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iOS 6's Smaller Changes: Custom Email Alerts, 'Find My Friends' Geofencing and More
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Is the YouTube app still included? The YouTube app is crap and it is faster and simpler to use Safari.
This is a plug but it's relevant: Our last app, Physynth, released in december uses tilt in a similar way that you might want to check it out
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link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/physynth/id469924626?mt=8
yeah I downloaded that in february. i love the new circuit drums!!
I do appreciate many of the neat little features of ios6 but what's bugging me the most is Apple realizing the need and moving the bluetooth menu out in the front and top of the settings app, but not taking the extra simple step of actually letting the user toggle it without having to tap and go in the bluetooth menu (like airplane mode). It still requires 3 three taps.
Please just add it to the notifications bar or left of the music player in the multitasking window.
Or even, let us customize (pin) which toggles to be displayed at the top of the settings menu.
Please just add it to the notifications bar or left of the music player in the multitasking window.
Or even, let us customize (pin) which toggles to be displayed at the top of the settings menu.
Agreed, but I wasn't meaning that Apple needs to change the 4-finger swipe. Instead they just need something easier to work with instead of the "multi-task bar" that appears at bottom when you swipe up.
Essentially I am picturing something more functional like WebOS cards when you swipe up. My other point was that Apple is using swipe down from top for notifications, so there's no reason they can't use swipe up from bottom for something productive.
Zephyr does 1 finger swipe up for the tray. Everytime some here is complaining about a lack of feature, i'm responding with a Cydia solution!! Lol....seriosly guys, just jb already
after trying out iOS 6 on the iPad, i have to say i'm pretty disappointed by the update.
why? because there is not a single ground breaking new thing in it. they just sorted out some bugs and added a few little tweaks that should have been there in the first place (i.e. the appstore password thing, clock app on the iPad)
when i bought the new iPad and used it for a while, i started to love the hardware changes (retina display, speed, camera) and thought they finally have the device to really change iOS to something new and improved (i.e use the screen real estate better).
4 things that they should have included in iOS 6:
+ new lockscreen (it's ugly and still the same as in 2006)
+ user changeable icon size (while the current state makes sense for older people, for me they are way too big)
+ customizable notificationcenter (switches, widgets,...)
+ change the position of the cursor by swiping right to left to right over the keyboard and mark text by swiping from the shift button.
now comes the amazing part: all these tweaks are available if you jailbreak. so it could have been no problem at all for apple to implement them
why? because there is not a single ground breaking new thing in it. they just sorted out some bugs and added a few little tweaks that should have been there in the first place (i.e. the appstore password thing, clock app on the iPad)
when i bought the new iPad and used it for a while, i started to love the hardware changes (retina display, speed, camera) and thought they finally have the device to really change iOS to something new and improved (i.e use the screen real estate better).
4 things that they should have included in iOS 6:
+ new lockscreen (it's ugly and still the same as in 2006)
+ user changeable icon size (while the current state makes sense for older people, for me they are way too big)
+ customizable notificationcenter (switches, widgets,...)
+ change the position of the cursor by swiping right to left to right over the keyboard and mark text by swiping from the shift button.
now comes the amazing part: all these tweaks are available if you jailbreak. so it could have been no problem at all for apple to implement them
... -_- It's similar to Apple's patent on moving the shadows on screen based on the suns position...
Then I hope they fixed the bug that makes the system forget the Apple ID used for downloaded Apps so none of them open. Downloading updates and having to put in my password has been the only thing that fixed it. That or downloading an app, but I really don't want to have go find a free app etc
remember this is the company that has dozens, if not hundreds, of folks broken into several departments and the folks that work on Mac OS are the same as the ones working on iOS.
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Well I'm sure when you designed your own OS etc, this kind of thing will never happen.
We don't know how this little thing came to be but clearly Apple is bugged about it. If it bothers you that much, go switch to something else. I'm sure Apple will make enough sales that losing you. Even a thousand yous won't really hurt their bottom line or their feelings
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Are you an expert at coding iOS, or even just Cocoa. Is that how you KNOW that there was no reason held back anything. After all, as an expert, you know that these are all child's play features to add.
This. In spades.
I have been requesting this since the day after I bought my 3GS. Glad to see this finally addressed, even if it did take far too long to implement.
Perhaps the folks that did this work in a totally different area of the OS from those responsible for the problems you mention. Stopping them wouldn't necessarily have made the other happen.
Agreed. I haven't examined it enough, but do the various colors indicate anything pertinent (such as blue relates to X category, black is Y, etc.)?
Since the original iPhone, I've wanted an option to sense when the phone is docked or charging and go from silent to audible. My very first Samsung cell phone in 1999 could do this. My phone is always on silent, but it's also my only phone and I'd love to have it behave like a normal phone when I'm at home.
...that and the weather app showing the current weather in it's icon.
I also agree about the crappy UI coherency, but that's been the case for a long time in the OS X days. iTunes and Safari have been terribly inconsistent over the years.
...that and the weather app showing the current weather in it's icon.
I also agree about the crappy UI coherency, but that's been the case for a long time in the OS X days. iTunes and Safari have been terribly inconsistent over the years.
No one has an iPad 3.
I can't believe they named the thing The New iPad.
They didn't name it "the new iPad". They named it simply "iPad".
And then in their marketing materials they consistently made the mistake of calling it "the new iPad", so now everyone thinks that's what it's called. In their technical and support documentation, they differenciate between it and the original iPad by saying "iPad (3rd generation)".
I'd happily sacrifice all of these features just to get a proper rSAP bluetooth profile so it could take advantage of the full power car phones in most upmarket cars nowadays. It is a phone after all
I want the ability to "add to favorites" from the iPod App directly from what is "now playing" when on shuffle.
It would help so much
It would help so much
Doesn't jailbreaking slow it down, especially when you install that stuff? When I jailbroke, it forced me to install some garbage like MySQL and whatever, and now I feel like my iPhone is a little bit slower.
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That's nice. It was a problem for me once so far, but it was annoying. I rarely attach items on iOS anyway unless I just took a picture and want to send it, and the photo browser has a "share" button.
It's not really huge actually You can do this right now and it's not that complicated:
1 - Go to the Mail app and start typing your email.
2 - Go to the photos app and tap and hold any thumbnail or photo.
3 - Go back to mail app, tap wherever you want in the text and select "Paste"
Voila!
I'm really excited too. It was disappointing to tell my mom that you can't attach more images once you are composing an email already. However, I wish in the iPad version at least that they will add a separate button instead of hiding everything in that tiny contextual menu.
To the post above: It's not possible to follow your steps if the email is composed from the share button in the photos app. Also, that method only allows you to paste one picture at a time.