Yeah I use it a ton because I have to travel a ton for work and I get lost as shit here.
It's still going to be annoying when Google releases their app because every link I click will default to Apple's piece of shit.
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iOS 6 |OT| New Maps? googy pls
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Yeah I use it a ton because I have to travel a ton for work and I get lost as shit here.
It's still going to be annoying when Google releases their app because every link I click will default to Apple's piece of shit.
mescalineeyes
Banned
if you travel that much for work, maybe it would be a good idea to invest in one of the "better" navigation apps, or a free alternative like Waze.
You get links to addresses? How does that work? Honest question, I'd love to send myself those sort of links.
Okay thanks, I wasn't sure if it'd keep charging through the update process, but I'll give it a go and see, it should have enough battery to finish anyway now even if it wasn't plugged in.
When you search for a place online, Google will pop up with a link to their address, it pops up on your map when you click it. Or you can do it in Google Earth/Maps.
I'll just go to Android if need be. They have the best map app right now and I'm used it to so....we'll see what Apple does in the coming months
Google gives you a maps.google.com link.When you search for a place online, Google will pop up with a link to their address, it pops up on your map when you click it. Or you can do it in Google Earth/Maps.
I'll just go to Android if need be. They have the best map app right now and I'm used it to so....we'll see what Apple does in the coming months
So where does "every link I click will default to Apple's piece of shit" come in? There is no universal linking of addresses, everyone is sending each other Google Maps links or Bing Maps links or whatever.
For example, I use tabelog.coma lot to look for restaurants.
When I see a place I like and click the address, Apples piece of shit map pops instead of Google's because of the way the web apps are made i'm guessing. I've seen it on may of the sites I visit. I've been just copy-pasting the address to Google and going from there but it's pretty annoying.
Surprisingly, yeah. It's fine on iPhone 4.
Yes. You'll get a nice bump in Safari speed, and it runs stable.
Calendar events with location. Click location and it'll show up in the map app. I use this a ton.
Address on websites.
Adress in people's mail signatures.
I just went to tabelog.com, seems like they're using Google Maps. Can you show me which sites link to Apple maps?
If you're talking about inside apps themselves, the developers can choose to implement Apple's Map API, or something different, like Google. All those 3rd-party GPS direction apps all use something besides Google/Apple, for instance, some apps even use Bing, some use Open Street Maps, and I have a couple that use Baidu Maps. But that's up to the developer, Apple doesn't put a restriction on what maps they choose to use, while Google charges some developers for API access.
Did you go to Tabelog in your iphone? Because I just did and I got apples map so...
I'm not saying its Apples fault that the map pops up. I'm saying it sucks that it does and makes things far more annoying than they need to be.
I went to Tabelog.com on an iPad. I really didn't think that webpages could even implement Apple Maps--I didn't know they had a web API--I thought it was only in apps. Even iCloud.com doesn't use Apple Maps for their location stuff, I thought.
mescalineeyes
Banned
I'll tell you one thing: If intents (i.e. the opening of certain things via your prefered apps, be that Chrome, Google Maps or Sparrow) isn't in iOS 7 and this is something that is important to you, just jump ship. Unless people don't actively signal that this is important enough for them to buy a different phone for, Apple will not get the message and it may never come.
I appreciate Apple's walled garden. In an era, where Smartphones where in an infancy and most apps were terrible, that made sense and was important. Now? Go babysit your teenage kid and see how that works out for you.
I appreciate Apple's walled garden. In an era, where Smartphones where in an infancy and most apps were terrible, that made sense and was important. Now? Go babysit your teenage kid and see how that works out for you.
So is there no way to enable 'Speak Notifications' without turning on VoiceOver?!
And yet you can have 'Speak Auto-text' without turning on VoiceOver. *smh*
What kind of notifications?
Because I downloaded a pack of alerts that uses Siri to notify me what notification I have. If I get an email, she will say, "New Email Received", or for a text, "New Text Message Received", etc.
Just assigned the alerts in Settings -> Sounds like any other ring tone or alert and its great.
I don't remember where I got them from, I think MacRumors.
mescalineeyes
Banned
No, they are not crowd sourced, but apparently they improved with continuous usage.
I thought one of the bullet points for the new maps were that they were crowd sourced or was that just for traffic?
Partly. You can report errors but you cannot add new information.
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I've added or modified info. I assume it has to be reviewed though. I'll let you guys know when I see changes.
Ken Masters
Banned
Haven't had any issue with the App Store or iTunes
The scrolling is super laggy on my iPad 3 when I look through my purchased apps.
How do you do it?
Just noticed that you can create ringtones in GarageBand directly on iPhone or iPad now. It's not very intuitive and a far more powerful program than is needed for such a simple task (unless you like making complicated remixes or mashups for ringtones I guess) but at least it's there now.
The sucky thing is that if you create one on the iPad and assign it to a contact (which you can do directly in the app - nice) iCloud won't carry that over to the phone. Hopefully that changes in a future update.
Ken Masters
Banned
Try rebooting it, because I just did that with my iPad 3 and it was quite smooth like normal
I fucking hate the podcast-app. There's only two ways to update a podcast with new episodes :
1. Subscribe to the podcast and watch the app fill up with all 200 what episodes, instead of that new episode that just came out today.
2. Go to "catalogue" and search for the podcast and download the episode you're looking for.
I'd rather just swipe down in the podcast-programsection and have the app update that space with the latest episode.
1. Subscribe to the podcast and watch the app fill up with all 200 what episodes, instead of that new episode that just came out today.
2. Go to "catalogue" and search for the podcast and download the episode you're looking for.
I'd rather just swipe down in the podcast-programsection and have the app update that space with the latest episode.
Do you have a lot of apps listed? It scrolls just fine on my ipad 3, but i've only got 54 apps in the list.
If you have your gmail set up as an exchange (push) account, the ability to flag went missing because the domain name wasn't filled properly in the settings. Easy fix: http://www.andrewbecker.me/technica...-flag-message-fix/ios-6-flag-message-fix.html
In the field named "domain", add gmail.com
And voila, flag is back.
In the field named "domain", add gmail.com
And voila, flag is back.
Thanks for the tip, I've been wondering why the flag disappeared for gmail. One thing though. the domain field should be "gmail.com" not m.google.com"
Marty Chinn
Member
The iPhone automatically parses addresses and makes them into links. So if someone sends you an address in e-mail, it becomes an automatic link to the maps app. It's super handy but now it's shit because of what Apple did.
Shit thanks. Fixed.
mescalineeyes
Banned
Speak for yourself, it works amazingly well where I live.
Ken Masters
Banned
But the Google Youtube iPhone app came out already.
I'm finding my battery to be on the weak side, but I can't really tell if its iOS6 fault, since I updated during the two weeks interval I didn't have a SIM card for my iPhone 4, thus using very little battery.
For instance, after ~5h of usage today I was down to 11% :/ Basically all Safari, Twitter and Facebook, I used maps with location for not even 5 minutes and watched like two or three YouTube videos. When it got to 11% I started limiting the usage to listening a podcast, and when I got home I was at 2% with 5h45 of usage time, 11h25 since last full charge.
Do you guys think this is normal, and if not is there anything I could/should do? I think I got the basics of saving iPhone battery life down, but it seems its not enough anymore...
For instance, after ~5h of usage today I was down to 11% :/ Basically all Safari, Twitter and Facebook, I used maps with location for not even 5 minutes and watched like two or three YouTube videos. When it got to 11% I started limiting the usage to listening a podcast, and when I got home I was at 2% with 5h45 of usage time, 11h25 since last full charge.
Do you guys think this is normal, and if not is there anything I could/should do? I think I got the basics of saving iPhone battery life down, but it seems its not enough anymore...
Probably held up by Apple.. but no need to wait for a Youtube HD app.
I use this one on my iPad 3 works a treat. It does requires iOS 6.0 though
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jasmine-youtube-client/id554937050?mt=8
Ken Masters
Banned
I was referring more to the Google maps app
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If that were true, I'm sure Google would be making plenty of noise about it. They're probably just still working on it.
Marty Chinn
Member
I didn't realize Apple included Street View where you live. I thought Street View was gone in iOS6.
Not everyone needs or cares about street view.
Marty Chinn
Member
That's not what he said. He said it worked extremely well in his area. He didn't say it worked extremely well for his use case. Plus if you want to narrow it down to use case, as long as a maps app can take you to work and home, that would mean it's fine regardless of all the errors?
His statement obviously includes his use case. Seemed self explanatory to me.
Do we have any proof that Google's apps have been submitted?
Last I heard, a maps app had yet to be submitted.
Marty Chinn
Member
No it doesn't. If I went to his area where he lived, it would still be shit for me. So him saying it works great in his area implies his area is better than other areas as far as maps working. That's not true.
Apple Maps works amazingly well in my area.
Of course it is. We know the map data is better in some areas than others.