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VisionOS 2.0 - Working and Non-Working Apps Thread
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I can’t get my iPhone to AirPlay to the AVP yet. I have turned “Airplay Reciever” on in the AVP settings, and restarted both my iPhone and AVP. Perhaps it won’t work till I upgrade the iPhone to IOS 18?
Everything works for me. Some mild bugginess and restrings like V1.1 did but nothing particularly unusual or broken so far. Keyboard passthrough doesn't seem to work with black Apple keyboards....
Worked for me with iOS 18. Which is also buggy (the new Photos app really sucks btw... very confusing)
Does anybody know if Microsoft Beta version of the iPad Remote Desktop App runs on the visionOS 2.0 beta? What about the iPad version of OpenVPN? I use them often to connect back to my office and connect to my PC there.
WSJ app is a little buggy. Some articles try to open a safari page but fails, then the safari page links you back to the WSJ all in a never ending cycle. Strangely, some articles are fine
To clarify further, it won't work on anything less than iOS 18, though its utility will be limited because you can't interact with the AirPlayed iPhone like you'll be able to with an iPhone mirrored to a Mac running Sequoia. I wonder what'll happen if you mirror the iPhone to a Mac that you connect to the AVP as a virtual display. (Actually, I don't expect that to make it possible to interact with the iPhone, but it'd be fun to try.)
Apple just needs to make iPhone mirroring work with the AVP!
Got it. This video from Hugh Hou explains how to turn on the settings within the AVP to enable Web XR:
Yeah it just looks like hell in 1.2. All blown out and lower res. I had heard 2.0 was gonna fix that and make it on par with like a quest.
I am experiencing issue in Facetime, Zoom, etc. with regards to my Persona. It jankily dances around for a few minutes then only shows me at a glitchy side angle. This continues after rebooting. I may try re-creating my Persona if this persists.
One new thing, which I don’t recall from older versions, is the ability to set a default background for calls. (Saw it while debugging.)
EDIT: recreating my Persona fixed this. (Unfortunately I was quite happy with the last scan.) Interestingly I created that last Persona in the new ”place it on a surface” mode, but I am not sure if that would have contributed to the quirks which later emerged.
One new thing, which I don’t recall from older versions, is the ability to set a default background for calls. (Saw it while debugging.)
EDIT: recreating my Persona fixed this. (Unfortunately I was quite happy with the last scan.) Interestingly I created that last Persona in the new ”place it on a surface” mode, but I am not sure if that would have contributed to the quirks which later emerged.
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Rd Client for iPad does work under VisionOS 2.
I use Ivanti Pulse Secure VPN and it works. Also UniFi Teleport works.
It very possible that OpenVPN for iPad will work.
It has been working for me, the new Teams.
Thanks for the heads up! I went ahead and installed the 2.0 beta but haven’t had a chance to test OpenVPN yet. I’ll do that later and report back in case anyone else out there is in my situation but even if it’s not working I’ll just use my MacBook Pro. I just use it on my AVP for quick tasks. If I have to use it for everything it’s inconvenient but not a show stopper for me.
You'll be fine!
What I have noticed is that if it works on the iPad or worked in 1.x, it should work on 2.0
2.0 is simply enhancements to 1.x
You were 100% correct. It works without any issues and I’m now seeing the RD app outside of the Compatible Apps area. I don’t know if that’s because it updated and put itself there, which I’ve heard you can do in this release, or if it’s a native app and recognized as one (I’m going with the former versus the latter) but it worked even better than it did before. I navigated the entire UI including opening and closing Windows based desktop apps, deleting e-mail from Outlook, etc. all without needing the Magic Trackpad as I’d been using in the past when I’d use the RD beta client on the AVP. I think I’d still need it for precise control over the mouse pointer for apps with a small toolbar, etc. but it was nice to be able to use it for quick tasks without having to bust out the Magic Trackpad at all.
You’re right. I’ve updated other apps since my last post and they keep showing up in the Compatible Apps area. The latest RD beta showed up outside of it where the other native apps are and now that I’ve seen what it takes to move the icons around there’s no way I did it by accident without realizing it. It also explains why the UI responded so much better using the native gestures than it did before.
The Photos app in visionOS 1.2 is a pretty light version.
There is no metadata page.
Search seems light. It seems to search keywords but the results don’t differentiate.
Can’t create new Albums or Folders.
How does visionOS 2 compare? Beyond the new design, does Vision Pro get parity with iOS in terms of the Photos app?
There is no metadata page.
Search seems light. It seems to search keywords but the results don’t differentiate.
Can’t create new Albums or Folders.
How does visionOS 2 compare? Beyond the new design, does Vision Pro get parity with iOS in terms of the Photos app?
I haven’t used the Photos app much over the years but am starting to a lot more lately. I don’t notice a ton of differences in the Photos app. There’s no way I’ve found to see meta data that I’ve noticed. I see the option to turn most images into Spacial Photos in there and there is a menu option for Auto Dimming that I’m guessing was there before and I just didn’t notice.
I do see an option to allow you to create new Albums which I was able to get to from the Collections menu item on the left and also on that menu there is an option to see categories of items like your Hidden Items (that’s protected), Recently Deleted, Recently Shared, Recently Edited and items the system has identified by type (Handwriting, Illustrations, QR Codes, Documents, etc) plus you can see a break down of items by Media Type (Videos, Selfies, Live Photos, Portrait, Panoramas, etc.) Again those last two listing may have been there before but I didn’t notice them until I spent some time in the app looking to find a way to view Meta Data.
Without really knowing the iOS Photos app inside and out nor paying a lot of attention to the Photos app in the v1.x line that’s about all I can give you.
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His instructions don't work. Entered in the URL he suggested and all I got were a bunch of google search results.