iOS 9 Beta 3 Tidbits: 4x4 Folders on iPad, Screenshot and Selfie Folders, News App, and More

[sss4r]

Fox News is the most-watched news network here in the US. I will not dispute that.

What Fox News doesn't realize is that my friends and I get together over drinks at least once a week and get our jollies watching those idiots make bigger idiots of themselves. My consultants and friends often share "Fox-isms". I know of no-one in my circles who actually take Fox News seriously - keep in mind that a lot of my work is in rural WA, OR, and ID, and even the rednecks I know "get it".

I hope Fox News stays around a long, long time - the entertainment factor is just too high there!

Study after study shows the Fox "News" audience is by and far the most uninformed group to receive their information from mainstream news outlets -- 72% of them still think that Iraq had WMD lol

 

[QuarterSwede]

On topic, and I concede that Pulse has just been destroyed by LinkedIn, does anyone know if News will have RSS functionality ever? I have some "off the beaten path" sites I follow that I'd love to add into news. I'm so sick of fighting with Pulse, which will just randomly toss my feeds all over the place. It's infuriating.

It already supports it. In Safari tap the Share Sheet icon and Add to News is an option. It's flakey right now and not really working, but shows it's possible it'll be an option upon public release.

 

[campyguy]

Study after study shows the Fox "News" audience is by and far the most uninformed group to receive their information from mainstream news outlets -- 72% of them still think that Iraq had WMD lol

I so don't disagree with you. Watching Leno's and John Oliver's street interviews over the past several years leaves me with the conviction in belief that so many of us are, uh, malleable. Where else on Earth can a tool like Donald Trump run for the Supreme Leader position?

Conspiracy theories aside, Fox News and the actors (they call themselves "reporters" on that channel) within are an excellent source of gutteral laughter - along with being meaty, consistent fodder for comedians around the world.

 

[Eduardo Forneck]

If you feel the need to close apps multiple times a day to end up with few percentage points more battery charge at the end of the day, go ahead. Have you actually gone to Setting > General > Usage > Battery Usage and added up the battery use percentages which are incurred by app background activity (those apps which have a label 'Background Activity' or 'Background Location', though that must be the combined battery usage of foreground and background activity, ie, it overestimates the actual background activity battery usage)? And if you have an app or two that uses more than a few percentage points of battery usage with background activity the latter of which you think you can do without, then closing these one or two apps manually when you are done with them and don't want to keep running in the background (but do want to keep them running in the background sometimes and thus don't want to completely block their background activity ) should achieve your goal easily with the current arrangements.


If you have used a couple of apps and then go to Safari and open multiple tabs, as long as you stay in Safari, the OS will first clear the memory used by all other apps (some system apps/processes have wired memory that can't be wiped) before it clears any memory used by Safari tabs. Only in the following scenario is there a benefit of closing apps:

1. You start Safari, open a few tabs,
2. you then go to app B and use it a while,
3. then you go to app C and use it.

In this scenario, if you kill app B before you launch app C, you might prevent that app A uses the memory of Safari.

ok then

 

[eclipxe]

Background refresh has nothing at all to do with the recent app switcher.

 

[Benjamin Frost]

but the point is you don't get any benefit from freeing up the memory - forget about the memory, it wont make anything run any better - anything in the foreground gets priority if it needs memory it gets it and nothing else open stops that happening, so its irrelevant if you close apps are not - it makes no different to performance.

Your point about wanting to close multiple apps using location services has more merit, but I cant say i've ever used more than one that uses GPS at once anyway, all the other apps which use location services share the same location resources which the phone accesses anyway - and again, why would you have more than one audio app open at once?

I severely disagree.

Memory matters. My experience is that the more apps I open and use, the worse the performance, as the OS has to keep killing apps. This is transparent to see in Safari, because tabs have to reload. I use several apps that track location services and also use GPS and work in the background simultaneously. My iPhone and iPad soft reboot once a day due to memory issues, something they never did in iOS 7 or earlier. My crash logs are full of low memory issues.

In trying to be too clever, iOS actually makes things worse. Apps often abuse backgrounding and location services. The Wimbledon app, for example, keeps location services on when not using the app, even if its location services are set to only come on when using the app.

 

[manu chao]

Not at all, only in your warped perception would you assume you caused me harm rather than acknowledge your rudeness. You simply announced yourself to be a %^@*$R( unworthy of my time. Only a %^@*$R( would label any technical question stupid. Thanks for confirming it and validating my assessment of your personality defect so I know to add you to my ignore list.

Only a %^@*$R would refuse to read a detailed answer to his (or her) direct question because he (or she) was offended by a flippant first sentence.

 

[manu chao]

I severely disagree.

Memory matters. My experience is that the more apps I open and use, the worse the performance, as the OS has to keep killing apps. This is transparent to see in Safari, because tabs have to reload. I use several apps that track location services and also use GPS and work in the background simultaneously. My iPhone and iPad soft reboot once a day due to memory issues, something they never did in iOS 7 or earlier. My crash logs are full of low memory issues.

In trying to be too clever, iOS actually makes things worse. Apps often abuse backgrounding and location services. The Wimbledon app, for example, keeps location services on when not using the app, even if its location services are set to only come on when using the app.

Of course memory matters, but killing apps only helps if you want keep (as much as possible of) the memory from app A alive after having used app B by removing the app B from the memory stack via killing it before using app C (ie, only if app A is more important than app B).

Killing an app (as in the-OS-killing-an-app) takes essentially zero resources because the OS 'killing an app' just means to relabel the memory used by that app as free. Whether the OS kills an app automatically or you kill it manually doesn't make a difference to performance, the problem is if there is only so much RAM to go around, apps have to be killed frequently (leading to the Safari tab reloading and equivalents in other apps).

What I don't understand why you appear to consider iOS 6 to be superior to iOS 7 when you can recreate the iOS 6 behaviour by cutting off all background activity in iOS 7. Sure, iOS 7 (and iOS 8) might be buggier overall and the memory footprint of the OS might be larger (but then the iPhone 5, 5s, and 6, the latter two were released with or after iOS 7, already have twice the memory than the two previous generations, 4 and 4s) but that issue exists regardless of whether you enable background activity or not.

It seems that you want to have your cake and eat it, ie, have app background activity but without them using any resources. If you wanted to have the ability to easily kill all background apps, why is switching off background app refresh not a solution for you? The moment you switch it off, all background activity stops (except essentially for location services which are another setting).

 

[nepalisherpa]

Not sure if this has already been posted or discovered by others, but, I'm currently using Public Beta 1 (on a 4S) and it now shows battery level of the connected blue-tooth device next to the blue-tooth icon in the status bar.

 

[2crazy]

Come on, take your partisan hackery elsewhere!

Fox News is actually a REAL news channel?!!!

Here in Europe we all assumed it was a spoof, just pretending to be full of ignorant gun-loving religious nuts.. making up any old stories and spreading bile and hatred.

But it's not a spoof? It's genuine..?! Holy smokes....

You were probably thinking of Onion News. These two get easily confused.

 

[yay4Jesus]

Apple today released the third beta of iOS 9, which has turned out to be the biggest update to the operating system so far. It adds a revamped Music app with access to Apple Music, the News app that was first unveiled at WWDC, a new two-factor authentication system, and several other smaller tweaks, along with the traditional performance improvements and bug fixes.

With today's changes, the beta is feeling faster, more polished, and more full featured. For beta testers and those eager to know what's coming in the OS ahead of its official release, we've rounded up a complete list of all of the new changes introduced in iOS 9 beta 3 below.

News app - Today's beta is the first iOS 9 beta to include Apple's new News app, first announced at WWDC. The news app offers up a curated list of news stories based on each user's preferences and interests. The News app displays specific channels and topics and also supports the addition of RSS feeds from Safari. The News app appears to be available only to U.S. users for the time being.

Two-Factor Authentication - iOS 9 and OS X 10.11 El Capitan include an entirely revamped two-factor authentication system that Apple says is more streamlined.

App folders on iPad - App folders on the iPad now display apps in a 4x4 arrangement instead of a 3x3 arrangement, allowing users to see more apps in a folder at a glance.

Photo app folders - There are new folders for selfies and screenshots in the Photos app. The "Selfies" folder aggregates all photos captured with the front-facing camera, while the "Screenshots" folder houses all screenshots captured by holding down the power button and home button.

Music app - The Music app in iOS 9 has been updated, giving beta testers access to Apple Music, Beats 1 radio, and Apple Music Connect.

Music settings - There's a new option in the Settings app under "Music" to stream music at the highest quality while using a cellular connection.

Search improvements - When swiping downwards to bring up search, Siri App Suggestions are now displayed.

Camera - As mentioned in the release notes, in iOS 9 beta 3 the volume buttons cannot be used to snap a picture. Given that it's mentioned in the release notes under the "Known Issues" section, it's likely that the feature's removal is a bug that will be fixed in a future beta.

Restrictions - In General --> Settings --> Restrictions there's a new logo for Siri & Dictation. There's also a new setting to toggle on/off access to the News app, and the option to turn off Apple Music Connect is gone. People had been using this option to replace Connect with a Playlists tab, but doing so is no longer possible.

Battery Settings - The Battery section of the Settings app has an icon without rounded edges, which may be a mistake. In the app usage portion of the Battery section, there's a new clock icon to represent the list of apps that use the most battery instead of a hamburger icon.

Additional feature updates in iOS 9 beta 3 will be added here as they are discovered. Apple should continue to release regular updates to iOS 9 at two to three week intervals throughout the beta testing period to bring minor performance boosts and changes ahead of the operating system's official launch. iOS 9 is expected to be released to the public in the fall, but a public beta test will come first and is expected in the near future.

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I just updated my ipad, that formerly worked great, to iOS 8.4 yesterday. After updating I can no longer connect to wifi, it won't accept my wifi password as correct. If I download iOS 9 beta, will it possibly correct my wifi problem?

 

[JoshuaPlays]

My "Hey Siri" works on the iPhone without needing to be plugged in if Siri is on the screen now. iPhone 6 here

 

[Glassed Silver]

There should be a private photo album option. One that requires a password, so when you hand someone your phone to check out some photos... they won't accidentally scar themselves for life!

We're talking about the Disney of tech here, some sorts of things just don't exist.

What are you talking about they do? *lalalalalala* I can't hear you!

Glassed Silver:mac

 

[sss4r]

"If you turn off Background App Refresh, some background activity might still occur."

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202070

I knew that turkey who I now have on ignore was talking out of his ass. You could tell he was trying to sell an idea without full knowledge of the implementation. The app switcher is more than a "recently used app list" and that's all there is to it.

 

[C DM]

Not sure if this has already been posted or discovered by others, but, I'm currently using Public Beta 1 (on a 4S) and it now shows battery level of the connected blue-tooth device next to the blue-tooth icon in the status bar.

I recall seeing this even before iOS 8.

 

[nepalisherpa]

I recall seeing this even before iOS 8.

I never saw it before until iOS 9 Beta 1.

 

[burgman]

Good. At least I can avoid getting spoon fed all of the CNN liberal garbage.

Fox news for and against posts just prove each end of the political sideshow enjoy their own echo chambers. For those outside the USA we have entered major clown car time. Though I do like having Fox control and choose the republican presidential candidate.

 

[C DM]

I never saw it before until iOS 9 Beta 1.

Yeah, it's been around since even before iOS 7 it seems (if not much earlier, although the specific design might have changed to what it's currently like in iOS 7): https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/bluetooth-battery-icon.1170833/

 

[nepalisherpa]

Yeah, it's been around since even before iOS 7 it seems (if not much earlier, although the specific design might have changed to what it's currently like in iOS 7): https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/bluetooth-battery-icon.1170833/

That is funny. I guess the bluetooth device has to support this as well 'cause I honestly had never seen it before, and I've been using iPhones since iPhone 3G.

 

[QuarterSwede]

That is funny. I guess the bluetooth device has to support this as well 'cause I honestly had never seen it before, and I've been using iPhones since iPhone 3G.

The device does need to support it. There are a lot more that do nowadays. Almost all of mine do and some are super cheap Chinese made.

 

[IrrationalFanboy]

There should be a private photo album option. One that requires a password, so when you hand someone your phone to check out some photos... they won't accidentally scar themselves for life!

Android has tons of apps that do that