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Post by zacwest »

dylan604 wrote: post #250
zacwest wrote: post #242

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Even if zero app changes are required, you must still: 1. Download, extract, and run the new version of Xcode. Note: you cannot upload builds for production App Store with pre-GM builds. You _must_ use the GM or production Xcode. It's a 12 GB download, and extracting takes 20 minutes. Factor in about an hour here. Especially around when it's posted you can expect a very slow download. 2. Build, execute and validate t…

Thanks for that walk through. Again since I'm not an app dev, I have no insight into this process. Do certain vendors get pre-release access that smaller vendors do not? Does Twitter/Facebook/etc have to do the same thing you just described? If it was truly as bad as you are making it out to be, how in the world does the eco-system survive? There's no way Apple could expect to be able to handle reviewing every single…

I do not believe they distributed the GM build of Xcode to anybody early. This is the first time they've ever pulled "also tomorrow it's out" -- they usually give 1 week to get app submissions in.

I also believe that, right now, they're just rubber stamping all app reviews. They cannot handle this volume.

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Post by willis936 »

vxNsr wrote: post #207
wayneftw wrote: post #93

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I organize them by category and I can tap twice faster than you can swipe, type, tap. This way is easily faster if you have a reasonable number of apps. Typing to find things would only be faster if you had more than say 220 apps. Even if I have to tap, swipe, tap - that would be faster than swipe, type, tap.

Also this encourages you not to have more than 9 apps in a single category. I break this rule often, but I do try pretty hard not to.

Then you need multiple pages of apps. I keep 15 top apps in thumb hotspots and 11 folders in (mostly) more tucked away spots. One page, all apps. The apps in each folder are alphabetized. The folders definitely go into 3+ pages in some categories, but I often search if it feels like hunting down an app in a folder is more work.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by makecheck »

The “jiggle mode” for editing icons has always been a bit of a mess but it is definitely broken right now and I hope a fix is on deck for 14.0.1.

Try moving — well — anything between home-screen pages that have widgets: there is a good chance that many icons will be shuffled in an indecipherable order. And worse, it’s so easy to get too close to the edge of the screen and accidentally switch pages, which means when you try to move one little icon you might shatter the entire icon layout of two adjacent pages!!

(Also, I really loved being able to edit screens sanely in iTunes and I miss that. It was just easier to set up a few screens of phone icons using a mouse.)

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Post by sixstringtheory »

tzs wrote: post #211
filleokus wrote: post #11

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I just swipe down for Spotlight and use that as an app launcher, so I'll probably love the app drawer. I'm equally baffled by people doing it any other way :-) Do you organise your applications on your computer by category as well?

You can also do it by voice. Tell Siri to "open AppName" and it opens the app named AppName. It does have trouble with some apps, though. Authy does not work at all when pronounced the way I expect it to be pronounced ("auth" as in "authorize"). Siri just says that there is no app named "Offie". And no, I do not pronounce "th" anything at all like "ff". If I try pronouncing Authy as "oathy" is works maybe 1/4 to 1/3…

This post, parent and GP basically describe my evolution for organizing and launching apps.

Taking the time to manually organize all my apps just isn't worth it any more, especially after a few updates/restores exploded it all. Now, I keep the first home page clean with only the essential apps, and everything else is pushed off into the memory hole on the right with spotlight/siri wrangling it all for me.

Excited to see how this might improve with widgets and app library!

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Post by perardi »

avtar wrote: post #234
perardi wrote: post #223

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Not quite , but they are finally making the Phone notification a standard notification, and not a giant screaming blocking full-screen YOU WILL PAY ATTENTION NOW modal view. https://9to5mac.com/2020/06/22/ios-14-incoming-call-ui/ I always hated that. I hate phone calls, period, and I certainly don’t want that phone call to take over my entire phone.

I guess that's something :/ A friend of mine went through a horrible support experience with her Pixel 3 and that was enough for me to not want another Android phone after mine dies. > I hate phone calls, period We're kindred spirits. That's the only reason why I can't give up call screening.

Phone calls are rude. They are a Priority 0 interrupt that you must immediately deal with. Which has become extremely frustrating with the volume of spam calls on my 437 area code—to the extent I had to install a phone spam blocker app.

I have no idea why anyone thought it would be a good user experience to be typINCOMING CALL

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Post by sexpositivepriv »

giovannibajo1 wrote: post #176
hnarn wrote: post #120

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It’s a step in the right direction, but honestly, what’s really the point when all browsers are just wrappers around Safari anyway.

That’s a tech-centric view. For most people a browser is defined by its features like tab handling, account syncing, preferences, extensions, etc. Nobody cares about the HTML engine, only developers. The fact that it’s possible to change the default browser is an important user-level feature.

It is not remotely a tech centric view. People want things to work. Stuff doesn't work in Safari because it's missing features. User's also want to pay less. PWAs let companies skip the app store and therefore skip paying apple 30% of their transactions which means cheaper prices for users. If apple allowed other browser engines those engines would have PWA support.

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Post by dunnevens »

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'm one of those page-flipping people. I alternate between using Spotlight to launch and just flipping pages. For me, it's a form of spatial navigation. I couldn't tell you the exact number of pages I flip to get to a specific app, or the row&column of where an app's icon lives, but my sub-conscious somehow remembers. It's about as quick to launch, for me, as any other method.

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Post by snazz »

makecheck wrote: post #253

The “jiggle mode” for editing icons has always been a bit of a mess but it is definitely broken right now and I hope a fix is on deck for 14.0.1. Try moving — well — anything between home-screen pages that have widgets: there is a good chance that many icons will be shuffled in an indecipherable order. And worse, it’s so easy to get too close to the edge of the screen and accidentally switch pages, which means when y…

I can't confirm that issue (although I will say that jiggle mode is super finicky—I'm glad to be down to one home page screen with iOS 14). That said, may I suggest you try the home screen editor in Apple Configurator?

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Post by ghostpepper »

AnonHP wrote: post #228

One of my favorite new features in iOS 14 is an accessibility setting that allows a double tap or triple tap on the back of the phone to trigger an action. You can set this up in Settings->Accessibility->Touch->Back Tap . In general, I love how accessibility features on iOS are so useful even for the average person who wouldn’t be considered or classified as disabled.

This does not appear to be available on the iPhone SE (2016). Interestingly, searching for "Back Tap" does show a singel result for Accessibility -> Touch, but once you're there the option is hidden.
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