Spot-on assessment. It's been that way for 20 years. For many, it seems, complaining is empowering and feels good.
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New iOS 27 Rumors Include Revamped AirPods Settings Menu and More
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Spot-on assessment. It's been that way for 20 years. For many, it seems, complaining is empowering and feels good.
QuarterSwede
macrumors G4
Most of the AirPods settings you want day to day are in control center. I never go into Settings to change any AirPods settings.
GucciBeltReceipt
macrumors member
The only feature I am really crying out for is the ability to reduce the amount of times I have to shake my head while wearing AirPods to decline an incoming call. It drives me nuts that even a few shakes doesn't fully register so I have to actively shake my head 5 or 6 times before the AirPods detect it as a full decline. It has happened several times to me during workouts where I am mid leg press going for a PR and right at the moment I need my music I will receive an email read out in my ears! Drives me crazy!
Devnul0
macrumors 6502
If they're connected, don't you get a special entry at the top of the very first level of the Settings app?
That's still inconsistent UI in and of itself, but at least is more convenient than going down into the BT settings.
I7guy
macrumors Westmere
That would be a world away from the last record breaking quarter.
The list was completely an embarrassment. Software has fallen out of the trunk at Apple. It's a hardware company mainly at this point.
This is not a complete list.
Maybe wait until the actual keynote to begin the predictable criticisms.
Genmoji is available in over 20 countries and regions supporting Apple Intelligence, including the US, UK, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, and Singapore. It is notably unavailable in China and the European Union (EU) due to local regulatory restrictions.
Steve Adams
macrumors 68020
Genmoji are available in the EU. Unfortunately Apple only supports major languages so far. Here is a list from Apple's documentation:
English
Danish
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Norwegian
Portuguese
Spanish
Swedish
You also need a supported device (15 Pro +) of course.
Was it recently added there? Maybe that's why the info I checked didn't show it. Or it was just a bad source.
Either way, more proof the person I replied to was wrong about being US-only.
Apple Intelligence was added with the release of iOS 18.4. But as I mentioned the language support is lacking, so it's really no wonder that adoption has been really slow.
As far as I know the only major feature Apple still hasn't rolled out in the EU is iPhone Mirroring.
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Populus
macrumors 604
Each time I hear “improve the keyboard autocorrect” I fear they make the keyboard worse.
Genmoji is one of the most worthless features around! It's right up there with stickers.
I’m very curious about this year’s WWDC.
The interesting thing to me is that this has been described as a Snow Leopard-like optimisation update… but when you look at the rumoured features, like revamped Siri and a new Siri app, revamped system search, new Siri camera mode, new layouts and optimisation for folding iPhone, Shortcuts natural language, Liquid Glass updates… these are not small updates. Some of these are huge and very new for Apple.
The Siri thing alone is huge and touches the whole system. Apple does not have a good track record of introducing major new features in a good state. iOS 13 attempted to do both (performance and big updates like dark mode) but 13.0 was very buggy and it’s remembered as a buggy year.
The only thing is that the Siri updates have famously been cooking for much longer than a normal release, so hopefully they’ve really taken the time to get it working well. I’m skeptical though, as anyone should be about Siri after all this time. I would guess most of the Siri stuff will not be arriving with 27.0. I don’t really see a way for them to introduce all this at the same time. I could be pleasantly surprised though.
The interesting thing to me is that this has been described as a Snow Leopard-like optimisation update… but when you look at the rumoured features, like revamped Siri and a new Siri app, revamped system search, new Siri camera mode, new layouts and optimisation for folding iPhone, Shortcuts natural language, Liquid Glass updates… these are not small updates. Some of these are huge and very new for Apple.
The Siri thing alone is huge and touches the whole system. Apple does not have a good track record of introducing major new features in a good state. iOS 13 attempted to do both (performance and big updates like dark mode) but 13.0 was very buggy and it’s remembered as a buggy year.
The only thing is that the Siri updates have famously been cooking for much longer than a normal release, so hopefully they’ve really taken the time to get it working well. I’m skeptical though, as anyone should be about Siri after all this time. I would guess most of the Siri stuff will not be arriving with 27.0. I don’t really see a way for them to introduce all this at the same time. I could be pleasantly surprised though.
Samplasion
macrumors 6502a
is this satire? I don't see the appeal of a dedicated app - there is an over-saturation of apps as it is. Apple itself has multiple apps that could be combined.
Airpods being integrated into settings makes sense to me.
ProbablyDylan
macrumors 68040
I really hate the "breaking out" of apps, it's especially egregious on Apple Watch. Three separate apps for finding people/things? Separate Activity and Workouts? Clock, stopwatch and timer all separate and on opposite ends of the app list?
I can't wait for them to break Weather into "Conditions" and "Temperature" apps!
One setting I find myself going into over and over is the control for Adaptive Audio. It’s got three separate settings which would be nice to be able to toggle on the fly more easily. And the AirPods gain new features with each iteration as well, some of which I would imagine a user might want quick access to.
