Me too, on the iPad it's pretty good. I just think we could have another method (activated on the screen) for the iPhone.
They could just integrate the assistive touch on the control center.
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iOS 8 May Streamline Notification Center, Remove Game Center App, and More
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Me too, on the iPad it's pretty good. I just think we could have another method (activated on the screen) for the iPhone.
They could just integrate the assistive touch on the control center.
The only thing I can think of is to have a PDF viewer for files in the cloud? But, isn't there already PDF support? I honestly don't know though. Seems like an odd inclusion.
Add me to the list of people confused about Text Edit on iOS. Really, for most people's uses, Notes could be extended to easily accomplish Text Edit's usual tasks. In fact, get rid of Notes' textured background (totally irrelevant, but I'm begging), add some simple text formatting tools along with the ability to insert images, and you have an application that surpasses Text Edit.
In fact, kill Text Edit on OS X and migrate its features into Notes. Moving Text Edit onto iOS is working backwards imo.
In fact, kill Text Edit on OS X and migrate its features into Notes. Moving Text Edit onto iOS is working backwards imo.
I see zero point in textedit, and if Apple was to do this, wouldn't you think Apple would make new icons that weren't taken from the Mac?
How about integrating Voice Memos with Notes? Entries would either be typed or audio entries. Then add a button to have Siri transcribe a stored audio entry at a later time, which would be useful for those of us who spend large amounts of times in areas without LTE or 4G (or simply don't want to consume data).
Well, I actually would like TextEdit just for some simple formatting functions. But everything TextEdit does could easily be integrated into Notes while keeping the nice simple name "Notes".
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I think I see a point to text edit. Notes doesn't allow you to open documents at all as far as I know, and pages is really a page layout utility. For just opening simple txt or rtf files, text edit is much smaller, faster, and less complicated.
I get what you are saying...and I agree the "under the hood" changes lay the groundwork for future changes...but please tell my why the UI navigation has not fundamentally changed since the first iPhone. I mean either I'm crazy or I am still staring at screen after screen filled up with square tiles....which are becoming increasingly cumbersome to navigate on a device filled with apps ??
The look and feel has improved...somewhat with iOS 7. But I fail to see how they have improved the user flow of the iOS. If redrawing the stock icons using a "grid system" is revolutionary thinking then bite my a**. I'm a huge Apple fan but lately it seems as if the guys in Cupertino have a "I think it...therefore it's genius" complex.
Yes, but...
True - but being able to delete them is a huge plus. It isn't so much the space on the storage, it is also having this other page that contains all of the apps I don't need. It is just so much clutter.
On my Nook I've installed CM10, and I have had no problems when I deleted a default installed app.
True - but being able to delete them is a huge plus. It isn't so much the space on the storage, it is also having this other page that contains all of the apps I don't need. It is just so much clutter.
On my Nook I've installed CM10, and I have had no problems when I deleted a default installed app.
One thing I could handle would be separating controls for those areas. Let's say that in general I don't care about having my Message notifications in notification center. Just give me the little banner and I'm good. However lets say I have it off and I miss several messages. I might like to see those in NC. So let me set it that way. And to only show them in Missed if that is what I want. And even to make Missed the default rather than All
Yeah the entire notification center experience is very poorly integrated. Not to mention very limited and poorly organized.
Because they got it right with iOS 1.
Look at Mac OS 1 and OS X 10.9 - both have icons that default to the right hand side of the desktop and a menu bar across the top.
To address the problem you mentioned, Apple have given you folders. Each folder can now have multiple pages of apps. Everything you use most often can be arranged for quick access, and things you use less often can be filed away.
Welcome to the world of "the data lives in the App" and Apple's extension of that concept up to iCloud.
Steve Jobs was great and all, but that idea that every App should be like iTunes and contain all of its data was really not a smart idea.
Steve was right about the problem: data storage and the filesystem need to be rethought. The solution he approved, that "every App is an island", is not the right way to go.
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I hope Game Center doesn't go away. I found it very useful in the prior iOS versions. It's just this one that is bogus. If they reverted back to the functionality of the iOS 6 version that would be great. Add in a messaging function perhaps. Improve the challenges with things like being able to see the ones you sent and history of challenges passed etc
But I agree that restrictions and hiding apps needs to be for all of them. And that there are several that could be taken off like stocks and weather. And let folks pick from the wide collection of free apps. Perhaps some of the other bits like Game Center, Newsstand and Passbook could be DLC of some kind that you only have to get if you get an app that uses them. So you aren't cluttering up your system with apps that are quite useful but not to you because none of your apps work with them
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I can't say that I object to that. It does seem a tad wasteful.
Depends on how they do it. Right now you have to be online for scores etc to show up in a game so perhaps that is how they will keep it. But serve up all data such as high scores, achievements, challenges, who is playing and last when, all from the game instead of half of them from within and the rest from the app. The invite friends could be from a settings panel and thus common to all apps perhaps even with a way to link to the screen of 'games so and so plays' data from within there.
Something like that could work better and with little to no overhead in terms of bloat
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But without Game Center how will I see all the names of people who scored 43,635,236,234,235,654,324 points on the first level of Angry Birds?
That is a different issue. Game developers need to use their newly given powers to remove all those bogus scores.
And as for how you would see the cleaned up version, from inside the game.
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While some folks do use TextEdit as a kind of poor man's coding app, text editing is not the same thing as code editing. And Apple is unlikely to every natively support code editing on iOS as it is not something that the 95 will ever think to do in there if at all. So if that is you reason why TextEdit needs to be in there, don't hold your breath
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So you don't like the UI thus Apple simply must change it. Nope not enough. Apple doesn't listen to the gripes the very small majority who think they can do better for all needs and wants
They like the system they have now. It works for the vast majority of users. Gus Apple will stick with it, until Apple feels they have found something that works better for the same vast majority.
What you need to do is drag out that great knowledge of yours and put it to better use. Like finding a jailbreak exploit so you can hack your stuff and put on this better UI of yours.
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Everyone seems to be assuming that that is why the apps are allowed to save to iCloud. But perhaps it's not. Perhaps they are for sharing to other computers
Yeah. Same for me. 7.1 was a very good update. I hope they work on speed most of all. Still slow compared to iOS 6. Notification Center NEEDS to show the CURRENT temperature!