and how many pages of these "Notes" appear in the middle of the update?
Not sure on 9.0.0 but there were 47 pages for 9.1. I imagine 9.0.0 was bigger IF you can make sense of the verbiage.
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and how many pages of these "Notes" appear in the middle of the update?
Not sure on 9.0.0 but there were 47 pages for 9.1. I imagine 9.0.0 was bigger IF you can make sense of the verbiage.
There is no way that the release notes for iOS 9.1 were 47 pages long, unless they were printed using size 100 font. You are confusing "release notes" with the iOS "EULA".
Also, Wi-Fi assist came out with iOS 9.0, not 9.1. So, discussing iOS 9.1 in any form is irrelevant to this thread.
For ref, iOS 9.0 Release Notes (size 50 font will probably stretch it to 47 pages or so, duplexed):
iOS 9.0
With this update your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch become more intelligent and proactive with powerful search and improved Siri features. New multitasking features for iPad allow you to work with two apps simultaneously, side-by-side or with the new Picture-in-Picture feature. And, built-in apps become more powerful with detailed transit information in Maps, a redesigned Notes app, and an all-new News app. And improvements at the foundation of the operating system enhance performance, improve security and give you up to an hour of extra battery life.
Intelligence
• Proactive assistance
◦ Presents relevant information even before you start typing
◦ Notifies you when you need to leave for appointments using traffic conditions
◦ Learns what you listen to in a certain location or at a particular time of day and can automatically display playback controls for your preferred music and audio apps
◦ Suggested events and contact details are added to apps based on information found in Mail
• Siri improvements
◦ Search your personal photos and videos based on dates, locations and album names
◦ Ask Siri to remind you about things you’re looking at in your apps, including Safari, Mail, Notes and Messages
◦ Request directions via public transit
• Spotlight search improvements
◦ Get sports scores, weather conditions and stock prices
◦ Simple math calculations and conversions
◦ Initiate messages, phone calls and FaceTime calls from contact search results
New iPad Features
• Slide Over
◦ Quickly use a second app without leaving the one you’re in
◦ Easily switch between Slide Over apps
◦ Support for Apple apps and enabled third party apps
• Split View
◦ View and interact with two apps at once
◦ Ability to resize your view to give equal attention to both apps or prioritize one app over another
◦ Support for Apple apps and enabled third party apps
• Picture in picture
◦ Continue watching a video while using your favorite apps
◦ Support for Safari video, FaceTime, Videos and Podcasts and enabled third party apps
• QuickType improvements
◦ Multi-Touch gestures for easier text selection on iPad
◦ Quick access to text editing tools with Shortcut Bar on iPad
◦ Support for hardware keyboard shortcuts
◦ Support for all Unicode emoji flags
Built-in Apps
• Map improvements
◦ Support for public transit lines, station details with exits and entrances, schedules and directions in select major cities
◦ Browse for places around you by category, including Food, Drinks, Shopping, Fun and more
◦ Apple Pay support is indicated on place cards at participating retail locations
◦ Place cards include Wikipedia information for landmarks and cities
• Redesigned Notes app
◦ Add photos to your notes with the built-in camera or from your Photo Library
◦ Create useful checklists and check off completed items with a tap
◦ Sketch a quick thought using just your finger
◦ Save interesting items directly from other apps using the Share menu
• All-new News app
◦ Read your favorite newspapers, magazines, and blogs, or choose from over a million topics
◦ Beautiful typography and layouts, photo galleries, videos, animations, and more
◦ Browse articles that are chosen based on your interests in For You. Find channel and topic recommendations in Explore. News gets more personalized the more you read
◦ Easily share articles with friends or save them to read later — even when you’re offline
• Mail improvements
◦ Search improvements help you quickly find what you're looking for by filtering results based on sender, recipient, subject or a combination of options
◦ Support for Markup lets you annotate an image or PDF attachment with text, shapes and even your signature, then send it back — without leaving Mail
◦ Easily save the attachments you receive or add files from iCloud Drive or other document providers while composing a new message
• Apple Pay and Wallet improvements
◦ Support for Discover cards
◦ Support for rewards cards and store credit and debit cards
◦ To check out even faster, you can prepare an upcoming payment by double-clicking the Home button from the Lock Screen and keeping your finger on Touch ID
• New iCloud Drive app
◦ Easily search for a file or browse in the new iCloud Drive app by date, name, or tags you added on your Mac
◦ Open files in any compatible app or share with those you choose
◦ Organize folders and files
◦ Get the iCloud Drive app in Settings > iCloud > iCloud Drive and select Show on Home Screen
• CarPlay improvements
◦ Plays back audio messages, letting you hear from people in their own voices
◦ Full support for car knob controls, so you can tilt and spin to scroll through lists or pan around in Maps
◦ Support for CarPlay apps from auto manufacturers
Foundation
• Longer battery life
◦ Up to one hour of additional time before you need to charge your battery
◦ Facedown detection for turning display off when not in use
◦ Low power mode optimizes device performance to extend battery by up to an additional three hours
• Software updates require less space to download and offer an option to install later
• iOS apps and user interface now use Metal to deliver faster scrolling, smoother animation, and better overall performance
• Improved security with two-factor authentication support and a default 6 digit passcode support for Touch ID devices
Other improvements
• New San Francisco system font
• Leave a message option if recipient isn't available for a FaceTime call
• Share voicemails from the Phone app using the share sheet
• Flight and package tracking for data detectors
• Health app adds support for reproductive health, UV exposure, water intake and sedentary state data types
• HomeKit adds support for motorized windows and shades, motion sensors and home security system accessories
• Podcasts has an all-new design, makes it easy to find the latest episodes of your favorite shows and notifies you when new episodes become available for you
• Support for Wi-Fi calling on iPad, iPod touch and Mac, without iPhone in proximity on participating carriers
• Wi-Fi Assist to automatically use cellular data when Wi-Fi connectivity is poor
• Transfer content from an Android device with the Move to iOS app, visit http://www.apple.com/move-to-ios for more details
Expanded language support
• New PingFang Chinese system font
• Improved predictions, learning and autocorrection for Chinese in QuickType
• Redesigned punctuation input on 10-key Chinese keyboard
• Redesigned User Interface for right-to-left languages
• Added Siri support for Austria, Belgium (French and Dutch), and Norway
• Added Spotlight search support for Mexico
• New keyboards for French (Belgium), German (Austria), Gujarati, Hindi (Transliteration), Hinglish, Punjabi, Spanish (Mexico), and Telugu
• Predictive input for French (Belgium), German (Austria), Korean, Russian, Spanish (Mexico), and Turkish
• Dictation support for Dutch (Belgium), English (Ireland, Philippines, South Africa), French (Belgium), German (Austria), and Spanish (Chile, Colombia)
• Spell check for Finnish and Korean
• Definition dictionary for Hindi, Norwegian and Swedish
• Bilingual dictionary for French-English and German-English
• New Japanese autocorrection and improved predictions and learning in QuickType
• Option to switch between number systems for Arabic and Hindi
Enterprise & Education
• Assign apps directly to iOS devices without needing to have an iTunes Store account configured
• Improved calendar reliability for customers using Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync v16
• Expanded Per App VPN support for the built-in IPSec and IKEv2 VPN clients
• New networking controls for managed apps to help limit international data roaming costs
• New restrictions to prevent changes to passcodes, device names and wallpapers, or to disable AirDrop on managed devices
• Third party app extension support for VPN, advanced content filtering, and captive Wi-Fi networks
Accessibility
• Touch Accommodations provides additional touch control for those with physical motor limitations
• Switch Control Recipes to customize features or create your own
• Support for Siri Voices for VoiceOver users
• Additional customization of AssistiveTouch
• Hardware keyboard support for Key Repeat, Slow Keys and Sticky Keys
• Improved MFi hearing aid audio routing to choose where audio is played
Some features may not be available for all countries or all areas, for more information visit: http://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability and http://www.apple.com/ios/whats-new
For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222
Some people really should Google how Class Action Lawsuits work in the US Court system.
$5 Million based on the potential number of affected users is actually quite low.
Even if he read it, did he understand it?
Not very likely (you saw that in the Apple vs. Samsung legal fights. Apple lawyers had issues interpreting the EULA).
Thanks for posting these
but when I upgraded, I saw a two line summary and the RN were not in evidence. When I selected the "email to me" option on what I was agreeing to what I received was 47 pages long. EULA.Just when/where do these show up?
Why don't we address what has become a plague? Opt-in vs. Opt-out
A consumer conscious company should always designate Opt-in.
As stated earlier - I simply believe that Apple would have been better off defaulting this to "off" and/or at least moving up the setting to the top of the list. Adding it as part of the setup process would have also made it more apparent.
and it comes back to the same old discussion; Opt-in vs. Opt-out
Apple is not a consumer conscious company.
Legal Definition: To compel or coerce, as in a confession or information, by any means serving to overcome the other's power of resistance, thus making the confession or admission involuntary. To gain by wrongful methods; to obtain in an unlawful manner, as in to compel payments by means of threats of injury to person, property, or reputation. To exact something wrongfully by threatening or putting in fear. The natural meaning of the word extort is to obtain money or other valuable things by compulsion, by actual force, or by the force of motives applied to the will, and often more overpowering and irresistible than physical force.
Legal Definition: To compel or coerce, as in a confession or information, by any means serving to overcome the other's power of resistance, thus making the confession or admission involuntary. To gain by wrongful methods; to obtain in an unlawful manner, as in to compel payments by means of threats of injury to person, property, or reputation. To exact something wrongfully by threatening or putting in fear. The natural meaning of the word extort is to obtain money or other valuable things by compulsion, by actual force, or by the force of motives applied to the will, and often more overpowering and irresistible than physical force.
Yup, that pretty much describes what is happening.
If you think it has anything to do with fixing a problem or compensating people that spent a few extra bucks on overage charges, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that you'll love to call your own.
and why bury it at the bottom of the page?
I can think of only one reason: most people won't look or even know it's there unless they are adversely impacted AND Apple wants it "On" by default.
No it hasn't. I was either on wifi (no matter how low the strength) or on LTE/4G.
Want to give me a wifi assist tool? Let me turn it on and set the value at which I want LTE/4G help.
Don't just put one in, hide the function with a default Opt-in value, not tell me about it, and not allow me to set at what level I want it to kick in.
Face it, the way it was done was deceptive and this it hurts most are the grandmas or those on fixed incomes.
Like it or not, Class Action lawsuits have become one of the few means consumers have to drive changes in corporate behavior. I would love to see a better tool.
Unfortunately what that can also drive is just less user options and less improvements. Apple and other companies will just do things and not even give any options to the users. Apple could have easily put in wifi assist features in iOS without any controls and no mention of the improvements as they have done before when they improved signal detection and handoffs between signals and no one would be wiser. Or they just wouldn't bother putting in improvements like that and just let people sit with poor wifi connections without anything working and people getting upset that their devices aren't working.
Get real.
When an iPhone with LTE was announced it became the darling/demon of the media and was trumpeted everywhere. You could not miss it.
This WiFi Assist? It was treated like a deep dark secret till the CA was announced.
Not a slope at all. Corporate behavior and driving change.
You do realize it only turns off wifi when the signal is weak or there is no data flowing through the wifi signal...right?
This isn't a valid lawsuit, it's a get rich quick lawsuit.
What do you do when the signal is weak and the data is slow? You turn off wifi and switch to LTE. Anyone that says otherwise is a freaking liar.
I hope apple wins because I am sick and tired of people suing successful companies just to get a piece of their hard earned money.
They could have and I bet we would end up in the same place just a bit further down the road.
Still, what other tool is available? No, less user options and would eventually result in sale loss or CA to drive corporate behavior change.
You don't even know what you're talking about. The License Agreement is NOT the release notes. When you update, there's a button that says "Learn More". Those are the release notes. I'll post a link to the release notes that were included with each iOS 9 release.
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1842?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
9.0 is the longest, but that is NOT a lot of reading.
Yes, and No.
When I walk into my house I expect WiFi and if I don't then the trouble shooting starts.
I walk into Starbucks and have been using WiFi I depend on that WiFi.
I walk into ..... same scenario.
If you want to change or modify user habits you don't cloak the change or hide settings where most will never find them; you announce it so people know. Change Management 101.
Intentional or not it is what it is. The same holds true for Legal Liability. Same boat.
Sorry, but are you really thinking this through?
My mom, age 80+ knows when she leaves the house to minimize her data use. Her DSL wifi (all that is available in her area) is not the greatest. So now she is "supposed to know" that in some rooms, the side patio or other areas at her house she will go from slow to LTE? No! She uses and doesn't constantly scrutinize the status bar.
Be realistic.
No, you would have the proper corporate consumer mindset that walks folks through and allows them to Opt-In instead of depending on them to Opt-Out (typical subscription tactic).
I actually got an alert from AT&T to check the setting for my 6S+.
That was totally unexpected.
Your average iDevice user likely has no clue about Release Notes nor where to find them. They rely on opinion, advertisements, articles and word of mouth.