A Hands-On Walkthrough of the New Features in iOS 9.3 and tvOS 9.2

[Thunderhawks]

9.3 should easily have been 9.0. Can't believe 3D touch is missing on so many apps in the original 9.0. Apple is getting so sloppy and just pushing out half-baked products.

Since you know NOTHING about the inner workings at Apple and how they arrive at their decision making of what to release when, your comment is at best uninformed.

You could go back to an IOS you liked or switch to Android. Or, leave Apple products altogether since they are half baked.

It would be better to bring up a few examples for half baked, instead of generically painting everything they do as bad.

I have my pet Apple peeves, but overall their products work great for me.
(And have been since 1984)

One thing that helps is not to expect a perfect world.
Maybe one has to be an old geezer like me without entitlement attitude to understand that.

 

[C64]

Does anyone have the source of the iPhone wallpaper from the video?

 

[Popeye206]

One thing I think would be very cool for AppleTV is a universal guide like what you would see on Cable. It would be great if it could list show universal channel guide, what's on, whats available through Apps and any shows that are live streaming now from any network App at the moment. Of course, anything you wanted to see you should just be able to select it from the guide and have the host app launch automatically. This way you could have way to surf what's on that's very natural to many people. Now you have to know what you're looking for, or go fishing in every app to see what's on.

This came from trying to explain to my wife's sister how they may be able to dump cable soon and use something like the Apple TV... and even though we could find 95% of the things they watch, they really wanted a channel guide so they could see what's on that day for that occasional surfing.

It would be great to see such an app. If anyone found something like this, let me know.

 

[ZebraDude]

With Split View, Content Blockers and now Night Shift, iOS 9.X is going to be an awesome year for the iPad Air platform. And they said 64-bit would make no difference with less than 4GB RAM.

to be clear no split view for the iPad Air 1 I believe.

 

[Gudi]

I don't know if it's Steve Jobs not being there we have to thank for this or not, but I'm so glad to see Apple starting to let the iPhone do all the nice touches and things for people that were locked out so much in the past that if you wanted this type of thing you either had to go to another brand or jailbreak.

Nothing has changed really. You still have to do a jailbreak, if you want to run flu.x in the background. The strict regime which made iOS energy-efficient and secure is still intact. And the user is still limited to a few options Apple specifically allowed. Night Shift now added to the feature list.

 

[markandrew20]

I would like Apple to slow down a bit and just make iOS 9 go until 9.9 and make it stable as hell

Then they would release 10.0 and then we would be back to square one. We are never going to win!!!

 

[Gudi]

to be clear no split view for the iPad Air 1 I believe.

No Split View, but Slide Over and Picture-in-Picture for the iPad Air 1. So it is somewhat limited by it's 1GB memory, but the 32-bit iPad 4 with the same amount of memory is getting none of these features. The processor architecture really is the great divider in feature availability.

 

[gaximus]

Users for iPad in school is great, but I want Users for iOS in general. For instance, when my daughter picks up my iPhone/iPad, she should be able to use Touch ID to unlock the device into HER User, which has restrictions enabled (no unlimited web access, no IAPs, etc), only certain apps visible (her games,) her notes, her photo album, etc. Then, if I use Touch ID on the device, it opens into MY User, with all of my settings (and administrative control over her User.)

This will probably never happen. Why would Apple make it so you don't have to buy more stuff. And their reasoning, and probably true, is that it'll ruin the user experience. Not as much storage per user, lag time between switching users. It would be a lot of extra work for them with no benefit.

 

[oneMadRssn]

And how does multiple users on an iPad help sell more iPads? Wouldn't that mean less sales???

Families that are waiting for this feature that haven't previously purchased an iPad might be pushed over the fence finally. The cost of two iPads is too high, but the cost of one iPad is acceptable if the usage can be efficiently split.

 

[gaximus]

One thing I think would be very cool for AppleTV is a universal guide like what you would see on Cable. It would be great if it could list show universal channel guide, what's on, whats available through Apps and any shows that are live streaming now from any network App at the moment. Of course, anything you wanted to see you should just be able to select it from the guide and have the host app launch automatically. This way you could have way to surf what's on that's very natural to many people. Now you have to know what you're looking for, or go fishing in every app to see what's on.

This came from trying to explain to my wife's sister how they may be able to dump cable soon and use something like the Apple TV... and even though we could find 95% of the things they watch, they really wanted a channel guide so they could see what's on that day for that occasional surfing.

It would be great to see such an app. If anyone found something like this, let me know.

This could easily be done in an app. Just select all the apps that you have, or want displayed. And the app would make the guide. The only problem would be its a massive amount of shows to list, since there is no limit to what is currently showing.

 

[Popeye206]

This could easily be done in an app. Just select all the apps that you have, or want displayed. And the app would make the guide. The only problem would be its a massive amount of shows to list, since there is no limit to what is currently showing.

Nice input... but sure, there's a limit to what's showing.... some of the apps allow you to watch "live broadcasts" along with their library of titles. So this app would show "whats on right then" as well as what's coming in the upcoming hours. Just like your cable box, but only on apps installed or available. Again... would be nice.

 

[rfrmac]

As for things the Apple TV needs, the big one with me is to be able to use Siri to select any movie I have in my iTunes. Not just the ones that I have purchased through the iTunes Store. This should have been in the first release. Now you have to go to Computer and look for the movie. I have movies that I have used Handbrake, training videos, and others that I have created. If the Apple TV is to be a hub, it has to have this feature.

 

[Altis]

Why not just give us a dark theme integrated?

Who in the world likes waking up to an eye-scarring white alarm clock app with thin light-grey font...

Going to black backgrounds will help your eyes far more.

 

[divad1978]

I'd like the ability to turn on Low Power Mode permanently.

 

[bn-7bc]

I'd like the ability to turn on Low Power Mode permanently.

Same here why does itneedto be auto-dissabled when I tur it on manuaky?

 

[laurim]

I want Siri voice control for HomeKit devices. Seems silly to need to use my iPhone to operate my home theater when there is Siri on the TV remote. Apple really let Amazon run away with this with the Echo. I guess it will be another instance of someone else doing it first and (hopefully) Apple doing it better later. I'm tired of waiting for the HomeKit AND cable cutting that the TV was supposed to do by now.

 

[nfl46]

PASSWORD PROTECTED NOTES! Finally, now do the same for Messenger App, and Settings App. Crossing fingers for iOS 10 to bring this

Yep, I think it will be systemwide with iOS 10. You'll be able to password protect any apps. DEF think hoping this will happen.

 

[friedmud]

I know some people who were outraged that they couldn't use a keyboard with the new AppleTV. Seeing as how you can use the remote app, I couldn't understand their frustration.

The Remote App didn't work when ATV4 was released either. They just fixed that recently.
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One thing I think would be very cool for AppleTV is a universal guide like what you would see on Cable. It would be great if it could list show universal channel guide, what's on, whats available through Apps and any shows that are live streaming now from any network App at the moment. Of course, anything you wanted to see you should just be able to select it from the guide and have the host app launch automatically. This way you could have way to surf what's on that's very natural to many people. Now you have to know what you're looking for, or go fishing in every app to see what's on.

This came from trying to explain to my wife's sister how they may be able to dump cable soon and use something like the Apple TV... and even though we could find 95% of the things they watch, they really wanted a channel guide so they could see what's on that day for that occasional surfing.

It would be great to see such an app. If anyone found something like this, let me know.

Won't happen: Apple is positioning Siri with universal search as a replacement for the "guide".

With SO MUCH content the guide would be ridiculous (much like it already is on satellite/cable).

It will be a bit until everything is hooked up with universal search, but once it is it will be much better

 

[jlasoon]

Actually even the "ignored" ATV 3 got better with more channels. Since it was impossible to for an App Store, that was the next best thing.

After years and years of waiting for the AppleTV to get better I finally broke down and bought an Android device just a few weeks ago. My first one actually. The AppleTV 4 I bought and returned soon after release left a bitter taste in my mouth when it comes to Apple. Sure the Android TV interface isn't as elegant (I expect that to improve as the platform evolves), and some apps are a little harder to come by. But in the end the Nvidia Shield TV has a Plex app, plays Original BluRays flawlessly, passes through the lossless audio (DTS-HD & Dolby Digital+), is smooth as hell, plays lossless Music, and they just ported Metal Gear Rising to the platform. The games on this thing are quite remarkable considering the platform.

The only thing I can say is if this little device is indicative of what Android will become - I'm excited.

 

[elmaco]

Nice that we get some multiple users support.

I like to have four accounts, that I can select easily when I log in.

Private
With pictures, text and apps I use.

Work
VPN connection, work mail, work calendar, encrypted, wipe account remotely.

Guest
When somebody wants to lend my phone. Cleared with every new login.

Kids
Only access to some games etc. No App store, mail etc.

Perhaps the selection could be triggered by different fingerprints.

 

[SkydiveGuy]

How about approving Amazon's Prime Video app? I hate having to use my Roku to watch. Once Tablo's app is released, too, my TV will work perfectly.

 

[kMacAustin]

PASSWORD PROTECTED NOTES! Finally, now do the same for Messenger App, and Settings App. Crossing fingers for iOS 10 to bring this

I set it up and it doesn't appear to work.

 

[Popeye206]

The Remote App didn't work when ATV4 was released either. They just fixed that recently.
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Won't happen: Apple is positioning Siri with universal search as a replacement for the "guide".

With SO MUCH content the guide would be ridiculous (much like it already is on satellite/cable).

It will be a bit until everything is hooked up with universal search, but once it is it will be much better

I realize Apple is making Siri the universal search.... but what I'm talking about does something different and is more of a way to help people see what's available in one spot... I don't know about you, but without a guide I'd have no idea what to search for if I was looking for something new or interesting at the time. Sometimes you don't know what you're in the mood for until you see it.

 

[2010mini]

How about approving Amazon's Prime Video app? I hate having to use my Roku to watch. Once Tablo's app is released, too, my TV will work perfectly.

So you have proof Amazon submitted a tvOS app and Apple is holding it up?

 

[garylapointe]

I'd like the ability to turn on Low Power Mode permanently.

Or to set it to go on automatically at a different percent. (for you that could be 99%!)

I'd like to set it to 50% (or %60) because it's rare my iPhone gets that low, so if it does then something is running and sucking up the battery and I'd like it to stop...

Doing it at 20% is WAY too late for me....

Gary