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iOS 6 |OT| New Maps? googy pls
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CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Huh?
exactly. Theyve set a precedent for approving lots of mapping applications - even some with barely any extra functionality over the built in app. they wont block Googles out of corporate spite. If they were to try to pull that, theyd have some real nasty attention come their way that they wouldnt be able to easily deflect.
Haha, I've lost my photo library on my iPhone just like with the iOS5 betas. Now I'll have to restore from backup when I get home. 
EDIT: Nevermind, on second launch of the Photos app, it looks like it's reindexing things and restoring them. Magic! That'll save me a heap of trouble.
EDIT: Nevermind, on second launch of the Photos app, it looks like it's reindexing things and restoring them. Magic! That'll save me a heap of trouble.
apple's maps app is still in '09
Fix-ed.
LyleLanley
Banned
I assume they'll just limit it so that only people who have packages that allow tethering get it.
Edit:
I'm on AT&T and I haven't restored my network settings since upgrading to beta 3 so facetime's still working for me.
Edit:
I'm on AT&T and I haven't restored my network settings since upgrading to beta 3 so facetime's still working for me.
Marty Chinn
Member
Ugh, this pisses me off. I've enjoyed Facetime over 3G for awhile now and now it feels like it's being taken away since they're making it official. Man, all the carriers suck now.
brianmcdoogle
Member
Can you still not make calls and use data at the same time on Verizon? What are the disadvantages to using Verizon over AT&T at this point?
Technosteve
Banned
So a feature that I can use on the google+ app is going to cost money in the future? Also phone gets blazing hot when using it for video chatting
Marty Chinn
Member
Verizon's new terrible plans.
Phoenix
Member
Well.....looks like AT&T is prepping to charge for the "Facetime over Cellular" feature...
They already charge for it. It's called a capped data plan.
mescalineeyes
Banned
make sure your clock is correct.
Beta 3 is great so far. It's fixed so many issues in 3rd party apps that beta 2 introduced, and overall seems much smoother and less crash prone. Beta 2 was a pretty unstable release.
Those of you signed into Sina Weibo through the built-in option in Settings, do you get Post to Weibo in Notification Center's Share Widget? All I get is Twitter and Facebook there and I'm wondering if there's something I'm doing wrong or if they just haven't added Weibo to the widget yet.
Weird that Weibo is in Mountain Lion's Share widget while Facebook integration is still in testing on OS X, but on iOS Weibo is missing and Facebook is there.
Those of you signed into Sina Weibo through the built-in option in Settings, do you get Post to Weibo in Notification Center's Share Widget? All I get is Twitter and Facebook there and I'm wondering if there's something I'm doing wrong or if they just haven't added Weibo to the widget yet.
Weird that Weibo is in Mountain Lion's Share widget while Facebook integration is still in testing on OS X, but on iOS Weibo is missing and Facebook is there.
It'd be hilarious if Google releases the Maps app with support for Apple's new transit API, with the areas served to be defined as the entire world so it always shows up in Map's list of available transit apps. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if they really did that.
Mecha_Infantry
Banned
New .icloud.com email addresses for everyone who has mail. I just send an email to myemail@icloud.com and it came through to my myemail@me.com
Trying to get my phone added to my iPad, but I'll wait for another few betas to come out first. But I'm desperate to try Siri though
Trying to get my phone added to my iPad, but I'll wait for another few betas to come out first. But I'm desperate to try Siri though
I'm disappointed that they're phasing out me.com addresses soon. me.com is so much simpler and better.
mescalineeyes
Banned
They're phasing out me.com? That *has* to be a joke...
My me.com address is my favorite I've ever owned.
My me.com address is my favorite I've ever owned.
They are, but everyone who has an existing me.com address on iCloud will be able to keep it and use it alongside the icloud.com one. If you try to sign up for a new iCloud account after iOS 6 rolls out of beta, you can only create icloud.com addresses.
If you want to make some email aliases that end in me.com, there's 2 or so months left to do so.
mescalineeyes
Banned
Good, so I can stop hyperventilating now. Bad enough that they my mac.com address is defunct. This would've been a borderline disaster.
I think they need to be using MapKit (Apple's maps) to be able to do that. They could do that if they want to overlay things on top of the Apple Maps, but I doubt that's happening.
mescalineeyes
Banned
Clearly someone offered them 100 bucks for me.com and Tim Cook was like AHUAHUAHUAHUAHUAHUA FREE LUNCH
Are you sure MapKit is a requirement?
As far as I know, when the transit apps list gets populated, tapping one you already have installed will launch that app and pass the start and end points to the app. It's up to the app to figure out how to plan the route and show it to the user, whether they use MapKit or not.
I'd guess it's a marketing tactic to try and push the iCloud brand out there more. If you go into your iCloud account's Mail settings in iOS 6, you'll notice that the icloud.com address is set as the default to use when sending mail. You have to manually change it back if you want your emails to show up as coming from your me.com address.
Didn't Facebook try something similar recently where they changed everyone's default email address in their profile to the facebook.com one?
I don't have the slides on me right now, but the whole transit apps stuff was covered in the WWDC MapKit sessions, I feel like they'd need you to use it. Maybe I'm misremembering.
I don't know when this happened, but the marker for Apple Store Sydney is now across the road from where it's supposed to be in Maps. It was correct as recently as two weeks ago. I wonder how that happened.
There's so much improvement going on in Maps and yet so much stuff that is still messed up or wrong. Not sure when it when up, but Yelp data is now live in Australia, which explains why there's so much more shop labels. That also means that doing local searches in Siri should now work in Australia.
There's so much improvement going on in Maps and yet so much stuff that is still messed up or wrong. Not sure when it when up, but Yelp data is now live in Australia, which explains why there's so much more shop labels. That also means that doing local searches in Siri should now work in Australia.
Would this be in addition to that?
4GB = $40 a month
Facetime = $20 a month
Bill = $60 a month?
If they do this, I will fume.
There is no way they would be allowed to charge for using FaceTime. It uses your data like anything else that you already pay for. Most likely, they are requiring you call them to activate so you are fully aware that you are using your data. I imagine there would be a lot of mad people if it was just on by default and then people start crushing their data caps and getting huge overage charges.
Of course the rep will try and sell you a higher data plan but you should get the idea.
Sprint is better than anyone. My iPhone 4s costs me 65 bucks a month, unlimited data and text (Family plan with 3 iPhones but still). Not sure how you can beat that with anyone. Now, the cellular data speed is dog shit I'll give you that, but who does not have Wifi pretty much everywhere these days?
Clock? It looks fine...
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
There is no way they would be allowed to charge for using Tethering. It uses your data like anything else you already pay for.
I am as well. But I have gotten a couple of weird looks in the past when telling people my email address. I didn't think they were being phased out so much as they are to stop offering new me.com addresses. Will they also be phasing out mac.com as well?
Edit: just read your following post, good.
Fowler: is it set the the correct time and time zone? Cocoa/ObjC network aware apps are very sensitive about the system clock - don't know why, but it's always been the case, even back on Nextstep.
mescalineeyes
Banned
haha alright! I couldn't use iMessage etc. for days because my Time/Date was off.
No joke.
Routing apps don't require you to use Apple's map data.
If using Routing Apps, they are passed an "MKMapItem" (which contain start point and destination) though--can you pull their data out and use them outside of Map Kit?
Yeah, MKMapItem is just handling launching the third party app from Maps. It'll give the start and end locations and the launched routing app has to figure out a route with that information.
Meus Renaissance
Member
Is there a way to mute the notification sounds from Messages during the night? I don't want to mute the entire device as I want to use the alarm
I might be wrong but I think the alarm sounds even if your device is muted.
i'm fairly confident that the alarm is not affected by the mute button.
StrikerObi
Member
Alarms are unaffected by the mute switch. If they were, I'd never wake up on time.
Meus Renaissance
Member
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Alarms even go off with Do Not Disturb turned on.
I am having serious iMessage problems too. I've tried everything, but nothing works. Time is correct. Messages beta uninstalled on Mac. No other iDevices registered for iMessage. Every so often it'll connect, but within a day it'll ask for my password, then switch off again. (Facetime goes off at the same time.)
Also, it doesn't just do this on my iPhone -- it does it on my iPad too.
I'm also having notification issues -- which is to say, I don't get any.
I'm now wondering if the two are connected, or whether my Apple ID is effed.
Apparently, it was possible in earlier betas too, but it was finicky and I never knew it was there because the option never showed up when I turned iMessage off, then back on.
Anyway, this is how I got it going on beta 3 - this also applies to FaceTime:
- Turn off iMessage on the iPad (or iPod touch)
- Wait a bit, a few seconds should be fine but maybe give it a few minutes if it's not working
- Turn iMessage back on and wait for it to activate - you could navigate away for a bit if it takes too long, but it only took a few seconds for me
- The phone number should now show up along with your Apple ID email and your new iCloud.com email
- There'll a tick beside your Apple ID email, meaning it's set up to receive at that email, if the phone number doesn't also have a tick, tap on it and it'll say "Verifying..." (you can also do the same to receive at the new icloud.com email)
- It may hang on verifying for a while or it may verify in just a few seconds, wait it out - I've found the verifying process to be a bit hit or miss on whether it decides to work
- If it hangs for far too long, try again from the start with turning iMessage off
- Otherwise you should see that the phone number is now ticked and the next time you use your iPhone, you'll get an alert that the iPad (or iPod touch) is now receiving iMessage from the phone number
If your phone number doesn't show up when you turned iMessage back on, then try again from the start, maybe wait a while before retrying You can also try turning off iMessage on your iPhone then back on to make sure it registers that the phone number should be tied to that Apple ID.
I got my phone number tied to both iMessage and FaceTime on my iPad in 3 minutes or so with beta 3.
There are some people who say your phone number must be entered at appleid.apple.com under Manage My Account, but I found that's not really true because my phone number wasn't even registered properly there.