Really upset about the hiding of app updates. I check multiple times a day.
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. Auto update is for the birds.
The terse description of the Sllence Unknown Callers in this piece does a disservice to readers and is leading to unwarranted confusion.
Apple's official description says:
There's logic behind it, so it will presumably do some learning like the previous recipients in Mail, or the cache of predictive suggestions based on a user's previous text input.
Callers who purposely mask, or choose not to send caller ID are effectively asking to have their calls blocked, or rejected, especially in today's world, or even yesterday's. Anonymous call blocking has long been a feature of POTS telephone service, and those who didn't like it could always dial *82.
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I have little doubt most users won't miss it (I would), but perhaps Apple can be convinced to make it contextual for those who don't use Arcade.
Apple's official description says:
Silence unknown callers
A new setting protects users from unknown and spam callers. When the setting is turned on, iOS uses Siri intelligence to allow calls to ring your phone from numbers in Contacts, Mail, and Messages. All other calls are automatically sent to voicemail.
A new setting protects users from unknown and spam callers. When the setting is turned on, iOS uses Siri intelligence to allow calls to ring your phone from numbers in Contacts, Mail, and Messages. All other calls are automatically sent to voicemail.
There's logic behind it, so it will presumably do some learning like the previous recipients in Mail, or the cache of predictive suggestions based on a user's previous text input.
Callers who purposely mask, or choose not to send caller ID are effectively asking to have their calls blocked, or rejected, especially in today's world, or even yesterday's. Anonymous call blocking has long been a feature of POTS telephone service, and those who didn't like it could always dial *82.
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I have little doubt most users won't miss it (I would), but perhaps Apple can be convinced to make it contextual for those who don't use Arcade.
I’m assuming not until I hear otherwise.
In the mean time I have shortcuts set up for this purpose. I want WiFi completely OFF for almost 100% of the time I’m away from the house, the shortcut does the job, and quicker than settings.
It’s a matter of debate that I’m not interested in getting into, all been played out before, some like it, some dont, but I still think it’s ludicrous OFF doesn’t mean OFF. Thank goodness for shortcuts.
I am super excited for this. I've been asking for years why Apple won't give me an easy way to block spam calls. I'd love a system that sends any call not in my address book to voicemail automatically. But I can't use do not disturb for this because then it blocks all my known texts as well. This isn't quite everything, but it sounds like a good start. Very, very excited.
I’m not a fan of automatic updates. I like to read the info for most updates prior to installing them. Plus, auto update would be slower than I do it.
Apple has done a good job of now showing that red icon lately for Updates, unless you are constantly checking if you have updates.
In most cases if you have Auto Updates on, you will never see it
Numerous app updates that have broken functionality? Are you speaking of Mac/Windows, or iOS? While I'm sure there's the occasional update that might do this, I can't recall a single one.
At a forum where such complaints would run rampant, "The Flibbidiwidget 4.53.217 for iOS update broke my ability to make in-app payments" is a pretty uncommon thread type. Frequent, easily-pushed fixes means today's problem is gone by tomorrow.
As to the Games thing - I'm not a gamer, so that icon has little meaning or use for me. We just have to accept this is an app store, and it'll be what it'll be. Developers have stuff to sell, and Apple makes money selling it.
Very good point. I read app update descriptions all the time to learn about new features.
The good old "It never happened to me, so its not real, and people shouldn't complain"
Yes when apps are updated some functionality (happens with the reddit app a lot) is broken due to those updates that are pushed through with bugs, and I to have automatic updates off for that very reason. I don't understand why they are trying to push games so hard. They should have kept the appstore the way it was.
Id hazard a guess that games make up a very substantial portion of App Store income.
It’s more a matter of “how frequently is this a problem for all users.” If it was a major issue, MacRumors would see a whole lot more “should I download the latest update?” We see it for the OSes and Mac apps, but it’s unusual for iOS apps. Within a community-based app like Reddit, I can see it happening - users can share experiences. The vast majority of apps don’t have this kind of user interaction. Bug reports go to the developer’s tech support system. Sometimes that’s a public forum, often it is not.
Developers and Apple prefer auto-update, for many reasons. Meantime, auto-update or not, bugs happen, and bugs that aren’t caught pre-release are always uncovered by end-users. Arguably, the more users who are quickly exposed to a new release, the sooner those bugs will be exposed and squashed. Users who hesitate to update can be seen to impede that process.
Compare apps to websites. When a website is updated, all users are exposed. If there’s a bug fix, all users get an immediate fix. Overall, bugs get faster fixes because all users are exposed.
“I’m waiting for perfection” is a whole lot like Waiting for Godot. Personally, I’m not one to wait around for something that doesn’t happen.
Yeah, you don’t care for games. But this is merchandising. You may not care for the products on display as you enter the supermarket, or that you must pass through aisles of products you don’t need while on your way to stuff you do need. Maybe you’re Jewish or Muslim and aren’t planning an Easter dinner, yet there’s that big display of hams anyway.
Sure, Amazon and other online merchants will track your every move and custom-tailor their storefront accordingly. Some users find that useful, others creepy, but even Amazon exposes customers to merchandise categories they haven’t visited/purchased before, in hopes of new sales.
Whether Games is big for you is beside the point. It’s huge in the app industry. Games in software is on the scale of the meat, dairy, or produce departments in a grocery store. If you’re a vegan, you have no need for two of those three, but they’re not going to disappear anytime soon.
yes of course, it's as necessary as whatsapp removing the contacts tab in favor of the status tab...
Indeed, also the camera tab, wondering when they figure out they are not instagram.
uh. They just add that emoji button aren’t they? Globe is down there already in iOS 12. For all notch devices at least.
Well, could be handy instead of saving only one page (the first one). Right now “save to Dropbox” achieves basically the same thing.
Yes. Why turn off wifi and Bluetooth when so many extra stuff can be done with wifi on? Navigation for example.
There should also be a scheduled mode which you specify the period this option is on. Filtering call is slightly different because the call either needs to be answered or ignored, unlike “messages from unknown senders”.
Right now there is no such setting. Hope they add it later on. But I suspect they just remove the tab and call it a day. With that being said, I wish I can access the same level of supervision as Apple, by creating profiles that can manage almost every single aspect of the iOS device (hide any built in app, disable app/media download/purchase altogether etc. )
Until, there is one app that gets the update and remove the features you want. But hey, latest and greatest is always the best right?
Because tech industry now resort to complicate a supposed to be simple problem in order to sell expensive and complicated solutions.
Yes. But people nowadays have such a short attention span, I doubt some can even keep concentrated longer than 5 min.
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After escaping windows 10 October updates disaster, I am more than happy to disable automatic updates for apps and iOS. I just wish there is an ability for me to postpone certain app update indefinitely.
For home users sure. For business users no. Business software needs high reliability and pushing updates may break existing workflow, incurring losses. That’s why Office has a slow ring for business user, pushing updates very late into the stage where almost all critical bugs are ironed out.
One can argue that Facebook or YouTube app are not “business apps”, but some are. And unless the app is deployed internally, app update from the vendor may break it. No matter how soon the update is released, damage is done.
If I could manage app updates per-app I am gonna be very happy and more than willing to spend time tuning it.
I'm not sure why an internally-deployed app update can't break things. I'm exposed to buggy internally-deployed software on a regular basis. Until the stuff is put into service, some bugs may never be found.
That's right, Facebook and Youtube are not business apps. They're platforms for advertising, promotion, and social media. You may use the platforms for business, but it does not mean the app is mission-critical. The apps are client software for cloud-based servers. The servers are far closer to being mission-critical. If the iOS app has a bug, you can use the browser-based interface on iOS, Mac, Windows, Android, Chromebook... Lots of ways to access the platform.
Bugs that disable a person's ability to use an app or device are not very common. Most bugs affect a smaller subset of users, in ways that tend to be inconveniences rather than game-enders. From my perspective, living in constant fear of bugs (whether biological or computational) is counter-productive. Bad things will happen, no matter what steps you may take. You may expend substantial energy avoiding something that might have never happened, and then be blindsided by a totally unanticipated occurrence.
But go right ahead, if you'd rather spend time checking for updates and combing the web for bug reports about those updates, it's your time and effort. The feature you want is just one extra tap away. All they did is remove an icon from the top level of the store.
And please, send a big thank you to everyone who is willing to download and install those updates - they're your guinea pigs, or coal mine canaries, or whatever. Without someone running the software, there's no way to know there's a bug.
I am constantly checking for updates and I know a lot of other people do the same. And then we decide if we want to install it. That's another reason why the auto-update can be a bad feature and a step backwards. Not every update is a good one.
Just another hurdle for professional salespeople .... long live The Wolf of Wall Street!
Apple can't release it all in one update... they have to include it in a future iOS that makes you upgrade hardware, too. For example, dark mode and swipe keyboard isn't new... but Apple purposely decided to release them now. They could have done this years ago.I was really hoping for the Always On Display option like the OLED Android Phones. Maybe one day
But this is how all companies work- they're trying to maximize profit... if that means make customers happy, then so be it,but if they can delay it, even better.
