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iOS 8 Hidden Features Video: Battery Usage By App, Hidden Photos, Siri Hands-Free, and More

dave420 said:
I've seen at least a dozen of these posts today, but when people ask that Apple increase the base storage from 16 GB everyone is in here swearing up and down they don't need the increased storage.
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How would that change anything, people tend to fill up their devices to the top. There would still be no space on their device.

This is a full upgrade, they should back their devices anyway through Itunes, doing an upgrade that way requires deleting nothing at all.

BTW, these people actually chose to buy 16G, nobody forced them. Other companies also offer 16G starting points until very recently (and most still do).

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agsystems said:
Agreed that would be nice...sounds like another feature to add to the M8 co-processor since that chip is always on - maybe Iphone 6S?:cool:
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Guess someone probably has that in a jailbreak somewhere since its mostly there to save battery life I suppose (thus the plugged in).
 
richardsonrs said:
I know the file isn;t. But the OS needs 4.6GB of my 16(13.6) GB to do an update. I have to delete 30% of everything on my phone just to update...sigh More than slightly annoying.
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It's like a zip/rar file, it has to have the room to unpack or extract all the files so it can update ur phone. So 1.6 gb extracts to prolly another 2-3 gb....
 
arbogast777 said:
Those are definately good uses for Siri hands free but my point is you should be able to do all that without HAVING to plug it in. You don't have to with Google Now.

This is what will happen - next June, Craig Federighi will announce that you can now use Siri without plugging it in, all of Moscone Center will squeal with delight, and Android fans will point out that they've been doing that for 2 years. The more thjngs change, the more they stay the same.
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Google now, if not plugged in, needs to listen in all the time, which means battery drain. Quick one too. YEs, Apple should let you siphon your own battery if you so choose... And then people would complain about their phones not lasting the day as it should be ;-).
 
Keirasplace said:
How would that change anything, people tend to fill up their devices to the top. There would still be no space on their device.

This is a full upgrade, they should back their devices anyway through Itunes, doing an upgrade that way requires deleting nothing at all.

BTW, these people actually chose to buy 16G, nobody forced them. Other companies also offer 16G starting points until very recently (and most still do).

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Guess someone probably has that in a jailbreak somewhere since its mostly there to save battery life I suppose (thus the plugged in).
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Everyone just get a grip! All you have to do is plug it into your computer and update it through iTunes!! Voila ! It's just as easy as that! Now quit the bitching about the over the air updates, and quit bitching about it taking so long they just released the damn thing a couple hours ago there's millions and millions of people trying to download this all at one time.
 
arbogast777 said:
Those are definately good uses for Siri hands free but my point is you should be able to do all that without HAVING to plug it in. You don't have to with Google Now.

This is what will happen - next June, Craig Federighi will announce that you can now use Siri without plugging it in, all of Moscone Center will squeal with delight, and Android fans will point out that they've been doing that for 2 years. The more thjngs change, the more they stay the same.
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I don't get the need to constantly compare iOS to android. This thread is about improvements to iOS. In what way is it relevant what android does or doesn't do (unless you're trying to make this the ten millionth thread on which os is better)?
 
patseguin said:
Is it just me, or is hand-free Siri 100% useless? Who uses their iPhone or iPad while plugged in?
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I have my iPhone plugged into a dock on the stand next to my bed so it would be useful then. Also when plugged into the dock in my car, the dock connected to my PC and the one near my couch. Besides, you wouldn't want Siri listening to you all the time as that would drain the battery.
 
I was hoping to use Wi-Fi calling with iOS 8 on my iPhone 5, but alas it's not there. From what I can tell it'll be an iPhone 6 and 5s/c only feature. I'm not sure why, as I've always understood it to be an OS hook that Apple (until now) wouldn't allow and not a hardware issue. That makes iOS8 pretty much a no-op to me. Ok, the fonts are a little better on my aging eyes.
 
sidebar

How did you get the icons in the finder's sidebar to be large like that on the second video when it cuts to the mac osx window?

Thanks!
 
Is there literally not a way to have the Camera Roll and/or Photo Stream with all your photos in a non-outrageously annoying view?

This is incredibly terrible. I like the rest of the changes, but that's BS.
 
What's the point of the hidden folder? It's pretty much useless. If that folder was password protected, it would be much better.
 
Wx app

The Weather app does not appear to have the additional information at the bottom of the screen as shown in the video. Perhaps it did not make it into this first IOS8 release?
 
BangTheDish said:
The Weather app does not appear to have the additional information at the bottom of the screen as shown in the video. Perhaps it did not make it into this first IOS8 release?
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When I scroll down on the page I get the extra information. What device are you using?

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tominco said:
I was hoping to use Wi-Fi calling with iOS 8 on my iPhone 5, but alas it's not there. From what I can tell it'll be an iPhone 6 and 5s/c only feature. I'm not sure why, as I've always understood it to be an OS hook that Apple (until now) wouldn't allow and not a hardware issue. That makes iOS8 pretty much a no-op to me. Ok, the fonts are a little better on my aging eyes.
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I think they said this was T-Mobile only for now. Did the other carriers okay it?
 
surf2snow1 said:
When I scroll down on the page I get the extra information. What device are you using?
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iPhone5. The extra info showed up once I selected one of the six locations on the main page. Suddenly it refreshed and all the new info showed up for each location. I guess I didn't mess around enough. Thanks!
 
Maybe very old news, but the Clock icon is realtime for the hour, minutes and seconds.

I would like the weather icon to display the temperature too.
 
musicman008 said:
I wonder if the greyscale feature can somehow be used to save battery life, like in android.
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The battery savings in that sense generally apply to OLED screens, and since none of the iOS devices have those, something like that won't change anything as far as battery usage goes.

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RaelFacio said:
Maybe very old news, but the Clock icon is realtime for the hour, minutes and seconds.

I would like the weather icon to display the temperature too.
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Pretty sure that was already like that back in iOS 7.
 
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