This is a buggy one folks. Been on public beta and it’s the little things. Swipe to type requires extensive babysitting still. Wallpapers get washed it colors. Dynamic island timers don’t update. Not trying to whine just a heads up. Might want to wait unless you’re devastated for that full screen Memoji caller.
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iOS 17 Launching Tomorrow for iPhones With These 10 New Features
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Am I misremembering something, or wasn't there a time when we could use an iPod as a bootable drive for a Mac? By this point, we should realistically be able to drive an external display with our iPhones and use them as our primary computer in such an environment, right? Is that possible at all?
Looking forward to the iPhone 15, non-pro, to try out with night sky photography. Yes, the pro could do better - but I am looking forward to seeing what the 'regular' iPhone 15 can do with a 48MP camera. Downloadable maps in iOS 17 is a welcome addition too.
That said..
"Hey Siri" vs "Siri". Does it really matter? As a joe average English speaker, every interaction I have with Siri generally follows this chain:
"Hey Siri"
"Mmhmm"
"Are there any X in Y?"
"Okay. Here's what I found on the web." [insert useless links here]
Unless I want to do very simple calculations, or very basic knowledge questions, Siri is the most infuriatingly useless voice assistant I have ever come across. Sometimes it can be so infuriating that I really begin to question if anyone at Apple even uses Siri for more than trying to impress someone who has no experience of other voice assistants or GPT, or to do simple addition or conversion of kilo to lbs.
Yes, okay, Alexa is not great, and neither is Google - but it's 2023 not 2003 and Siri is somehow stuck in the dark ages. Dropping "Hey" from the conversation doesn't endear me to my half-baked voice assistant any further.
I've seen the rumors of Apple developing AI, and I'm sure we will see how wonderful that pans out with autocomplete (/s). The "proof is in the pudding," (another phrase that baffles Siri) as they say, but for now - Siri is still a dead product taking up space that I'd rather not give to it.
Come on Apple, impress me like you used to do.
That said..
"Hey Siri" vs "Siri". Does it really matter? As a joe average English speaker, every interaction I have with Siri generally follows this chain:
"Hey Siri"
"Mmhmm"
"Are there any X in Y?"
"Okay. Here's what I found on the web." [insert useless links here]
Unless I want to do very simple calculations, or very basic knowledge questions, Siri is the most infuriatingly useless voice assistant I have ever come across. Sometimes it can be so infuriating that I really begin to question if anyone at Apple even uses Siri for more than trying to impress someone who has no experience of other voice assistants or GPT, or to do simple addition or conversion of kilo to lbs.
Yes, okay, Alexa is not great, and neither is Google - but it's 2023 not 2003 and Siri is somehow stuck in the dark ages. Dropping "Hey" from the conversation doesn't endear me to my half-baked voice assistant any further.
I've seen the rumors of Apple developing AI, and I'm sure we will see how wonderful that pans out with autocomplete (/s). The "proof is in the pudding," (another phrase that baffles Siri) as they say, but for now - Siri is still a dead product taking up space that I'd rather not give to it.
Come on Apple, impress me like you used to do.
Not even the autocorrect (if it works as described?)
I'm going back to Android after my one trial of iOS on a new PM13 2 yes ago. Tried hard to like something in it (camera) but the keyboards and horrible speech reco are pushing me back within the next few months. Will give iOS17 a try to see if it can get to within 50% as accurate as Android.
I love it, https://amzn.eu/d/e9KG6XZ, i have this on my desk. with standby is a really could visual
edit the link is the magsafe stand i have from Anker £60
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So, ummm how long before someone add a pornographic image to their contact poster and starts random dialling?
I'm assuming contact posters will only work for people already in your contacts?
Is their some AI to prevent nudity in photos being used?
I'm assuming contact posters will only work for people already in your contacts?
Is their some AI to prevent nudity in photos being used?
I don't know - do you think Craig could have act this way under Jobs? Maybe Tim doesn't care, but this would be even worse!
Yeah, the much worse battery life is the one that will have me hitting pause on this one. I thought iOS 17 was mostly supposed to be a stability update, but it's not looking good.
Here is a PDF from Apples website breaking down all of the new features in distinct categories. It's just text only, but I think it's pretty detailed and puts all the info in one place!
https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-17/pdf/iOS_All_New_Features.pdf
I think that you will be able to choose if you want to activate it with "Hey" or not... at least I am pretty positive that I read somewhere you will be able to choose. 😅 I use "Hey Siri" all the time so its going to be hard for me to get used to it if that's not actually an option to change it back.
seeing how slow my XR is with iOS 16 I wonder how much worse 17 will be...
That price is crazy given the lack of the charger. I hadn't looked it up before. I printed a stand for standby that integrates a magsafe puck for pennies and a few hours of patience, maybe I need to get into selling phone accessories...
Glad to know I wasn’t the only one thinking that. Going to have to check Printables.com and Thingiverse.com and see what I like.
none usefull to me, in the meanwhile, we cant use Siri in the car without Carplay since iOS 16
f**k
f**k
Installed and the maps I want are all downloaded. I did take a break to get my dinner - it didn't take all this time.
Now to have a look round and think about when to apply the other updates.
Anyone else feel the "+" in iMessage for apps is atrocious? Seems now I have two taps instead of one tap? Let's keep the icons where they were folks.
Live voicemail sounds cool. Can we add programmable filters?
IF text contains "We are trying to contact you about your car's warranty"
THEN Decline and Block Contact
IF text contains "We are trying to contact you about your car's warranty"
THEN Decline and Block Contact
I’m the same way. iOS 15 will receive app updates for a while since they cut off so many devices with iOS 16. Look at what happened with iOS 12, Apple occasionally still releases an update and many apps still support it. As long as you’ve downloaded the app in the past, or on a newer device, you’ll have access to it from “Purchased Apps” on older iOS.
Depending how many iPhone 8 and iPhone X are still in the wild, iOS 16 could be supported with updates for a while as well.