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Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by city41 »

davchana wrote: post #285
city41 wrote: post #246

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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.

Yeah Android has some features and apps in this space. This iOS mode is an accessibility feature. I guess for some people a pure red screen helps them see it better?

This feature is not intended as a "night mode", it's very extreme. It also makes anything that has no red channel in its color disappear (although this is rare). I found it's a better night mode than actual night modes. But it's best if you're just reading text, for video or games it's probably too extreme.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by 1_player »

zaroth wrote: post #336
arsome wrote: post #329

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Apple: where it's not a problem with their hardware, it's a problem with your ears.

To be clear, it’s the same for me with any in-ear buds that don’t have the silicone flap thing that I first found on the Bose QuietComfort headphones. That earbud style just fundamentally doesn’t work for some anatomical reason in a percentage of the population.

Good to know, I wanted to buy some AirPods but I'm another one that can only fit BOSE IEMs. I guess I'll pass.

Does anybody else with "wrong" ears used to get awful outside ear pain with the old all plastic iPhone earbuds? I physically cringe in pain just looking at them.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by apexalpha »

shaan7 wrote: post #337
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…

> People love to criticize Apple, but man do they do some wonderful things for their customers. People rarely criticize Apple for the products themselves. Apple gets criticism because of the "weird" (for lack of a better word) restrictions on the products. I've stopped using a Mac for quite a while now - but I recall examples - when the first Macbooks came without a optical drive you could buy an external one. But it…

Apple found out people were using SD cards to expand the storage on their Macbooks in stead of buying the higher storage options... few years later the SD card slot is dropped entirely.

Even the immense photo and video/graphics userbase of Apple wasn't enough to stop the SD card slot removal. :-(

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by Razengan »

hnarn wrote: post #120
SamuelAdams wrote: post #79

From the update: "Option to set your default email and web browser". Finally!

It’s a step in the right direction, but honestly, what’s really the point when all browsers are just wrappers around Safari anyway.

> what’s really the point when all browsers are just wrappers around Safari anyway.

I think one of the reasons may be to enforce the global settings for parent controls and privacy etc. which would be hard with third-party engines.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by Razengan »

sexpositivepriv wrote: post #257
giovannibajo1 wrote: post #176

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That’s a tech-centric view. For most people a browser is defined by its features like tab handling, account syncing, preferences, extensions, etc. Nobody cares about the HTML engine, only developers. The fact that it’s possible to change the default browser is an important user-level feature.

It is not remotely a tech centric view. People want things to work. Stuff doesn't work in Safari because it's missing features. User's also want to pay less. PWAs let companies skip the app store and therefore skip paying apple 30% of their transactions which means cheaper prices for users. If apple allowed other browser engines those engines would have PWA support.

> User's also want to pay less.

If that's all they wanted they would buy an Android.

> PWAs let companies skip the app store and therefore skip paying apple 30% of their transactions which means cheaper prices for users.

Exactly, this is what this is all about: companies wanting to milk users for more money and maximize their own profits, not that they actually care about the users.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by Razengan »

burntcookie90 wrote: post #114
divbzero wrote: post #102

Any Android users have insight into the uptake on Instant Apps [1] over the past three years? I’ll be curious how they and the new App Clips [2] in iOS 14 will evolve versus web apps. [1]: https://developer.android.com/topic/google-play-instant [2]: https://developer.apple.com/app-clips/

minimal to no usage, i expect to see `app-clips` deprecated by iOS 15

Favoriting this comment to revisit in a year. I hope you will be here too. :)

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by singularity2001 »

ObsoleteNerd wrote: post #290
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 be…

Your “low light” filter is an unneccessary hack: just use the 'reduce whitepoint' feature and add it to power-button menu for quick access.

... which doesn't help the mayor annoyance that safari still doesn't support dark mode! (FF to the rescue)

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by ayyy »

irrational wrote: post #354
perardi wrote: post #267

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If someone is calling me, without texting first, I assume that either (a) my boss wants me immediately, or (b) someone is in the hospital.

Probably a generational thing. I get far more phone calls than texts. I’d think it was super weird if a friend texted me before calling me.

Both seem fine to me. Maybe I'm "middle aged" now.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by madeofpalk »

samatman wrote: post #351
shaan7 wrote: post #337

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> People love to criticize Apple, but man do they do some wonderful things for their customers. People rarely criticize Apple for the products themselves. Apple gets criticism because of the "weird" (for lack of a better word) restrictions on the products. I've stopped using a Mac for quite a while now - but I recall examples - when the first Macbooks came without a optical drive you could buy an external one. But it…

I hear you. The headphone jack on the phone, I can actually see it. Not a lot of real estate inside a phone, and they wanted people to try AirPods (which I love, and might not have tried if it weren't for the missing jack). But... no headphone jack on a 13" tablet? I edit movies on there sometimes and I grumble every time I dust off the dongle to plug in a mic for voiceovers. But, no, people criticize Apple for every…

> Not a lot of real estate inside a phone

iPhone got thicker and bigger when they removed the headphone jack.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by Cro_on »

scottkrager wrote: post #261
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.

I take screenshots often as reminders, to annotate, etc. I setup a double-tap as an action to take a screenshot. So much faster then the older methods. You get some false positives, but really handy productivity hack.

i use the power button (which i wouldn't ordinarily use) so it's a single tap on the screen and done
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