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Re: iOS 15

#73

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Google Lens has had the feature for more than a year now and it's incredibly useful. I wonder how the accuracy of Apple's version will compare.

Does Google lens also recognise text based on local models? I am not so happy about the idea of having Google analyse all my photos.

I just tried it with internet turned off in both the photos and standalone app, and it did not work.

Re: iOS 15

#74

The RC had a lot of bugs and was unusable for some users on r/iOSBeta. The actual release is indeed two builds newer (19A346) so hopefully they've fixed these issues. Edit: looks like it's only available for people seeking it out[0]. Maybe they won't auto-update till 15.0.1? 0: https://i.judge.sh/troubled/Flam/YOWIKKHUYu.png

A big red flag that this is buried in Software Update... I would wait until the next point release if you value stability over everything else for your primary device.

Re: iOS 15

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post #37

Is apple’s photo search any less terrible now? Dunno if anyone else suffers this? Maybe I'm doing it wrong. Finding a years-old photo to upload is TERRIBLE. It's trivial to do in Google Photos, but then getting a handle on the photo when using the "photo selector" widget to upload it to Twitter or an existing email is horrible. I do this workflow dozens of times per week and the best I can come up with is: 1. text se…

Can you give an example of the type of search where Apple photos fails but Google photos succeeds? I only use Apple photos, but it supports my use case of date/location/"object detection" search, but wondering if I'm missing out on something much better.

Object detection is much more broad in Google Photos and complex queries are in a different league ("dogs in new york city")

Re: iOS 15

#78

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Did they removed the code? commented it or defaulted it to off for now but the code is there and ready to scan.

I would assume no. People decompile binaries all the time and would likely catch it. It also could introduce dependencies and bugs that would require QA work and dev work.

I mean they just announced it is delayed, didn't they had it enabled in Beta for testing? Could cause more problems if you remove it completely in a rush.

Re: iOS 15

#79
Warning to those with AirTags. Mine are gone from Find My. When attempting to reset one of my working/paired tags before the upgrade, I get a Bluetooth error when trying to set up. So all of my tags are dead right now and will not connect to my phone.

However a friend who had one of my tags for a couple of days gets the notification that my tag was with them and to tap to contact the owner.

Re: iOS 15

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post #72

Does extensions on iOS safari mean I can finally get ublock origin on it?

I don't know much about ublock, but I've got a Safari content-blocker set up that pulls from a custom set of easylist files and blocks all requests to those URLs from within safari
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