Recap: Everything You Need to Know About iOS 10 and iPhone 7

[Pentium]

I have. I went to a nexus phone and it's better than the iphone 7 in my opinion. I go elsewhere to discuss other non apple tech with other people and I also go to this website. I still come here because a) I have a Mac that has a headphone jack and b) the fact that apple took out the headphone jack may make other companies think it's okay to do the same. My complaining helps prevent that.

Nexus 5X is a great phone
About the headphone jack, it's going to happen I think, Moto just announced a phone without the jack and there is a report that Samsung is doing the same next year

http://www.androidcentral.com/moto-z-doesnt-have-headphone-jack

http://www.redmondpie.com/samsung-s...k-from-galaxy-s8-like-iphone-7-because-apple/

http://www.sammobile.com/2016/09/14...-5-mm-headphone-jack-with-a-proprietary-port/

 

[Dormammu]

...the fact that apple took out the headphone jack may make other companies think it's okay to do the same. My complaining helps prevent that.

No, it doesn't. The incessant whining becomes annoying to see thread after thread.

 

[coolfactor]

Thank you! Macrumors! Keep it up and good job! Hands down!

I am totally amazed at how well MacRumours has kept at the forefront of these announcements and releases. Good job!
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I have. I went to a nexus phone and it's better than the iphone 7 in my opinion. I go elsewhere to discuss other non apple tech with other people and I also go to this website. I still come here because a) I have a Mac that has a headphone jack and b) the fact that apple took out the headphone jack may make other companies think it's okay to do the same. My complaining helps prevent that.

It's interesting that your handle is "taptic"... obviously one of Apple's new features has resonated with you, yet you are holding onto old tech with a death-grip. Let it go.

 

[taptic]

It's interesting that your handle is "taptic"... obviously one of Apple's new features has resonated with you, yet you are holding onto old tech with a death-grip. Let it go.

But the headphone jack is not old tech. As has been discussed a billion times. Why let it go if it's still an extremely useful feature? You want wireless? Great! You don't need to eliminate the wireless options to keep the wired one.
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No, it doesn't. The incessant whining becomes annoying to see thread after thread.

Hopefully it annoys apple too.

 

[kali108]

I don't want to get over it.

Exactly! Invested in high end , in ear headphones that now require a dongle that I'm sure to lose. I guess I could super glue the thing onto my earbuds. Apple is clearly pushing bluetooth ...cool...oh, except it sounds like crap. How big of a deal is this to *me*? For the first time, I'm seriously considering switching to 'droid'. OnePlus3 is a lot of phone for the $$$.

Lastly, I consider myself an Apple fanboy and this update is one big snore. I bet next year's phone will be killer though.

 

[blagovest]

I might consider next-gen Iphone, if they bring the jack back. Till then 6s is to stay or be replaced by competition.

 

[Keirasplace]

But the headphone jack is not old tech. As has been discussed a billion times. Why let it go if it's still an extremely useful feature? You want wireless? Great! You don't need to eliminate the wireless options to keep the wired one.
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Hopefully it annoys apple too.

Apple doesn't give a crap about the constant whining on the web, they're not not the world, or even a small part of its base.

And no, they're not putting the jack in once its out.

 

[citysnaps]

I have. I went to a nexus phone and it's better than the iphone 7 in my opinion. I go elsewhere to discuss other non apple tech with other people and I also go to this website. I still come here because a) I have a Mac that has a headphone jack and b) the fact that apple took out the headphone jack may make other companies think it's okay to do the same. My complaining helps prevent that.

How precious! Thinking that tiny whines on a tech forum will drive Apple's or other company's decisions!

 

[DevNull0]

Is it possible for us to have one article on this site that doesn't get overrun with incessant whining about headphone jacks or the lack of Mac updates? You can't possibly NOT know that the headphone jack issue has been discussed extensively on this site. All worthwhile discussion on the topic has long since been exhausted. Please let it go. Any further discussion on this is simply an indication that you want to annoy others by rehashing the topic.

This article is "Everything You Need to Know About iOS 10 and iPhone 7".

Literally everything I need to know about the iPhone 7 is that there is no headphone jack.

 

[taptic]

How precious! Thinking that tiny whines on a tech forum will drive Apple's or other company's decisions!

Have you ever been told to vote because every vote counts? Yeah. Every whine counts.

 

[kali108]

This is a forum for the discussion of Apple products. Why don't you troll off to a Samsung forum if you like them better? Or is that on fire, too?

So apple criticism equates to being troll? Is this a phone or a cult?

 

[malexandria]

Am I the only one experiencing overheating issues with the iPhone 7? Got it yesterday, now I'm trying to set it up and I'm encountering some issues. But the first thing I noticed is this thing is getting really hot when I open an app. And it gets hot after only 2 or 3 minutes. I already notice the camera seems a lot better and faster than my 6s. But I'm not keeping this phone with this overheating issue.

I'm not being a troll or anything, if you follow my rants about Apple I try to be fair and as I've repeatedly said I own every Apple Product category accept the watch.

 

[lowkey]

..and for 1000000000th time - so what ? IPhone still misses one VERY IMPORTANT - an ability to listen to music with so comfortable well working headphones. If you want To go to wireless you could do that with iPhone 6 / 6s too. But removing of audio jack for NOTHING is just ...stooped ))

in order to "listen to music with so comfortable well working headphones" simply:-
1. plug your "so comfortable well working headphones" into the lightening adapter
2. plug lightening adapter into phone
3. press play
4. stop whining
simple

 

[drumcat]

Anyone notice the keyboard change? For example, commas used to flip back to letters... now the 123 button is more like a pure "shift" key...

 

[C DM]

Anyone notice the keyboard change? For example, commas used to flip back to letters... now the 123 button is more like a pure "shift" key...

Yup. Hopefully just a bug that will get fixed.

 

[studio¹³¹]

Wow Apple Watch OS3 sucks so bad. I hate it. The got rid of glances! I used that to quickly next music while at work.

I hate that they got rid of the media control glance in particular -- I used to control my Spotify in my car with it -- not any more!
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Is it possible for us to have one article on this site that doesn't get overrun with incessant whining about headphone jacks or the lack of Mac updates? You can't possibly NOT know that the headphone jack issue has been discussed extensively on this site. All worthwhile discussion on the topic has long since been exhausted. Please let it go. Any further discussion on this is simply an indication that you want to annoy others by rehashing the topic.
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Are you kidding? watchOS 3 is a revelation - it makes the original Apple Watch so much better! Glances were essentially barely functional screenshots of apps. They've been replaced by the Dock, activated using the lower side button, which gives you immediate access to actual in-memory, running apps, and the rightmost entry in the Dock is "Now Playing", giving you access to those controls you wanted. If you want even quicker access, you can set a complication to "Music", and get to the controls with one tap - as a bonus, if you use one of the long complications, it'll show the track currently playing. And they've made it easier to quickly change between watch faces, by swiping across the screen, making it more reasonable to keep multiple watch faces around configured for specific situations, so you can have one for the office, with a music complication set up.

Before, you could control whichever media player running last (ie. Spotify, Soundcloud, etc). "Now Playing" in the Music app only controls the Apple Music app, unless you have a workaround for that too?

 

[CarlJ]

Before, you could control whichever media player running last (ie. Spotify, Soundcloud, etc). "Now Playing" in the Music app only controls the Apple Music app, unless you have a workaround for that too?

Why would anyone need a workaround? I don't have Spotify. I do have SoundCloud, so I started it up on my Phone and clicked on the first track it showed me, and it shows up fine in the "Now Playing" screen in the Dock. Then I loaded up a Podcast in Overcast. That shows up fine too. Then I loaded an audiobook in Audible. That works. Nothing special, just using the "Now Playing" screen that was already rightmost in the Dock on a shiny new upgrade to watchOS 3. What are you doing wrong, that this doesn't work for you? If it doesn't work for Spotify, maybe the Spotify app needs work. (I tried Pandora - that works fine too.)

(If you launch the Music app from the app launcher screen and click "Now Playing", then yeah, you get what's in the Music app on your phone, because you just selected Music.app by running it. In fact, after doing that, I see "Music" in the Dock next to "Now Playing". Don't make it so hard, just use the Now Playing item in the Dock. The bit in my original post about setting a complication to Music, was assuming the OP meant the Music app, because he didn't specify otherwise.)

Use this, the Now Playing item that is the rightmost thing in the Dock, not the Music app:

 

[miniyou64]

Anyone notice the keyboard change? For example, commas used to flip back to letters... now the 123 button is more like a pure "shift" key...

Yes. They made several irritating unnecessary changes like this all over the OS. You get used to doing the same thing for years and then they pull the rug out from under you for no good reason. I'm worried for Apple. They now just change things for the sake of change which flies in the face of good user experience.

 

[C DM]

Yes. They made several irritating unnecessary changes like this all over the OS. You get used to doing the same thing for years and then they pull the rug out from under you fir no good reason. I'm worried for Apple. They not just change things for the sake of change which flies in the face of good user experience.

Lots of things of that sort have been said when iOS 7 came out with a new design...and that design is the one that many are used to and like in iOS 9 and the one they feel uncomfortable moving from with the changes in iOS 10. I'm not trying to say it's good or bad, just an observation about how these types of things seem to go.

 

[galrito]

Have we covered the fact that it doesn't have a headphone jack yet? Because I hate that.

It also doesn't have a floppy disk drive.
Things evolve. You should too.

 

[polbit]

It also doesn't have a floppy disk drive.
Things evolve. You should too.

Remember, whatever Apple does, it's for our good. Nothing to do with corporate greed. We just don't know it yet. We are not worthy, we are not worthy.

Am I doing it right??

 

[Taz Mangus]

I'd still rather have a possibly exploding Note 7 than a low res LCD screen and primitive OS without edge panels or widgets.

What you just said is completely idiotic.
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I don't want to get over it.

When my kids were 5 years old they would say the same thing and then hold their breath until they got what they wanted. Maybe that tactic would work for you.
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It also doesn't have a floppy disk drive.
Things evolve. You should too.

Remember, whatever Apple does, it's for our good. Nothing to do with corporate greed. We just don't know it yet. We are not worthy, we are not worthy.

Am I doing it right??

You want a phone with a floppy disk drive?

 

[taptic]

It also doesn't have a floppy disk drive.
Things evolve. You should too.

Have you really not seen the arguments that explain why the headphone jack is not old or ready to be replaced like the floppy disk was? Or are you just choosing to ignore them like the rest of the people who spent $600+ on a crippled phone?

 

[ThunderSkunk]

I would also like to have known that while iOS will connect to LTE, 4G, 3G, & even Edge networks, unless it is connected to LTE, none of the apps function. No maps, no email, no messages, no skype, no nothing.

Compounding the problem, once signal drops all the way down to "No Service", it apparently loses its ability to reconnect no matter how many times you try switching cellular data on & off. Only a hard reset will get the cellular antenna working again, and then only trying to connect to whatever type of connection (LTE, 4G, 3G, E) it first detects.

So, if god forbid you drive out of a city, you might as well leave your iOS 10 device at home, because it will leave you wandering aimlessly with no means of communication whatsoever.

 

[Taz Mangus]

But the headphone jack is not old tech. As has been discussed a billion times. Why let it go if it's still an extremely useful feature? You want wireless? Great! You don't need to eliminate the wireless options to keep the wired one.
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Hopefully it annoys apple too.

Get a few 10's of millions of your friends to stop buying the iPhone and then maybe Apple would be annoyed enough to consider bringing it back. You might want to go annoy the Moto and Samsung websites because it is apparently going to happen possibly next year for those OEMs as well. The amount of people that will care or be affected by this is insignifigant on the whole.