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

slimbek said:
I saw on the Apple site that you can now attach Photos & Video from within an email!

This is huge!
Is no-one but me is excited by this? I hate typing up an email and then realizing I have to copy/paste the whole thing after I start again from the Photos app.
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I won't complain about finally having the feature, but I do feel like it could of been better implemented; it's a bit clunky in my opinion.

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jfc123 said:
I want to be able to add a custom signature to my text messages and iMessages like in mail.
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why????! don't you know it's annoying to the person receiving to have every message with a signature?
 
Starship77 said:
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!:eek: ;) :cool:
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Or hit the Arrow and select all photos (up to 5) that you want to copy ,...and then go back to the mail app and past em'
 
This is IOs 5-dot-something, not 6

This is not a major release. Even the update to Maps means only to Apple.
My wishlist is:
- Landscape functionality extended to all the Apple applications, with particular reference to the Phone app (which needs a refresh), and to the home screen.
- Bluetooth, Hotspot, wi-fi activations from the notification windows.
- A better Music app on the iPhone (long titles support, car mode etc. etc.).
- A Music app on the iPad (although the one installed by Apple is a way to listen to music in 2012 ...)
- An improved vocal interface, extended at least down to the Iphone4 and iPad2, which does not require an internet connection.
 
apple always holds announcements until they introduce the new phone. SIRI wasn't announced at WWDC - it was announced when they introduced the 4S.

snowleopard13 said:
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 :rolleyes:
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It's nice to have a native clock App on the iPad....

but what about a native Weather App as well? It's STILL missing...
 
BRLawyer said:
My main concern is whether the engineers/designers at Apple are even noticing that or prioritizing such a revamp. I just can't believe how bad that app is, even if just to play a DAMN list of songs without any playlists!
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What do you mean? Just tap the " Songs" button on the bottom and start playing.
 
GeoFencing Is Creepy

The author says "Like many parts of Find My Friends, this is one part creepy, two parts useful. "

I would reverse that to be two parts creepy......the potential for covert abuse here is HUGE!!!

And Apple is going to allow 3rd Party developers to tap into GeoFencing (with your permission of course...wink).

And when the phone is stolen, this is a potential bonanza for criminals, pedophiles, etc.

Not to mention our own government spying on us....

Does Apple have a NSA office in their building???:confused:
 
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Calle68 said:
This is not a major release. Even the update to Maps means only to Apple.
My wishlist is:
- Landscape functionality extended to all the Apple applications, with particular reference to the Phone app (which needs a refresh), and to the home screen.
- Bluetooth, Hotspot, wi-fi activations from the notification windows.
- A better Music app on the iPhone (long titles support, car mode etc. etc.).
- A Music app on the iPad (although the one installed by Apple is a way to listen to music in 2012 ...)
- An improved vocal interface, extended at least down to the Iphone4 and iPad2, which does not require an internet connection.
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Two quick questions:
- What exactly could be improved by a landscape phone app? (- or which other Apple apps were you referring to?)
- You don't happen to have an iPhone4 and an iPad2 do you? Just a completely random guess...
 
CyBeRino said:
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)".
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Stay tuned for "The new iPhone"
 
John.B said:
So download the Google Maps app, it'll almost certainly be released by the time iOS 6 ships. And enjoy the "sponsored links" that go with it.
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HowEver said:
Also, enjoy Google tracking you.
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You don't think Apple wouldn't do the same? I wouldn't be surprised if the Yelp integration at one point will suggest restaurants based on neighborhoods that you frequent often. Most people will probably find this useful (I would) but this wouldn't be possible without Apple tracking your location. So cut the crap about "Google is bad because they track you"...Apple will most likely do the same.
 
MikeT77 said:
but what about a native Weather App as well? It's STILL missing...
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The iPhone native Weather app periodically prompts me to switch my search engine to Yahoo... Annoying. If they're going to add the native iOS Weather app from the iPhone to the iPad, I wish they'd fix that first.

NorEaster said:
You don't think Apple wouldn't do the same? I wouldn't be surprised if the Yelp integration at one point will suggest restaurants based on neighborhoods that you frequent often. Most people will probably find this useful (I would) but this wouldn't be possible without Apple tracking your location. So cut the crap about "Google is bad because they track you"...Apple will most likely do the same.
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Any cell phone company has the ability to track you. The difference is that, unlike Apple, Google's entire business model is built around first tracking you and then monetizing that detailed, specific information about you. It's built into Android, and it's also built into the Google maps in the current Maps app.

My post that you quoted is a case in point. Yesterday, using the Map app on my iPad, I ran a search from my current location to Key West, and the directions take me to a "sponsored link" to some remotely-located business, instead of the town center where most people would expect Map travel directions to take them. A very un-Apple-like experience, in my book. I even tried a couple of searches for directions to popular National Parks, and both results would've taken me to "sponsored link" hotels many miles away from the destination.

The issue isn't so much that "Google is bad because they track you" as it is "Google is bad because they track everything about you and then market that data to the highest bidder instead of giving you what you're actually searching for".

And, as I pointed out, anyone who still wants to use the Google Maps app with street view and "sponsored links" and Google's location tracking and God-knows-what-else-tracking, I'm sure will be able to download it from the App Store for free.
 
anjinha said:
What do you mean? Just tap the " Songs" button on the bottom and start playing.
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I hear ya, Little Angel; but have you tried to play one artist just to realize that it doesn't go past the album you're currently playing? Or the fact that the "songs" list is not even well sorted?

This and MANY other little gripes with the music app - the previous version was much more intuitive and fluid...check my other post above with an external link.
 
Anyone else think that this reflective slider was done by an intern who was probably working on one of Apple's fake projects and Forstall's probably gone, 'Hey, that's pretty neat!'?

John.B said:
The iPhone native Weather app periodically prompts me to switch my search engine to Yahoo... Annoying. If they're going to add the native iOS Weather app from the iPhone to the iPad, I wish they'd fix that first.
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I wish they'd let you change the Weather Provider. I'm sick of Yahoo telling me it's 18º while the Met Office tells me it's 14º. The Met Office is always more accurate.
 
jfc123 said:
I want to be able to add a custom signature to my text messages and iMessages like in mail.
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holy cow that would get old fast. I'm pretty sure that if someone I text regularly had a signature for every text I would have to block them.

Are you coming over?
-Sent from Tina's iPhone

No

Why not?
-Sent from Tina's iPhone

Leave me alone

Why?
-Sent from Tina's iPhone

Don't you have work to do?

Nope all done.
-Sent from Tina's iPhone

Are you coming over?
-Sent from Tina's iPhone

NO

Why????
-Sent from Tina's iPhone

Because I hate you and your stupid iMessage signature!!

..
-Sent from Tina's iPhone
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Bite my shiny metal slider!

Dear Apple,

How about you stop your engineers pissassing around with not needed eye candy and put them to work adding something that we really need - Like say, oh I dunno - Multi-user accounts on the iPad! :eek:

Oh look it twinkles, FECK OFF!

:)

And BTW it's the same effect that you see on the login page here https://www.icloud.com/#
 
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