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iOS 9 Tidbits: Battery Saving Features, Search for Settings, Keyboard Changes, Email Attachments, and More

Double tap home button to access Apple Pay, same as on Watch!!!
Sorry if someone else already posted... just noticed on accident & posted immediately. Lol.
 
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LordBeelzebub said:
The best option Apple could have come up with to save battery power is giving us the option when we close out of an app it also closes it from running in the background as well. Closes it completely. Sick of apps always running in the background and sick of always having to go through the hassle of having to manually close them all. We should have the ability to choose which apps we want to keep running in the background and which we always want to completely shut down. That so hard??
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You do have that option. It's called background app refresh.
 
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LordBeelzebub said:
The best option Apple could have come up with to save battery power is giving us the option when we close out of an app it also closes it from running in the background as well. Closes it completely. Sick of apps always running in the background and sick of always having to go through the hassle of having to manually close them all. We should have the ability to choose which apps we want to keep running in the background and which we always want to completely shut down. That so hard??
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As others already said, just switch off background app refresh, either for all apps or leave it on just for a few apps you want to be able to do stuff in the background (Settings > General > Background App Refresh). And apps normally don't run in the background:
  1. They can apply with the OS to let them continue some tasks for a few minutes (5 min I think at the moment), like finishing a down or upload.
  2. They can keep playing audio, run GPS, give directions, listen for incoming calls (eg, Skype)
  3. They can apply with the OS to run certain tasks in the background. The OS then monitors the app in how frequently it actually does something and gives the app small time slots, spaced and timed to map the actual common usage, during which it can actually run in the background.
Of course, apps can abuse the third category and apps can hang and killing them might become necessary. But most apps don't hang routinely and you can cut apps off from using the third category via the background app refresh settings.

What you see in the app switcher are just the list of recently used apps (and their current suspended state visible as a screenshot). If you want to relaunch an app or kill an app, you also do this from this list of recently used apps but the list of apps does in no way tell you anything about whether an app is using one of the three categories listed above to do something while in the background. Just look at the app switcher after restarting the phone, it is filled with the same apps that were in there before the phone was rebooted but it is definitely not running all those apps 'on its own' after the phone restart.

You can also check which apps use most battery power in Settings > General > Usage > Battery Usage. Compare that list with the ones that appear in the app switcher and that you think are all running in the background. To give you an example, I currently have 93 apps in my app switcher and after being awake for 12 hours, I am at 61% of remaining battery charge.
 
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AppleFan91 said:
MacRumors needs to update the post. The 6 digit passcode is NOT required. It's the default but it can easily be changed back to 4.
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Where's the option to set it back to four? Not seeing it.
 
jclo said:
Where's the option to set it back to four? Not seeing it.
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I went to Settings -> Touch ID & Passcode -> Change Passcode -> Passcode Options

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Freyqq said:
"You can now add email attachments to messages in the Mail app, which sources documents from iCloud Drive. "

About damn time
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Would be nice if you can also pull documents from other storage sites like Box, Dropbox etc.
It should work using a share sheet extension.
 
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teknikal90 said:
ive been getting terrible battery life on my iphone. hoping a fresh install of iOS 9 will help

in other news the new font sucks
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My mother updated her iPhone 4S to iOS 8 three weeks ago and now she loses 50% of a charge overnight if it isn't plugged in. Less than 6 hour battery life during the day. Full restores haven't helped. Here's hoping iOS 9 fixes whatever voodoo happened to her phone.
 
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does it have clear all notifications? Oh God I dont know why Apple cant implement this simple thing !!!!!!!!!!!!
 
AppleFan91 said:
Yeah, they are definitely pushing the 6-digit, that's for sure.
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There is no guarantee that the option to choose 6- or 4-digit pass codes will remain in that location when iOS 9 gets released to the public. This is a developer preview. Some of the functionality may change. I'm not saying it will change. Wait. Yes I am. I'm saying some of the functionality will change between now and the final product.
 
anybody else here thinks FIND MY FRIENDS/iPhone app/feature will be stalkerish boyfriends looking for there girlfriends who might be cheating and vice versa
only good things might be finding a stolen phone or device and missing kids if the have an iphone
 
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