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Here Are Apple's Release Notes for iOS 26.4

capamac said:
I suspect part of that is the "glass" effects. It takes a lot of cpu cycles to render all that blurring and refracting. Look at how hot Nvidia GPUs get when rendering graphics effects -- hot enough to melt their own cables! That's battery power used for no good benefit. Also faster refresh rates probably also a factor. Coz before iOS was rending an effect 60 times a second, but now they're doing it 120 times a second. Who knows.

On my Samsung Galaxy, I set the refresh to 60 (even though it can do 90hz) to save battery power:
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Also, I don't really care if my refresh rate is 90 or 120hz. I'm fine with 60. I'm a cinema fan, so I consider 24fps to be the gold standard ; )
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I’ve never got the ‘you have to have 120hz!’ Thing on these forums.

As safari is locked by default at 60hz, what’s the point?

So I can have a smoother scrolling lock screen or album browsing in Apple Music ?
 
jonnyb098 said:
So this is where we are now folks:

- Improved keyboard accuracy when typing quickly

We can all rest easy knowing Apple figured out how to make the latest chips keep up with….typing.

iOS has become what iTunes became. So bloated and buggy it needs to be blown up and rewritten.
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I remember when Jobs got back to Apple, he resembled OS 7 /8 to a helicopter that had missing parts and they kept attaching wings and machines as add-ons to it so much so it barely lift off the ground. ios, and apple in general, became so bloated with hidden features and "finger gymnastic" touch menus it is nearing the quality of Microsoft software.

the video is on youtube but i can not find it.
 
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eveluvsrainbows said:
Um, emoji usage is insanely popular, especially among Gen Z people and younger. Why wouldn't they point out in the release notes when they add new ones? And how exactly does this show how "lost" their dev team is? Excluding it from the release notes when they add new emoji makes absolutely zero sense. Just because you potentially don't use emoji very much or keep the usage of them to a minimum, doesn't mean they aren't important to others. Plus, they pointed it out as an enhancement, not a feature.
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They aren't important, and won't be, ever.
 
We now have the orca emoji, but still Siri cannot understand a repeated request for a specific song, or a classical piece of music. Apple .....
 
DMG35 said:
The fact that Apple wants to continuously tout new emoji's as an added feature shows how truly lost their development team is.
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You do know that it is the Unicode Consortium who define the new emojis each year and Apple and the other OS makers just have to support them. I’m sure that Apple does use its own graphic designers for the implementation, but not too many developers are involved.
 
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"Apple Music​

- Playlist Playground (beta) generates a playlist from your description, complete with a title, description, and tracklist​

- Concerts helps you discover nearby shows from artists in your library and recommends new artists based on what you listen to​

- Offline Music Recognition in Control Center identifies songs without an internet connection and delivers results automatically when you're back online​

- Ambient Music widget for Sleep, Chill, Productivity, and Wellbeing brings curated playlists to the Home Screen​

- Full screen backgrounds give album and playlist pages a more immersive look"​



ugh! this is the last thing I want in my personal music library.
I don't want/need ads for concerts, AI generating anything -I can curate my own music. just make it easier for me to play (looking at Siri failures) to see and play MY music library—enough with Apple Music One already!
 
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"This update also includes the following enhancements:
- 8 new emoji including an orca, trombone, landslide, ballet dancer, and distorted face are available in the emoji keyboard"

See? Even Apple knows that the first rule of fight cloud is that you do not talk about fight cloud.
 
capamac said:
I suspect part of that is the "glass" effects. It takes a lot of cpu cycles to render all that blurring and refracting. Look at how hot Nvidia GPUs get when rendering graphics effects -- hot enough to melt their own cables! That's battery power used for no good benefit. Also faster refresh rates probably also a factor. Coz before iOS was rending an effect 60 times a second, but now they're doing it 120 times a second. Who knows.

On my Samsung Galaxy, I set the refresh to 60 (even though it can do 90hz) to save battery power:
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Also, I don't really care if my refresh rate is 90 or 120hz. I'm fine with 60. I'm a cinema fan, so I consider 24fps to be the gold standard ; )
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That’s not really the case. Previous .4 betas were, ok. Now I get around 4 hours for a full battery, before it was 6, so close to how iOS 18 performed on my phone. Efficiency is an on and off kinda thing with these betas.
But of course, Liquid Glass doesn’t help any of that and I am very thankful that my phone isn’t any older.
As for ProMotion, it works quite differently than you think.
Previously, iPhones had a locked refresh rate at 60Hz, but with ProMotion, the refresh rate is „variable“ meaning when displaying a static image, the screen barely refreshes at 10Hz, when moving around and displaying animations, the refresh rate may go up to 120Hz though. So depending on what you do the refresh rate may actually average below 60Hz. Apple did this exactly because of the concern you mentioned.
On many other phones, and I expect the one you pulled the screenshot from, too, do not have a variable refresh rate. That’s where your concerns are valid.
 
Tagbert said:
You do know that it is the Unicode Consortium who define the new emojis each year and Apple and the other OS makers just have to support them. I’m sure that Apple does use its own graphic designers for the implementation, but not too many developers are involved.
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Great! I’m just not sure they warrant a mention every single time they do a software release.
 
I7guy said:
I’m glad it’s mentioned. I make liberal use of emojis in my day to day conversation.
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I don't have a problem with emojis. I just think it's silly when they announce it as a part of a new feature in an OS release. It's just my opinion and not an attack on anyone who thinks emojis are wonderful and useful.
 
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DMG35 said:
They aren't important, and won't be, ever.
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They are important enough to put in the release notes so that way people are alerted to them. If you omitted it from the changelog / release notes, it would be stupid. You don’t hide user facing changes from the customer who uses your product, even if its something small like this where new emojis are added; thats just dumb and irresponsible.

You are entitled to your opinion, but in this case it is the wrong opinion to have.
 
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eveluvsrainbows said:
They are important enough to put in the release notes so that way people are alerted to them. If you omitted it from the changelog / release notes, it would be stupid. You don’t hide user facing changes from the customer who uses your product, even if its something small like this where new emojis are added; thats just dumb and irresponsible.

You are entitled to your opinion, but in this case it is the wrong opinion to have.
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LOLOLOL there is no such thing as a wrong opinion. Because you disagree with it doesn't make it wrong. Some of you guys are too much.
 
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DMG35 said:
LOLOLOL there is no such thing as a wrong opinion. Because you disagree with it doesn't make it wrong. Some of you guys are too much.
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Yes there is. There literally is. You’re saying that Apple should omit a user facing change from the release notes just because its new emoji. I don’t know but that comes off quite silly to me.

Wrong opinions do in fact exist, especially if they are based on incorrect or false information, or illogical reasoning.

We as a collective species are failing if we criticize something as small as text such as “we added new emoji” existing in a changelog.
 
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MacBH928 said:
I remember when Jobs got back to Apple, he resembled OS 7 /8 to a helicopter that had missing parts and they kept attaching wings and machines as add-ons to it so much so it barely lift off the ground. ios, and apple in general, became so bloated with hidden features and "finger gymnastic" touch menus it is nearing the quality of Microsoft software.
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As a daily user of Windows 11, I beg to differ. Windows 11 is the hottest of hot messes that is actively pushing Windows users over to Macs. This week MSFT had to backtrack on forcing CoPilot down its users throats. You want outrage, now that's outrage. It makes the Liquid Glass drama look like a kids' playground slap fight.
 
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Can’t get mail to reliably fetch messages from Google’s Gmail or a traditional IMAP server. Too hard not to break a very basic tool that exists since the early 70s.
 
eveluvsrainbows said:
Yes there is. There literally is. You’re saying that Apple should omit a user facing change from the release notes just because its new emoji. I don’t know but that comes off quite silly to me.

Wrong opinions do in fact exist, especially if they are based on incorrect or false information, or illogical reasoning.

We as a collective species are failing if we criticize something as small as text such as “we added new emoji” existing in a changelog.
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Lol we are failing as a species hahahahah over criticism of emojis in a changelog. You are too much man.
 
DMG35 said:
Lol we are failing as a species hahahahah over criticism of emojis in a changelog. You are too much man.
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We are. Out of everything actually bad going on in the world, you choose to ignore all of that and instead decide to criticize Apple for putting “we added new emoji” in their changelog. Its text on a screen, like, omg.

I don’t think I’m the one who is too much.
 
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