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iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by Agingcoder »

red369 wrote: post #492
Agingcoder wrote: post #269

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That’s a good idea . So you’re telling me that I can trust the on device numbers enough?

I've never been quite clear that the numbers are completely trustworthy, but at least the counting is more solid than the restrictions and the passwords. One thing I've noticed on my own device, that, counter-intuitively, screentime also seems to include time when the screen is off, e.g. playing music through Safari with the screen turned off. As an example of the fragility of the screentime passwords, the password o…

Thanks this mirrors my experience. I’ll try your trust and verify approach then.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by consumer451 »

Kudos to Apple for still having their latest iOS run on hardware as old as iPhone 11, which was released 7 years ago.

How is the Android world faring in this regard? My last Android device was an Android One, but that seems to have been cancelled.

edit: holy crap, iOS 27 made an iPhone 11 pro max I just installed it on so much snappier! Absolutely crazy level of improvement.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by kgwgk »

bdavbdav wrote: post #713
kgwgk wrote: post #620

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I don’t get it. How is it useful that typing CHE you won’t see Chess even though it was visible before you got to type the E?

Because you watch as you type. You may not find it useful, I very much do for apps with colliding names.

>> the only way around it is to search like “C”…wait for results…”H”…wait for results…

Some people don’t like that. I don’t know why you like having to wait but if they showed Chess for CHE you could still find other apps if you kept typing.

Maybe there are also people who like the lottery of results changing the instant you click on the app you want because it adds excitement to their lives.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by hobo123 »

torginus wrote: post #653
jonhohle wrote: post #382

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It’s really sad, because they mostly aped search from BeOS and had best in class search for a decade or so. Now indexing frequently breaks or works when an external disk is not attached, but won’t find local files after it’s connected.

Why do filesystem indices get stale? The OS can track what files get accessed, isn't inotify watertight? I know that Windows has some equivalent stuff, that the antivirus uses to disallow opening files before they got scanned, so I'd wager that API is functionally required to not miss any changes. Yet Windows indexing is one of the worst pieces of software in existence and frequently gets out of sync.

Even with inotify failing, if the system is plugged in and idle, it could quickly do a scan for files with update date > last known indexed time and index those. Like once per day maybe. Wouldn't take much load or memory, IMHO.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by hobo123 »

consumer451 wrote: post #732

Kudos to Apple for still having their latest iOS run on hardware as old as iPhone 11, which was released 7 years ago. How is the Android world faring in this regard? My last Android device was an Android One, but that seems to have been cancelled. edit: holy crap, iOS 27 made an iPhone 11 pro max I just installed it on so much snappier! Absolutely crazy level of improvement.

Well, my Galaxy S22 (from well: 2022), which still works great will no longer receive _any_ updates after February 27, so I'll have to get new one, or potentially suffer open security holes in the future.

Also, even now I only receive security fixed on a quarterly schedule.

Still not keen on switching to the walled garden - I like the apps I have, including custom browser engines. I like having F-Droid with open source apps.

Will probably get another Samsung, as they have extended updates to 7 years for newer S models.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by geden »

lostlogin wrote: post #658
mchusma wrote: post #239

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Apple's search is so comically bad. For example, I can click on my applications, and I have an app called Chess. I can often type letters C-H-E-S-S and have it not show the Chess app. This is inside the applications folder! Many people have complained before. Honestly I ONLY search for app names in spotlight search or application window, it should be trivial to make it actually work. Maybe i just need to vibecode som…

> Apple's search is so comically bad. There needs to be more rage at search in Mail.app. It’s quicker to rollback through them all than it is to use search, but when you get tens or hundreds a day it’s excruciating. Please Apple, fix email search.

I quit Apple Mail (due to its poor handling of Gmail accounts) and started using Mimestream years ago. Truly excellent mail client. Actively and thoughtfully developed.

Paid but worth every penny.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by pndy »

Anyone got saving files from the web on the phone replaced with iCloud Drive?

Overall it took over 1h20m or so for download and install this version in my iPhone. And Settings still displays indexing notification while I have little on the device, and I have disabled searches for every app. So I wonder what it does optimizing and indexing then?

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by fodkodrasz »

NSUserDefaults wrote: post #729
fodkodrasz wrote: post #610

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In business it is very useful, especially when you have to do lots of context switches.

Yeah and maybe you can replay your own requests to Siri if it doesn't catch it the first time?

Yeah, few hours/days after the meeting about a minor detail... In a business settings meetings are routinely recorded and transcribed because everybody is just lazy.
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