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Apple Reveals iOS 12 With Digital Health Features, Group FaceTime, Memoji, and More
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You KNOW someone is going to write an app for iOS 12.x that will take a picture of your face and then translate it to the appropriate iOS 12.x Animoji face.
I just hope Apple don't screw Workflow. I know they bought it but I think their tweaks will be more than a nightmare than a benefit. Anyway I'm totally exited with MacOS Mojave! Dark Theme and iOS apps on desktop seems a great motivation for upgrade!!!
I would kill for these two things:
1) FaceTime on Android
2) Some way on Apple News to reject articles if they have stupid, childish, SEO-developed headlines like "The beginning of the end for those tiny shampoo bottles" and/or if they're from clickbait/trash sources. I had hoped that News would be close to being a newspaper on an iOS device. Instead, it lets all that trash in until I block 99 percent of the same outlets that have trashed news in web browsers.
1) FaceTime on Android
2) Some way on Apple News to reject articles if they have stupid, childish, SEO-developed headlines like "The beginning of the end for those tiny shampoo bottles" and/or if they're from clickbait/trash sources. I had hoped that News would be close to being a newspaper on an iOS device. Instead, it lets all that trash in until I block 99 percent of the same outlets that have trashed news in web browsers.
I use control center to toggle on 'do not disturb' when I'm doing something on my phone and don't want to be interrupted, such as watching live TV events or when others are watching videos on my phone. It works well enough.
But actually, I would prefer to have no alerts on my phone at all. When I'm using my phone, 95% of the time I'm doing something more urgent than the alert. And when I'm not using my phone, I usually miss the alerts anyway. I would rather all notifications go silently straight to notification center, and only urgent alerts (which I would choose in settings) additionally send a vibration to my smart band.
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When I read rumors a while back that they were working on improvements to Do Not Disturb, I was excited and hoping that some sorely needed personal customization options and toggles would be added. Mainly, I find it really annoying that I can't toggle to allow texts to ring when they come from people on my "whitelist" while my DND is activated. So the way it works now, I can allow my "whitelist" contacts can get past DND by calling, but not with a text. Their text messages are still silenced. Why?! I put these specific contacts on my "whitelist" for a reason. Allowing audible notifications for text messages from "whitelist" contacts should be a toggle in DND settings. Unfortunately, looks like the improvements being made to iOS 12 DND still neglect this basic sort of customization.
I'm really happy about grouped notifications. It is something I missed from Android and it finally makes it to iOS.
And FaceTime with multiple users is a great addition, not something I'll use daily but sometimes it will be funny to have a call with all the grandparents, I wonder how my baby will react to that.
Speaking of grandparents they all have old devices like 5s, 6 and 6s so performance improvements are more than welcome! I have an 8+ and plan to upgrade to an X like model this year so I never feel performance problems, but many of my relatives do and they complain about that. This is maybe the best feature at all, and if it really delivers those enhancements on old devices it will be the best iOS release in years.
As a developer I'm thrilled about Core ML 2 and its ability to reduce the size of models we have to import, it means apps using Machine Learning will be faster and smaller in size, great news! Even the ability to save and share AR scenes is really interesting, I have some apps in the work and plan to take advantage of some of the features announced yesterday.
In the end I can say I'm happy about iOS 12, both as a user and a developer. Sure not everything on my wish list has made it to 12, but there are some good enhancements.
I think people expected more from Siri, we have the possibility to customise it with our own trigger phrases now, but it isn't a real improvement in Siri, it doesn't seem it will understand us better especially if we ask something outside the custom phrases or the usual stuff (Play this song, send this message, take me to that place etc.)
Apple want to protect our privacy, machine learning works locally on the device so they cannot take advantage of their millions users to improve their algorithms the way Google does. Sure some Siri failures could be addressed even without compromising privacy, Siri sometimes is too dumb, but Google and Amazon will always have an advantage.
And FaceTime with multiple users is a great addition, not something I'll use daily but sometimes it will be funny to have a call with all the grandparents, I wonder how my baby will react to that.
Speaking of grandparents they all have old devices like 5s, 6 and 6s so performance improvements are more than welcome! I have an 8+ and plan to upgrade to an X like model this year so I never feel performance problems, but many of my relatives do and they complain about that. This is maybe the best feature at all, and if it really delivers those enhancements on old devices it will be the best iOS release in years.
As a developer I'm thrilled about Core ML 2 and its ability to reduce the size of models we have to import, it means apps using Machine Learning will be faster and smaller in size, great news! Even the ability to save and share AR scenes is really interesting, I have some apps in the work and plan to take advantage of some of the features announced yesterday.
In the end I can say I'm happy about iOS 12, both as a user and a developer. Sure not everything on my wish list has made it to 12, but there are some good enhancements.
I think people expected more from Siri, we have the possibility to customise it with our own trigger phrases now, but it isn't a real improvement in Siri, it doesn't seem it will understand us better especially if we ask something outside the custom phrases or the usual stuff (Play this song, send this message, take me to that place etc.)
Apple want to protect our privacy, machine learning works locally on the device so they cannot take advantage of their millions users to improve their algorithms the way Google does. Sure some Siri failures could be addressed even without compromising privacy, Siri sometimes is too dumb, but Google and Amazon will always have an advantage.
ha ha, you know darn well that every single feature will not only be turned on, but actively making changes to every single facet of your iOS life. Kind of like how bluetooth was always turned back on after an update, despite not ever using it and already having it turned off completely prior to updating.
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Say what you will about Apple's premium phone prices. The iPhone 5s came out in 2013 and will get the latest iOS this year. Since we can expect the EOL for iOS 12 to be around September 2019. That means at least 6 years of the latest OS updates and security patches delivered the same day as other devices. What premium Android phone comes close to that?
While I may not like all of Apple's product decisions and have all but given up on the Mac. This will keep me buying iPhones and iPads. Also making them my sole recommendation for my IT clients.
I guess I am getting old. I don't see anything appealing in these animated emojis. Was kind of funny the first time. Kids love it of course so smart business - but otherwise? Why would I use one of those things in a FaceTime chat for example?
The new parental controls however were an urgent need.
The new parental controls however were an urgent need.
I can do that for my personal stuff, but trying to keep 20 devices synced with the latest docs is a much bigger issue, if I need to be sure the other 19 have downloaded the latest email and clicked open all the new files on books vs, have one person updating all the devices at once, and being sure everyone is reading from the same document. We could move to BlueFire Reader and one of the others that still lets us install everything via cable, but then I need to remove all of the docs from iBook so that someone isnt looking at the old info on iBook vs (free replacement) and install all 25 GB of files in the new reader, vs the 3 new ones for the week. We are limping at it now, but really if this isnt getting fixed I am going to have to pull the trigger and go some other way.
-Tig
Yeah, knowing Android has had this for years kinda made laugh a bit at the applause. It was really overdue.
Really? I can't remember stumbling over that option. What iOS version was that?
It was in settings > notification. Apple pulled the setting in iOS 10 (it was an option from iOS 4 to iOS 9) Grouping worked differently than iOS 12 grouping. The notifications were not stacked. They were literally broken up by app and you could decide which app would show up first. Not sure why they pulled it.
For all those DYING to try out the "Measure" app, and owning a 5S - it is NOT on the Beta 1 on the iPhone 5S. I looked and looked... NOPE, nothing. However, it works just perfect on my SE - however, it has a LOT of polishing that needs doing - it's frequently waaaaaaaaayy off!
What you’re describing is likely the reason it’s not on the 5s. The SE is a 6s in a different body and along with it is the upgraded mX chip with a better gyro than the 5s.
