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You're saying it like this is new with iOS 10. Google and Apple have been incorporating each others mobile operating system advancements into their own software since Android actuslly got useable circa 2011.
No doubt. I remember owning a Droid Incredible when the iPhone wasn't yet available on Verizon and already having a notification screen that slides down from the top. Then a year later I saw a notification screen introduced on iOS. It's a back and forth, Android and iOS are generally one in the same these days.
 
Yep, the new fonts are ghastly!
[doublepost=1465954265][/doublepost]Anybody else finding text-selection on web pages is miles better now though?
 
Assuming the 'Parked Car' feature uses GPS, how exactly is that going to work in 90% of multi story concrete and steel car parks? I'm confused about this one?
It knows your last gps position. It knows your speed and directions and could figure out approx where you parked your car. It could even figure out level. I'm not sure if it does that. But would be possible.
 
I actually love the new Music app and it's font sizes. I can now control it and read what's going on easily and at a glance.
 
As someone who at one time loved the iPhone, I honestly have to ask how you people have not jumped ship yet? Once I switched to Android around 4 years ago, I never looked back. The iPhone is a complete and utter joke. iOS is an abomination. And even the hardware is lacking waaaaay behind. How is it 2016 and the iPhone still has no IR blaster!?!?

You know this is backwards technology? I had a PDA back in 2003 that had this and well... it's really dated. With IOT, BT5 and other options... the IR Blaster has to go.
 
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The new and updated features included in iOS 10 are plentiful, and Apple users and developers have already begun to voice their opinions of a number of them online. Many testers have come away impressed by new, personalized additions to old apps like Photos, the new raise-to-wake feature, and subtle but useful additions to Maps, which can now remember where you parked your car.

Of course, where there are positives, there are negatives as well, so we've gathered up user reactions on a few of the new features of iOS 10 and attempted to bring in variety of opinions on each where possible while gauging overall sentiment from early users.

Parked Car Notifications

Reaction: Largely Positive

A new feature in iOS this year will allow Apple Maps to remember where users park their cars, which should be helpful when parking in large structures and garages. One iOS 10 beta tester noted the feature popping up at their home (which should eventually be prevented once a home address is entered) with a notification on the iPhone's lock screen.

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Once in the Maps app, a small Parked Car icon appears where you left your car, and a separate sheet can be filled out to add details like a photo of the car's location and even a text note to jot down a description of the area or level of the parking garage you were in. Some users call the new parked car notifications a "catch-up feature," since Android and apps like Waze have offered similar functions for the past few years, but otherwise the reaction is an encouragingly bright one.


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Article Link: iOS 10 Beta Reactions: Photos Memories, New Unlocking Method, Sleep Analysis, and More
 
As someone who at one time loved the iPhone, I honestly have to ask how you people have not jumped ship yet? Once I switched to Android around 4 years ago, I never looked back. The iPhone is a complete and utter joke. iOS is an abomination. And even the hardware is lacking waaaaay behind. How is it 2016 and the iPhone still has no IR blaster!?!?
I don't need an IR blaster...... run along now.
 
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Assuming the 'Parked Car' feature uses GPS, how exactly is that going to work in 90% of multi story concrete and steel car parks? I'm confused about this one?

that feature allows you to leave a note as well as a picture to better help you remember where you parked. So for example... GPS will give you the address. And your notes will remind you of the level you parked.
 
Just a shot in the dark here but doesn't it strike anyone as odd that they would have included a sleep analysis element to the OS without any way of actually analyzing sleep? Seems more like a placeholder for new  Watch functionality or  Watch band functionality.
 
Bug:
I can only get American Female Siri, no matter what I set it to. Anyone else?
On iPad Pro 9.7", btw.
 
Just a shot in the dark here but doesn't it strike anyone as odd that they would have included a sleep analysis element to the OS without any way of actually analyzing sleep? Seems more like a placeholder for new  Watch functionality or  Watch band functionality.

When I saw this feature being added to iOS 10 I assumed it'd be like the third party apps.

Place it under your pillow/bed sheet and the motion co-processor would detect movement etc.

Not unless (like you've pointed out) it's being added to Apple Watch?

I did use the Sleep+ app temporarily on my Watch so I guess it's a possibility.
 
Assuming the 'Parked Car' feature uses GPS, how exactly is that going to work in 90% of multi story concrete and steel car parks? I'm confused about this one?

Because Apple isn't cheap like Androids and has bad motion coprocessors and advanced accelerometers since the iPhone 5S.

And a barometer since iPhone 6.
 
About font size:
Positive opinions cite bolder and easier to read text, but a larger, negative group fears for information density being traded off for unnecessarily large fonts with no apparent way to opt out of such changes.
In iOS 9 (and before) there is a setting in Accessibility to let the user adjust the size of the font in "applications supporting dynamic font". Why couldn't Apple just support this features in all their apps and OS services, like notifications? It should take care of everything and make everybody happy, shouldn't it?
 
As someone who at one time loved the iPhone, I honestly have to ask how you people have not jumped ship yet? Once I switched to Android around 4 years ago, I never looked back. The iPhone is a complete and utter joke. iOS is an abomination. And even the hardware is lacking waaaaay behind. How is it 2016 and the iPhone still has no IR blaster!?!?

IR Blaster :p

My Surround sound system, TV and playstation are all controlled by my iPhone without the need for an IR Blaster. We will soon see the do away of traditional remote, an IR blaster would be going back
 
Wasn't there a massive lawsuit against Samsung regarding swipe to unlock, and now Apple gets rid of it?

Talk about rubbing salt into the wound.

Soon all Apple devices will be with touch ID that will require press/scan to unlock. This should not come as a surprise to anyone.
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Wait a min… positive reactions?

But from this forum?

Hell will freeze over before.
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As someone who at one time loved the iPhone, I honestly have to ask how you people have not jumped ship yet?

You think they have not tried? I have. Twice. And looked back pretty much because I could not cope with it.
 
As someone who at one time loved the iPhone, I honestly have to ask how you people have not jumped ship yet? Once I switched to Android around 4 years ago, I never looked back. The iPhone is a complete and utter joke. iOS is an abomination. And even the hardware is lacking waaaaay behind. How is it 2016 and the iPhone still has no IR blaster!?!?
I'm a musician and tried to jump ship with android - Christ what an annoying waste of time that was compared to the unified approach from iOS
 
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I know. I'm acknowledging that my iPad will finally get the things my Nexus got last year via... iOS 10. Thank goodness Apple have their photocopiers going so iOS can catch up :)

Judging by your comment I highly doubt you even have an iPad. You come across as a troll more then anything.
 
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Really dislike the huge fonts. I actually went to see if the font size setting had reverted back to normal after my update to 10.1. It was still set to the smallest. I don't like it. I have a 6S Plus that the screen now feels crowded. Music is better but again, too big. Don't like it.

I really hope they let us opt out of this. I can't imagine what the fonts look like when the slider is set to normal. :eek:
 
The whole raising your phone to turn on the screen and press home to unlock thing sort of seems like the home button will be gone in the future. So scenario for a future iPhone would be pick up, the screen is on, swipe around if you wanted quick access to widgets or camera but firm 3D Touch on the lock screen for built in the screen Touch ID. But I don't understand why we'd need to be clicking the home button in the current set up. Just raise phone, place finger on Touch ID and it should open. Making us click seems odd. Idk. I don't have the beta or a 6s but it still sounds like an odd process.
 
So now the fonts are to big....anyone else remember last year when all the bitching was about how the font was to small?
 
Because Apple isn't cheap like Androids and has bad motion coprocessors and advanced accelerometers since the iPhone 5S.

And a barometer since iPhone 6.

All those features will not help you find your car without GPS.
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Soon all Apple devices will be with touch ID that will require press/scan to unlock. This should not come as a surprise to anyone.

They will and they should , but Apple has to support legacy devices , so swipe to unlock is here to stay for a long time still
 
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Judging by your comment I highly doubt you even have an iPad. You come across as a troll more then anything.

Actually I have an iPad Mini 2, a Macbook Air and a Mac Mini, and am looking forward to new Macbook Pros if some of the rumours are true. Though I did sell my iPhone 6 in favour of a Nexus 6P, after being impressed by the levels of machine learning in recent Android versions. As I say, it's nice to see Apple catching up, and throwing better privacy into the deal as well (Google also have privacy insomuch as they don't sell your data, but Apple find ways of guaranteeing they don't have the data to sell in the first place, which is probably their strongest point right now).

Just because I'm not blindly devoted to the cult of Apple and don't believe they can't fall behind and are not absolutely faultless, doesn't mean I'm a troll. The fact of the matter is they get on the case of Samsung et al for copying their design work (because they're still leaders in hardware design), and I still vividly remember their "Redmond start your photocopiers" marketing campaign, but right now they're the ones doing most of the copying on the software side of things (frankly, I don't think they're very good on the software side at the moment, and look how long it took them to get iCloud right). Quite a lot of what they presented at this keynote was "now we're doing what Google did last year".
Does it matter? No.
Is it amusing? Hell yes. And if they can be all smug and mock others for it when they're in the lead, why shouldn't others have the right to mock in turn when they're the ones trailing behind with the 'me too's?
 
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