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iOS 14 Might Allow Users to Partially Interact With Apps Without Installing Them
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Hey Apple,
What if you put every single commerce app, including food/restaurants, Amazon, etc. into the Wallet app with an apps tab and sorted by categories. That would consolidate so much of iOS clutter.
I’ve been hoping for a feature called App Centers that cleans up the home screen by accessing sub home screens by category or center or something useful to manage appdom.
What if you put every single commerce app, including food/restaurants, Amazon, etc. into the Wallet app with an apps tab and sorted by categories. That would consolidate so much of iOS clutter.
I’ve been hoping for a feature called App Centers that cleans up the home screen by accessing sub home screens by category or center or something useful to manage appdom.
Exactly. I refuse to use any online service that does not offer iOS mobile safari integration. And the reason is app fatigue, having 10 screens to scroll through or pages of folders...
I guess I’m much more likely to go read / watch reviews of an app before I decide to install it. Not in love with the idea of lowering the barrier to entry for 3rd party code to run on my devices. Prefer the conscious decision involved in having to go to the App Store and “buy” the app (even if it has no up-front cost).
Sure apple will take privacy in consideration.
I’m sure they will too (unlike Google, or mid 90’s Microsoft). I’m still not on board with it.
I feel ya. I miss the magnifier too. I don’t even bother any more to attempt editing words.
This would be wonderful with stupid restaurant and store apps!
there is another solution for this though, a web browser!
there is another solution for this though, a web browser!
God I hope not!
I want another combined Apple-OS release where there are maybe three new headline features and 95% of the effort went into fixing bugs and UI glitches/bad decisions.
Uh, no it isn't. I've been developing since the SDK came out. RTFA, yo.
Oh, there's a typo. Should have been "app-free," not "app-fee."
If you never have to install an app manually, you have an app-free feature.
Apple no longer knows how to be the company that pushes the envelope and brings new things to the table. They just coast along rehashing old ideas that have already been done and parading around like its new. Here we are seeing the fat lethargic company that no longer innovates in any space. Already parts have been coming off the iDevice train and this is the perfect storm of a year for the wheels to start coming off.
Year after year the number of sold iPhones keep getting smaller and they have been losing market share outside of the US. They are pretty much locked out of china and many other places. After the economic shock we are all in now, it is not going to treat them well like they think. People held their money 08' and 09' and i think the same is going to show this year.
Year after year the number of sold iPhones keep getting smaller and they have been losing market share outside of the US. They are pretty much locked out of china and many other places. After the economic shock we are all in now, it is not going to treat them well like they think. People held their money 08' and 09' and i think the same is going to show this year.
You do remember the late, great Steve Jobs ... right?
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if there were a version of this that focused on what an app's Widget (on the Today screen) looks like and was able to see how that app's widget displayed info, this would be very useful.
more and more i am only downloading apps in order to see what kind of widget info they provide, and opening the apps themselves less and less; deleting apps without clear and instantly useful info is available via their widget.
more and more i am only downloading apps in order to see what kind of widget info they provide, and opening the apps themselves less and less; deleting apps without clear and instantly useful info is available via their widget.
Then people will complain that the release is boring. It happened with iOS 12. iOS 13 introduced big features, and didn’t have many bugs.
So what? People complaining that an OS release is boring should have ZERO relevance to Apple's priorities!
Half the whiners about "boring" don't even buy Apple products, they are random Windows and Android trolls.
The other half are the crowd that whine about anything and everything, that would otherwise be whining that the new OS changes too much stuff.
I jumped from 12.4.1 straight to 13.3 on my Xr and noticed bad ram optimisation right away. Now it cannot hold two simple app without reloading them. Now the optimisation is just trash, and it's still not fixed.
On my iPhone 8 Plus (3GB of RAM) I have ~10 apps openned at same time, but none of them is Safari, no issue here.
But on my 2018 iPad 6th (2GB of RAM), which is the device I mostly use Safari, sometimes when I have openned only two apps, one of them being Safari, it reloads.
EDIT: this was mainly using iOS/iPadOS until 13.3.
On 13.4.1 my iPad's issue is not noticeable anymore, but I need a few days more to confirm it's really gone.
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The worst would be when you really want to open something in safari, and some app you don’t even have installed (looking at you, youtube) gets in the way and gives you a worse experience.
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I have it on good authority that the next version of macOS will be named “Los Banos.”
If I have my way (Tim hasn't been returning my calls lately), the next version of macOS will be "Avalon", named after the main/only city on Catalina Island, indicating another pass of "we're not adding too many features, mostly making the thing, you know, work".
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That would be bad. There are otherwise useful apps that I have uninstalled specifically because they kept stealing urls from email and such (clicking a link and it opens in the app - which won't let you get copy the url, or copy text off the page, when Safari would do those). There ought to be privacy settings for which apps are allowed to be the recipients of urls, so one can turn a few of them off.
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Just in case you didn’t know (and apologies if you did!), putting two fingers on the iPad’s onscreen keyboard allows trackpad-like movement of the text insertion/selection cursor. On iPhone, holding your thumb on the space bar yields a similar feature, although I’m with you on preferring the 3D Touch trigger.
This opens up unseen opportunities for all the ads for ****** game apps included in other ****** ad-supported game apps! Wohooo!!!
I would love to be able to deliver a paired down version of my app to get some real functionality without necessarily delivering the whole binary. I have some apps with some massive 3rd party libraries which aren't used often, and it'd be great to be able to deliver an app that's a tiny OTA download until you really need the functionality of the big frameworks. I thought this feature was a great idea on android when it came out.
You can do that with a plethora of camera apps
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Sounds like you are guessing and have no idea
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You say this in response to an article about an envelope-pushing advanced feature. Super weird. Also, Apple doesn’t just release random features just to pull them later like Android. They carefully target a few features at a time, and that’s a way better strategy than throwing crap against the wall