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What bothers me is that even if you buy (own) echo devices, it still puts that crap in your face all the time. Same for the Ring app. Crappy nuisance atop otherwise decent software

I wish they’d nominate Apollo again, even though it’s unavailable lol

One day I randomly found all my lost Shared Photo invitations on my work iPad. I never really use the camera or photos on that, but that’s the only place they went- it is signed into iCloud with the exact settings as my iPhone and Mac. No matter what I do I only get Photo invitations on the iPad.

Had a similar thing with my partner’s HomeKit invitation- it would ONLY go to her iPad, no matter what.
Oh and just remembered the same issue happened when Find My iPhone wouldn’t work on my dads phone. 8 months later I did a point OS update on his iPad, which then prompted a new Agreements Confirmation, and received received 16 “found iPhone” alerts all at once… either months later lol.
The software agreement thing has been a major issue for a LONG time. Gotta be a better way to catch that and force the popup everywhere.

Not sure if that’s helpful, but check all your signed in iCloud devices and make sure they’re all on the latest OS.

Stupid tip, but if you have older devices you lightly use, which can’t run the latest/current OS, create a unique isolated iCloud account for those devices.
Yes, it can involve extra steps, but it will mitigate all the issues mentioned above.

Keyboard Updates- yes I know that was part of 17 but it was 3 steps forward, 2 steps backwards. Need to fix the learned words, speed, and other issues.

I think any device like this would need a well tested heat-sink and fan that pulls directly from the phone chassis. Just my experience, maybe other phones don’t get as hot

Oh boy, nobody likes this answer in my experience but… More than anything, I use Chrome everywhere.
It goes back to when I used Windows & Mac machines daily, and Chrome had the best bookmarks search and extension (uBlock, now origin, and tab suspender).
To be fair, for a handful of reason, I use all the browser regularly, but my primary is still Chrome on everything.

Few things I’ll add, that might make me switch to Safari:

1. Extensions have to be BETTER and better integrated. Trying to use: complete and custom ad block, session manager with/and tab suspender, 1Password. Currently it sucks.

2. iOS/iPadOS Safari needs to be better at: Tab Sync/access across devices. Mobile Chrome is way better at this and we all know that’s an advanced Safari wrapper.

3. Chrome and mobile chrome sleeps tabs better, AND has unlimited tabs, mobile Safari still does not - come on now. I understand people are different, but I want to organize and close tabs myself, not have them all closed when I reach a max.

Honestly I could go on about this- Chrome is somehow just better. I WANT to use Safari, because there’s things like 2-factor codes and extensions, that Apple locks out for other browsers, but every-time I use chrome I could frustrated by it.