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iOS 9: More than meets the eye
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FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
cool tip
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The Autumn Wind
Seriously. I never would have found that, and I use Request Desktop Site somewhat regularly.
Mammoth Jones
Member
Yea, I've seen the same thing. But not on the 6+
Found an issue yesterday:
I had Soundhound open trying to identify a song, and I got a message notification on Facebook Messenger. I tapped on the notification to directly jump into the app. I locked my phone. When I unlocked it (via Touch ID), the home screen started jittering up and down, with the red notification stating that the microphone is in use popping in and out (this is probably causing the issue). It locked up my phone, so I had to do a force restart.
This might only be a one-time thing, since it happened during a very specific way.
I had Soundhound open trying to identify a song, and I got a message notification on Facebook Messenger. I tapped on the notification to directly jump into the app. I locked my phone. When I unlocked it (via Touch ID), the home screen started jittering up and down, with the red notification stating that the microphone is in use popping in and out (this is probably causing the issue). It locked up my phone, so I had to do a force restart.
This might only be a one-time thing, since it happened during a very specific way.
TheGamingBox
Banned
the battery notification shows up when im using my bluetooth headphones
Tranqueris
Banned
I'm really not loving the new app switcher screen, it feels like a pain in the ass to constantly deal with if you have more than 4 apps running at the same time.
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
Member
Currently using Crystal but wondering whether I should go for Purify or Peace at the moment. Seems to be arguments in favor for either with no clear winner.
HUELEN10
Member
Well, Crystal won't let you whitelist GAF, so that's something to keep in mind.
Truth be told ATM, Crystal is the only free option; any official GAF policy/opinion concerning this?
Crystal isn't free anymore, was only free for 10 hours or so.
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
Member
Yeah, WL GAF is one of the reasons I'm interested in one or the other. Just nabbed Crystal since it was free and I wanted to see what the fuss is about.
I've downloaded both peace and purify and from what I can tell so far, purify seems to do a better job "to my eye" of cleaning up websites but I've read a lot of comments that peace does a better job behind the scenes. Is there any reason why I wouldn't want to just have both of them turned on at the same time, as long as I'm adding sites to both whitelists?
I guess I'm just too attached to Chrome's syncing.
I got tired of having to use iTunes sync to keep my bookmarks up to date in Safari all the time.
I used Weblock until yesterday. Worked great.
Seriously. Would be nice if they just showed the iOS home screen in the sidebar. But obviously, that would only work if it's guaranteed that every single app supports slide-over/split view. So, never.
For Safari, you mean? No. They did not add support for browser extensions. They specifically added a way for developers to block content, nothing more.
I feel the same. Crystal is a joke. Literally zero options. And he's charging for it now? Good thing it was free for a while, because I wouldn't pay a penny for that.
For the time being, I'm gonna stick with Peace. If the white space issue isn't fixed in a few weeks, I'll switch to Purify.
I'm sorry, I forgot to mention that I was visiting the site on my iPad:
On my phone, it looks just like in your screenshot.
Yes it is. The app doesn't seem to have any block lists bundled, so it downloads them when you open it for the first time.
No. When a content blocker is enabled in your device's System Settings, it provides a block list to Safari. Safari saves that list, so the blocker app doesn't have to be running at all.
However, Crystal in particular might update its block list from time to time. It can't do that if it isn't running in the background.
iOS 9 content blockers work in Safari and Safari View Controller. SVC is nothing else but an in-app browser developers can add to their apps (or replace their self-developed in-app browsers with). Twitterrific, for instance, does already support SVC.
Could you guys please stop spreading this crap about people getting banned for using ad blockers? Because this doesn't happen.
It's shit. But it looks cool. That's obviously the most important thing. Fuck usability!
May be a rendering issue, because it has stopped doing it for the moment.
cjp
Junior Member
No way to have two Safari tabs side by side on Air 2?
Why does GAF look so much better in that screenshot?
Best YouTube client on iOS just got better guys!
Why does GAF look so much better in that screenshot?
So my iPhone 6 was literally crashing every 5 minutes after updating to iOS 9, even while in airplane mode. I tried resetting it, disabling every service, and it still kept crashing. It managed to stay stable long enough for me to get it in the 9.1 beta and now all is well. Could not find evidence of anyone having a similar problem, no idea what was causing it.
cjp
Junior Member
Nah, it's more than that. It looks completely different. Is that the desktop site?
RedAssedApe
Banned
cjp
Junior Member
That's what desktop mode looks like for me. Even switching avatars off doesn't make it look like it does in that screenshot.
HUELEN10
Member
No, avatars are not turned off, that's just a standard GAF posting/reply page when you scroll down.
Everything syncs via iCloud these days, since at least 999 years ago.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
NewsStand is dead. They replaced it with just using a normal folder for your magazines. Since magazines are just apps anyway. Now you can put them anywhere.
It's stupid. I'd settle for just one extra row. They were much more useful in iOS 6.
Siri is absolutely amazing now!
Looks great, works really quickly, and is very accurate after setting up the custom voice stuff.
Can't wait to see it on the new phone. So pumped.
Good:
- spotlight search in third party apps
- content blockers
- faster siri
- more open app features (like quick reply)
Bad:
- performance (lol at the pull down search on the 5S. Pure shit)
- proactive is garbage. Just shows the most recent apps. 100% useless
- battery on the 5S
- phone gets hot
Looks great, works really quickly, and is very accurate after setting up the custom voice stuff.
Can't wait to see it on the new phone. So pumped.
Good:
- spotlight search in third party apps
- content blockers
- faster siri
- more open app features (like quick reply)
Bad:
- performance (lol at the pull down search on the 5S. Pure shit)
- proactive is garbage. Just shows the most recent apps. 100% useless
- battery on the 5S
- phone gets hot
Chalupa Batman
Member
I haven't had a single page refresh and I don't even have any ad blockers installed. iOS 9 is a godsend just for this.
You can still see the uage since it was last charged if you scroll down, but yeah, not sure why they changed the old settings.
Yes. There's no reason why it can't have a 2x larger display area.
I didn't think the older iPad models were going to run smoothly with iOS 9, with 7 and 8 as its foundation.
Turnbl
Member
Really happy so far (I've upgraded from 8 though).
Much, much smoother than 8, web noticeably better. First impressions it may do me another year...
Real heart in the mouth moment when the install progress bar was stuck 2mm from the end for over 30mins. But it finally rebooted and all is good.
Only 2 bugs so far: rebooted when plugged into my AppRadio cradle (but recovered and worked), and Podcasts edit mode seems to have no function?
Lower case font in the keyboard looks slightly odd, almost like a few letters are slightly off centre (looking at you t, l).
Anyway much better than 8 so far, and (straining to recall 7) similar in speed? No Safari page load errors as yet, which seemed reasonably frequent in 8.
I mean yeah it would be harmless to add.. but on ipad at least, going to thumbnail mode takes mere seconds (less than 5) to close TONS of tabs.. even iphone isn't the end of the world in rolodex mode.
Barkley's Justice
Member
I can't login to either Messages or Facetime after the update...Pretty pissed right now...Keep getting an "Error ocurred please try again" message...
VincentMatts
Member
I found an annoying bug, when i slide right to unlock my screen (when its completely locked and black) pressing on the number 1 quickly and fast will never register within the first second. Its incredibly annoying when trying to unlock my phone.
Most the time i slide and start pressing as soon as the numbers show up and the 1 never registers so my code doesnt work 90% of the time.
Most the time i slide and start pressing as soon as the numbers show up and the 1 never registers so my code doesnt work 90% of the time.
Yes, but it works worse than 7 and 8, that's what I meant.
He probably saw this chart
You just sold me on Purify. I'm whitelisting GAF tho.
Zeyphersan
Banned
Download the adblock of your choice (Crystal, Purify, and Peace seem to the be top 3 at the moment), run the app once so you can take a look at the settings, then go into Settings->Safari->Content Blockers and turn on which one you want. You can even have more than one running if you really want
Purify and Peace has whitelists, while for the moment Crystal does not
badcrumble
Member
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