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Apple Confirms iOS 17.4 Lets Video Calling Apps Turn Off Reactions

antiprotest said:
I want to turn off the buttons on the lock screen.
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Oh YES! I’ve cancelled timers so many times getting phone out of pocket because of the stupid buttons that are placed with minute precision to be accidentally touched when grabbing the phone.
Moving the in-call buttons was another bad call (pun intended) - the end call button is way too close to the home-swipe bar.
 
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DeepWebinar said:
this is a misstep. they should FORCE the feature on constantly and add 100+ new animations that respond to incredibly specific gestures and facial expressions
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pointing at the camera? that sets off an animation where oil drips off the pointed finger and fills up the screen.

scratching the bridge of your nose makes a waiter bring you your check.

eyebrows raised slightly with mouth at a neutral frown is snakes. that one gets you snakes.
 
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Good to have the new option but there should be a system wide option to turn it off completely. Hopefully the next macOS will have this.
 
ApostolisApo said:
I feel sorry for all the folks who are terrified at the thought of releasing confetti by accident in a business meeting. What kind of ***ed up work do you have where colleagues or customers will be negatively affected by such a cute accident?
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the second, third, fourth… 22nd time you see it happen (because it couldn’t be turned off and because many people at different gatherings could be triggering it) it’s not cute nor an accident anymore.

While it’s true that there’s no real major negative impact for the most part, technology shouldn’t be a stress point keeping you hostage: suddenly people are being extra stiff because they don’t know if the thing will start triggering non-pertinent animations, expressing yourself makes you think twice, if a new conference launched or someone else is recording something now you have to ask yourself and the person if it has the auto-trigger activated, etc etc etc

It’s just a bad idea barring a light mood style of online gathering.

Luckily they didn’t decide to add sounds to go along with the gesture expressions, whole thing would be a circus with honkey-honks sounds being triggered left and right.
 
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I just love the intuitive way they use to disable the feature in Facetime. Why can’t they just use the gear icon like everyone else.
 
Looking back, when main feature of each release was "new emojis added" I now realise that that was the good old times.
 
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It's not just Apple, it's never been just Apple.

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Oh man… the only fun I have at work will not be turned on by default. It’s so fun with colleagues who don’t know how to turn it off
 
This is an awesome and fun feature.🥳🥳🥳 A bunch of stuffed shirts ruins things for the rest of us again.😒

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,
All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.
 
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erikkfi said:
Why would you not offer robust controls for this at the outset? Honestly, Apple, sometimes it's like you don't think.
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There are: Just click the green camera icon on the menu-bar.

Users have not learned the existence of that menu yet and Apple clearly overestimated the expected learning curve for users to actually understand that they can control all camera settings.
 
svish said:
Good to have the new option but there should be a system wide option to turn it off completely. Hopefully the next macOS will have this.
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They have had this from the get go. Just click the green camera icon in your menu bar (when camera is activated) and turn the reactions off.
 
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HVDynamo said:
It's this stupid annual cycle they decided they needed to do for some reason. Computers are a mature platform, there just isn't much to add anymore that's actually useful so they stuff it with all this gimmicky crap to make it seem new and fresh. I'd like to go back to a new OS every 2-3 years with a longer run time to allow more bugs to be fixed. The annual cycle is tiring and I'm over it.
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I would LOVE it if Apple would do like Canonical or Microsoft and every other enterprise software company do an LTS release every 3 or 4 years that they commit to patching for a decade.

They never will. That's why their enterprise penetration will continue to be a rounding error. It's just not their target market, obviously.
 
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brofkand said:
I would LOVE it if Apple would do like Canonical or Microsoft and every other enterprise software company do an LTS release every 3 or 4 years that they commit to patching for a decade.

They never will. That's why their enterprise penetration will continue to be a rounding error. It's just not their target market, obviously.
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100%, and I like the way Canonical does it with alternating releases with every other release being LTS. Then they don't have to commit to supporting all OS's for so long, but can still have the releases that try things for those that just can't help but want shiny new stuff all the time and a new OS every two years instead of every one where the LTS and shiny OS alternate releases giving you a new LTS option every 4 years. There are so many better ways to do it than they do now.
 
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HVDynamo said:
100%, and I like the way Canonical does it with alternating releases with every other release being LTS. Then they don't have to commit to supporting all OS's for so long, but can still have the releases that try things for those that just can't help but want shiny new stuff all the time and a new OS every two years instead of every one where the LTS and shiny OS alternate releases giving you a new LTS option every 4 years. There are so many better ways to do it than they do now.
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That's sort of how Microsoft does it as well, although Microsoft's is an entirely different OS - probably because it has to be with their complicated licensing and support model.
 
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