Tagbert
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One is (the keyboard fix). the rest are small features. However, I assume that they have fixed a lot of smaller bugs and stability issues. 26.4 beta has been very stable.
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mansplains
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This hasn’t been a thing in iOS without jailbreaking since its inception. It’s never gonna happen.
Thank you. I know about locking a phone via iCloud.com but any phone snatcher will have reset the phone by the time I get home.If you don’t have your phone lock with lost mode:
- Create a Focus: On your iPhone, go to Settings > Focus, add a new "Custom" Focus named "Lock".
- Create a Shortcut: Open the Shortcuts app, create a new shortcut, and search for the Lock Screen action.
- Create Automation: In Shortcuts, go to Automation, create a new one: "When 'Lock' Focus is turned on" -> "Run Immediately" -> Choose your "Lock Screen" shortcut.
- Lock via Watch: Activate the "Lock" Focus on your Apple Watch, and the iPhone will lock within seconds.
Use Lost Mode in Find Devices on iCloud.com
In Find Devices on iCloud.com, use Lost Mode to lock and track your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Watch if it’s ever lost or stolen.support.apple.com
If you are near your iPhone
Control nearby devices with your Apple Watch
Control your iPhone or iPad with your Apple Watch.
I will try your shortcut.
Now that macOS 26.4 is introducing the native Charge Limit feature, I was wondering if anyone has installed the RC on the new MacBook Neo. Does anyone know if this feature is also compatible with that specific model? Thanks in advance!
Happy_John
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I’m curious, how would they have reset the phone if the phone was already locked? Do you mean they would snach the phone out of your hand while you were using it, and wipe before it locked ( afaik, you still need to verify before you do a wipe to factory settings, and that doesn’t wipe the device serial or the regsitration of the device’s serial on the iCloud database, although this itself is not proof that a device was stolen).
Or do you mean they’d force the phone into DFU mode and wipe and restore/reflash the phone from DFU?
From the amount of idiots trying to sell icloud-locked Apple gear online, there are thieves out there who are not that clever. But presumably, some are.
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Apple is so trash now.
Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro $349.00
HASN’T ****ING WORKED PROPERLY EVER
This company has become hot garbage.
If they don’t don’t put up and shut up with massive software overhaul and macOS iPadOS convergence this year I hope they face a mass consumer boycott.
**** TIM
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Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro $349.00
HASN’T ****ING WORKED PROPERLY EVER
This company has become hot garbage.
If they don’t don’t put up and shut up with massive software overhaul and macOS iPadOS convergence this year I hope they face a mass consumer boycott.
**** TIM
why is tim cook doing a bad job nowadays
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I find it unbelievable that there are still bugs with the keyboard considering we’ve yet to see any major improvements since the launch of iPhone. The keyboard still sucks in so many ways, whether it’s selecting and manipulating text or autocorrect’s stupidity and inconsistency, like wanting to change “well” to “we’ll”.
Steves Padawan
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Last year we had Apple Inteligence update in iOS 18.4
I expected better SIRI and more languages for Apple Inteligence in iOS 26.4.... whole year has passed..
I expected better SIRI and more languages for Apple Inteligence in iOS 26.4.... whole year has passed..
bearda
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I consider the addition of swipe typing a pretty major improvement. Overall the keyboard does seem like it could use some love considering how critical it is to iOS, though.
boswald
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Tagbert
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Since charge limit works with the iPhone 16Pro with the A18 Pro chip and also works with other Macs with any Apple Silicon, I would expect it to work with the Neo, too.
My husband and I regularly use each others phones.
Bet we are going to have to regularly disable stolen device protection every time there is a software update now.
Bet we are going to have to regularly disable stolen device protection every time there is a software update now.
This is curious, at best. While fetching the same GMail account over Outlook (of MS Office), all happens instantly while also using secure IMAP as the L7 application. The only difference I can see is that the Mail app uses TLSv1.3, whereas Outlook uses TLSv1.2. While one could argue I might be messing up my network (given the amount of enterprise grade gear in between clients and the Internet), the Mail app behaves poorly on a 5G network or the public Apple or Starbucks store networks, while the Windows laptop is as fast as always at the Starbucks network, so I am mostly confident this is on the Apple Mail app.
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Good for you. Having it off is nothing to brag about. In fact, it is a very big security risk.
Stolen device protection should be tethered to the satellite communication feature in the upcoming iPhones.
True, but keep in mind, it took Apple almost half a decade to rip off that feature from Android, and it’s been 6 or 7 years since that feature was introduced so you’d think the keyboard would still be bug free by now.
rosenkrieger
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As a recent "I switched back to an iPhone after a decade of using Samsung and my last iPhone was the 5" - I am looking forward to a fix to this miserable keyboard.
I am a speed typing demon on my Android Devices with Google Gboard. But on my iPhone 17 Pro I feel like a total n00b and making so many mistakes. Typing is a real pain. And I also tried Gboard on iOS - and it is not the same experience as on Android. They are completely different in terms of speed & accuracy.
Also the ambient widget will be heavily used. I do have it in the control center but would prefer it right on one of my homescreens which I will then be able to do.
I am a speed typing demon on my Android Devices with Google Gboard. But on my iPhone 17 Pro I feel like a total n00b and making so many mistakes. Typing is a real pain. And I also tried Gboard on iOS - and it is not the same experience as on Android. They are completely different in terms of speed & accuracy.
Also the ambient widget will be heavily used. I do have it in the control center but would prefer it right on one of my homescreens which I will then be able to do.
A phone is just a tool. Why not share it?
We also share other tools, like kitchen knives, the car, bakeware, the hi-fi stereo, etc.
When we are out together (anything from a weekend camping trip to attending the symphony) we usually just carry one phone. Why lug around two identical tools? That is like having two full sets of bakeware in the kitchen, right?
