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New iOS 8.3 Features: Speaker Calls With Siri, No Password Required to Download Free Apps
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Thank you! Appreciate the info; I did not know that. Guess that makes sense but I need to leave the lock screen preview off, so I'm still stuck. Oh well, it's not that big a deal - just an annoyance.
Because it's annoying. Whenever I answer a text or do something and then put my phone back down or in my pocket or whatever, I lock my phone...probably by habit. Maybe 20 seconds later I'll unlock it again using the sleep/wake button. It's a lot easier to not have to touch the home button at all and just swipe to unlock. Call me picky but I just don't understand why you can't choose a time other than "immediately" like you can on a regular passcode.
You can also unlock by pressing the home button and holding your finger on it for a second or so. But I agree that it would be nice to have some other options available when TouchID is being used.
What happened to Siri and Dictation? I gave up on it a year ago, after a month trying to get it to work, as it was incapable of understanding anything I said. Just had a go a few weeks ago and now it seems to understand everything perfectly. It's brilliant! English accent now recognised maybe?
Yes, if I disable the restrictions, no password is required for updating apps (just like on my iPhone 6+, which only I use, so no restrictions at all).
In that case a restriction is what's behind it, and not that it works that way normally. Have you tried enabling restrictions one by one to see which one is doing it?
Try going to Settings --> iTunes/App Store --> select your Apple ID --> Log out of your account --> Log back in. That solved my somewhat similar issue with a family sharing member.
You can also try to reset your network settings which solved another persistent login issue I was having.
My hunch is that the first option will solve your issue.
I didn't think that any of these would solve the problem, but I tried just for kicks. Nothing changed, but thanks for the suggestions.
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OK, one of the restrictions is for setting the age limit for apps (which is what I want to do, hence the reason for using the restrictions). As soon as I set this limit, the option for 'require password' automatically changes to immediately and cannot be modified. While this should relate to the installing of apps, apparently it also applies to the updating of apps. And, no, the age restriction itself has nothing to do with whether or not a password is required. I've already checked this. Any app, no matter the age rating, asks for a password when updating.
Thanks for trying, but I've gone through every setting I see and unless there is just something extremely obvious that I'm missing, that's just how it works.
Fair enough. I'm not familiar with this annoyance because 1) I don't download apps 2) I have a 5. So I can understand the annoyance.
Well, what I'm saying, is that there's something else that's responsible for it (even if perhaps without a direct connection), and it's not a normal situation when an update requires a password.
What a fantastic example of an area to expand to! Watson is an excellent fact-answerer, and would certinaly be a perfect fallback for all unanswerable contextual questions. Answer the question (wolfram style), with a link to the search results for fallback.
But, i'm talking more about "secretarial work" as Carlanga pointed out. It does quite a lot, but only because I now know how to ask it to do such a task. Siri trained ME to talk.
This was reasonable in iOS6, as having your phone even listen to you in natural language was quite a step. No more Eat Up Marthas. But now it can reliably hear us, but it still often lacks the context to act in a true "natural language" fashion. I would love to get a list of all requests Siri has had to pass off to google, or simply misunderstood. "Send Allison my number" shouldn't result in a text to Allison saying "my Number" at this stage.
I would hope that every company involved in this technology creates a consortium and standard library for parsing natural language which is open-sourced and publicly maintainable. Proprietary Siri/Cortana/BrandX language interpreters cannot succeed. Think "HTML", compatible with all browsers, but Speech, compatible with all Devices. Human Speech to "Device" need not, and should not, be proprietary, and every device would benefit from cooperation in this arena.
Thank you!
Lol, I guess that was a bit nuanced.
Believe me... TouchID is great! You're going to love it... I loved it on my 5S & I love it on my Air 2 & iPhone 6. I use Passbook/ApplePay as well. When I bitch about a missing feature, it's genuinely an annoyance from the perspective of someone grown to rely on it!
I can't be the only one that occasionally restarts my phone!!!
Seriously, this "reenable TouchID, just to download a FREE app" should end.
Lol, there's no downside.
Yes many times. My wifi works perfectly for my iPad, iMac and PowerBook, not to mention my older iPhones. It's just my iPhone 6 that has major problems that Apple won't admit to. Try Googling iphone 6 wifried. There's hundreds of pages of user complaints on Apple's forum regarding this very real flaw.
I wish. But alas, I'm never giving up my iOS 6. Not even for swanky new tech that I can't help but love, like Touch ID.
It'll be interesting to see if important improvements are made to eliminate the bugs. Everything else seems secondary if one uses their iPhone for things like work and such.
several tests bloom on the web. And the first shows that the iPhone 6 does not suffer from the arrival of iOS 8.2. The execution speed is also identical between the new update and iOS 8.1.3.
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I have an aversion to feature creep (these features being anything that I don't use that interferes with my use of or the efficiency of my device). The interface stylings are needlessly inefficient and cheap IMHO. Personally, I really like the stylings of iOS 6. That being said, you can make the interface simpler while still being enjoyable to look at and properly styled. For my personal use, anything beyond iOS 6 adds features I will never use that get in my way, makes my device look like a cheap child's toy, and destroys the enjoyment I get out of it's use. Somehow, 'flat' iOS manages to be less visually complex but also less obvious. It's as though eyes aren't drawn to where they should be and the interface blends into the content instead of being distinctly separate but unobtrusive. The redesign feels so unprofessional. And white. Literally everything is boring and white with abhorrently thin fonts and glyphs.
Tl;dr 7+ is deeply flawed and performs contrary to my m.o. while 6 provides nearly everything I ask from my iPhone.
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