You can do this now from the same dialogue that does cut/copy/paste.
They are doing this. Your phone number will be tied to your icloud account and imessages and facetime will go everywhere you are logged in.
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You can do this now from the same dialogue that does cut/copy/paste.
They are doing this. Your phone number will be tied to your icloud account and imessages and facetime will go everywhere you are logged in.
What is "this" out of the 3 I said and can you please elaborate more? Thanks.
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The one thing I would most want to see is custom repeats for calendar entries. It's a drag to née to go to my laptop whenever I need to edit a calendar entry for "every third Monday"! That's my pet peeve.
What I really want is an updated Youtube app (Come on it's 2012, where are things like search suggestions?), better App Store interface, and ability to reply to text messages without needing to open up the Messages app.
Since Apple redid Maps I'm hoping changes to the Youtube app and App Store are coming but just weren't announced as major features. I imagine we'll probably never see quick reply outside of jailbroken phones.
Since Apple redid Maps I'm hoping changes to the Youtube app and App Store are coming but just weren't announced as major features. I imagine we'll probably never see quick reply outside of jailbroken phones.
Who knows. Apple has bent backwards before, and the pull to refresh thing was a really nice addition from the jailbreak community.
All of this is true. Especially the bold part.
I think Maps was big, FaceTime over cellular was basically mandatory, Passbook is kinda cool, FB integration meh.
But really, when you are showcasing the reply-to-call options in the Phone app as a top 10 feature? 'You can now add photos and videos in Mail EASILY!'. And a couple new categories have been added in Siri which should have been in place since it came out?
I wasn't wowed. I came away from it once again being very happy that there is a healthy jailbreak community to give me access to features and options that other platforms have out of the box.
Replace all the blue buttons and pop-ups with gray, more stylish buttons, like in the new Maps app.
I am very happy about that development. But, take it one step further - if the iPhone and iPad/Mac is on the same wifi network, let voice calls be routed to the iPad/Mac. That would be sooo nice (didn't palm have this with webOS?).
Let Siri toggle wifi/bt/DND/as many other settings as possible.
Insert pictures or video into a mail message. Tap and hold. Youll get the cut/copy/paste options then hit the > to see more. One of the new options is insert picture or video.
I can't post the pic since I'm on my mobile but go here and scroll or search for "easy to insert". http://live.theverge.com/wwdc-2012-live-blog/
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They did. YAY! (I wanted this too)
I would like a "buy now, download later" for larger app purchases, how many times are you not home and someone shows you that awesome app, check the app store and it's over 50MB, can't I pay for it now and start the download as soon as I hit a WiFi.
I don't get the widget love affair. When I was an Android user I found myself using widgets as much as I use widgets on my MacBook. Almost never.
A shared documents folder.
Quick toggles.
The ability to reply to IMs without switching apps.
Quick toggles.
The ability to reply to IMs without switching apps.
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This among other things. I truly believe that the way Apple implements features is far better than its competitors but iOS is really sorely lacking some great features that Android and Windows Phone have.
- A few of the stock apps need an overhaul, specifically Calendar and Mail.
- The ability to change default apps to third party options.
- The ability to hide/delete unused default apps.
- Rethink the app-grid: Make app icons live with realtime information as appropriate, including the ability to resize an app icon and turn it into a widget.
- Keyboard gestures to make editing text more functional.
- Inter-app communications ala Android.
- Siri API.
- Mobile payment system tied to NFC hardware.
- Shared Documents app/management system.
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I can't see Apple spending extra resources on improving a Google product.
- The ability to change default apps to third party options.
- The ability to hide/delete unused default apps.
- Rethink the app-grid: Make app icons live with realtime information as appropriate, including the ability to resize an app icon and turn it into a widget.
- Keyboard gestures to make editing text more functional.
- Inter-app communications ala Android.
- Siri API.
- Mobile payment system tied to NFC hardware.
- Shared Documents app/management system.
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I'm honestly expecting for Apple to just drop the Youtube app and for Google to release their own app in the App Store.
I can't see Apple spending extra resources on improving a Google product.
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IMO, they should've done this long ago. I got tried of dealing with the Youtube app so I disabled it via parental controls and now I just use the mobile Youtube site. The only downside to this is sometimes Safari doesn't let you watch Youtube videos that are embedded on other sites.
Apple are resisting adding these toggles because I think they believe the OS should be smart enough to know if and when to turn certain features on and off by itself.
Brightness should lower automatically as needed, bluetooth turned on only when a recognised device is nearby, Wifi should toggle on and off based on recognised wifi stations and so on. These should be managed by the OS and not easily available to the user to toggle.
By putting these toggles somewhere easily accessible like in the Notification Center, Apple would be saying to users to manage these themselves.
I agree with the idea of the OS managing them not the user, but the problem comes into play because the OS is *not* yet smart enough to manage these toggles by itself. However once you add a feature, it becomes very difficult to remove it, which is why Apple would be resisting adding it - even though it would be trivial for them to add a row of toggles in Notification Center.
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I agree, I was expecting Apple to drop Youtube for iOS6 - it would have been a ballsy move to drop Google almost completely from iOS.
However it would be a risk on Apple's part, as it would take some time for Google to make a Youtube app and release it on the App Store, thereby leaving iOS without Youtube for a considerable length of time.
Even riskier, who's to say Google would even make a third party Youtube app. They may be more comfortable with keeping it a competitive advantage for Android or directing users to their mobile site.
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A better way to switch between open applications, some way to do it with gestures on the iPhone. And an interface that focuses on your information (what they now call notifications) and your apps secondarily. I am working on some schematics right now. So in short: the UI.
My number 1 is toggles. This is more or less the only reason I jailbreak. NC settings is a very easy on the eyes way to access all your important toggles from notification center. This kind of thing should have been on the first iPhone and it's still not here.
I'd like my weather app to update every 30 minutes or so to show me the actual temperature/conditions (something you could switch on and off would be even better)
I agree a download folder for safari would be awesome.
I think folders are hideous. I'd rather see a picture of a folder with my own label and not 9 thumbnails that I need a microscope to see. I'm not saying that would look good, but I think anything would look better than the current way. They are ugly, it's as simple as that. And only being able to put 12 apps in a folder makes no sense to me. It requires more folders which makes everything look more ugly.
Infinite dock/infinite folders in a great JB tweak that Apple should have made standard a long time ago.
Those are my main gripes. It's mostly aesthetic stuff. I love iOS and I prefer it madly to Android (I haven't used a windows phone yet) but it's these little things that keep me grinding my teeth. Not enough to make me jump ship, but it would be nice to see some real visual changes to iOS.
I'd like my weather app to update every 30 minutes or so to show me the actual temperature/conditions (something you could switch on and off would be even better)
I agree a download folder for safari would be awesome.
I think folders are hideous. I'd rather see a picture of a folder with my own label and not 9 thumbnails that I need a microscope to see. I'm not saying that would look good, but I think anything would look better than the current way. They are ugly, it's as simple as that. And only being able to put 12 apps in a folder makes no sense to me. It requires more folders which makes everything look more ugly.
Infinite dock/infinite folders in a great JB tweak that Apple should have made standard a long time ago.
Those are my main gripes. It's mostly aesthetic stuff. I love iOS and I prefer it madly to Android (I haven't used a windows phone yet) but it's these little things that keep me grinding my teeth. Not enough to make me jump ship, but it would be nice to see some real visual changes to iOS.