My Samsung galaxy note 3 has this feature. Prettty sure my samsung galaxy note 2 could too. You can have it always listening for the phrase "hi galaxy" to use s-voice or OK google commands. The battery life used by this is very little.
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New iOS 8.3 Features: Speaker Calls With Siri, No Password Required to Download Free Apps
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My Samsung galaxy note 3 has this feature. Prettty sure my samsung galaxy note 2 could too. You can have it always listening for the phrase "hi galaxy" to use s-voice or OK google commands. The battery life used by this is very little.
I just hope this makes it into the Mac App Store too, and soon. I just installed 6 updates to free apps, and got asked for my password six times; I can understand asking for my password as a precaution, but if I'm confident of my user-account's security then I really shouldn't have to be asked at all, even for paid apps, if I don't want to be.
Take me to..... 7.... 4.... 2.... Evergreen... terrace... springville....
works perfect for me.
Under normal circumstances, it shouldn't even ask you once for your password when updating apps (free or not). Seems like something else might be in play there.
I'm confused. Granted my ipad doesn't have touchid, but from what I understand how it works all you do is press the home button for a microsecond longer than you normally would.
What exactly makes you tired when you press the home button anyway?
When you have restrictions set, it asks for the password to update apps. My 9 year old uses my iPad Mini, and when apps need to be updated, the app store requests the password for every single app.
Well, in that case that's an explicit setting that you enable that had that effect.
No, it's not. I've been through every setting for restrictions and the app store and there's nothing there related to updating apps. The only restriction settings remotely related to this are for installing apps, deleting apps and in-app purchases. I have restrictions for deleting apps disabled, but installing apps and in-app purchases enabled. Disabling the option to install apps prevents you from installing any apps at all (and removes the app store icon from the device). So, apparently, requiring a password on updating apps is something that Apple has implicitly implemented.
Verbal Passcode
One thing I'd like to see is Siri being able to accept a verbal password.
When I'm in my car and the phone happens to be locked (after 5 mins per my settings), I cannot get Siri to read my incoming texts to me. It asks me to unlock my phone and I cannot accomplish that while staying hands-free. I wish it could detect that I am moving in my car (easily accomplished) and ask for a verbal passcode instead.
One thing I'd like to see is Siri being able to accept a verbal password.
When I'm in my car and the phone happens to be locked (after 5 mins per my settings), I cannot get Siri to read my incoming texts to me. It asks me to unlock my phone and I cannot accomplish that while staying hands-free. I wish it could detect that I am moving in my car (easily accomplished) and ask for a verbal passcode instead.
So if you disable the restrictions you have enabled do you still get promoted for password when updating apps?
Mark it everyone. March 24, 2015. We have officially run out of things to complain about.
Yeah, totally, like that iMessage service that Android has had for such a long time before Apple (or even since).
Right, because iMessage is so different from the billion other instant message services.... Oh, I forgot, iMessage works on Apple devices only, screwing up chats to other platforms.
In that way, yeah, it's nothing like Google Hangouts, which is available for all platforms, and it combines screen-sharing and FaceTime-like features.
That's why, if you are ever in the pickle of needing to not allow law enforcement to have access to your device, to restart it.
They can force you to use your fingerprint to unlock it, but they arent allowed to force you to give them your unlock passcode.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/31/apple-touch-id-ruling_n_6083920.html
Right, because iMessage is so different from the billion other instant message services.... Oh, I forgot, iMessage works on Apple devices only, screwing up chats to other platforms.
In that way, yeah, it's nothing like Google Hangouts, which is available for all platforms, and it combines screen-sharing and FaceTime-like features.
And seamlessly integrates with regular carrier text/media messaging...totally the same.
Clearly it's all haut iOS catching up with Android.
And seamlessly integrates with regular carrier text/media messaging...totally the same.
Clearly it's all haut iOS catching up with Android.
I use both and the 6+ is my main phone, so I hope I can be objective. I do not like iMessage, because it does not play nice with any other platforms (mainly for Group conversations and some MMS glitches).
Google Hangouts is cross-platform, it integrates really well with Google Voice (which I have used for years to replace my visual voicemail) and it does all the stuff that iMessage and Face Time do, often a bit more elegantly. The only significant drawback of Hangouts for messaging is the lack of good Search function.
Here is a description of the Hangouts messaging integration from last Autumn:
http://www.androidheadlines.com/201...-google-voice-sms-integration-mobile-web.html
Overall, Android has pulled ahead of iOS since 4.2 and is getting better. iOS caught up in most areas with iOS8, but that's exactly what it did: catch up, and not in all areas.
The iPhone 6+ had the best camera and the best fingerprint sensor and this is why I switched. But the new Galaxy S6 appears to have dramatically improved the camera and from initial reviews, it seem better than the 6+. It has also dramatically improved the fingerprint sensor.
With the Chinese brands making a hard push into the higher end market, Apple really needs to do better to stay in the top tier in the long run.
This isn't a battery life problem for the always listening "Ok, Google" on the Android platform.
Because the phones that support that paricular aspect of that feature have separate hardware that does it so that the battery doesn't get drained as much as it otherwise would.
settings - notifications - messages - show previews
Annoying that is shows on your lock screen, but will then read msgs back when locked via siri.
Yes, clearly the primary interpretation of the fact that Apple so far hasn't decided to spend precious limited space for separate hardware just to listen to voice commands at random times is that Apple is falling behind in hardware.
It's a miracle that multiple hardware makers can do so - often at lower cost. But, really, why should Apple do it when they can fleece the sheep for more while offering less?