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Apple Says Third-Party Apps Can Take Full Advantage of ProMotion With Plist Entry, Core Animation Bug Fix Coming [Updated]
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Give Apple a little time, it is out since Friday and 99% of users who order it has not yet received. It not like you can’t use the product, like many new features it needs dev to implement it.. but give devs and Apple time, tho is like free whining. This attitude is absolutely wrong.
Just to clarify, I meant that the developer docs should've been released at the same time as the hardware announcement, not a couple of days after the hardware ended up in customers' hands.
I was talking about Siri not being able to control ANC and Transparency modes of AirPods Pro and "iPhone Storage Almost Full" bugs. I thought there was also something about the Aple Watch but I can't find it. Maybe I misremembered.
About the plist - if that was the plan all along why not notify the developers in advance, especially if that's something that wasn't required for iPads?
Sure, except in all Apple apps including Safari, in video playback apps like Netflix, in games using Metal or third party frameworks on top of Metal, etc.
If they had notified the developers in advance, the developers would have known that this feature was coming to iPhone, and it would have blown apple’s ”surprise.” They could’ve let the developers know about it right after the product announcement 2 weeks ago, but the developers couldn’t do anything about it until the new Xcode and sdks became available anyway (last week). So you are quibbling about a couple of days.
Yes, except in all the apps which the reviews actually benchmarked, which did have it enabled.
How convenient, right?
Those are completely unrelated things entirely. I don't care if the CPU is running at full speed while I'm using the phone. Seeing the screen be at a consistently fluid 120 Hz, like I have on Android, something that you are looking at to interact with the phone 100% of the time, is far more important. That is such a silly comparison I don't even know where to begin.
Love my 13 PM. Reading this site in Safari the phone gets really hot. Anyone else notice this
You need an ad blocker to resolve this. Installed one and not a single issue since then.
Of course I am. Unlike many people on this site I care about the customers way more than I do about Apple. There is no excuse for not providing your customers with the best possible experience, especially when you keep going on and on about how much you care about them. Apple make great products but iOS 15 is quite a mess.
There are literally apps already on the AppStore that support this. It’s been less than 24 hours. How, exactly, have customers been harmed?
As usual there is a conspiracy theory attached to all of this: Apple deliberately withheld this feature from developer apps until battery benchmarks had been done by reviewers.
Surely there’s the possibility that battery life using 3rd party apps will actually get better once developers start using this feature as their apps won’t be running at a constant 60hz?
Surely there’s the possibility that battery life using 3rd party apps will actually get better once developers start using this feature as their apps won’t be running at a constant 60hz?
I wasn't interested in the problem, but I saw real developers figure it out with existing documentation right away.
Who said anything about anyone being harmed? Not providing people with the best possible experience doesn't equate to harming them. Why the need to blindly defend Apple? It's not some minority owned indie company operated from the sole developer's kitchen. They are a multi billion dollar company that can absolutely afford the brain power and testing needed for a software release with all the announced features present and functional on day one. I guess when you think of your customers as potential criminals and psychopaths you don't really have to care about their comfort that much...
Agree. And the worst part is they only give you like 5-10 dislike to counter the army of anti-apple trolls in the site. Macrumors is more like machate this days.
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According to Apple’s support document that they just published, the iPhone 13 Pro’s can run at twelve different refresh rates from 10Hz to 120Hz.
The iPad Pro’s can run at five different refresh rates from 24Hz to 120Hz.
Testufo stated a few years ago that their site incorrectly reports 60Hz on ProMotion iPad’s due to an inconsistency with their website and iOS. It’s something they haven’t been able to fix.
This inconsistency has now carried over to the iPhone 13 Pro.
The Testufo website only works accurately for Mac’s (out of the Apple devices) connected to 120Hz displays and higher.
No. Both are examples of dynamically adjusting a hardware feature to find the right balance between performance and battery life.
I hate to break this to you, but as soon as Android makers find a good algorithm to dynamically throttle the frame rate, that’s what they’ll do.
Android does have self-adjusting screen refresh rate but they also have the option to leave it maxed out. This isn't something magical or new. And again no, CPUs adjusting their speed, which has been a thing since the dawn of computers, has nothing to do with what I said.
CPUs never used to adjust their speed dynamically, they went flat out all the time regardless of what you were doing.
Apple just doesn’t want you or doesnt see the need for you to leave the screen at 120hz all the time as it’ll dynamically adjust based on what you are doing. Take it or leave it.
Both the approach to dynamically adjusting the CPU speed and screen refresh rate are fundamentally the same concept.
I can't wait for the outcry when that option inevitably gets taken away once the algorithms are efficient enough. "But mah freedoms"
It's literally the same thing: a dynamic, high-frequency adjustment between performance and power draw. And no, dynamic frequency scaling wasn't in widespread use before Intel SpeedStep ca. 2005.
It is their choice to not reveal this. But this also means that the early adopters do not get the value. Secrecy has a price.