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[Musha_Soturi]

Please tell me that I'm not the only one that can't un-see Homer Simpson on the new artists icon?

Damn you. Can't unsee.


So I just downloaded iOS6 (using work's wifi, thanks very much!)

No issues so far. Downloaded fine, everything seems to be working fine. Synced with Facebook, all a-ok. I don't mind maps so much, like the 3D. Like everything I'm sure I'll get used to it.

Loving the Find my friends app. So many things to play with and try out I'm afraid I might miss something. Will play with Siri when not in work.

 

[MasLegio]

This podcast app runs like a piece of shit

just buy and download Downcast instead.

 

[Exentryk]

Wtf is this maps shit? Can't see anything on the map. Seriously, just gimme back the google maps. People outsite US as stuffed.

 

[KennyLinder]

I deleted iCloud off of my iPhone and loaded it back on. Notes now sync between devices. Sigh.


My other bugbear with iOS is one that has NEVER been fixed, and I am guessing they wont ever do it now.

If I get a text message off someone that isn't in my Contacts, and I want to add them to Contacts, you go through the text, add contact etc, all good.

But if you have one than one group in Contacts, then it put's it in the magical ALL Contacts group, not "Group 1" or "Group 2" (it won't show up in either of those!) etc. it's incredibly annoying. I use multiple groups and it's really annoying that when creating a contact from within a text message, it doesn't ask you what group to add it to, unless I am missing something?

Anyone? Bueller?

 

[X-Frame]

just buy and download Downcast instead.

I tried iCatcher which is similar and liked it a lot but in the end I also wanted my podcasts available on my Mac and to save my downloaded ones there but only sync new ones. If I used Downcast my phone would fill up too quick with old 1-2 hour long podcasts.

 

[Angel Gamer]

Couple questions:

First in regards to passbook, whenever I open the app and it has the list of features and says to click on app store, clicking on app store brings me there and then always says it can't connect to the itunes store. What's going on?

Second, it seems podcasts are still in the music app so is there any reason to get the dedicated podcast app? Also, I thought they had said they were going to remove podcasts from music.

 

[Alexios]

Wtf is this maps shit? Can't see anything on the map. Seriously, just gimme back the google maps. People outsite US as stuffed.

Yeah, can't zoom in very much with these new maps, not very high res. But the actual map, not the satellite photo, is better than google for my area, it actually shows my address.

 

[Ragus]

Does anyone else have the same AppStore as me? I asked all my friends, but they all have the new "better" one.

 

[Kajiba]

Yeah, maps is pretty bad. Really don't know what they was thinking with that. So much empty space in alot of areas for NY. They really need to fix this asap.

 

[SmokyDave]

I just missed a call and then swiped the missed call notifier. It seemed to semi-reboot my phone (black screen with Apple logo came up), start calling but then cut off and the screen went totally black. I can't remember how it used to work but I'm pretty sure it wasn't like that.

 

[21st century cowboy]

Couple questions:
Second, it seems podcasts are still in the music app so is there any reason to get the dedicated podcast app? Also, I thought they had said they were going to remove podcasts from music.

The podcast app auto downloads new podcasts. In theory it's great. In practice...not so much.
Hopefully it should work a bit better in io6. It is useful when it works.

 

[eznark]

So is the store a complete pile of fucking garbage for anyone else? It takes absolutely forever to scroll through the purchased apps not on the phone, which sucks because for whatever reason when it updated it deleted all of my apps. So now I have to go through and redownload everything.

 

[CrankyJay]

So is the store a complete pile of fucking garbage for anyone else? It takes absolutely forever to scroll through the purchased apps not on the phone, which sucks because for whatever reason when it updated it deleted all of my apps. So now I have to go through and redownload everything.

Yah, purchased apps take a long time to scroll for me.

 

[Angel Gamer]

The podcast app auto downloads new podcasts. In theory it's great. In practice...not so much.
Hopefully it should work a bit better in io6. It is useful when it works.

I know it auto downloads since I tried it out a few months back but my issue was that it auto downloaded over 3G as well right? and that's a ton of data I don't want being used. Is that still a problem?

 

[Yaska]

Not really digging the update so far, network connection seems to be capped, and cuts off often, which makes updating apps a pain. Also the new store is damn slow.

Rocking new ipad here.

 

[SuperPac]

I tried iCatcher which is similar and liked it a lot but in the end I also wanted my podcasts available on my Mac and to save my downloaded ones there but only sync new ones. If I used Downcast my phone would fill up too quick with old 1-2 hour long podcasts.

In Downcast you can set it not to keep old podcasts locally (it's in settings). I subscribe to about 25 or so 'casts and the Downcast cache isn't that big. Though if you want them on your mac too you might be out of luck there. You can export your subscriptions via OPML but not sure if you can sync play positions. I don't think so. Does Apple's Podcasts app sync play positions and such to the mac?

 

[Tobor]

I know it auto downloads since I tried it out a few months back but my issue was that it auto downloaded over 3G as well right? and that's a ton of data I don't want being used. Is that still a problem?

There is now a setting to turn that off.

 

[Angel Gamer]

There is now a setting to turn that off.

Great thanks!

 

[crayman]

The scrolling left and right through the Charts tab on the app store is so terrible. No momentum on the scroll makes it not feel like an Apple product. Everything needs momentum!

 

[solarus]

So is the store a complete pile of fucking garbage for anyone else? It takes absolutely forever to scroll through the purchased apps not on the phone, which sucks because for whatever reason when it updated it deleted all of my apps. So now I have to go through and redownload everything.

Same experience here, it's terrible. Old store was much better and a lot more responsive.

 

[bro1]

The podcast app auto downloads new podcasts. In theory it's great. In practice...not so much.
Hopefully it should work a bit better in io6. It is useful when it works.

they updated it yesterday and it works great

 

[twobear]

So is the store a complete pile of fucking garbage for anyone else? It takes absolutely forever to scroll through the purchased apps not on the phone, which sucks because for whatever reason when it updated it deleted all of my apps. So now I have to go through and redownload everything.

You might have already tried this, but on my phone it shoved loads of apps to a new page to the right of where they were before. I thought it had deleted mine too.

 

[eznark]

You might have already tried this, but on my phone it shoved loads of apps to a new page to the right of where they were before. I thought it had deleted mine too.

lol, yeah no. My phone got wiped. Probably because it was jailbroken so I don't mind that so much. What I do mind i that I've never used a device with such sluggish scrolling as the iphone in the App Store purchased app section. It's like I'm trying to load a porn .jpg on a 14.4 modem.

 

[Angel Gamer]

So does Passbook work for anyone? It just tells me it can't connect to itunes store every time. I can go into App Store and Itunes store fine though. Just can't seem to go into the passbook app store page.

 

[Vard]

Noticed a few weird things with iPhone Mobile Safari - if you hold down the Back arrow it brings up that tab's History. I find myself accidentally bringing that up when really I just want to go back to the previous page. Is this happening to anyone else?

I also noticed that even if you clear History from the button below Reading List, this tabbed History doesn't also clear.

 

[God...frey Jones]

I keep seeing articles/posts about the maps situation.

I think this might just be the point where Apple flattens out in terms of success. I'm not saying they'll burn, but their decisions lately have been very questionable to the user experience in the software realm. This isn't meant to be vs post about who has the better products, but there's no question that removing a service that people love with a subpar alternative will have an impact. Alot of people use phones for navigation.

You said that last week too, and then their stock price hit new heights alongside news the iPhone 5 launch looms as the biggest in history... Quit the Pachter-esque insight, it reflects poorly on you.

Anyway, iOS6 is undone by the sub-par Maps application. If you live outside of the US, you're screwed.

 

[Alexios]

What are some every day use improvements anyway? I read the bullet points and some excited me but in the end the OS experience seems about the same as before for me for most tasks. Like, I think it mentioned some photo viewing improvements but I still view it all the same as before... What cool stuff am I missing? How do I use the Siri thing? On an iPad2. I notice it hang on the OS screen more when closing heavy games like Infinity Blade II and when starting the slideshow from the lock screen, it just actively freezes for a sec but previously it may have taken a second for the slides to start but it remained responsive iirc. Browsing seems faster though. But it has a minor visual annoyance where after closing the browser when you start it again it shows the last view and then reloads the address so it's not a smooth experience. Why save the last view at all when you close it, just make it start anew, not try to keep the same effect as when you merely minimize it. Or at least don't reload in that case.

 

[BolognaSoup]

Nice new podcast fast-forward and rewind on the lock screen and double-click drawer... No more rewinding an hourlong podcast to the beginning! woot!

I hope it works for audiobooks too.

Tis nice I just still wish they would spead the 3 buttons apart a little more to really cut down on the accidental miss-touches.

 

[Dark_AnNiaLatOr]

Gat damn, safari much much faster on ios6 on the new iPad for me.

 

[user_nat]

Hadn't really been following iOS 6 and just discovered that iPad now has Siri. Sweet.
And a native alarm app.. Finally.

Would have been perfect had they not got rid of my precious street view.

 

[Dany]

Noticed a few weird things with iPhone Mobile Safari - if you hold down the Back arrow it brings up that tab's History. I find myself accidentally bringing that up when really I just want to go back to the previous page. Is this happening to anyone else?

I also noticed that even if you clear History from the button below Reading List, this tabbed History doesn't also clear.

This changes everything.

Again

So is the store a complete pile of fucking garbage for anyone else? It takes absolutely forever to scroll through the purchased apps not on the phone, which sucks because for whatever reason when it updated it deleted all of my apps. So now I have to go through and redownload everything.

Yes, too slow

 

[Future]

I know apple loves to mention how most of there users update to the latest iOS. But I'm thinking this will be the first update many people don't. Sounds like there are a few neat things here and there along side many more things that are direct misses for some people. I'll have it in my iPhone 5 tomorrow, but see no need to update my 3GS or iPad 2. No must haves like iCloud, notification center, etc

 

[Tobor]

I know apple loves to mention how most of there users update to the latest iOS. But I'm thinking this will be the first update many people don't. Sounds like there are a few neat things here and there along side many more things that are direct misses for some people. I'll have it in my iPhone 5 tomorrow, but see no need to update my 3GS or iPad 2. No must haves like iCloud, notification center, etc

They'll always have high numbers now that it's OTA. People will get a popup recommending they update, and they'll go ahead and do it.

 

[X-Frame]

In Downcast you can set it not to keep old podcasts locally (it's in settings). I subscribe to about 25 or so 'casts and the Downcast cache isn't that big. Though if you want them on your mac too you might be out of luck there. You can export your subscriptions via OPML but not sure if you can sync play positions. I don't think so. Does Apple's Podcasts app sync play positions and such to the mac?

Oh, cool thanks. I don't have Apple's podcast app, I still have mine in the Music app, but yes it will sync play positions when I get home and sync my phone again. So I can continue from my computer, which I like.

I suppose the only way it would be a no-brained for me to switch is it Downcast or a good podcast app makes a Mac version too. I have hundreds of episodes saved on my computer for lots of podcasts.

 

[IonicSnake]

Anyone else got any brightness problem? My moms 4S turned its brightness way down without her touching anything. I had to go into the brightness settings and fix it even though the slider was exactly as it was before.

 

[NYR]

Yeah, can't zoom in very much with these new maps, not very high res. But the actual map, not the satellite photo, is better than google for my area, it actually shows my address.

Apple Logic: more detail on the one place on the planet that you don't need anymore detail.

 

[Particle Physicist]

Wtf is this maps shit? Can't see anything on the map. Seriously, just gimme back the google maps. People outsite US as stuffed.

The apple picture looks way more zoomed in. Maybe try zooming out?

 

[Patrick Bateman]

Why is it impossible for me to see any buildings in the 3D-view of Maps?

 

[bucknuticus]

Downloaded iOS6 last night, my battery life is garbage now. Only had it on in actual use for a hour or so, and its down to 66%.

 

[Valkyr Junkie]

Downloaded iOS6 last night, my battery life is garbage now. Only had it on in actual use for a hour or so, and its down to 66%.

The first charge on my 4 went quick after updating to the GM last week, but since then it's been back to normal.

 

[Link]

Is the option to go to first unread post in MobileGAF borked for anyone else in Safari on iOS 6? It will load up the page a few posts before first unread now.

 

[AirBrian]

Passbook has some major potential, but so far it's pretty underwhelming (Starbucks?).

So does Passbook work for anyone? It just tells me it can't connect to itunes store every time. I can go into App Store and Itunes store fine though. Just can't seem to go into the passbook app store page.

I finally got mine working (found a solution online that worked). For those who got the "Cannot connect to the iTunes Store" error, go to your Settings --> General --> Date & Time and uncheck Set Automatically. Change the year to 2013 and then go back into Passbook. After getting what you want go back and recheck Set Automatically and you should be good to go now.

 

[Jubern]

I'm not surprised, but it seems that much like other "interesting" new functionalities, Passbook will be seriously lacking outside the US... Checked both France and Japan's store, all I can download is some MLB thing :/

 

[Shining Sunshine]

The apple picture looks way more zoomed in. Maybe try zooming out?

Umm if you look closely, they are at the same zoom level.

 

[Particle Physicist]

Umm if you look closely, they are at the same zoom level.

They are not exactly the same, but yeah, just noticed that they are close.

I don't even know where that is. I'm glad the maps look great in Chicago so far.

 

[iceatcs]

They are not exactly the same, but yeah, just noticed that they are close.

I think pretty much of same, because iOS6 map more left than iOS5 map make look both bit off zoom. (Easy to see on "North Gate" road)

 

[Aesthet1c]

Downloaded iOS6 last night, my battery life is garbage now. Only had it on in actual use for a hour or so, and its down to 66%.

My battery life on my 4 has been terrible since updating to GM. It's not quite as bad as 66% in an hour, but it's definitely much worse than it used to be. It drains maybe like ~30% faster.

 

[sugarless]

Thoughts on Mapageddon:

1. Apple have successfully done a 'no major features but overall tightening' OS update with 10.6 Snow Leopard. iOS 6 could have succeeded as one of those updates, but I somehow get the impression that it was decided to pull the trigger on Maps to give the iPhone 5's pre-installed OS a marketable tentpole feature. This was a mistake. (I do give them some credit for the fact that the new Maps is available on all devices that support iOS 6, but it only means there was even less reason to push for Maps being ready on iPhone 5.)

2. This is pure speculation but it strikes me as likely that there was a five-year deal initially in place with Google regarding Maps. (I may even have read this somewhere when the first iPhone came out, but am not sure.) This should have been good until next summer and the iPhone 6, so if it is true, you have to wonder who broke it off early first. Either Google saw what was coming with Maps and decided to pull support so as to leave Apple with this shitstorm^C^C awkward transition period, or Apple thought their Maps were ready for primetime.

3. People don't read update details, but still, in that list of 200 features in iOS 6, Apple did not warn users that two apps that have been on iOS since before it was called iOS were going to vanish, and only one of them (YouTube) has a replacement already available. This was a big mistake. If they had covered themselves adequately in the update procedure, they would at least have grounds to defend themselves a lot more. The likes of me and people reading this forum will have known all about it, but a lot of normal users will simply have gone, oh look an update that claims to have lots of nice new features like panoramic photos. This has been a terrible disservice to those users.

4. Part of this smacks of Apple's bad old US-centric ways. You can bet Cupertino (pop. ~58k) and a lot of midsize US cities have a lot fewer mistakes than London apparently has. I live in London and was demoing the app to someone so I put in walking directions to my nearest Tube station. I was stunned to find that the station and the one directly east of it are not on the map. This is completely inexcusable.

All in all, I think some of this will blow over if they can keep the maps updating all the time and fix the most glaring errors quickly. The 24-hour news cycle means that people are OMFGing about something that may not be an issue in a a month, which is a long time to a geek but won't matter to those waiting to decide at Xmas or when their contract rolls over. But as a user and sometimes defender (hopefully not fanboy) of Apple's products, this is the first time in a long time that I really am not sure they can recover the lost goodwill.

 

[KingKong]

Anyone else having trouble downloading podcasts? I'm using the Podcasts.app and it says preparing to download and then 'operation could not be completed'

 

[Artemisia]

Wow the new maps are terrible.

I used to be able to see every building, hall, and sidewalk on my campus, and now it's just one big block.