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iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by kemayo »

hkc wrote: post #317
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

Begone is better than Number Shield plus its free. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/begone-call-blocker/id15968181...

I've been using Number Shield since long before Begone existed, so I can't really comment on their comparison.

...though the creator of Begone will hopefully realize that every entry in its version-history starting with that same rant about fake ad campaigns is making it look more sketchy than ignoring the issue would.

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Post by username223 »

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.…

> …it’s me isn’t it? This sounds like old man yells at cloud speak.

Not just you. Other than the automatic OCR of chunks of text in the camera, I can't think of a major feature in the last few years' iOS updates that I have enjoyed and regularly used. Apple used to produce surprisingly stable and snappy software on an OS that didn't have protected memory and ran on a toaster (Mac OS How about if, instead of making buttons harder to identify, Apple fixed the Podcasts app to take fewer than five seconds to load the "downloaded episodes" list? Or to hang and crash less often? Or to not randomly require an internet connection to play downloaded episodes? Or to make the "Listen Now" thing less of an opaque AI-driven roulette wheel of uselessness?

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Post by karmelapple »

JaneLovesDotNet wrote: post #250
gnicholas wrote: post #249

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I viewed this as a signal that the island is not going away anytime soon. It's like they told the team: "how can we make it seem like the notch/island is a good thing, like we did it on purpose?" I don't mind how it looks/operates, and it's definitely nicer seeming than the notch it replaces.

Right. It's very commital, which I find a bit surprising.

Not surprising to me at all. Cameras fully behind a screen without a hole punch seems pretty unlikely, and this allows Apple to add cutouts for other sensors in the future and hide them nicely.

Perhaps there are ideas for AR-related aspects of this eventually?

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Post by laundermaf »

MBCook wrote: post #258
scottydelta wrote: post #91

I recently published an article[1] on How Apple could improve the VPNs experience on iOS. I hope someone at Apple finally decides to improve it on the next update. It surprises me how Apple continues to add a lot of fancy feature and ignore basic day to day usability features like these. [1] https://medium.com/@contact_54652/how-can-apple-improve-the-...

VPNs are not an everyday feature for the vast majority of users.

True, but I wager they’re vastly more popular than you think, considering the amount of VPN advertising of the last few years. We’re not talking about PGP here.

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Post by jlmendezbonini »

kemayo wrote: post #184
the_mar wrote: post #110

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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.

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

Interesting. Anyone knows what API they are using or how they are achieving this? It’d have thought that this would not be possible.

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by dntrkv »

thedougd wrote: post #311
noncoml wrote: post #23

Apple, for iOS 17 can you please let me freely rearrange the apps on the screen? Having them shuffle every time I add or remove an app is really a pain

Most painful part of switching from an Android phone. I could always find an app, alphabetically, in one swipe from whatever I was doing.

Swipe down on the home screen and type in the app name.

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Post by saagarjha »

layer8 wrote: post #215
Eric_WVGG wrote: post #77

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I just bought a 13 Mini about an hour ago (waiting for the $100 price drop)… don't get the 12 Mini, you're really gonna want that extra battery life

Also the RAM sizes doubled from 12 to 13.

No, they did not.

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by [deleted] »

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.…

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Post by bcraven »

speg wrote: post #277
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.…

Oh come on. Bad? Shame? I don’t know about you but my thumb is always at the bottom of the screen. Why would I want to reach all the way to the top to reach the address bar?

When browsing I spend the most time interacting with the page, not with the address bar. Thus I want the page to be covering the easiest part of the screen to reach: the bottom.
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