iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more
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Re: iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more
#2Not mentioned in the press release but this update also brings a new version of Safari (and WebView).
Anyone knows if Safari in 14.5 is equivalent to a specific Technology Preview release?
https://developer.apple.com/safari/technology-preview/releas...
Re: iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more
#3Scribble should now be supported in German (and a few other languages). That's the main feature I've been waiting for.
Re: iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more
#4That's a step in the right direction, but I sorely miss the Android "trusted bluetooth device" that would keep your phone unlocked.
I have really poor timing, and upgraded from a Google Pixel 2 to an iPhone with face id (and no touch id)just before the pandemic. Now I have to type my passcode to unlock whenever I'm wearing a mask because I have a Garmin watch and won't consider downgrading to an Apple watch. The Garmin watch kept my Pixel unlocked for me since it was a trusted bluetooth device.
Re: iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more
#55G on Dual Sim is a useful update, prior to this it was only possible to have 5G on one of the accounts (The hardware SIM, I think was the default not the eSIM)
Re: iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more
#6Sadly it also breaks a fairly common navigation flow in SwiftUI – having 2 navigation buttons on the same screen causes nav pushes to immediately pop back.
This does however show an interesting trade-off of SwiftUI: by being a more abstract definition of a view hierarchy, they can change out implementations more easily than before to further optimise in each OS release.
I'm hoping that they're essentially going down the route of rendering SwiftUI directly to Metal, their graphics API, as I'd expect that to be much faster and less energy intensive.
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#75G on Dual Sim is a useful update, prior to this it was only possible to have 5G on one of the accounts (The hardware SIM, I think was the default not the eSIM)
They finally did it!?
I had resigned to thinking they got screwed with bad hardware from qualcomm
Re: iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more
#8Happy about being able to unlock the phone with my watch. Arrived after a year of mask wearing, but better late than never. Impossible to say right now when we'll put our masks away, if ever.
Re: iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more
#9In regard to unlock w/Apple Watch:
- This is an issue of Apple's own artificial creation.
- This doesn't even solve the issue.
So this all started because Face Unlock didn't work with masks, that's not Apple's fault. But what is entirely Apple's fault is that they break an option which resolves this only when Face Unlock is enabled: "Require Passcode."
When you disable Face Unlock you can set Require Passcode to e.g. 15 minutes/1 hr, and it largely mitigates the aggressiveness by which your iPhone re-locks itself while you're e.g. out grocery shopping in a mask and trying to use a shopping list. But when you enable Face Unlock this option is removed (forced to "Require Immediately").
So Apple enforces "Require Immediately" in Require Passcode, it blows up in their face, and then instead of backing down when masks broke Face Unlock, they instead over-engineer a solution where you have to buy an Apple Watch to work around it.
Their new work-around solution doubles down on exactly the same anti-choice problems discussed above because they forget to mention in this press release that you MUST enable a passcode on your Apple Watch to use this feature at all (and they're relying on the Apple Watch being less aggressive to re-lock than the iPhone).
If you jailbreak your iPhone you can just switch it from "Require Immediately" to e.g. 30 minutes and this mask issue is almost completely gone in one fell swoop. This Apple Watch fix only kinda works (e.g. lost connection to the watch = relock, Watch thinks it is off your wrist = relock, etc).
Re: iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more
#10That's a step in the right direction, but I sorely miss the Android "trusted bluetooth device" that would keep your phone unlocked. I have really poor timing, and upgraded from a Google Pixel 2 to an iPhone with face id (and no touch id)just before the pandemic. Now I have to type my passcode to unlock whenever I'm wearing a mask because I have a Garmin watch and won't consider downgrading to an Apple watch. The Garm…
Anecdotally, in the last few weeks, FaceID just started working for me with a couple of the types of masks I’ve been wearing. I wonder if they have made some tweaks to their recognition algorithms / are doing any sort of additional training on the fly.
I don’t have an Apple Watch, and am running 14.4.2.