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Apple Releases iOS 12 With Faster Performance, Memoji, Siri Shortcuts, Screen Time, Revamped Maps App, ARKit 2.0, and More

BaltimoreMediaBlog said:
Why am I getting this warning on my Mac?
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Apple claimed it would be faster. I'm definitely watching this this week, because I will downgrade immediately. I was very happy with 11.4.1.
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My 8 plus is the same as before, been on 12 for the last week. Try a settings reset.
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Shanghaichica said:
Face ID has improved! It now works when I’m lying down in bed on my side.
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That has always worked for me since the 10 came out.
 
Marshall73 said:
My 8 plus is the same as before, been on 12 for the last week. Try a settings reset.
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That has always worked for me since the 10 came out.
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For me I had to be looking at it straight on in bed. I couldn’t be looking at it from an angle so I’m pleased.
 
Smartietfe said:
It happened twice, then I went straight to update watchOS 5 and it hasn't happened again... crossing fingers that it won't happen again.
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It never crashed again, everything is working pretty smoothly. The only thing is that measures won't run on 6+, but everything else seems to work just fine.
 
Wheat Williams said:
Wow. I just feel that all this tech is slipping away from me, or me from it.

Everything in your MacRumors video about new features in iOS 12 is detailing features that I won't use. But of course I upgraded for security reasons. Having the latest security features is what matters to me, but that's all behind-the-scenes stuff that doesn't make for entertaining product announcements.

I've still got an iPhone SE, which I love chiefly because of its small screen. It seems to run iOS 12 just fine and suits all my needs for now.

I want a telephone and an email and messaging platform, and above all a means to listen to my music library and Apple Music in the highest audio fidelity. I insist on wired earbuds because the wire enables audio quality that is superior to any wireless earbuds or earphones yet developed, and audio quality is the most important thing to me. Plus wired earbuds don't require batteries or charging.

I have never used Notifications and I don't want anything on my lock screen. I've always disabled all those features in every version of iOS so far, and I just disabled all of it in iOS 12 as well.

It's a philosophical matter. I see no reason to let anybody's incoming messages, regardless of the medium, interrupt my daily activities. Most of the time I keep my phone in Do Not Disturb mode. I don't want Notifications with a capital "N" or a lower-case "n". I want to choose when to look at my phone and see what messages have arrived there since the last time I looked at it, and to decide to respond to each message or not, in my own time. I don't want to be distracted by other peoples' attempts to get my attention, through my phone. But I do want to call them with my voice and hear their voices in plain old-fashioned phone calls. That's important.

I would really enjoy using FaceTime more to communicate with friends, but I don't seem to know anybody willing to use it. I call people all the time and suggest that we FaceTime, but most of them would rather text than talk with their voice. If they're not willing to talk, why should I think they'd be willing to have us see each others' faces while we communicate? FaceTime is an insanely great technology that, more and more, fewer and fewer people want to use. So another insanely great expansion of FaceTime's technological scale and capabilities, for massive multi-user conference calls, comes along in iOS 12, when nobody wants to FaceTime anymore. Oh, well.

I don't use emojis in any fashion, let alone animojis, and now ...MeMoji? I just don't care. Apple puts so much emphasis on developing this stuff, but all that is meaningless to me.

I don't use Siri for anything. I don't want Siri Suggestions so I've just gone in and disabled all that (which takes way too much time in the Settings by the way.) So Siri Shortcuts is something else I can't see myself ever using. All because I don't use any voice commands on my phone. I have never seen the point in it.

I have no interest in AR. I've never seen any application or use case for the technology that appeals to me in any way.

I've been using and owning Apple technology since around 1980, and Apple devices have figured in each day of my life at least since 1987 when I got my first Macintosh. That's a long time. I guess I've gotten to the point where the newest technological innovations do not excite me anymore. But I've been loyal to Apple all these years, and I remain so.
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I’m a bit the same way, I want my locked screen to be black impenetrable wall.
 
Seriously not happy with how Do Not Disturb works now, if I wake the screen while it’s on I can’t see the notifications, it just tells me to turn off Do Not Disturb. If I want to see notifications while it’s on that’s my choice, is there any way to make it work like it did?
 
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Seriously not happy with how Do Not Disturb works now, if I wake the screen while it’s on I can’t see the notifications, it just tells me to turn off Do Not Disturb. If I want to see notifications while it’s on that’s my choice, is there any way to make it work like it did?
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Turn off the bedtime slider under the Do not disturb settings
 
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Anyone upgraded to 12 on the iPhone 6? has performance increased?

If it has, well done to everyone who has complained about slowing performance, looks like Apple might actually be listening, shock horror.
 
Loving it so far

Do keep forgetting on my iPad though and just press the home button instead.

Love how I can group my twitter notifications all in one group or one by one.
 
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iPhone SE - New lease on life for my "old" tech.

:)

This update is so much better than 11.

It has given my SE a new lease on life.
It is zipping along — and I am back to being able to enjoy nearly instant unlocking with fingerprint ID.

Brilliant! A few app developers need to get their fingers out and get things updated — Barclays card app has crashes.

Fingers crossed it lasts and isn't just because of a fresh install and restart…
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dilbert99 said:
Anyone upgraded to 12 on the iPhone 6? has performance increased?

If it has, well done to everyone who has complained about slowing performance, looks like Apple might actually be listening, shock horror.
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It has definitely improved my SE experience, so you should find the same.
 
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Welp, adding photos in Messages is now an annoying mess. Managed to avoid seeing or even thinking about the little app bar throughout iOS 11 and now I'm forced to use it (and worse, manually dismiss it) every time I attach a photo. Argh!
 
Dont like the time being moved to the left corner on my ipad pro or the emoji button moving on the keypad as the extra button for numeric etc is far more useable and should stay on the outside.


Everything else seems great.
 
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It has definitely improved my SE experience, so you should find the same.
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Since yesterday, I’ve spent some time using not only my SE, which is running smoothly since the update, but also my spare 5S.. and the result is surprisingly good.

Coming from bad experiences after upgrading an iPhone 4, an iPod touch 5th gen and an iPad 2 to iOS 7, I decided to “sacrifice “ my spare 5S before upgrading my wife’s 5S, which was on iOS 10.

So far, using Apple native apps on it have given me an excellent first impression. When Using safari to navigate through “content heavy” pages like The Verge, page scrolls in a nice manner, and there seems to be no frame drops.

Since this is a spare phone, I didn’t install many apps, only the minimum for an emergency, in case something happens to my SE, so, YMMV.

But the results are above the expectations. IMHO, iPhone 5S and 6 owners can now enjoy their phones for another year, if they can’t afford or do not feel the need to upgrade to a newer model.
 
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UTS said:
Dont like the time being moved to the left corner on my ipad pro or the emoji button moving on the keypad as the extra button for numeric etc is far more useable and should stay on the outside.


Everything else seems great.
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lol yeah I've been hitting the emoji button now while typing on the iPad...and also agree with the time being all the way to the left is no good...keep it in the middle (unless you can't since it'll be blocked by a notch on the new iPads)
 
Nismo73 said:
lol yeah I've been hitting the emoji button now while typing on the iPad...and also agree with the time being all the way to the left is no good...keep it in the middle (unless you can't since it'll be blocked by a notch on the new iPads)
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I don’t the time being on the left.
What I do mind is the date moving slightly when a number in the time changes, especially from 1 to any other number. That is just sloppy.

The change to Emoji button is driving me mad. Oh, why oh why.
 
ssl0408 said:
I’ve been on the GM and I’ve been experience bad battery drain. Anyone else with this problem? I’m wondering if I should restore the phone; iPhone X.
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First day will be draining battery badly
Then it will be ok
 
WhiteHawk said:
Seriously not happy with how Do Not Disturb works now, if I wake the screen while it’s on I can’t see the notifications, it just tells me to turn off Do Not Disturb. If I want to see notifications while it’s on that’s my choice, is there any way to make it work like it did?
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Swipe away the Do Not Disturb notification on the notification screen. DND will remain enabled.

Or maybe swipe up to see any notifications.
 
IJ Reilly said:
Is anyone else seeing this dialog box in iTunes when they click on the Update button? When I click Install, it responds (after about ten seconds) that the software is not available on the server. The page you are directed to by clicking Learn More... does not really explain anything. And yes, iTunes 12.8. I could not get even this far without updating iTunes.

I was able to initiate the download of iOS 12 directly with my phone. Just the usual iTunes wonkiness, or something else?
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I got the same message on my iPad Pro 10.5". I just let it do whatever it did. The message disappeared and everything is now good.
 
archvile said:
tvOS is practically just a re-skinned Apple TV OS 7, so I’m sure there’s a ton of legacy code hanging around in there preventing the switch to only 64bit.

Watch Series 4 is the first one to launch with a 64-bit proc so understandable there
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I see. Thank you. Yeah kind of dumb there’s so much old useles code lying there. With the slight pain that came moving to 64bit iOS 11 (though apparently iOS 12 is the only fully 64bit), saying goodbye to so many legacy apps, you’d think Apple would truly embrace it in ALL devices. Wth.
[doublepost=1537284511][/doublepost]Side note: iOS added like a GB of data to my measly 16 GB iPhone 5s!! What gives!? I thought these iOS were supposed to only decrease in size with each consequent release!:mad:
 
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