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iOS 10 |OT| Siri, you're free
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Zeyphersan
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I have not seen/heard of that issue, no. How do you primarily charge the device? Flat surface, dock?
truestatic
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Youtube no longer plays in the background in Safari?
For real. This is such a shitty change. Give me back youtube audio with my phone in my pocket please.
This works now with the App
iCloud Tabs is so fucking useless. I'd like to open an article from my iPad on my iPhone, but the iPhone's tab list only shows tabs I closed like yesterday or so. I tried to close one of them, hoping it would trigger refresh/sync, but after about thirty seconds, the closed tab simply returns.
Useless. Fucking hacks.
Useless. Fucking hacks.
The Real Abed
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Works fine for me.
Zeyphersan
Banned
Same, almost instantaneous
It was always slow to sync for me, but never as broken as right now. And it never ever worked instantaneously.
gingerbeardman
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Requires a good data connection
works instantly for me on home Wi-Fi
varies on cell data.
works instantly for me on home Wi-Fi
varies on cell data.
The Real Abed
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It takes maybe a few seconds to a minute at most (Worst case scenario) for me.
How long do you think it will be before we start seeing iOS 11-only apps after the update drops?
I have quite a few games that still need a 64 bit update and I'm fairly certain a lot of them won't get one. Some are personal favorites, others are in my backlog.
Lots of board games
I have quite a few games that still need a 64 bit update and I'm fairly certain a lot of them won't get one. Some are personal favorites, others are in my backlog.
Lots of board games
How long do you think it will be before we start seeing iOS 11-only apps after the update drops?
I have quite a few games that still need a 64 bit update and I'm fairly certain a lot of them won't get one. Some are personal favorites, others are in my backlog.
Lots of board games
iOS 11 only apps? Not for a long long while.
All the new iPhones will run iOS 11, a mobile operating system that will include a refreshed user-interface and will be announced in June at the company's annual conference for developers, according to a person familiar with the matter.
thinking face emoji: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ne-overhaul-for-smartphone-s-10th-anniversary
thinking face emoji: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ne-overhaul-for-smartphone-s-10th-anniversary
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Spooky!
Zeyphersan
Banned
That paragraph is so mean. No details whatsoever.
The Real Abed
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Oh, gee. They're announcing iOS 11 at WWDC this year? I never would have expected that.
And they've refreshed the UI every year since iOS 7 anyway. Sometimes for the worse. Sometimes for the better.
And they've refreshed the UI every year since iOS 7 anyway. Sometimes for the worse. Sometimes for the better.
badcrumble
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methinks gurman stopped getting good scoops once he moved to bloomberg
badcrumble
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Honestly, outside of wanting notifications to be grouped by app, I'm fairly happy with iOS 10/watchOS 3/tv OS whatever version. Not saying I don't want updates, but I'd really like to see Apple focus on polishing and improving macOS this year (and delivering iPad-specific improvements to iOS).
Fix your platforms that need the help most, Apple.
Fix your platforms that need the help most, Apple.
Needs night mode, split screen, basic offline Siri and grouped notifications.
Baroquemantic
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Haven't kept up with the iOS stuff much, but is there any indication that we'll finally get multi-user support, at least on iPads?
badcrumble
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Given the way iOS autolayout works, splitscreen on the iPhone would look terrible and mostly just break apps. I'd rather solve the same problem with even faster app switching - maybe a way to really really quickly toggle between two apps or pin a favorite app to switch to. Better inter-app communication would also help.
Night mode would be cute though, and offline Siri (for most if not all local tasks, and for dictation) would be lovely. Grouped notifications are super badly needed too.
I want improvements to the iCloud Drive document browser, and ideally a Safari/system-wide download manager into that space.
Revisiting contacts so it doesn't use the outdated and easily-broken vCard format (god, I've got so many duplicate contacts without any idea what spawned them) would be great, as would some kind of unified approach to VIP/Favorites/Do Not Disturb, complete with API hooks for third-party communicators like Facebook Messenger.
Oh, and full social-feature parity with Spotify in Apple Music would be nice. That means seeing what my friends are listening to and it especially means collaborative playlists.
There's a rumor that it's making its way to the Apple TV, and there's already rudimentary support for multiple iPad users in education settings, so I would consider it pretty likely that iOS 11 will bring more robust multi-user support to the iPad.
Another indicator - in my opinion - is the much heavier emphasis on the user's profile in the Settings app in iOS 10.3.
badcrumble
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watchOS mainly needs a fixed Now Playing system that's as fast as or faster than the old Glance (perhaps one swipe to the right in Control Center just like how it works on iPhone).
macOS needs two things badly right now: a full Photos framework akin to the iOS one (not just a largely-obscured open/save dialog), and the great iTunes unbundling that all wise and reasonable people have been demanding for years.
Siri in general needs substantial improvements across all platforms - I'm sure Apple is well aware of the talk that it lags behind Google Assistant and Alexa and would dearly like to change the conversation on that.
Yeah, it boggles my mind that the News app hasn't fully absorbed the RSS/trending-on-twitter/Reading List functionality from Safari when it's a perfect repository for all of those.
I appreciate the curation stuff, algorithm-driven or not, but News should also function as a power-user-friendly RSS reader. And it needs to straight up rip off Nuzzel. I'm tired of needing two or three separate apps to keep up with my news addiction.
The manual add-RSS-feed-to-News thing barely works half the time.
macOS needs two things badly right now: a full Photos framework akin to the iOS one (not just a largely-obscured open/save dialog), and the great iTunes unbundling that all wise and reasonable people have been demanding for years.
Siri in general needs substantial improvements across all platforms - I'm sure Apple is well aware of the talk that it lags behind Google Assistant and Alexa and would dearly like to change the conversation on that.
Yeah, it boggles my mind that the News app hasn't fully absorbed the RSS/trending-on-twitter/Reading List functionality from Safari when it's a perfect repository for all of those.
I appreciate the curation stuff, algorithm-driven or not, but News should also function as a power-user-friendly RSS reader. And it needs to straight up rip off Nuzzel. I'm tired of needing two or three separate apps to keep up with my news addiction.
The manual add-RSS-feed-to-News thing barely works half the time.
Zeyphersan
Banned
My biggest wants:
iPad Pro specific features, like better multitasking and better file browsing with iCloud Drive. More inter-app communication
Dark mode, better notification grouping and actions
More social stuff on Apple Music to match Spotify, collaborative and public playlists. More Beats radio stations for different genres
Better HomeKit reliability and features when more than one person is in the house. Better automations.
More subscriptions in the News app that I can plug in
iPad Pro specific features, like better multitasking and better file browsing with iCloud Drive. More inter-app communication
Dark mode, better notification grouping and actions
More social stuff on Apple Music to match Spotify, collaborative and public playlists. More Beats radio stations for different genres
Better HomeKit reliability and features when more than one person is in the house. Better automations.
More subscriptions in the News app that I can plug in
Baroquemantic
Member
Cool, thanks. I don't care as much about it coming to phones or tv as I won't have an iPhone or Apple TV, but I really want it on the iPad.
App developers could just define what they put in splitscreen i.e. the video currently playing, room to scribble notes etc.
Speaking of automation, you guys reckon their acquisition of Workflow will manifest in some way or shape in iOS 11 already or nah?
badcrumble
Member
The acquisition is definitely too recent for them to actually be building any new features for iOS just yet. For iOS 12, *maybe*, but you're honestly better off waiting 1.5-2 years on this sort of thing.
The more limited picture-in-picture and slide-over of the older iPads could work on iPhone and would fulfill those needs.
Mr. Wonderful
Member
Fix the lock screen disaster that they introduced with iOS 10 and I'll be pretty thrilled.
The Real Abed
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What disaster?
rainking187
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Youtube no longer plays in the background in Safari?
This really sucks, and I hope they fix it soon. I like listening to music while browsing GAF.
Press home, then enter passcode to unlock on pre-TouchID/non-Raise-to-Wake devices, perhaps?
Works for me on 10.3.1
i3allistic
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Coming from Android to iOS, Apple iOS shortcuts from bottom up swiping annoying ...and swipe down for drop down notifications is useless ....
I can't believe the average user does not want, nay, NEED a full fledged OS level "dark mode". I do everything I can to darken my apps, and specifically avoid bright apps at night. Safari rapes my rods and cones at night, even with the brightness all the way down, even with "vaseline mode" on (Night Shift).
I hope that with tech finding its way into more and more of our lives we can start seeing some more accessibility options to suit those of us who dont even know what the Default Theme on NeoGAF looks like anymore...
I hope that with tech finding its way into more and more of our lives we can start seeing some more accessibility options to suit those of us who dont even know what the Default Theme on NeoGAF looks like anymore...
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I really am quite interested to see this thing. At this moment I'm hopeful. But it's so early. The thought of something legitimately exciting going on with the phone is too precious not to hope for.
Zeyphersan
Banned
I can definitely see it being a mode for accessibility reasons, though maybe on by default
I hope a lot of apps are using default settings, so it's an easy transition. Not a lot of apps were using auto-layout so it's taken a while for a healthy amount of split-screen apps to become available on iPad
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
I hate dark apps. Night shift is perfect for me. Dark apps are so ugly and unpleasant to use. IMO. Never understood the desire for them. I get why WatchOS is dark -- unassuming as possible.
Rodney McKay
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I just charged my girlfriend's old iPad Mini 2 that we never use, and it still had an older version with "Swipe to Unlock".
I miss that so much, especially on my own iPad Mini 2 which has a shoddy home button (it works, but it feels like shit to press it). And it basically makes the power button useless when I need to press the home button anyways to unlock it.
Well, also to save power, which most people are assuming will be the primary reason for it to be introduced with iOS 11 and an OLED iPhone.
My guess is they'd go halfway and make it an option during phone setup whether to go with the usual white UI or the dark mode, just like iPhone 6 onwards let you choose a zoom factor during setup.
I've got invert color tied to triple tap for such occasions currently.
The Successor to Wunderlist Is Here: Microsoft To-Do
Given the lack of meaningful updates to Wunderlist, I guess the writing was on the wall. Has anyone tried it yet?
I saw the news yesterday when I was already in bed, so I just installed it and tried to import my Wunderlist tasks. There's an Import feature in the settings. Tapping the option opened an in-app web browser, showing an import site. The site was cut off for some reason, so I couldn't actually see the import button. I had to use a Safari extension to modify the DOM of the site to make the button appear. Tapping it required me to log in twice; first to my Microsoft account, then to my Wunderlist account, even though I was of course already logged in to the todo app with my MS account. Finally, it said my tasks would be imported in the background, so I could go back to the app and they would appear shortly. Well, after five minutes I went to sleep, and today there's still nothing. Great first impression.
Gonna try importing from my computer today when I'm back home.
Oh, and speaking of todo apps, Things 3 is coming soon.
Given the lack of meaningful updates to Wunderlist, I guess the writing was on the wall. Has anyone tried it yet?
I saw the news yesterday when I was already in bed, so I just installed it and tried to import my Wunderlist tasks. There's an Import feature in the settings. Tapping the option opened an in-app web browser, showing an import site. The site was cut off for some reason, so I couldn't actually see the import button. I had to use a Safari extension to modify the DOM of the site to make the button appear. Tapping it required me to log in twice; first to my Microsoft account, then to my Wunderlist account, even though I was of course already logged in to the todo app with my MS account. Finally, it said my tasks would be imported in the background, so I could go back to the app and they would appear shortly. Well, after five minutes I went to sleep, and today there's still nothing. Great first impression.
Gonna try importing from my computer today when I'm back home.
Oh, and speaking of todo apps, Things 3 is coming soon.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Has anyone been able to repair an iPhone stick in headphone mode (says headphones are in when they're not)
I've tried compressed air, ear bud, headphones in and out, headphones turned around
Music plays fine with them in, it also makes a noise without headphones when someone rings me but I can't hear them speak, they can hear me
might just get a new phone
Edit: seems to have fixed itself now
I've tried compressed air, ear bud, headphones in and out, headphones turned around
Music plays fine with them in, it also makes a noise without headphones when someone rings me but I can't hear them speak, they can hear me
might just get a new phoneEdit: seems to have fixed itself now
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