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- taylorwc 11y agoGlad there is finally a built-in alternative for Flux. Been overdue.
- bhouston 11y agoIt probably also means it will be built-in to Andriod next and then probably Windows itself. That could negatively impact Flux the product, which sucks for him.
- nicksergeant 11y agoF.lux is free software and they've said outright that as devices / systems implement color shifting as built-in systems, they've accomplished their goal.
- jonknee 11y agoWell, on the other hand, their website says this: > f.lux is patent pending. Do you make a cell phone, display, lighting system, or other cool sleep tech, and want to talk about collaboration? Email us: support@justgetflux.com https://justgetflux.com/ https://justgetflux.com/
- comex 11y agoIt's quite possible that Apple has already obtained a license from them.
- jonknee 11y agoThat's not Apple's MO, but anything is possible.
- schappim 11y agoSure it is. They licenced Microsoft's Exchange protocols.
- jonknee 11y agoLicensing from a fellow giant who will absolutely take you to court if you don't and repurposing the ideas of small indie developers are entirely different things.
- gyc 11y agoI could be wrong, but I don't think Apple has a history of violating patents from practicing small software developers. Seems like they're pretty much only sued by patent trolls.
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- cowsandmilk 11y agoApple regularly licenses patents when it agrees they are valid. That doesn't make the news. Sometimes they disagree and that makes the news.
- comex 11y agoNot only does it not make the news, it's often confidential.
- madeofpalk 11y agoWhy not? They 'license' plenty of things without using their brand name publically, like Gorilla Glass
- ywecur 11y agoIf they are truly doing this for the benefit of the community then why isn't f.lux open source?
- berberous 11y agoYes, but it's much better that this stuff is built in natively to the OS. F.lux and equivalents I have used on Android often are gltichy given that they interact with the video system.
- Analemma_ 11y agoIt's not just Android: on both Windows and Linux, F.lux seems to interact badly with certain Intel video chipsets, and often just turns on and off continuously until I reboot the system. It's great software, but having it native to the OS would be even better. I hope the other vendors follow Apple's lead here.
- sandGorgon 11y agoCyanogenmod has had it for a while now.
- kevinSuttle 11y agoHoping OSX is next.
- taylorwc 11y agoYou can install f.lux for OSX and it works very well. Though I am sure the new Apple functionality will make its way to OSX too.
- duskwuff 11y agoThere's some annoying glitches in the Mac OS implementation. In particular, the profile gets reset to normal for a second or two when certain applications (particularly OpenGL games) start up or exit, and when the screensaver is unlocked.
- chipotle_coyote 11y agoWhile that's true, f.lux handles edge cases in important ways -- letting you disable it for certain apps or time periods, as well as "movie mode." As much as I'd like to see this feature be built into the OS, Apple tends to simplify away a lot of fiddly preferences by choosing what they hope are sensible defaults, and as much as I appreciate that in theory, in practice this might be one of those areas where fiddly preferences are superior.
- striking 11y agoThat may be because creating an OpenGL context on Mac OS would reset the Color LookUp table, which f.lux would then have to refresh. Annoying, but possibly not f.lux's fault.
- kevinSuttle 11y agoYep. It's one of the first things I install on a new machine, via Homebrew Cask.
- r00fus 11y agoHopefully then, OSX as well. I probably spend as much time (sadly) on my macbook as I do in front of my iPhone at night. F.lux is a lifesaver, but I'd prefer it builtin to the OS.
- MBCook 11y agoSeems likely. They share lots of code and when one gets a feature the other tends to get it within a release or two if it makes any sense.
- bad_user 11y agoWhile I'm glad about the functionality becoming available, is Apple rejecting third-party apps only to copy them?
- cballard 11y agoThat's not really what happened, Flux was using private API, and distributing it as a binary blob (!!!).
- JustSomeNobody 11y agoSo, it's OK because Apple gets to use the "private" API?
- jonknee 11y agoWell, Apple didn't treat Flux any differently than other developers who used private APIs or tried to distribute binary blobs to iOS users. Software running in the background is something Apple tightly controls in iOS (battery life and security being major concerns). They also don't let apps make changes to the OS appearance. That may be the wrong approach, but Apple is at least consistent in it. This was either an OS level feature or a no go from Apple's perspective. As a user I'm happy it's a feature!
- cballard 11y agoYes, that's the whole point of private APIs - they're not supported, and they can be changed or removed whenever. It's just access control at the framework level. Apple could embed a copy in each application using the framework, but that's inefficient, so they install it at the system level.
- mikeash 11y agoIt totally sucks that Apple prohibits third-party apps from offering useful functionality that requires deep integration with the system. So no, it is not exactly "OK." However, it has nothing to do with rejecting apps because of it, and offering their own version of the functionality. Apple has always reserved this domain for themselves from day one, and f.lux would have had the exact same problems even if Apple hadn't been doing their own version of it.
- AustinScript 11y agoI couldn't agree more. I used to jailbreak my phone just for f.lux when it used to be easier. So happy it is being cloned but it would've be nice if it was just on the AppStore to begin with.
- schoen 11y agoHow about if you didn't have to jailbreak your phone in order to install non-App Store software?
- gtk40 11y agoIt is a good point. I recently got a company provided phone and I strongly considered getting an iPhone, especially since it's the dominant platform at my company and most internal apps are developed for it exclusively. However, I started tallying up what functionalities I would have to give up and decided against it, a flux like program being one of them.
- evilduck 11y agoDone [with caveats]. You can compile and sideload any software yourself using XCode and an AppleID. I run Gamma Thingy (a f.lux alternative) on my non-jailbroken iPhone. You can compile and run emulators, use any private API, whatever. Those apps will just never be in the App Store.
- schoen 11y agoThanks for the explanation.
- ctz 11y agoThis kind of magical innovation takes time!
- jonathanpoulter 11y agoNice subtle detail that the page header changes colour in that section.
- pc86 11y agoIt does so in several sections, I don't think it's just because of the content.
- rdl 11y agoI wonder if they licensed his patent.
- josho 11y agoThere is nothing to license. Flux is patent pending.
- kristofferR 11y agoI hate that this, like Flux, apparently is based on the time of sunset. I don't want my screen to dim at 15:00/3PM, that's just super annoying instead of useful. Let me input a time for dimming instead.
- alexweber 11y agowell, if you'd like to simulate more sun in your locale, you could pick a city closer to the equator in your timezone.
- jarjoura 11y agoThis will be interesting indeed. "The Apple private frameworks have been removed from the iOS/watchOS/tvOS SDKs."
- cballard 11y agoWhat's the significance of this? Private things can be removed or modified at-will, seems fine?
- tomschlick 11y agoApps that are secretly using a private api (maybe not all the time to skirt the review process) might break, hard.
- cballard 11y agoThis is already the case for any OS update though, because that's a runtime dependency, not just a build-time dependency.
- earlz 11y agoCitation needed? I can't find any reference to this
- axxl 11y agoIt's in the the Xcode 7.3 release notes, which for some reason aren't loading for me. Here's a screenshot I took earlier however. http://i.imgur.com/oXAPsyd.png http://i.imgur.com/oXAPsyd.png
- autoreleasepool 11y agoVery interesting. Apple has replicated f.lux's functionality and removed access to the key ingredient used in the authors original implementation. All in one felt swoop. They were definitely paying close attention to that whole "side load our proprietary blob using Xcode" debacle on HN 2 months ago. f.lux for iOS announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10544770 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10544770 Apple's actions the next day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10556375 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10556375
- larrysalibra 11y agoIt will be interesting to see how password/touch id lock for Notes works. Will they be end-to-end encrypted? Will they be searchable? Or is this simply a UI feature to protect against someone looking over your shoulder?
- keehun 11y agoYeah, and will it work on OSX, too?
- rbcgerard 11y agoagreed very curious to know whether this means apple does not have access. I have a passcode on my phone/computer/icloud so casual snooping is not really an issue (and i don't hand my phone to people to play with or share a computer) so that would really be the only benefit to someone like me
- sushid 11y agoOne thing I found rather amusing was the fact that there are visible passwords in the picture although it hasn't been unlocked. Hopefully it's at the very least blurred before you input your password.
- coffeecheque 11y agoThe popup text says "use your fingerprint or notes password to protect this note" though. So to my reading it's showing passwords which are about to be protected, not something that already has been locked.
- axxl 11y agoReading the text on the screen this appears to be in the action of 'encrypting'. i.e. they just hit a button to say 'hide this data behind my fingerprint' and you just have to authenticate and then it will be encrypted. A poor choice though perhaps. I think they wanted to demonstrate the type of data you would want to store.
- mapmap 11y agoApple says it is encrypted on the server, but it's not clear if it is end-to-end encrypted with the keys staying on your devices. Likely the keys are encrypted with your iCloud password for multi-device use. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
- gabriele 11y agoI can't believe that's [1] the best low-light picture they could find for their flagship mobile OS preview page. It doesn't even add anything to the story: Night Shift uses your iOS device’s clock and geolocation to determine when it’s sunset in your location. Then it automatically shifts the colors in your display to the warmer end of the spectrum, making it easier on your eyes. [1] https://www.apple.com/v/ios/preview/a/images/preview/blr_hero_large.jpg https://www.apple.com/v/ios/preview/a/images/preview/blr_her...
- asadlionpk 11y agoExactly this, it seems like they didn't pay much attention to this page.
- salimmadjd 11y agoIs apple using this to get more apps integrate with HealthKit? Many developers feel integration with HealthKit turns their app into a commodity. Categories such as Weight, Workouts, and Sleep have a new slider menu that reveals great apps you can easily add to your Health dashboard
- jobu 11y agoIs it just me, or does that seem like a surprising set of features for a mid-cycle release. Typically it's just bug fixes for anything other than a major OS launch.
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- chickenbane 11y agoYes and no. Looks like many of these changes are just at the app level - Notes, Car Play, Health. However, because Apple doesn't separate these apps from the system (ie., you can't update them from the app store) they get bundled into the OTA. If these apps were civilian apps, I doubt anyone would be surprised by these updates.
- AshleysBrain 11y agoI agree - I thought the reason this was posted to HN was the fact this is a fairly significant update with its own announcement page, which doesn't appear to have been the case with .1 releases in the past. Perhaps iOS is moving to a faster update cycle? I hope Safari gets more meaningful updates as well - the once-a-year updates sometimes with not much new (looking at you Safari 9) is real slow progress for web developers, especially compared to Chrome and Firefox.
- connorshea 11y agoSafari 9 unprefixed quite a few CSS features, and it looks like 9.3 will bring a not-insignificant update to Safari as well!
- pflats 11y agoMoving education features to September/October release essentially dooms them to not be used until the next school year, or at least the second semester. Testing and implementing new technology midstream is tough in education. Most of that gets done over the summers in the US.
- feld 11y agoI hope they bring this Night Shift to OSX as well, just for consistency. I've used Flux for years, but it does have some quirks like when waking from sleep.
- adrianh 11y agoAny updates to Mobile Safari's support for new HTML/JavaScript features? Perhaps support for service workers? (I didn't see anything about Mobile Safari on this page, but maybe there's something nonetheless...?)
- comex 11y agoIt'll probably include a WebKit version bump as usual, but according to the WebKit Feature Status page, Service Workers are only "under consideration" (not "in development" or "done"), so I wouldn't expect them anytime soon. https://webkit.org/status/#specification-service-workers https://webkit.org/status/#specification-service-workers
- ropiku 11y agoHere are the docs for Safari 9.1: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/releasenotes/General/WhatsNewInSafari/Articles/Safari_9_1.html https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/releaseno... No support for service workers unfortunately.
- xlayn 11y agoI'm owner of an ios, windows phone and android device. With that said most of the innovation happening lately is just something carried over from others, e.g. the add block feature, or the night shift, both features already present for example on Cyanogenmod with an adblock installed. Now my point is... (and I'm not pointing my finger to apple, I like my ipad more now than before, with the exception of the music application), seems like we have started to reach the point where enhancements are only marginal. I'm not sure how much more cpu power can fix that situation (apple can still play the quad-core card), or if this is a development language restriction issue, or a problem with compilers-languages that cannot make use of multi-core cpus or maybe there is nowhere else to go because everything has been made. If my previous statement holds true... maybe this is the beginning of the "pc era" of the smartphones with lower sales and no more features worth upgrading to the latest and greatest.
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- yourapostasy 11y agoThere is still so much more to do that won't require gargantuan cpu/storage/io/screen/etc. resources, that I don't think we are in an "end of history" phase yet with the current conceptualization of these devices. Just a few personal itches off the top of my head that have yet to be scratched: * There is still not a good solution for group-transactional data over the devices as a first-class citizen feature in the system. Live, collaborative editing with versioning of just a list, for starters, is considered an app'able feature worth $50 USD per year per person. * Internationalization still takes a back seat. Calendar apps still don't pick up that if you set an appointment for someone in a different time zone than you, you are likely scheduling to a time convenient for them. There should be an option to auto-detect and display applicable time zones as you create the appointment. * Customization still takes a back seat. When I add custom phone types ("concall", "support", "after-hours support", etc.), it ends up UNSORTED in the list of custom phone types when I go to choose one. That's just the tip of the iceberg of enhancements. For address records of people in a specific organization, I want to be able to set only a certain list of custom phone types for anyone in that organization. * There still is no sense of tracking versions of information. I have thousands of contacts, and I keep track of old addresses for example; it helps me orient myself to the possible cultures someone has experienced. But only the here-and-now data is recognized. * Linking data between apps takes an explicit act of coordination between app developers; the Newton data soups were particularly good with breaking down this artificial barrier. * Deep-linking into your own data from within an app in general is not very well-recognized as a use case. Not to speak of deep-linking from an external laptop. I'm personally gravitating back towards making my information in my Emacs Org mode buffer the primary system of record, and the phone is just a thinly-sliced perspective of that.
- JustSomeNobody 11y agoSo, f.lux has a patent pending on this. This may get awkward, depending on if they get it and choose to do anything with it.
- DrJokepu 11y agoI'm sure that one of the world's richest corporations will find a solution to this problem.
- JustSomeNobody 11y agoAhhhhh... interesting. I read so many stories and comments on HN about how it's bad to be too rich. But apparently well like companies can have an exception.
- ossreality 11y ago1. You're completely misunderstanding the comment you're replying to. 2. Fuck off with your nonsense and trying to drudge it up here.
- DrJokepu 11y agoSome problems cannot be easily solved with money. Paying patent lawyers and patent royalties is an example of a problem that can be very easily solved with money.
- oldmanjay 11y agoSurprisingly to many people used to the hiveminds on other forums, HN is not homogeneous in the opinions of the denizens. Many of us are fine with the idea of making money, and don't see it as an all-encompassing evil to be slandered at every turn as if it were an argument unto itself.
- ocean3 11y agoDownvoting would lead to hiveminds where unpopular opinions are not tolerated. I would prefer just an upvote.
- graeme 11y agoDoes anyone have more info on the colour warmths available in nightshift? One nice feature of f.lux is that you can select colour warmths using a slider. Does nightshift allow a variety of night colours, or just one setting? Either way, this is great news. For years I had been jailbroken merely in order to have f.lux on my phone. I have mild insominia, and flux has greatly reduced that.
- walterbell 11y agoAnother question: can the user enable "night" mode during the day, e.g. in a dark environment?
- Someone1234 11y agoThat's a good question. It is worth noting that during the day you should NOT use night mode even in a dark environment, the whole point of the color shifting is to reproduce how the sun interacts with the world around you, turning on night mode during the day won't do your internal clock any favours. That being said, there might be good arguments for having manual night mode control, like if you're a night shift worker and want day mode at night, and night mode during the day. And a lot of international travel scenarios.
- walterbell 11y ago> the whole point of the color shifting is to reproduce how the sun interacts with the world around you That's one use case. There are situations where blue light reduces the length of time one can look at a screen, and "night" mode enables longer usage.
- jacobolus 11y agoTo elaborate: Bright blue light causes much faster bright-adaptation of the eye, interfering with rod vision. Or in other words, after a short zap of a smartphone display, you won’t be able to see very well in the dark.
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- walterbell 11y agoiOS 9.2 made the iPad Pro nearly unusable (dropping keystrokes) with the Logitech Create Pro keyboard, and no fix has been forthcoming in iOS 9.2.1 betas. Will this be addressed in 9.3? It worked perfectly with iOS 9.1.
- DannoHung 11y agoThe multiple-ids on iPad thing for schools is something I know a lot of people have been asking for for ages.
- uptown 11y agoThe way they describe it, this will somehow be limited to school-use iPads, not the general public. Unless I'm mistaken.
- tomschlick 11y agoIt could be immensely useful for the enterprise as well if they marketed it right. But apple hasnt seemed to care about business uses for the past few years.
- uptown 11y agoUseful. Sure. But it'd cannibalize sales. Why sell once device that can be shared by three when you can sell 3 devices?
- kdamken 11y agoThis might be my favorite update since iOS 7 added the slide up menu to toggle wifi. The flux and notes locking capabilities have been on my want list for years now.
- iagooar 11y agoI'm so happy to see Notes getting attention and new features. Since the update to support attachments and basic text formatting, it has become my digital notebook of choice. I basically use it for everything, from todo and shopping list, to collecting images about a topic, planning trips, work notes, and many more. Notes has many features that I considered well implemented: a simple interface, native integration with the OS including sharing from and to the app, seamless iOS & OSX syncing over iCloud, decent search, PDF export. I hope Apple keeps investing in it adding relevant, useful features, but without allowing it to become too big, like it happened to Evernote.
- draw_down 11y agoI agree it's quite nice, the only thing I would like is an easy way to mark up images. You have a bunch of tools for doodling, it just would be nice to use them on top of an image instead of having the doodles be strictly their own image.
- tomcam 11y agoThat would be fantabulous. Because Notes has been so reliable I've been afraid to ask for more features, but you're right, the tools are already there. Would love to be able to add arrows and caption photos.
- walterbell 11y agoCan Notes sync with a 3rd-party server like WebDAV or CalDAV/owncloud?
- JustSomeNobody 11y agoWould a) love to know the answer to this and b) if not, would love to see this happen.
- walterbell 11y agoCross-platform apps that sync with open-standard 3rd-party servers: http://2doapp.com http://2doapp.com (CalDav), http://www.notebooksapp.com http://www.notebooksapp.com (WebDAV), https://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus https://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus (WebDAV). Apple's Pages/Keynote/Numbers support WebDAV sync and 3rd-party file-share apps, e.g. https://panic.com/transmit-ios/ https://panic.com/transmit-ios/, so there is precedent.
- nickysielicki 11y agoIf I ever have kids, I pray to God that Apple/Google/FB have no role in their primary education.
- tomcam 11y agoNot trying to be snarky... but what's that got to do with the topic?
- nickysielicki 11y agoThe last section on TFA. https://www.apple.com/education/preview/ https://www.apple.com/education/preview/
- artimaeis 11y agoNot OP but he's probably referring to the Education Preview updates. They're referenced at the bottom of the linked page with more info at https://www.apple.com/education/preview/ https://www.apple.com/education/preview/.
- tomcam 11y agoMissed that, thanks. Got downvoted anyway...
- Spooky23 11y agoYour wish will not be fulfilled!
- koenigdavidmj 11y agoThis feature is quite possibly the least offensive thing about iPads in schools.
- nerdcity 11y ago#webosneverforget
- ghrifter 11y agoThe Notes update looks great! I use Notes for shopping lists and also to store passwords/personal info - so the TouchID security feature is nice. Another native iOS app I use a lot is Reminders - great for appointments and todo reminders (like calling someone back). It would be great to see if that got a bit of an upgrade.
- JustSomeNobody 11y agoThey need to loosen the grips on that background services stuff. Would love to have apps like Dropbox and Owncloud not have to use the stupid location services workaround just to background sync my pictures. Edit: Seriously? This gets down voted? How would this NOT be a helpful feature? It works wonderfully on my Android devices. Would love to see it on my iOS devices. Wow, Just wow. Bunch of fanboiz or something?
- snuxoll 11y agoI agree, actually. One thing I like about Windows Phone is the scheduled background agents - you can request the OS run a background agent on a schedule, and it will allow your application to update or sync data on a fairly regular basis even while running on battery, though with limits - and if the device is plugged in and connected to WiFi you get increased limits to do some more intense tasks. I don't need my photos to sync automatically draining battery and wasting data while I am on the mobile network, but when I'm at home for the night and my phone is charging is a perfect change for things to do big syncs like that. EDIT: Apple kind of added some similar functionality with background app refresh, but the fact that the system tries really hard to "guess" which apps you want updated and which you don't doesn't work so well - I am constantly having to launch SyncSolver to get it to post my Apple Watch steps to fitbit. Just let the apps I set to refresh run on a regular schedule, I can control what I don't want to update.
- potatolicious 11y agoDidn't downvote you - but generally complaining about downvotes is unclassy. I'll venture a guess and say that you might've been downvoted because "loosen the grips on that background services stuff" sounds a bit flippant - the restrictions exist for very good reason. That said, there is probably a good case for the case of background uploads to be added to the existing backgrounding framework as an additional use case, with its own set of governing rules (another user brought up: Wi-Fi only, while charging, while battery is high, while reception is good, etc). The solution to inconvenient background syncing IMO isn't opening the floodgates to everyone running their own daemons and sucking down battery power like it's their last day on Earth. It's a valuable use case, but not a good reason to "loosen the grips" so to speak.
- krisdol 11y agoNightshift is nice, but I don't understand why CarPlay, Edu, Health are not just app updates. I don't see how they warrant a whole OS update when really it's just a few extra features added to existing apps (none of which I use or plan to use, unfortunately). I guess it's just convention by this point. Feature updates across the board periodically, then security updates in between
- marcelluspye 11y agoI would guess it's because they want to force OS updates on users, in order to push for a more homogeneous ecosystem.
- TillE 11y agoThe Education stuff seems to require OS modifications to support multiple accounts. The rest is probably marketing ("hey, look at these new features of apps you probably don't regularly use").
- dangoor 11y agoThere are rumors of new devices coming in the March timeframe (iPad Air 3, new 4-inch iPhone). I wonder if 9.3 is also going to be the release that adds support for those new devices.
- sivanmz 11y agoI wish something was done about rotation lock for reading in bed. Activating it from Control Center, which itself changes orientation, is maddening.
- sawwit 11y agoAnd they should employ the developer of the SwipeSelection tweak and build it into iOS: https://youtu.be/OD_g5szHGWo?t=79 https://youtu.be/OD_g5szHGWo?t=79
- sisk 11y agoFor what it's worth, they already have something similar (for 3D-touch enabled models). Surprisingly, few 6S owners I know are aware of this feature. http://9to5mac.com/2015/09/23/best-iphone-6s-feature-3d-touch/ http://9to5mac.com/2015/09/23/best-iphone-6s-feature-3d-touc...
- ColinDabritz 11y agoThis feature applies to other models, but without 3D-Touch it is activated with a two-finger scroll across the keyboard area. Very handy. http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/06/11/first-look-ios-9s-new-cursor-controlling-gesture-keyboard-on-ipad http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/06/11/first-look-ios-9s-...
- cthalupa 11y agoYou can swipe up from the bottom of the screen, and on the menu there enable the orientation lock.
- avoutthere 11y agoIt would be nice to be able to import data from my Fitbit into the Health app. I carry my Fitbit Zip all the time, but rarely do I run with my iPhone.
- pat2man 11y agoFitbit has refused to export its data to HealthKit, nothing Apple can do about it.
- jrowley 11y agoThere are 3rd party apps that can do this for you, e.g. for $3 Sync Solver for fitbit: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sync-solver-for-fitbit/id935306292?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sync-solver-for-fitbit/id935...
- kevinSuttle 11y agoThis is an interesting beta. I've not seen one that had an accompanying device configuration profile.
- pilif 11y agoIt's just a much easier way to get the beta installed which doesn't require iTunes. Just open the profile on your device and next time you check for updates in the settings, the beta will be offered to update to.
- jedberg 11y agoDo you still have to have a developer account to get the profile file? Or is it publicly accessible? I was the beta to try out flux (or whatever they call it) but I don't write apps so there is no point in spending the $99 just for that.
- pilif 11y agoIn the release notes they state that the device still needs to be registered. Mine were, so I can't tell you whether this really still is required.
- BuckRogers 11y agoWhile blue light has the most impact, it's all light that has this effect. For anyone interested, I'd recommend reading this concise 4 page study on the subject.[0] The synopsis is that there's no substitute for shutting off screens 1-2 hours before bedtime. This coming from someone who not only uses f.lux but sometimes when needing to use the computer late, will adorn an old pair of sunglasses to further cut down on light from 3 monitors. [0]https://www.gwern.net/docs/melatonin/2012-wood.pdf https://www.gwern.net/docs/melatonin/2012-wood.pdf
- stcredzero 11y agoAlso, I've looked at f.lux'd screens set to the reddest possible setting through a 470nm narrow band filter. There's still light at the worst color band which gets through. If you are exposing yourself to light over an extended period of time, it doesn't take much to suppress melatonin secretion. (One study found suppression at levels low as 0.5 lumen or lux -- one of those two. Either way it's not much. About commensurate with the light from a brightly lit hall coming in through the gap under your door.)
- jacobolus 11y agoThe reddest possible setting for f.lux (almost?) entirely wipes out the blue channel, but the green primary on LCDs is also going to cause some effect. If you want you can turn f.lux into "darkroom" modes, which inverts the display and uses only the red channel.
- stcredzero 11y agoExactly. The "channels" don't emit pure light of a single frequency. There is a curve. https://www.ecse.rpi.edu/~schubert/Light-Emitting-Diodes-dot-org/chap12/F12-16%20RGB%20emission%20spectrum.jpg https://www.ecse.rpi.edu/~schubert/Light-Emitting-Diodes-dot...
- jacobolus 11y agoThe light coming from LCD displays is different than single-color LEDs; that picture you linked isn’t a good representation of your phone/laptop. LCD displays use a “white” LED backlight (= blue LED + broader-spectrum yellow phosphor), and the various subpixels have band-pass color filters for particular wavelengths. Here’s a sketch of the basic idea: https://dotcolordotcom.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/filter-spectrum.jpg?w=1118&h=640 https://dotcolordotcom.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/filter-sp... My quick google image search isn’t turning up any particularly good SPD graphs of real recent LCDs, but if you poke around you can surely find some.
- CodeWriter23 11y agoNo CarPlay support for Waze ಠ_ಠ
- mapmap 11y agoWaze is owned by Google which is pushing their own Android Auto competitor to CarPlay.
- mrpippy 11y agoThat is true, however the only 3rd party apps allowed on CarPlay right now are music apps (using a very basic hierarchical/tree API). The lack of CarPlay support isn't Google/Waze's fault. It's also worth noting that Android Auto only allows 3rd party apps that do music and messaging. No 3rd party navigation apps, not even Waze.
- denzil_correa 11y agoGood to see Notes with a lock (fingerprint). It would be great if Apple decided to add fingerprint app locks as a feature for any app that one may want.
- adanto6840 11y agoFairly sure that this is indeed doable for an app developer. I use 1Password on OSX and multiple iOS devices and many of my passwords can be unlocked with my fingerprint instead of requiring my main & lengthy master password. IIRC it does require the master password once, perhaps each boot, but after that I'm able to unlock with only fingerprint (this is customizable globally or on a per-password basis pretty sure).
- jdeibele 11y agoStill waiting for the ability to close a browser tab by swiping. AFAIK, the fastest way to close a tab is to push on the screen to get Safari's bar on the bottom, push on the multiple tabs, then swipe right to left or click the X on the tab I want to close. On my mac it's Command-W. Which is a lot easier and probably why I prefer to browse a lot on it.
- MBCook 11y agoWhat direction would you have someone swipe? From the left is "go back to previous page", from the right is "go to next page" or "open side app on iPad", from the bottom is control center, and from the top is notification center. There is no where left to swipe from.
- chinathrow 11y agoSwipe to the right?
- pilif 11y agoAs a side note: It's really cool that you can finally update to the beta directly from the device by just installing the configuration profile offered on the SDK download page. No more connecting to iTunes. Let's hope they keep that trend for when the iOS 10 betas start
- larrik 11y agoI hope they finally fix the bug where the ipod player will start playing a song from the middle (even though it says its at the beginning). It's happened to both me and my wife on every iOS9 version so far.
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- andrewbarba 11y agoThis is unusual for Apple to release this many features in a point update. If I had to guess, I think this will launch with the rumored 4" iPhone around late February or March
- applecore 11y agoIt's 2016 and Notes still has the questionable skeuomorphic design with a textured "paper-like" background and gratuitous text shadows.
- enginn 11y agoMy clipboard can still be gleaned with an arbitrary API call in other apps. Please leave my clipboard alone in other apps. They have no business being able to grab it without my permission
- xxdesmus 11y agoSo they blatantly copied Flux after denying their app. Well played Apple.
- rplittle 11y agoNight Shift - about time.
- roymurdock 11y agoI'm split on how I feel about Apple's continuing efforts to make iPad education a thing: https://www.apple.com/education/preview/ https://www.apple.com/education/preview/ I have sweet memories of spending many a rainy day in the computer lab during recess on the candy-colored imacs, creating art on kidpix, putting together a crappy HTML site that would link to a friend's crappy HTML site, and playing nanosaur, bugdom, and the oregon trail. Computer education is huge, but I'm not sure if iPads are the right/necessary stepping stone into using an actual computer. They seem more like entertainment consumption devices than creation driving devices where things get messy and frustrating and force you to fool around to fix them, learning in the process. I've never owned one and I don't have any insight into how much good vs. harm (distraction) they do in the classroom. Anyone have any anecdotes or thoughts to share on Apple's continuing push into the classroom w/ the iPad?
- marpstar 11y agoDo you really think we're going to continue into the future using only paper books? Visual aids were immensely helpful for me in school. Computers are the ultimate visual aid, and tablets are just mobile computers, except for the fact that they actually allow you to manipulate the UI directly with your fingers, making the learning curve significantly lower. My two year old can work an iPad, but has no idea what a mouse or keyboard is. It's crazy when you watch a child that young manipulating technology like they know what they're doing (turn on, swipe open, find YouTube Kids app, watch Thomas the Train, press home button when done to find a new app). To think that this can't be applied to educating children of any age seems a bit naive.
- brazzledazzle 11y agoI've seen several two year olds use a mouse and keyboard (well, the arrow keys anyway) just fine. They're not cats. I do think it's a bit easier for them to use a touch screen but it's by no means rocket science to use a mouse and keyboard.
- Nullabillity 11y ago> My two year old can work an iPad, but has no idea what a mouse or keyboard is. Because you have given them access to an iPad, but not a (real) computer?
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- jhh 11y agoI sure hope they improve on Apple Music. The API responses are so amazingly slow, and large parts of using the app are really bad.
- fabrika 11y agoiPhone screens look blueish in a warm light environment. I wish Apple would implement real-time dynamic white balance by using data from selfie cameras. So that screen white would blend with white phone enclosure the same way they try to blend black with black.
- fowl2 11y agoHolly crap I want 90% of those "Education Only" features in an enterprise environment. Managing AppleIDs, shared iPads and training scenarios are even worse when dealing with adults. Oh and could they spare a thought for managing devices in remote locations? Oh you've forgotten your AppleID so now you can't update the MDM client and have been disconnected from Exchange? Too bad all we can do is waste 30 minutes on the phone talking you through it. Even basic things like allowing iOS updates over 4G (as well as forcing/postponing updates) would make such a big difference. Too bad I'm sure it'll be 2018 before half of the features make it to businesses in the US, then 2019 for the rest of the world. :/
- gardano 11y agoTotal speculation on my part, but my first thought was that the education market would be accomplished by hosting a MacOSX Server instance to support multiple IDs. I'm most undoubtedly wrong on this, but that was my first instinct, anyway.
- fowl2 11y agoIt'll all be iCloud. Caching server I'm kinda surprised they haven't done P2P content distribution. or at least sold caching servers 'Appliance'-style.
- m_eiman 11y agoCaching server I'm kinda surprised they haven't done P2P content distribution. or at least sold caching servers 'Appliance'-style. OSX Server has iCloud caching, that caches both updates and user data.
- lode 11y agoThe education preview [0] looks like the first step toward supporting multiple user profiles per iPad. iPhones typically are one-person devices (on Android you can switch users, I've never tried it though), but iPads are often shared. I've seen lots of families where there's one iPad shared between the whole family. The kids are constantly logging in and out of their Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/E-mail accounts. The fact that they have to log in and out often usually leads to them using very weak passwords. I hope this feature makes its way to general consumption. [0]https://www.apple.com/education/preview/ https://www.apple.com/education/preview/
- devillius 11y agoMan look at that notes app which can be locked with the password being displayed on the locked screen
- afro88 11y agoIt's not the locked screen, but the "create a locked note" screen
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- czr80 11y agoThis is a point release.
- tim333 11y agoGuess I'll be getting this soon with Apples new "Install now or have us nag you daily till you do" policy. Not quite sure of the virtues of that.
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- caskance 11y agoTheir wording implies that they are encouraging people to use the Notes app as a password manager. That's super weird.
- culturestate 11y agoIt's more like an acknowledgement that many, many users already do this.
- stephenitis 11y agocarplay looks like the worst apple feature/product to come out in 9.3. (it feels like they are lending out their UX to the whims of <insert car manufacturer>'s buttons and opening up compatibility issues. http://imgur.com/b3OTMJO http://imgur.com/b3OTMJO Now available with 13 apps, in 36 brands of cars, 3 different brands of aftermarket solutions on 7 different models of iPhones. Compatibility with all the things means the experience is going to vary widely across the board.
- MBCook 11y agoCarPlay isn't new, and it's head-and-shoulders better than the OEM environment on my car. It's got some bugs (9.2 seems to have introduced one where it messes up system audio playback at times), but interface wise it works very well. Car manufacturers can't mess with it. Apple pre-maps certain buttons and supports a scroll wheel, but they can't customize it at all, Apple has control.
- traviswingo 11y ago"Night Shift" is completely ripping off f.lux...
- chdir 11y ago> A better experience every day. And night. Finally I gave in & upgraded to iOS 9.x (on iPad 4). Suddenly Safari has started freezing on lightweight simple websites. Is that better experience part of "planned obsolescence" ? It's more or less the same story with any mobile device after 2-3 years.
- newman314 11y agoDoes anyone know how to switch from a 9.2 beta to a 9.3 beta? I looked around and didn't see any instructions.
- gurkendoktor 11y agoYou can alt-click not only the Restore button in iTunes, but also the Update button - and then choose an arbitrary .ipsw file. Of course, things may still go wrong, betas being betas :)
- pjmlp 11y agoAny developer info already published?
- golergka 11y agoThe most important thing that I hoped to see was a simple "we fixed Apple Music". Honestly, I've used iTunes for music for years, paid for iTunes Match before, pay for Apple Music now, so I'm nothing if not a loyal customer — but this app is just a complete clusterfuck. Dear Apple, it's time to stop putting out new features. Instead, bring back the "it just works" again.
- archlight 11y agoAgree. I am still having difficult times to locate music i favored. after i switched off data for apple music, it didn't warn me when I start it and i thought it is down. i switched back to spotify now
- OopsCriticality 11y agoI wonder if this Night Shift feature has anything to do with the rumors of Apple switching to OLED displays for future phones. Reducing the amount of blue light emitted dusk to dawn would help extend the overall life of the panels.