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Hidden Features in iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan
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That's amazing news that the spinning beachball will now be more brightly coloured. It's so great that the Apple engineering team has achieved this stunning breakthrough. I'll definitely be upgrading.
Apple is not making a choice to include or exclude specific flags, they're simply choosing to give easy access to the flags available through the Unicode Character Set, which gets expanded from time to time.
Using the word "emoji" for a lot of this is misleading. Let's talk about Unicode... Emoji was originally a special set of little icon characters on Japanese phones back in the feature-phone texting days (the basic set of faces plus other things in everyday Japanese life). Worked great if you were using a phone in Japan, but nowhere else. At the time, the character sets used around the world matched up for the very most basic things (A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and basic punctuation), but beyond that there were all sorts of local additions for accented letters and such. Done a little differently everywhere, just like emoji was only a thing in Japan. Then the Internet came along, and it became much more important to communicate around the globe using the same standard character set, and a group undertook the arduous task of creating one universal character set, containing EVERY character, called Unicode. It has room for literally billions of characters, and they haven't all been assigned yet. They started with all the standard alphanumeric and punctuation characters, added all the accented characters, non-Latin character sets (e.g. Greek, Cyrillic), and all those emoji characters from Japan. Every few years, they add more characters that have been requested (there was a proposal, I don't recall if it was granted, to add the Klingon character set).
A more recently implemented proposal for Unicode was to include all the letters used in the two-character country codes that are used for top level domains (like .us, .ca, .uk, .de, etc) in such a way that they represent A-Z but are different from A-Z, so that a two character country code could be uniquely represented using them. The most common way of displaying these codes is as a flag. So, since there's two-character country codes for the United States (US) and Germany (DE), we can use those to display those flags, but since the Confederate States of America, and Nazi Germany ceased to exist long ago, and aren't current cointries, they were never assigned country codes, and thus have no flag symbols.
So, first, that's why no confederate flag, it wasn't Apple being for or against it, it just doesn't have, and will never have, a country code (you sure as heck can't sent email to the confederacy as a nation), and also, they aren't "flag emoji", they are an intended way to display a particular set of Unicode characters, or, if you will, they're Unicode flags, rather than emoji flags.
This is also why Apple won't be adding a Taylor Swift "emoji" - not their decision whether or not she's in the Unicode character set.
More information on flags here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Indicator_Symbol
And more information on emoji in Unicode here: http://unicode.org/faq/emoji_dingbats.html
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I believe this is another of Apple's steps to protect you from unreasonable government search. There are forensic tools out there that can, in fact, brute force a 4-digit PIN on an iPhone in less than half an hour. Switching to a 6-digit PIN increases the attack time to over 3 days. They might be able to take your phone away from you for half an hour while they "interview" you. They will have a much harder time explaining needing to hold on to your personal property for three days.
I strongly applaud this, along with similar previous measures they've taken, like encrypting the filesystem. The government (any government) should not be able to go on a fishing expedition through all your personal data just because they feel like it.
And you can still choose to use a 4-digit PIN if you want, it simply suggests setting a 6-digit PIN by default.
From what I have read it is not clear from Apple or testers if F.lux like functionality is actually what that button is for. In any case this still does not address adding F.lux or F.lux-like functionality to iOS.
Doesn't iOS have delays built in after a few incorrect attempts? How would it work out in half an hour or even a few hours when the phone becomes disabled between attempts up to a day if not even indefinitely?
Be honest, have you ever used the bundled OS X apps:
- Audio MIDI Setup
- Bluetooth File Exchange
- Boot Camp Assistant
- Chess
- ColorSync Utility
- Digital Color Meter
- Grab
- Grapher
- Photo Booth
- Script Editor
- Stickies
- VoiceOver Utility
I understand that technology exists to break 4-digit PINs and it's not difficult, but we are talking about an iPhone. The phone locks out after unsuccessful attempts. The brute force method you describe does not work with iOS. You would have to jailbreak the phone at least to be able to bypass the lockout, and at that point you have full access to the device anyway.
Meh. I've deleted most of those. But you know it's much easier to bury stuff in OS X.
If we compare the Applications folder in OS X with Springboard, how is putting stuff into a folder within the Applications folder easier than doing the same in Springboard.
I was imprecise in my choice of words. You are right that the basic act of dragging into a folder is effectively the same. My intent was that it is easier to complete what I (and I believe the OP) would consider a more effective hiding of unwanted icons from view in OS X via things like multiple nested folders within folders that are never accessed, including moving it out of the Applications folder. It is absolutely easier to ignore things in OS X. Even putting unwanted iPhone apps into their own folder (as I do) and sticking them on their own screen/page (as I do) still has the incomplete or unsatisfying quality of the little 'how many screens' dot at the bottom of the home screen and the tendency to occasionally flip to that screen.
A trivial matter, sure.
Love your screen name, btw. Absolutely the highlight of the 2008 ACL.
Keep in mind, the iOS apps take up valuable storage. On OS X, most of us got enough not to care...
I don't get the not knowing though. If you're at the start of a new paragraph, it's upper case. If you're after a period i't upper case. If you clicked the shift key, it's upper case.
And the lower case keys look so much worse on the keyboard. It's just so ugly.
Always worked perfectly for me. Pull my laptop up, phone in pocket, and connect to the internet, never touching the phone. This is one of the features I've been the most excited about, everytime I've used it. It's magical
But the 4 digit key isn't the encryption key. It's the seed for the encryption.
Nope, me too. I've actually bought 6.500k light bulbs to make my indoor light as pure white as possible as well.
Settings -> Notifications -> Sort by Time.
You're welcome, mate.
Oh yeah, because we should just stop minor improvements, and not do anything that isn't groundbreaking, right? Might as well go back to OS 9's UI, because hey it worked, and it was gradual improvements, and **** that, right? We need to only do groundbreaking, innovative, revolutionary things, and never do evolutionary upgrades.
Do you smell the snarky sarcasm?
I know the question wasn't directed at me, but I'll peep in and say, yes. I've used every single one. Some of them are actually really amazing.
Difference is how visible they are, and as is already stated in this thread, it's easier to hide things on OS X, so you don't have to see the apps you don't want to see. On the Springboard, they will take up an icon. I wouldn't mind all the apps being there, if it were possible to hide their icons. And let's face it, keeping them on the app store would be better anyway, since it would allow for faster update cycles. Imagine that, a new version of Podcasts or iBooks launching independently of a new iOS version. Oh yeah... That was possible once. (although iBooks is cool as a default app, since it brings pdf viewing to the OS.)
Which shows that all the dislike of not being able to remove these apps is essentially based on an obsession with visual tidiness. And last time I checked, iOS supported folders, so I don't understand why you, like so many others, still play the each-app-takes-up-one-icon card. You are hurting your case by making the problem sound worse than it actually is.
There is nothing wrong with an obsession with visual tidiness, as long as you admit to the fact that it is really a minor issue that like any visual impact by UI elements is largely just a subjective choice of what people prefer.
There might be another underlying point: The notion that Apple is trying to sell us something or is pressuring us to use an app or device. But I fail to see much fault with Apple in showing us, eg, the Watch app once (without actually opening it) before we put it away into a folder.