Nothing in that keynote particularly interested me enough to move away from my 6. No TouchID is a dealbreaker for me, so the X is out. My 6 is starting to get quite sluggish and is obviously struggling with some newer apps, but not even wireless charging is of enough interest to really make me move to the 8.

My father in law has recently re-discovered his old iPod Mini which has a ton of music on it he bought through iTunes. He has zero memory of his iTunes account details.

Anyone had any joy getting music off an iPod and onto a PC? I found something called icopybot but have no idea if it's dodgy or not. Any thoughts welcome.

My understanding was that the music is on the file system of the iPod and viewable as normal when connecting to a PC but that the folder system and actual file names were essentially obfuscated so you couldn't know what something was just by looking. The ID3 tags are kept intact though so if you import them into a PC app that deals in ID3 then you can organise and play them back that way. If not then there's bound to be something that will rename and reorganise based on the tags.

Cheers! Will give that a go.

The iOS11 update ‘files’ thing. I’m so (easily) confused.

Let’s say I’ve got a PDF that I am annotating. I’ve got it open in my iPad and adding annotation. Can I save that to the files and then open it with the annotations in my phone to keep annotating it? Do I have to save it in a difficult place?

Not used this but just had a look..

When I opened it I was presented with my Cloud storage (OneDrive and ICloud)

I opened up a PDF from Onedrive and used the pen to make some lines on it to test

I then clicked done and the changes were not saved

So I tried again then I found a save button and was offered to save the file on my Iphone (which didn't work) or my ICloud drive.

I saved it to ICloud and this time when I opened the file from there the changes were saved. I then added some more lines and just clicked done and these 2nd changes saved also

So looks like if you use ICloud for saving then it will work, not sure why I can't save to the phone, its a work one so has some management profiles on and may be blocked dure to this.

Are they ever going to do a new iPad Mini??!

Unlikely at this point. The demand just isn’t there given the trend for huge phablets.

100% hands-free butt

Which is a shame as I think the Mini is the perfect form factor for me, but I don't think there's enough of a jump from the Mini 2 to 4 to justify an upgrade.

When is the new iPhone out??

The iPhone XS? Capitalism just parodies itself these days.

Amazing that the $999/£999 phone appears to have been normalised.

I'm too balls-deep in Android and the wider Google ecosystem to ever switch, I reckon.

I'm too balls-deep in Android and the wider Google ecosystem to ever switch, I reckon.

Amazing that the $999/£999 phone appears to have been normalised.

Depends what you mean by normalised. The mass market device Apple announced yesterday is the £749 iPhone XR; that’s the one that’s gonna sell. Hats normal. And it’s almost the equal of last year’s £1000 iPhone X, too. The more expensive models are for rich folks and nerds.

Do you mean a preowned or discounted old stock X? Because Apple discontinued the X yesterday. The range now is XR - XS - XS Max.

The XR is 95% if the phone for 75% the price. I’m not saying it’s cheap, but I do think it’s comparatively good value and I think it’ll sell very well.

Finally got my expenses sorted for a work phone. Been looking at the iPhone 7 128g £370, and 8 64g £420.

Is the 8 worth the extra £50?

Thanks