The new default image/video codec that no other browser supports seems like it's going to be ... interesting. Of course they couldn't use VP9, just like USB-C - this is marginally better, and completely fucks over everyone developing outside the tiny Apple ecosystem.
iOS 11 reviewed
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Re: iOS 11 reviewed
#32Review is not thorough. One huge change in the control center is that the wifi “toggle” doesn’t toggle wifi off anymore (wait what?). It just disconnects from the current network and doesn’t reconnect for a minute or so. If you don’t want to be tracked by wifi APs it seems you have to force touch settings into wifi and disable the adapter from there. Huge step backwards IMHO.
Eh it sounds to me that this is a great quick fix for the "I'm slightly too far from the AP to have bandwidth but I'm still maintaining a connection" problem I have almost daily. Will make an obscure security concern you've identified slightly more difficult to deal with. If you don't prefer trade offs like this, Apple likely isn't the best digital provider for you.
You’re right it’s an excellent solution to that issue and sometimes it’s exactly what I want. I’m worried about the security aspect because a stock iphone is what you should get if you care about privacy and security yet the UI actively misleads you on the purpose of the toggle.
If they wanted a disconnect button they could have designed a new icon for it. Maybe a toast so that people understand what just happened.
I found this out the hard way because my phone kept trying to connect to the subway APs and aside from giving them a nice transit map I lost about 30% battery.
Re: iOS 11 reviewed
#33There is one thing I hope they that they fix in iOS, and that is to guide app-makers to understand bilingual users, I type a lot on both danish and english, and having to switch language in the keyboard for every conversation can get pretty tiresome. Luckily both iMessage and WhatsApp seems to support it now, so I hope they somehow can get other apps in on it. Telegram does not support this :/
I admit I'd never even considered that. I suppose the ideal is to remember the active keyboard language for different documents as well as chats, so most apps should be looking at this.
Re: iOS 11 reviewed
#34Review is not thorough. One huge change in the control center is that the wifi “toggle” doesn’t toggle wifi off anymore (wait what?). It just disconnects from the current network and doesn’t reconnect for a minute or so. If you don’t want to be tracked by wifi APs it seems you have to force touch settings into wifi and disable the adapter from there. Huge step backwards IMHO.
Yikes, this is a security issue.
Does airplane mode still turn off wifi and bluetooth?
Re: iOS 11 reviewed
#35> Practically speaking, do I need to be able to play phone games from 2009 on my 2017 iPhone? Not really. The problem is not that you can't play phone games from 2009 on your 2017 iPhone, tying 32b deprecation to a hardware revision would actually have been nice (regardless of the hardware still being able to run in 32b mode). But that's not what's happening, the problem is that you can't play phone games from 2009 o…
The problem is not that you can't play phone games from 2009 on your 2017 iPhone, tying 32b deprecation to a hardware revision would actually have been nice (regardless of the hardware still being able to run in 32b mode).
The latest processor doesn't support 32 bit code. All 64 bit phones can support the latest OS. Why should Apple waste time, resources, and space on the device to support 32 bit code?
Re: iOS 11 reviewed
#36Review is not thorough. One huge change in the control center is that the wifi “toggle” doesn’t toggle wifi off anymore (wait what?). It just disconnects from the current network and doesn’t reconnect for a minute or so. If you don’t want to be tracked by wifi APs it seems you have to force touch settings into wifi and disable the adapter from there. Huge step backwards IMHO.
I remember reading that iOS 11 also come with MAC address randoming so that you can't be tracked by wifi.
Re: iOS 11 reviewed
#37Review is not thorough. One huge change in the control center is that the wifi “toggle” doesn’t toggle wifi off anymore (wait what?). It just disconnects from the current network and doesn’t reconnect for a minute or so. If you don’t want to be tracked by wifi APs it seems you have to force touch settings into wifi and disable the adapter from there. Huge step backwards IMHO.
The same is true for the Bluetooth toggle. It just turns it off for any new connections.
That's pretty bad for a number of reasons.
Re: iOS 11 reviewed
#38Re: iOS 11 reviewed
#39Review is not thorough. One huge change in the control center is that the wifi “toggle” doesn’t toggle wifi off anymore (wait what?). It just disconnects from the current network and doesn’t reconnect for a minute or so. If you don’t want to be tracked by wifi APs it seems you have to force touch settings into wifi and disable the adapter from there. Huge step backwards IMHO.
Yikes, this is a security issue. Does airplane mode still turn off wifi and bluetooth?
It does. You can also see that the adapter is disabled (there is a stroke through the wifi icon then). It’s just the “I’ll quickly turn off wifi/bluetooth” that has gotten harder/misleading.
Re: iOS 11 reviewed
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
VPNs are configured in Settings->General. Any reason why that would need to be regularly toggled, out of interest?
I haven't used it in a while, but when I did, it wasn't very good at reconnecting after sleeping the device or switching networks.
OpenVPN's iOS app automatically reconnects from sleep.