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SMS Relay Not Coming Until October
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The worse part is it was working. I'm using the Yosemite beta pretty much 100% now that the new Parallels is out and supports it. It seems less buggy than the iOS 8 GM but the handoff/continuity features which are the main reasons for upgrading haven't worked to well.
Looking forward to October and hoping they have some nice Mac updates in the hardware department.
Looking forward to October and hoping they have some nice Mac updates in the hardware department.
http://9to5mac.com/2014/09/12/apple-says-new-ios-8-sms-continuity-feature-wont-arrive-until-october/
Dangthe one feature I was looking forward to the most.
Seems to be working intermittently at the moment.
It won't arrive until October as that's when Yosemite is released.
Well, Im a little confused why this is news...Yosemite probably won't come out to October...Also I currently have the beta and it works fine.
I had presumed it would work between iPhones and iPads before Yoemite came out. So if that's not the case, yes, that's news.
So is SMS relay dependent on some kind of Apple backend? I figured it was device to iPhone to cell network. So odd
Was working great between my iPad Air and iPhone 5 the first night of iOS8GM and hasn't worked since. All other Continuity features are working great.
Was working great between my iPad Air and iPhone 5 the first night of iOS8GM and hasn't worked since. All other Continuity features are working great.
Apparently it goes through iCloud then... I personally would've preferred if it just went through WiFi.
All this bouncing to the cloud and back is so inefficient.
For example: I took 500MB of photos and videos on my phone, and get home and want to see them on the computer.
They have to upload from my phone to iCloud.
Then they have to download from iCloud to the computer.
That's 1GB of data transfer over my home internet connection, when theoretically only 500MB was needed (upload to cloud only). Not only is it a lot slower than just zipping across the Wifi (ac) at nearly a gigabit speed, but for people with small home internet data plans this is going to cost them money!
This stuff needs to be thought through. If local communication is possible it should be used above all else.
Good point...I guess the only issue would be if you took a bunch of photos on vacation & somehow lost your iPhone before you got home (where your Mac is), your pictures would be lost.
But I think SMS Relay/Hand-off and all that should work without the Cloud. It seems that would make it more secure too...
From the DP 8 release notes...
Handoff Known Issue
- Using Handoff to pass an untitled TextEdit document between two Macs may not work. Saving the document first and waiting 5-10 seconds before attempting Handoff may resolve this issue.
SMS Note
- SMS Continuity is not currently available for testing. It will be available in October via a free update to iOS 8.
Handoff Known Issue
- Using Handoff to pass an untitled TextEdit document between two Macs may not work. Saving the document first and waiting 5-10 seconds before attempting Handoff may resolve this issue.
SMS Note
- SMS Continuity is not currently available for testing. It will be available in October via a free update to iOS 8.
Nah, that'd be fine. The pictures would still be uploaded to the cloud when you got on Wifi.
But if, for example, your Mac at home was shut off when you got home, and you turned it on... it'd make about a thousand times more sense for the Mac to get all those photos from your phone than from iCloud.
I gotcha...that makes sense to me. I don't want wait for a 10 minute long 1080P 60fps video I shot on my iPhone to go to the cloud & back to my Mac. It makes more sense to do it in the way you described.
explains why it doesn't even give the option to try to send a SMS in the new PB3 anymore
Wait, SMS relay / Continuity has been working fine in PB2. They turned it off in PB3?
