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iOS 6's Smaller Changes: Custom Email Alerts, 'Find My Friends' Geofencing and More

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- One of the most unnecessaryadditions to iOS 6 is also one of the most telling. Apple has made the metallic volume slider in the iPod app and elsewhere change its reflection as the iPhone is tilted -- as if it were actually reflecting light. While some may say it's a waste of engineering resources, this shows Apple's incredible attention to detail.
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The bold is all you need to know.

We have all been to restaurants where the food is presented like art that tastes like you are literally eating a painting. While the hole in the wall with great food and mismatched furniture can be so busy during meals it's crazy.

I don't care for this sort of thing being called "attention to detail". There's a better term for it and it's shorten to OCD. Remember this is a company that didn't update java while there was a security issue and clear text logged people's password for secure volumes. Something's wrong when a company doesn't have time to check for serious security issues but spend effort on adding animated reflection to a god damn button.
 
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- Users no longer need to enter their password to update apps -- only when purchasing an app for the first time. Additionally, users aren't kicked to the home screen when buying or updating an app in the App Store.

- Newly downloaded apps gain a temporary 'New' banner on the icon to make them easier to pick them out.
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Glad to see these, it never made any sense to require password to download a free update to an app. And dumping out of the app store after upgrading was really annoying.

Now if they could just add "skip this update" to the app store I'd be really happy with it.

Still no weather app though on the iPad? I'm still trying to figure that one out.
 
urbanj said:
I would love the ability to double tap the home button and swipe past the music, swipe past the volume and get to a brightness slider. It would also be better to have a toggle for wifi and bluetooth in that swipe tray as well.

oh well.....
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I've sent in such a feedback request several times. Hopefully other people will too so they know it is a feature many of us would like and would use.
 
You dramatically underappreciate that reflective metal. We're on our way to having the holodeck from startrek next gen.

Add in some kind of 3D visual simulation and some simulated tactical feedback and input devices with real controls will be rendered obsolete, because we'll have virtual controls that are at least as good as the real thing.
 
Geofencing could be huge. Driving around town.. pass a location.. triggers an action. Maybe triggers a phone call. "Hey Siri, when I pass the bridge, call work to let them know... blah blah."

Use your imagination. Geofencing = awesome.
Geofencing + smarter Siri = :eek:
 
What is with Apple's stubbornness on not implementing a quick settings menu??
Just cause Android has one? Come on Apple.
 
marty1980 said:
I like this line that I found on the slide => "IPv6 support for Wi-Fi and LTE"

The LTE being the important thing to take note of. I think everyone already assumes that the next round of iDevices are going to include an LTE option (phones won't have an option). This is one of the first official documents that I've seen of Apple confirming LTE support in iOS.

This is great for me since AT&T has launched it's LTE network in my area and I've been off contract since August 2011. So I'm ready for an upgrade, but I'm holding off for the new iPhone.
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You do realize iOS already supports LTE in the new iPad right?
 
MacRumors said:
- One of the most unnecessary additions to iOS 6 is also one of the most telling. Apple has made the metallic volume slider in the iPod app and elsewhere change its reflection as the iPhone is tilted -- as if it were actually reflecting light. While some may say it's a waste of engineering resources, this shows Apple's incredible attention to detail.
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I like their attention to detail. Sure, it creeps into areas not directly related to functionality, but that really is just a byproduct of the same attention to detail that directly results in the Mac and iOS experience we know and love (generally). I'd gladly accept unnecessary details for the gain of many more beneficial details. PC / Android phone makers seem to believe in the opposite.

Actually, I'll add that to the catalog of opposites, another being how Apple gets you to buy a new phone by making the current experience great, while others try to get you to buy a new phone by making the current experience awful (this is not original on my part but from some article about how Apple does such a great job of rolling out new iOS versions to existing phones).
 
cotak said:
Something's wrong when a company doesn't have time to check for serious security issues but spend effort on adding animated reflection to a god damn button.
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I'm sure the volume slider reflection engineer is a real wiz at security. Any way, your analogy is off. Apple are the the restaurant where the food looks like a painting but tastes great, and its busy as hell.
 
cotak said:
The bold is all you need to know.

We have all been to restaurants where the food is presented like art that tastes like you are literally eating a painting. While the hole in the wall with great food and mismatched furniture can be so busy during meals it's crazy.

I don't care for this sort of thing being called "attention to detail". There's a better term for it and it's shorten to OCD. Remember this is a company that didn't update java while there was a security issue and clear text logged people's password for secure volumes. Something's wrong when a company doesn't have time to check for serious security issues but spend effort on adding animated reflection to a god damn button.
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It depends... this could have been a dev's attempt to fill the last hour of a day. You know you have this task and that task, but they take more than an hour, you don't want to start right now... so you try to find a bug to fix, etc... then you get a flash and implement a little something. And it happens to catch on.
 
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- Turning Bluetooth on and off is much quicker than it was in iOS 5. Bluetooth controls are now located in first page of System Preferences, next to the Wi-Fi and Airplane Mode controls.
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It's a start. I still think I'd love to be able to put wi-fi and bluethooth controls on my notification pull down.

- Users no longer need to enter their password to update apps -- only when purchasing an app for the first time. Additionally, users aren't kicked to the home screen when buying or updating an app in the App Store.
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FINALLY!!!! Especially to the latter part about not being kicked to the home screen. But yes, I really like that I won't have to enter my password for store updates.

- One of the most unnecessary additions to iOS 6 is also one of the most telling. Apple has made the metallic volume slider in the iPod app and elsewhere change its reflection as the iPhone is tilted -- as if it were actually reflecting light. While some may say it's a waste of engineering resources, this shows Apple's incredible attention to detail.
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I'll have to remember this to play with it when I get my new iphone. Small touches like this amuse me when pointed out (I'm the kind of person though that would never have noticed it if you hadn't pointed it out to me).
 
Javascript performance in Safari has again been improved over iOS 5. Funny how much room there is to continue to improve it.
 
lmddawson said:
such a tiny feature, but that metallic slider sure is pretty damn clever :p
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I am still waiting for a MAJOR revamp of the horrid, atrocious, ridiculous iPad Music app...any news on that?

Don't believe it? Check this link:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20122563-37/how-apple-screwed-up-the-ipad-music-app-with-ios-5/

On the other hand, a GREAT and welcome timesaver with the following:

"Users no longer need to enter their password to update apps -- only when purchasing an app for the first time. Additionally, users aren't kicked to the home screen when buying or updating an app in the App Store."
 
GenesisST said:
It depends... this could have been a dev's attempt to fill the last hour of a day. You know you have this task and that task, but they take more than an hour, you don't want to start right now... so you try to find a bug to fix, etc... then you get a flash and implement a little something. And it happens to catch on.
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It's exactly this lack of code control that can get you into trouble. It's not back and white but if the attitude is you can slip in what you feel like for small things it can grow and eventually people start slipping in something that's quite a bit more serious than a reflection.

New things like this are also additional burden on QA and potentially making a bit of software more resource hungry than it should be. For years Microsoft had the reputation for bloat. If you don't have a process to control what goes into your code or don't have a strong process bloat can happen.

My concern is the lack of real attention to big issue and a lot of attention to things that you and I will forget about after a few days.

Don't get me wrong I am all for "neat" stuff but this is a bit extreme. Look up a few post someone asked about why they didn't make a quick settings menu. Enough time to make a reflection that doesn't make your life easier with the device but not enough for an actually useful feature. It's a slippery slope that I hope they aren't really on.
 
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I like that downloading an app no longer kicks you to the homescreen, and it doesn't ask for a password every time you update an app. It's these little usability tweaks that makes Apple software such a pleasure to use. I just wish they would stop asking for a password every time I download a new FREE app. Talk about unnecessary...
 
I think one of my favorites new features is the fact that the ambient light sensor is continuously sensing the brightness of the environment, and it continually adjusts the brightness of the screen to reflect that.
 
Has anyone tested iOS6's performance in a 3GS, is it usable or is it even slower than iOS5?
 
All I want is Group Emailing. This has been an absent feature forever and is rediculous that it still is not implemented.
 
zedsdead said:
All I want is Group Emailing. This has been an absent feature forever and is rediculous that it still is not implemented.
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To go with that, how about being about to create a group, edit groups on your device

And how about being able to change the sync account for a contact or a calendar.
 
cotak said:
It's exactly this lack of code control that can get you into trouble. It's not back and white but if the attitude is you can slip in what you feel like for small things it can grow and eventually people start slipping in something that's quite a bit more serious than a reflection.

New things like this are also additional burden on QA and potentially making a bit of software more resource hungry than it should be. For years Microsoft had the reputation for bloat. If you don't have a process to control what goes into your code or don't have a strong process bloat can happen.

My concern is the lack of real attention to big issue and a lot of attention to things that you and I will forget about after a few days.

Don't get me wrong I am all for "neat" stuff but this is a bit extreme. Look up a few post someone asked about why they didn't make a quick settings menu. Enough time to make a reflection that doesn't make your life easier with the device but not enough for an actually useful feature. It's a slippery slope that I hope they aren't really on.
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Well, it's one thing for a dev to implement something, experiment, etc. To actually make it in the product is another. I wouldn't encourage to blindly commit stuff. But I would encourage passion and experimentation, when time permits, and to show off these little things, which might in turn trigger new ideas.

Personally, if I were a manager on such a project, I wouldn't have allowed that "feature" to continue. But that's me. But at least it would show passion about the product from the developers.

But, that's pure speculation about how it came to be.
 
urbanj said:
I would love the ability to double tap the home button and swipe past the music, swipe past the volume and get to a brightness slider. It would also be better to have a toggle for wifi and bluetooth in that swipe tray as well.

oh well.....
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hmmmmmm, have you HEARD of SBSettings???
 
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