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Re: iOS 15

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Post by arenaninja »

brundolf wrote: post #119
arenaninja wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in the US but outside California. I find Apple Maps has better estimates for directions, but Google Maps is much more likely to have small businesses in its data set. I've also had experiences where it makes me drive across the street from my destination/1 block or two away I want to like it because, as you pointed out, it's a cleaner interface

Yeah. I'm in Austin, which probably means my local data gets more attention than most They do have a mechanism for filing corrections from within the app, which I've used a couple times and it seems to actually result in fixes, which is great Hopefully they give more priority to a wider set of areas in the future

I've submitted corrections a couple of times, I found the process cumbersome. Maybe it has improved since I used it

Re: iOS 15

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Post by nicoburns »

rootusrootus wrote: post #120
arenaninja wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why I started buying iPhones. The resale value of a device after 2 years of usage is over 50% of the original cost if it's in good condition OEM quality is all over the place for Android, crapware is standard. It's been 4 years of iPhone for me and the only complaint I have is how bad Apple Maps can be

This, exactly, is why I switched to iPhones. The only way Android devices are cheaper is if you run them into the ground and don't upgrade until you must. Invariably they go on 50% off sale within a year for the flagship models, which tanks their resale value. Combined with the utter lack of support more than the first couple years of ownership. I can upgrade my iPhone every 2 or 3 years and spend a lot less overall.…

> Invariably they go on 50% off sale within a year for the flagship models, which tanks their resale value.

My strategy for my last phone was to buy the previous year's flagship for this reason.

Re: iOS 15

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Post by TrueGeek »

signal11 wrote: post #115
DanTheManPR wrote: post #58

Apple continues to support OS updates on the iPhone 6s, a device released almost 6 years ago. Nor is it reserved for their flagship models - the 2016 iPhone SE also gets the latest and greatest. Meanwhile, my flagship android phone from 2018, the Samsung Galaxy S9, is stuck on the last version of Android. At least it still gets security updates, some manufacturers don't even go that far.

> Meanwhile, my flagship android phone from 2018, the Samsung Galaxy S9, is stuck on the last version of Android. That's inexcusable, and this attitude carried over to security updates is a big reason some corporates left Samsung and went to Apple -- e.g. the A5, a midrange phone comparable with the iPhone SE, lost access to updates when the device was perfectly usable. Samsung must've felt the feedback, because this…

Leaving updates up to carriers makes it super hard to test mobile apps. You get a bug where it only happens on Samsung Whatever on Android 11, but the phone you bought for QA hasn't yet gotten that update. So you test on an emulators which, of course, don't reproduce the bug.

Re: iOS 15

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Post by Someone1234 »

tandr wrote: post #96
Someone1234 wrote: post #49

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I've been using iOS 15 for a month or more, and I've had no glaring issues aside from Exposure Notification using excessive battery usage.

Excessive battery usage IS a good example of a "glaring issue", especially for a mobile device.

On one specific service that is opt-in (and can be disabled at any time). Pretty important distinction.

Re: iOS 15

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Post by razorfen »

tpush wrote: post #57
judge2020 wrote: post #17

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Posting on HN is probably more valuable when your feedback is requesting new featureful changes and not just bugs. There are likely quite a few Apple engineers that browse this subreddit which might be able to make an internal push for these changes (eventually).

> [...] that browse this subreddit [...] Freudian slip here, I guess. I'd still report them through the normal channels. I wouldn't bet on any given Apple employee of the right team to happen to read a specific comment on HN.

Nor do they necessarily have the ability to do discretionary prioritization of certain bugs or features, even if they did see it.

Re: iOS 15

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Post by kstrauser »

someonehere wrote: post #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.

Oh, interesting. Mine still works as expected but I'll keep an eye out.

Re: iOS 15

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Post by btmiller »

jkelleyrtp wrote: post #7

Apple Maps is so close to being a fantastic app, but is sorely missing “search along route” that Google has. Right now, you can press the “coffee” or “gas” button but there’s no way to say, search for a CVS on the way back home from work. I really wish Apple added this instead of just suggesting searches that might be useful.

I’d also really like multi-stop navigation planning like Google Maps has. I’m planning on a cross-country road trip to see family for the holidays and I’d love if Apple could improve upon the multi-stop planning experience that Google threw together. It’s nice, but it’s also cumbersome.

Re: iOS 15

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Post by jduckles »

philwelch wrote: post #118
Jtsummers wrote: post #113

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If they get 30 (?) hits then they review the data and then they refer it to law enforcement if the reviewers determine that they were CSAM images. It's not for a single collision and it's not immediately referred to law enforcement. There are still major risks and concerns with this model, but at least describe it correctly.

How do they review the data if your iCloud photos are E2E encrypted?

They're only encrypted when on iCloud, not when on your device. The hashes are computed on your device.

Re: iOS 15

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Post by Jtsummers »

philwelch wrote: post #118
Jtsummers wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If they get 30 (?) hits then they review the data and then they refer it to law enforcement if the reviewers determine that they were CSAM images. It's not for a single collision and it's not immediately referred to law enforcement. There are still major risks and concerns with this model, but at least describe it correctly.

How do they review the data if your iCloud photos are E2E encrypted?

I'm guessing you haven't been following the issue.

More details in [1], but briefly:

They hash the images that you're uploading to iCloud. If it matches one of the hashes in the database, then it gets encrypted and transmitted to them. No single data packet can be decrypted, they need 30 (?) matches with that database in order to get a decryption key that then allows them to review the uploaded images. They don't send the actual images to the reviewers, it's altered in some way. At that point the reviewer will have 30 (?) thumbnails (?) to review. If the images look like CSAM, then they'll report it to NCMEC who then report it to law enforcement (NCMEC is not, itself, a law enforcement agency).

The ? are because I don't think they've publicly stated (or I've not read) what the threshold for decryption is or how they modify the images that get sent to the reviewers.

[0] https://www.apple.com/child-safety/

[1] https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...

Re: iOS 15

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Post by 0x000000001 »

themodelplumber wrote: post #123
DanTheManPR wrote: post #58

Apple continues to support OS updates on the iPhone 6s, a device released almost 6 years ago. Nor is it reserved for their flagship models - the 2016 iPhone SE also gets the latest and greatest. Meanwhile, my flagship android phone from 2018, the Samsung Galaxy S9, is stuck on the last version of Android. At least it still gets security updates, some manufacturers don't even go that far.

Why do iOS upgrades past one major version always slow down my devices so much though. It's been such a disappointing waste of system resources. Personally this is why I tried out Android and have so far stuck with it, (splitting my devices up between two OSes but whatever). So far my Androids get 2 years of bi-monthly security updates and at least 2 major Android releases by manufacturer policy, which is all I've ne…

Every major iOS update adds more functionality that consumes more CPU cycles even in the background. Unless something strictly requires new hardware to work, they include the features.

Maybe if Apple refused to support new features on old hardware it would solve this issue, but then you just anger users who are forced to buy new hardware to get a new feature...

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