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Hands-On With iOS 10's Overhauled Lock Screen
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The option has always been there...
Some of you just complain so you can complain.
You could "reduce motion" in iOs8 as well. Actually, you could turn off animations since they were introduced as a part of accessibility.
And this is a thread about iOS10, and people are complaining about having the option of turning off animations, option that has been there since animations.
So to answer 97% of the comments on this article:
1. No, there is no security flaw/iOS 10 change in regards to responding to messages, seeing emails, etc. from the lock screen. These features have been present since before iOS 10 and the only change now is the interface and apple's emphasis on 3D Touch usage for "rich" notifications. You can (and always have been able to) disable replies from the lock screen, etc.
2. "Press home to unlock" replaces "swipe to unlock." It's literally that simple (and yes, you can still swipe over a specific notification to launch that specific app directly).
3. No, the lock screen changes do NOT force you to now have a passcode/Touch ID enabled. You can still choose to have NO passcode/Touch ID. ("But wait! How do I unlock my phone then if I have no passcode and can't swipe to unlock anymore?!" You press home to unlock.)
4. Yes, having two control center panes, being forced to swipe for music controls, and the massive night shift button seem annoying, but CONTROL CENTER REMEMBERS which pane you last visited. In other words, if you're listening to music and frequently use control center for playback controls, you can still get to them just as easily as before.
1. No, there is no security flaw/iOS 10 change in regards to responding to messages, seeing emails, etc. from the lock screen. These features have been present since before iOS 10 and the only change now is the interface and apple's emphasis on 3D Touch usage for "rich" notifications. You can (and always have been able to) disable replies from the lock screen, etc.
2. "Press home to unlock" replaces "swipe to unlock." It's literally that simple (and yes, you can still swipe over a specific notification to launch that specific app directly).
3. No, the lock screen changes do NOT force you to now have a passcode/Touch ID enabled. You can still choose to have NO passcode/Touch ID. ("But wait! How do I unlock my phone then if I have no passcode and can't swipe to unlock anymore?!" You press home to unlock.)
4. Yes, having two control center panes, being forced to swipe for music controls, and the massive night shift button seem annoying, but CONTROL CENTER REMEMBERS which pane you last visited. In other words, if you're listening to music and frequently use control center for playback controls, you can still get to them just as easily as before.
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yes, agree with that thoughYou could "reduce motion" in iOs8 as well. Actually, you could turn off animations since they were introduced as a part of accessibility.
And this is a thread about iOS10, and people are complaining about having the option of turning off animations, option that has been there since animations.
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Just to reply to the point nr. 4,
I personnally don't see the plus, on this. I don't think the control center is too crowded now.
Except that, I really like all the 3Dtouch interactions.
Notification see too "big" though, especially the name of app. Seems like a lot of screen estate is lost.
Like the 3Dtouch control center actions
Re Control Centre .... perhaps this new swipe-able version is gagging for custom toggles on a right-swipe....
[doublepost=1465980707][/doublepost]I have a bluetooth dongle in my car ... will this parked car map thing work with that?
Just curious how it knows I've parked my car and walked away from it, as opposed to having just dropped my bluetooth earpiece on a walk.
I am using waze, and sometimes it showed where the car was parked.
No idea how, as it didn't happen all the time
That's alway been a possibility - you can just as easily slide to reply to messages on the lockscreen right now.
Devil's Advocate: is it really that hard to tear your eyes away from the screen for a moment and look up, or out a window, to see what the weather is like?
Especially for "launchers" widgets. Now I can easily launch 1Password by pulling down from the top everywhere. Not sure how could I do that after iOS 10.
I really liked what I saw there. Makes it much more intuitive. I do however need to point out the fact that the music player had Kanye West open which takes a bite out of the presenter's credibility
I appreciate this. Now I'm excited to try out the iOS 10 public beta when it's available, seeing as Apple hasn't totally crippled Notification Center and Widgets.
If you swipe down to open Notification Center, then swipe to see widgets, close Notification Center, and then reopen it, what shows? Does it default to the Notifications view, or does it show the last view you were in?
If you swipe to the left while notification center is down in an app, it brings up your widgets.
It will show the notifications view. Don't like that behaviour honestly. I'd like it too work like Control Center, where you open it at for example the Music section and it'll stay that way (at least until you restart the device). Would like to see that with the new Notification Center. I'd be using the widgets more than the notifications.
Haha, I know right? xD
It will show the notifications view. Don't like that behaviour honestly. I'd like it too work like Control Center, where you open it at for example the Music section and it'll stay that way (at least until you restart the device). Would like to see that with the new Notification Center. I'd be using the widgets more than the notifications.
Thanks for this. Hopefully they'll change it to be like Control Center, where it remembers the "page" you were on.
Because reading partly cloudy every day is depressing and redundant. Also now that you can delete the stock weather app, where would you get the data from?
Simple, sure. But on devices w/o Touch ID the swipe IMHO is a more comfortable, quicker, unlock method because it involves less hand movement and travel. I have the iOS 10 beta installed on a Mini 2 and it just feels awkward, and not just because my muscle memory is deeply entrenched in swiping.
I don't think it matters at all with Touch ID devices for obvious reasons, but I wish Apple had left swipe in place for older devices.
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You will be able to use the HUE app in control center with the homekit page
Maybe that works in LA or Hawaii where the weather never changes but on the east coast at least, esp. during the summer, the weather can change in a flash. It can be blue skies when you go into a store, and a torrential thunder storm when you come out 30 min. later.
The point of a weather app is to see what the weather is going to be in the future, not the present.