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iOS 8, All The Little Things! [Features Discovered in iOS 8]

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So Apple showed off the ability to hotspot your Mac to your iPhone. Is that feature just between those two devices or can you hotspot your wifi iPad to your iPhone as well? While I don't view my rMBP as "heavy", I'd rather carry my iPad Air around on locations and such.
 
Sylon said:
So Apple showed off the ability to hotspot your Mac to your iPhone. Is that feature just between those two devices or can you hotspot your wifi iPad to your iPhone as well? While I don't view my rMBP as "heavy", I'd rather carry my iPad Air around on locations and such.
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Yes, you can hotspot your iPad to your iPhone the same way.
 
LOL , dude you have a lot of free time to write all this :-$

Apple just wants to KILL [ A5 ] chip devices
Every one knows that 😀
 
abshole765 said:
Is there a Forward Option in Notes?
Do the controls in Control Center still play from last audio source?
And does Weather in Notification Center still giving vague descriptions?
Or messages/alerts disappearing from Notification Center?
Photos app still a mess?
Selecting/modifying a URL in Safari still a pain in the ass?
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Too critical?
 
C DM said:
What sort of issues were you having in iOS 7 with Reminders?
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I find Reminders to be totally useless. It doesn't actually remind you to do anything, it just puts a red badge in the icon which is easily missed. Why can't it flag up an alert like the Calendar does?
 
MalusSylvestris said:
I find Reminders to be totally useless. It doesn't actually remind you to do anything, it just puts a red badge in the icon which is easily missed. Why can't it flag up an alert like the Calendar does?
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Works great if you setup reminders in the Notification center. In fact it shows in LARGE font on the lock screen - in iOS7
 
whsbuss said:
Works great if you setup reminders in the Notification center. In fact it shows in LARGE font on the lock screen - in iOS7
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I have it switched on in notification centre but it has never worked. Right now I have a "2" badge on the Reminders icon for two events that have passed but I never got an alert for them.
 
MalusSylvestris said:
I find Reminders to be totally useless. It doesn't actually remind you to do anything, it just puts a red badge in the icon which is easily missed. Why can't it flag up an alert like the Calendar does?
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I get notifications for them like any other items. Do you put a particular date/time associated with them? Do you have notifications for them enabled in the notification center settings?
 
ICE card

Perhaps it's been posted already, but could someone post a picture of the ICE card? I'm curious to see what it looks like.
Thanks in advance
 
MalusSylvestris said:
I have it switched on in notification centre but it has never worked. Right now I have a "2" badge on the Reminders icon for two events that have passed but I never got an alert for them.
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You need the Reminders button on AND under the Reminders Badge, Show in Notification Center, show on Lock screen
 
Mildredop said:
Ditto.

I can now reconsider iPhone.

But it's also a sad day. This and the ability to say "Hey, Siri" (like "OK Google") really does show that Apple's innovative days are over, and they too are now resorting to just copying. These are features Android has had for years.
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Feature matching doesn't equal copying. If that's all iOS 8 brought, I'd agree with you... but it's not.
 
When you use Siri to Shazam, the song that is identified, goes straight to the wishlist button in iTunes Store, in a special tab.
 

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C DM said:
What sort of issues were you having in iOS 7 with Reminders?
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Any recurring reminder using Exchange would shift the reminder a day ahead. Ones I setup for a certain time, it would set it at 12am so I would get alarms in the middle of the night instead of the day. When I would scroll through my list of things, sometimes it would mark it as complete even though I wasn't anywhere near the 'complete' button.

It seemed very unstable, and very un-iOS7 like. I use Fantastical 2 just so I don't have to look at the thing or use its interface as it's clunky.
 
chrf097 said:
Like I said, it got ignored (and subsequently buried).

Basically it establishes a direct connection the device, rather than relying on the WiFi network. It's the same technology that AirDrop uses; it creates a special Wi-Fi ad-hoc network between the iOS device and the Apple TV.

I can't test it since I don't have an Apple TV, but it's been reported on on several trusted sites (Engadget, 9to5Mac, etc.)
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Air drop requires wifi! How can air drop work without wifi.. Both the devices need to be on the sane wifi right? And even Apple TV works that way. What do u mean "direct connection" .. I don't have an airdrop device nor an Apple TV, but I've read on apples website that it requires wifi
 
When you are in an active FaceTime call, the FaceTime app cannot be closed in the multitasking switcher, it acts like the Home screen instead. This makes it so you don't accidentally end the call while closing all your apps.
I assume it works the same for phone calls.
 
Apple blogger said:
Air drop requires wifi! How can air drop work without wifi.. Both the devices need to be on the sane wifi right? And even Apple TV works that way. What do u mean "direct connection" .. I don't have an airdrop device nor an Apple TV, but I've read on apples website that it requires wifi
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Yes. It cant. No. Now with iOS8. Direct means direct, connection means connection. Im sorry. It indeed does.
 
ultra7k said:
a feature that I wanted iBooks to have for a long time:
Books can now be categorized into series.

So good.
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Any one have any screenshots of how this works?

Obviously editing metadata in iBooks on the Mac isn't an option, so a 3rd party application like Calibre has to be used to add Series data to ebooks. I tried this and had no luck. Maybe this isn't part of the beta yet or maybe iTunes has to be updated.
 
Apple blogger said:
Haha! Really? Without wifi! Then y the hell do we need NFC!??? If that's true this is truly awesome
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NFC is not needed with bluetooth, particularly BluetoothLE. Never was. Duplicate technologies, antenna, transceivers, in devices with not much real-estate.
 
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