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iOS 16.1 Features: Everything New in iOS 16.1
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I upgraded and I think the new lock screen is worse. I don’t like the big text for the time and the fact that I have to do something extra to see my notifications. I don’t care about customizing it either
I’m excited for Matter support and Live Activities. The updates to the battery indicator are great too!
Also - bad actors can and do utilize normal ordinary users’ devices as jumping off points or vectors to attack nation states or other resources…
So every person who makes their devices more secure increases security for all other people…
Annoyingly live sports scores on the lock screen is impossible on my iPhone 13 it appears. I can follow my teams and they appear in both News and Apple TV, but following all the documentation online my phone does not have the option to allow Live Activities on the lock screen in the Apple TV settings page, option is missing. I've enable Live Activities via FaceID & Passcode but still no option for Apple TV to use Live Activities on the lock screen. Poking around online it seems at least a few others are having the same problem.
Regarding Matter support… Wasn’t there a news item that said the Home app was being redesigned for the next non-major revision? I can’t seem to find that again. The current version supports Matter now, but what does that mean in practical terms?
Can anyone tell me if the Home app lets me schedule a SLOW and GRADUAL light bulb light intensity over time? I want to start very low light levels at, say 6am, and have it increase over the next 30 minutes. Is that possible?
The Home app seems not to provide any clarity on what I can do with it, without a device connected (and at that, my TV and Roku don’t seem to do anything in the Home app other than turn on and off, when they’re even detected, which is rarely, and I don’t know why the hell I need the Home app for that when the TV and the Roku have remotes that do considerably more than on/off!).
Can anyone tell me if the Home app lets me schedule a SLOW and GRADUAL light bulb light intensity over time? I want to start very low light levels at, say 6am, and have it increase over the next 30 minutes. Is that possible?
The Home app seems not to provide any clarity on what I can do with it, without a device connected (and at that, my TV and Roku don’t seem to do anything in the Home app other than turn on and off, when they’re even detected, which is rarely, and I don’t know why the hell I need the Home app for that when the TV and the Roku have remotes that do considerably more than on/off!).
Everyone cites “indexing”, to excuse this bad behavior, but nobody ever tells us why Apple needs to delete the index and re-index after an OS update. This is bad behavior which has the same consequences every release. Fix it.
Reindexing is a pretty common practice after major software upgrades.
All it takes is for a single feature to need one additional column, tag, or schema change to require spotlight reindexing, and they release dozens of new features in a x.x release. And that’s not even counting if they changed the data storage architecture itself.
Having minor impact to battery life a few times a year is not that big a deal.
https://www.homekithelper.net/tips/ios-16-matter-thread-new-architecture
Apple keeps the Home app pretty simplistic it feels like. You may want to check some of the other independent apps.
There is one I have read good things about is “Home+ 5”. I have not used it, and I am waiting for the architecture changes and Matter stuff to kind of stabilize before I buy an app. But a lot of people seem to really like it. What I am interested in is the better Automations building. There are a few other apps too…
If it takes longer than just a few seconds on app startup, it's something that the user should be made aware of in advance. There should be a progress indicator and a button to manually start or pause it.
Wasting battery is really bad, the user might have done an update with full battery when getting ready and then was planning to use the phone for the whole day.
That would be an improvement.
I'm picturing a scrolling list of apps with a percentage of current volume slider. So I can set Words with Friends to 25% and that will be 25% of whatever my overall volume setting currently is.
Maybe don’t update your phone OS when you need your phone for the whole day without a charger?
Or is personal responsibility and forethought off the table here?
Is Apple responsible for every questionable decision someone makes?
But to your suggestion - I wonder if it gets put on hold in Low Battery mode. I wonder if we could tell - like someone with a development kit watch the spotlight and Siri threads or something after an update…
There are situations where you want to apply patches as soon as possible (e.g. zero day fixes).
That's what release notes are for: So that people can make informed decisions.
If apple fails to put vital information into them, it's really their fault people get mad.
Nobody expects that post-installations tasks run for hours unless it's mentioned and displayed. Even Microsoft learned that lesson, and their update strategy is abysmal.
best thing is the sports alerts app as an NBA fan it's ideal as a fan from UK where I can have my favourite teams on there and check the score in the night without needing to open the app or anything. updating all the time whenever i wake the screen.
fotmob i thought would be good but it didn't update the score for the champions league games just the time. so I hope fotmob fix that.
fotmob i thought would be good but it didn't update the score for the champions league games just the time. so I hope fotmob fix that.
It's worth doing a single customization to remove the fat text of the clock. But the widgets are just as useless as iOS widgets have always been.
I can see my notifications just fine, they just build from the bottom of the screen vs the top. I know I'm of the minority when I say from the bottom makes more sense... that's where my thumb is.
You have to swipe with your thumb to see them because they wanted to let you see the picture you use for your lock screen! For some reason
Glad to know I can customize the text size. I’m not 80 years old
Can you be less specific? Someone might know what you mean otherwise.
I haven't had any problem with it other than it not being as informative as the actual Dark Sky.
I’m getting that weird black horizontal line in safari again , oddly seems to affect my 11 iPad Pro more than my 12.9
and this what 'partly cloudy' should look like when it loads properly
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yet another update from fotmob today. I'm hoping it fixes the scores not updating in real time for live activities
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Hey, don't knock it! You might save pennies off the total cost of ownership. Perhaps even a whole dime! Oh! We may even reduce our carbon emissions by a few milligrams over the next decade.
The new Fitness app looks weird to me.
It could show my workout data from Garmin while only Health app was given authorisation to access my data.
In the setting privacy report, it said the Fitness access my Contact quite frequently but no authorisation had given to Fitness(nor Heath app) to access my Contact.
Apple shall provide more visibility how Fitness handles the privacy data (no setting for Fitness app, strange), or Apple breaches their own privacy info handling in IOS16.
It could show my workout data from Garmin while only Health app was given authorisation to access my data.
In the setting privacy report, it said the Fitness access my Contact quite frequently but no authorisation had given to Fitness(nor Heath app) to access my Contact.
Apple shall provide more visibility how Fitness handles the privacy data (no setting for Fitness app, strange), or Apple breaches their own privacy info handling in IOS16.