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Apple Seeds Third Beta of iOS 9.3 to Developers
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Apple Pencil support for general UI elements has NOT returned in 9.3 Beta 3. Please submit a Feedback Assistant report on the matter to let them know that it lessens your satisfaction with the Pencil, too. They'll only care if a good number of people using the beta respond similarly.
That's not an opinion but a fact. And it is a big issue as well. Apple wanted to sell high-priced designer stuff and bragged about how even the backside of a Mac looks better than a PC, now they've got to deliver or risk to lose customers who come to expect what has been promised. Therefore protruding camera lenses, ugly antenna bands and a failed icon design after something better already existed, are the biggest issues of all. If you want to sell expensive, everything else got to be perfect. No mistakes allowed.
I wouldn't look for that during a staged beta of a .x release. If that ever comes our way you can believe it'll be a key feature of a brand new iOS version.
I notice that once I unlock my phone using Touch ID, it takes about 15 seconds for the time to show up at the top.
That should not be a key feature. I don't think Apple would ever want to make a big deal of removing their own apps
All of your "facts" are subjective, though. In other words, an opinion.
Not a key feature along the lines of Continuity, but an option that they would like to highlight during WWDC. I don't think that option will ever come, actually - they're deeply entrenched within the OS. I can see them finally allowing default app options, though. (or, at least, I'd love to see it)
It is an opinion. For me, I don't really care whether it's an eye or a lampshade. I understand Apple should sweat the details but the look of this icon is totally subjective.
I don't think they intended for the pencil to be used as anything other than a pencil.
I noticed something interesting last week when browsing the iOS 9.3 Beta 2 SDK: The Springboard and UIKit assets include some @3x icons specifically for iPad (not for iPhone, those files have "ipad" included in their file names). Could that mean that the iPad Air 3 will come with a 4K display, which has already been rumored?
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Can confirm this, though not 15 seconds... more like 4-5. Tried on 6S Plus and Air 2.
Design is not an opinion. How big our hands are, how big a thumb is, how much we can memorize, how our eyes react to blue bright light after sunset. These are all biological facts and good design takes them into account. Icons exist for good reason and a good icon for Night Shift is a metaphor for light in the dark. You can't go better than bedside lamp. And that's a fact. Make a focus group and test it, if you don't believe me. The people will not get what the eye-halfmoon-lemon is supposed to mean.
Perhaps, but since they released it with the Pencil working for general UI functions (and the Pencil is now readily available), people might come to expect it and react negatively when 9.3 takes it away.
