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iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more

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Re: iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more

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Isn’t the 2016 SE still useful as a phone?

Probably, I just happen to have owned the 16GB model that is now impractical for me, since iOS itself takes half of it. Replaced it for my daily carrying, but kept it around since it's so nice.

Yeah, 16GB goes fast. I’ve heard from a few others how much they like the older SE.

Re: iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more

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post #67

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I just fixed it by turning off FaceID. Apple reached phone perfection with the iPhone 4; they reached access perfection with touchID. Things have gotten worse since then.

I hate TouchID, never works when my fingers are sweaty or I'm cooking or anything like that. FaceID is perfect.

Let me add to that several more anecdata: my parents could never get TouchID to work; it required them to re-register on a weekly basis. I don't know if it's because of their advanced age or physiology, but in winter, my fingers were also not reliable due to dryness.

FaceID has been quite good other than the masks issue. I just wish Apple would allow a grace period for rechecking auth.

Re: iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more

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Sorry for the shameless plug, but for those without an Apple Watch I've made a program [0] that implements the Unlock Mac with Bluetooth for any other device, including Android phones, Android Wear or Tizen watches or even some ear plugs. [0] https://www.gadgetish.com/osx.html Edit: However, the Windows version works only with Android phones: https://www.gadgetish.com

Enabled Umwelt in Accessibility (Big Sur).

Clicked allow updates.

Crashes every time I open. Displays check for updates screen, then immediately crashes.

Re: iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more

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post #228

They integrated the "Waze-esque" feature into Apple Maps. Even Apple is getting their users to snitch on the PD. Siri is about to be the #1 public enemy of the traffic cops lol

Good. If municipalities want to raise revenue from my driving, then they should either raise taxes or implement tolls, not implement speed traps designed to trick people from out of town.

Unpopular opinion: people should just not speed. Even speeding just a little bit at high speeds drastically increases your car's emissions and is also dangerous (~40% increase in chance of death in a head on collision at 60 mph vs 55 mph). I don't think giving people a tool that helps them break what is in my mind a good/just/important law is the right move on Apple's part

Re: iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more

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Touch ID is an entirely superior technology and Apple is profoundly stupid for removing it. It doesn't have to be in the screen, just put it on the back. The lengths they'll go to offset the removal of Touch ID are astounding, from IR face tracking, to degraded biometric security, and now to requiring an Apple Watch to unlock the phone with your mask on. Talk about a Rube Goldberg machine.

I used to think that way, then I was forced (through damaged previous device) to consider a FaceID phone and I'm sold now.

Cooking with TouchID is an exercise in frustration.

Ideally I'd like them to be able to combine auth mechanisms but we can't have everything.

Re: iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more

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Not mentioned in the press release but this update also brings a new version of Safari (and WebView). Anyone knows if Safari in 14.5 is equivalent to a specific Technology Preview release? https://developer.apple.com/safari/technology-preview/releas...

If only it included Web Push API capabilities. But of course, Apple won't do that, as then developers wouldn't have to beg to be in their app store, and pay a 30% commission on any payments.

I would have more respect for Apple if they just came out and said it, but the fact they haven't mentioned it at all, is just cowardly.

Re: iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more

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post #170

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Because literally not _every single group on earth_ needs to be represented. It's an emoji pack... I don't need it for it to be exponentially more difficult to find ones I'm looking for because now we need every single permutation of race x facial hair x gender x skin color x marriage pair x favorite cereal.

You're wealthy, tall, young, male, English-speaking programmer who posts about how they are "constantly called the smartest person people know", whining that other people being represented by emojis is inconvenient to you so it shouldn't be allowed. That should cause some embarassment and self-reflection.

Lol @ your attempt to shame me. It doesn't work because I regret nothing, and apologize for nothing. It's not illegal to seek feedback about self from others. It's not illegal to be tall, young, male, english speaking. And most of all, it's not illegal to think a woman with a beard emoji is ridiculous.

Re: iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more

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About half of the times i unlock my phone is when it is resting on the table. Fingerprint scanner on the back requires picking it up first, which is extremely uncomfortable to do every time. No. Just no.

I agree, but for a different reason. Today's phones are stupidly fragile and pretty much everyone puts some sort of case on them. I don't get this obsession from phone makers to make increasingly thinner devices, when a large number of end users just put an ugly case on it. Why not make them rugged to begin with?

Would you really rather that rubber/plastic of the case was fused to the phone instead of just separate and replacable?

Re: iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more

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post #127

When the hell is Apple going to finally allow push notifications for the web?

Consider that users don't want notifications. I turn this off on other devices and I'm sure many others also do so.

You don't get notifications when you get a new Email or Social Message? You don't have Facebook/WhatsApp/Email?

If not, then I applaud you. If you do, but keep notifications off, that's kinda respectable too.

But I'm guessing you do get a notification when you get a new text message, chat message or email.

Why should only native apps, that go through a dictatorship approval process from Apple, be allowed to send you notifications.

Of course, you should always be able to say "No" to a site or app sending you notifications. This is the case on Android, as could be the case on Apple.

Progress Web Apps are opening up the potential for developers to spend less time on the *worst* development platforms (xcode and android studio), and more time on their product.

That being said, it would be cool if an app could not "force" notifications to be allowed. Like, you could choose "Allow", "Deny" or "Hide" which would trick the app into thinking you had allowed notifications, but then just not show them.

It would stop bad advert behaviour. Although, on Android, I have never seen this be abused (yet).

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