Anyone know if Siri will still only respond when plugged in? I wish it were an option to turn on at all time. I realize battery would be drained considerably.
Apple announces iOS 10
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#122Looks like Apple is doubling down on at least two features that really seem like duds -- 3D Touch (which as far as I can tell nobody even knows exists), and Siri (which everyone raves about but nobody uses for anything). I'd love to see UX improvements around minor inconveniences of the iOS experience: - what the hell the volume button does in different contexts (sometimes it changes the ringer, other times the in-ap…
How about this one. If I tell Siri to call someone and the phone is t up to my ear put the call on speaker.
You can actually say "Hey Siri call Jennifer with the speaker on" or "...call Jennifer on speaker".
Buy yes, it makes total sense to do it automatically if not on the ear. The logic seems simple enough to program.
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Really? I felt the presentation of iMessage was embarrassingly trying to seem hip. The only thing I didn't find to be annoying bloat was the ability to tap and "like" a message. Really cuts down on messages like "great" and "ok." Otherwise it honestly felt like Yahoo Messenger from 2005 in level of bloat, where you could "buzz" people and shake their windows. People use things that aren't iMessage, not because of fea…
I dunno, I think my parents will like it. One of the great features of snapchat is the ability to caption images with stickers and text. It's a lot of fun.
One of the other great features is being able to send a snap to someone on an Android device.
Re: Apple announces iOS 10
#124Anyone know if Siri will still only respond when plugged in? I wish it were an option to turn on at all time. I realize battery would be drained considerably.
It works every time, so long you are not on "Low Power Mode".
Re: Apple announces iOS 10
#125Looks like Apple is doubling down on at least two features that really seem like duds -- 3D Touch (which as far as I can tell nobody even knows exists), and Siri (which everyone raves about but nobody uses for anything). I'd love to see UX improvements around minor inconveniences of the iOS experience: - what the hell the volume button does in different contexts (sometimes it changes the ringer, other times the in-ap…
> 3D Touch (which as far as I can tell nobody even knows exists)
I think people know it exists. The problem is that it doesn't do anything remotely useful, except for the iPhone keyboard cursor thing.
> Siri (which everyone raves about but nobody uses for anything).
I use it all the time (at least once a day) to add a reminder, set a timer, set an alarm, check sports scores (I don't really follow sports, so this will probably end after the Warriors' run), call someone (I do this rarely enough that I'm incredibly slow trying to figure out the Phone/Contact apps), or do a Google search. I would love some basic improvements to Siri UI, like sending my Google search straight to google.com instead of reading my entire query back to me first.
> what the hell the volume button does in different contexts
I've never had a problem with this. Another commenter already covered it, but it's extremely predictable and fairly obvious.
> turn off buzzing and booping when I plug in a charger, and maybe some sort of wireless charging thing if the technology is where it needs to be yet
Charging cues have never bothered me in the slightest, but I see no reason not to have a setting for it. Wireless charging would be absolutely huge. It's probably my number one feature request. I'd probably pay for a brand new 6s if all they added was wireless charging. Heck, I don't even need it to be fast, just let me set my phone down at my office desk and bedside table and I'll be happy.
> stop showing album art on the lock screen (or make it optional)
Again, this is something I've never even thought about, but it's hard to argue against making it optional.
> more uniformity on how lock screen notifications are acknowledged and dismissed -- sometimes there's an 'x' in the swipe-over, sometimes actions, sometimes just pressing the notification does something
There's no reason not to fix this.
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Just like he said, that involves touching the screen and opening a menu. There's no predictable way to immediately silence your phone.
You can predictably silence it before it happens with the above method. Just drag the "music" volume to zero.
I'm not sure what solution they're looking for. A single universal volume control where if you turn up a video it means your ringer is now on full blast? 6 volume buttons on the side of your phone to adjust them each individually?
Android's system of adjusting media volume when media is playing and ringer volume when it isn't seems like a reasonably clean solution. It takes a single tap to expand to the three sliders.
Maybe a shortcut where where pressing volume up/down simultaneously mutes everything?
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I've been using macs for I guess a decade or so now and I still have no idea what the option key is for. When a keyboard shortcut is like ^+⌥+F6 I just mash buttons until it works. Why do they use a different symbol on the button than in the UI? I really have no desire to learn the seven different buttons in Mac OS and I wish application authors would stop using them so they could someday simplify the keyboard. I don…
I feel like your complaint is a little silly. ⌘ is Command and is printed right on the keyboard, Shift is an up arrow, and ^ is instantly recognizable as Control if you've used a Unix ever. The only one that's really strange is ⌥, which by elimination is Option.
See it as a switch in a railway track: something that gives you an option as to where to go.
That is way easier to remember than "Swedish Campground", which we only got because there otherwise would be too many apples on the screen (http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Swedish_Campgroun...; the Apple 2 had 'closed Apple' and 'open Apple'. See http://www.macworld.com/article/2867994/think-retro-open-app...)
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> - turn off buzzing and booping when I plug in a charger, and maybe some sort of wireless charging thing if the technology is where it needs to be yet Does setting it to mute not work? My iPad 3 makes the noise on plug and unplug exactly when it is not muted.
Still buzzes when it's on mute; in a quiet room at night that's still more than I want. If they just made it configurable like other device sounds I would be more than satisfied.
Huh—my iPad doesn't buzz. I guess it's (a) an iPhone thing, (b) a new thing, or (c) a bug with which I am lucky to be afflicted.
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3D Touch is to iOS as the Option key is to macOS. Hold down the Option key and click on Airport or volume control to see what I mean in macOS. It gives you more information, and the information it provides is information you didn't necessarily need to have without holding down the Option key. In airport, with the option key held, you see options to generate a wireless diagnostics report. Without the option key held,…
I've been using macs for I guess a decade or so now and I still have no idea what the option key is for. When a keyboard shortcut is like ^+⌥+F6 I just mash buttons until it works. Why do they use a different symbol on the button than in the UI? I really have no desire to learn the seven different buttons in Mac OS and I wish application authors would stop using them so they could someday simplify the keyboard. I don…
Thought: _hmm there's a business opportunity of lemonade stand scale here_.
Sure enough: https://www.amazon.com/WhatKeys-Keyboard-Shortcut-Stickers-W...
$8 would have been instant click. I program for a living on a Mac and still can't remember the damn 'option' symbol in shortcuts.
$20...? Hmmm. Not so much. Where's that silver sharpie...
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Seven? What? There's Control, Option/Alt, Command, and Shift. Four modifier keys. This is the same set you have on other OSes, except there, Command is called Windows Key or Super. Yes, Apple has symbols as abbreviations for Control, Command, Option, and Shift. Yes, Option is also called Alt. But it's not really all that complicated.
The vast majority of Windows desktop keyboards do not have a fn key.
But all laptops do.