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May 4 • 8 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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APPLE IS QUIETLY DELETING YOUR PHOTOS AND CALLING IT A FEATURE.

"Optimize iPhone Storage" replaces full-res photos with thumbnails.
On a flight with no Wi-Fi? You're sharing a blurry mess.
Turn off iCloud wrong? Originals wiped.

Fix it in 5 settings. Save this now. Image
1. The Setting That Started Everything

Go to Settings > Photos.

If "Optimize iPhone Storage" is checked, your originals are not on your phone.
They're floating in iCloud as full files.
What's on your device is a compressed preview.

Tap "Download and Keep Originals" instead.
Your real photos start coming home.
2. The Trap When You Cancel iCloud

Most people don't know this.

If you turn off iCloud Photos while "Optimize Storage" is on, your iPhone gives you 30 days to download the originals back.
Miss that window and they're gone from your phone forever.

Before you ever toggle iCloud Photos off, switch to "Download and Keep Originals" first.
Wait until everything finishes syncing.
Then make decisions.
3. The Hidden Storage Check Nobody Runs

Settings > General > iPhone Storage > Photos.

Look at the number next to "Photo Library."
If it says 2GB but you have 8,000 photos, you're looking at thumbnails, not photos.
Real libraries are 40GB, 80GB, sometimes 200GB.

Small number = your originals aren't here.
4. The Backup That Isn't a Backup

iCloud Photos is sync, not backup.

Delete a photo on your phone, it deletes from iCloud.
Delete from iCloud, it deletes from your phone.
There is no second copy.

Plug into a Mac or PC every few months.
Export originals to an external drive.
That's a real backup.
5. The Setting That Saves You on a Flight

Even with "Download and Keep Originals" on, new photos can stay in low-res until they sync.

Open the Photos app.
Scroll to any album you might want offline.
Tap a photo, swipe up, and check "Originals on this device."

Force-download the ones that matter before you lose Wi-Fi.
The bottom line.

Apple didn't lie to you. They buried the truth in a checkbox.

"Optimize Storage" sounds helpful until you realize your memories are hostages.

Fix the 5 settings above tonight.

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May 20
Your iPhone has 8 features that make 90% of paid apps useless.

Apple will never advertise them.

I'm listing every single one before this gets buried. Image
Your iPhone has a back button. Apple never told you.

Settings → Accessibility → Touch → Back Tap.

Double tap the Apple logo on the back of your phone. Triple tap it.

Map either one to screenshot, flashlight, mute, or any shortcut you want.

Works through a case. Works in any app.
The keyboard has a hidden trackpad mode.

Long press the spacebar. The whole keyboard turns into a trackpad.

Now you can move the cursor anywhere in your text without trying to tap the exact spot between two letters.

You will never go back to the old way once you try this.
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May 17
Your iPhone says storage is full.

You delete photos, apps, messages. Still full.

Because the real culprit is "System Data" Apple never lets you see.

I cleared 31GB yesterday without deleting a single photo.

Here's how Image
1. First, find the thief.

Go to Settings > General > iPhone Storage.

Wait for the bar at the top to load fully.

Scroll all the way down. Tap "System Data."

That number should be 5 to 10GB.

If it says 30GB, 50GB, even 60GB, you've found it.

That's not your phone. That's junk Apple hid from you.
2. The Safari cache nobody clears.

Every site you visit dumps cookies, images, and cached pages onto your phone.

Months of browsing turns into gigabytes of garbage.

Go to Settings > Apps > Safari.

Tap "Clear History and Website Data."

Pick "All History." Confirm.

Done. That alone freed up almost 4GB on my phone.
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May 14
I SPENT ONE WEEKEND DELETING MYSELF FROM THE INTERNET USING CLAUDE.

My name, Address, and Phone number used to show up on google. Now they don't.

Here's the full playbook. 7 steps. save this. Image
Step 1: See what's actually out there.

Open an incognito window. google your full name, every email you've used, your phone number, old usernames.

Screenshot everything.

Then paste it into claude:

"look at these results. tell me what someone could do with this info if they wanted to find me, scam me, or impersonate me. rank what I need to remove first based on actual risk."

Claude shows you what you really look like online.
Step 2: Start with the data brokers.

Spokeo, radaris, beenverified, intelius, mylife, peoplefinder. these sites have to remove your info if you ask. it's the law.

Claude prompt:

"write a CCPA and GDPR removal request to [broker name]. my info: [name, email, address]. cite the relevant statutes and keep the tone formal."

Paste, send, move to the next one. about 3 minutes per site.
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May 12
You're paying $1,400/year in subscriptions for tools that 10 free GitHub repos already replaced.

Apple, Google, Dropbox, Evernote, 1Password, Paprika, Amazon. They've all been quietly running the same playbook for a decade. Start cheap. Add features. Raise prices. Train AI on your data while you sleep.

A group of open-source developers built free replacements for every single one. Better features. Zero tracking. No subscription that auto-renews after you forget to cancel.

Here are 10 GitHubs that just made your subscription stack look like a scam ↓Image
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1. Bitwarden — kills 1Password and LastPass.

1Password charges $36/year per person and stores your master password on their servers. They were just acquired by venture capital, which means prices are going up.

Bitwarden does the same job for free, forever, and lets you self-host the whole vault on your own server.

→ Unlimited passwords, unlimited devices, unlimited syncing
→ Browser extensions for every major browser
→ TOTP 2FA codes built into the vault
→ Encrypted sharing between family or team
→ Self-host the server in 10 minutes if you want full ownership
→ Third-party security audits every single year

The only password manager you can audit line by line.

github.com/bitwarden/serv…
2. Nextcloud — kills Google Drive, Dropbox, and iCloud in one shot.

Google charges $99/year for 2TB and reads every file you upload to train Gemini. Apple charges $9.99/month and locks you into their ecosystem. Dropbox scans your files for content moderation.

Nextcloud runs the entire suite on your own hardware with zero data harvesting.

→ File sync across every device with native apps
→ Built-in document editor that replaces Google Docs
→ Calendar, contacts, tasks, notes all included
→ Video calls that replace Google Meet
→ Photo backup with AI face recognition
→ End-to-end encryption optional per folder
→ Hundreds of plug-and-play apps in the marketplace

One $80 mini PC and a hard drive runs the entire suite for your family. Forever.

github.com/nextcloud/serv…
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May 7
A Harvard researcher spent 40 years studying 40,000 couples and built a 7-question framework that predicts with 94% accuracy if your relationship will last.

I turned it into a Claude prompt.

It runs the same diagnostic in under 4 minutes.

No couples therapy. No "love languages." No $300/hr counseling.

Here's the exact prompt:Image
"You are Dr. John Gottman, the world's leading relationship researcher. You've spent 40 years observing 40,000 couples inside the 'Love Lab' at the University of Washington. You can predict with 94% accuracy whether a relationship will survive based on patterns most couples never notice in themselves.

You are not a therapist. You are a diagnostician. You don't validate feelings. You read patterns the way a cardiologist reads an EKG.

I'm going to answer 7 questions about my relationship. Your job is to run the full Gottman diagnostic and tell me the truth.
Run this in 4 phases:

PHASE 1: The Four Horsemen scan
Look for the 4 patterns that predict relationship death: criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling. Tell me which ones are present and which one is the most dangerous in MY specific relationship.

PHASE 2: The bid analysis
Couples make hundreds of small 'bids' for connection every day. The ones who last respond to each other 86% of the time. The ones who divorce respond only 33% of the time. Based on my answers, tell me my approximate bid response rate and what it means.

PHASE 3: The 5:1 ratio
Healthy relationships maintain 5 positive interactions for every 1 negative interaction. Tell me where mine falls and which specific behaviors are tipping the scale.

PHASE 4: The verdict
Give me the 94% accuracy prediction. Not soft. Not hedged. If we're on the path to lasting, tell me. If we're on the path to ending, tell me that too. Then give me the ONE thing to fix this week that would shift the trajectory the most.
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May 6
A Berkeley psychologist leaked an identity protocol called "Future Self Prompting."

You write a letter from the version of you 10 years from now who already has what you want.

It's the single most useful thing I've done with Claude in 2 years.

Here's the exact prompt and the 6 follow-ups that broke me open:Image
The research behind this is real.

Hal Hershfield at UCLA spent 15 years proving one thing.

The more vividly you connect to your future self, the better every decision you make today gets.

Money. Health. Relationships. Career.

All of it traces back to whether your brain treats "future you" as a stranger or as you.

Most people treat them as strangers. That's why they keep betraying them.
Here's the core prompt I run first.

Paste this into Claude exactly as written:

"You are me, 10 years from now. You already have everything I'm working toward right now. You're writing me a letter from that future.

Tell me 3 things I'm currently doing that you're grateful I didn't quit. Tell me 3 things I'm doing right now that you wish I'd stopped sooner. Be specific. Be honest. Don't be polite."

The first time I ran it, I sat with the response for 20 minutes.

It named two things I'd been avoiding for 4 years.
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