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    Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable

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    401 points Bluestein | 11 comments | 23 Jun 25 15:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.989s | source | bottom
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    godelski ◴[23 Jun 25 16:51 UTC] No.44357661[source]▶
    They mention the Pixel and I just got to say, I wish someone would bring back the fingerprint reader on the back of the phone. That was seriously the best solution. Fastest way to unlock your phone, because no matter how slow the fingerprint reader is you activate it while pulling it out of your pocket. I honestly don't get why people like Face ID more (what I currently use). Someone, please bring this back
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    0x38B ◴[24 Jun 25 04:37 UTC] No.44362894[source]▶
    The fingerprint reader is one of the things I most love about my iPhone SE; I don’t see any reason to get a new phone.

    Apple’s declining software quality and walled garden incline me more and more towards ditching iPhone for GrapheneOS or a dumb phone like the Punkt MP; I find far more joy reading on an eReader, taking photos with a camera, or taking notes in my notebook than I do using the phone for any of those.

    Especially for notes, keeping journals for the last few years, I find such peace and even connection with myself and my thoughts in my journals; I write down passages from books that are meaningful to me, and seeing my own handwriting, the ink I wrote it in, even the shading in the ink – it all adds up to a deeply meaningful, physical experience.

    The answer is not more phone, it’s less!

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    1. lnsru ◴[24 Jun 25 06:31 UTC] No.44363385[source]▶
    Mail on iOS stopped working properly months ago, touch on this particular device sometimes does not work. Photos app is ridiculous. Software quality is declining. Even very average user like me can notice it.
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    2. textm0de ◴[24 Jun 25 06:54 UTC] No.44363509[source]▶
    The Mail thing was weird. I thought it was maybe an update or even a network issue as I had recently changed my router. I eventually gave up and replaced Mail with another email client.
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    3. girvo ◴[24 Jun 25 08:15 UTC] No.44363924[source]▶
    I'm about 30 seconds away from doing the same. It's honestly woeful how bad it is. Probably just going to move to the Fastmail client directly, I suppose.
    4. average_r_user ◴[24 Jun 25 08:20 UTC] No.44363952[source]▶
    Genuine Question: What problem did you encounter within the Mail App?
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    5. d3ckard ◴[24 Jun 25 08:24 UTC] No.44363981[source]▶
    You need to block Siri in it and then it works fine again.
    6. mindok ◴[24 Jun 25 08:26 UTC] No.44363995{3}[source]▶
    Not the original commenter, but it regularly fails to update emails unless it is restarted. Last 2 major iOS versions have had the same problem for me. That’s a fundamental functionality failure in my book.
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    7. lnsru ◴[24 Jun 25 08:31 UTC] No.44364016{4}[source]▶
    This! Continuously restart app to read new mail.
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    8. wiether ◴[24 Jun 25 08:35 UTC] No.44364036[source]▶
    was? is!

    They still haven't fixed it.

    I don't use emails enough on my iPhone to make the effort to try another client, but the unread bubble is still stuck at 2, no matter how much unread emails I actually have. The app randomly shows or hides some emails...

    9. average_r_user ◴[24 Jun 25 09:12 UTC] No.44364222{5}[source]▶
    Thanks! I didn't notice it because I only have manual mail fetch. But I did notice frequent crashes of the app when you open heavy email (e.g with lots of images)
    10. MaKey ◴[24 Jun 25 15:20 UTC] No.44367193{5}[source]▶
    It's pretty embarrassing that Apple doesn't bother fixing this issue.
    11. godelski ◴[24 Jun 25 16:59 UTC] No.44368304{3}[source]▶
    Where do I begin? I guess saying that using thunderbird or neomux is a huge upgrade. Just the ability to filter or add tags is huge. But I don't know an alternative in iOS which frequently doesn't even update and inline displays pdfs making it easier for scammers