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iOS 16: All the little things
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Anybody know how we can drag and drop the edits into an app that makes it useful? I’ve tried dragging the photo edits into messages and then saving from iMessages but it doesn’t appear that any photo app I import it into will keep the transparency of the png.
Perhaps paste it into a supported app and then screenshot it out into your editor? Not an elegant solution, to be sure, but it does seem to work.
Drag it in to a new note then tap on the picture, Tap on image at the top. From there you can save it in photos or files as a transparent png. You can also long press on the image to access the menu, but I find the first way easier
If all your lock screens are associated with a focus, and you turn focus off, which Lock Screen should be shown? You need at least one without a focus
Further, I'd like the ability to add moveable blanks to the home screen and dock. I do this with the Mac dock to help organize in groups, and I'd love that control with iOS and padOS (for example, apps down the middle only.. or on the edges only so you can see the wallpaper's center only.. or bottom rows only, etc etc)
To the left, use this to via terminal to add spaces (move them around to your liking) to the Mac's dock
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defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{"tile-type"="small-spacer-tile";}' ;killall DockAnd to the right of the separater:
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defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{tile-data={}; tile-type=“small-spacer-tile";}' ;killall Dock
I just came across the new „personalized 3D audio“ (didn’t even know this was a thing).
Am I the only one that does not get the point of spatial audio head tracking? I used to be under the impression that it would make it seem like the audio is actually coming from around you. For instance, let’s say I am watching a tv show and the hurricane is coming from behind me, I thought it would sound like the hurricane was literally coming from behind me. Instead it just mutes the sound from which ever ear when I move my head? Why would I want that? It makes me almost dizzy 😅
Am I the only one that does not get the point of spatial audio head tracking? I used to be under the impression that it would make it seem like the audio is actually coming from around you. For instance, let’s say I am watching a tv show and the hurricane is coming from behind me, I thought it would sound like the hurricane was literally coming from behind me. Instead it just mutes the sound from which ever ear when I move my head? Why would I want that? It makes me almost dizzy 😅
Boy...I had HUGE "discussions" about this on Reddit trying to explain to folks as there are so many options/settings that can be combined.
Short answer, only have "head tracking" turned on when watching video so the sound is coming from the device to align where you are with the location of the source video. Head tracking only aligns the source video's audio to your position and has nothing to do with where the sound SHOULD be coming from inside your head....If I am sitting directly in front of my laptop watching a movie and looking at the screen, it should sound normal, but if I move 6 feet to my right and am still staring straight ahead, the audio will move more to my left ear as that is where the video source now is...and if I turn my head toward the screen, the audio should "straighten out" again. Head tracking simply aligns the audio sound WHERE the sound is coming from (source video location on your Apple device) and has NOTHING to do with mono, stereo, spatial stereo or Dolby Atmos encoding.
When it is "off" you get more of a traditional stereo experience whether actual stereo, spatial stereo (Apple up-processing normal stereo to "sound better") or true Dolby Atmos (if available)....or mono.
I have found that when listening to audio only (as I do 99% of the time) having head tracking on only caused confusion for me as my phone may be in my back pocket or somewhere else causing the audio to "move" or drop out depending on where I was looking or moving...so annoying.
My advice...turn "head tracking" off in accessibility settings for audio/AirPods...but that's me. I think that is what you actually want...and when used this way, if the source audio is truly Dolby Atmos or available as spatial stereo, you will be impressed with how well it sounds while watching a movie.
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Good explanation.
Aside from giving audiophiles an option, it seems as if Apple may have made this too complicated.
I actually think it has more to do with actual "accessibility which is why it is in there. For folks, like my father-in-law" that have horrible hearing and use hearing aids, it would allow him to use AirPods (or new Apple hearing ai that has been rumored) and hear where the sound is coming from like the rest of us watching tv without AirPods in.
I bought him an iPhone just for this purpose...use as an amplifier for his hearing aids as well as being able to hear us when we call...it's been life altering for him (and us)...but yeah, very limited case and outside of replicating what you may experience from your ears, I think it actually detracts from the audio experience when watching a movie or tv show.
Copy the image into the files app (in the folder you want) and you should be able to work with it from there.
Speaking of conversions, you’ve all seen this right?
Have a measurement or other unit in messages or Safari (and elsewhere I think: it’s system wide). Tap on it and the relevant conversions pop up
ItS coolSpeaking of conversions, you’ve all seen this right?
Have a measurement or other unit in messages or Safari (and elsewhere I think: it’s system wide). Tap on it and the relevant conversions pop up
Am I the only one who’s noticed that the iOS 16 Lock Screen no longer shows the battery percentage when the phone is charging?
In previous iOS versions, if the phone is charging and you tap the screen or hit the power button to wake it, the battery percentage was briefly displayed in place of the date on the Lock Screen. That no longer happens in 16. I have to unlock the phone and pull down control center to get the status. Small, but annoying change/omission on Apple’s part.
I noticed this a while ago but haven’t seen it mentioned yet…it has to be annoying someone else too, right? 😄
In previous iOS versions, if the phone is charging and you tap the screen or hit the power button to wake it, the battery percentage was briefly displayed in place of the date on the Lock Screen. That no longer happens in 16. I have to unlock the phone and pull down control center to get the status. Small, but annoying change/omission on Apple’s part.
I noticed this a while ago but haven’t seen it mentioned yet…it has to be annoying someone else too, right? 😄
I expect they were thinking that since you can put a battery level widget on the lock screen now, it was no longer needed.
Just one more point on this as MacRumors discusses it pretty extensively in their latest podcast/video that came out right when we posted about it...the guest on the show mentions that the head tracking is MUCH better in iOS16 due to being enhanced to detect up and down movements of your head and better ear positioning with the personalization menu when you first put airpods in (like the FaceID scanning).
He discusses moving your head while using it while listening to audio to experience different sounds focused on different areas...sort of like listening to an old stereo song by the Beatles and you would turn down the left speaker just so you could hear the detail coming out of the right speaker (or any song that puts different sounds to different sides of the experience).
BUT, I stand by my original statement that it is still too distracting to be useful during normal day-to-day use as you can imagine someone constantly adjusting the left/right balance of the song or audio from a video you are watching simply because you naturally turn your head slightly.
His example assumes, as @gwhizkids mentions, you are an audiophile sitting directly in front of the source Apple product listening to music or watching a video with proper spatial stereo or Dolby Atmos and you are turning your head on purpose to experience the different sound locations. That's fine, but I contend that the other 99.9% of us want to hear the sound in our head the way the engineer or artist wants us to no matter where we are in relation to where the source audio is coming from.
Turn head tracking off...
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I’m sure that’s exactly their reasoning, but personally I have no desire to have a big battery widget on my Lock Screen at all times; occasionally I’d just like to know how far it’s charged in the last 20 mins and for that, the previous method worked wonderfully.
Hopefully they’ll add a battery level as an above the time widget. It could a stand alone or a combo. I think that might solve the issue for many
On this topic, Spatial Audio seems to be enabled on my AirPods Pro regardless of the toggle in Accessibility > AirPods. Fortunately it doesn’t happen when using Apple Music but I can tell when streaming video and turning my head from side to side. This issue seems to have popped up in later versions of iOS 15, perhaps getting fixed and re-broken at some point(s), but sadly persists into iOS 16 thus far. I’m with you—I’m not a fan of fake surround-sound.
As far as HomePod (and iOS 16 specifically) is concerned the speakers don’t respect the Dolby Atmos toggle in the Home app—and yes I have assigned my main Apple ID with which I use Apple Music to the HomePods and to the Home app itself (rather than having the speakers on their own separate accounts). This issue has been present in all three iOS 16 betas and really irks me because it just muddles the sound and makes Atmos-enabled music sound profoundly worse. This more than anything else I wish to be fixed over the beta-development period.
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