I used to use a gmail account, but switched to a fastmail account. My wife uses an iCloud email account as her Apple ID as well but I know her password and we have a way to get the 2FA code sent in case of an emergency. (well, mostly she has an iPad as well, but I'm a trusted contact.)

No. Apps in the background are almost always in a suspended state and don't use processing, and iOS limits them to very few processor cycles - basically to check for new mail notifications, etc.

There is little reason to close apps in the background except if the app is acting up somehow.

I manually switch things. Occasionally if I'm running late or something I'll carry both, but usually it's just one or the other.

Actually my main reason for wanting a full wallet is for receipts. If I'm running a bunch of errands, going to multiple places, I'm likely to carry my regular wallet just for storing the receipts.

I use the MagSafe wallet when I know I only need a card and my license, and will occasionally stick a $20 bill in (such as when I am going out for a run and will stop at the corner store for coffee when I get back.) Otherwise I just carry my regular wallet.

The number of times that I've had to pay cash for anything since the lockdown in 2020 has been very low, though. I hardly ever need cash; I can often get by with Apple Pay, actually, and don't often need cards, either.

It was happening to me this morning, yes, but it I turned on the next hour precipitation outlook and it eventually filled in. Otherwise I hadn't noticed it before today when I've used it.

Yes it does.

This is the way that all weather sources present lows and highs. Watch the weather on TV - same thing.

In the weather app, tap the day and you see a graph of the temp across all hours, when the low and high occurs, and you can swipe left and right to switch days.

Right. Most weather apps are most useful when they have your location. The issue is that they are linking the location to tracking you specifically, which they share with third parties (e.g., they sell the info to ad brokers). WeaWow tracks location, but not linked specifically to you.

Weather Fit: https://imgur.com/Nd0iiut

WeaWow: https://imgur.com/xHKjSkx

> Another app that I found that I’ve been enjoying is Weather Fit.

Ugh, but an ugly app privacy report for that one. Data used to track you, including location. I haven't used Weawow, but that one has a good app privacy report.

Settings / Accessibility / Accessibility Shortcut. Do you have one of those options turned on?

An anecdote just to counter this: this summer I brought my 13 Pro in (which is under AppleCare+) when it started acting up after I had been in a terrible downpour with the phone in my pocket. It wouldn't charge, and the display wouldn't accept touch input. At my appointment, the water sticker in the SIM tray was not red. After about 5 minutes if fiddling, the touchscreen started working again. But, it was still failing diagnostics, and they said they wanted to send it out for repair, because unexpected failures (e.g., it should be able to get wet from a rainstorm) get sent out for advanced diagnostic repairs. They told me because of the suspected water damage it would cost the AC+ deductible.

It took over a week to get returned back to the store, surprisingly, and came back with a new rear system that was replaced free of charge under warranty.

So, no, they don't always find water damage, even when you tell them that the phone stopped working after it got wet.

I know I'm tired of people complaining about it, that's for sure.

I'm pretty sure that Apple does what they call a rear system replacement for a shattered back on a 13. This retains the screen and the camera system from your phone and replaces Since you also have a shattered screen, it may be that they just replace the whole phone, but I'm not sure.

If they do a rear system replacement you will definitely need a backup.

iPhone X, 3.5 years. I was planning to buy a new phone two years ago, but I wasn't thrilled about the 12 (especially because 5G was new, and I knew it would have a better radio in year 2), and I wasn't traveling to a place where I'd want to have a better camera, so I waited until last year and upgraded to the 13 Pro.

Well, I'm not sure that the XR will get 3-4 more years of iOS updates, but that doesn't mean it won't work. With that usage - yes, I think that the battery will last 3-4 years easily. Also, my wife and I just did the same for her Mom this year. Not her first smartphone, but she had a 5C that was soon going to lose the ability to make calls (as it doesn't support VoLTE and Verizon is soon dropping all 3G/CDMA cells), so we gave her my wife's old iPhone 8 with a new battery. (She thinks of the iPhone as her "carphone". She uses an iPad for almost everything.)