Any of the awful UX functions been rolled back? Notifications and the bluetooth menus are an abomination.
Bluetooth menu structure is god-tier compared to how it used to be, what do you mean "abomination"?
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#82For the Focus feature, I find it a bit unexpected that someone messaging me can tell if I'm Driving, Sleeping, Coding, or Reading, etc. Does anyone else find this a bit strange/awkward? I know you can turn it off (and I did) within iMessage, but it seems a bit poorly considered. Curious if people like that aspect of the feature!
It will show your contact that you have notifications silenced, not which Focus mode you activated.
It certainly CAN show that though. "Would you like your contacts to know you are driving and unavailable?"
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
If they used an XPS people might accidentally realize that you don't need a notch to put a camera at the top of your screen.
Dell uses a low quality 720p camera on their XPS line. And the notch gives them room for a future FaceID sensor stack.
> And the notch gives them room for a future FaceID sensor stack
If that's really the reason, why not just delay putting the notch on until they're actually doing that?
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#84For the Focus feature, I find it a bit unexpected that someone messaging me can tell if I'm Driving, Sleeping, Coding, or Reading, etc. Does anyone else find this a bit strange/awkward? I know you can turn it off (and I did) within iMessage, but it seems a bit poorly considered. Curious if people like that aspect of the feature!
The first time i opened Messages on iOS 15 is prompted me for if I wanted to alert contacts when i'm on do not disturb, and there's an option in settings to toggle it as well.
you can toggle it per contact so I have it on for my wife but no one else.
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#85I'm still on Mojave. Is it possible to jump versions, or must I upgrade incrementally?
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#86Betting that the next incremental update will be named macOS Carmel.
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#87Any of the awful UX functions been rolled back? Notifications and the bluetooth menus are an abomination.
been using since first public betas months ago. hated this for a couple weeks, but then once I realized it how it unified everything in one place, now I love it. It took a while for me to adjust to though.
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#88How stable is Monterey for those that have been using it? Ironically I just upgraded to Big Sur yesterday from Catalina. I think I'll probably wait again to let 3rd-party apps catch up.
Been better than Big Sur so far for me, on 16". Have had temperature issues with Big Sur, resulting in decreased perf due to clocking down (even with TG Pro). Now consistently 5-10 degrees cooler and less fan noise. Using "Intel Power gadget" to see the CPU frequency. EDIT: I did not install it until the RC.
I had the same experience. I installed the RC and it has been working surprisingly smoothly on my intel macbook pro (15’’ 2018)
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only if you have no sense of humor :). Reminds me of how hugely offended some people were that the icon for a Windows PC in Mac OS X’s network browser was a blue screened monitor.
I can be not offended and still feel it to be petty.
I found it absolutely hilarious when it was done about 15 years ago. That was when we Apple users were pretty much the underdogs and expected the platform to die any day.
But now that Windows users feel threatened by Apple and are sensitive about this, it should probably be changed. Although it's a fun relic of the olden times.
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#90So Private Relay is available on both iOS and macOS stable releases now.
Have there been expert opinions about how private this is? I understand they built a Tor-light, by hopping through one Apple server, then one external server, with some sort of anonymisation between the two?