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Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by nrjames »

My guess is that the privacy/tracking on Safari is going to be turned on for all apps. iOS will soon keep track, at the OS level, of whether apps are allowed to access your Advertising ID. If you say no, then ad-based apps simply will not be able to access your advertising ID and/or SKAdNetwork will be used at the system level to anonymize you as a user. Not sure what they will do with other tracking (like analytics). https://developer.apple.com/documentation/storekit/skadnetwo...

Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by addicted »

another-cuppa wrote: post #36
kbos87 wrote: post #20

“Apple believes privacy is a fundamental human right, which is why iOS has always been designed with built-in encryption, on-device intelligence, and other tools that let you share what you want on your terms.” It isn’t often that you see any company the size of Apple take that strong of a stance. Privacy is their best feature and it seems like they are doubling down.

It is a really interesting marketing move (and don't delude yourself, this is a marketing move). To market a feature that Google can't possibly compete with.

If this is a marketing move, then any feature could be described as a marketing move.

For example, how is Apple's emphasis on privacy, with the additional features they have added to push for it, different from their emphasis on backing up when they introduced Time Machine? I think that the Time Machine introduction was as much of a marketing move, at which point you've broadened the definition of the phrase where it doesn't really mean anything.

Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by decebalus1 »

> “Apple believes privacy is a fundamental human right, which is why iOS has always been designed with built-in encryption, on-device intelligence, and other tools that let you share what you want on your terms.”

Does that also apply to PRISM? I mean can I share with the NSA only what I want on my own terms?

Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by lotsofpulp »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #11
36bydesign wrote: post #4

For iCloud Drive, we should be able to manage which files are saved locally and which aren’t. As is, documents can be manually downloaded but there’s no way to reverse it and have the given documents stored back only in the cloud (freeing up local storage). Then magically a week or more later stuff is uploaded and no longer stored locally. It feels fickle and frustrating.

This is what I'm waiting for to move wholesale from Dropbox to iCloud Drive, some sort of file attribute that can be sent to say "only store in cloud, keep a local stub" or "ensure always locally cached/pinned locally". Would also love to see iCloud be a Time Machine backup target.

I'm waiting for the ability to share folders.

Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by radicaldreamer »

randomdata wrote: post #98
radicaldreamer wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is an iPhone Time Capsule... it's called iTunes and it has support full, encrypted device backups via home Wifi for years...

"I don't want to touch iTunes and do computer backup, that is like a very geeky way do it"

Oops :(

Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by thijsvandien »

saagarjha wrote: post #27
ivraatiems wrote: post #13

I'm still on iOS 10 on my iPhone SE. Why should I upgrade? Even if there was a convincing reason to, I'm afraid performance will tank, as it often does on older iPhones getting their last update.

iOS 12 will likely not be iPhone SE's last update, since iPhone 5S got the update this year. And iOS 12 specifically focuses on performance for older devices.

Until a couple of days ago, the SE was still on sale directly from Apple. I expect many more major updates to come.

Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by X-Istence »

speg wrote: post #71
babl-yc wrote: post #58

This the most stable iOS beta I've ever used. It's exciting to see Apple focus on quality, even if the marketing page doesn't end up as flashy.

Already noticing small but appreciated performance improvements. Share sheet and app switching both came up noticeably quicker. Am loving shortcuts, looks like they didn't dumb it down. There's even an SSH action.

Which app is providing the SSH action?

Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by Apocryphon »

h1srf wrote: post #95
pfranz wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a 6s. iOS 11 was pretty annoying and my battery drained noticeably quicker--I was bummed with the upgrade but I think I wanted it for AirPods support. Also I remember the "instant camera" was a feature demoed when the phone was first released and iOS 11 took 5-10 seconds to bring up the camera. I've been using the 12 beta for months and it immediately fixed those things. I'm not sure if the camera is as snappy…

I have a 6s that's still on 10. Reading this and other comments make me think that maybe 12 won't be too bad. There's a few apps out there that I use that don't work with 10 anymore and so this may be the time for me to upgrade.

I'm pretty curious about how 12 compares to 10 as well. Seems like 11 was definitely worse on performance, but might be too early to compare 12 to earlier versions.

Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by OkGoDoIt »

ivraatiems wrote: post #13

I'm still on iOS 10 on my iPhone SE. Why should I upgrade? Even if there was a convincing reason to, I'm afraid performance will tank, as it often does on older iPhones getting their last update.

I’ve been running the beta on my SE and my main complaint is much of the UI seems optimized for the newer, larger screens. So expect additional scrolling, etc (even with the os text size set to minimum). Feels kinda like how Gmail/Google keeps adding extra padding and reducing useful screen estate.
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