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iOS 14 is available today

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Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by chooseaname »

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…

That mail bug is annoying. I don't get why Apple can't push their apps out to their app store and update them separately so it doesn't take an iOS update. The only reason I can think of is to force people to always stay on the latest iOS version, but that's anti-user, so surely that's not the reason. ;)

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Post by Angostura »

jhloa2 wrote: post #88
seaghost wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I had quite a few issues 2-3 builds ago but it seems to be really stable now.

Same here. The early betas had a tendency to make my iPhone 7 almost too hot to touch on occasion. That seems to have been sorted.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by wayneftw »

filleokus wrote: post #11
vxNsr wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've always arranged my homescreen to be a single screen with folders for each category of app. makes it much easier to find things. I'm always befuddled when I see ppl with 30 pages of apps.

I just swipe down for Spotlight and use that as an app launcher, so I'll probably love the app drawer. I'm equally baffled by people doing it any other way :-) Do you organise your applications on your computer by category as well?

I organize them by category and I can tap twice faster than you can swipe, type, tap.

This way is easily faster if you have a reasonable number of apps. Typing to find things would only be faster if you had more than say 220 apps. Even if I have to tap, swipe, tap - that would be faster than swipe, type, tap.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by Angostura »

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'm not exactly sure what it does because my Airpods always seemed fairly good at switching between devices as required. We will see.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by mrtksn »

mkskm wrote: post #66
mrtksn wrote: post #46

XCode 12 is also out, taking up over 30GB of space apparently. For reference, XCode 11 was about 10.

What's the reason for the size increase? ARM support?

I am not sure. The download is about 11GB, maybe file system block size plays a role but why would be multiple times larger than before?

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by frosted-flakes »

filleokus wrote: post #11
vxNsr wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've always arranged my homescreen to be a single screen with folders for each category of app. makes it much easier to find things. I'm always befuddled when I see ppl with 30 pages of apps.

I just swipe down for Spotlight and use that as an app launcher, so I'll probably love the app drawer. I'm equally baffled by people doing it any other way :-) Do you organise your applications on your computer by category as well?

Sometimes, yes, but most of the time I launch them from the taskbar or the "frequently used" list in the start menu.

The difference between a phone and a computer is that one has a keyboard, and the other doesn't. Ever since the end of the BlackBerry era, typing on my phone is a slow, error-prone activity, so searching takes longer than the two taps it takes to just select it manually (typing on a BlackBerry was slow too, but at least it was error-free).

I have all my apps categorized in folders in my app drawer (I use Nova Launcher, which lets you create folders there). Then I have two home screen pages, one with all my most-used applications, and the other with all my media players: podcasts, music, Kindle, Libby, YouTube, etc. I use large icons (4x5 per page), so it makes it both easy to find and select any app.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by Angostura »

munk-a wrote: post #81

Oh how exciting - now if they only removed their restriction of OS installations on old devices then maybe I could make use of it. As it is it's just another nail in the coffin for me ever being able to download an app ever again because their app store doesn't do backwards compatibility well and everything needs to go through the app store.

The App Store will indeed let you install previous versions of an app if you have an older device.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by rickyc091 »

tmpz22 wrote: post #85
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 usually delay MacOS updates by at least a month for this very reason.

Surprisingly, both Big Sur and iOS 14 are pretty stable this time around. I haven't had any issues with my dev tools since the first public release.
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