Sunday digest No. 5. Here are all the most interesting things of the week that you might have missed.

On your day off, I suggest you remember what interesting and important things happened over the past work week in order to keep abreast of what is happening in the world of gadgets and technology, and also discuss this news with friends.

Below we have collected all the most interesting things over the past six days, what was written about and discussed on the pages of iPhones.ru.

This week, readers actively shared their experiences with us in a variety of areas. The question was asked how to get the most out of Tbilisi in five days, turn the Steam Deck into a full-fledged home gaming PC, and install the newly released GTA remasters on your iPhone. In addition, updates to Apple operating systems have begun, introducing new features.

Read about this and much more in our digest:

1. Problem creating a new account on iPhone

Owners of Apple devices most often began to face the inability to create a new account on their device. For example, you buy a used iPhone with your hands. It can be restored, a la “new”, but in one way or another used. During the initial setup at the stage of creating an Apple ID, the user sees an error in the video message: Failed to create a new account. It is currently not possible to create an account.

In the meantime, this error will occur more and more often. So you keep a detailed post-explanation of the situation in which you will find a not ideal, but a working solution to the problem.

This rare iPhone problem is becoming more common. Why does the error “Could not create a new account” occur?

2. Updates to Apple operating systems have been released for all users.

Apple has released watchOS 10.2 and tvOS 17.2 to all users. watchOS 10.2 has several new features, which are collected here.

tvOS 17.2 introduces an updated Apple TV app, where you can buy movies and TV shows, as well as watch Apple TV+ content. Starting with this version, the company disabled the iTunes TV Shows and iTunes Movies apps.

Apple also introduced a gift build of macOS Sonoma 14.2 for all users. What’s new – see this material.

Following this, the iOS 17.2 update arrived on iPhones, which included 3 useful features. Which ones – look here.

3. Select Mac. Comparison of current models, characteristics, opinions

Before the New Year holidays, we continue to collect and compare current Apple devices. So you will have to remember all the company’s devices and understand which one is best suited for a specific task.

It is very difficult to choose the appropriate option from a variety of device images. But we tried to highlight the key features of each Apple computer.

Which Mac is better to choose today? All models, characteristics, advantages and disadvantages

4. Can Steam Deck replace a home PC? Apparently – yes

An iPhones.ru reader shared his experience of using a game console as a full-fledged computer. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be very convenient and quite cheap compared to purchasing a real powerful gaming system unit.

Children’s Valve copes with all tasks perfectly, while remaining a portable phone for games. That is, at any moment you can switch from work on completing cyberpunk or Far Cry 6. As a bonus, you stop dragging your MacBook into the cold every day from home to the office and back, because at home there is an excellent replacement for a video steam deck in stationary mode.

I turned the Steam Deck into a home gaming PC. Here’s how to do the same, more impressions

5. Getting to know Taobao. How to buy, how to shop in Russia and other subtleties on this trading platform

Everyone has already reached the classic AliExpress and usually orders goods from it. But in China there are so many marketplaces that it’s dizzying. For example, Taobao (TaoBao).

One of the main features of Taobao is its scale. There is a huge selection of retail goods from millions of sellers, you can find literally anything.

So study, AliExpress is not the only rich Celestial Empire.

How to buy and deliver goods on Taobao in Russia. We talk to the Chinese and find the best sales

6. Overview of the subway in Toronto, Canada. How is it there, unlike in Moscow?

A reader writes: In short, the entire public transport system here is very poorly developed: there are no stations, the cars are very ordinary, the schedule is inaccurate, you can get somewhere quickly, there are too many people. After the subway in Moscow, all this was surprising.

Look at 10 things that happened on the subway in Toronto and Moscow. And if you are not from Moscow, compare photos of Canadian models and subway trains with the metro of your city.

Visited the Toronto subway for the first time in a year using Bluetooth. Here are 10 important requests from the Moscow metro

7. The whole truth about Tbilisi from the reader. How much money do you need, where to eat deliciously and other life hacks

In mid-November, an iPhones.ru reader flew to Tbilisi and spent 6 days there. In terms of impressions, this amazing city simultaneously resembles European Berlin, eastern Istanbul and post-Soviet Moscow.

A detailed photo report about the city and where they go in it is in this article, and in the new material you will find out how much the trip cost, how to fly, where and why to live, life hacks with transport and what is profitable to buy.

How much did I return during my 5 days of vacation in Tbilisi? Expenses for tickets, accommodation, food and entertainment

8. Revelations of a former employee of an authorized Apple service center.

The service center deals with problems that may arise when using equipment. The author had the opportunity to work for several years at one of these service centers and he claims that some clients abuse the help of the manufacturer – they try to get free repairs or even replace the device’s body.

A story about these cases from the perspective of a service center employee. You will learn about the main advantages of Apple services that were used by dishonest clients, as well as methods of protection against them.

I worked at Apple ASC for 4 years. This is how clients tried to deceive us and not tell us the truth

9. Various interesting things

📍 Apple is looking for engineers with knowledge of Russian language and culture to develop Siri.

We need a person with extensive experience, having a master’s degree in computer science or a related science, or three years of work experience in this field. Must have knowledge of text processing, neuro-linguistic programming, machine learning, and multiple programming languages ​​(Java, Python, Swift, Objective-C, C++, or Go).

Dealing with a pandemic at Apple’s Barcelona office. Salary will be maintained based on the results of the interview.

📍Yakut developers of a hype and failure game The day before they announced the closure of the studio.

The company called the closure “financial collapse.” The studio currently has no money left for development – all the money earned will be used to pay off debts to colleagues. The game servers continue to work, but for how long is unknown. How many more corrections will be made to the project is also unknown.

You can read about your impressions of playing in one of the most long-awaited projects here. In short, the bottom was broken several times.

📍A court in Moscow declared the retailer Svyaznoy bankrupt.

With a turnover of 105 billion rubles in 2021, the retailer’s rental debt amounted to almost half of the amount. The company also faced dozens of lawsuits from creditors and counterparties.

📍 The Tinkoff Mobile app has returned to the App Store. Now called TIMB.

This is the official Tinkoff Mobile application with a new logo and name. It completely copies the functionality of a serious program that was previously removed from the store. In operator technical support, this is their application.

Download without fear before it gets blocked again.

📍Influences from the cartoon “The Printmaker and the Birds” by the cult animator Hayao Miyazaki. This anime is worth going to the cinema for.

Hayao Miyazaki’s long-awaited new film, “The Boy and the Birds,” was shown in Russian cinemas. The first was the New Product that Miyazaki announced over the past 10 years.

We have already looked at the picture and are in a hurry to share our impressions. Is the director still a genius in 2023 or has he slipped? Let’s figure it out.

📍 Rockstar Games has released remasters of Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City and San Andreas on iOS and Android.

Games are available in two formats. There is a free version for Netflix subscribers and products. each game costs €19.99 on the App Store. The entire Russian updated trilogy has an interface and subtitles. However, the games are not available in Russia. They can only be purchased in foreign App Stores.

But when this stopped us, we had already figured out the installation of Hitman: Blood Money. Keep two stages of installing the GTA trilogy: free and paid.

📍We checked all the rumors about the iPhone 15 and their sources. Who lied and who can you trust?

Six months before the release of the iPhone 15, a large number of rumors about the smartphone appeared on the Internet from various sources. We analyzed them all and compared them with what came out in the end. Some things came true, some didn’t. But now we can summarize which source, in principle, can be trusted.

Let’s figure out what expectations and reality we received in this article.

📍 Yandex Market sent fake AirPods 3 to the iPhones.ru reader. Support does not respond at all.

I chose headphones that were suitable for the price – not the most expensive and far from the cheapest of those presented. At home, upon careful inspection, many discrepancies were noticed in the appearance of the box with the boxes from the original AirPods 2 and AirPods Pro 2.

After examining the box, it became obvious that the delivery was a fake. The back is of very, very cheap quality, judging by how curved and oblique the box is. I immediately started writing and calling support to explain the situation and suggest further action. You can rightly note: what can you find out here, what tips do you need? Bring the fake for return and order from another seller! Read how events unfolded in this article.

That’s what this week was like. Enjoy your holiday and see you in the next Sunday digest.