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iOS 17 Rumored to Improve Search, Dynamic Island, Control Center, and More

Lounge vibes 05 said:
To do what?
Pretty sure he’s totally left the tech field for the most part and is just doing Broadway shows now.
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I think Scott's experience of the rubber room at Apple, where he got paid to do nothing but "advise" Tim Cook, was not fun and demoralising. Steve had the chance to promote Scott into the CEO role, but he obviously decided against it.

Scott would have gone from one of the top Apple leaders and a Steve Jobs lieutenant, to being sacked. It's sad his career was cut short, but a few Broadway play directors and staff would have been glad for his help. It would have mentally forestalled a premature descent into retirement.

Possibly working for any other tech company could never be as exciting as Apple. But all of this is speculation, perhaps we'll get a broadway play about it all one day?
 
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Please stimulate the use of Dynamic Island, a great UX Design but introduced and left for dead just like the App Store on Mac and Apple Watch. So much to gain...
 
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anshuvorty said:
I see, thanks for the confirmation.

I know that on Reddit, to make sure that the info being posted is legit, the mods on a subreddit will usually verify the OP's identity. Do you think MR took similar precautions before posting their article about this?
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The bar is lower here because this place is a rumor site and they want clicks.

There's nothing to verify because the poster says he knows an Apple software engineer. His claim to fame is he posted details and illustrations on how the pill worked before it was called the Dynamic Island. Prior to this, everyone thought the cutouts would be two discrete holes.
 
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I do think personally that A9/A9X and A10 iPads will make the cut.

As of A10X given that performance wise it’s on par with A11 ( with only 3 of its high performance cores matching up with A11’s 6 cores all at once (2HP and 4 HE)) with an extra GB in RAM compared to the 8+/X and 2GB more than the original 8, I think that will make it.
 
Homme said:
I do think personally that A9/A9X and A10 iPads will make the cut.

As of A10X given that performance wise it’s on par with A11 ( with only 3 of its high performance cores matching up with A11’s 6 cores all at once (2HP and 4 HE)) with an extra GB in RAM compared to the 8+/X and 2GB more than the original 8, I think that will make it.
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I'm betting iOS 18 will dump all A9/9X, A10/10X and A11 devices.. Everything that received iOS16 will get iOS17..
 
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tyranne201 said:
boring. give us the real iPadOS!!!
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Kobayagi said:
Apple should redesign the awful camara UI and photo editing UI on iOS. I mean, they used to be perfect on like iOS11 or something, but then they changed them for the sake of change and now they're just cumbersome to use. And to make it worse/consistent they adapted both on iPadOS, which makes horrible use of the available screen space.

Also, while I'm complaining.. xD why has System Prefrences on the Mac become so horrible??? They adapted the same look of iPadOS but that **** is vertical, which suits the iPad but it's horrible on the Mac. Some UI choices they're making these last few years are just terrible. System Prefrences is a perfect example of that.
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Have to agree with both points. Camera is straight annoying to use, and the settings always revert. Almost anyone could have designed a better app in an obvious way. The little horizontal menu at the bottom is atrociously stupid as is the arrow on TOP that changes the menu on the bottom. Fire these people now. Steve would have! They’re drunk on the on-tap kombucha.

I actually don’t even like the post-iOS 6 changes much, and the problems have compounded ever since. Getting rid of defined button regions was another stupid move.

Do they think we tap UI buttons while we hold a needle in our hands? These thin regions and constant mistaps make the whole interface feel anxious like it’s one big fat finger moment waiting to happen.
 
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dustin_ said:
If iOS 17 is just stability improvements & the ability to remove the homebar I'd be thrilled.
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Never going to happen. iOS releases are all about Cook being on stage and talking about how fantastic the new release is. Even if it takes a year+ to deliver all of the features in actual working order.

Stability is not Keynote worthy. Previously released feature improvements are not Keynote worthy. So we'll get more lipstick, glitter, and worthless pontifications.
 
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d3vp0ll said:
I’ve grown quite bored of iOS. I switched in 2019 after a decade on Android mostly for the Apple Watch. But I’ve outgrown the Watch in favor of a Garmin as I’ve gotten really focused on training, so now I don’t have much reason to stay.

There are still a laundry list of things I still scratch my head wondering how or why Apple designed this OS the way they did. To name a few:

1. Notifications: good grief Apple blow them up and start over. Like ten years ago.
2. Data sharing between apps: most of Apple’s apps don’t even do this, I took this for granted on Android but it’s really awful on iOS and never improved.
3. Multitasking/multi-window: another feature on Android I took for granted, I seriously thought they’d introduce this after we got PiP but it never came.
4. App icons/Springboard: take springboard and chuck it in the trash, please. Although part of me thinks it’s intentional from Apple so everyone has a tidy home screen. Either way burn it with fire and let me place icons where I want them.
5. Siri: see things that need to go into the trash.
6. HomeKit: join Siri in No5 above.
7. More default apps: let me choose more third party default apps.
8. Keyboard: for the love of all things holy please improve the keyboard accuracy. This has to be the worst typing experience I’ve ever had.
9. Photos: we finally got shared library but I think I hate it more than not having it at all. Like why are shared albums still so bad? Why is search so terrible?
10. Mail: can we get better spam filtering? How about better integration with Reminders and Notes instead of remembering once every four years I can ask Siri to do something that can easily be added to a damn menu?
11. Passwords/Hide my Email: can we please get this in app form?
12. Widgets: thanks Apple for finally giving me widgets but can you kindly make them interactive?

I’m not trying to sound all that negative, I can probably list more things I do like about iOS but the whole platform feels stoic and stale, and I find Apple software as a whole rather lacking. For the record I don’t think Android is all that much better but at least I feel like a technically inclined adult when I use it.
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0. Make Siri actually useful

hahahaha. but in all seriousness, I'm not sure what exactly is so bad about notifications on iOS. It seems pretty similar to Android? If anything, I can't stand the million tiny icons on the top of the screen on most android phones. I hear this complaint a lot but it's never really substantiated imo
 
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TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️ said:
That is all I want 👇

Stability & Performance.
Stability & Performance.
Stability & Performance.
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For those that are in doubt. There’s a reason why I said that. Encountered this unstable UI glitch today. iOS 16.

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bLackjackj said:
You do realise that all accounts point to the "dynamic island" aka floating notch being on the way out? Apple are moving to a hole punch, then under glass. In a couple.of years,..no more notch.
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That doesn’t mean that the dynamic island goes away. It just becomes a pure software UI element and can be more flexible. It’s a really nice way to bring events into the UI.
 
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Kylo83 said:
sounds boring, where's split screen, new ui Home Screen with new icons, and interactive widgets? we have had the same look Home Screen for 10 years
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That would be another bugfest during months if they make all of changes at once....
I'll take the stability improvements
 
I can’t get over using the Siri team to remove the “hey” from the trigger. Put them on something useful, like adding a word ( like watch, phone, iPad) so the correct siri knows to answer. Don’t bring your phone and watch into the same room with a Home pod. HomePod will answer and it can’t do half the stuff needed on your device which can answer but doesn’t. Let Siri tell you the pollen count and the type of pollen when she gives the weather. This is some thing we’d like to know before we start a run. Let Siri take you to the last word you typed in notes, so you don’t have to scroll all the way to the end of a long note to add some thing. Let Siri tell you how much is left in your Apple account so you don’t have to search for it. Siri should be able to tell you everything that’s already on your device. There are many ways. Siri can be useful without summoning chat, GPT.
 
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bLackjackj said:
Appreciate the vid. I feel your pain, but if I were you, I'd do a full wipe & restore or better yet,..set up as a new device. I'm not experiencing the same glitchiness, so I don't think it's across the board. 🙂
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Thank you for your suggestion but too afraid to do that because God knows how long it's going to take to load over 70,000+ photos. The last time I did a full restore as new it took me well over 2 weeks for it to be fully synced and for indexing to be completed (that was only with 50,000 photos.

Just don't have the time for that. Better to wait till iOs 17? Some magic will happen by then?

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