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Apple Shares Requirements for Default Third-Party Browser and Email Apps With Developers
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I wonder when this will happen since these are money makers, and Safari and Mail are not.
It will only affect you if someone sent it to you.
Here
2015-06-10 - https://www.macrumors.com/2015/06/10/imessage-bug-fixed-ios-8-4-beta-4/
2018-02-15 - https://www.macrumors.com/2018/02/15/telugu-crashing-bug-fixed-ios-11-3-macos-10-13-4/
2018-05-09 - https://www.macrumors.com/2018/05/09/how-to-fix-black-dot-imessage-crashing-bug/
2020-04-23 - https://www.macrumors.com/2020/04/23/ios-character-bug-device-crashes/
Oh ... you mean that extremely isolated bug that doesn’t affect most people?
Seriously. I know people who think Google IS the beginning and the end of the internet. If they want to visit Macrumors.com they
1) Open Chrome (after clinging on to IE until the very end)
2) type in google.com
3) Press enter and wait for it to load while staring at the screen like they see a cow dancing the Macarena
4) search for Macrumors
5) Press enter and wait for it to load while staring at the screen like they see a hamster dancing the Tango
6) Click macrumors at the top of the search results
It will happen when regulators compel Apple to allow it, whether explicitly or not.
And, like Safari and Mail, it is overdue.
I just hope they fix highlighting in the iPad and iPhone Books apps. Only works consistently with Pencil on iPad, finger is always off in relation to highlight. Must have to do with their new system wide text highlighting. Bugs me that they have either not noticed that themselves and/or are simply ignoring user feedback.
There are other music apps that are great but otherwise cant be integrated to system so clunkier to use. There are still folks who do not enjoy streaming service and still buy songs from various sources.
Website support for safari render engine is sketchier than chrome and Firefox. God forbid, even IE renders websites better than Safari sometimes. Allowing default browser is definitely overdue and a very welcome move.
As for default music app, Apple has done some decent job in iOS 14 that third party music app is not as attractive as it was anymore, plus it starts to share experience between iTunes and iOS devices, which is a nice thing imo.
As for default Mail app, I am pretty much stuck to default one until Apple one day decides to enforce 2FA on every single account. It does ok job for whatever it’s worth, and does not annoy me as much. The lack of rules feature means Microsoft outlook on windows is still going to be my main email client.
As for default music app, Apple has done some decent job in iOS 14 that third party music app is not as attractive as it was anymore, plus it starts to share experience between iTunes and iOS devices, which is a nice thing imo.
As for default Mail app, I am pretty much stuck to default one until Apple one day decides to enforce 2FA on every single account. It does ok job for whatever it’s worth, and does not annoy me as much. The lack of rules feature means Microsoft outlook on windows is still going to be my main email client.
would be great if they would enable the content blocker automatically on whatever browser you set as default
As much as I loathe to, I'll be switching my default to Google Maps - Apple Maps is absolutely terrible here in Thailand.
I was not joking. Outlook for iOS/iPad OS is very good. Not great on the Apple Watch. If you are a Outlook Desktop user the mobile version is something you should look at.
For me, one thing is the fact I can see a badge showing thatbi have seen new messages but when I open up mail I have to wait for them to download. It may not be enough to switch but it’s an irritant I can do without;
I am the same way. I love Safari, but the stock Mail app is garbage. I have been using Spark and love it. Finally the "You need to setup the mail app" messages will go away.
At my company, we tend to push Chrome, but the majority of our customers still use IE/Edge, Safari and Firefox. Chrome is great, until it isn’t. We’ve been submitting the same bug reports to Google since Jan. and that issue still hasn’t been resolved, which directly impacts our customers using Chrome with our services. I personally use Brave and ProtonMail.
Bad idea. That's a great way to open up a host of vulnerabilities to the OS. Guess I'm also describing Android devices.
I am sure the Google lovers are giddy with anticipation. I like Apple Maps, especially in conjunction with the Apple Watch. Even though I hate Google, I am glad that Google lovers will get their chance soon.
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This is the Apple Orchard Forum. I think you are lost.
I use TomTom which also provides the directions for Apple Maps. They always take me the exact same routes but TomTom's interface is far superior. Frankly I had hoped Apple would buy TomTom when they started to get heavy into maps.
I hate Google also. One day Google told me I may have an overdue bill and I realized they were reading my emails in order to be able to do that and that was the day I began my Degoogle adventure.
"When opening a URL, apps must navigate directly to the specified destination and render the expected web content without redirecting to an unexpected location."
I find this interesting.
Choice... As good as Apple privacy stuff is, they lack addon's and maybe some other privacy stuff.. No one size fits all..
There's nothing wrong with that, and in a world where everyone has a choce of default apps on a Mac, why shoul it be different on iOS?
I find this interesting.
Choice... As good as Apple privacy stuff is, they lack addon's and maybe some other privacy stuff.. No one size fits all..
There's nothing wrong with that, and in a world where everyone has a choce of default apps on a Mac, why shoul it be different on iOS?