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Apple Releases iOS 11.3 With Battery Health Tool, ARKit 1.5, Business Chat, New Animoji, and More
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Seems good to me as well. I just didn't know if the 1% drop was normal. I guess we wouldn't know since mine is launch day unless a lot of others report 100%.
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Cool. Wondering if we can get some more people with an iPhone X to report their %.
I got my iPhone X on launch day as well and it is reporting 100%. I must be taking excellent care of this battery.
I'm honestly really surprised by this — that so many people are anxious for Messages in iCloud. Does it solve a usability issue? The one that I believe it would solve for me is syncing of messages across devices — and maybe that's what people are waiting for. So if you delete a conversation on one device, it disappears everywhere. That would make complete sense, and how I expected it to behave from the very start. But beyond that, I figured people would be concerned that this reduced their privacy by having their conversations permanently stored in the cloud, instead of just on-device. Now if only we could have direct peer-to-peer messaging and only-on-device storage, but iCloud-powered syncing. That would be cool, but doubt we'll ever see that.
Apple today released iOS 11.3, the twelfth official update to the iOS 11 operating system that first came out in September of 2017. iOS 11.3 comes more than a month the launch of iOS 11.2.6, a minor update that fixed a bug causing crashes due to the incorrect rendering of a character in the Indian language Telugu.
The iOS 11.3 update is available on all eligible devices over-the-air in the Settings app. To access the update, go to Settings --> General --> Software Update. Eligible devices include the iPhone 5s and later, the iPad mini 2 and later, the iPad Air and later, and the 6th-generation iPod touch.
iOS 11.3 is a major update that introduces a long list of new features, including several that Apple has been promising for months. The update introduces a new "Battery Health" feature that's designed to provide iOS users with more information about their batteries, and it is a function Apple promised to introduce following backlash over the power management features added to older iPhones.
Battery Health offers details on maximum battery capacity and peak performance capability, and for devices with degraded batteries, it provides information on if and when a device is being throttled with performance management features. It also provides a way for customers who do have a device with a degraded battery to turn off performance management all together.
By default, iOS 11.3 disables performance management on the iPhone, and the feature is only re-enabled once a device experiences an unexpected shutdown. Battery Health is only for the iPhone, but on the iPad, Apple is introducing new iPad charge management for tablets that are plugged in for long periods of time.
iOS 11.3 introduces ARKit 1.5, a new version of ARKit that will allow developers to do even more with augmented reality apps. ARKit 1.5 more accurately maps irregularly shaped surfaces, has image and object recognition, and allows virtual objects to be placed on vertical surfaces like walls.
The iOS 11.3 update includes a new Health Records feature in the U.S. that aggregates all of your medical records in one easy-to-access place (as long as you have a participating provider). Apple has outlined participating medical providers and offered up details on Health Records in a press release shared today.
There are four new Animoji (dragon, bear, skull, and lion) on the iPhone X in iOS 11.3, and updates have been made to some existing standard emoji, as outlined by Emojipedia. The lion emoji, for example, is a little less sad, while the skull emoji has gained a jaw.
There are also several other smaller features worth noting in iOS 11.3. A new "For You" section in Apple News displays hand-picked content and top videos, support for Advanced Mobile Location (AML) offers a more accurate location when placing an emergency call in a supported country, software authentication for HomeKit is included to greatly expand the number of devices that can support HomeKit, to make it easier to find relevant people to follow. and a new Privacy screen and icon will show up whenever Apple asks you for info. The privacy screen is reflected in several new splash screens that pop up when you first open apps.
In the App Store, you can finally sort reviews by most helpful, most favorable, most critical, and most recent, a handy change for better finding the app info you're looking for, and in the Updates tab, more details are available about app update size. Just ahead of the release, Apple added a new music videos section to Apple Music, and improvements have also been made to friend suggestions in Apple Music to make it easier to find people who like what you like.
The release of iOS 11.3 includes support for Business Chat in the U.S., which will let you interface with businesses like Wells Fargo, Delta, Hilton and Lowe's right in the Messages app. Improvements have been made to security in Safari, Handoff and Universal Clipboard have been improved, there are new Accessibility features, and bug fixes for keyboards.
The update also addresses several notable software bugs including an issue that could cause incoming calls not to activate the iPhone's screen, a bug that prevented voicemail playback, an oversight that did not allow parents to approve child purchases using Face ID, a Bluetooth bug that prevented proper syncing of contacts and music playback in a vehicle, and more. Apple's full release notes for the update are below:Betas of iOS 11.3 included a Messages on iCloud feature that Apple has been working on for several months, but the iOS 11.3 release notes do not include a mention of Messages on iCloud, suggesting the feature has been delayed for a second time. With Messages on iCloud, all of your iMessages are stored in the cloud, allowing them to sync across devices (even new ones) and saving valuable storage space on your iPhones and iPads.
Early betas also included AirPlay 2 support for iOS 11.3 and tvOS 11.3, but the feature was removed in iOS 11.3 beta 3 and it was not reintroduced in a later beta, suggesting it has been pushed back to a later update.
Article Link: Apple Releases iOS 11.3 With Battery Health Tool, ARKit 1.5, Business Chat, New Animoji, and More
On the X - swiping up to get to the home aceeen no longer provides that Taptic feedback. Is this intentional?
If it's a 6s, check if it's covered under this free battery replacement program: https://www.apple.com/support/iphone6s-unexpectedshutdown/
My first SE's battery died just after one year (just after the warranty period), but I was paying for an insurance package at $10/month, so I was able to get a new SE sent to me. But still had to pay $200 at the time, too. My new SE, only a few months old now, is at 97% battery capacity. I expected 100%.
Now I'm devastated.I got my iPhone X on launch day as well and it is reporting 100%. I must be taking excellent care of this battery.
Wish I could say the same with my 9.7 iPad Pro. If anything it seems to scroll a little more choppier in safari. News app seems less smooth scrolling too. Really don’t see any benefits for this 11.3 on my iPad without the cloud iMessage.
You know what they say, just because 1 woman can make a baby in 9 months doesn't mean 9 women can make a baby in 1 month. Just because there are engineers working on other things doesn't mean the features you want would be here quicker or be better if Apple just directed more engineering resources at the problem.
It just came out, how much battery testing do you think is done?
I got my iPhone X on launch day as well and it is reporting 100%. I must be taking excellent care of this battery.
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I hate the new Safari feature of not auto-filling usernames/passwords. I can sort of see the logic of adding it for non-Face ID devices but prior to 11.3 the iPhone X would check I’m using the device before filling in a password anyway. Why add an extra step when the previous functionality kept my logins secure? I wouldn’t mind if it was just optional but there’s no way to turn it off.
So who wants to guess the over/under for how many patches for critical bugs and/or zero day exploits Apple will have to introduce within a month of this release? Apple’s track record in this area over the last year has been atrocious, and there’s no way in hell I’m updating any time soon.
