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Hi there, i am getting high ping and ping spikes on my iphone x while connected to wifi. My wifi has 5ghz support, so does my phone but the pings from my phone to wifi router (i.e 192.168.1.1) are between 9-10ms and spike upto 50ms. While as, my pc which has intel ac 9462 wifi card always has 1ms of ping from device to router on 5ghz band. I am guessing this is why I am getting higher pings and ping spikes in multiplayer games on my phone. Connecting to 2.4ghz one has no effect. Range is not an issue as i kept my phone right next to my router. There are other wifi aps in my area but i only get their 2.4ghz signal, never the 5ghz one. I have tried restarting my router and phone. I have resetted network settings on my phone. I have changed wifi channels also. Anybody having any ideas?

I have recently noticed this, and it is getting to be quite annoying on my iPhone X. On my iPhone, my wifi just stopped working for some reason. The button is greyed out and I can't click it, so I am unable to use wifi. The same thing happens with Bluetooth. It just keeps on "infinently loading," but I am unable to connect to bluetooth. I have tried restarting(multiple times) and force restarting(multiple times). Any solutions to this are appreciated.

My iphone x wouldnt power on so i contacted apple support and they said i should plug my phone to pc and recover with itunes but i tried like million times and it didnt work. And now the phone is stuck in recovery mode. I found something called reiboot on internet that may help, is that legit or scam. btw i ve never jailbreaked the phone

Hey guys, i need your opinion to help me make a decision! So about 2 and a half years ago i bought a Samsung Galaxy s7 edge. I already owned several Samsung phones before, but they all eventually broke down after a few years. However, recently a colleague awoke my interest in the iPhone Xs. He told me that he was extremely pleased with it, so i did a bit more research and i realized how well engineered it is. The whole interaction with the phone seems very smooth, thanks to the good processor and ios 13. I also was stoked by all the new siri functions (mainly the shortcuts app), because i always wanted to use a good voice assistant on my phone. I don't need to say much about the camera, it's just great! Lastly the build quality is excellent, too. Obviously the iPhone Xs comes with a hefty price tag, wich was, until now, my reason not to buy it. But when i recently looked it up online, i found a new 256GB version for "only" 760$. Now, while still being relative expensive, that is a price i would be willing to pay. On the other hand: My current phone is still working. Ok, it has a minor crack on the top, the battery life has gone down and as time went on it became more prone of crashing. But it works :D Ok, now that everything has been said, i am now asking you for advice! Is it woth to upgrade? Every answer is much appreciated!

I want to upgrade my note 5 to an apple phone. I have already decided to switch the only thing I'm worried about is should I get the X the 8+ or wait till next year's iPhone. So should I wait or pull the trigger?

I've had a Note 5 since it came out and I have loved this phone since then. The screen is on par with most flagships today with a quad HD AMOLED display and it has 4gb of ram like most flagships, fast wireless charging but degrading battery life. I waited for this last round of Android flagships this year to finally upgrade but I've been disappointed. Galaxies are out the question because for some reason, I really don't like the infinity displays so no S8 or Note 8 for me. The LG V30 looked fun but after reviews and using it in store, its a no. The Pixel 2 xl was the one I was waiting for but with all the problems it has, its been kind of unmotivating and then I went to go use it in store and the display is terrible, plus it is way to big to use comfortably with one hand with annoyingly large side bezels so that is a no. Then the Iphone X came out and I laughed it off but after using it in store, I fell in love with it. Easy one handed use, fast response and beautiful display(finally wireless charging and fast charging). The only thing keeping me away for now is the software. Not really iOS it self because I think its beautiful and fast but the android software. I use google now and its cards a lot(trust me..) and I have a calendar widget and a data usage widget that has saved my life a lot of times. I know there are no widgets on iOS (if any knows how to get google now on iOS PLEASE LET ME KNOW) but I think I can risk some of the conveniences of widgets on android for a phone I will enjoy using most of the time and something new I can experience which I want. Price and headphone jack is not a big deal, the iPhone is only $3 more a month than a note 8 and $5 more than a pixel 2 xl and I use Bluetooth anyways. If anyone has switched from android to iOS, please let me know your experience, I am confused rn but I am leaning heavily toward the X.

https://m.clien.net/service/board/cm_iphonien/11390508?po=0&od=T31&sk=title&sv=페이스&category=&groupCd=&articlePeriod=2017 I found a review that unlocked the faceID with drawing over ones closed eye after being threatened by the riewers wife of doing so during his sleep. Is this confirmed by any other sources? If it is true this is a very hard tech to safely use in my oppinion

So apparently what Apple is doing with FaceID is actually very promising. I feel the demo that had a rough showing due to the iPhone X coming out of a fresh reboot but the later demos showed that it worked pretty reliably. Apple puts a lot of time and effort into their R&D and it really shows, regardless of how you view the company. In this year alone the A11 and FaceID are shaking things up quite a bit. It will be interesting to see how the rest of the industry picks up on what Apple is doing. TouchID popularized fingerprint passcodes and now we all have that on our phones....well....not the iPhone X . Source: http://pocketnow.com/2017/10/02/samsung-face-id-apple-kgi-why

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https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/04/face-id-brothers-video/ So basically two brothers who are NOT TWINS were able to fool the iphone x face id system and unlock the device , Apple claimed that Face ID is safer than touch ID and the chance of a random person being able to unlock your phone is 1 in 1,000,000 but according to the source and the video posted on reddit (go to the source to watch the video) all was needed to fool the iphone was a pair of "black rim glasses" And the other brother was able to unlock it more than once Face ID failing to distinguish identical twins was somehow expected but failing to distinguish normal siblings might make some people worried especially those who use their phones to pay with apple pay. From apple website: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208108 So Apple itself says that Face ID might fail for twins and siblings that look like you and recommend using a passcode . I don't know but the rumors of "Apple reducing the required quality of face id sensor" might be true I feel that this technology wasn't ready "enough" but apple usually waits for new tech to get mature and then , put them in their product . They might've expected to be able to put the finger print sensor under the display but we don't know I'm a Android guy myself but if i were using iphone x and apple pay , i would definitely used a passcode for payments ____________ For those who might think that they have added 2 faces to make face id look bad , i should say that you can't do that. you can only set 1 face for it

Hello ! So it’s been almost 2 years since I got my iPhone X and I love it, I could keep it but the front and rear glass are totally shattered and it’s a real bummer. I would like to keep this phone but it’s like a ~300$ repair. I need your advice, do you think it’s better to keep this phone shattered for one more year and wait for the next iPhone 2020, repair this iPhone and keep it longer or switch to Android ? I’m a photographer and I really value image quality and screen accuracy. I’d also like my phone to be decently fast even 3 years later. First I tough the Pixel 3 was a right choice but it’s really expensive and laggy, from the reviews I saw this phone is not fast at all. I was thinking maybe about getting the OnePlus 7 when the OP 7T rolls out but I really don’t know. Before my iPhone I had a OP 2 (and it was horribly laggy) and I think I can switch from iOS to android pretty easily even tho it’s really annoying. I don’t give myself a budget I just wanna know the options available So that’s all, thank you so much for you answer!

Hey everyone, I’m looking for some advice for a new charger. I’ve gotten the usb-c to lightning cable but I haven’t got an (usb-c) fast charger. But I’m a little concerned about what is best for my phone, especially the battery. Im looking at an belkin charger which has usb-a 12W and usb-c 27W or the original Apple usb-c with 18W. Any advice would be appreciated! greetings Frosty

Just one device did this.....just one......and it underperformed according to Apples' expectations! Those margins though Insane brand + high profit margins + plus long support cycles = profit (contrary to the planned obsolescence theory towards Apple and their business model) Damn! That bit about the market having hit its peak really stands out to me, especially with the recent trend in smartphones after the release of the iPhone X. Smartphone makers are pretty much out of ideas and most everything is becoming an iterative update. Many would draw parallels to the iPhone 6-8 and I would draw parallels to the Galaxy S6-8. Apple however manages to get almost all the money in the industry and the best these other OEMs can seem to do is try and copy Apple's hardware designs without doing any of the things Apple does right in their hardware or software in spite of Apples' serious flaws as a company in some respects like service and repairability* This last bit of the report may be an issue, and Apple has historically been unable to penetrate the Chinese market do to the profound cultural and legal differences preventing Apple from going after Chinese based companies that just essentially copy paste the look of an iPhone and get away with it. The caveat is that it has always been rumored that someone is going to do something to at least try to unseat Apple but it has never happened. Until an Android OEM can deliver a hardware and software experience, along with customer support, longer device support windows, and establish a strong brand, it is unlikely that these figures will change in favor of everyone else in my opinion. Source: https://www.cnbctv18.com/telecom/iphone-x-pocketed-35-of-total-handset-industry-profits-in-q4-2017-37151.htm *see iPhone 8 display bricking, iMac Pro repair, soldered components, etc.

It's any other Monday night, I was browsing the interballs (any MCM fans in the room) looking at all these other smaller brand phones coming to the front of the market. Brands like Huawei, Oppo and Xiaomi (mi) are coming up fast, they might not be considered by many as a 'flagship' device, but money talks. People are buying phones for half the cost of major brands ie, Apple and Samsung with most if not all of the features seen in many true 'flagship' devices. One great example is a device some of you may know, others may look at the brand name and think.. 'huh?' Meet the Xiaomi (Mi) Mix 2.. This phone, according to the listed specs, is the little brands big device. This device features a full screen phone and a... whaaaaaat?! A flagship device with a full body screen AND finger print authentication?! How can this be?! Apple can't do it so why can they?! Now before we continue let me add in here that I am an android user by choice, I swapped to android after the Iphone 4. Nothing after that from Apple really caught my eye. Other brands (not just Samsung) had been releasing technologies far ahead of Apple by this point. What I don't get is Apple's speel about being the greatest full screen phone, or insinuating that they were the first to market. It really bugs me. We all know other brands (as per usual) have produced this style of device in the past. Now where was I.. Oh that's right! Haha you sir/madam have just been played by Apple. And this is the core topic of my post. I've been an avid watcher of Linus's videos for years, and when i watched his video about the Iphone 9 **cough** sorry i mean the Iphone X, I could think of a few points of my own to consider. Why is it that for the past few years Apple (not a brand i admire much now days) has gone from being the hero of technology, a masterpiece in its class, what WAS known as a true definition of what could be done with mobile technology, has now taken the low road waiting for other brands to do the risky work of putting technologies and/or features with little to no reputation or expectation of public response into devices. Only to find if the idea or technology succeeds too scoop up the idea with a few standardized Apple price tag increasing tweaks along the way and implement it into their new latest and greatest phone and call it a breathtaking masterpiece never seen before. And lets not even get started on the crap Apple pulled in their 'Keynote' presentation about sizing of devices and the trick's they are using to make consumers buy models with larger storage for exorbitant prices. This crap has to stop. As many of you know we cannot do much to a company of Apples size without jumping up and down, but i feel the more people can converse about the issue, the more chance there is of such issues being given light, and large companies (not just Apple) from trying to rob you of your hard earned $$. Lets also consider the fact that Apple since the Iphone 5 has done very little to change or update their device apart from the smaller changes internally such as updates to Siri and faster fingerprint authentication times, all of which probably could of been pushed out in patches or software updates but what the hell lets make a new device out of it and charge double. And smaller changes physically like the recent change to a glass back for wireless charging and the slight movement of an antenna from one place to another just to name a couple. Seriously apple? But we have all heard this argument before. It's been said, screamed, and yelled till the tech world went blue in the face. It's now very obvious Apple does not care. As a disclaimer, in saying all of this, I have not been hands on with this Xiaomi device and cannot tell you more than what i can read online, and therefore i cannot tell you how one device in the flesh could perform in comparison to the others. To wrap up, it seems too me like Apple is becoming more of a money hungry fashion statement than a device that once upon a time quite literally, changed the world. Whats your thoughts? Regards, JB

This dude in his first paragraph says Bwahahaha like Samsung doesn't have phones with facial, iris, and finger print to log in. Now, 3D maping of a face? IPhone X might be the only SMARTPHONE that does this. I know Windows tablets and laptops already have it. BUT this guy also says OMG hello, it's called WINDOWS HELLO!!! Windows already does this with facial, iris, fingerprint, pin, password, and drawing on a picture. it's just so funny and laughable when people who don't know about tech try to write about tech but they just look silly. but for some reason they only pay attention to Apple press releases and apple crap and nothing else and spew nonsense. That's what's annoying. The dudes name who wrote the article is Chris Smith. he's like less then half right it seems to me. Link: https://a.msn.com/r/2/BBFOffy?m=en-us

Hi all, first post here! I read an iFixit article which mentioned that iPhone X-series phones are compatible with both the original flexible OLED panels and aftermarket LCD screens. I don't understand how this is possible given that the two technologies use different waveforms, but anyway, this seems like an excellent opportunity to test out claims that OLED is better or worse for battery life compared to LCD. I keep hearing that OLED + dark themes use very little power. Yet every OLED device I've owned has had poorer battery life compared to LCD. A display panel engineer at Tianma told me that this is because of unoptimized software and not because of hardware. This Vice article mentioned that the knock-off LCD panels for the iPhone run hotter and use more power than OLED. Yet the same article mentioned that there was no performance difference between LCD and OLED. However, Anandtech's analysis of the iPhone XR's battery life put it significantly above its OLED stablemates in screen-on time. Ultimately, it's not clear to me which panel gets better battery life. Could this be an opportunity to put claims about OLED vs LCD battery life on iPhone replacement screens to the test? Can someone just drop in an LCD panel into an iPhone XS and measure screen on time in order to test the battery life of OLED vs LCD panels?

Hey guys, my iphone x has been going through battery like crazy while using youtube, it also gets a little hot while holding it on my hand. (watching youtube). My last 7 days of usage show me 60% of the battery was consumed by youtube. The second one is reddit with 11% from watching lots of gifs, what is weird to me is that I use instagram and apple music all day long and they only use 5% and 2% respectively. I googled it trying to find a common problem amongst users but all I could find was articles from November 2017, any info is appreciated. Thanks