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iOS 11.4 Launches Today With AirPlay 2 and Messages in iCloud, HomePod Gets Multi-Room Audio, Stereo Pairing
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Yes, I get some weird and sometimes way too long responses. When I ask Siri to play a specific song after the current song, it would be nice if she just said “OK”, instead of “Ok, I’ve added ‘blah blah blah’ By yadda yadda featuring...” and then she lists 5 people who are featured on the song. Meanwhile, I’ve missed 30 seconds of the current song while she’s blabbering.
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Doing it directly from your phone or other non-Mac device and from sources other than your iTunes library.
I don’t need all of my conversations on my iPhone. It takes up space and just isn’t necessary since they’re literally all on my iMac.
It’s really takes no effort to delete a thread.
Currently you have to use a mac to stream to multiple devices at the same time. My understanding is that with Airplay2 this functionality will be available for iOS devices.
I don't know - I use Sonos only for streaming Spotify, NPR, Prime Music, Pandora, etc.
But I have no reason to think their AirPlay2 implementation will have any more delay than the HomePod or any other AirPlay2 device.
You can stream from a Mac to multiple devices at once but only one at a time from an IOS device. AirPlay 2 allows multiple devices to stream from IOS.
how does cloud imessages work?
i know when you delete the text, it deletes and syncs across all devices, but i'd like to offload my texts into the cloud as it takes up a massive amount of data locally and i'm not the type of person to delete messages.
i know when you delete the text, it deletes and syncs across all devices, but i'd like to offload my texts into the cloud as it takes up a massive amount of data locally and i'm not the type of person to delete messages.
Get ready to pay for iCloud Storage. Unfortunately I don’t think it’s going to offload any messages but rather copy them to iCloud to then keep your devices in sync.
Hmm I have my iPhone 7plus and ipad mini with public beta... The only thing I noticed is when I got a call on my phone I can select in my Bluetooth to redirect to my iPad...
But never able to select stream spotify music to my iPad for example I was.
Would you rather that Apple just released it before it was really ready, just to check a box on the feature list?
Sounds like they decided to do some more work on it, first. There's actually quite a bit of "protocol" going on here that is completely transparent to the user.
Bravo, Apple! This looks really cool!
My understanding is that, yes, this is a feature of iMessage "in the cloud", though I am curious to see exactly how it's implemented. Does is smartly offload messages older than [x] date but save more recent messages locally (for efficiency of reading recent messages, etc), and how does that impact iMessage searches when a given search would hit on something that's only stored in iCloud? I'm very much looking forward to checking out this update...
Looks like they've already found it. Even the Article above was damning with faint praise:
"AirPlay 2 and Messages in iCloud were introduced as key new features in iOS 11 at WWDC 2017, but neither were included in the public release version last September, and never returned for good. Multi-room audio and stereo pairing are also delayed features that were supposed to be available when the HomePod launched."
I swear: People are SO jaded...
Let's see you do it faster.Oh, I meant more along the lines of... it was a year ago that this was announced haha. About time.
I think that's not correct the benefit you list as one can already do that with Airport 1 to an Airport Express. An iPhone App you just change output to be Airport Express or Apple TV and same on a Macbook.
Make me a trillion dollar company with thousands of employees, and we've got a deal.
Unless of course you want something that sounds better than Sonos’ overpriced offerings.