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Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by threeseed »

Teckla wrote: post #36
google234123 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a user, please no.

As long as you could approve or reject push notifications on a site by site basis, what is the problem here?

Because the majority of people don't know how to adjust app notifications. And the rest of us don't want to adjust it for every single rogue web site.

Apple vets apps for their use of push notifications and will warn/ban them if they use them excessively or for advertising purposes. Obviously they can't do the same for PWA.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by mkskm »

applecore wrote: post #10

I'm surprised that AirPods didn't support automatic device switching until now. I assumed a lot of people with AirPods would want to switch the audio seamlessly between their iPhone and an iPad or Mac. Any idea why it took so long to ship this feature?

I am really looking forward to this feature. Maybe I'm alone in this but I have constant connection issues switching between my Mac and phone when using AirPods (especially frustrating when answering calls).

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by threeseed »

bitsoda wrote: post #13

Apple seems to be at least 3 hours behind schedule as there's no sign of it here on the East Coast, yet.

It's been available for developers who were on the beta track for nearly a day now.

I suspect they are just progressively rolling it out.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

#54

Post by submeta »

snazz wrote: post #45
submeta wrote: post #26

Do we have to fear that some of our apps might not work on iOS 14?

It’s always possible, but people (including me) have been running beta versions since June or July and have already reported any issues with third-party apps. Even my bank app worked the very first time on iOS 14, even though it didn’t on the iOS 13 betas.

Oh, shoot, didn‘t think about my banking and authenticator app. Mission critical software.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by noncoml »

vxNsr wrote: post #8

As usual you're probably better off waiting for iOS 14.1 that will be out next week to clear up whatever UX breaking bugs they didn't catch during beta in this version.

I've been using 14 beta for a while now, and have to say I am impressed at the low number of bugs I encountered so far.

For earlier releases I would go back to the main release only a few days after trying the beta due to bugs.

My impression is that 14 beta had fewer bugs than the first official 13.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

#56

Post by radley »

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…

It's up

Re: iOS 14 is available today

#57

Post by t0mbstone »

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!

Re: iOS 14 is available today

#58

Post by seaghost »

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!

I’m using developer beta since the first release 0 issues both system and app wise.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by Zippogriff »

Teckla wrote: post #36
google234123 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a user, please no.

As long as you could approve or reject push notifications on a site by site basis, what is the problem here?

1) I don't want to see the prompts to allow push notifications from a webapp, nor to have to go disable them. I just never want them.

2) Generally I'd rather none of the software I use be webtech, so anything that makes it easier to deliver webtech to my phone/tablet is a step the wrong direction. Yes I'm willing to have less total software in exchange. The point is that I don't want apps that are or will be native, to be webtech instead, which may happen as more features are added to webapps. IMO allowing stuff like React Native and Phonegap is something I'd even rather they didn't do (and I've been paid to develop both native and React Native apps, plus worked on a very early and somewhat successful Phonegap-but-more-native solution that ultimately fizzled out). My ideal situation is that if anyone tells me to try out some app or to use some app to communicate or share something with them or whatever, personal or business, it's a webapp 0% of the time. It's either native or it doesn't exist, so no-one can bug me about it or cajole me into using it.

In short, my UX on iOS is better without them even being possible, so why would I prefer they be allowed?

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by codezero »

threeseed wrote: post #40
applecore wrote: post #10

I'm surprised that AirPods didn't support automatic device switching until now. I assumed a lot of people with AirPods would want to switch the audio seamlessly between their iPhone and an iPad or Mac. Any idea why it took so long to ship this feature?

Because ever since the first Airpods I was able to jump on any of my devices and change it from Speaker to Airpods and it would instantly switch. I didn't need to unpair or disconnect from one device before it was usable by another like I do with my Sony 1000MX3.

Yep. I had this experience. It was for some reason, REALLY good when AirPods just came out, and seemed to degrade with subsequent macOS updates (In particular, I had more trouble switching between phone and laptop later, but not much trouble between phone and iPad).

I recently got some bone conducting headphones which have the dual bluetooth built in, and that is even more seamless - literally just plays the audio from the active device, though it's not perfectly accurate, and gets really confused by Spotify doing off-device play, but it's clearly nicer than even having to choose the output channel.

Looking forward to trying this out w/ my AirPods though.

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