First order of business, disable tabs at bottom aka worst UI design in the history of mankind.
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Apple Releases iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 With Safari Updates, Focus Mode, Live Text, iCloud+, System-Wide Translate, On-Device Siri and More
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I thought it was more functional when I used to use it on my Windows phone. Glad to see it as an option in iOS.
On the iPad, I've already experienced an undismissible notification, in dark mode the notifications have the same dark background as most of my apps so you can't even tell a notification banner is being shown, many of the UI "buttons" in Safari were gratuitously moved to new locations for no apparent reason other than to annoy, I had to search the web to figure out how to open a private tab, but at least the stupid new tab bar stuff is turned off by default. Lots of wasted space on the Home Screen but I'm looking forward to having my widgets right there alongside my app launchers just like one could do in Android 11 years ago.
Safari on the iPad can't decide what color its header is. I've had white on grey, white on dark grey, and white on black, depending on the website being visited. No "tinting" option to turn off like on the iPhone, but more importantly I have NO way to intuit from the color if I'm in a private tab or not.
The first time I opened Notes on the iPad, the "Continue" button of the "What's new" was completely obscured by little icons of 4 notes, which always show up when I first open Notes and disappear with the first tap, but are not the last 4 notes I've opened. I could look up what's going on but this stuff is supposed to be intuitive and self-explanatory and this behavior is not.
On the iPhone, first thing to do was turn off the stupid new tab bar at the bottom in Safari. Not an improvement, just gratuitous and confusion-causing and literally harder to read. Good thing it was an option to turn it off.
Meanwhile, in Wallet the UX to tell you about the new fraud protection feature and how to turn it on, and turning it on, all went wonderfully. Well done.
Looking forward to playing with these devices more at the end of my workday. I hope the number of improvements is at least as many as the number of UX messes.
Safari on the iPad can't decide what color its header is. I've had white on grey, white on dark grey, and white on black, depending on the website being visited. No "tinting" option to turn off like on the iPhone, but more importantly I have NO way to intuit from the color if I'm in a private tab or not.
The first time I opened Notes on the iPad, the "Continue" button of the "What's new" was completely obscured by little icons of 4 notes, which always show up when I first open Notes and disappear with the first tap, but are not the last 4 notes I've opened. I could look up what's going on but this stuff is supposed to be intuitive and self-explanatory and this behavior is not.
On the iPhone, first thing to do was turn off the stupid new tab bar at the bottom in Safari. Not an improvement, just gratuitous and confusion-causing and literally harder to read. Good thing it was an option to turn it off.
Meanwhile, in Wallet the UX to tell you about the new fraud protection feature and how to turn it on, and turning it on, all went wonderfully. Well done.
Looking forward to playing with these devices more at the end of my workday. I hope the number of improvements is at least as many as the number of UX messes.
You forgot one:
- It bricked my iphone
Tried the update 3 more times, same error.
Tried to restore: "The iPhone could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (9).0626.0000"
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You can move the keyboard to the left or the right. And Reachability is handy for larger phones.
Another UI debacle. On iPhone, tap-hold an email notification for an email that's longer than one screenful. At the bottom of the screen will be the word Trash and a trashcan icon, partially off the screen, drawn underneath the swipe-up bar. Try to swipe that up in order to see the rest of the options, and it does a system swipe up dismissing the Notification Center altogether. I found I have to scroll the email preview all the way to the end, and then the entire notification changes size and suddenly Mark Read appears along with Trash.
And we all know what happened to windows phone…
Windows Phone 7 had this years ago and it worked very well back then.
You forgot:
- Downloading right now on my <insert connection speed> connection, with <time remaining> to go.
No. You just state, that your images at ok and do comply apple rules regarding "any applicable local laws".
Just let it be that way without scanning on-device.
But: If you live in a country, where for example "red flowers" are not allowed to be photographed, you are not allowed to use their services and will lose acces, if you do have pictures of this kind...
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Speak for yourself. I love it!
Very unhappy with the iPad version of Safari. Before, I could easily navigate my favourites, browse to sites and quickly click the bookmarks button on the top left to hide the sidebar and see the site full screen.
Not anymore: now I need to move the page to get the side bar button to appear, navigate to bookmarks to find my favourites. And to hide the bar, I need to hit back several times until the button to hide the sidebar appears! WTF.
Besides that: it looks quite ugly. Don’t like the address bar and tabs layout.
Not anymore: now I need to move the page to get the side bar button to appear, navigate to bookmarks to find my favourites. And to hide the bar, I need to hit back several times until the button to hide the sidebar appears! WTF.
Besides that: it looks quite ugly. Don’t like the address bar and tabs layout.
Ran into the first bug. Did search in browser for product PDF manual, clicked on one of the search hits to view manual, wasn't what I was looking for so swiped back to search results but it, instead, put me in an endless loop of downloading the previous PDF which has never happened before. Ended up having to close tab. Aside from that, iPadOS 15 looks like new lipstick since everything so far under the hood is still the same.
No, still can't place app icons anywhere like towards bottom for accessibility. Still auto snaps top down and left to right.
No, still can't place app icons anywhere like towards bottom for accessibility. Still auto snaps top down and left to right.
I don’t know if anyone has mentioned it yet, but head tracking now works for me on spatial audio tracks in Apple Music
RC was build 19A344, final RTM build is 19A346. Disable beta profile to see the RTM build.
Funny you should say that. My SE 2020 is downloading it, and my iPad mini thinks 14.8.1 is latest there is
After about 10 attempts to restore, it finally succeeded. I now have iOS 15. It is currently restoring my data/apps. The phone has now overheated because of the constant installs, so it has paused the restore. It says it has 10GB of installs to go. Can't say that I am impressed with 15 so far.
On the bright side, I have an iphone 13 pro max arriving in a few days, so if there is any permanent damage to this phone, it won't be a disaster.
Glad you got it working again!
Few cool features, live text seems cool. New to iPhone (I know...Android users are laughing, whatever)
Only truly diving into this right now. I like the new weather! but I'm a big weather dork..LOL
I wasn't going to update this phone fearing a massive disaster, brick before tuning this in on Fri night.
Trade in "does the phone turn on?" - yes.
But after iOS 15...my fear would have been
"Does the phone turn on? - "nope, not anymore" (the nice trade in value goes just went to $0)