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iOS 14 is available today

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Post by purephase »

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 is really nice. I have my airpod double tap set to pause, play but I miss having siri available for hands free. This makes it easy to have both!

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Post by spideymans »

pier25 wrote: post #184
Zippogriff wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1) I don't want to see the prompts to allow push notifications from a webapp, nor to have to go disable them. I just never want them. 2) Generally I'd rather none of the software I use be webtech, so anything that makes it easier to deliver webtech to my phone/tablet is a step the wrong direction. Yes I'm willing to have less total software in exchange. The point is that I don't want apps that are or will be native,…

> I don't want to see the prompts to allow push notifications from a webapp, nor to have to go disable them. I just never want them. Surely Apple could implement a setting to disable all requests for push notifications? > In short, my UX on iOS is better without them even being possible, so why would I prefer they be allowed? Because not everyone agrees with you and web apps have many advantages over native.

> Surely Apple could implement a setting to disable all requests for push notifications?

That’s an option in macOS. Ultimately it doesn’t make the UX any better though, as web developers still present JS-based dialogs asking for notification permissions

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Post by mcswell »

Havoc wrote: post #118
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…

Interesting. Didn't realise the capital letter thing was a bug. I just assumed it's because I've got both English and German enabled and well Germans like their capital letters

JA WOHL!

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Post by crazygringo »

debug-desperado wrote: post #270
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.

Son of a gun, I went and researched and turns out my Mac can produce a "similar" spatialization effect in VLC from 5.1 audio at least, under Window > Audio Effects > Filter > Headphone virtualization. Not that I've ever heard anyone mention its existence before. But I'm definitely using that from now on. Thanks for setting me on that track!

As for comparing the two... the iOS one is absolutely better, but the VLC one is still a really nice improvement. But it's definitely not just the head tracking. The VLC one somehow feels like it spreads the audio out "horizontally", so background sound comes from outside the head, but people speaking still sound "between my ears". Whereas with iOS, the people speaking genuinely sound like they're in front of me -- it puts the center audio forwards -- and nothing sounds "between my ears".

I would guess Apple can produce something superior because they know the exact shape and positioning of their own headphones, as opposed to a generic stereo headphone plugin?

Not to mention, of course, the lack of head tracking in VLC. I just researched Dolby Atmos for Headphones to compare, and it looks intriguing but appears to be Windows only.

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Post by davchana »

city41 wrote: post #246
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.

iOS lets you turn on a red filter that disables the green and blue channels. you can set it to turn on by triple tapping the home button (or I'm guessing the back for new phones). This is the one thing I really miss after switching to Android. The red screen is fantastic for reading at night, really easy on the eyes.

My Android 10 Realme Pro2 has a option to desaturate screen every day at a fixed schedule.

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Post by ppeetteerr »

makecheck wrote: post #253

The “jiggle mode” for editing icons has always been a bit of a mess but it is definitely broken right now and I hope a fix is on deck for 14.0.1. Try moving — well — anything between home-screen pages that have widgets: there is a good chance that many icons will be shuffled in an indecipherable order. And worse, it’s so easy to get too close to the edge of the screen and accidentally switch pages, which means when y…

Try using two fingers (or both hands). It works really well when you use one hand to swipe and the other to move.

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Post by chromedev »

Sangeppato wrote: post #241
chromedev wrote: post #222

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When the specs are the same or better on a phone that is $400 less you can actually afford to buy a new Google every 3 years and still save money.

Better specs for $400 less, on a Pixel? Name one phone built to last with better specs than the iPhone SE please, I'm listening. I don't care about multiple cameras, OLED displays, 120 Hz or whatever the industry is trying to push these days, I just want a reliable decently built phone with a good SW support. Furthermore, I don't see how replacing the phone more often would be a positive thing, it just means I would…

Yes, have you seen the Pixel 4a? I got a Razer Phone 2 when they first came out for $399. It blows away most iPhones, especially in that price range.

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Post by [deleted] »

gumby wrote: post #248
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.

> 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 is super important. People who don't need accomodation sometimes complain about the ADA rules for buildings but at some point everybody takes advantage of things like crash bars to open a door (when your hands are full, or are just on the phone), ramps (perhaps yo…

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Post by wayneftw »

Zippogriff wrote: post #280
wayneftw wrote: post #277

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> You explicitly claimed it wouldn't be worse. Consider applying your own standards to that claim. Having a choice is always better than not having one with regards personal preferences. That's my standard. What's yours aside from "I don't like web apps"? > Your entire objection, which seems to carry some unusual assumptions about the power and utility of thought experiments and the extent of the value of comparing s…

> You still haven't stated anything other than your opinion. That's all either of us have been doing. [EDIT] and an opinion can be a reason ! They're not mutually exclusive. Do you need an itemized list of problems I have with webapps, with figures backing them all up (else they'd be opinions again, I guess)? I figured that'd been discussed to death, especially on HN. > Having a choice is always better than not havin…

> That's all either of us have been doing...and an opinion can be a reason!

An opinion is pretty worthless without some reasoning. You still haven't stated any of yours.

> Do you need an itemized list of problems I have with webapps, with figures backing them all up (else they'd be opinions again, I guess)? I figured that'd been discussed to death, especially on HN.

Oh, I think I'm beginning to see what your problem is. There's no middle ground in your mind. It probably affects every facet of your life. It's either "I hate web apps and everybody has to immediately accept that this is a good reason for nobody to have any choice." or it's "You are asking me for an itemized list with figures backing them all up even though I feel like everybody should have read everything that was ever printed on HN at any time".

Instead of simply stating a bit of your reasoning, you're attacking the whole idea of having reasons. It's a bad strategy and you're not going to convince anyone with that.

> I like being able to choose a platform that makes it hard for developers to get by with a webapp, pushing them toward native apps. See? I like choice too.

That's not a choice. That's an ultimatum based on a poorly reasoned opinion.

I'm guessing you'll need to have the last word or you're going to have a really bad day. Enjoy that!

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Post by ObsoleteNerd »

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.

My wife has no disabilities (and is a very light/casual tech user) but uses heaps of the iOS accessibility features. I personally had never really looked at them until she started showing me how handy so many of them are day to day.

Things like:

The triple-tap-to-zoom feature has a “low light” filter that works on top of your brightness setting so you can use it to get a lower-than-lowest-brightness for reading in bed at night (even the lowest brightness isn’t low enough sometimes).

Reachability setting if you have a big phone and small hands let’s you drag the entire interface down with 1 finger and reach buttons at the top of the UI.

LED Flash for Alerts gives you a visual notification if you work somewhere where you need your phone on silent but also can’t use vibration alerts (she works in a medical field and her phone sits across the room on a table).

Lots of interesting ideas in an area of Settings 99% of people never touch.

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