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More "hidden" features not mentioned here:
  • You can do math and conversions in spotlight, look at sports scores, stock quotes, and more
  • You can add attachments to emails from iCloud Drive, Dropbox, etc
  • You can use share sheets in different apps to create a note
  • Proactive features, like reacting when you plug in headphones, making calendar events automatically based on emails, and more
  • Turn flash on and off during a video recording
The video had an inaccuracy: Low power mode adds up to an additional three hours of battery life. By default, iOS 9 adds up to an addition one hour of battery life—even outside of low power mode.
Pretty much every thing on that list is awesome for me!
 
Notes are cool now! Drawing features rocks. iCloud Drive app seems to be cool too.
Agreed. I have been looking forward to the icloud folder for a while, albeit that some have complained about it being too simple, I am happy to have it nonetheless...
 
With low power mode you should have the option for it to kick in at a predefined level that you set , i.e. at 15% remaining it automatically turns on rather than having to go into the settings and manually turn it on.

Totally agreed!
 
New feature: If you are on a call and not using the speakers or headphones, pressing the sleep/wake button ends the call.

I'm pretty sure that this has been a feature for a while (having to catch myself doing this all the time)
 
Why bother swiping them off? They aren't actually "running". It's a "Recent Apps" list, where their frozen states are saved to be able to launch faster next time.
Does that mean that the apps are no longer using GPS data?
 
Why bother swiping them off? They aren't actually "running". It's a "Recent Apps" list, where their frozen states are saved to be able to launch faster next time.
If app itself is already terminated, booting from this screen and booting from home screen would take no difference. App still need to reload from ground up.
 
With low power mode you should have the option for it to kick in at a predefined level that you set , i.e. at 15% remaining it automatically turns on rather than having to go into the settings and manually turn it on.

Totally agreed!

You don't have to turn it on manually. It kicks in automatically at some specific level right now. Not sure what level it is exactly but my husband's phone alerted him yesterday at below 20% that it was now in low power mode. He does not have it turned on. From what I understand, you turn it on if you want it on outside of when the battery is getting low, otherwise, it turns on automatically for you.

Correct that you can't define that level, but at least there is no need to turn it on manually in low battery situations.
 
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Does anyone know if iOS 9 includes cloud sync for text messages and notifications? Having to work those 3 times on an iphone, ipad and a watch is cumbersome and annoying like hell....
I find mine sync when receiving, but if I delete from one, it stays on another.
 
The News app is incredibly ugly. It look like it came off a bad 3rd party app.
And it's is another Apple App that can't go away. Wonderful.
Does anybody else instinctively look at the join date when they read coments like this? Doesn't always mean anything- there are people who have been trashing everything Apple for years.
 
You don't have to turn it on manually. It kicks in automatically at some specific level right now. Not sure what level it is exactly but my husband's phone alerted him yesterday at below 20% that it was now in low power mode. He does not have it turned on. From what I understand, you turn it on if you want it on outside of when the battery is getting low, otherwise, it turns on automatically for you.

Correct that you can't define that level, but at least there is no need to turn it on manually in low battery situations.
There is an option to turn it on when the low battery alert comes up for 20% or 10% but it still has to be selected by the user, it doesn't get enabled on its own.
 
There is an option to turn it on when the low battery alert comes up for 20% or 10% but it still has to be selected by the user, it doesn't get enabled on its own.

Not on my or my husband's phone. We don't have to enable anything. It just prompts around 20%. The battery options in settings don't have anything about 20% or 10%. Ours works like this http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-use-low-power-mode-on-ios-9/ and we did NOT enable it. Ours is both turned off, yet a message pops up around 20 to turn it on.
 
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Not on my or my husband's phone. We don't have to enable anything. It just happens around 20%. The battery options in settings don't have anything about 20% or 10%. Ours works like this http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-use-low-power-mode-on-ios-9/ and we did NOT enable it. Ours is both turned off, yet a message pops up around 20 saying it's now on.
The low battery alerts are built into iOS, there is no option to disable/enable them. So when you get the alert what exactly does it say? It should look like this (where there is an option to enable it):
iOS_9_tips_12_battery_life_1200.jpg
 
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The low battery alerts are built into iOS, there is no option to disable/enable them. So when you get the alert what exactly does it say? It should look like this (where there is an option to enable it):
iOS_9_tips_12_battery_life_1200.jpg

Yes it's either like that or the screenshot in the link I posted. Has only happened to me once so I can't recall which it was. But that was my entire point, I don't have it enabled (which you CAN enable it to stay on, but having the option turned off just has the OS handle it on it's own around 20%; enabling means it's in action even if your battery is at 100%). You are the one who said that it can be changed to 10 or 20% and that it has to be enabled? So I must be misunderstanding what you're trying to get at in your posts.

There is an option to turn it on when the low battery alert comes up for 20% or 10% but it still has to be selected by the user, it doesn't get enabled on its own.
 
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Other things I found (to name a few):

  • Uploading files not from Photos only
  • Connecting Jack awakes locked screen
  • Return button in apps with direct in-Safari preview
 
Yes it's either like that or the screenshot in the link I posted. Has only happened to me once so I can't recall which it was. But that was my entire point, I don't have it enabled (which you CAN enable it to stay on, but having the option turned off just has the OS handle it on it's own around 20%; enabling means it's in action even if your battery is at 100%). You are the one who said that it can be changed to 10 or 20% and that it has to be enabled? So I must be misunderstanding what you're trying to get at in your posts.
There is a built in low battery alert that comes up at 20% and 10% of battery power left. If low battery mode isn't already enabled that alert will have the option to enable it (but won't do it on its own). You certainly have the option of enabling low battery mode at any point manually and it will stay on (however once you charge the phone the low battery mode will be disabled on its own once the phone charges past 80% or 7O%). There is no option for low battery mode to be enabled on its own at certain percentage, or time, or anything like that.
 
There is a built in low battery alert that comes up at 20% and 10% of battery power left. If low battery mode isn't already enabled that alert will have the option to enable it (but won't do it on its own). You certainly have the option of enabling low battery mode at any point manually and it will stay on (however once you charge the phone the low battery mode will be disabled on its own once the phone charges past 80% or 7O%). There is no option for low battery mode to be enabled on its own at certain percentage, or time, or anything like that.

Okay, yes I know that's how it works (other than the 10% thing because I said okay to turn mine on at 20). The person I originally quoted said you had to go into settings and manually turn it on, and it sounded like they thought it never automatically did it (yes I know you have to agree to turn it on, but my point was it wasn't only a manual operation). I could have misunderstood what they were getting at as the wording was ambiguous now that I reread their post.
 
Okay, yes I know that's how it works (other than the 10% thing because I said okay to turn mine on at 20). The person I originally quoted said you had to go into settings and manually turn it on, and it sounded like they thought it never automatically did it (yes I know you have to agree to turn it on, but my point was it wasn't only a manual operation). I could have misunderstood what they were getting at as the wording was ambiguous now that I reread their post.
You still have to manually decide to turn it in from the low battery prompt, you just don't have to dig into the settings to do it. It won't turn on by itself without you selecting it to do so. That's basically the part I was addesssing (in relation to whether or not it turns on automatically without any user interaction).
 
You don't have to turn it on manually. It kicks in automatically at some specific level right now. Not sure what level it is exactly but my husband's phone alerted him yesterday at below 20% that it was now in low power mode. He does not have it turned on. From what I understand, you turn it on if you want it on outside of when the battery is getting low, otherwise, it turns on automatically for you.

Correct that you can't define that level, but at least there is no need to turn it on manually in low battery situations.
Fantastic! Thank you for that feedback.
 
I have plenty of music on my device (not Apple Music files but my own from my iTunes) and it doesn't show up.

I also cannot see any of my music under Home Sharing. Has anyone figured out this issue? Do you have a screen shot of successful home sharing?
 
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