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iOS 16
- inopinatus 4y agoThe lock screen is on track to getting its own cpu, operating system, and app store. If you think I'm joking, note that the Touch Bar uses a T1 running an iOS variant (ISTR suggestions it's a stripped-down watchOS)
- simonklitj 4y agoI’d welcome it if it meant less battery drain with all the added Lock Screen stuff!
- lukeholder 4y agoAlso if it got an Always On Display like the watch - it would be awesome.
- mwarkentin 4y agoRumor is this is coming with the next phone.
- HappyTypist 4y agoThe T1 runs an iOS variant because Apple understands that if you can re-use security primitives (Secure Encave from IOS), you have less surface area for attacks and you have a more secure product. There is absolutely no need for a separate SoC for the lock screen, when the Apple SoC already features high-efficiency cores.
- brody_hamer 4y agoThose dictation improvements look really solid.
- crossroadsguy 4y ago> Reimagined Lock Screen Welcome to such a lock screen, Apple. Better late than never. Oh, did they add the ™ sign? > Focus First, I hoped in futility it would be renamed to something that actually makes sense - but that won’t give that “Only on iOS Devices™ aura”, would it? Did they finally add ability to control notifications for the two SIMs differently, or not yet? (And no, please don’t effing ask me why would I ever need that) and since it’s not mentioned on the homepage I doubt it. That’s the only feature I’ve been waiting for at least two releases and that’s the only reason I do not I do use my dual iPhone as a mono SIM phone. I honestly don’t think iPhone or iOS are anything great, it’s just that the competition is shitty in this duopoly - one of them wants to track when you breathe, when you sneeze, when you move, when you stop… and the other keeps devices and OS and features hostage!
- rstupek 4y agoDoes Apple sell a multi-sim device? It seems like a fairly small market so it's understandable they're not spending resources on it
- kolbusa 4y agoThey support esim.
- shuckles 4y agoThey support multiple SIM cards through eSIMs. China region iPhones support two physical SIMs with a dual sided SIM card tray.
- hackmiester 4y agoYou are one of the lucky ones to learn today just how good dual SIM can be. If you have an iPhone 10S or better, or a recent Pixel, install the Truphone app, grab a T-Mobile prepaid SIM, or try silent.link, and watch your main carrier’s dead zones vanish as the second carrier automatically fills in. And don’t ever worry about changing SIMs when you travel again.
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- noncoml 4y agoJust let me place my app icons anywhere I want and let spatial memory do its thing
- yieldcrv 4y agoI use the Clear Spaces app for that Basically this app and others like it give you invisible widgets of customizable sizes that push other app icons and widgets around them Its a silly workaround thats dumb enough to work and I never think about it again
- yieldcrv 4y ago> Live Captions Turn audio into text in real time and follow along more easily with conversations and media. Oh I cant wait for this! Finally! I hate getting voice text messages when I’m out!
- busymom0 4y agoVery good feature for accessibility users like deaf people. I personally know someone who would benefit from this.
- dereg 4y agoI think one of the underrated things that Apple has done is has been to de-stigmatize accessibility technologies and make the value of accessibility obvious to both the impaired and non-impaired.
- Gigachad 4y agoI use this feature on audio calls all the time just because it catches the words that get ruined by compression or audio glitches.
- maxutility 4y agoI mentioned this in the iPadOS thread, but it bears repeating here: Of all the features mentioned, the one feature that I’m really excited for is the ability to mark text messages as unread. On the other hand, did it really have to take 15 years to get here?
- yellow_postit 4y agoLong are the feature backlogs. It took till 2009 to add copy and paste in iOS. I keep hoping for cross platform iMessage, but know the privacy value will unlikely ever win over the user semi-lock-in argument at Apple.
- systemvoltage 4y agoI can't think of any use cases for this, could you share? You mean once you get the message and you open it, it gets read (and sender sees that status), but you'd like to mark it as unread again? Why?
- cobythedog 4y agoYou've never read a message with the intention of responding at a later time? I do and if I don't flag it somehow (unread) I will easily forget about it.
- animal_spirits 4y agoThen what's the point of having read receipts? Just have them wait until you send them a message
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- lukevp 4y agoIt’s not for the receiver to keep them from knowing you read it, it’s to build a queue of messages you want to reply to (anything unread will be easily marked in the UI for later revisiting next time you get a text or open the app). In this case, marking it unread wouldn’t need to affect the read receipt in any way. Really the unread feature is an ad hoc reply reminder flag.
- Dramatize 4y agoBut can I remove the torch icon from the lock screen? I hate it so much.
- jrockway 4y agoI think my most-used iOS feature throughout the pandemic was flashlight mode. I like it on the lock screen :)
- snug 4y agoYou can set the sensitivity on it, I think i've only accidentally turned it on once since then
- firecall 4y agoCan you! I didnt know that! I'm always turning it on accidentally!
- jsz0 4y agoOtherwise known as the 'drain my battery' button.
- jesterson 4y agoSpot on! Hate it with all my heart
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- hddherman 4y agoSeems like it's _finally_ time to retire the 2016 iPhone SE. 6 years of active software support, not bad at all compared to the competition.
- captn3m0 4y agoAssuming a September 2022 release date, the 2016 SE would be a phone supported for 6.5 years. The 6S/6S Plus beats it at a 7year life (released Sep 2015). I sincerely hope that as we are getting to much faster chips (A15 is a beast) and not so many hardware dependent software features every year, these life cycles would improve.
- saimiam 4y agoI have had a 6S+ since Nov 2016 and I really don’t want to switch to a newer iPhone without TouchID. I wish they’d retained this on top of FaceID.
- alanwreath 4y agoAm I the only one sooo excited that we’re getting native support to pair the iPhone with your Mac as a webcam???!!! I know someone is getting sherlocked but I am loath to install an app on my phone and then on my Mac
- Gigachad 4y agoYeah that’s a nice one, I was testing some 3rd party solutions for this a few weeks ago and concluded they suck. Looking forward to this one.
- napolux 4y agoThat's only a way to burn your battery faster. Go and buy a webcam. With 100$ you get maybe the best on the market. I have epoccam only for emergencies (like when with covid webcams were sold out)
- jhardy54 4y agoIs there somewhere I can read more about this? I was optimistic that using my phone as a camera while plugged into a charger might not hurt my battery much.
- Gigachad 4y agoIt’s generally just having your phone hot that degrades the battery. Try it out and feel your phone. If it doesn’t seem worryingly hot, it’s fine. I wouldn’t be worried about this at all unless you are in calls all day, and even then, it’s still likely a non issue. And then even if it is an issue, it’s pretty cheap to just replace the battery later. All this stressing over battery life is pointless.
- js2 4y agoStrong disagree. I bought the Logitech Brio 4K and it was a complete waste of money. Even the best webcams are terrible compared to the iPhone cameras, front or rear. On top of that the camera is glitchy and the angle from on top of my 30” monitor looks terrible. EpocCam is way better. The quality is better. It never glitches. And I have much more flexible placement of my phone. You can connect to the phone over either lighting or wireless. If you do it via lightning then you don’t burn the battery at all.
- kemitchell 4y agoBut will "system data" use less than 4.5 gigs on my 6S?
- b15h0p 4y agoIirc iOS 16 requires at least an iPhone 8.
- MagnumOpus 4y agoIt won't because your phone will no longer be supported by Apple with updates.
- 5cott0 4y agoNew game controller support. https://9to5mac.com/2022/06/06/ios-16-game-controllers-nintendos-joy-cons/ https://9to5mac.com/2022/06/06/ios-16-game-controllers-ninte...
- steve_adams_86 4y agoOh my god, yes! Nintendo pro controller support. I honestly didn’t think it would happen. Ha, I will use this feature all of maybe a few hours but for some reason I’m elated to see this.
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- hardwaresofton 4y agoI'm by no means an Apple fanboy, and the presentation[0] had me slack-jawed. This is a serious shot across the bow for other companies who are vying for do-everything-be-everywhere dominance (basically, Google). I can only assume that product design/vision people at Google are watching this and absolutely shitting their pants (if I'm over-blowing it please let let me know). Also, despite how absolutely customer beneficial almost every change looks, Apple (and other similar size companies) probably should be broken up. This is too much power, too many markets to dominate, too much synergy for one company to wield. They will never meet the current legal requirements for a monopoly, but this is definitely monopoly power on display. Apple is an existential threat to so many companies (Venmo, BNPL firms, activity trackers, news companies, traditional TV broadcasters) and they seemingly execute so well that I don't even know where to start. How can a BNPL firm compete with apple offering the same service at no extra charge? Just the disappearance of easy money has crashed their valuations already. They managed to describe AI/ML in an actual meaningful way halfway through the presentation. I'm impressed by that messaging in and of itself -- most of the time AI/ML is introduced as future porn/hand waves, Apple is engendering trust. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5D55G7Ejs8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5D55G7Ejs8
- vxNsr 4y agoI felt the same way watching some of the super cool things google is giving to pixel phone users at IO last month.
- Gigachad 4y agoI don't think you are overstating it. They have achieved massive amounts everywhere and swiftly wipe out entire companies with ease. But on the other hand, they deliver products that are simply much better than what they replace. Apple completely obsoleted Tile with AirTags, but the airtags work so much better and users are better off for having them. Are we really better off having competition for competitions sake rather than looking at what delivers the best outcome? Is there any value in preserving the business models of lesser products which are unable to compete on quality and features? Many of these businesses are on shaky ground anyway. BNPL companies are in a dire situation where almost every other financial institution such as banks, paypal, etc all copying their very easy to copy product.
- johnnypangs 4y ago> Weather. Tap forecast modules for details… Get hourly forecasts for the next 10 days Been waiting for this basic feature of the weather app.
- cgeier 4y agoMy experience with weather forecasting says that hourly forecasts more than ~50 hours (probably even less than that) in advance are so unreliable that they are completely useless.
- spike021 4y agoDeveloper-wise, I'm kind of stoked that they'll be integrating their Dark Sky acquisition into an internal API (I know it'll frustrate non-Apple platform users). I was just working on an app earlier this year for fun where I really wanted an easy to access, low-volume usage weather API in the same vein as using MapKit for mapping. Now they've announced WeatherKit, which sounds like it'll fulfill my needs if ever get back to working on my project.
- noitpmeder 4y agoI really do miss Dark Sky on my android device... :( Thankfully their website is still usable from a non-Apple browser!
- twobitshifter 4y agoDid anyone notice that the lockscreen clock is partially obscured by the background photo in many of the screenshots? What’s the idea behind doing this?
- bergenty 4y agoIt looks good and I agree.
- emaro 4y agoThe idea is, that the subject of the photo "pops" (in the words of Apple). Edit: and I think, a part is just "because we can", now that photos have the required depth information.
- vicda 4y agoMakes the foreground pop out at you just a little bit more. It's a cool feature, might as well showcase it.
- s-xyz 4y agoWow, this is a lot of changes. Haven’t been impressed by an iOS update for a long time now, this is different.
- jl6 4y agoI like that Apple cares somewhat about photo metadata (captions, keywords), but what is the endgame for managing this when you exceed device/iCloud capacity? I have more than 2TB of photos and videos and the only way I can manage this is by extracting the photos and videos from the device into a non-Apple solution. The metadata is not embedded into the files. It feels destined to be lost, which is unacceptable for the amount of time and effort put in.
- nicbou 4y agoClouds have an alarming tendency to use your data (submitted or generated) as an hostage to keep you on that platform. This become very apparent once you try to break out and can’t easily extract it.
- Gigachad 4y agoThis isn’t allowed with GDPR. If you do a dump of your google account it provides all the media data/comments/etc as a json file next to the image.
- nicbou 4y agoYep but your GDPR exports are still incomplete with many of the big services. GDPR is a brilliant regulation but it has no teeth.
- lwhi 4y agoI guess Apple is aware that by caring about photo metadata, they'll increase user retention for their cloud services. Apple is always mendaciously aware of its own strategic business objectives. Any set of user-positive functionality is underlaid with a far more strategically important business benefit. The genius of this setup, is that when Apple evangelists go to war, they have a clear script to fight with .. and the (often darker) business aims can be left in the shade.
- dereg 4y agoI'm in the same boat as you. Purchase an Apple One subscription, it'll give you another 2TB. I'm hoping Apple offers higher tiers before I use that all up.
- WA 4y agoThere is one thing critically missing from a privacy perspective: fine grained permissions for Contacts. It is all or nothing. All or nothing means, Facebook gets all my Contacts data if I enable the permission in WhatsApp. Including birthdays, notes, profile photos, email addresses etc. iOS should have: - Contact groups - Share only individual contacts - Share only phone number and first name or initials or so - Mark some contact information as "never share those" - Make apps believe they have full access Inbefore: don’t allow shady companies access to my Contacts. Yeah, reality is more nuanced than that. And this is not about me, but people storing all kinds of stuff about me in their Contacts and uploading it to Facebook.
- the_other 4y agoKnee-jerk ramble ahead... I didn't watch the keynote, I just scanned the first page of hype on the website. The _only_ think I want is multiple points on my maps. I don't even have iOS15 yet and see nothing compelling about this release. I've become "too old for this stuff"... and also too afraid of behemoth companies owning my life. Can we have the old Apple back, please? Their tools were appealing, fun to use and stayed out of your way. Today's Apple looks slimy, creepy and overwhelming. And I actually trust them more than others to live up to the privacy and care promises they make.. they seem to do better than others. I just don't want them doing it in the first place.
- Saint_Genet 4y agoI wonder how that setting up the lock screen flow is gonna look with my less than photogénique camera roll
- joker99 4y agoWhat I would love to see in the Focus feature: have the ability to automatically silence work related apps (Jira, Slack, my Work email account, confluence...) outside of work hours. Automatically. Without enabling another focus setting
- hdjjhhvvhga 4y ago> And you can mark a message as unread if you can’t respond in the moment and want to come back to it later. I find it funny and sad at the same time that we ourselves have created such a social pressure for synchronous communication that we prefer to use a form of lying rather than change the status quo and learn people to accept the fact that reading a message does not mean one has to reply immediately, and that one is not rude or disrespectful if they reply later.[0] [0] Unless you are dating and playing one of those status games trying to prove the other person cares more.
- heretogetout 4y agoDoes this really undo read receipts? I thought it was like marking emails as unread in Gmail.