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can I use one of my throwaway Google accounts for set up and downloading apps but then not for anything else?
Yes, I think so.
Like, I assume phone contacts will maybe be attached to that,
I don't know if there is a way to import contacts from your Apple account to the Google account. There probably is.
but can you turn off syncing?
Yes.
Would anybody calling or texting see this address?
No, not the .gmail.com address, just the phone number.
continuing to use Fastmail as my primary email.
Should not be a problem. Looks like there is a Fastmail app in the Google store.
I can use my phone to send from my yahoo.com email and my outlook.com email if I want to. They are all different apps, with different launch icons.
Thanks, dcp! Figured it made sense to check while I'm waiting for this thing to charge. But I see now that it seems fairly simple to change the attached account if I want to later.
I don't know if there is a way to import contacts from your Apple account to the Google account.
Yeah, I'm sure there is but I'm happy to have a fresh start. Last time I even changed numbers! (Besides photos, which I backup to my laptop, I really didn't use my iPhone for very much beyond calling/texting, Duolingo, and syncing my Fitbit, which, now that Google bought them and is going to force everyone to have a Google account to even do that, I suppose it's just as well I have this thing.)
I realized I should have asked here for help first but I'm here now
M's cousin who is here all the time has a daughter, I'll call Mac, who is 11 or 12. She is really into drawing and she saved up to buy an older iPad. It's just her mom, her grandma and pretty much us in the picture. And her mom is hopeless with technology.
Anyway she got a 5th gen iPad. I don't know how much she paid for it but it's so old that she can't get a stylus to work with it.
So I was wondering if 1) anyone knows of a stylus that would work with that iPad or 2) if there is a newer version that would work better but would be super cheap to buy. Or where a good place to buy one would be.
I might try to help her in some way to get a better one because I'm regretting not offering to help to do research and helping her get what she needed when I heard she was going to buy one
I still have a 1st-gen iPad, and I don't really do much with it, but the first two things that come to mind to suggest are:
1) Check what stylus she is trying? Is it an Apple product, or something else?
2) When I go to Settings, I see a section for Apple Pencil, and in that I see a toggle labeled "Only Draw with Apple Pencil." If that's on, try turning it off.
Ok I'll check those and see what happens.
Thanks
Yeah, a generic stylus should work, as a replacement for a finger, even if like the "Apple Pencil" and fancy extras don't work?
