iOS Tips

View iMessage Sent Times

Drag the message bubble to the left. All the message sent times are displayed on the right-hand-side of the page.

Reference:

  1. In the app you wish to create a PDF from, e.g. Safari, click the share icon.

  2. Select the Print option.

  3. Pinch the first page of the preview window. If that doesn't work, pinch out instead of in. A full-screen preview should open.

  4. Click the share icon in this new window.

  5. Chose the Add To iCloud Drive option or Import with iBooks

Reference:

Remote Debugging Javascript on iPad

You need a macOS device to debug Safari running on an iPad.

  1. On the iPad, Settings -> Safari -> Advanced and enable Web Inspector.

  2. Enable the developer tools in the iMac desktop Safari, Preferences -> Advanced, enable Show Develop menu in menu bar.

  3. Plug the iPad into the iMac using the USB cable.

  4. The remote device will be listed on the desktop Safari 'Develop' menu, with a choice of pages on the remote device to view the console output.

Clearing iOS Safari cache

  1. Start debugging javascript on the iPad using an iMac as described above.

  2. Select the iPad by name and the page to debug from the 'Develop' menu on the iMac.

  3. The Web Inspector window opens on the iMac.

  4. Mouse-hovering over the toolbar reload icon shows the keyboard shortcuts for reloading the page. Press Shift-Command-R to reload the page.

  5. Use the Network tab to debug which resources are, or are not, being reloading.

You can also try using the Empty Caches option on the Develop menu of Safari on the iMac.

See also How to force a reload on web page?? for some more suggestions.

iTunes Local Backups

iTunes version 12.7 stores iOS backups under ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup

Apple Watch Backups

Playing MP3 Files as Podcasts

Apple Community - How to convert mp3 to podcast

Convert HEIC to PNG

On your macOS desktop, install ImageMagick using MacPorts:

$ sudo port install ImageMagick

Convert with:

$ convert IMG_IN.HEIC IMG_OUT.PNG

See the man pages for ImageMagick for more options.

Cleaning Up Duplicate Photographs

See fdupes.

Apple Music

Artwork Muddled Up

The symptoms are seeing the wrong album artwork against songs. If you use iTunes to sync your music, force it to re-sync the entire music library:

  1. Locate the device in Finder on the Mac and select the Music tab

  2. Deselect Sync music onto ...

  3. Click `Apply' and handle the warning message

  4. All the music and playlists are removed from the iPhone/iPad, except for purchased music. It does seem this process also fixes the artwork on the purchased music. Presumably it forces a rebuild of one or more indexes.

  5. Re-select Sync music onto ...

  6. Click Apply

  7. All the relevant music and playlists are re-synced to the iPhone/iPad

Dolby Atmos

You can use the Music application on macOS to find music in your library that has been mixed with Dolby Atmos as follows:

  1. Select Songs under Library from the left side-bar of the Music application

  2. If the View Options dialog is not showing, select View > Show View Options from the main menu

  3. In the View Options dialog, select the Kind option under File

  4. In the Sort by: drop-down, select Kind

  5. Scroll the list of songs until you see the Kind column showing HLS media. These appear to be songs that have been mixed with Dolby Atmos or are Lossless.

  6. To check a specific song, right-click it and select Get Info or choose Song > Info... from the main menu. Click the File tab. The available field shows Dolby Atmos if it is an available format. Pressing the Command and [ or ] keys (left and right square brackets) in the pop-up will cycle through the previous and next songs allowing you to more quickly check multiple songs.

You can also do this in a playlist using the View Options dialog to change the View As: option to Songs and sort by Kind.

Miscellaneous

-- Frank Dean - 8 Jul 2017

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