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Apple Releases Sixth Developer Beta of iOS 12.2 [Update: Public Beta Available]
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what makes you think they don't?
As right as you are about the tap gestures, I doubt you've used a tap and hold volume gesture. It's awful. You overshoot up, so you try to go down, then go too far, or not far enough. It's wildly imprecise and just a bad user experience. If my sense of Apple is even remotely intact, they won't do this. They've never done it without also allowing a single tap on the button in question. HomePods, tap and hold, or tap..tap..tap. up/down. Wired EarPods, same. Bluetooth is unfortunately controlled by the bluetooth device
I applaud your call for consistent controls. What's needed, at least to be consistent, might be a slide gesture where you could get instant feedback up, or down and adjust quickly (this would be consistent with mac touch bar, and iOS control center UI's) but there's only so much room on an airPod. Or perhaps a tap at the top for up, and bottom for down. That could work if there's enough room, though tapping at the bottom of the stalk, might be problematic since it's more likley than not to knock the thing out of your ear.
It's way harder than it looks, and Apple has the best people in the world working on it. I'll just wait and see what they do. And I bet it's going to make a lot of sense if you think about it, and will piss a lot of people off who don't realize why they didn't get what they thought they wanted, but only got something that works as well as it can.
Remember when airPods came out originally, how ridiculed they were. How so much hate was directed to something so small? Now they're beloved. Hmmm, how'd that happen?
I applaud your call for consistent controls. What's needed, at least to be consistent, might be a slide gesture where you could get instant feedback up, or down and adjust quickly (this would be consistent with mac touch bar, and iOS control center UI's) but there's only so much room on an airPod. Or perhaps a tap at the top for up, and bottom for down. That could work if there's enough room, though tapping at the bottom of the stalk, might be problematic since it's more likley than not to knock the thing out of your ear.
It's way harder than it looks, and Apple has the best people in the world working on it. I'll just wait and see what they do. And I bet it's going to make a lot of sense if you think about it, and will piss a lot of people off who don't realize why they didn't get what they thought they wanted, but only got something that works as well as it can.
Remember when airPods came out originally, how ridiculed they were. How so much hate was directed to something so small? Now they're beloved. Hmmm, how'd that happen?
I have used the beta since the public release of iOS 12 last year. I have found NO bugs with the exception of one noticeable face ID glitch in the summer of last year. I think it's great Apple wants to lighten up their operating system and jam as much "necessary" bloat as possible until some mild bugs are uncovered.
There is always iTunes backup.
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Well see. Already updated. Let’s see what works, or not!
No kidding. Why hasn't anyone taken those artists/animators and redirected towards fixing iOS bugs!
What's new - About Section has more specifics, like Apple Care mention.
Animoji/Memoji aren’t for me either. But I’ll tell you what, my friend’s kids apparently absolutely love it when I send them one for Christmas, or when my friend tells me it’s achieved something new, or something. Dunno why, but keeps me in the ‘cool uncle’ territory for very little effort. So they do have their uses.
Installed! No new issues, yet.....same old stuttering while scrolling in Safari, which arrived in beta 4, I think. I hope this gets fixed before the final release.
Boy, I've been waiting for years to get a good boar emoji. Can't wait to get my hands on that! Pretty soon, we'll have enough emojis to cover anything we might want to say, and then we won't ever have to use words to communicate. How Neanderthal! The farther forward we go, the farther back we go.
The About menu now displays if you're covered by AppleCare+ and what the expiration date of that coverage is. Small thing, but neat nonetheless.
That’s really cool. My AppleCare is not showing up for whatever reason.
Edit: rebooted and now AppleCare shows up.
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Are you having that with CarPlay? I started having it with CarPlay but only on my VW. I had no problems with a rental ford and friends have no problem when connected to my CarPlay.
I’m sure Apple could devise exceptions based on the IR proximity sensor and accelerometer input. If i’m taking AirPods out of my ears, I instantly move them as I remove them, in which case the capacitive sensor would be turned off or ignored.
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To be clear, I’m not asking for swipe gestures to adjust volume on AirPods. Instead, the entire outer shell would be capacitive so that touching and holding anywhere on one AirPod would adjust volume in one direction. Touch and hold the AirPod in your left ear for down, the right AirPod for up. I agree that swipe controls on such a small surface would be too finicky. But touching anywhere on a single AirPod is impossible to get wrong.
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we're entering an age where singing crap is more important than properly functioning soft/hardware.
Which would you like them to write "The update will be available right at 10:00 am..." or "The update will be available at approximately 10:00 am..."? You can't be "...right at approximately..."
Just highlighting furthermore... poor editing. I was hunting for the strikethrough option in the edit menu, alas never found it. -right- should not have existed in their text. Anyway, it is the long laborious repeated text that grinds gears.
Didn't try with CarPlay, the crackling / buzzing earpiece at maximum volume is a known issue that was also present on iPhone 8 Plus and was fixed with software update.
Try this, put maximum volume and listen some default ringtones like Opening or some Piano ones and the earpiece will crackle during playback.
The most easy way to test this, listen some piano music on YouTube at maximum volume, the earpiece will crackle horribly.
I don't get why Apple didn't fix this yet, because its a well know issue if you do a google search and its not hardware since i tried many display models and other users went through few exchanges with same results.
Surprisingly the fix they did on the iPhone 8 Plus was genius, they didnt lower the maximum volume, they just toned down some frequencies.
