Update. I visited both the Apple Store (to hold iPhones) and the AT&T store to discuss upfront costs and plans. The jury's still out on whether to get a 6s or 6s Plus. I was annoyed at first when I had to sign up and wait to be seen by someone in the AT&T store. I almost left in a polite huff and decided that would be foolish, so I hunkered down and waited. I'm glad I did because a very very knowledgeable young woman answered all my questions. She actually gave me way more info than I needed, but here's the deal: In my case, lascatx is wrong about them charging me monthly for the balance of the phone and not stopping until I bring it to their attention. In the past, I have opted for 2-year contracts at a lower, subsidized price. All I paid monthly was for my plan, i.e., voice, data, text. That was/is one of the benefits of locking into a contract. The salesperson told me that AT&T is one of the few carriers still doing this and soon, within a year, they will cease altogether. The option is still available to me to do this, but it would be the last time. My $70/mo total bill, which includes an unlimited data plan, is still mine to keep. I can buy the phone at the lesser amount and agree to a 2-year contract, or I can buy the phone for the full price. I'm not interested in paying over time and having it added to my monthly bill. If I decided to break my contract at any point, I will have to pony up the balance. So, really no risk at all for me to do the contract, as it's a savings of $450. She mentioned $40 here or there if I do one or the other, but at that point, I had reached my saturation point and I'm not gonna fuss over that amount. I hope this has been helpful. I have an existing plan I'd like to keep; I seem to do well with phones for two years; paying less is also nice.

If you’re getting a blank white screen on IPad and/or IPhone, delete the existing app (touch the icon and hold until a box comes up allowing you to choose delete), then go to the App Store icon, type in Houzz in the search and reinstall. This is the second time I’ve had to do this in the last year or two. This is what Houzz recommended when I called them the first time it happened. All your idea books will come back just fine.

Portlandmysteryrose, everyone seems to be themselves today, lol. Now if we could keep How-uzzlezz from "outing" people. There are so many things wrong with this site that you just have to grow a thick skin. The ONLY reason I'm back after being gone for over a year (and swearing I'd never be back...lonnnnnng story) is that it was just too hard to keep up with my friends and fellow forum members by email. NONE of the issues that caused me to leave were ever addressed by How-uzzlezz. But yes, name/personal info-security is THE most egregious failure. Even if it is "our fault" for doing/not doing something in our profile settings, it shouldn't BE THAT HARD IN THE FIRST PLACE. That puts the onus directly on the awkward set up and layout of the site, and ultimately the designers and programmers. Don't get me started...I haven't been back for long, and this gets my BP up. Evidently my skin isn't thick enough yet, lol.

That's quite an interesting story. An OS update to close a previously unknown backdoor software flaw that a clever software company had discovered and exploited by developing a surveillance product sold to governments and law enforcement agencies. With all the corrupt governments in the world, there was nothing to prevent such a capability from being misused but all the same, it's to be expected in one form or another. And quite impressive. So in this case, the update is really for Apple, to limit its embarrassment and potential legal liability for its shoddy work. I'm not an Apple fanboy or trash talker - neither - but there have been a series of incidents to knock big chunks out of its wall of arrogance. Remember a few years back when a criminal's iPhone had been obtained by police following a mass shooting incident that appeared to have maybe had a terrorist flavor to it ? Law enforcement, maybe it was the FBI, asked Apple to provide access to find if there were others involved in the plot. Apple refused, claiming only they could access the device but they wouldn't do so out of its policy to respect customer privacy. The cops said fine, we'll go elsewhere, and a private contractor was able to provide access in a few days. It's not schadenfreude on my part but I think reality is that all IT systems and devices can ultimately be vulnerable and for any one provider to falsely suggest that its products are somehow different and above the fray, as Apple often does, is tiresome.