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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 WastingMyTime89 »

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.…

Generally iOS is quite conservative in its update. They also tend to port the most useful/popular features of the various Android and Android custom launchers with a bit of lag so things are already quite ironed out when they land.

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by hahnchen »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #32

Passkeys gonna be fire. Goodbye password managers, credential stuffing, and phishing attacks! (photo deduplication is nice too btw, been a long time coming)

Someone correct me if I'm wrong. But, does WebAuthn really improve authentication? With WebAuthn, instead of a secret password, you store a secret key. Why not just use really long passwords behind password managers? You're using some software to save a secret in either case.

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by WastingMyTime89 »

username223 wrote: post #342
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 bu…

App Library is a huge improvement particularly the Niagara-like list. Control center was also significantly improved and notifications are still lagging Android a bit but are getting better and better with each release.

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by i67vw3 »

swyx wrote: post #333
alwillis wrote: post #295

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just use the free version of Truecaller: https://apps.apple.com/app/id448142450

appreciated this rec. trying it out, so far looks legit. always worried that these things are free (so what data of mine are they selling) but the permissions seem locked down

Truecaller is not bad in some areas like EU, US etc as there are strong privacy laws. They have slightly different versions based on the country and jurisdiction.

But where there are no strong privacy laws like india, truecaller is straight up spyware

https://restofworld.org/2022/how-truecaller-built-a-billion-...

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by username223 »

WastingMyTime89 wrote: post #353
username223 wrote: post #342

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> …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 bu…

App Library is a huge improvement particularly the Niagara-like list. Control center was also significantly improved and notifications are still lagging Android a bit but are getting better and better with each release.

App Library is a perfect demonstration of the adage that "Artificial Intelligence isn't." Mine has Audible, Clock, Settings, and Contacts in the first box, Craigslist, WhatsApp, something I don't recognize, and a folder of crap I don't use in the second, DDG, the App Store, Calculator, and another folder of crap in the third... Why would I ever use this?

EDIT: If it were marginally "intelligent," it would have a box for "listening to stuff" (Podcasts, Music, Audible, ...), "reading stuff" (DDG, Safari, Books, ...), "scheduling" (Calendar, Reminders, ...), etc. But I don't need AI constantly figuring these things out. I can put those apps in folders or known places on my home screen once, and never have to worry about them wandering around because an AI was trying to be helpful.

From Apple's support documentation (https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/find-your-apps-in-app...): "The apps in App Library are organized in categories intelligently, based on how you use your apps. You can add apps in App Library to the Home Screen, but you can’t move them to another category in App Library." So I can't even make it less useless. Great.

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by faangiq »

JaneLovesDotNet wrote: post #246

Anyone surprised by the Island notch software/hardware design? I don't mean the idea of a pill shaped notch. But the fact they're pouring so much software resource into it (even building dev tools) when the shape/size of that cutout should in theory change in the future when technology allows for smaller (or non-existent) cutouts. They will either feel commited to that hardware design and stick to it longer than they…

They’ve committed to obviously bad choices before like the touchbar.

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by jsz0 »

l72 wrote: post #98

Still no ability to have separate accounts on an ipad... I sort of understand that a phone is a single user OS, but the ipad most certainly should be a multi user OS.

I wonder how many children have been traumatized by accidentally seeing their parents Messages on a shared iPad.

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by bloomark »

LTL_FTC wrote: post #262
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.

I must be extra lucky because I receive calls from all over the US and beyond. Just yesterday I received one from Brazil.

I have a 972 number. Caller ID recently made it look like I'd received calls from Israel and Peru, but it was had dropped the US country code (+1) and making it look like the calls were from +971 (Israel) and +51x (Peru).
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