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Re: Apple releases iOS 10.3

#51

I just updated and was greeted with an Analytics screen asking to send usage and other telemetry data back to Apple. The first option to opt in was in large text while the second option to opt out was in very small text. Is this new? I don't recall seeing this screen before.

It's been there for a few years (at least on major updates and new devices, might be first time they've asked on a minor update).

Re: Apple releases iOS 10.3

#52
Biggest change to me in this release is that iOS now switches language immediately with hardware keyboard rather than after the switcher animation ended.

This problem is not very noticable if you do not use non-Latin input method. However for some languages (Thai in my case), in iOS 10.2, it means you will have to wait a little moment until the language switcher faded out until you can type in the target language, otherwise it will still stuck at previous language. I'm really glad to see this fixed.

(Previously I workaround this problem by using Capslock, which seems to be able to make iOS go into latin input mode.)

Re: Apple releases iOS 10.3

#53

I've been running the beta for a few weeks now. The thing that stands out the most? They changed the filesystem, and I haven't noticed a thing - the upgrade time wasn't even significantly longer. If anything, the beta has been more stable than 10.2 releases. The fact they've pulled it off so seamlessly is pretty impressive. Heck, the majority of users won't have a clue that their filesystem has changed, and that's th…

As a counterpoint, my springboard has been sporadically crashing since I installed 10.3, and I have no idea why, but the FS change seems like an obvious culprit. Doubtful it will go away with the official release.

I've been on 10.3 beta and have had few crashes (fewer than since 9.x). It has been an amazingly stable beta experience for me (polar opposite from iOS5 beta which was unusable/dangerous)

Re: Apple releases iOS 10.3

#54
Backup first. Both my parents phones went to recovery mode. They have an iphone 5c and another old model.

Going to see if I can extract data. They didn't have itunes backups.

Re: Apple releases iOS 10.3

#55
post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a device that I unregistered from the beta's and it never picked up a newer version, I had to manually restore it.

I upgraded to beta 7 then it let me upgrade to 10.3. Since I was initially in the beta, I probably couldn't make the jump to the GM directly.

Sounds sane. Otherwise upgrade scripts would have to be exhaustive for beta1->GM, beta2->GM etc. So now there's 10.2->10.3 and beta7->10.3, much more manageable.

Re: Apple releases iOS 10.3

#59

I've been running the beta for a few weeks now. The thing that stands out the most? They changed the filesystem, and I haven't noticed a thing - the upgrade time wasn't even significantly longer. If anything, the beta has been more stable than 10.2 releases. The fact they've pulled it off so seamlessly is pretty impressive. Heck, the majority of users won't have a clue that their filesystem has changed, and that's th…

> the upgrade time wasn't even significantly longer

I wonder if it works like FileVault, where there's a notion of a "partially converted" volume and blocks are slowly converted as a background-idle task after the update completes.

Re: Apple releases iOS 10.3

#60

Night Shift is cool but I wish to have a quick shortcut to toggle it or disable for some apps (like f.lux). Any idea how to control Night Shift via AppleScript?

Notifications menu on the very top(need to scoll up a bit for the hidden toggle switch to appear).

Super easy and smooth way to toggle Nightshift: I have the multi-touch gesture to open the Notifications menu with two-finger swipe from the right edge. Then I scroll up and turn on/off Night Shift.

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