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WHILE IT’S GREAT from a security perspective, having to enter your password every time you download a free app can be a bit of a hassle, especially if you’re downloading apps regularly.
If you’re an iPhone or iPad user, you may have installed the latest iOS update 8.3 (if you haven’t, go to Settings > General > Software Update and you can install it there).
Once you have it, there’s a way to turn off this requirement in settings. If you go into General > Restrictions > Password Settings, you will be able to turn off the ‘Require Password’ option.
If it doesn’t appear there, then you will need to go into iTunes & App Store and find Password Settings there.
And that’s it. There are a few other small but handy features on iOS 8.3 like filtering spam messages on iMessage (Settings > Messages > Filter Unknown Senders for those interested), but if you want an extra level of convenience when downloading apps, this will help.
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Great to see this step in the right direction. There is definitely no need for a bunch of bananas to be sweating in a plastic bag.
@Olive whyte: PC gone mad. This is supposed to be a first world country.
@Olive whyte: Are you saying that because we are a wealthy country we can use as much plastic as we like without any regard to the consequences?
Reply is to @Specialsue, not @Olive whyte
@specialsue: it may be a so-called first world country, but it’s on the same first and only currently habitable world as everyone else; everyone else that is, except yourself it seems.
Great stuff. Well done Lidl Ireland.
Brilliant, hopefully others will follow.
I eat a lot of fruit and those plastic trays and plastic are the scourge of my shopping each week. Such a waste and destroying our beautiful planet. Fruit should be available to pick and weigh yourself in the shop. Then place it into a paper bag or better still bring your own bags or containers.
@James Fox: in Dunnes I’ve started leaving as much packaging as I can at the checkout. It’s not much but for fruit I just put it all in one bag and bring home.
@Ciara Clancy: I do this everywhere obviously it doesn’t work so well with a weekly shop as when you only have a few items.
You can however sometimes unpack and remove excess labels from things in the shop as you buy things. Saves time at the checkout.
Don’t forget it works on all types of goods and produce.
Bring a stanley knife if you think you might encounter the dreaded blister display package.
@DeFonz: Stanley knife ??
@Nicholas Lynch: a retractable utility knife
named after the original manufacturers
Get rid of Frubes too .
Consume content in less than a minute- 60 years plus for packaging to degrade
@Quentin Moriarty: not to mention what’s actually in them and how messy they are. Better for children to eat with spoons.
@Vonny: they would be better off eating the spoon
Fair play to them. Lets hope other supermarkets follow suit. Every bit of plastic reduction helps.
About time too. The amount of packaging they use in their f&v is astounding. You end up throwing most of it away.
In a way plastic bags gave a sense of security health wise ,seeing people pawing the stuff you were about to buy is offputing for some I would imagine if they are replacing the packaging with a alternative will it be see through I wonder .In some supermarkets I have seen people paw a dozen breads and then pick one
@FlopFlipU: You need to pick up and squeeze most fruit to see how ripe it is. Bread always needs a good squeeze too to see how fresh and warm it is. I always take the warmer loaves. Don’t be so precious about your food being handled. Unless you live in a sealed bubble you will encounter billions of germs every day. They are part of life and help to boost your immune system.
@Sean: Bread has a best before date on it, no need to squeeze it as its already fresh
@Sean: your probably right but I don’t realish eating someone’s else’s snots all the same
@Sean: your probably right but I don’ relish eating someone’s else’s snots all the same
They do really nice pizzas , but what’s with the polystyrene base on them? Is that really necessary? I don’t think you can even recycle these.
All this seems like a drop in the ocean unless they discontinue the policy of using cardboard boxes for everything in lieu of permanent shelving.
@Neal Ireland Hello.: every move is helpful Neal. I was thinking the same about the shelving but then I thought do the goods arrive like that anyway, and other retailers just unpack them back of house.
@Neal Ireland Hello.: The produce has to be transported in something though. Its more efficient to use the transport boxes as display boxes rather than unpacking everything onto the shelves. It would be a logistical nightmare to use/clean/reuse uniform plastic totes from hundreds of different suppliers.
@Neal Ireland Hello.: at least the cardboard can be recycled. Every store has a compactor and they recycle most of their paper and cardboard waste
@Neal Ireland Hello.: Neal. Product is going to come in a carbord box so removing it from the box and stacking it on a shelf doesn’t make the box vanish
This is a great start! Now Lidls – you have way too much of single use packages. If it comes in “puff” plastic bags chances are very high you cannot recycle. Plus packages for biscuits, crisps, and so on, “Not currently recyclable”. Totally unacceptable.
Why is it slower to get rid of the plastic in ireland than uk
You can’t recycle black plastic?? Jesus, I had no idea, but that plastic is rigid, I thought it was only soft plastics we couldnt recycle, In the recent recycling campaign they never ever mentioned black plastic.
@Lisa Byrne: the black plastic trays can’t be spotted and picked up by the sorting machines so they go to landfill instead
Delighted
Well done to Lidl Ireland for making this move. I hope it will have a knock on effect and cause the likes of Tesco, Dunnes Supervaue etc to do similar.
Who knows it may be the start of a De Packaging war between them all. Some welcome competition between them.
Come on Aldi – the amount of packaging on your oranges for example is ludicrous.
You can’t recycle black plastic?? Jesus, I had no idea, but that plastic is rigid, I thought it was only soft plastics we couldnt recycle, In the recent recycling campaign they never ever mentioned black plastic.
Good stuff . Hopefully Dunnes will follow suit. Sooner the better
The most ludicrous thing is cling film on cauliflower and broccoli it shouldn’t matter if it’s handled cos you will be cooking it.Same goes for cabbage in its plastic bag
This is good news, a move in the direction of complete phasing out of single use plastic and plastic packaging. We don’t need it. It either ends us in our seas damaging marine life and humans in the food chain or in toxins from incinerators. These is great public support for a plastic free Ireland. I was in the supermarket helping on the nation plastic free campaign day and people were very supportive. We can become waste free.
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