iOS 12 definitely perked up my old iPad Mini 3.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 15 September 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/ios-12-on-the-iphone-5s-iphone-6-plus-and-ipad-mini-2-its-actually-faster/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 17 September 2018 21:44 (five years ago) link
Wow! That’s...unexpected.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 17 September 2018 22:42 (five years ago) link
I’m a little concerned about edge swipe gestures conflicting with some of my synths- not gonna update just yet
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Monday, 17 September 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
Threaded notifications are fantastic, as is the ability to clear by app; it was getting out of hand before.
Any idea if you can add Siri shortcut to the control centre. I couldn’t see it but have loooked hard.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 08:41 (five years ago) link
I haven't yet got to grip with shortcuts, or Shortcuts, which confusingly seem to be two different things, but the latter seems like something that might be powerful. Never worked out how to get Automator to do what I wanted either; I am probably just too impatient and thick to do anything that resembles programming. This is an amazingly, OTT-ly comprehensive write-up:https://www.macstories.net/stories/ios-12-the-macstories-review/
― Alba, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 08:55 (five years ago) link
But yes, have had beta OS12 for a while and it's been faster on my iPhone 6.
― Alba, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 08:56 (five years ago) link
I had workflow (the thing Apple brought to turn into shortcuts) to creat an open in chrome button for safari but the new iteration seems to have some added features.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 09:06 (five years ago) link
Some of the precooked Shortcuts are not bad actually. Will play some more. Oh wow - just noticed proper password manager integration at last.
― Alba, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 09:40 (five years ago) link
in what respect?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 09:42 (five years ago) link
lastpass, 1password etc can now autofill in the same way as iCloud Keychain. A big improvement for E. who uses a windows laptop for work and last pass for her passwords.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 09:45 (five years ago) link
You have to enable it in Passwords & Accounts section of Settings, so I didn't notice it at first.
― Alba, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 09:54 (five years ago) link
ugh, just installed the newest safari on desktop & it de-installed ninjakit, which means my killfile on here doesn't work anymore. any ideas of other greasemonkey-like setup for safari? I don't want to think about using ILX without it.
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 10:11 (five years ago) link
huh ok - i have 1password on my phone, and i've got "autofill passwords" on, but when i go to a website i don't see anything specific about 1password, it just looks like the normal iclould keychain thing
xpost
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 10:13 (five years ago) link
I have an ipad air 1 from 2013 that I never updated to iOS 11 – do you think it will cope with 12?
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 11:14 (five years ago) link
Yes, should get better, in fact
― stet, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 12:00 (five years ago) link
Tracer, you may need to update the 1password app to the latest version. After that you should see 1password show up in the "Allow Filling From" section of Autofill Passwords in Settings.
― Alba, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 12:37 (five years ago) link
it worked!holy crap the augmented reality tape measure is amazing!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 12:57 (five years ago) link
Siri Shortcuts seems to have a lot of potential. Best One I’ve used is using the City Mapper app, I can set up shortcuts for my favorite bus stops for the next bus times. It works on my homepod too, so I can check it as I’m walking out the door and then when I get to the stop just by initiating Siri and saying something like “northbound Sheriden and Surf”.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 13:56 (five years ago) link
The upgrade is good y'all, my phone is like new again.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 14:07 (five years ago) link
I wonder if they realized a bunch of schmoes like me were considering abandoning iphones altogether and figured it's better to keep me in the ecosystem with an old phone than lose me altogether.
Incidentally this also fixed a major audio bug I've been having where music and podcasts stutter from time to time.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 14:08 (five years ago) link
i've been having that same problem with music, shit skips like a CD
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
Yep, all good so far with iOS 12. Think I'll switch to SIM only from next month and just keep the SE going for another year or two. You never know, there might be an 4-4.5" XE or smthg next year.
Slightly concerned at what my ScreenTime stats will say by the end of today. Anything fewer than 100 pick-ups I'd be ok with.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 10:24 (five years ago) link
Battery life on the X seems much improved by the update.
I’m in japan right now and Apple maps is beating google hands down, I assume this is what they have been working on.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 12:02 (five years ago) link
I'm getting very into Shortcuts now. Favourite tricks so far: being able to append to the clipboard, and adding a Spotify icon to my homescreen that starts playing the song I was last listening to in whatever playlist/album it was (this is particularly good for me as I have an old phone so Spotify takes forever to launch – nice to be able to just put the phone away once I've tapped and know that it will start playing music in a while!)
― Alba, Sunday, 30 September 2018 14:42 (five years ago) link
The latter is pretty complex one that gets around Spotify's current lack of proper Shortcuts support:
https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/9h5aj6/control_spotify_with_siri/
― Alba, Sunday, 30 September 2018 14:45 (five years ago) link
being able to append to the clipboardhow do I activate this
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 30 September 2018 15:08 (five years ago) link
Install Shortcuts app, put Shortcuts in a prominent place in your share menu items, then open this link in Safari. https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/dc56cf9ad5754adfb8132cd3aba32376
― Alba, Sunday, 30 September 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link
It's 3 taps rather than the 1 for a standard copy to clipboard, but that sure beats switching back and forth between apps when you're pasting from multiple sources.
― Alba, Sunday, 30 September 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
thanks for that!
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 30 September 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
i like how now i can measure things with my iphone and take of picture of it with the actual measurement
;)
awww yee uhhh
― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 30 September 2018 20:59 (five years ago) link
i aint lyin baby iphone confirmed yo
― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 30 September 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
How do I use this exciting measure app? Can it do square feet?
― sarahell, Friday, 12 October 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
Okay so...iPhone headphone splitters. (Meaning, charging the phone and using a non-Lightning headphone at the same time.) I can't seem to make head or tail out of the eight million suggestions out there; practically every product has wildly diverging reviews everywhere I look and I trust none of them. (Belkin seems to be heavily loathed, though.) Any suggestions?
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 October 2018 04:52 (five years ago) link
xp it appears on the phone after iOS 12 update ("Measure") and you open it, point the camera at an object, move the phone side to side as it directs to calibrate, and then you align the sight on the screen with a point you want to measure, tap the button, then put another point somewhere else you want to know the distance to. It will use multiple points and you can add rectangles etc. for area measurement.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 15 October 2018 06:52 (five years ago) link
i picked up a shitty headphone jack/lightning splitter at Five Below. if it lasts a year I'll be happy with it.
― Nhex, Monday, 15 October 2018 07:30 (five years ago) link
the current iteration of the ipod touch is m/l the perfect size for a small phone... tim cook please read this...
― 龜, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 03:04 (five years ago) link
we should all email him, what's his email
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 03:08 (five years ago) link
tcook@
TIM @ KFC.EDU
― j., Tuesday, 16 October 2018 03:28 (five years ago) link
i've emailed him about the finder, icloud (i don't use this one, i'm not insane), quality control, and the mac being abandonware. he never replies.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 05:10 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/YnHNMEy.jpg
that's an iphone 6 on the left. you can imagine it full screen, touch id or whatever. great phone! would buy!
― 龜, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 11:32 (five years ago) link
I had completely forgotten that the iPod Touch existed but, of course... it's the only iPod that they make any more and it's basically a thinner, lighter iPhone SE (sans GPS, NFC, voice/SMS capability obv). I'm sticking with the SE through to late 2019 at least.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 11:46 (five years ago) link
New MacBook Air: retina screen, fuck-all ports, headphone on the wrong side. Audience cheering like announcements of yore. Very different feel from the po-faced iPhone events
(Love these daytime events)
― stet, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 14:14 (five years ago) link
‘fuck installing a port’, rants tim cook during unhinged press event
― la bébé du nom-nom (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 14:17 (five years ago) link
NEWWWWWWWWW mac miniiiiiiii
― stet, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 14:27 (five years ago) link
Wow, a LOT better price than I was expecting, and a nice improvement in general. Will likely order. (Especially given tariff murmurings.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 14:36 (five years ago) link
Still a price jump though, huh. God stop talking about fucking Apple Stores I have meetings to get to
― stet, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 14:40 (five years ago) link
It's a jump but the rumors were indicating some crazy massive jump that was having me rethink a bit. But this is fine from where I sit, at least.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 14:41 (five years ago) link