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iOS 6 |OT| New Maps? googy pls
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Angel Gamer
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What apps do your guys' Passbook include? I'm in Canada so we have cineplex and a few travel ones. Is it different in the states? elsewhere?
The link when I launch the app store from within Passbook takes me to a page with iHotel, United Airlines, Lufthansa and American Airlines. UK here.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Link takes me to "Store not found" or some crap like that.
IHaveCandy
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Can you use it along with turn by turn navigation? That would seem pretty useful.
That seems to be a bug. I encountered the same message, and moved my clock forward by a year, reopened link, and then set the clock back. Perhaps this will resolve your issue as well.
I agree it's neat. But I haven't found a use. The 3d buildings give you base approximations of size, but besides Giant landmarks it does little in helping you get around. Streetview in comparison, providing signage and actual photographs of areas is such a league beyond in helping you find stuff it can't even be described.
I live in la, so downtown is the only area I can use to test an area that I know. It was cool flying over USC campus and giving a general idea of scope, but once I started to try to find things specifically it all broke down. Trying to view in between the buildings in downtown la was borderline impossible, and pretty much had to zoom out to see anything, at which point I am just looking at a prettier satellite view. A view that's harder to use because big buildings keep blocki what I'm trying to see
But I'm ready to be wrong about this. Next time I'm downtown I will try flyover again and see if it actually helps with anything. I could be underestimating the help seeing the size of neighboring buildings and areas can provide
Try using the superior Jasmine and see if it works better.
Particle Physicist
between a quark and a baryon
While I agree that street view is way more helpful and can be a useful tool, do you guy really use it that often? Are people really that inept at reading addresses? I get the guy who is a realtor and uses it to look at the properties beforehand, but most people? Personally, I have only ever really used it as a novelty, kinda like the flyover. Maybe that's a product of being older and growing up using paper maps, or just, finding shit on your own. lol
I keep having YouTube videos stop loading at a certain point, or maybe they're just buffering so badly it seemed they stopped. Happens almost every time. So I just have been using the mobile website which works fine. The app itself is still even lacking in things like being able to check your YouTube inbox and stuff like that. So until they get their act together with the app, I'm using the mobile website.
Thanks! This app is pretty good. Better than both apple's and google's attempts.
Appstore app?
I have four Maps apps on my phone now, purely because the one that comes on the phone now is garbage. Now, if there was one maps app that I could use instead of those other four, I'd love to use it... but even then I wouldn't be able to set it as the default maps application and any time I was clicking on an address in an app or an email I'd have to copy and paste it into one of the multiple apps I'll now be using.
Ken Masters
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How do I delete apps from the purchased menu in the App Store?
Don't think you can.
Ken Masters
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They removed the feature? Damn
I use it all the time. I think it's essential for confirming locations (especially in downtown districts), clarifying confusing traffic patterns/designs, and it's GREAT for travelling. I was looking at hotels to stay in and would never have known how sketchy some of them were if I couldn't get a gauge on how the area outside of it looked.
I do use it much more on desktop Google Maps than on my phone. But street view is infinitely more useful than flyover. I opened flyover once and I'm not even sure what reason I'd have to use it again.
A friend with an iPhone 4 asked me at lunch what's new in iOS 6, and I really struggled to give him an answer.
It's like... umm... crappier maps? A useless Passbook? Uh you can post to Facebook quicker? Status bars and other Apple GUI elements are uglier?
After the crazy major iOS5, iOS6 seems pretty lackluster. It's like a dot release. Disappointing.
It's like... umm... crappier maps? A useless Passbook? Uh you can post to Facebook quicker? Status bars and other Apple GUI elements are uglier?
After the crazy major iOS5, iOS6 seems pretty lackluster. It's like a dot release. Disappointing.
Ken Masters
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Did you mention the revolutionary new phone dial screen?
IHaveCandy
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I think it would be fair to say iOS6 has been the worst iteration of iOS so far. Hopefully iOS7 fixes things. Nothing in iOS6 is broken, but I can see how it has been a let down.
I agree. I like not having to put my password in every time I install updates to an app but other than that iOS 6 seems like the worst iOS release in terms of changes from the previous version.
it isnt that bad.
IHaveCandy
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Which iOS iteration has been worse?
I'd say it's very underwelming considering how much iOS 5 improved things.
At least, as a Canadian, Siri has been updated to be useful (there was zero local search for it in ios 5) but beyond that notable improvement, it's a combination of middling color palate changes, a hit and miss maps app (turn by turn good; POI database bad) and other features I won't use (facebook, shared photo streams, and guided access stuff for toddlers.)
iOS 7 needs to be a more ambitious release. and the Maps database needs to be much better very soon.
At least, as a Canadian, Siri has been updated to be useful (there was zero local search for it in ios 5) but beyond that notable improvement, it's a combination of middling color palate changes, a hit and miss maps app (turn by turn good; POI database bad) and other features I won't use (facebook, shared photo streams, and guided access stuff for toddlers.)
iOS 7 needs to be a more ambitious release. and the Maps database needs to be much better very soon.
The Real Abed
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But why? That makes no sense.
Edit: You have to hide the app from iTunes in the Purchases page of the store.
"if it does not make sense, it is Apple"
iOS 5 on the 3GS
IHaveCandy
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Wouldn't iOS6 on 3GS be even worse?
i wish they would just put podcasts back in the music appi hate it so much. Not to mention some of the podcasts dont download it just opens and streams? What causes that?
If you delete the Podcast app the tab on the music tab is restored in the same place it was in iOS5. Thankfully.
It doesn't help improve the silly sync situation that previous versions have, but it at least works.
Ken Masters
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Desktop iTunes?
bodyofanamerican
Member
I think the reason iOS6 is so underwhelming is that it's running out of obvious, low hanging fruit to add/fix.
Set up for iOS 7? "Now, all of our apps look like they actually belong together! Uniform interface. It just makes sense."
infiniteloop
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What do people think iOS 7 could add that would make it a worthwhile upgrade?
IHaveCandy
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Apple should start allowing software on the App Store that allows for small changes to the interface. I don't mean anything big or resource hogging. Apple can decide what APIs can be used and limit the amount of available resources these get. I want widgets mostly from this though. I don't want to have to open an app or ask Siri for a score update. I'd rather just flip the notification center down and read it myself.
The ability to set default applications (for mail, maps, calendar, etc.)
But that's never going to happen
jts
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This.The ability to set default applications (for mail, maps, calendar, etc.)
But that's never going to happen
Plus NC toggles and sliders.
Plus NC widgets.
Plus lots of necessary tweaks.
TheGreatDivide
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The clock app is what i've been using for weather;
That's so inadequate it's painful.
I just ask Siri for a forecast, but I don't get why I need to. The weather widget on iPhone is very useful.
The Real Abed
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Yeah. YOu can still hide them there and they will disappear from the list on iOS, but I swear at one point (Probably a feature lost in the redesign if not on purpose) you could swipe across an item in the Purchased list and have a Hide button appear. At least the functionality is still there. It just can't be done from the device.
That's soooo helpful for someone who lives in Doylestown, PA. Because of course Doylestown is an option... oh wait, no it's not. What GreatDevide said. The clock on the iPad has weather as an extra. It's not at all meant to be a full weather app. Nor is it capable of being one.The clock app is what i've been using for weather;
The clock app is what i've been using for weather;
I can't seem to find a way to get the forecast with this...?
This is even worse to use than the weather widgets that Apple fanboys keep criticizing Android users over.
Yeah, anyone know how to removed wiped devices?
Had this happen to me before, it'll eventually remove by itself after like a week or so of inactivity.