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Re: iOS 15

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Post by e_proxus »

spiderice wrote: post #277
lotsofpulp wrote: post #69

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Apple Maps’ ratings were announced last year and seem to be rolling out now: https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/23/apple-maps-native-ratings-and...

I just installed iOS 15 an hour ago. So I checked to see if the new Apple Maps' ratings was in there. There is now a "Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down" button that allows you approve or disapprove of a restaurants Food & Drink, Customer Service, Atmosphere, and Overall experience. It also uses your on device location data to suggest photos that you took while at the restaurant, to include in your review. So it looks like it's f…

I don’t see these buttons in Germany unfortunately.

Re: iOS 15

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Post by nebula8804 »

DCKing wrote: post #394
nebula8804 wrote: post #378

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So those seem like backported security updates. This is different from iOS where they receive the full OS system update, including new features (unless a required piece of hardware is missing, ie. Force Touch)

To be fair to Google and Apple, the iPhone 5S has also only had security updates since 2018. They did add contact tracing features, but so did Google through the Play Store.

iPhone 5S started on iOS 7 released on September 20, 2013 and received a full upgrade to every version of iOS up to and including iOS 12 when it was dropped in iOS 13 in 2019. After that happened, Apple went back and backported security fixes to iOS 12 with the latest release in June of 2021.

Thats 6 years, 5 days of "full updates" if you consider the release day of iOS 13 to be the end of life support.

Re: iOS 15

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Post by kemayo »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #344
GeekyBear wrote: post #213

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Again, Google and Microsoft have already been scanning everything on your account for the past decade without any such protections against incriminating users based on false positives.

Again: scanning my cloud account is not the same thing as scanning my --private devices-- which have no apple cloud sync enabled. Which part of "what I store on my device is not even remotely the business of the manufacturer of the device" do you not understand?

If you have no sync enabled, they say they're not scanning it. The scan is part of the upload process.

Re: iOS 15

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Post by kemayo »

philwelch wrote: post #354
WorldMaker wrote: post #352

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Yes, that would be why it sends copies , encrypted with a different key to the users' own storage keys.

So in other words, the only thing stopping Apple from viewing my iCloud photos is an if statement.

That would also be true for any use of iCloud Photos, no? If you don't trust this, then you also can't trust them to be storing them encrypted on their servers.

Re: iOS 15

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Post by uniqueid »

0x000000001 wrote: post #140
themodelplumber wrote: post #123

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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...

  Every major iOS update adds more functionality that 
  consumes more CPU cycles even in the background.
The very best OS updates also revise or replace existing code to run better (more reliably, more securely, more quickly, etc).

The larger issue, in any case, is that Apple prohibits reverting an iPhone to a prior version of iOS.

This inexorably leads users of old devices to one day install that final update that turns their device into a turkey.

At that point the customer buys a new phone, a year or two before they intended, and the old phone, which is too slow to be useful as a back-up device or hand-me-down, goes into a landfill.

Re: iOS 15

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Post by GeekyBear »

privacyisntdead wrote: post #402
GeekyBear wrote: post #348

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Apple isn't scanning the contents of your device. They are discussing scanning content you upload to iCloud Photos. So, yes. It's the same.

"Before an image is stored in iCloud Photos, the following on-device matching process is performed for that image against the blinded hash table database." https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni... Apple disagrees with you.

Did you just post a quote proving that only images uploaded to iCloud Photos are scanned while claiming that all images on the device are scanned?

Re: iOS 15

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Post by GeekyBear »

93po wrote: post #316
b9a2cab5 wrote: post #271

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If you bought a Nexus 5X or 6P, your device eventually bricked itself due to overheating literally melting the solder connections between the CPU and mainboard. Software support isn't the only thing Android vendors are skimping out on.

I had 6P issues and it was replaced for free with an upgraded phone, even outside warranty period

>As time went on, many began to experience bootloops and random shutdowns, including myself. If you happened to order the Nexus 6P from the Google Store, you might have gotten lucky and been given a replacement Pixel phone.

However, for many of us, we were simply left with a brick of a useless phone with no resolve.

https://www.androidcentral.com/nexus-6p-owners-eligible-400-...

Re: iOS 15

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Post by schmorptron »

apetresc wrote: post #106
schmorptron wrote: post #46

Uuh, I wonder how visual lookup will compare to Google Lens. I almost never use google assistant because of privacy concerns, and having it done locally sounds wonderful. (Although, on a second look, the website doesn't mention whether it's local or not. I just know Siri is now partly done on device).

Apple has confirmed it's on-device.

That's promising then!

Re: iOS 15

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Post by joe_guy »

happybuy wrote: post #363
joe_guy wrote: post #361

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Does this get detected by the ad blocker blockers? My current iOS solution is burdened by that.

Generally no. There are a couple of sites where this may occur but we quickly resolve it via the in-app rule updates.

I was looking forward to trying it but the notification enable requirement and $30/yr price tag were too much of put offs unfortunately.

Re: iOS 15

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Post by yborg »

FragenAntworten wrote: post #372
maxgashkov wrote: post #366

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It has 'drag multiple' functionality -- you have to start dragging one icon and quickly tap on several others to grab them also. Personally I don't have the finger dexterity (or maybe understanding how this actually is supposed to work) to reliably perform the gesture, so I resort to dragging one at a time :(

It looks like you start dragging one, far enough away from its initial position that you are unambiguously dragging it, then (while maintaining contact with the dragged icon), tap the other icons you want to drag as well.

Thanks, I remember doing this once, but before I wrote the comment spent 5 minutes trying to do it again and couldn't figure it out. An interface that a long-term user can't easily discover is kind of terrible; it's also completely different from how a desktop OS works where you select first and then drag.
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