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iOS 17.1 Beta: All the New Features So Far
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If it isn't, at least until OLED displays are eventually replaced with microLED or something not subject to burn-in, I'd like to see always on accompanied by aggressively keeping the brightness no higher than necessary given the lighting detected. In a reasonably dark bedroom, one doesn't need much brightness to see the time in big digits.
If there is some future substantial (say 50%) improvement in battery capacity, I think they should take advantage of it and make only 10% of that visible and reserve the bottom and top 20% for the sake of battery life, although making it available on a one-shot basis (until next recharge) as a reserve. That would IMO make sense on not only portable devices but even EVs, encouraging staying within those limits to be habit whenever possible. They'd have to also advertise ONLY the runtime or range within bounds, (plus reserve depending on battery condition).
iOS 17 has been amazing EXCEPT one thing and that’s the keyboard, the keyboard is just a horrible nightmare… I’m getting headaches with the stupid predictive feature, it predicts multi-word predictions but refuses to fix im, ill, id, ive, and so on. Turning off predictive also doesn’t help as it shuts down the word suggestion bar entirely
I kept Spotify around for years because of this, but Apple Music got better and better to the point where I dropped Spotify altogether about 18 months ago.
The thing AM does that Spotify can't touch is library management across all my devices. Spotify feels like renting access to a few playlists, Apple Music feels like my acutal carefully curated music library - I uploaded stuff that isn't on any streaming services and it sits there side by side indistinguishable from Apple music tracks or bought stuff.
If you're a casual music listener and everything you're interested in can be just found on a streaming server Spotify is fine, but if you're a music nerd AM can't be touched. Probably 40% of my library which is uploaded and synced across multiple devices isn't on Apple Music streaming or Spotify.
StandBy Display Options
Oooh, this was my feedback I made in August. The Always On description was really confusing and not really clear what the switch actually did. Surprised to see it updated so quickly!
Oooh, this was my feedback I made in August. The Always On description was really confusing and not really clear what the switch actually did. Surprised to see it updated so quickly!
How does the new Favorite rating system interacts with the macOS Music app when syncing tracks? Does it convert favorites to "love" ratings in the macOS library?
This is what I was looking for. I was pissed last week when it disappeared.
Oy vey! Please Apple no more features. Let's get the current version working properly and maybe then cover it with more garbage code.
Me too. I was like those aren't the sounds I've set! Where are the sounds?! NOOOOOOO…
See I don’t care for a library. I want to find new music. Apple Music couldn’t help me there. I promise you I tried for 6 months and failed.
Day 1 back on Spotify I found new music.
I really liked that skim feature, but I now realize that for every time I intentionally used the skim I accidentally moved the playhead to a random place in the video ten times and that no longer happens in iOS 17.
So it seems like the change to switching watch faces. I now have to press and hold to get into change face mode, but I don't constantly accidentally change faces like i did in WatchOS 9.
I preferred it the old way, but there are definitely fewer accidental changes than before.
Then what's the point? Now I'm disappointed too.Looks like the display options for standby mode are only available on phones with always on displays. Nothing there on my 13pro.
I think they just need to eat their own dog food and drink their own shakes.
WatchOS 10, have you seen THAT! It’s a regression on all things UI and UX, and performance, and everything… checking the Weather puts you on a harder to read colorful screen (black background was perfectly fine and more readable than what’s there now) that has not so useful information except the temperature (which we knew already before tapping on the complication).
To know if there’s going to be rain and when during the day, or the temperature or conditions for the following days, is tons of taps and swipes. I do get lost and end up tapping on a ”conditions” complication on the top right to select on a list… now, doing ANYTHING else, like going to stop a timer and coming back to the weather app brings you back to the useless first temperature only big screen, usually blank because it’s refreshing the info, gotta start swiping and tapping all over again.
I don’t know what happened, I don’t know where’s the little nice “precipitation” graph of rain levels of ver the next hours, etc…
A bug report would be like: “watchOS 10 looks like watchOS 10, obviously a bug, should look like watchOS 9” 😡
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So do I. If I'm a Spotify users I can kiss goodbye my old mix-taped from my old CDs anywhere I go out of my house.
Besides, I'm now into Classical music so that's also a plus for Apple Music.
That's fair - i'm the sort of person who bores of a track after 2-3 listens and wants something new constantly, always. But AM is solving that too. The new music list is just as good as the one Spotify gave me, in fact, it's now better - and there's nothing to pick between the playlists on offer and the radio stations you can create. At this point they're basically the same. 2+ years ago I couldn't have said that, and at the start AM was awful for it.