Seconded. I deleted the official YouTube app off my iPhone too and will just use Jasmine. No contest.
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Seconded. I deleted the official YouTube app off my iPhone too and will just use Jasmine. No contest.
Thanks. This does look better. I noticed it doesn't block certain videos like the youtube official app does.
JaseMath
Member
Nope. Also, like mentioned above, my iPad 3 battery is draining faster too. That doesn't bother me as much since I usually only charge it once a week anyway.
The_Inquisitor
Member
FYI my local AT&T store had 25% off all cases. Just got my otter box defender for 40 after tax
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I don't want to download the same file two or three times on all my devices. At home, I download to a main computer and stream from there to my other computers. I was hoping to be able to do that with the phone as well.
I don't get why Apple would even make a distinction between podcasts and music. They're both mp3s. It's not like I'm asking to stream a 1080p movie over my home network or something.
Posted this in the best of iOS thread but got no responses, maybe someone here has used Boxcar?
Has anyone tried Boxcar? I've just updated to the 5 and I'm trying to figure out how I can manage to deal with Sparrow without Push (at least until it gets jailbroken) and saw this as a suggestion somewhere else. I've already moved one of my work emails off Sparrow and onto the default Mail App, but it really sucks having to go back to using Mail after Sparrow
Has anyone tried Boxcar? I've just updated to the 5 and I'm trying to figure out how I can manage to deal with Sparrow without Push (at least until it gets jailbroken) and saw this as a suggestion somewhere else. I've already moved one of my work emails off Sparrow and onto the default Mail App, but it really sucks having to go back to using Mail after Sparrow
Has anyone tried Boxcar? I've just updated to the 5 and I'm trying to figure out how I can manage to deal with Sparrow without Push (at least until it gets jailbroken) and saw this as a suggestion somewhere else. I've already moved one of my work emails off Sparrow and onto the default Mail App, but it really sucks having to go back to using Mail after Sparrow
I used to love Boxcar, but it really went to shit a few months back. Like it'd be completely broken for long stretches of time and the developer(s) would be unresponsive. I uninstalled it.
The app/company was sold to another developer shortly after that though, so I'm not sure if the situation has improved since.
IHaveCandy
Banned
Oh, the humanity!
The_Inquisitor
Member
I have a 43Mb/s connection with LTE. And a 2GB cap. Fuck me.
Did you log out and in?
fierrotlepou
Member
So guys, what do you use for importing/backing up your iPhone pictures in iOS6? I'm sick that my iphone doesn't automatically put my pictures in a map.
Also: all my pictures are gone thanks to a fucked up icloud backup, but they can still be found in the itunes backups. Is there any FREE program to recover my pictures? Seriously pissing me off.
Also: all my pictures are gone thanks to a fucked up icloud backup, but they can still be found in the itunes backups. Is there any FREE program to recover my pictures? Seriously pissing me off.
Photostream.
Particle Physicist
between a quark and a baryon
I use dropbox since i don't have the latest iPhoto
EarsOfASnake
Member
I have the icloud app on my PC and I assume there is a similar thing on Mac. It syncs with my photostream and so everything is backed up on my PC.
Gary Whitta
Member
Just used turn-by-turn in my car for the first time, very pleased with it. Better than my old Garmin.
Log out and log back into what? I have powered off and on my iPad.
Log out of imessage.
I didn't even realize the option under Account. All good now, that fixed it.
Buckethead
Banned
Music app is even more terrible and nonsensical.
StopMakingSense
Member
Yeah I find the auto photo upload on dropbox perfect for backing up iphone photos.
How so? I've gotten used to the whole 'all-white' look, but at least it isn't conflicting that with black gloss. There is all-white for music browsing and all-black for music controlling, basically.
The whole tinting of the status bar was such a weird, if not stupid move tbh, especially considering the amount of 3rd party apps that probably will never even adopt that gui model to begin with.
Buckethead
Banned
Because most of the OS is black and blue and that's white and orange.
Inconsistent and sticks out like a sore thumb.
Also white is hard on your eyes.
Inconsistent and sticks out like a sore thumb.
Also white is hard on your eyes.
Buttonbasher
Member
Really great to hear. I've used my iPhone as my primary means of directions and turn-by-turn is such a welcome addition, and that it works well is even better.
Yes, exactly the same situation here. I used to do about 50% over 24 with regular usage (music, texting and sometimes games), but it was 100% 11 hours ago, and now it's 47%. If I don't put it on charge before I go to bed, it will be dead by morning. This happened immediately after iOS 6 was installed.
Fox Mulder
Member
It's odd that google doesn't have an official iPad YouTube app..
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Doesn't it require DropBox to be opened in order to work? The Android version was able to burrow into the OS and run in the background, but the iOS version I would expect would need to be launched occasionally. That's the main reason I don't use the feature. (That and I do have iPhoto and like having Photo Stream) But I did like for a while when I had an Android as it ended up adding 500MB to my free account. Still...
Good Job Bob
Member
They're still working on it.
That sucks
Its hard to use Sparrow without Push... hopefully the jailbreak won't take long to be released
The Dutch Slayer
Member
nice to hear!
Have you used do not disturb yet?
Using it every night now its awesome!
Also noticing a lot of battery improvement for 4S with iOS6 witch is very nice
That's odd. Perhaps some sort of EU law or rule is preventing it from coming out? I can't see it being that big a deal. Or maybe the app submission process is different from there compared to North America, and it's either not been submitted or it's just taking a while.
What, I downloaded it and im european. Even more regional thingie?
fierrotlepou
Member
But you need iPhoto or Aperture for that, right? And do I need to choose "Backup with icloud" in itunes?
Huh. Apparently it's available everywhere but in Germany (even though the app is available in Geman according to iTune's description). Strange.
I guess there are some licensing issues? Doesn't really make sense either since the old app worked just fine and the website does too, but whatever.
I've used it a few times now. My brother and I just drove over to a friends house and forced rerouting a few times. Worked out great.
Lost in all the drama is that Apple built a really great turn by turn implentation.
The turn by turn is fine. But the lack of data for stores, restaurants, landmarks, etc is a major problem.
I was messing around with it recently. I live one block away from a grocery store called metro. I search for "metro groceries" near my place and the map had to zoom out to show 3 other locations miles away but not the one next door.
There's been some other examples like that, too. Basically, I feel like I can't trust the maps database. If I'm in a foreign city, I'll have to double check everything in google maps or navigon...
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
App Store
Yes, I know. I own navigon and have already added the google web app to my home screen till a native app comes out.
The point is that the built in mapping system shouldn't be so unreliable that you have to point someone to the App Store just to find things.
We should all have very high standards for this feature.
After a week+ of testing, I'm seeing the same thing.
Couldn't find the car shop down the road so I could call them.
I hate thinking that I might be missing data when doing a blind search like I do so often.
Popped in to comment on this. iOS 6 feels really inconsistent across the board in terms of its visual aesthetic. Some things like the Music app and Phone dial buttons have adopted the new white gradient look while others have remained with the glossy looking buttons/skinning of previous versions, and sometimes there's even a clash of styles within the same app.
Makes everything look sloppy and hacked together, they need to better unify the style across the OS.
I feel like ever since I adopted both OS X and the iphone things have gone downhill in this regard. Both in terms of feel of the UI and in terms of look I feel like they're getting more and more cluttered and disorganized.
Angel Gamer
Neo Member
I'm in Canada so I'm wondering how different Passbook is for everyone else. I have access to: Cineplex Mobile, Live Nation, Ticketmaster, American Airlines, United Airlines, Luftansa, Sephora to Go.
Are people from the US and others places any differences?
Are people from the US and others places any differences?
Yup. I think the main issue is the bottom navbar. You see the itunes/app stores and music app adopt a new 'pushed button' style with the buttons being squared matte, but then other apps using the pushed outward/curved gloss style with rounded square overlay buttons. That's the main issue.
On the topic of the music app and the phone though, it's weird because they adopted the white gradient look for the keypad, but then go ahead to the contacts list and you still have that grey alphabetical arrangement, with transparent separators and all that. Why not just use the music alphabetical view for some consistency with the keypad? It's just a mess.
The default assets should be pinned down, as it really is a clash between the old gloss and the new matte. All the apps should adopt the new navbar look, as well as the music app's listing view. Just jumping between the phone app, to the photos app, to the videos app, then to the music app, really illustrates how clashing it all is.