Alex Brooks

@Alexbrooks
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Politics and technology geek. Business Development Consultant. Formerly @climatehome & @WSJ. Powered by:🍺 and ☕️

You've come to the right place for: #Apple, #Politics, #UKpolitics, #technology, and much #nerdery

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Alex BrooksJan 20
Apple is aggressively pushing OSes 26.2, I’d like to not install on my Intel Mac, I’d also like to free up the 10GB of space the download is taking up. But where is it? I’ve checked everywhere logical. Any ideas @siracusa?
Alex BrooksOct 3
@caseyliss in previous years I’ve done iPhone to iPhone transfers and lost my TestFlight apps. Did an iCloud restore this year and had App Store versions on boot. So that sounds like the difference #askatp
Alex BrooksSep 18, 2025

What’s the going consensus on setting up new iPhones these days?

I want to walk out of the Apple Store with a brand new working phone tomorrow, but last year a device-to-device transfer took several hours, during which time I couldn’t use either phone. And even after that it wants to download apps.

So is restore from iCloud backup the best option? What are the downsides?

(Asked this on Threads and being mansplained about data transfer speeds)

@caseyliss @atpfm @siracusa

Alex BrooksJul 24, 2025

Yet to give it a go, but this looks like a reasonable answer to the question of how to backup iCloud Drive and iCloud Photos without having to store the whole thing locally.

https://www.parachutebackup.com/?ref=alexbrooks

Parachute Backup – Seamless Backup for iCloud

Parachute automatically backs up your iCloud Photos and iCloud Drive to your own storage.

Parachute Backup
Show threadAlex BrooksJul 8, 2025
Appreciate mistakes happen and slip through. But imagine just how many people have read this announcement, including presumably at least the top two people in charge.
Alex BrooksJul 8, 2025
Apple's big announcement on Chief Operating Officer transitions has (now had) a typo in the first paragraph. Poetic.
Alex BrooksJun 11, 2025
Turns out Apple execs are doing wide-ranging interviews; some honest feedback from Joz and Federighi here on the different versions of Siri they're working on and their views on AI Chatbots. https://youtu.be/Pt3qAWxIbrU?si=N2ls_jPd_Htb_11U
WWDC INTERVIEW: Craig & Joz on Why Siri's Not Ready, AI Vision and iPadOS Shocker!

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Alex BrooksJan 17, 2025
The spurious argument that the Supreme Court is using to ban TikTok in the US is the same evidence-less nonsense they used in the UK to ban, and actively remove, Huawei equipment from our phone network.
Alex BrooksJan 15, 2025

Tim Cook features on this week’s episode of the Table Manners podcast with Jessie Ware. Most open and personable I’ve ever heard him.

Talks about caving and its thrills.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tim-cook/id1305228910?i=1000684028214

Tim Cook

Podcast Episode · Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware · 15/01/2025 · 47m

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Alex BrooksFeb 23, 2024

I started Constellation last night on ATV+, and can I just say: holy shit it’s good!

Also the lineup of shows coming to that service in the next few months 🤌🏽