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iOS 18 Rumor Recap: Smarter Siri, Design Changes, and More
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I have an e-ink Android phone from china. It lasts days and days. Sadly, it doesn't support google services, and very few cellular bands in the USA, so it's not that useful as a phone. :/A few phones will do 18 hours, so two, nine hour days or three, six hour days.
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But I would gladly buy a USA version if any manufacturer had the guts to make one.
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Meanwhile I can't even use Google Assistant anymore to call my wife, for some reason it stopped recognizing "call X..." And now shows "col x" on the screen and says "I don't know how to do that."
Run an entire smart home on Siri and text while I drive via Siri pretty much every day without issue.
Meanwhile I can't even use Google Assistant anymore to call my wife, for some reason it stopped recognizing "call X..." And now shows "col x" on the screen and says "I don't know how to do that."
What's the benefit? The app store suits me just fine, just like the Google Play store. I bet the metrics will show a small percentage of EU users actually use an alternative app store.
As someone that has both, a iPhone 15 Pro Max and One Plus Open I disagree. Folding phones are niche, 98% of the time I use it closed, the only time it really makes sense to open it is when I'm traveling or sitting down and want to browse the Internet or watch tv. It's just not convenient to open it up for everything you do.
I'll take face ID over a fingerprint reader. Face ID is more secure. My kids fingerprints are close enough to mine that they could unlock my phone when it had touch ID.
The action button does FAR more than take pictures. You can set it up to do all sorts of things via Siri shortcuts, including different actions based on the orientation of your phone.
What a truly grumpy bunch who believe the OS should be tailored to their every whims, despite them being miserable bloaters Who will never be happy as life has made them bitter af
What are you talking about? Been using iOS 17 since the beta and it's stable, even during the beta I really didn't have issues but I definitely don't now.
Always had issues with siri but the last 6 months has been the worst yet (on iphone, seems to work fine on homepods). Now siri will always ask to clarify light brightness nearly 100% of the time. Also will ask ‘shall i turn it on or off’ ‘shall i turn it on or off‘ ‘shall i turn it on or off’ and multiple times after angrily saying on repeatability siri has switched to another task like calling or messaging someone. Was working so much better before, how does it get worse?
That argument doesn't work when we went from incandescent to LEDs which last years and use less energy.
They should really focus on Screentime, it's an important feature for parents. Right now it's a humongous steaming pile of $*(#, I'm really shocked how bad it is.
It's a mistery to me why they removed the feature where you can long press the notifcation (which still works) and then swipe it down to dismiss/delete it. Swiping down still closes the notification, but it doesn't dismiss it from notification center. I think it was around iOS 12 to 14/15 where it worked, then they removed it.
I really miss the old skeuomorphic design, not only was it more functional IMO it looked much nicer.
I use screentime with my kiddos, I haven't had any issues with it, it does everything we need as far as managing content and access. What makes it bad?
CONNECTION isn’t the issue. The iPad disconnects when the iPhone moves out of range and has to be reconnected again in Settings and disconnects when the iPhone moves out of range and has to be reconnected again in Settings and disconnects when the iPhone moves out of range and has to be reconnected again in Settings… Enough already with the prompts! Just RECONNECT automatically!
Yeah of course it disconnects when it moves out of range. But mine automatically connects to my hotspot, I don't have to do anything. Sounds like an operator issue and not an issue with the device. There is auto join options in the settings, so you don't have to do all that.
It doesn't work at all. I set a time limit for apps, but my kids can still go unlimited on apps all day long. The way it reports screentime is terrible, my kids can be on apps for an hour but it still reports 7 or 8 hours. It also doesn't show me requests for more time on my AW. I can go on and on about the issues, and yes I do have a ticket open with Apple senior level engineering where we have gone back and forth for hours, and it's been open for MONTHS now with zero resolution. The issue with the app limits not working is pretty well known if you do a search. Just unfathomably bad, where on my Android and even Windows their screentime apps work really well.
If “bugs and issues” drive innovation then I guess Apple is WAY more innovative now than they were 15-20 years ago 😆
Consideration and forethought applied to end-users’ likely use cases and workflows drive innovation. Bugs can and do happen, but let’s not confuse throwing out a less than well thought out implementation/integration and “see what happens” with innovation.
HA LOL!!!
Can you imagine all the something-gate hashtags and wailing if Apple released an under screen camera which couldn't be 100% hidden when off and had worse image quality. Apple users are the reason why Apple waits for mature technology before implementing it.
Lol! You picked the worst possible example to get me to see things your way.
I’m firmly in the camp of “cameras within (or under, for that matter) the screen are completely unnecessary and add zero value to anything most of us do (use cases/workflows) with the iPhone.”
“But Dynamic Island is cool!” Yes, and it could have been implemented without putting a hole in the screen.
If Apple had decided to keep the camera on a bezel above the screen, I doubt many would have decided they would bail and get an Android phone. I think notching and punching holes on the display introduced unnecessary complexity for Apple and is just plain stupid, but alas, I was not about to switch to an Android phone either.
Yeah.. All of a sudden all Apple chips until A17 Pro will become incapable of running Siri Version 2. They will give som new name for a tiny area in the chip and make it necessary to run Siri. Like Google spoke about AI for 140 times, Siri will get a 1 hour exclusive presentation.