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iOS 11.3 Coming This Spring With New Animoji, Vertical ARKit, Health Records, Battery Info, and More
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It's coming with Facetime being an open standard that other phone manufacturers could use...
... and iMessage for ALL!
... and multiple accounts on Homepod.
... and ... sorry got sad.
I was thinking the same. They could address this at the first keynote this year that Apple takes your privacy very seriously. And while we made the announcement a year ago to have messages in the cloud, we realized that just wasn't going to work out. However.. we've done this instead. And whatever they announce at that point would be the WOW factor of how privacy and messages would work hand in hand. Or something to that effect, but I agree it seems like the cloud solution at least for now is not in the cards.
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With every device that houses IOS you're paying for continued development. Without development of the OS itself, your device is useless. Apple no longer has to charge for software because the device profits keep the rest going. If they drop the price of devices they are going to either come up with another smaller addon for people to pay for or charge for software updates, I'd assume major release points only.
Having said that, IOS 12 needs to be a game changer. It needs to have a new interface, new icons, new power tools, new everything. IOS 11 should be the last of it's kind. If Apple is changing over to button-less devices across the board, the OS needs to be fully reflective of this type of change. IOS 11 still has way to many issues for what should be a mature system with minor problems. Well most are not minor at all, there's some biggies still in there that beta testers, myself included, have told Apple about. A good portion won't be fixed until IOS 11 final update in order to keep previous devices as stable as possible before moving forward. But I keep saying it, Hardware... Apple has no issues with. Software, they've got a lot of issues.
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Web based UI is a lot harder - you need to make sure everything looks right in every web browser, where there's a lot of stuff you don't/can't control, whereas it's a lot easier to make your UI look exactly the way you want when you're the company responsible for every part of it.
Also, probably hard from a business perspective. You want to pull developers away from stuff that'll be exclusive to customers who buy your products and encourage them to upgrade, to instead have them work on something that'll help your existing iPhone users switch over to other platforms?
I really want to complain about the lack of iMessage in the cloud and Airplay 2 (assuming they don’t make a surprise appearance.) But damn you Apple, now I want that Skull Animoji.
Not as much as I want the features we were promised last year right enough. But it looks like I’ll be getting the beta anyway
Not as much as I want the features we were promised last year right enough. But it looks like I’ll be getting the beta anyway
I paid whatever the iPhone cost that included iOS, so yes I did pay something. I know you didn't ask me but that's the way many of my friends and my Apple User Group feels about iOS as well as MacOS. We did pay for the privilege of using their hardware as well as their software. Griping about the poor performance of said software helps know we are still paying attention.
iMessages in the cloud!!! Where is it??
Messages is the only thing that prevents ‘Set as new phone’ to be always used by me. I don’t like to restore backups and I have to because of Messages.
They could at least give an option to only restore messages when restoring an iCloud backup.
Messages is the only thing that prevents ‘Set as new phone’ to be always used by me. I don’t like to restore backups and I have to because of Messages.
They could at least give an option to only restore messages when restoring an iCloud backup.
I disagree with this. There's no way Apple would advertise such a huge feature and then pull back on it because "a small start up will have to first demonstrate" that it works. Absolutely not. Why even advertise the feature then?
Does anyone think notifications will be improved iOS 12? Last we-k I tweeted something and it was re-tweeted by someone with a lot of followers. It ended up being re-tweeted over 600 times and I swear my phone showed an individual Twitter notification for every re-tweet. Madness. Can’t they group similar notifications and collapse them into one that can be expanded rather than a separate bubble for each one?
Agreed. Please fix the notification/lock screen! Notifications should be sorted by apps, and there's a bug where I can't delete the latest notifications because there's no (X) at the top.
I have to think something is terribly wrong in testing. I’m hesitant to adopt now when it first comes out, but was looking forward to it.
Exactly...all we have been waiting for... NEW ANIMOJIS!
Who cares about Animojis?
How about using your time more wisely, and give us better computers (Mac Pros, Macbooks, Mac Minis, etc)??
I feel like they gave up on notifications. For the life of me I can’t figure out why the swipe down turns into the lock screen with the clock and screen taking up a significant portion of space.
Because improving iOS is sooooo lame, why not just pump out a bunch of stupid Animoji. Thanks, Apple! SMFH.
Get over yourself. Animoji are a fun skin over the authentication framework from Face ID, which is already doing the heavy lifting. The average person on the street like them because they're fun. The average user will update because they get something fun. But no, you have to whine and moan because something was added for someone other than you.
Hey, with the Skull Animoji, you can let your friends know that you've died with style!