u/dee4006

Where those 4 dots are, there's an animated histogram/bar-chart happening the whole time (except mysteriously when I took this photo). Is that going to continue forever as long as I don't have a SIM Card in the phone? Is it nothing to worry about? I only intend to use this old iPhone for testing stuff via WiFi.

It's currently behaving weirdly, not letting me select things in Settings (like that 2 Apple Account Suggestions) it claims I have. When I touch on it, the background of the button highlights, indicating I've definitely pressed it, but nothing happens. I just wondered if that was related to this ongoing animated thing in the top left. Also, if I press on Apple Account name, it goes into the submenu but none of the items (like Personal Information, Sign-In Security, Payment, etc) are selectable. They highlight when I press on them, but they don't open. Also, there's a busy wheel animating at the bottom of that page the whole time.

All very weird. This might explain why I stopped using this thing 3 years ago.

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I bought this Mac Mini in September 2025 and didn't have access to my old Apple Id at the time so I created a user and a new Apple Id. Since then I've installed a handful of free apps and dev packages and created various things under this user.

I'm wondering, now that I've got my old Apple Id, if I can simply log out of the Apple Id (but not the user) and login as the original Apple Id and all will work seamlessly regarding my user account (the one I login to at boot time). Will I get to keep all the apps, history, configuration, etc and it will simply consider this as "the same user but with a different apple id"?

Or will it treat me as a new user?

I've read elsewhere that the major concerns for people have been paid-for subscriptions, apps, music, etc. I don't have any of that.

This the latest Android 4K Video Downloader Plus App and it's now giving the error "limited by YouTube". There's nothing I can do about it. I can't login because the 4K folks think logging in is only relevant to the desktop version. No idea why they think that, but they do.

I've just tried these videos on the desktop version (where my 4KVD is logged into YouTube) and they download just fine. I don't think the links are relevant but here's one of them.

This happened yesterday also, but a few hours later it wasn't happening (same phone, same links).

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I used Google Authenticator as my primary 2FA but one day it decided to lose all my codes. It was many years ago I set that up and didn't know it was important to save the backup/recovery codes.

I have my id, password, email account, and the same phone number which can receive SMS 6-digit codes if they were willing to send them.

None of that is relevant though, after entering the id/password it switches to a 2FA verification screen that accepts either Google Authenticator or Backup codes but nothing else.

I've seen that Selfie videos or photos can be used to enable access to the account but I don't have any selfie photos/videos on the account to compare with.

As far as I know, there are no human support people at meta. I think I'm screwed.

I've failed at the very first hurdle. I installed Reaper an hour ago, went into media explorer and found my known/good samples that play perfectly in Windows media player. I select one of the samples (a bass drum) and it plays it repeatedly in a loop with snaps, crackles, and pops continuously.

It's making we wonder why I'm trying this software. Last time I messed around with making some music was with Fruity Loops, like 15 years ago, with the same samples. I never had such issues with them then.

I've found some similar descriptions of this issue going back to 2010 with Reaper. The talk back then was about hard drives and memory and performance. This computer I'm using is pretty much as fast a laptop as you can get right now. All the memory, speed, and fast SSD.