Justin SearlsAug 22, 2023

something I've seen countless times over the years: someone offers to take a photo for me with my iPhone and "does me the favor" of disabling Live Photos in the process

then I go a month or more without noticing all my memories have been cheapened due to the lack of Live Photos and I want to throttle the dude at the grand canyon who insisted on taking a picture of me in my awesome "this place is the pits" shirt what the hell

Show threadJay McGavren

@searls You think they're doing it on purpose? Do you think they're doing it just for the photo they're taking for you? Or they think it's feature you couldn't possibly *actually* want on, and so they're disabling it for future photos on your behalf?

This is going to bother me a great deal; I'm not OK with the idea of my settings getting f***ed with...

Aug 23, 2023 at 3:42amWeb
Show threadJustin SearlsAug 23, 2023
@jaymcgavren on at least three occasions they said something like "let me do you a favor" like turning it off was the obvious thing to do, or a pro-tip. I feel like this is a meme in some community I don't belong to, like those virtual home buttons were for years prior to iPhone X