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iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by fomine3 »

Jtsummers wrote: post #21
alwillis wrote: post #18

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Apparently, the reason Apple dropped support for iPhone 7 is performance on the new lock screen. It’s more likely the fact the iPhone 7 only has 2GB of RAM and two cores, not to mention missing the Neural Engine, the image processor and other features on Apple’s latest SoCs that iOS 16 requires for some of its features. Most of major features of iOS 16 would have to be removed to run on an iPhone 7.

I was looking at that, the iPhone 8 (supported) has a 6-core CPU, 4 high efficiency cores, but also 2GB of RAM in the plain iPhone 8, 3GB in the Plus. So if it's anything, it'll be in the GPU or the 2 extra cores, that marks the critical differentiator for performance.

Notably iPhone7 uses A10 that is last gen using PowerVR GPU

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by fomine3 »

ezfe wrote: post #218
Kkoala wrote: post #155

As a non-iOS user it looks like a great update, but at the same time I thought that many of these were already features like in Android

Sure, but if you look at Android 13 it's basically all things that are already in iOS From the list, I only see two features that don't have equals already in iOS - both related to Material You. https://blog.google/products/android/android-13/

As who hate auto rotate feature on smartphone/tablet, I'm waiting for Apple copy this https://www.droid-life.com/2018/04/12/android-ps-new-navigat...

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by lotsofpulp »

Jtsummers wrote: post #303
Jcowell wrote: post #299

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But it is an option.

Yeah, for the curious go to Settings -> Safari (perfectly natural place) and then scroll down to "TABS". "Single Tab" has the address bar at the top.

You do not have to go in Setting. In Safari, tap the “aA” on the left in address bar, and then select top or bottom address bar.

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by TuringNYC »

the_mar wrote: post #110
avtar wrote: post #10

Apple’s call and sms spam filtering remains subpar to say the least. When I had a Pixel, I had the option to let the OS transcribe what the potential spammer was saying and end the call. It’s puzzling why Apple isn’t doing more here.

Boy do i have a lifehack for you. Buy a phone number with a random area code, like ohio or something, all the spam calls come from surrounding area codes.

OK, so basically if you have a 650-64 Palo Alto number, you'd block half the VCs in the world. If you have a lower Manhattan 212 number, you'd block a quarter of all finance recruiters? (granted, the latter has moved to Linked In)

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by twobitshifter »

MR4D wrote: post #42
avtar wrote: post #10

Apple’s call and sms spam filtering remains subpar to say the least. When I had a Pixel, I had the option to let the OS transcribe what the potential spammer was saying and end the call. It’s puzzling why Apple isn’t doing more here.

Select "Silence unknown callers" and you're done. Last month I had a flurry of spam texts and calls. I moved the slider to the "enable" side a few weeks ago and have had zero issues since.

I forgot this was turned on and missed a call from a recruiter once.

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by username223 »

dmd wrote: post #237
kemayo wrote: post #184

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There's a useful iOS app called Number Shield that lets you block all calls coming from numbers that match the first six digits of your phone number. That's the most common spoofing technique, so it really does help. E.g. if your number is (555)555-1234 it'll block anything from (555)555-0000 to (555)555-9999. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/number-shield/id1319082167

It's funny how 30 years ago, probably 90% of my actual phone calls were with numbers that matched the first six digits of my own. Now that number is 0%.

So true! Area codes (and first three digits) used to indicate where you were. Now, more often than not, they indicate where you bought your first cell phone, i.e. where you lived around the year 2000 for us oldsters.

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by bergenty »

MR4D wrote: post #42
avtar wrote: post #10

Apple’s call and sms spam filtering remains subpar to say the least. When I had a Pixel, I had the option to let the OS transcribe what the potential spammer was saying and end the call. It’s puzzling why Apple isn’t doing more here.

Select "Silence unknown callers" and you're done. Last month I had a flurry of spam texts and calls. I moved the slider to the "enable" side a few weeks ago and have had zero issues since.

What is unknown? Someone not in your contacts? That’s just not feasible, I receive a lot of first time callers especially from work.

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by bergenty »

Waterluvian wrote: post #193

Is anyone else anxious about updates? I used to be so pumped for them when I was a teen. They’d unlock a world of new opportunities. Now I just feel anxious that there’s change for change sake to justify the resourcing of the design teams and that they’ll make things I’m used to worse all for a bunch of features I’ll never use or want. I don’t want more features. There’s so many already and they’re really cluttering.…

Why would you want the address bar at the top?

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by arbirk »

dmd wrote: post #237
kemayo wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a useful iOS app called Number Shield that lets you block all calls coming from numbers that match the first six digits of your phone number. That's the most common spoofing technique, so it really does help. E.g. if your number is (555)555-1234 it'll block anything from (555)555-0000 to (555)555-9999. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/number-shield/id1319082167

It's funny how 30 years ago, probably 90% of my actual phone calls were with numbers that matched the first six digits of my own. Now that number is 0%.

I wish I could block all calls from UK. Since brexit all spam calls that comes through are from there sadly

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by patch_cable »

btown wrote: post #316
jdadj wrote: post #82

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Indeed, but the lock-in potential of passkeys [1] is concerning. [1] https://www.fastcompany.com/90755838/theres-a-big-problem-wi...

> FIDO’s current proposal has no mechanism for bulk-transferring passkeys between ecosystems. If you want to switch from an Android phone to an iPhone—or vice versa—you won’t be able to easily move all your passkeys over. Allowing each tenant to move thousands of highly-sensitive internal tokens to a competitor is something the credit card processing industry, somewhat surprisingly, has more or less solved. Most cred…

There isn’t really a standard beyond processors publish an OpenPGP and you negotiate over support tickets to determine where an encrypted file can be delivered.

There is no standard for the file format used to exchange data. Could be JSON, CSV, Excel, etc.

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