The Real Abed
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The new Music app is pretty good. And you can't fight change. You'll have to upgrade eventually. What don't you like about it?
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iOS 9: More than meets the eye
- Thread starter Maninthemirror
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So the chances of a Chrome-compatible ad blocker...?
I really like the older design to it, it was so much easier to navigate all my songs and shuffle artists and my entire collection. Then apparently in 8.4 they made it far more complicated than it needed to be.
brianmcdoogle
Member
It's not really an iOS 9 question, but what widgets are you all using?
The Real Abed
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They made it better. Now Playing is nicer and sticks across the whole UI and it has Up Next.
It has its problems though. But I like it.
Remember when podcasts, videos, music, and audio books were all in one app? Those were the times.
Rbk_3
Member
BOO! I was looking forward to that the most.
Has anyone had issues connecting their device to iTunes? I just added the Tearaway Unfolded soundtrack that came with the PS4 game to my iTunes Library. I'm running Windows 10, and I have my iPhone 6 on iOS 9. I just updated iTunes to the latest release, and my phone isn't showing up on the device list. I grabbed the lightning cable and connected my phone to the computer via USB. The phone started charging, Windows did it's little device connected jingle and gave me the pop up that says to click to decide what to do when the Apple iPhone is connected. Clicking it does nothing. On the phone I got a pop up asking if I want to allow the connected device to access photos and videos, I selected allow.
After all that, the phone doesn't show up in my device list on iTunes still.
On a side note, man I miss having a Mac, everything worked so well together. Every time I have to connect a device to a PC it ends up being a several hour ordeal.
EDIT: Turns out it's a straight up Windows 10 issue. Apparently as of this time, Windows 10 does not automatically install the drivers that come with iTunes. If any of you are having this same issue, follow this easy guide.
After all that, the phone doesn't show up in my device list on iTunes still.
On a side note, man I miss having a Mac, everything worked so well together. Every time I have to connect a device to a PC it ends up being a several hour ordeal.
EDIT: Turns out it's a straight up Windows 10 issue. Apparently as of this time, Windows 10 does not automatically install the drivers that come with iTunes. If any of you are having this same issue, follow this easy guide.
brianmcdoogle
Member
Actually, now I'm very confused on the Battery widget because I still have 70% on my headphones after 3 hours of use while my phone's battery percentage dipped by almost half. Maybe the refresh rate for the bluetooth headphones/battery percentage is not frequent? Still, it's been 3 hours....
Garou
Member
Whelp. This sucks.
In attempting to update, I appear to have bricked my phone. Locked up halfway through the update. Now won't update or even restore to factory settings.
Restart in DFU-mode, restore through iTunes and then restore your local or iCloud-backup.
Managed to get it going after a combination of powering my phone on and off a couple of times and rebooting my laptop. Eventually it "caught" and my phone updated.
Phew.
I'm in some sorta limbo. It still says 20 GB, but that progress bar when inspecting everything you got illustrates 50 (or so I guess).
brianmcdoogle
Member
Kinda, but not surprised, but am surprised, on Gruber's tweets on content blocking.
Unknown Soldier
Member
Android has had ad blocking since it's inception lmao
Do they work in the same manner as iOS 9's content blocking? This article makes a compelling case for why it is better than conventional ad blockers:
http://blog.appgrounds.com/content-blockers-beat-adblocking/
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Yeah I'm with you. Comic makes no sense.
Mine is the same. Anyone got these to update in both Total Storage and their Storage plan?
undu
Member
Adblock plus is one of the worst ad blockers there is, it's not what new adblockers should measure against in terms of performance:
ublock has much less overhead on the cpu (battery consumption), as well as memory consumption, and even loads pages faster with the same filters.
In general though, it's true, it better to block requests beforehand, I use adAway on android, which blocks network requests on the OS level.
i'm using marco arment's "Peace" as it'll also remove social sharing buttons and has the option to hide comment sections altogether. Also has a whitelist option.
that's how it looks on my Mac.
I had "... out of 20gb used" yesterday, when account management already said, € 0.99 would get me 50gigs.
This morning, i was on "... of 50gb"
krimsoncharge
Member
the newsstand app is either missing or i deleted it before. how do i get it back?
Garou
Member
Only available in USA.
Same thing happened to me earlier. It went back to normal after I restarted my iPad again.
krimsoncharge
Member
that sucks.
which makes me wonder if we'll ever see mobile safari's implementation of content blocking coming to desktop safari.
Apparently, Peace only hides ads, but not the space they occupy. Well, at least on some pages. This sucks. Crystal, on the other hand, removes the empty space too, but still not on all pages.
This article is a good example. With Peace, the ad after the opening paragraph is blocked, but the "Anzeige" ("ad") label remains. With Crystal, that label is removed too, but the white space remains. On my Mac, using Adblock, even the white space is removed.
This article is a good example. With Peace, the ad after the opening paragraph is blocked, but the "Anzeige" ("ad") label remains. With Crystal, that label is removed too, but the white space remains. On my Mac, using Adblock, even the white space is removed.
infiniteloop
Member
I think the newsstand app is gone.
New Tweetbot coming for iPad. I'm hoping it supports Slide Over.
Pretty cool we're finally getting Tweetbot 4. And, more importantly, an up-to-date version for the iPad.
Now, does anybody know it these are gonna be paid updates?
Link1110
Member
Got it today mainly for low power mode. First order of business was turning off the shift key thing cause it sounds like the letters changing would be distracting (just like predictive with ios8 was and that didn't survive a single day either)
I don't like the new screen that shows up if I hit the home button twice. Everything is too big and I can only see one app on it at a time. Can I change that somehow?
I don't like the new screen that shows up if I hit the home button twice. Everything is too big and I can only see one app on it at a time. Can I change that somehow?
Nope.
I agree it's difficult to understand why Apple an overhaul of the app switcher was needed. But I got used to it quite quickly, TBH.
Yeah, and it scrolls from left to right instead of right to left.
well, it's designed to make sense alongside the new 3D touch "swipe in from the left side" on the iPhone 6S"
double tap the home key and imagine having just "force swiped" in from the left edge of the screen. The animation / the design does make sense.
i don't mind my contacts not being there anymore. That feature felt awkwardly redundant.
ever since phone's got bigger, i do believe the main "phone hand" has become the left hand, as you'll often need your right hand as a "stylus" - especially on the 6+ / 6S+
the app "carousel" makes sense to me, i think it's much easier to force quit apps with one hand now.
also, "new" apps come in from the right (like, when you open the app store from within a safari link).
Left, in general, is the "back" / "previous" direction. I think the way it was handled before was actually off.
Oh, also, i've started using "Ghostery" instead of adblock on desktop safari right now. It's a very clean experience and blocking / whitelisting individual features / trackers on a site-by-site basis is really nifty. Like only having social share buttons on sites you actually share articles from, etc.