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iOS 14 is available today

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Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by somehnguy »

mkskm wrote: post #52
applecore wrote: post #10

I'm surprised that AirPods didn't support automatic device switching until now. I assumed a lot of people with AirPods would want to switch the audio seamlessly between their iPhone and an iPad or Mac. Any idea why it took so long to ship this feature?

I am really looking forward to this feature. Maybe I'm alone in this but I have constant connection issues switching between my Mac and phone when using AirPods (especially frustrating when answering calls).

You're definitely not alone. Switching my airpods from phone to laptop is always a frustratingly long process. First have to select my airpods in the audio list, wait 15 seconds until my airpods make a boop noise. They're not connected yet though, my mac will switch back to internal audio almost immediately. Need to repeat the process again before they will actually connect.

At least going the other way I only have to select the airpods once in the phones bluetooth device list.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by mkskm »

snazz wrote: post #43
thedanbob wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the first iOS release where I decided I wasn't going to update immediately. I'm really looking forward to some of the new features but I'm tired of dealing with Apple's day-one bugs.

And this is the first iOS release where I decided to get the beta on my primary device—I haven’t noticed any significant bugs or regressions. While it’s a perfectly reasonable decision to wait a bit, this has been the most stable beta I’ve used in years.

Have they fixed the regression with background apps being aggressively killed introduced in iOS 13.2? I still run into it daily even on iOS 13.7 with e.g. Yelp and Google Maps.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by tarikozket »

seaghost wrote: post #58
t0mbstone wrote: post #57

I'm not touching that update with a 10 foot pole. Not until it's been live for at least a week, and developers have had a chance to actually update their apps for it! Honestly, that's just good policy on all Apple updates lately. It seems that more and more of them have been plagued with issues and are trailed by hotfixes. I've learned to just wait a while. Other people can be the test guinea pigs!

I’m using developer beta since the first release 0 issues both system and app wise.

same here.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by ajconway »

tyrankh wrote: post #41

https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-13/features/ new redirects to https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-14/features/ , which seems like an unnecessary hacky way to get your SEO up. Separately: is it just me or has Apple lost its innovative edge? Widgets and app drawer, that's the huge new update? Android has had these for, like, 5+ years. Not that android has had anything super exciting lately, either. Maybe phone OSes have kind o…

Apple continues to invest in the user experience and potential privacy. Unlike Android, the features that require data processing and ML are not offset into the cloud. This means that if Apple finally moves to encrypting the iCloud storage, users won't loose semantic search over their photo library, health data, and other similar features.

(I particularly like the new option to pre-select the photos that you want an app to see, rather than giving complete access to my photo library)

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Post by ddoice »

threeseed wrote: post #51
Teckla wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As long as you could approve or reject push notifications on a site by site basis, what is the problem here?

Because the majority of people don't know how to adjust app notifications. And the rest of us don't want to adjust it for every single rogue web site. Apple vets apps for their use of push notifications and will warn/ban them if they use them excessively or for advertising purposes. Obviously they can't do the same for PWA.

Mixed feelings here, as a developer I would love to send push to iOS, as a user I agree with you, every time I check my parent's android I have to spend a lot of time revoking permissions from websites.

On android these notifications are abused to send shitty content, maybe a change at the OS level to warn the user in a more prominent way? Like these modals that won't allow you click until X secs have passed.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by mumblerino »

vxNsr wrote: post #7
mumblerino wrote: post #6

In 10 years, this is the first time I installed a beta version. It suffered a couple of issues, but they’ve been ironed out in my case. I really love the new app drawer. My hundred barely-used apps are now neatly stowed there while I keep a single (Yes, one) Home Screen. Widgets are nice but from what I understand they’re updated only once every 5 minutes, which makes them a lot less useful.

I've always arranged my homescreen to be a single screen with folders for each category of app. makes it much easier to find things. I'm always befuddled when I see ppl with 30 pages of apps.

I gave up on folders altogether. I found that my most used apps are still prominently visible either in the drawer or in spotlight’s suggested apps. Before iOS 14 I had more than 14 folders.
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