iOS 14 is available today • Hacker News Board

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by scottkrager » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 12:40 AM UTC

AnonHP wrote: post #228

One of my favorite new features in iOS 14 is an accessibility setting that allows a double tap or triple tap on the back of the phone to trigger an action. You can set this up in Settings->Accessibility->Touch->Back Tap . In general, I love how accessibility features on iOS are so useful even for the average person who wouldn’t be considered or classified as disabled.

I take screenshots often as reminders, to annotate, etc. I setup a double-tap as an action to take a screenshot. So much faster then the older methods. You get some false positives, but really handy productivity hack.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by WiseWeasel » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 12:40 AM UTC

knolan wrote: post #3

No sign of it here yet. I’m curious if it fixed some of the unpleasant behaviour and bugs that were never fixed in iOS 13. Things like Mail not displaying new emails properly unless your went out and back into the mailbox. The keyboard autocorrecting to random names aggressively and inserting capital letters if you dare move the cursor. All new behaviours introduced with iOS 13 that adversely affect the user experien…

I had to disable Auto-Capitalization in the General/Keyboard settings in iOS 13 for sanity, and it's absolutely been a win. I second your hope that it's fixed in iOS 14 but don’t dare update to a .0 release.

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Post by threeseed » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 12:46 AM UTC

wayneftw wrote: post #191

threeseed wrote: post #185

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You have never experienced this Actually we have. In the early days of iOS, Apple never regulated push notifications. And so I remember many apps using them as a reminder pushing notifications daily and sometimes even multiple times a day. There were also companies selling "notification space" within their apps to third parties for use as an advertising channel. It was pretty awful and it degraded the overall exper…

Actually, you misunderstood the response. They said "In short, my UX on iOS is better without them (web notifications) even being possible". How could they know when Apple never implemented it? The fact that apps had unregulated push notifications and now they don't pretty much settles the debate in my favor. Apple can regulate push notifications for PWAs in all sorts of ways outside of barring them altogether, just…

The point is that Apple only managed to reign in push notifications because they were able to warn/ban apps.

They can't do this with PWA.

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Post by lucasmullens » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 12:49 AM UTC

mumblerino wrote: post #75

ddoice wrote: post #12

Push notifications on PWAs? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I hope that they come, but only after an app has been installed. I don’t want yet another thing to tap NO on when surfing.

+1, for PWAs to succeed, they need feature parity with native apps for fundamental things like notifications. But outside of PWAs, web notifications are mostly just spam, so requiring installation seems like a good middle ground.

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Post by ghaff » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 12:55 AM UTC

perardi wrote: post #256

avtar wrote: post #234

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Phone calls are rude. They are a Priority 0 interrupt that you must immediately deal with. Which has become extremely frustrating with the volume of spam calls on my 437 area code—to the extent I had to install a phone spam blocker app. I have no idea why anyone thought it would be a good user experience to be typINCOMING CALL

Because going back not that long (non-SPAM) incoming voice calls were a priority interrupt. And they still sort of are for the relatively few people who call me in a regular basis.

Phone calls are not rude as a general statement. When my dad calls me it is not rude.

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Post by BMSmnqXAE4yfe1 » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 12:57 AM UTC

Looks like Windows Phone tiles )

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Post by perardi » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 1:11 AM UTC

ghaff wrote: post #265

perardi wrote: post #256

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Phone calls are rude. They are a Priority 0 interrupt that you must immediately deal with. Which has become extremely frustrating with the volume of spam calls on my 437 area code—to the extent I had to install a phone spam blocker app. I have no idea why anyone thought it would be a good user experience to be typINCOMING CALL

Because going back not that long (non-SPAM) incoming voice calls were a priority interrupt. And they still sort of are for the relatively few people who call me in a regular basis. Phone calls are not rude as a general statement. When my dad calls me it is not rude.

If someone is calling me, without texting first, I assume that either (a) my boss wants me immediately, or (b) someone is in the hospital.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by antipaul » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 1:15 AM UTC

reificator wrote: post #227

mumblerino wrote: post #6

In 10 years, this is the first time I installed a beta version. It suffered a couple of issues, but they’ve been ironed out in my case. I really love the new app drawer. My hundred barely-used apps are now neatly stowed there while I keep a single (Yes, one) Home Screen. Widgets are nice but from what I understand they’re updated only once every 5 minutes, which makes them a lot less useful.

> I really love the new app drawer. My hundred barely-used apps are now neatly stowed there while I keep a single (Yes, one) Home Screen. I hop between Android and iOS every few years and was quite excited for iOS to check this basic functionality box right as I came back. Shame they had to ruin it by forcing the absolutely nonsensical categories on you with no option for a plain alphabetical list. Just give me the U…

I think it's fine. You get default categories which have advantages* or alphabetical order - which you can also get by swiping down in the app drawer. tap and hold scrollbar to get to the position you need.

*in default view, I can tap on the larger icons to open the app right away. Or I can tap on the smaller ones to get all the apps in that category. Then, there aren't that many categories and the predictiveness actually seems quite good

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Post by PascLeRasc » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 1:15 AM UTC

ghostpepper wrote: post #260

AnonHP wrote: post #228

One of my favorite new features in iOS 14 is an accessibility setting that allows a double tap or triple tap on the back of the phone to trigger an action. You can set this up in Settings->Accessibility->Touch->Back Tap . In general, I love how accessibility features on iOS are so useful even for the average person who wouldn’t be considered or classified as disabled.

This does not appear to be available on the iPhone SE (2016). Interestingly, searching for "Back Tap" does show a singel result for Accessibility -> Touch, but once you're there the option is hidden.

I believe it requires the Taptic Engine, which only appeared on the 7 and later models.

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Post by debug-desperado » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 1:17 AM UTC

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…

Do you know how it compares to Dolby Atmos for headphones, DTS Headphone:X, and Windows Sonic? Those solutions all work with conventional stereo headphones.

Edit: after more reading I believe the main difference is the sensors in the Airpods Pro track head movement. For instance the virtual center (dialog speaker) would always appear to be coming from the display device, even if you move or tilt your head.