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iOS 6 All the Little Things

Peter Harrison said:
Spotted a tiny thing, but that's what I like about Apple, the little touches they add.

I always liked the double-tap function on the spacebar for a full-stop. But if you then wanted to make several spaces after it, so hit the spacebar a few more times, obviously it would continue to make more full-stops. Now it recognises that you've already made one at the end of your sentence. All taps on the spacebar after that, regardless of speed, register as spaces.

Like I said, a tiny thing, but a fix for something that annoyed me at least once daily.
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It's not new, just tested that on iOS 5, and works exactly as you described.
 
BFG86 said:
Photos & Camera is now a section under usage.

So you can now Delete the Camera roll, Photo Stream, and Photo Library right from the phone quickly on a whim if you want to.
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Tried deleting the photo library from there - didn't work for me. Nothing happened.

I was also hoping to get rid of the bug wherein when you sync photos from a folder on itunes, it makes a new folder on your device AND puts those photos on the photo library. Annoys me how they're doubled. Sigh, oh well.
 
mfa39 said:
Tried deleting the photo library from there - didn't work for me. Nothing happened.

I was also hoping to get rid of the bug wherein when you sync photos from a folder on itunes, it makes a new folder on your device AND puts those photos on the photo library. Annoys me how they're doubled. Sigh, oh well.
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The Photo Library is a virtual folder - it shows all the photos on the device irrespective of where they are - so they aren't doubled up (i.e. there isn't two copies of each).
 
Philmyboots said:
Nope, is it supposed too?
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Yep it is. Scott Forstall introduced it at WWDC.

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Problem is it's rather difficult to find out whether or not it works. On a commute to work you know the fastest, shortest, and/or best route. I think the best way to test it is to pick the longest/slowest route that you know will be jammed then follow it. Hopefully this will make Maps give you a detour but for that to even happen, that detour needs to have a significant benefit in time for it to offer the route to you.

Then on top of all that, you need the time to conduct this test. Who would want to waste time going the long route trying to find out whether or not rerouting works? I can't find the time yet..
 
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scott523 said:
Yep it is. Scott Forstall introduced it at WWDC.

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Problem is it's rather difficult to find out whether or not it works. On a commute to work you know the fastest, shortest, and/or best route. I think the best way to test it is to pick the longest/slowest route that you know will be jammed then follow it. Hopefully this will make Maps give you a detour but for that to even happen, that detour needs to have a significant benefit in time for it to offer the route to you.

Then on top of all that, you need the time to conduct this test. Who would want to waste time going the long route trying to find out whether or not rerouting works? I can't find the time yet..
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Do what i used to did with IOS 5, to test this (would also apply to any GPS)

On your next trip out, deliberately loose yourself, then say "This should be far enough...."

Turn on the GPS/app, head back home.

When you start breaking out a sweat, you know your truly lost.
 
ios 6 messed up my phone!

I was updating the firmware to ios6 and it started to reboot and has been turning off and on constantly for the last 20 minutes flashing the apple sign.. it won't let me turn it on... can someone help me :(
 
Sunshiner32 said:
I was updating the firmware to ios6 and it started to reboot and has been turning off and on constantly for the last 20 minutes flashing the apple sign.. it won't let me turn it on... can someone help me :(
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Was your phone jailbroken?
 
Plug the device into iTunes, depends how quickly it goes of, hold down both Home and Power buttons until the ITunes logo appears on the phne,

When you see dialog on your machine saying "You need to restore, in order to use this device with iTunes", go ahead, and click Restore.

Have you got a backup ?

Once the download starts, it doesn't matter if the phone is disconneced. The download will still continue in iTunes from you Mac

Just repeat the above to restore later on, it will be extracted locally.
 
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RTWG said:
Was your phone jailbroken?
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No it is't

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Tech198 said:
Plug the device into iTunes, depends how quickly it goes of, hold down both Home and Power/Sleep buttons until the ITunes logo appears on the phne,

When you see dialog on your machine saying "You need to restore, in order to use this device with iTunes", go ahead, and click Restore.

Do you and backup?

Once the download starts, it doesn't matter if the phone is disconneced. The download will still continue.

Just repeat the above to restore later on, it will be extracted locally.
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My phone does'actedt do anything i push the home and power button together and it flashes the apple sign nothing else
 
Sunshiner32 said:
No it is't

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My phone does'actedt do anything i push the home and power button together and it flashes the apple sign nothing else
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Are u saying the phone doesn't appear in iTunes at all? It supposed to flash, but make sure its connected to a computer before you press the Home and Power buttons.

Keeping holing these buttons down, until you see a dialog in iTunes about needing to Restore.
 
The world as we know it.

In Maps, in both Hybrid & Satellite view, you can zoom all the way out and see the world.

Looks just like Google Earth now :). Neat...
 

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Maps on lockscreen

Not sure if this has been discussed or even new (though it is to me), but if you're using maps with voice navigation and your iPhone is in sleep mode (or whatever it's called), when a turn is coming up, the iPhone will light up and show the you the directions along with Siri on your lockscreen.
 
Being able to choose a song for alarms is a really awesome new feat. I was actually pretty used to it on my BB and my Atrix, and I was surprised iOS didnt have it until now 0.o

The pull down to refresh in the Mail app looks really weird (the animation, that is)

I also wanted to try out Shared Photo Streams, but the person I wanted to share with was greyed out :S Not sure what that meant (will google it later).
 
pogiepnoy said:
after updating to ios 6 on my 4S i did the reset all settings, but it never asked to "set up as new phone" i tried it three times but it never asked to set up as new phone? is this something different with ios 6?
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You need to do the Erase and Reset, Reset doesn't give that option
 
I don't know if this is iOS 6 related but is anyone able to use Skype on cellular data (AT&T)? I tried calling to Canada as a test assuming it would prevent my call from going through but it actually went through.
 
When you set a volume limit to whatever setting ex. half way then the volume will be half of what it was before
 
scott523 said:
I don't know if this is iOS 6 related but is anyone able to use Skype on cellular data (AT&T)? I tried calling to Canada as a test assuming it would prevent my call from going through but it actually went through.
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Uh? Ive always been able to make skype calls/video on 3g.
 
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