A software update which modifies my storage. This might be the first time I actually wait a couple of days before updating...
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Apple Seeds First Beta of iOS 10.3 With 'Find My AirPods' to Developers
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I got to try mine at lunch and it makes the UI significantly easier
Here is the new "Recent" icon list (along left side) in CarPlay
Theater mode seems to be for the Apple Watch. Selecting a Wi-Fi network seems fairly simple.
What!!
My Pixel XL is beautiful and no it's not big on everything. I can browse 2 things at once, I can login in my internet banking and do another thing on the other screen.
Apple are not innovative at all!!
Ya find my phone hasn't helped anyone. Pfft, gimmicks! Point being, what you find gimmicky may be used by millions, maybe not. All future updates are generally ease of use updates with MAYBE a couple completely new features. I mean everyone is screaming for dark mode but why isn't that considered a gimmick also?
Because everybody I know wants a dark mode so it's not a gimmick since everybody will be using it. I guess you are right nonetheless, some might use those features 10.3 introduces, I just feel they are addressed to about 5 to 10% of the Iphone users. The last few .X updates feel like this.
Let's hope it's ready! lol Don't think I would be a beta guinea pig for something that major....
I am long time lurker of macrumors forum, and there is a thing I was always courious about: why do you really need darkmode. What benefits are from having a darkmode on LCD screen? As far as I know - it’s barely little less light emitted while screen is showing black. So please explain it - why do you want a darkmode?
Because people prefer dark mode aesthetically perhaps, rather than from a power consumption point of view?
It is really hard to speculate: some benefits could be expected as apps will finish some of their most cpu/memory heavy tasks (a little bit) faster. Most of benefits - and it’s only my speculation, from what I know about APFS - would come from less data being transferred over the network.
I use my phone and ipad at night a lot and my eyes begin to hurt after half an hour or so and nightshift doesn't do it for me. I would like an alternative for lowering the brightness witch is not the most elegant solution if you ask me. I also don't think that it would be barely little less light, I've used a jailbroken device with "dark mode" on it and the difference is real. Other than that, I don't have any other needs and complaints for IOS (besides the phone shutting down randomly at 30-40% battery), so dark mode would wrap up my experience.
Wow. Definitely slower when opening and closing folders but other than that on my 7 The animations are quicker. It might be intentional.
So you can switch to some android phone, with OLED screen, as they are much better in producing real black black colour. Android phones are really great (recently they have adopted iOS-like permission options, and google did great with making android animations more fluid) - so it shouldn’t be a problem.
What I think - from consumer point of view there are much more important things to do for iOS developer team. APFS, some kind of AIKit for developers, improvements for blind/impaired people, switching from Object-C to Swift, encryption, battery life - those are things I consider much more interesting than creating a dark UI, as they will lead as to new kind of apps that could make our life easier.
Also: you can jailbreak your phone, and I am sure you will find something like dark mode.
But, but, the brightness… that is what cause an eye-strain. While LCD displays a black screen - it still have almost the same backlit (it depends if it is VA, TN, IPS or whatever strange combination) - the only thing that stops from emitting as much light as in case of white colour is polarisation - it is like the wavelength of backlit colour is beamed away from your eyes. That is why you can never have a true black on LCD display.
Also: I belive that developers have enough tools to make their interfaces black, if they don’t see dark mode as an opportunity - it’s probably because there are not really that much people who are looking for dark UI’s.
For phone shutting down at 30-40% - you probably need to change your battery, I had the same problem with iPhone 5 and 5s.
As i said - there are much more needed improvements than creating a dark UI for iOS, and there is always some option: jailbreak, switch to android.
I'm impressed with 10.3's speed so far. It doesn't just feel snappier. It's blazing on the couple of devices I installed it on. Ever since iOS 10 came out I've been having trouble manually connecting to/disconnecting from WiFi on multiple devices. Particularly within about 5 or 10 minutes of booting. For example, if I choose a WiFi network it can take a minute or two to become active. Or if I disable WiFi the WiFi toggle is greyed out for a few minutes. This is a problem I've seen on a LOT of devices, not just a handful. On two of the devices I use most often iOS 10.3 fixes this problem. They seem overall significantly faster now. I've never been so impressed with a beta. I do realize this is, of course, a very small sample set. But I'm a happy camper.
Alright but really it doesn't provide a great experience on that screen. It's usable and probably useful but it'll be cramped. It's not something that the average consumer would use often on a phone. Would I use it? Yes, but I'm not the average consumer. On the other hand, split view, especially for something like FaceTime and YouTube, would be widely used.
Google aren't being innovative in that space, except with Chrome OS. Apple introduced split screen multitasking into their mobile OS before Google, and Samsung before Apple, and Microsoft before Samsung. So the real innovator is Microsoft... which is actually true nowadays.
As many of Google’s app store apps don’t follow any of the material language guidelines - I expect most of apps don’t work well with split screen provided by newest Android APIs.
It is really simple for developers to give an option to display content of their apps in multitasking split view - but there is a reason why, in this particular example Youtube, don’t want to: if they don’t have the whole real screen estate they cannot charge advertisers as much as they do now.
There are ways to sync data across devices without giving a third party access to that data. This could be done by only allowing direct sync between devices, though Apple may not consider that elegant enough. Another way would be for Apple to host the data on their servers but not any of the encryption keys, such that even they couldn't read the data.
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I downloaded that app and it was useless. Requested a refund even before Apple removed it from the App Store.
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You can access the wifi menu by using 3D Touch on he Settings app icon.
The same people who said that their iPhone 7s had "no animation lag," or "buttery smooth performance" are now freaking out over how much "smoother" and "quicker" this update is lol it's a LITTLE bit better as far as UI performance.... still a lot of improvement needed.
I would think it would but it might be very insignificant. APFS is designed with SSDs in mind and iOS devices all have SSDs. In as much as it makes disk access more efficient it should help battery life. But my gut is it wouldn't be very noticeable if it is at all.
I configured my own dark mode on iOS. Simply set up triple click of the home button to turn on inverse screen colors under Assistive settings. I like it better than what my Android phones offer. On the modern iPhones it greatly reduces overall light output and makes reading at night much more relaxing.