I thought the resolution of the iPhone 6+ was 1920 x 1080?
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I thought the resolution of the iPhone 6+ was 1920 x 1080?
The screen is 1920x1080, but because of the silly way iOS does (and doesn't) scale to multiple resolutions, it internally renders at a higher res and downscales. Screenshots come out at the internal resolution, not 1920x1080.
Oh wow, weird. And interesting.
vitaminwateryum
corporate swill
This has probably been mentioned in the past 23 pages, but I can't seem to find these answers and googling the problem just brings up articles about people being confused about the camera roll being replaced.
1) A good chunk of my photos have been deleted since updating to 8. I don't mean that I can't find them, I mean that in my collections folder a lot of the photos just show up as blank squares. If I zoom in then the screen just shows black.
2) What folder does Instagram pull from now? It's showing photos that I have deleted from my local camera as well as my photo stream a long time ago.
1) A good chunk of my photos have been deleted since updating to 8. I don't mean that I can't find them, I mean that in my collections folder a lot of the photos just show up as blank squares. If I zoom in then the screen just shows black.
2) What folder does Instagram pull from now? It's showing photos that I have deleted from my local camera as well as my photo stream a long time ago.
I don't quite understand. What is the internal resolution? What about iPad screenshots?
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
The 6 Plus is the only iOS device whose internal resolution is higher than/not equal to its display resolution. It works exactly the same way as if you set your Retina MBP to something higher than "Best for Retina". The internal resolution of the Plus is 2208×1242 and is scaled down. 2208×1242 is 3x with a point resolution of 746x414. The 6 has a point resolution of 667x375 at 2x. And the 5 has a point resolution of 568x320 at 2x.
The 6 Plus was made 1080 most likely because it was easier to manufacture than a non-standard 2208x1242 display. Though the iPhones have custom made displays, still, I guess 1080 would also save some power. The higher resolution was just to make it easier to scale. They couldn't do 2x on the Plus because it'd be a point resolution of 960x540 which would make things way too small, and 1080 at 3x would be 640x360 which would make things slightly too big. They chose their resolution wisely to make sure the icons and on-screen elements are the same on all three screen sizes. (Go ahead, compare the home screen of the 5S/C, 6 and 6+. The icons are roughly the same size. As will all other elements in the UI.
Basically it means on the Plus, the pixels won't be as 1:1 as they should be as everything will be scaled down. But it won't really matter to most people since the pixels are too small to really even notice. I run my 15" Retina at 1200p and never notice any problem with crispness in properly coded apps.
Set perspective zoom to off when selecting the wallpaper
I was waiting for an update to Launch Center Pro with similar widget capabilites. Probably won't happen now, though!
Erebus
Member
It's things like this that make someone hate Apple. Are they also gonna remove Evernote for having launch functionality in their widget plug-in?
Remember that issue with "Other" space being taken up I was complaining about a week ago after doing a factory restore that was 1.3 GB. Yeah, well it's now 6GB, guess I have to do another restore
Setting all my apps up again isn't fun :/
My "other" space is now 1.83GB, and that's on a 16GB 5s. I wish I could get rid of it without restoring =(
I'm pretty sure a restore won't really fix it either, I just don't like it being so large
What I'll probably end up doing is setting everything up as soon as it's done restoring and make a back up of that, then restoring to the back up every time it grows. Feels like an inherent issue with iOS8, rather than the hardware.
Remember that issue with "Other" space being taken up I was complaining about a week ago after doing a factory restore that was 1.3 GB. Yeah, well it's now 6GB, guess I have to do another restore
Setting all my apps up again isn't fun :/
So when you do a restore are you restoring from backup or setting up as a new phone?
New phone, always new phone.
Probably too many unforeseen security issues with that functionality.
lol wut?
People should stop worrying about the "other". IT's stuff like email caches, iCloud photo sharing photos, and stuff like that. a lot of regenerates with time.
Guess it could be an issue if you have a small capacity phone, however, but you can still restore from backup and get rid of it. (as in restore new, and apply a backup).
Guess it could be an issue if you have a small capacity phone, however, but you can still restore from backup and get rid of it. (as in restore new, and apply a backup).
The functionality (opening other apps) is baked into the OS and it's expected that developers use it.
The issue is probably that it's a 3rd party app replicating the system UI, causing confusion. Apple have a specific policy against this. If they made the app icons square it would probably be alright.
The 'other' is actually saved and restored in the backup. You mean restore new and then setup as new, then sync photos and apps
The widget can open other things than just apps.
People with a lot of "other", try using Phoneclean to clean up some stuff.
I just finished my factory restore on my iPhone 5S, and I start with 1GB of Other space, even before I've signed in with my Apple ID. Not to mention, as time went on my Other space grew larger and larger.
It's annoying.
This. Spotlight search for settings would be fine by me.
Apparently it fixes it.
SmackCrackleNPop
Member
Stylish text though
8.02 did not fix my wifi issues. The only way I get decent wifi is to turn off network settings. I can browse the web at home faster on LTE than on wifi.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
I tried Launcher for an hour and discovered that I hated it and would never use it anyway. I have all my apps on one home screen anyway and don't need an alternate way of opening apps. But I can see why people really liked it.
enanogrande
Member
I didn't care much for Launcher, but I was really looking forward to the Launch Center Pro widget. Hopefully Apple changes their mind or finds a way to resolve whatever security concerns this might cause. (Remember you can see the Today page from the lock screen without inputting a password, I can see a scenario where one could bypass the passcode and get into the phone from a launcher app)
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Yeah. Hopefully it's just a matter of putting in some more security APIs and changing the terms of how apps like this should work. Apple needs to work with these devs. Not against them. This is why people go back to Android.
BlackGhost
Banned
The picture/gif url thing is killing me aghh
Ugh. I'm having the same problem.
I thought 8.0.2 would fix this this.
I guess there's no point to update if Wi-Fi is still useless.
Souless_PJ
Banned
You can't now. Apple stopped signing it today.
infiniteloop
Member
Any home kit apps yet?
njean777
Member
My battery went to shit also. I have a 5s and am lucky if I get 5 hours on my battery now. I clean installed the OS, and reset network settings. Nothing has fixed this problem for me either.
maniac-kun
Member
I think my iPad 3 reacts more responsive with iOS 8 compared to 7.
My battery is fricken dying while it's plugged in...