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iOS 6 All the Little Things

Hi guys,

I dug through these pages during weekend, but I think I got one, that wasn't mentioned:

When you have "fetching of remote-images" switched off in email settings, now you get a "load all images" button at the end of each email that contains remote images.

I was pretty excited over that one ... i find that really handy for the few html-emails that you do want to see in all their glory. (a feature already existant for a while in OSXs desktop mail client btw)


and some detail on one that has been mentioned as "improved keyboard layouts" on the wiki page -the german keyboard layout now features german umlauts as separate keys again (this popped up in iOS5 beta phase iirc, but then was canned again for the release version)

cheers
 
Address Book.

There are photos for contacts of course but only in single profile view. When you view your list of contacts there are no photos. Only a text list of names. Other address books and 3rd party iOS address books have had photos on the contact list for years. I don't understand why its taken this long for iOS and OSX Address Book.

Please tell me this is finally in iOS 6.
 
patent10021 said:
Address Book.

There are photos for contacts of course but only in single profile view. When you view your list of contacts there are no photos. Only a text list of names. Other address books and 3rd party iOS address books have had photos on the contact list for years. I don't understand why its taken this long for iOS and OSX Address Book.

Please tell me this is finally in iOS 6.
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Sorry, but a pic is only displayed on the single profile view.
 
shandyman said:
The bringing up a browser thing happened to me in iOS 5, possibly 4 too if I remember right, it would only do
It if I didn't leave the wifi menu too quickly, otherwise it hit me in safari.
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Yes but it was hit or miss, especially for remembered WiFi networks.

Travelling to an airport, for instance, that used a captive portal was a pain. I would get off a plane and hurry to shoot off an email only to find it didn't send as the iPhone had auto-joined the airport's WiFi network but didn't pop up the captive portal agree-to page. Ugh, I hated that!

I always felt it was a little crazy to switch from a working 3G data connection to a non-working WiFi connection.

With iOS 6 it seems to check for Internet connectivity, and seems to better handle captive portals.

It's not perfect, but much better. As an example, if I am connected to my home wifi network but then unplug the ethernet cable from the access point, my iPhone will not realize it has no Internet access. Checking the weather--or anything else that needs Internet--will fail. However, if I leave the house (out of wifi range) and come back it will not switch to the (internet-less) wifi network. Before iOS 6 it would connect even though there was no internet access, which I found to be a real pain (especially for things like iMessage).




Michael
 
I don't think this is new to iOS 6 beta 2, but I saw a video where you can say "I'm going to sleep" to Siri and she closes out.
 
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Does anyone know if this colored-top bar in iOS 6 can be disabled? I love that the top bar is currently black because it kind of falls away in the background. These colors just seem comical to me..
 
New 'Open In' options when viewing photos in iMessage, allows you to open the photo in any app that supports it. Hopefully this will make its way to the Photos.app! :)
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Newbie question

Hi all. I'm a real newb here. New to my 3 week old iPad 3 and new to the world of Apple if you don't count my iPod 5g and a very brief journey with the original iMac. My desktop and laptops are all Wintel machines and my phone is a droid.

I've been reading about iOS 6 and all it's features so far. My query is should I try iOS 6 beta or wait until final release? I'm pretty tech savvy but don't want to regret anything. Comments ?? Thanks for your patience and if this has been addressed before I apologize as I must have missed it. If it has then a kind pointing me to that posting(s) would be appreciated. Thanks.

I will say that my decision to go Apple with a tablet is one I am NOT regretting. Heck I can see where my next laptop would quite possibly be a Mac!

Mimmka
 
Mimmka said:
Hi all. I'm a real newb here. New to my 3 week old iPad 3 and new to the world of Apple if you don't count my iPod 5g and a very brief journey with the original iMac. My desktop and laptops are all Wintel machines and my phone is a droid.

I've been reading about iOS 6 and all it's features so far. My query is should I try iOS 6 beta or wait until final release? I'm pretty tech savvy but don't want to regret anything. Comments ?? Thanks for your patience and if this has been addressed before I apologize as I must have missed it. If it has then a kind pointing me to that posting(s) would be appreciated. Thanks.

I will say that my decision to go Apple with a tablet is one I am NOT regretting. Heck I can see where my next laptop would quite possibly be a Mac!

Mimmka
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As you are not a Developer, you should NOT run beta software. Not only can it have unintended consiquences, but it is also illegal. There is no legal way to download or install the beta. Discussion past this point is also against the Macrumors policy.
 
Thank you for the reply. I am a newbie as stated so was unaware of how beta OS works in this world. I'll read on and look forward to a final public release which I gather I can then get if I so wish.

I do hope you all understand I don't come from the Apple world and thus have a lot to learn.

Mimmka
 
alexcanton said:
New location service WIFI networking, Anyone found out what this does? Also, is anyone's app store really slow since the beta release of iOS 6?
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Hmm maybe you can now enable-disable location service while on wifi and by disable it removes the pop-up that ask "enable wifi to improve accuracy”.
 
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