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iOS 12 Hidden Features: New Close App Gesture on iPhone X, Revamped iPad Gestures, Screen Time Widget and More

enrilo said:
You could accomplish this with spotlight (not everything but for a basic usage is enough)
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But that would not work in situations where it is not possible to speak or for users who cannot speak. And even in other situations, typing a number is often quicker and more accurate to use Siri. And in the calculator it would be possible to use this for further calculations.
 
I sure hope on the final release of iOS 12 that the Automatic Updates feature kicks off an iCloud backup prior to bulldozing your iOS to a new version... I've had a few occasions where I get the iTunes connection message after the first reboot. :-\

I am really stoked for the X swipe up to close an app feature. Having to hold now is annoying.

I think the new D-N-D options will be worthwhile, but I bet I will ultimately be disappointed with the changes unfortunately.
 
MacRumors said:
- Siri Voices - In the U.S., there are new Siri Voice options for Irish and South African accents in both male and female genders.
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I've had Siri's voice set to English (Ireland) for a while now. She's perfectly awful. I say that as someone who grew up in Ireland. She's like a depressed newscaster. My only gripe is the Scottish spelling of the voice's name.
 
There’s a lot of things apple should have done that don’t need to wait until iOS 13, but it’s still also annoying there is no % on the iPhone X......
 
Does anyone know if I use a developer certificate to install iOS 12, will I be able to update to the public beta? Or will I have to restore back to 11.4 and then install the public beta certificate? Thanks!!
 
Superhai said:
Yes, from the developer pages at least, maybe also on the App Store?
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/arkit/swiftshot_creating_a_game_for_augmented_reality
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This is a dumb question but how do I take that and make it into an app/make it launch my head is off in the clouds today

“Might be able” to switch to public but from what I’ve heard, if you go from iOS 12 down to iOS 11 it erases much of your data so you’re supposed to backup iOS 11, if you plan on doing anything like that.
This is all a maybe because you never know
 
Heeey! SIRI NOW DISAPPEARS AFTER FINISH TALKING AND ANSWERING AND SCREEN GOES TO HOMESCREEN OR LOCK SCREEN!
 
anubis72 said:
Seems to be in the works considering there are more notifications on a transparent black window as opposed to the usual white. I'm not sure what the rhyme or reason is for that. Anyway, I assume that as long as it's a popular feature in Mojave, it would make sense to add to iOS. I can't imagine when they shift back to developing the new home screen that UI redesigns such as (cough) volume hud (cough) and other areas won't get the treatment. It would make sense since a LOT of apps are giving users the option of switching interface color and also switching icons (ex. Bear and Apollo). Fingers crossed for iOS 13.
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I have Telegram set on dark theme, it’s marvelous!
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bmac89 said:
Apple probably wanted dark theme to go with the new dark iMac Pro, keyboard and mouse.
I’m sure iOS will get dark mode in the future with new hardware.
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My black iPhone 8 Plus is pretty dark as it is.
 
Felix Welzberg said:
There are still some basic features for iOS, I'm deeply missing:

This is my Top 10:

1. Safari should use the general text-size settings for text on webpages. Apple talks much about accessibility, but this basic feature that every desktop-browser has, is missing in iOS. Many people get worse eyes when getting older and if you zoom into a webpage, you have to scroll horizontally, what is annoying.
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As a web designer this would be a disaster, designer, good ones, already target their typesetting to be optimal. This would break many peoples intended design and flow. I don't see Apple doing this as a default, there are already accessibility settings to address this without breaking design.

Felix Welzberg said:
3. If you play a video (in an app or in a Safari-tab), the sound should keep playing when you switch to another Safari-tab, another app, the notification-center, the control-center, the homescreen, the multitasking-view and so on. Because there is no need to stop the video, only because you have a quick look at a notification or anything like that. And in many videos, the sound is much more important than the picture, like e.g. a lecture, a talk or anything like that.
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I hope not, Facebook does this and it drives me bats*t crazy.

Felix Welzberg said:
5. The AirPrint-dialog should offer an option to choose between printing in color or b/w and to print 2,4 or 6 pages on one sheet of paper.
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It already gives you the color and b/w option's as well as single and double sided.

Felix Welzberg said:
8. Contacts that start with a punctuation mark shoule be sorted in the #-section at the end, similar like contacts that start with a number.
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No, there is a standard here, punctuation marks are to be disregarded for arrangement purposes. See: https://www.niso.org/sites/default/files/2017-08/tr03.pdf
 
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"- iPhone X App Switcher - You no longer need to hold down on apps to close them. Swiping up like on the iPhone 8 and older works."

This is not a feature, this is something Apple should have set from the start in iOS 11. This is someone reversing what was a really, really awful idea.

Now if only home bar and CC bar visibility could be toggled.
 
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- Messages Shortcuts - If you tap on a person's name in the Messages app, there are now shortcuts to initiate a FaceTime audio call, initiate a standard FaceTime video call, or get info on the contact. This is also how groupcalls are started from the Messages app.

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This annoys me.

It should either say 'FaceTime audio' then 'FaceTime video', or just 'audio' then 'video' with maybe a FaceTime overhead.

At the moment, it looks like it is cellular audio calls then FaceTime video calls....
 
duffman9000 said:
Why in the hell was this so difficult? It's the first damn motion I tried when the X was released.
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Because the uninformed kept closing apps even when told they shouldn’t do that.
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Superhai said:
I prefer kill some apps because of convenience, having 40 apps in the app switcher is more cumbersome than having 3.
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No it’s not. Killing 40 apps for no reason is more cumbersome than leaving iOS to sort it out.
 
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None of this seems all that impactful. Remember when iPhone was getting things like "an app store" and "Siri"? Huge monumental changes? Now it's just a bunch of little things that no one will even notice, buried deep within settings.
 
Force touching the X in the notification center gives you the Clear All option like on Apple Watch :)
 
checker2010 said:
No it’s not. Killing 40 apps for no reason is more cumbersome than leaving iOS to sort it out.
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When I use the app switcher to... well... switch between apps, it is much easier to switch if I don't have to scroll between 40 apps. It is not an OS thing, it is not a memory thing, it is a convenience thing.
Therefore I keep only those apps I need open, and kill the rest as the app switcher cannot determine by itself which I need.
 
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