I just tried deleting the maps app and tried opening maps://somewhere in safari. An alert popped up asking if I wanted to open the link in maps, I clicked open and nothing happened. So this needs some work.
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Many Preinstalled iOS Apps Such as 'Stocks' Now Deletable in iOS 10
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I'm happy that iOS is catching up to android again in this feature.
It's good to be able to reset default apps.
It's good to be able to reset default apps.
But what's the point point if when you want to use maps or mail and apple forces you to re-install their apps again.
What are you really gaining?
Probably not the best example as Mail is useless without an Internet connection anyway
You're massively over dramatising the entire situation and making it overly complicated, when it's not. It's mirroring the experience with ALL other apps on the device. If someone deletes an app, they know they have lost that data, whether it be 3rd party or not. Pretty much all have cloud based data, like notes, mail, etc.
They're not forcing you to reinstall, you can use others, it's just that, right now, there's no contingency for the third party automation (for now it's a manual thing), but that's not to say that there's nothing in the sessions at WWDC to account for this, which is probably why it wasn't in the keynote.
Although if you have a Samsung Galaxy, there's apps from Samsung installed you can't remove easily.
Never do Samsung, just cheap and nasty clones of iPhone.
My preference has been Motorola for a long time, but now I want the HTC 10, rather than not be able to get this year's model this year.
Nope. Some stock apps still can't and won't be ever removed. Inconsistent behaviour. Hiding would solve all of the issues.
You can change the default apps, and not have to use the original apps bundled with it.
You can use Google Maps for example, rather than Apple Maps.
Off hand, I thought almost all were on the list. Apart from Phone and Messages. What ones an k missing?
Hiding is inconsistent. Do you hide or remove third party apps? That there is the answer to consistency.
its so funny to see so many people wanting to delete the mail app. The mail app downloads the message as it arrives and I am able to see content and old mails offline without an internet connection. The Gmail app doesnt seem to have that functionality unless someone can correct me
And they wouldn't be allowed to be hidden similarly. So what all issues would be solved?
You have missed the point I was trying to make.
I was asking IF mail was removed could you use something else by default.
As the answer seems to be no it's kind of pointless being able to delete the stock apps.
We're in a beta of a new iOS, it could be that there's something to change that behaviour, but it's not been explained yet. WWDC is not just the Keynote yesterday, there's sessions all this week, so maybe there's some way for third party apps to fill the void, in the same way you can choose to open links in chrome instead of Safari.
Or it might get pulled before public beta and released with 10.1
the article was updated to include "Tips". i posted it when they didn't have "tips" in the article.
If I understand you correctly, in iOS 10, you can "delete" Apple Maps (only in quotes because we now know it doesn't actually remove the app from the device -- only the user data and the hooks to the app are removed); and if you have Google Maps installed, you can then set it to be the default app when you ask Siri for directions? Please tell me that's the case.
If I remove Apple Maps and have Google Maps installed, I would prefer if I could then simply ask Siri for directions to a location like I do today and it would launch Google Maps automatically and input the address or the POI search into Google Maps automatically.
What I'm afraid is going to happen instead if I remove Apple Maps and have Google Maps installed is that I'm going to have to be careful to make sure I mention "Google Maps" in the Siri request or else it's going to prompt me to reinstall Apple Maps to get directions. I'll eventually train myself to mention "Google Maps" in every request for directions but it's going to take a little bit of conditioning.
From what I've read the system will prompt you to re-install maps, mail etc so the fact that you can remove them becomes entirely pointless.
Another good Apple idea that is implemented poorly.
Another good Apple idea that is implemented poorly.