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iOS 6 |OT| New Maps? googy pls
- Thread starter bananas
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What sluggishness exactly?
Screen locking up for a few seconds while going in between menus, mostly within settings app, and more specifically within General and WiFi settings. Also freezes when I toggle WiFi on/off.
Weird. Might be time for a restore, friendo.
Mecha_Infantry
Banned
I get that too, stalls for about 10 secs
Adam Scott Aukerman
Member
Tell me about it. I've been using a MBP for four and a half years, and a Mac Pro for work for the last two and a half, and still Apple find ways on a regular basis to bring out the 90 year old invalid in me with their 'user friendly' design.
Although I expect if I hadn't spent 15 years or so before then being very well antiquated with Windows (and to an extent, DOS), I wouldn't find it so perplexing to do things their way. Then again, perhaps I just have one of those brains.
When I was responding to his posts, it hit me that it's really not clear that the music listing in the sidebar is totally different than the music tab in the main window.
and then I thought that this could be one more reason why Apple now hides the sidebar by default.
Nah, I think you're right. A lot of what apple does is only 'intuitive' if you're NOT coming from windows.
Are you saying the music tab in the iPhone view?
But yes, the side bar is great, but very much a more 'power' user thing. I use power user VERY loosely, just saying its a feature that shows a grand overview style of navigation. The kind of overview that most people don't need to see ALL the time.
It's navigationally a bit more impaired to have the side bar off, but for general users, who don't need to be overwhelmed with all that info, the new view is more simple. Less buttons and controls, and every button much more clear as to what it does.
I'm going to forge ahead with sidebar off and only turn it on if I need it to see how I go. I like how the devices button only appears if you have something connected and how it changes to have a popover if you have more than 1. To speed things up, perhaps have multiple buttons appear, one per device, and IF you have more than,say, 3, ten merge them in a popover? I dunno.
Technosteve
Banned
i've disabled autocorrect on my iphone, i type faster with out it's dumb changes. Does 6.1 fix everything about iOS 6?
yes.
I think there was a while where itunes would jump your view to the main iphone/ipod view when you docked the device. so you would see the main window by default along with the tabs for music, movies, etc, so it would be more obvious where to go. but they don't do that anymore.
so if you're looking at the source list on the side and expecting the dropdown list of items installed on the phone to allow you the same operations as the main window allows (like you would within windows explorer) then it'll be confusing. itunes really needs you to be in that main view to add or remove items from the iphone. hiding the sidebar removes that potential for confusion.
I'm already averaging 8+ hours, but.....hmmm.
I suppose so. I think I get what you're saying.
In other news, FlickR has finally updated their App. First time in a year. It seems Marissa Meyer is lighting some fires and getting stuff moving, as a new Yahoo mail app has launched as well. I'm really hoping that Yahoo becomes popular again.
In terms of iOS 6 (6.0.1) on a 4S and higher? Nothing (yet).
Settings > iCloud > switch off Safari.
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The Autumn Wind
I did that. It doesn't go away. Now I'm stuck with it.
EDIT - Ok, I was able to get rid of it by choosing to sync bookmarks with IE in iTunes, syncing the phone, then turning off the option and resyncing. I had to redo my bookmarks, but I didn't have that many anyway.
The Lamonster
Member
Man I'd really like to update soon. Any word on Google Maps app coming to the app store?
Got the Shakes
Member
Take this fo what it's worth. http://www.imore.com/googles-new-ios-maps-rumored-pin-themselves-app-store-tonight
7he Talon
Member
Google Maps is now available for iOS - Here you go.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Yep.
oipic
Member
Good news for iPhone folks, but it's a bummer that an iPad version is not available (yet?).
We shouldn't be surprised though, I guess, given the pattern of recent Google-ish app releases.
But I thought they said Apple would block Google(heh lower case google is spell checked.) maps.
killertofu
Member
LET ME DOWNLOAD THIS SHIT I GOTTA GET DIRECTIONS TO SOMEWHERE AT 12AM
Has anybody had their Calendar screwed up after the 6.0.1 update? All of a sudden, I have my friends' birthdays on it in multiple lines in list view. The birthdays toggle keeps switching itself back on, even though I already unchecked it. Facebook isn't connected to my calendars either.
Treefingers
Member
That defeats the whole purpose, which is to make sure your photos are on all your devices. Photo Stream is not permanent online storage like Picasa or Dropbox, it deletes your photos after 30 days.
It deletes them from the cloud after that time, by which time they should have synced with all of your devices.
The photos loaded from Photo Stream onto iOS devices aren't full resolution though they are in Aperture and iPhoto in OS X.
I use an App called WebAlbums for that sort of stuff. It syncs with my Picasa and / or Facebook albums and it can be password protected.
The issue with the iPad seems to have cleared up. I noticed that the time taken for the iPad to crash and reboot seemed to correlate with the amount of time the ipad was previously switched on for. So because the iPad was stuck in a cycle of rebooting, it kept doing it every 5 minutes or so. I left it alone on standby for a few days and now it appears to be fine again.
Thankfully it's fine again, but it was ios 6 that was causing the problem. Such a strange issue, too.
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Deleted member 22576
Unconfirmed Member
Alright, Apple.
Listen up, goddamn it. When you enter wiggly mode in the task manager to kill apps if you hold onto any apps red cancel button it should prompt to quit all simultaneously. I have a ram constrained iPad mini and it absolutely makes a difference in how smooth a game runs. It a chore tapping "close" 15 times in a row.
Listen up, goddamn it. When you enter wiggly mode in the task manager to kill apps if you hold onto any apps red cancel button it should prompt to quit all simultaneously. I have a ram constrained iPad mini and it absolutely makes a difference in how smooth a game runs. It a chore tapping "close" 15 times in a row.
I'm surprised such a core functionality as closing active programs is such a chore. My father didn't even know you could do that.
LyleLanley
Banned
Isn't that the point?
But it's not a list of "active" programs. It's just a list of the most recently used. iOS doesn't have true multitasking. All those apps are in a suspended state. There are a few exceptions; apps using location data, playing music, or downloading in the background within a 15 minute window. Other than that there's no reason to bother closing apps because doing so does nothing, except maybe when you want to force reset an app.
I have that issue too. The problem is that the sound is coming from the phone's top "ear" speaker and not the usual bottom speaker, and I don't know why.
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Deleted member 22576
Unconfirmed Member
I know that's the way they say it hold work, but quitting apps makes hexagon run smoother. Reiterating Apple's rhetoric doesn't help anyone. I don't know why or how, I used to be the guy scoffing at friends who'd manage their multitasking bar. But the results speak for themselves. Either way, the fact that ideally you shouldn't have to do something very often is no excuse for how cumbersome the task is to accomplish.
Also, can we have a scintillating discussion on the way highlighting is done in iBooks in relation to copy/selecting in all other apps. Please?
Also, can we have a scintillating discussion on the way highlighting is done in iBooks in relation to copy/selecting in all other apps. Please?
I'm glad to be of such help, even if I was replying to someone else just to point out the apps aren't generally active. Yes, closing apps can potentially help performance and battery life, but 99% of the time it should do nothing. If you are consistently seeing otherwise, then something is wrong. That app has issues, or maybe there is another app you use that crashes or goes rouge more often than it should.