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Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by ghostpepper »

crazygringo wrote: post #226

I've just tried out the spatial audio on my iPad with AirPods Pro, with one of the (many) free first episodes on Apple TV+... ...and it's stunning . Seriously. It's actually three separate features in one. First, all the audio is outside of you rather than stuck between your ears. Second, it's surround sound so that dialog actually comes from your iPad, while music comes from all around. And third, it tracks, so if y…

As an owner of the regular airpods, I never really saw the reason to upgrade, but this sounds pretty compelling. How many shows support this?

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by plorkyeran »

mkskm wrote: post #66
mrtksn wrote: post #46

XCode 12 is also out, taking up over 30GB of space apparently. For reference, XCode 11 was about 10.

What's the reason for the size increase? ARM support?

Finder says it's 28 GB but du says 15 GB. The compressed size went from 8 GB to 11 GB, so I suspect Finder's number is just wrong for some reason?

The overwhelming bulk of Xcode's footprint is the simulators. Xcode 12 went from two iOS simulator architectures to three (previously i386 and x86_64, arm64 added), one watchOS architecture to three (previously i386, x86_64 and arm64 added), and one tvOS architecture to two (previously x86_64, arm64 added), which naturally increases the size quite a bit.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by christoph »

ghostpepper wrote: post #231
crazygringo wrote: post #226

I've just tried out the spatial audio on my iPad with AirPods Pro, with one of the (many) free first episodes on Apple TV+... ...and it's stunning . Seriously. It's actually three separate features in one. First, all the audio is outside of you rather than stuck between your ears. Second, it's surround sound so that dialog actually comes from your iPad, while music comes from all around. And third, it tracks, so if y…

As an owner of the regular airpods, I never really saw the reason to upgrade, but this sounds pretty compelling. How many shows support this?

Only Apple TV+, Disney+ & HBO Max support it at the moment, no Netflix or Prime yet.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by avtar »

perardi wrote: post #223
avtar wrote: post #215

I hope they start offering something similar to the Android call screening feature https://www.androidcentral.com/how-use-call-screen-feature-p... That has been such a huge quality of life upgrade.

Not quite , but they are finally making the Phone notification a standard notification, and not a giant screaming blocking full-screen YOU WILL PAY ATTENTION NOW modal view. https://9to5mac.com/2020/06/22/ios-14-incoming-call-ui/ I always hated that. I hate phone calls, period, and I certainly don’t want that phone call to take over my entire phone.

I guess that's something :/ A friend of mine went through a horrible support experience with her Pixel 3 and that was enough for me to not want another Android phone after mine dies.

> I hate phone calls, period

We're kindred spirits. That's the only reason why I can't give up call screening.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by ryantgtg »

ghaff wrote: post #221
vxNsr wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've always arranged my homescreen to be a single screen with folders for each category of app. makes it much easier to find things. I'm always befuddled when I see ppl with 30 pages of apps.

My homescreen is my frequently used apps and then a few subsequent screens are basically like (the now mythical) travel that include a folder for less frequently used apps in the category.

I dislike how you can't (or couldn't - I haven't installed iOS 14 yet) arrange home screen icons like you can on Android. On Android, I would put my four most used icons in each corner, and leave the rest of the screen empty. So, on iOS, I only use the top row for icons, and all the rest are on a second screen.

My motive is that I want to see my beautiful wallpaper, which in this case a picture of my daughter.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by crazygringo »

ghostpepper wrote: post #231
crazygringo wrote: post #226

I've just tried out the spatial audio on my iPad with AirPods Pro, with one of the (many) free first episodes on Apple TV+... ...and it's stunning . Seriously. It's actually three separate features in one. First, all the audio is outside of you rather than stuck between your ears. Second, it's surround sound so that dialog actually comes from your iPad, while music comes from all around. And third, it tracks, so if y…

As an owner of the regular airpods, I never really saw the reason to upgrade, but this sounds pretty compelling. How many shows support this?

All the ones I tried on Apple TV+. I think pretty much all scripted TV these days is produced in at least 5.1 surround, which is what it needs (also supports 7.1). But it has to be supported by the content and the app you use.

LifeHacker put out a guide a few hours ago about which streaming services support it on their iOS app [1], the upshot being:

Supported: Apple TV+, Disney+, HBO Max

Not yet supported: Netflix, Prime Video, Showtime Anytime, PBS, TNT

[1] https://lifehacker.com/which-apple-devices-and-video-service...

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by markdown »

t0mbstone wrote: post #57

I'm not touching that update with a 10 foot pole. Not until it's been live for at least a week, and developers have had a chance to actually update their apps for it! Honestly, that's just good policy on all Apple updates lately. It seems that more and more of them have been plagued with issues and are trailed by hotfixes. I've learned to just wait a while. Other people can be the test guinea pigs!

I'm still on OSX Mojave. I'll be upgrading to Catalina in October, a year after it was released.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by saagarjha »

m-p-3 wrote: post #204
applecrazy wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They technically are on the App Store, just not updated through that channel.

Seems odd they're not taking advantage of their own app store to update these apps without requiring an OS update. Even Google does it on Android.

Most of the code is in system frameworks, not the app that you download.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by saagarjha »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #200
nikanj wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My favourite is Mail telling me "Message has not been downloaded from the server". And no way to tell it to download it.

Or my favorite, "1 Unsent Message." Yeah, thanks guys, that's super informative.

Is your outbox empty?

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by crazygringo »

tyrankh wrote: post #41

https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-13/features/ new redirects to https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-14/features/ , which seems like an unnecessary hacky way to get your SEO up. Separately: is it just me or has Apple lost its innovative edge? Widgets and app drawer, that's the huge new update? Android has had these for, like, 5+ years. Not that android has had anything super exciting lately, either. Maybe phone OSes have kind o…

I hardly think Apple has to worry about getting their SEO up, ha! :P That's a good one.
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