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iOS 8 |OT| Huge for developers. Massive for everyone else.
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Carton
Member
Thanks for this; it worked a treat.
Yup, I'm really happy with it. It even fills in contacts that you're not friends with on Facebook.
Does this mess with your normal phone contacts, or are these contacts siloed off somehow?
Passcode or Apple ID password?
HUELEN10
Member
Honestly, it is very useful, but the acitonsheet extension which is its selling point is still quite limited sadly.
This worked nicely, thanks for the suggestion. I've been dreading facebook syncing because of duplicates and other weird stuff, but this app gives a pretty clean result.
infiniteloop
Member
Apple will do public betas of 8.3 next month, iOS 9 in the summer:
http://9to5mac.com/2015/02/20/ios-9-public-beta/
http://9to5mac.com/2015/02/20/ios-9-public-beta/
Mr. Wonderful
Member
While this is going to do wonders for long-term stability for yearly releases since it's essentially giving Apple a few extra months of release and feedback, I'm terrified of what this is going to do to their public perception of stability when a bunch of people who shouldn't be on Beta software decide to upgrade.
"iOS 8.3 BETA IS A PEICE OF SHITT!!! GOING BACK TO SNOW LEOPARD!"
-Every MacRumor thread
GAF, I'm going nuts with an issue with my iPhone 5s. I'm periodically getting messages from my carrier on my lock screen which won't go away until I manually dismiss them. The worst part is that my phone won't sleep while the message is there. I left my phone on my bedroom this morning with 60% battery and just now got back to it: the battery's dead. Now that I'm charging it I went to check what drained it, and the lock screen was the culprit, with 90 percent of the drain. Is there anything I can do to stop these carrier messages/prompts from appearing?
They are always messages related to my carrier's offers and plan upgrades. I'm in Brazil, and TIM is my carrier. The carrier's service menu in Settings -> Phone doesn't give me an option to unsubscribe to such prompts. If they just went away I wouldn't be so mad, but my phone won't even lock the screen until I interact with these offers, which drives me insane.
That is....weird. I've never seen that before and I wasn't even aware that was possible, considering how Apple separates the phone from carriers. I guess unless it's a U.S./Brazil thing....
I think as long as you are aware it is slightly older hardware at this point and adjust accordingly it's a nice way to experiment. I got a lower end Lumia to spend some time with Windows Phone and liked it fine. Just set my expectations accordingly since it was a low end phone.
Of course, related to that it wasn't long before the next update slowed performance on it considerably. Which will also happen at some point with the 5. But at least you'll know pretty well when that's happening thanks to Apple's set update schedule.
infiniteloop
Member
BGR is saying 8.2 will be out on Monday. Release Notes:
Splash Wave
Member
I'm having an incredibly weird issue with my 5s: the blue screen of death. The problem is so bad that my computer won't even let me restore my iPhone from recovery mode. Am I fucked?
Any last suggestions before I take this thing to the Apple Store?
Any last suggestions before I take this thing to the Apple Store?
Try another computer?
Have you performed a hard reset on the iPhone (hold power and home button for a while)?
When adding web pages to the Reading List in Safari, is there a way to postpone it syncing with the cloud, maybe have it start the sync 30 seconds later or something? Whenever I surf gaf on my phone I typically scroll down the forum and add things to the reading list, and then start going through them, but it starts syncing immediately which is super annoying.
They should add an option to the health app to let you view previous days/months etc. When tracking steps for example you can only see the figures for the current day/month/year and have to guess at whatever you did previously. It's all well and good having a little graph there but you can't do much analysis and there's no way i'm trawling through the individually recorded steps in the data items.
And neither did 8.2.
infiniteloop
Member
Got the Shakes
Member
I did as well. I haven't followed the steps to enroll my iOS devices yet though.
osiris3355
Banned
As opposed to waiting until google voice app gets shutdown? Move over, hangouts is the future in google land.
I got one too, really simple process to enroll that could all be done on the device itself. Way easier than it was fiddling around with beta stuff before.
badcrumble
Member
Yeah, though I don't necessarily expect to see a Siri API anytime soon. I recognize how it'd be useful in theory, but it's one of those things where Apple probably doesn't wanna give Siri the chance to do bizarrely wrong stuff through opening it up to whatever third-party results (not to mention dealing with third parties actively competing for relevance on any given query - Yelp and OpenTable and Seamless are all gonna want to answer the same question about where to get pizza, for example).
Uggggh, though, just imagine how great Siri integration with Workflow would be.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
The competing would be solvable with two things. One, an option in Settings under each app to enable or disable Siri and have Siri ask which service to use when more than one is enabled. If you have a preferred service, turn the others off and it's good.
But yeah, if it doesn't have the right restrictions it won't happen. Maybe Apple can figure out something. Siri with an API in iOS and integration in OS X with API support would do so much awesomeness to the technology. I really wish Apple would see that too and figure something out.
Got the Shakes
Member
I set it up on my iPhone last night, will do my iPad later this weekend. Only thing I noticed so far is the emoji keyboard is different, and to me things are a bit smoother and apps load a bit faster.
Mr. Wonderful
Member
Dual-factor authentication for Google.
infiniteloop
Member
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Finally updated to 8.2
The alarm app still resets the dial positions when you change screen orientation. :|
*throws phone out the window*
The alarm app still resets the dial positions when you change screen orientation. :|
*throws phone out the window*
Mailenstein
Member
It's not a problem on your end; seems provider related: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6873766
I have one. Seems fine. Same as always. The only thing i really notice is that I get lags on the keyboard on ios 8.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
8.2 has fixed (seemingly) the whole annoyance with "Other" taking up a lot of space... by marking most of it correctly as "Documents". When I sync, I'll notice a small bit of Other appear, then it properly gets cleaned up. I think they might have gotten it right now.
But what I don't get is that I have Photos set to optimize space and not download all my photos but it's still taking 2GB+. I don't get it. Wouldn't it just download thumbnails and grab the original when I go to access it? Or is it thinking all of my photos are important and therefore need to be synced? Because they're not. At all. I want them off my device. If I want a photo, I'll access it. Weird.
But what I don't get is that I have Photos set to optimize space and not download all my photos but it's still taking 2GB+. I don't get it. Wouldn't it just download thumbnails and grab the original when I go to access it? Or is it thinking all of my photos are important and therefore need to be synced? Because they're not. At all. I want them off my device. If I want a photo, I'll access it. Weird.
Ben Morales
Member
Anyone using Chrome? It's been running really well on my 5c. I've been using it almost exclusively now. The new material design looks fantastic. Only problem I have is with sites where I need to log in with my Facebook. It tells me to use Safari because because Chrome for iOS isn't supported. =(
jts
...hate me...
I've been using Chrome since last week, because 8.2 literally broke Safari for me.
Anyway it has been smooth enough, especially now that I've learned that you can even access and copy the iCloud keychain passwords from Safari settings.
Ben Morales
Member
It's possible that if it already has the thumbnails it keeps them. In my experience, where ever apple updates new features, it doesn't retroactively go back and change what is already there fully. There's always residuals from upgrades.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
I removed the photos completely before upgrading to Photos. I'm pretty sure.