stream using my LTE connection.
Here's where it gets weird. If I turn on wifi on my iPad, my phone automatically connects to the office wifi too. How do I get my phone to not connect to the office network when I connect the iPad? I have gone into the wifi settings on the phone and told it to forget those network settings, but the next time my iPad connects so does my phone.
Anyone know how to get this to stop happening?
I believe it's because iCloud Keychain is enabled, turn it off in settings-iCloud-keychain-off
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I believe it's because iCloud Keychain is enabled, turn it off in settings-iCloud-keychain-off
That was totally the problem (I guess it's a feature, not a problem). One of the things that really bugs me about Apple is their introduction of these features that are all or nothing. There should be a way to be able to exclude certain things in iCloud Keychain in my opinion, but I guess then my mom would get confused if there were actually options to pick from in these features.
With the announcement coming next week my vote would be that we just keep this one rolling. Super excited for this one as I'm finally looking to upgrade from the 4S. Hopefully Tuesday is also the launch of iOS 8.
I'm looking forward to this as well. It's time to upgrade my Galaxy SIII and there isn't much in the Android world that has pushed the boundaries since my current phone. I'm hoping Apple pulls their boring excuse for an OS out of 2007 and wows us with iOS8. I have no doubt their hardware will be great, but it's the software that needs a complete overhaul. Their aim should be to be better than Android, not a distant second like they've been aiming at for years.
I hate to be a jerk and sort of derail the enthusiasm for next week's announcements, but I was hoping some of the resident Apple experts could help out with a problem I seem to be having.
First part of the problem is that I've started watching Game of Thrones and I've become hooked. I've got the first two season through iTunes and am watching them as fervently as my schedule will allow.
Second part of the problem is that the Apple TV is in the bedroom. Wife and kids who often happen to be in the bedroom aren't exactly the target audience of some of the themes in GoT (especially the kids). So while I prefer to watch the shows streaming on ATV, that's not always possible.
Solutions I have tried so far include watching on my iPad in a different room after kidlets are sleeping. All of the episodes show up in the Videos app. However, it takes a long ass time for those shows to load. Whereas I click on the episode on the ATV and usually wait no more than 10-15 seconds (and more often much less) for the show to start, that is not the case on the iPad.
Both the iPad and the ATV are on wi-fi and I've tried watching on the iPad in different areas of the house. Sitting in the same room as the ATV or even next to the wireless router doesn't seem to improve anything on the iPad.
So what gives? Why is the ATV so much better at streaming than my iPad? Is there anything I can do to rectify this problem?
So what gives? Why is the ATV so much better at streaming than my iPad? Is there anything I can do to rectify this problem?
When you say streaming, do you mean that you downloaded the show to a computer and sharing it over your local network? You can't stream from the internet directly to iDevice - only ATV supports that. You need to download the show on your iDevice, though you can watch (uninterrupted) while it's downloading as long as you're downloading faster than you're watching.
When you say streaming, do you mean that you downloaded the show to a computer and sharing it over your local network? You can't stream from the internet directly to iDevice - only ATV supports that. You need to download the show on your iDevice, though you can watch (uninterrupted) while it's downloading as long as you're downloading faster than you're watching.
Here's what I mean.
When I go into my purchases on iTunes, I tell the machine to start playing the episode of GoT. It authenticates or something and then starts playing a few seconds later while it's downloading the rest of the show. Works great.
I may just be confirming what my wife has always suspected (i.e., that I'm an idiot), but I can't make the video do the same thing on my iPad. It takes forever to download it onto the device for playback offline and I can't just click to play it and watch it as it downloads the same way I do with ATV.
So if streaming of the internet directly is what ATV is doing, and I can't do that on iPad, I still don't understand why I can watch it as it downloads on the ATV but I can't do that nearly as well on the iPad. It's not like the one gets to download stuff faster than the other. What's going on?
