Is swipe down from any home screen page for Spotlight available or is back to the left of the first home screen like pre-iOS7?
It's currently available from all home screens, as well as swiping left of the first home screen.
Where do attachments come from? iCloud Drive only?
Nope, also from all your third-party cloud stuff. Dropbox, OneDrive, Box, even my local NAS thanks to DS File (Synology DiskStation)!
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.
Amazing! After 9 releases. This is the one feature that switched me to Android. Unfortunately, it only works with iCloud and I'm a Dropbox user. I will definitely play with it on my iPad and see how well it works.
It is nice. It has a "Locations" button to select a file from a different app (I'm assuming it's ones that support the extension feature or whatever was introduced in iOS 8).
New option I've never seen before, was OS X Server. Tapping that takes me to the settings app to add a new OS X Server account (same section as adding a new mail/calendar account).
Also, whichever you pick then becomes your default. Inserting an attachment again after selecting Dropbox earlier, gave me dropbox again rather than back to iCloud Drive.
Looks a lot better to me. I mean, it's cosmetic, but still.
Annoying thing about the app switcher is the home screen usually popping up off screen - so if I load it up, close the current app, then have to swipe to get to home screen (or press the home button)
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??
Turn off "Background App Refresh" in settings. Just because it shows all those apps in the switcher does not mean they are running.
Just want to add - I'm selective with background app refresh. I only have it enabled for the apps that I really do want to background refresh. The rest can sod off.
But, Low Poer Mode does indeed switch off Background App Refresh completely, so I think that will also help.
Ah, quite tricky. This only comes up when you change a passcode, not when you set a new one or disable and then add again.
Yeah, they are definitely pushing the 6-digit, that's for sure.
When installing it, and going through the "Welcome" setup, it does actually give the "Passcode options" between the keyboard and passcode text field.. maybe people missed it? I tapped it, changed to 4-digit right there, and proceeded to enter my passcode that I like.
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
It's not a new thing; they've always been available. I don't think it wasn't installed by default for me, but was installed as part of my restore (I think..). It was also still included in the "Apps by apple" pop-up when opening the app store for the first time.
So they took away request desktop site from Safari?? I see you can also disable the lowercase keyboard.
Request desktop site hasn't gone away, neither has the "Find in page" option. It's just moved to the share sheet.
Tap that sharing arrow, and scroll across the bottom row. You'll find both there.
Can anybody running the beta confirm that it’s possible to search calendar entries in excess of a year in the past please?
This one probably the main reason I was considering a switch to Android.
This didn't work for me. I have a few dentist entries in Jan-Mar last year - they didn't show up in results.
Can somebody who has the beta tell me two things about ios9:
1) Can I manage my contact groups (i.e.: assign a contact to a group or remove a contact from one or more groups)?
2) Can I address an email to an entire group of contacts by typing that contact group name in the "To" (or "BCC") line?
Currently, these are two things that make me put down my iPad and turn to my iMac. Both seem like low hanging fruit that Apple has left on the tree for quite some time.
1) No. I haven't found a way.
2) I typed a group name that was already set up from a past-life, and "Group" appears as a suggestion, and tapping "i" displays info for that group. Tapping the group does nothing for me, but that may be because the group is empty.
The default for the shift key should be the same as a real keyboard: lower case when shift is off – and there's no need to make the letters themselves lowercase. So the shift key should have a white background for lower case, and grey for upper case. This may sound counter-intuitive (because it doesn't match the appearance of the keys) but it is why the shift key will continue be confusing. Changing the appearance of individual letters could cause visual distraction. Better to have a white key with no (or very faint) icon for lower case, grey with up arrow for upper case, and up arrow with line for shift lock.
I've never quite understood the shift key hate tbh..
I do like that the new upper/lower case switching is optional.
In accessibility, there's an option to disable the lower-case switch. Reverts back to how it was before (which people don't like..).
Also, the lower-case switching is actually nice. I think it works well - I'm not finding it distracting.
What was weird, was the little "pop-up" as you hit a key was disabled by default. That can be enabled again in Accessibility settings.
