TextEdit Icon Spotted on iOS 10 During WWDC 2016 Demo

[Glassed Silver]

Is there a reason why Textedit isn't just combined with Notes?

A way of syncing pdfs between Mac and iOS would be welcome as well. A default PDF viewer with annotation features would play nicely with the Apple Pencil (even though I am already using Notability and PDF expert).

I wish there was a nice way to have a database for documents iTunes-style that allows me to synch between Mac and iOS.
Folders are nice and well and tags are amazing, but the problem is that Finder is an interface for files in general, whilst documents profit from having a less generic interface to sort, find and discover them.

I really really miss doo, it used to be so promising, but the company that made it moved on to business software, arguably there's more money to be made there I assume.
If you have a lot of files, Finder really isn't all that great.
At least not if you work on documents like I do I guess.

Here's the app I mentioned:
http://tech.eu/news/doo-dead/

I know there's some apps that allow you to be paperless on one of the platforms, but there is no decent, regularly updated app that allows me to sync cloud-free between OS X and iOS.
Also, OS X's file tags need to come to iOS. If there was a Finder or document management app on iOS I guess it'd be a no-brainer feature.

Extending on that, I'd love to see a non-Apple media manager for both platforms with its own offline sync.
Something similar to Plex, but with features like displaying the play-count and such.
The continued lack of care about some very important codecs or features in QuickTime make iTunes and the Videos app on iOS look dated.
H.265? Nowhere to be found!
10bit color depth? MIA!
MKV? Nothing!
The list goes on...

Glassed Silver:mac

 

[iOSUser7]

It was a joke , he made a joke at markerting

Yeah I understand but I want to watch the exact moment where he said that.

 

[Digital Skunk]

Samsung and Google are the industry leaders of gimmicks and half-baked imitation features. Guess again.

True, but even as an iPhone user I have to say that half of their gimmicks were eventually implemented in iOS.

Some of the iOS features we love have been ripped right out of the Android playbook.

 

[Totorotarrot]

Nothing to see...it's a generic app installed on all the internal build at Apple.

During its What's New in Metal, Part 1 session at WWDC 2016, Apple used an iPad to demo the graphics API's new adaptive tessellation capabilities on iOS 10. At the 17:58 mark of the video, a TextEdit icon can be seen on the iPad's home screen from the multitasking app switcher screen.

TextEdit is Apple's basic word processor preinstalled on macOS Sierra and previous OS X versions, but the company has not released a mobile version for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch as it has done for some of its other first-party Mac apps. There are also no third-party apps that fully match the app shown in the screenshot.

TextEdit and Preview icons were previously spotted in a pre-release iOS 8 screenshot, but neither of the apps were included in the public version of the software update. An early 2014 report had said both apps would debut on iOS 8 as read-only document viewers for Preview and TextEdit files stored in iCloud from a Mac.

While there is an outside chance that Apple plans to release a basic text editor on iOS to complement Notes and Pages, the most likely explanation is that TextEdit serves as a simple "Hello World" testing app for internal developers. Apple is known to have several internal apps for use by software engineers and employees only.

Game Center is also shown, despite being removed as a standalone app on iOS 10.

Apple previewed iOS 10 at its WWDC 2016 keynote on June 13 and has seeded the first beta to developers. A public beta will be available in July ahead of an official launch in the fall. iOS 10 is compatible with most devices that can run iOS 9, excluding the iPhone 4s, iPad 2 and 3, original iPad mini, and fifth-generation iPod touch.

(Thanks, Ahmad!)

Article Link: TextEdit Icon Spotted on iOS 10 During WWDC 2016 Demo

 

[CarlJ]

Neither Pages nor Notes are designed to handle plaintext documents. Textedit is.

I suppose it is something thats more useful to web designers and programmers than your average user. But then again it would let you open more files from your desktop now that we have access to that through continuity.

You aren't wrong, but as a developer, and an aficionado of fine plain text editing software, I would never use the Mac's TextEdit for editing plain text - it may be fine as an RTF editor, but a bad choice for text (on OS X I use MacVim almost exclusively for text/code editing, but Vi has always had a precipitous learning curve - there are other good 3rd-party choices out there, like Sublime Text, for instance, but nothing will supplant vi/MacVim for me). On iOS there are already a number of very good plaintext editors: Textastic is fabulously capable for programmers, and Editorial, which is scriptable in Python (and its sibling Pythonista, which is a full-blown Python development environment that runs on iOS, unbelievably cool). For Markdown-based plaintext word processing, both Ulysses and Byword are great, and they sync well between their iOS and Mac apps; Ulysses is newer and involves drinking a bit more KoolAid, as the files aren't exactly standard markdown, but it's really well done. And for quickly typing in plaintext notes and then doing ALL SORTS of cool things with them, Drafts can't be beat - you type in plain text, and then you can send it off to tons of different apps, using developer- and user-supplied "actions" (Drafts lives in the bottom row/dock on both my iPhone and iPad).

So, there are already plenty of good text editors on iOS. What TextEdit would bring, aside from being standard on every iOS device, is syncing files with the Mac version of TextEdit. I'm guessing that's not a compelling enough use case, and is why it hasn't made it into a release yet, though it has been hanging around Cupertino for quite a while.
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There are apps today that sync between platforms, and your can do it with iOS 9 using iCloud, but macOS Sierra and iOS 10 will make it easier.

iBooks will sync PDFs between Mac and iOS using iCloud, on iOS 9 and El Cap, today. Though I prefer to keep my PDFs on Dropbox, reading them with Preview on the Mac and PDF Expert on iOS.

 

[Altis]

I can't get into text editing on iOS as I would want a mouse in addition to a keyboard.

I also rarely use text editors without other applications at the same time -- something not well done on iPads or iPhones.

 

[CarlJ]

I can't get into text editing on iOS as I would want a mouse in addition to a keyboard.

Real text editors don't use a mouse

 

[lowendlinux]

With the little coding game they showed and now this text edit app I wonder if you coding folks will be coding on an iPad soon?

I really only use text editors to edit config files I just don't see how it would be useful on my phone as they stand now.

 

[CarlJ]

With the little coding game they showed and now this text edit app I wonder if you coding folks will be coding on an iPad soon?

I really only use text editors to edit config files I just don't see how it would be useful on my phone as they stand now.

I write code on my iPhone occasionally, using Pythonista. I was out for a walk late last night and found myself mulling over a question that I could answer in terms of Python code, so I sat down on a nearby bench, and in five minutes or so, wrote a few dozen lines of Python code on my phone, and ran it, and got my question answered. I've done similar things, say, sitting in a Starbucks*. It's a fabulous way to test out ideas or bits of code when the inspiration strikes. Python is a terrific language, and having it available to me anywhere/anytime is pretty cool. Sitting here at home, I wouldn't write code on my phone, because my Mac is so much better suited (full keyboard, larger screen, and a proper command-line environment with all my familiar tools at hand). On the other hand, my iPhone is MUCH better suited to carrying around with me out in the world than my Mac is (even though its a laptop, I'm not gonna take it on long walks for no reason).

*: (Actually, back in the Palm Pilot days, I can recall writing code on my Palm in Quartus Forth in the checkout line at the supermarket.)

 

[APlotdevice]

Oh, I just remembered another unique thing about TextEdit: it supports vertical asian characters (i.e. The traditional orientation for Chinese and Japanese).

As for why TextEdit has this feature and Pages doesn't, I could not tell you...

 

[Ashka]

I wish there was a nice way to have a database for documents iTunes-style that allows me to synch between Mac and iOS.
Folders are nice and well and tags are amazing, but the problem is that Finder is an interface for files in general, whilst documents profit from having a less generic interface to sort, find and discover them.

I know there's some apps that allow you to be paperless on one of the platforms, but there is no decent, regularly updated app that allows me to sync cloud-free between OS X and iOS.
Also, OS X's file tags need to come to iOS. If there was a Finder or document management app on iOS I guess it'd be a no-brainer feature.

Glassed Silver:mac

I sync info between my 2015 MBP & iPhone 4 with Simplenote. May not be suitable for large docs but handy for smaller ones.

 

[Glassed Silver]

I sync info between my 2015 MBP & iPhone 4 with Simplenote. May not be suitable for large docs but handy for smaller ones.

Simplenote seems to focus on the apps own internal text editor, I however need support for files like PDFs, DOCs, etc...
Also it seems to want you to create an account.
If there is no ad-hoc sync the solution is bust for me.

Maybe I missed something, their app description certainly doesn't go into much detail if there's more to the app. :/

Glassed Silver:ios