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iOS 6 All the Little Things

enrodrehern said:
Guys I have one question about the Do Not Disturb feature I can't find an answer anywhere. When its on, and you receive a text or a call from a person in your white or allowed list, once you wake up the phone what do you see? Do you see the actual text and missed call?

Thanks in advance
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Little confused by your question but here goes:

You can set calls from either "favorites" or "everyone" to come through in DND mode. You cannot allow messages or any other alert to do that. They are simply waiting for you to wake the phone. DND basically disables the phone from lighting up the lock screen for alerts...
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^^This is what you see when you wake the phone in DND mode, except a moon instead of the time and lock.

enrodrehern said:
Also, any new security settings like password protect the sms app? That is the only reason I jailbreak my phone.
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No, same security, or lack there of. Just lock your phone I guess...
 
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johnnyxhuynh said:
For a while now, the fetch schedule can be set as 15 minutes, 30 minutes, hourly, or manually.

Are these settings the same in iOS 6?

As you may know, Gmail/IMAP is fetch only. I use Gmail/IMAP for my Google Apps email because it (1) gives me the ability to delete messages and (2) syncs my Inbox more accurately. I have problems with both when I use Exchange. It would be great if I can fetch at smaller intervals.
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as others have said, not sure why you would want less than 15 minutes for "Fetch" on email. Fetch schedule is for when push is either not active, or not supported. Push means messages come through as received, regardless the schedule. Fetch means messages only come through when "fetched" by the phone. a shorter duration fetch schedule means your phone would constantly be pinging the servers looking for new messages. i can imagine that would give a serious hit to your battery life.

all that being said, there are no new "Fetch" options for schedule in iOS6.
 
applebro24 said:
Little confused by your question but here goes:

You can set calls from either "favorites" or "everyone" to come through in DND mode. You cannot allow messages or any other alert to do that. They are simply waiting for you to wake the phone. DND basically disables the phone from lighting up the lock screen for alerts...
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^^This is what you see when you wake the phone in DND mode, except a moon instead of the time and lock.



No, same security, or lack there of. Just lock your phone I guess...
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your my hero thank you
 
Nevzorus said:
Why would you need that? The camera icon is on the lockscreen already..
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Yes, but I'm wondering what happens when you open with Siri. You dont have to answer. Apps on an unlocked screen can be opened with a simple tap too but I'm presuming you can do that?!
 
The stocks app now displays the stock volume in portrait mode below the price chart. This was only available in landscape mode, if I'm not mistaken.

Also, notice it says "Live Quote" instead of "Quotes delayed by 20 minutes". Again, not sure if the second pic is iOS 5...
 

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I'm not sure if anyone brought this up yet, but safari supports fullscreen in landscape. Now I merely await it to be brought to portrait :)
 
Don't know if this has been recognized yet but, Siri doesn't sound so abormal when saying certain things anymore. For example, she used to say "I found-this-for-YOU" and it just didn't sound right... She speaks more "normal" now. (Except for the fact that every beta tester seems to have that iOS 5 bug where she sounds more robotic for some users, like a compressed LQ version. Most people think this is an iOS 6 beta bug but many people have this issue on iOS 5 they just don't know it because she comes like that out of the box for some people. A lot of times network settings reset and a reboot will fix it (on iOS 5).
 
Within the updated iTunes app. We now have a history tab at the top right, showing us everything we've previously previewed.
 

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Has anybody mentioned the full-screen mode button in the bottom right corner of Safari on the phone sideways?
 
applebro24 said:
Little confused by your question but here goes:

You can set calls from either "favorites" or "everyone" to come through in DND mode. You cannot allow messages or any other alert to do that. They are simply waiting for you to wake the phone. DND basically disables the phone from lighting up the lock screen for alerts...
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^^This is what you see when you wake the phone in DND mode, except a moon instead of the time and lock.



No, same security, or lack there of. Just lock your phone I guess...
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So texts don't come through when DND is enabled even from people on the exception list? I know the screen doesn't light up, but does the phone still vibrate for new alerts while in DND? (Say if vibrate mode & DND were enabled).
 
I posted about an hour about the History option in iTunes.
It works across devices via iCloud. Sweet!
 

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I've noticed a few things about iOS6 that hint at a taller screen for the next iphone.

1. notifications.( I know this came out in iOS 5 but it adds to my theory)

Currently the notification banners pop up and cover over the status bar and about half of the top buttons for any app. I alwys thought it was a weird design for apple. So I figure with the next iphone, those banners will move up because of the new taller screen.

2. iTunes store app.

When you preview a song in iOS 6, you can now listen to it the entire time within the app, and out of the app. The only thing is that within the app, there is a bar covering up part of the screen on top showing you the song is playing. That hinders screen real estate. With the next iphone's taller screen, it wont hinder the real estate as much.

3. Navigation system

Like someone else pointed out, the banners for navigation in the lock screen shrink the rest of the screen, instead of covering it like the current banners. Since navigation is new to iOS 6, those banners were probably designed with the taller screen in mind, instead of the smaller one.
 
njaremka said:
as others have said, not sure why you would want less than 15 minutes for "Fetch" on email. Fetch schedule is for when push is either not active, or not supported. Push means messages come through as received, regardless the schedule. Fetch means messages only come through when "fetched" by the phone. a shorter duration fetch schedule means your phone would constantly be pinging the servers looking for new messages. i can imagine that would give a serious hit to your battery life.

all that being said, there are no new "Fetch" options for schedule in iOS6.
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Thanks for confirming. As for fetch vs. push, I stated the 2 reasons in my original post why I choose to use IMAP (fetch) over Exchange (push) — (1) ability to delete as opposed to archive and (2) more accurate inbox. However, you brought up a good point about impact on the battery life... I hadn't thought of it that way. Thanks for that, too.
 
JayJamesWaller said:
Can anyone (preferably in the UK) try asking Siri if it can give stats for football (... or soccer) player stats like the US have with sports players? :)
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Yes, it gives stats for the "English pruh-meer soccer" league. Funnily enough I tested it by asking the exact question that someone else just mentioned: "How tall is Wayne Rooney?"

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Something I noticed just this morning (apologies if it has already been mentioned): In the newly redesigned iTunes store you can listen to a sample and then browse somewhere else and the sample you're listening to will continue to play in its own little pop-up player.

This is great as I used to get impatient and want to browse other stuff but as soon as you did the sample would stop playing.
 
JML42691 said:
So texts don't come through when DND is enabled even from people on the exception list? I know the screen doesn't light up, but does the phone still vibrate for new alerts while in DND? (Say if vibrate mode & DND were enabled).
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With DND enabled the only time your phone does anything is if some one on the list you create calls you. Text or any other notifications does not come through period. the phone doesnt light up or vibrate, if it did either it would defeat the purpose of it.

This is explained in the Keynote as well.
 
jutte64 said:
With DND enabled the only time your phone does anything is if some one on the list you create calls you. Text or any other notifications does not come through period. the phone doesnt light up or vibrate, if it did either it would defeat the purpose of it.

This is explained in the Keynote as well.
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Well, they actually do come through. But the second part is right: DND just keeps the phone from vibrating and the screen from lighting up. If you wake the iPhone, all your messages and notifications will be there waiting.
 
applebro24 said:
Tested, yep! If the phone is locked, she'll ask for the password.

In testing I've found that her grammar needs some work with a few of the new capabilities (sports and movies).

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Yes, this works as well
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Why does she say iPhones? Shouldn't it be iPhone?
 
AQUADock said:
Why does she say iPhones? Shouldn't it be iPhone?
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That's what I meant by her grammatical mistakes. The new sports and movies information has some mistakes as well:

When asked the score of the Mariners game, she replied "Seattle are winning 4-2." Her canned responses just need to be proofread.
 
applebro24 said:
That's what I meant by her grammatical mistakes. The new sports and movies information has some mistakes as well:

When asked the score of the Mariners game, she replied "Seattle are winning 4-2." Her canned responses just need to be proofread.
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My mistake I misread what you wrote.
 
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