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iOS 9 to Feature Force Touch With Haptic Feedback, New Keyboard and Group Read Receipts
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Yup. Registering skin coverage you can emulate force touch pretty accurately. Mr Goff seems unable to comprehend this fact.
Hmmmm...
I thought iOS currently took advantage of 2gb of ram in iPad Air 2.
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The article misrepresented an impossibility: a hardware feature implemented through software (force feedback in an iOS 9 update)...
COMPLETELY missing the point, another user added a wish for yet another impossible hardware feature delivered through a software update (2gb of ram in an iOS 9 update).
Both are equally ludicrous & show SUCH a base lack of understanding of anything tech related, & thus... on a tech-centric blog, may be deserving of perhaps the tiniest of guffaws...
Please..... "I hope I get more ram next time I download an update on my phone! Derp!!!" Hahahaha... Did this guy get TouchID on his iPhone 5 when iOS 7 came out??! =P
Well but that "vibrate motor" is not gonna help you much, because there is no pressure sensitivity in any iPhone ever.
Which makes Force Touch impossible without new hardware.
It may be possible but there are 2 problems.
1. more powerful gpu are required to handle the processing which in turn negatively affects battery life.
2. It will be more error prone.
There's an Apple Watch for that.
Siri has replaced my wife for me. I want to hear Siri's voice all the time.
Apple's autocorrect is supposed to add accents, but it sucks for neglected Eastern European languages on the iPhone (I have the issues you described as well, with words missing accents too often). One trick is to hit the backspace key after entering a word missing accents, and usually, the accented version appears in a black bubble.
However, my recommendation: download SwiftKey. Third party keyboards have quite a few issues because Apple is mishandling them since the start (all 3rd-party keyboards regularly disappear from apps such as Message or Mail, leaving only Apple's keyboards in the list). Still, when it works, SwiftKey is incredibly good at predicting text with all the correct accents and it includes optional swiping gestures as a bonus. It memorizes every text and new word you enter, and you can edit any word to add or remove it from the dictionary (add by tapping on the unknown word predicted above the keyboard or remove by long-press of the predicted word, respectively - much better than the hit or miss memorization of non-standard words from Apple). It has Hungarian too, and can handle two languages simultaneously without switching. Another option for you is Swype, very similar to SwiftKey, with better privacy policy but less user friendly in my experience.
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Google can set reminders if you are logged in, it would be just through Google now rather than Siri.
It already has.
There is an additional option level after you selected "Deutsch (Deutschland)" as keybord:
If you select there "Deutsch" as well you get a keyboard like the one in the picture with ÄÖÜ.
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Apple doesn't need to fix the shift arrow, they just need to bring back having the keyboard display lowercase letters when shift is off.
Like pressing the Home button 3 times already does?
That just gets the backlighting to a much lower level, but that's different than a dark mode that can be introduced by Apple.
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They had a stock keyboard like that?
This, and Samsung's one handed operation just worked. I know Apple didn't want to copy Samsung and Android (yet again) by shrinking the UI to the bottom left or right, but there are just some things that work.
Not to mention that the UI in some apps are just spread why out in the middle of nowhere. The delete key in the dialer is TINY and too far up and to the right when it and ALL of the buttons on the dialer should really just be BIG FAT buttons.
What else are we going to do in the dialer but DIAL numbers?
Not talking about apps you purchase since u can delete those... i'm referring to default Apple apps that you cannot hide any of these. This would be good addition in iOS 9, like like how i you can hide default channels on Apple TV... not the top row, but u can still hide most.
The same should apply on iOS too..... Why leave that in the dark ? It may not matter much now, but it will do since Apple keeping adding more and more apps. by default u now have the Apple watch app too, without any of my own apps alone, on iPhone 6, it takes up almost 1 and a half screens..
I'm not sure how many screens u can have for apps, but this would free up space rather than making a folder and now seeing a folder there..
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Not the way it is implemented in the watch.
Yes, force touch hardware will enable far richer interactions (like the QT speed pedal) combining pressure sensitivity and taptic feedback, but for the sole feature of using a force press to bring up a secondary UI layer an emulated force press works just fine.
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They never did.
Yeah, but will Apple do that sort if thing? I don't think we see them just make pressure sensitive long press for the iPhone and iPad. It's going to be something they call a huge is 9 feature that is just for new devices.
They may have to if they are hiding away functionality on a separate UI layer. Or at least some alternative way of activating it for old devices.
My point is that I could not care less about one more folder on my last page containing Apple apps I don't use. And yes, I get the basic idea of the bloatware argument. But there is a fine line between useless software (as in useless for basically everybody) and software not useful to part of the audience. If you only included apps that 100% of users will use, you'd end up including almost nothing. Some people might not be into music and thus might never use the iTunes Store app, should the app therefore not be included?
How many people delete all applications bundled with OS X from their applications folders? Almost nobody I would say. Almost 100% of the time people delete apps, it is to make a political statement, to express their dissatisfaction with a decision by Apple, not because having an extra icon in a folder bothers them.
Be honest, have you ever used:
- Audio MIDI Setup
- Bluetooth File Exchange
- Boot Camp Assistant
- Chess
- ColorSync Utility
- Digital Color Meter
- Grab
- Grapher
- Photo Booth
- Script Editor
- Stickies
- VoiceOver Utility
[Edit: I mistyped, it is 2xx not 3xx as originally stated]
You can have up to 15 screens, with 16 apps per screen that is 260 + 4 in the dock, ie, a grand total of 264. Meaning to fit my 500 apps, I anyway have to use folders. And opening a folder on screen three or four is still much faster than swiping to page 12 or 15. Thus while I use all my 15 screens, all apps I use at least occasionally are on the first five screens or so.
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Thanks, one learns something new every day. But I think that is a pretty recent addition to iOS (iOS 7 or 8) as I absolutely cannot remember having seen multiple options after having selected a language.
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