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Post by culopatin »

city41 wrote: post #246
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.

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.

Android got night light even before Apple did, you could just set it at high intensity, but I’m sure you know this.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by Uupis »

knolan wrote: post #3

No sign of it here yet. I’m curious if it fixed some of the unpleasant behaviour and bugs that were never fixed in iOS 13. Things like Mail not displaying new emails properly unless your went out and back into the mailbox. The keyboard autocorrecting to random names aggressively and inserting capital letters if you dare move the cursor. All new behaviours introduced with iOS 13 that adversely affect the user experien…

I've had to switch to FastMail app with iOS 14, because Mail.app sends emails from the wrong alias – from an address other than what's selected in the From field. I thought I'd messed up, but no, Mail.app just doesn't work correctly. Befuddling.

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Post by bb101 »

geektips wrote: post #127
Sangeppato wrote: post #123

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Sure, on Android you don't have to worry about updates because you don't get them. (Coming from an Android user)

It depends on the manufacturer, Android one users get security updates every month

Android One held lots of potential, but Google managed to stuff that up too. They need to wrestle back control over the OS from the OEMs. Until they do, Android handsets will be disposable beyond a life of 2 years.

Ironically, a company that understands that model is Microsoft. It's a pity they aren't competition for Apple in this space yet. As an iPhone/Macbook Pro/iPad user, I am eyeing the Surface Go 2 w/WSL as a potential future replacement for the iPad.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by bb101 »

coldtea wrote: post #174
rdschouw wrote: post #122

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Same. Whenever Apple announces a new major version, it’s time for me to disable auto-update on all my Apple devices. iOS 13 was particularly bad and I waited until January. I hope they did a better job with 14.

What exactly problems do people have with iOS 13? I always here some complains here and there. but, as with Catalina, never had any issue. Is it specific apps?

Catalina is a dumpster fire compared to Mojave.

Waking up a Macbook Pro with two USB-C monitors plugged in, only one monitor comes on. I have to fiddle around by opening the laptop's lid or pressing Ctrl-Shift-Eject and waking it up again from scratch for all the monitors to respond.

Leave Catalina running too long, its Watchdog process times out and it has a kernel panic. During the night every two or three days. After booting and reporting to Apple (again), it's time to rearrange all the windows and reopen all the documents I was working on, again.

Inadequate is the polite way of describing it.

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Post by artemave »

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…

> People rarely criticize Apple for the products themselves

Apple prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrducts smetimes prrrrrevent them frrrrrrrrrm ding s

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Post by IgorPartola »

dividedbyzero wrote: post #171
IgorPartola wrote: post #164

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I’ve been running the betas for a few weeks. The only issue I had was the calendar app not updating the month label as you scroll. Some potentially weird performance glitches that didn’t impede anything I was doing and got ironed out in later betas. Overall, easiest iOS upgrade so far. But I totally get where you are coming from. I have a horror story about several conservative versions of iOS that would constantly r…

Would you mind sharing what the culprit was? This sounds really curious.

Basically it had to do with recurring events in an Outlook calendar. The protocol which was used to connect that calendar to the iOS calendar app would specify the end date of the recurrence as NULL and every night the calendar app would do some kind of processing of future events (I am fuzzy on the details here), and that NULL value would cause a crash that resulted all the way in a kernel panic. Wiping the device clean and trying to isolate which app was the problem was useless since I’d connect all my calendars from a backup automatically and then the resets would start again. It followed from one device to another because I shared my calendar with my wife and so her iPhone and iPad eventually caught this affliction too (which made it seem like my phone infected hers). And it was impossible for me to reproduce since it only happened during whatever the calendar app was doing and when it hit whatever recurring event was causing the trouble. In the end, after countless searches, posts on various social media sites seeing if anyone else had this problem, and bug reports to Apple I came across a Stack Overflow post that described kernel panics caused by the calendar app and said something about Outlook calendars specifically. So I went and disabled that calendar on one of the devices and the issue didn’t return. So eventually I got ahold of higher tier support at Apple and they had me talk to an engineer who took down careful notes. In a few months a point iOS release came out and made a vague reference to fixing calendar app bugs. The issue never recurred after and I never heard anything from Apple about it again, though they did promise to follow up. In either case I’m happy. Having your phone that you use as an alarm flashing and buzzing all night as it reboots every 90 seconds isn’t good for getting sleep.

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Post by erdaniels »

twodayslate wrote: post #119
erdaniels wrote: post #99

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It’s still not in yet. Been waiting for it all beta as the #1 feature. Going to guess it will be in 14.1

Your favorite apps might just need to get updated to support the new feature.

Yep you are correct. I assumed it would just have worked. Just updated Firefox and it's the default! Sweet relief!

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Post by mint2 »

apexalpha wrote: post #363
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…

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. :-(

Which model had the slot? Like the original? I started with the 5 and it didn’t have one but I’ve always been hampered by the lack of space.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by wittyreference »

jackdeansmith wrote: post #124
t0mbstone wrote: post #57

I'm not touching that update with a 10 foot pole. Not until it's been live for at least a week, and developers have had a chance to actually update their apps for it! Honestly, that's just good policy on all Apple updates lately. It seems that more and more of them have been plagued with issues and are trailed by hotfixes. I've learned to just wait a while. Other people can be the test guinea pigs!

From a user perspective, this release is super solid. I'm not going to be updating to Big Sur any time soon, but I'm running iOS 14 everywhere now and haven't had any trouble

My XS is running noticeably slower upon upgrading.
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