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My iPhone’s Setup

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This is what I have on my iPhone. For the past 2 years I’ve been using an iPhone 12 Pro Max. It’s a great phone with incredible battery life though it could do with more RAM and the camera was acting funny. I’ve just switched to an iPhone 13 Pro which I got from my mom who switched to an iPhone 16 Plus. So far it’s pretty good though the battery life could be better.

Given that I’ve just switched phones, I thought I’d use this as an oppurtunity to share what’s on my iPhone.

Finance and (Real) Utilities

Gaming

  • Scriptic, an interesting game which is like a Netflix show. There are new shows now which I started playing but then my Netflix started acting up.
  • Delta, a game emulator
  • Xbox to connect to my Xbox Series X
  • PlayStation App to connect to my PS4
  • Steam just to log into Steam which insists on proprietary TOTP.

Travel

  • Google Maps to get around, though I should try an open source alternative.
  • InDrive for getting around the city though I should offer rides maybe.
  • Vaya for rideshare
  • Bolt for rideshare as well
  • Google Translate to translate things while abroad, even pictures! Apple Translate isn’t half bad either.
  • Haaya to visit Qatar, which I do quite a lot.
  • AirBnB which I have never used for travel but I plan to use for hosting guests at my mom’s house while she’s gone.

Productivity

  • Office to edit Office documents on my phone
  • Collabra Office is the iOS version of LibreOffice. Haven’t used it yet.
  • Google Drive for the work’s Google Drive which we only use to sync data with the mobile app.
  • Mail for, err…e-mail. Don’t have a good reason to use anything else.
  • Google Sheets in case I need to use it on my phone.
  • Numbers since it makes working with spreadsheets using Apple Shortcuts easier.
  • OneDrive to get the files I’ve stored there.

Utilities

Communication and Social

Media Creation

Entertainment

Web Extensions

Apps I Removed

  • Patreon, since I’ve never made any money from it.
  • StackExchange is pointless as a mobile app.
  • Western Union, don’t really need it.
  • Raindrop, I don’t use it as much anymore
  • Uber, don’t need it now
  • Spectre, I don’t use it
  • Filmic Pro, I don’t use it much anymore, especially since Blackmagic Camera has their app.
  • Best Buy, used it to see what a TV would look like on a wall, don’t need it anymore.
  • MyLiquid Home, I’ve switched to Starlink (at work anyway).
  • BancABC 360 since I don’t really use them anymore.
  • Roulette, forgot what it’s about, something about pressing a button?
  • Grab, I’m not in Asia
  • Bing, don’t really need it especially since I don’t play with its AI much.
  • Brightline, since I didn’t get to use it.
  • Apple Store since I have nothing to buy
  • iVCam for a remote camera. It became incredibly annoying as it would randomly blurt TRIAL VERSION in online meetings. EpocCam is better.
  • PS Remote Play which I’ve never really used
  • Privacy Pay since I don’t use it anymore
  • Wise since I don’t need it
  • Old Steward Bank Apps
  • Synchrony Bank since I can’t access it
  • Robinhood since I can’t access it and they froze my account for being outside the US
  • 1Password since it’s no longer free for me
  • Geekbench 4 which I don’t need right now
  • Redder 3 since I now use NetNewsWire
  • Libby and Overdrive that provide free eBooks through your local library (in the US at least).
  • Kindle since there isn’t anything for me to read.
  • Google TV since I don’t really use it.
  • Goodreads which I also don’t use anymore and regret deleting.
  • StoryGraph was a Goodreads competitor that I also removed since I don’t really use it.
  • Editorial (from the guy who made Pythonista) is a great markdoiwn editor but it hasn’t been updated in 4 years and it really needs one. Sutre it was $5 but still…
  • Rough Animator
  • Otter
  • Notability
  • Trello since it didn’t help me manage projects
  • NFC.cool which I don’t use since I haven’t had to use something NFC
  • Slack since I don’t need it
  • Snapdrop since KDE Connect is way better. It’s still a good option if you can’t download an app since it works through the browser. It’s just flakey on iOS.
  • Signal and Telegram since there’s nothing I need from it right now.
  • Peaceful Notes since I’ve never used it.
  • Notion
  • UE Boom which is useless
  • QuickScan since Apple’s works fine
  • Roulette since I forgot what that’s about.
  • Apple classical which I’ve never really used
  • Tumblr, which I used to host my website on but no longer need. Might bring it back just for POSSEing.
  • PiPifier since it doesn’t really work for allowing PiP for YouTube videos.
  • Find since the default Photos app does a good enough job searching pictures contextually.
  • iMovie because it’s totally garbage.
  • TIDE because I haven’t used it in a while
  • Google Hangouts since it’s kinda worthless
  • Code Sandbox which I’ve never used
  • Pixelmator since I haven’t done image editing for a long time besides the simple crop.
  • Uphold I don’t need since Coil, which I used for Web Monetization, doesn’t work anymore. I managed to earn a whopping 55 cents from it because I signed up for a trial with Coil and I was raking in money as I was making this very website.
  • 1.1.1.1 since you don’t need the app to benefit from DNS over TLS/HTTP
  • Didi is ride share that’s only useful in South Africa
  • RD Client since AnyDesk makes more sense here.
  • Pocket by the people who made Procreate. I’ve never used it.
  • MagicStamp. I don’t know why the coffee shop insists on using this instead of the usual stamped out card.
  • Working Copy since iSh has Git unlike this app which charges for Git Push.
  • Dash Docs for development documentation. It’s only on MacOS right now since the iOS was taken down by Apple and they stopped develoopment on the sideloaded version. You can try Dev Docs as a PWA. If you’re on Windows, try Zeal