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- Multitasking
(Virtual memory swap, robust background processes, … just like Mac)
- Multitasking
(Virtual memory swap, robust background processes, … just like Mac)
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iOS 18 Potentially 'Biggest' Software Update in iPhone's History
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I would just be happy if Siri actually works/responds every time I address it. Sometimes it doesn’t even bother!
How is the ability to take a photo a vector of entry?
Also, just because something is redundant for you, it doesn’t make it redundant for everyone. You have made the all too common mistake of thinking your opinion is the only one that matters.
FaceID often fails for me in direct sunlight. If I have to faff about entering a passcode I’m going to miss the photo. Also, when I go hiking wearing full face coverings, FaceID does not and cannot work. Again, I don’t want to have to mess around entering passcodes while out on the trail.
There are countless reasons quick access to the camera is important. Requesting an option to disable it? Fine. Calling it redundant? Ignorant.
Why would it be?
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Came here to say more-or-less the exact same thing. It’s good to see other people are also tired of Apple’s ********
I am just glad we will finally be able to leave a group chat with android users, and get high res images in group messages with android users.
The very thing which made iOS not suck like some old Android versions (it's much better now, it used to be really bad...) and of course desktop OSes is precisely the strict limitations imposed on background activities. CPU revving up to 100% for a day because of a poorly coded app, and the user having to kill it with a task manager, is exactly the kind of stupidity Jobs saved us from.
As for "virtual memory" it's been around on that kind of OS since 1979.
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iOS multitasking limitations made sense 10 years back. Today my 15 Pro Max is faster than my previous laptop, so it should definitely be ready for taking the training wheels off.
I was inaccurate with "virtual memory" - meant swapping virtual memory pages to ssd. There should _never_ be a reason to flush an app from memory, but iOS still does that.
For background tasks, I would like to stay in control to avoid spending battery on something that is not needed. Unfortunately iOS remains ridiculous: an app needs to request OS for GPS tracking or play background music to keep process from being suspended. Does not make much sense for something like file transfer or ssh tunnel.
Drives me wild. We've regressed with text input from where it was several years ago.
WatchOD went through some pretty big changes this past year so it was not surprise that there were some bugs there. IOS 17 has, in my experience, been very stable. Especially compared to some of the bad years, like iOS 13. Lots of people on these forums were commenting about how stable it was even when it was first released. I’m sure that there are still some bugs, but they are not that common in 17.
The green bubbles represent connections with missing features, like end to end encryption.
If you were to upgrade past iOS 7 you would find that the UI has evolved quite a bit and is generally much clearer now. Also the battery life is pretty good these days. Much better than back in the iPhone 6/7/8 days.
I still have several of them. Biggest annoyance is a notification sticker visible at the top, but I can't swipe down. Sometimes I can swipe halfway down, and not see the whole thing. A few hours later it works fine. While swiping up always works.
But no, it was no surprise, which is why it should be no surprise that iOS 18 will bring more bugs than usual, if it is a big update.
It is stable for me now. Honestly I don't remember exactly what the bugs were, except that for a while in the beginning and old but big one came back to me: Couldn't answer an incoming phone call, about every 5-10 times.
RCS support restricted to iPhone 16 Pro because Apple claims it will need ML that only the latest chip provides.
The rest of the features will trickle into the OS in 18.x updates because they’re not ready upon launch.
The rest of the features will trickle into the OS in 18.x updates because they’re not ready upon launch.
One can only hope iOS18 and MacOS15 will be the biggest bug fix releases eversince SnowLeopard.
"It just works" was really a game changer back then. Was.
In Apples defense: These are also very different times in terms of technology and security issues they need to keep up with.
"It just works" was really a game changer back then. Was.
In Apples defense: These are also very different times in terms of technology and security issues they need to keep up with.
Like what happens when you are composing a text and you double tap the space bar to insert a period, I wish when you start a sentence off with who, what, when where, how, can, if, will, etc. and you double tap the space bar it would insert a question mark. Doesn't seem that hard to do but maybe I'm wrong and there would be no demand for it.
What's the alternative? Siri? Siri is barely usable nowadays and can't be fixed. We need an LLM based assistant in iOS.
That's what I despise the most on iOS, not being able to have apps come up the same way I backgrounded them. Yeah I know in theory your app gets snapshotted before being backgrounded, but in reality most apps I've used have issues when reopening them. Also issues with syncing and other stuff which should work in the background, but in reality don't. Yeah I get it, I'm a stupid consumer who can't handle an option to keep background apps active at the expense of battery life. I'll GLADLY take the "stupidity" of handling a task manager all day long, this is exactly the mentality that makes Apple products so simple they become complicated, bleh.
My question is if the new AI improved Siri will require a new AI chip in the iPhone 16? I'll bet that will be the case similar to Samsung where most of the good AI stuff is only with a new hardware chip, and a few AI things will filter down to older devices via remote AI servers.
Looks like oems found a way to leverage selling the next batch of phones, the necessity of new hardware/AI chips.
Looks like oems found a way to leverage selling the next batch of phones, the necessity of new hardware/AI chips.
Let’s hope the Neural Engine will take care of it. That would be everything after iPad 10.5 inch.