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Apple Announces iOS 10, watchOS 3, and new features for tvOS
Also at its annual developer conference, Apple announced major updates to its other platforms: Apple TV, iPhone and iPad, and Apple Watch. Starting with the Apple TV, the company announced that tvOS is getting a new feature called Live-Tune-In which uses Siri to allow users to simply state aloud what channel they want to watch. The company also announced a feature called Single sign-on, a cable networks feature which will let users sign-in to all their Apple TV accounts more efficiently and easily. There's a new TV Remote app for iPhone as well.
watchOS 3 comes with a range of new capabilities as well. Most importantly, it offers much faster app performance, thanks to something Apple calls Instant Launch. It does the job seven times faster than its counterpart in watchOS 2. The Verge reports about other changes: The updated interface includes Control Center, which is accessed via a swipe up from the bottom of the display. The side button has been remapped to launch the dock of recent and running apps instead of the contacts menu. Apple has also added a few new watch faces, including a Minnie Mouse version and new one that more prominently shows activity progress. Watch faces can be changed by swiping across the display. The Reminders and Find Friends apps have been redesigned, and third party apps can also now run in the dock area. The new Scribble feature lets you draw letters on the screen to type out words. It's similar to a feature recently announced for Android Wear.Coming to iPhone and iPad, they will be getting iOS 10 update later this year. One of its coolest feature lets one automatically download apps across all your devices. Apple has also improved its Continuity effort, allowing users to utilize Universal Clipboard. "Basically, snippets of text, hyperlinks, and the like that you copy on one iOS or macOS device will be available on all the others." There is another new feature called Raise to Wake, which wakes up your iPhone when it is lifted. 3D Touch feature has received some improvements, too. Siri now offers more contextual feedback, and it is likely to get even better as Apple has provided developers with SDK for Siri for the first time. The Verge reports: It makes intelligent suggestions based on your current location, calendar availability, contact information, recent addresses, and more. It's Siri growing more and more into the role of an AI or a bot. And yes, it's based on deep learning just like Google's rival system is.Apple Music has been redesigned from scratch, and Apple Maps and Messages are getting some nifty features, and they are also being opened to developers.
watchOS 3 comes with a range of new capabilities as well. Most importantly, it offers much faster app performance, thanks to something Apple calls Instant Launch. It does the job seven times faster than its counterpart in watchOS 2. The Verge reports about other changes: The updated interface includes Control Center, which is accessed via a swipe up from the bottom of the display. The side button has been remapped to launch the dock of recent and running apps instead of the contacts menu. Apple has also added a few new watch faces, including a Minnie Mouse version and new one that more prominently shows activity progress. Watch faces can be changed by swiping across the display. The Reminders and Find Friends apps have been redesigned, and third party apps can also now run in the dock area. The new Scribble feature lets you draw letters on the screen to type out words. It's similar to a feature recently announced for Android Wear.Coming to iPhone and iPad, they will be getting iOS 10 update later this year. One of its coolest feature lets one automatically download apps across all your devices. Apple has also improved its Continuity effort, allowing users to utilize Universal Clipboard. "Basically, snippets of text, hyperlinks, and the like that you copy on one iOS or macOS device will be available on all the others." There is another new feature called Raise to Wake, which wakes up your iPhone when it is lifted. 3D Touch feature has received some improvements, too. Siri now offers more contextual feedback, and it is likely to get even better as Apple has provided developers with SDK for Siri for the first time. The Verge reports: It makes intelligent suggestions based on your current location, calendar availability, contact information, recent addresses, and more. It's Siri growing more and more into the role of an AI or a bot. And yes, it's based on deep learning just like Google's rival system is.Apple Music has been redesigned from scratch, and Apple Maps and Messages are getting some nifty features, and they are also being opened to developers.
Ooo-la-la!
So Apple named iOS 10, but rename OS X to mac OS. Great naming strategy.
Is iTunes still the most awesome piece of software ever to exist? Or did they improve it?
Emojis for everyone! Auto replace text with Emoji, a most important feature to any Swifty Developer(TM)!
Barf, what a fucking terrible keynote.
Apple Maps will let you pan and zoom while navigating! THE FUTURE IS NOW.
You are right. Many times I wish I could copy some text on my iPhone and paste it on my laptop. Christ. Apple fanboys are something else...
Siri, your creepy, obsessive friend who is always listening, digs through your stuff, and shares it all with anyone who asks.
Just what I always wanted.
The Pro version of Photos is Adobe Lightroom.
My favorite of the new features win this announcement was Single Sign-On. You log onto your iPhone with the fingerprint reader, and have it become an amulet that you can wave to log on to websites, apps and Apple TV channels on your local network.
Scenario:
I have multiple accounts for an iOS app that I use which I store on 1Password app.
Right now I just switch to 1P, copy pwd for relevant account, then switch back and paste.
(yes, for websites, I use the 1P safari extension).
Will this password be exposed to all my other devices (many of which are mostly used by my wife/kids)? Can I expect I'll have to a) stop copy/pasting passwords or b) disable Universal Clipboard?
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You are right. Many times I wish I could copy some text on my iPhone and paste it on my laptop. Christ. Apple fanboys are something else...
You can do pretty much the same thing with Notes.app, anyway.
First I had to get up and cross the room to change the channel.
Then I had to push a button on the remote to change the channel.
Now I have to speak to change the channel!?
What version of tvOS will allow me to think to change the channel?
Though, now that I think about it that might not be such a good thing.
Wife: "What is wrong with the TV? Why does it keep flipping to the Playboy channel?"
I don't know. I have tons of emails that I have sent myself with content that I wanted to share from one device to another. Anything that cuts down on that is good IMHO.
I'm sure many people will whine about being underwhelmed by this year's WWDC and the lack of any new hardware announcements, etc. But IMO, there were some really solid improvements shown. The "universal clipboard" is a HUGE improvement, IMO.
How often are you switching between devices like this? In a meaningful and useful way? I don't want to accidentally copy/paste some code snipped on my iPhone. I can tell you the number of times I want to actually do this: Once per iPhone connected to my WiFi network at home. That's it. I don't like having to copy/paste my WiFi key. But guess what, I can just sync that already with notes. So I guess really my count goes down to 0. Now you want to talk about a meaningful way to transfer documents between my phone and my computer? That is a different story. Right now I have to fire up webdav or use email to copy a picture or a PDF from my computer to phone or vice versa. I'm far more likely to want to print something to PDF on my computer and haul it with me on my phone than I am going to want to copy and paste from my computer to my phone.
Oh and that's something you can easily do with Android but can't so conveniently do on an iPhone.
I don't know. I have tons of emails that I have sent myself with content that I wanted to share from one device to another. Anything that cuts down on that is good IMHO.
And how often has that been something out of a PDF or photo and you just didn't have a useful file manager (read any file manager) on iOS?
WWDC keynotes are a shit. If I were Tom Cook, I would worry more about the consistent problems year after year about streaming the event for all iThings. For instance, since Steve Jobs died I have not been able to see it in my Apple TV. As for using the WWDC keynote for making a statement about gay, blacks, and fat rights...it may not be the right place for it, Tim! And once again they made publicity for the Weekend...it him the new Tim cook boyfriend?
The really big under-the-hood change in macOS appears to be a completely new file system. There was a mention on MacNN but not a lot of details yet.
by this year's WWDC and the lack of any new hardware announcements, etc.
The WWDC is the WorldWide Developers Conference. They usually don't announce new hardware in the WWDC because the audience of the conference are developers, and they're announcing the new features in their operating systems because they're about to release new developer previews and SDKs, so that developers can start working on supporting the new OS. They then often announce a bunch of new hardware in October that will actually run the new OS.
Wow.... I'm an "Apple fanboy" now, because I post an honest opinion about the pros and cons of the WWDC event? Sorry I didn't just bash on the entire thing as pointless so it might please you, Mr. "binary numbers for a Slashdot nick".
As a matter of fact, yes.... I'm often using my iPhone to read email and linked articles people send me when I'm on public transportation, riding to/from work. Once I'm at my computer, I sometimes wish I had the ability to paste quotes from what I read (such as if I want to share it with someone I know on Facebook). Without easy copy/paste functionality, that requires the extra steps of pulling the original content back up on the PC or Mac in a browser and finding the info of interest again, just to do the copy/paste on it. Usually, that's not even worth the effort.
But that conveniently ignores the more important part of my comment on the feature.... the ability to create a drawing or sketch on an iPad Pro using the pencil, and then easily xfer it over to a project on the Mac. That has the potential to save someone the expense of buying a Wacom or similar tablet, which would be inferior to the experience drawing/sketching on the iPad Pro anyway.
I'm not sure I'm following you. What do you mean by taking something out of a PDF or photo? I'm just talking about having writing something on my desktop and wanting to get some text that I have saved on my phone. I could put the text into a google doc or into a file and save it to dropbox, but usually it is just easier to email it to myself.
I'm not sure I'm following you. What do you mean by taking something out of a PDF or photo? I'm just talking about having writing something on my desktop and wanting to get some text that I have saved on my phone. I could put the text into a google doc or into a file and save it to dropbox, but usually it is just easier to email it to myself.
I'm saying it's far more convenient to be able to transfer PDFs, photos, and other files rather than copy and paste. There are very few times that copy/paste between a phone/iPad and a computer is useful. Most of the time I want to send concert tickets, a boarding pass, train ticket or whatever to my phone. Right now the only way to do that on the iPhone is email, webdav, dropbox, or airdrop.
I'm still not following you. It's easy to send files to a computer from an iPhone via AirDrop. I do it all the time. It's only when I want to send some text that I cannot do so easily.
This actually sounds like a really good feature. There are times when I'm twiddling with my iPad, only to realizing I could be doing it much more easily on Mac. Being able to easily move data from one to the other would be very valuable.
I'd like to complain about how Apple should have supported Bluetooth OBEX right from the beginning, but considering almost every single vendor that provides Bluetooth functionality somehow botches up OBEX, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that Apple didn't even bother trying.
*mutter mutter*
I know... Let's put a mac with the new OSX^H^H^H MacOS side by side with a Windows 10 machine. That way Siri and Cortana can commiserate about how nobody actually wants them.
Seriously, the last thing I need is to have half the office staring at me worriedly because I'm screaming at Siri because it made a reminder for me to "Eat Up Martha" instead of what I actually wanted.
You are right. Many times I wish I could copy some text on my iPhone and paste it on my laptop. Christ. Apple fanboys are something else...
Sounds like somebody is jeal-ous...
I'm not sure I'm following you. What do you mean by taking something out of a PDF or photo? I'm just talking about having writing something on my desktop and wanting to get some text that I have saved on my phone. I could put the text into a google doc or into a file and save it to dropbox, but usually it is just easier to email it to myself.
I'm saying it's far more convenient to be able to transfer PDFs, photos, and other files rather than copy and paste. There are very few times that copy/paste between a phone/iPad and a computer is useful. Most of the time I want to send concert tickets, a boarding pass, train ticket or whatever to my phone. Right now the only way to do that on the iPhone is email, webdav, dropbox, or airdrop.
So, IOW, there are already at least FOUR methods you mentioned to do that. So you want a FIFTH?
This is a unique feature, and one of those you'll end up using almost without thinking about how much convenience it adds.
Typical Apple.
hat requires the extra steps of pulling the original content back up on the PC or Mac in a browser and finding the info of interest again, just to do the copy/paste on it. Usually, that's not even worth the effort.
I just had to do exactly that when I looked up something on my iPad and then wanted to pull it up for further study on my Mac.
I'm sure many people will whine about being underwhelmed by this year's WWDC and the lack of any new hardware announcements, etc. But IMO, there were some really solid improvements shown. The "universal clipboard" is a HUGE improvement, IMO.
How often are you switching between devices like this? In a meaningful and useful way? I don't want to accidentally copy/paste some code snipped on my iPhone. I can tell you the number of times I want to actually do this: Once per iPhone connected to my WiFi network at home. That's it. I don't like having to copy/paste my WiFi key. But guess what, I can just sync that already with notes. So I guess really my count goes down to 0. Now you want to talk about a meaningful way to transfer documents between my phone and my computer? That is a different story. Right now I have to fire up webdav or use email to copy a picture or a PDF from my computer to phone or vice versa. I'm far more likely to want to print something to PDF on my computer and haul it with me on my phone than I am going to want to copy and paste from my computer to my phone.
Oh and that's something you can easily do with Android but can't so conveniently do on an iPhone.
You apparently have never heard of GoodReader. Best $5 you will ever spend.
Good job Apple. You had me worried. Now, go forward and be a leader again. Make Americ... er rather - Make the company great again.
I'm still not following you. It's easy to send files to a computer from an iPhone via AirDrop. I do it all the time. It's only when I want to send some text that I cannot do so easily.
Only if you have a Mac. And only if you have a recent enough Mac, at that.
I'm not sure I'm following you. What do you mean by taking something out of a PDF or photo? I'm just talking about having writing something on my desktop and wanting to get some text that I have saved on my phone. I could put the text into a google doc or into a file and save it to dropbox, but usually it is just easier to email it to myself.
I'm saying it's far more convenient to be able to transfer PDFs, photos, and other files rather than copy and paste. There are very few times that copy/paste between a phone/iPad and a computer is useful. Most of the time I want to send concert tickets, a boarding pass, train ticket or whatever to my phone. Right now the only way to do that on the iPhone is email, webdav, dropbox, or airdrop.
So, IOW, there are already at least FOUR methods you mentioned to do that. So you want a FIFTH? This is a unique feature, and one of those you'll end up using almost without thinking about how much convenience it adds. Typical Apple.
With the exception of AirDrop, none of those are native and ALL of them require me sending the data through a server or owning a Mac computer. Webdav requires me to purchase or create my own webdav client. And what if the file is too big for email and I am on a network that blocks dropbox? Then all of the sudden I have exactly 0 ways to transfer the data. I travel to client sites all of the time where they all have Windows based machines and I am not allowed on their network (they're all financial institutions). If I need to give them a file that has any sort of financial data I can't send it via dropbox or email*. So that means I have to carry around an extra piece of hardware even though everyone in the room has a device in their pocket that is perfectly capable of storing the file I need to transfer.
*Note that none of that data I send is actual financial data, it's all test or sample data but the security people at these financial institutions apply all the PCI rules to anything that appears to be financial data flowing into or out of their networks.
I'm sure many people will whine about being underwhelmed by this year's WWDC and the lack of any new hardware announcements, etc. But IMO, there were some really solid improvements shown. The "universal clipboard" is a HUGE improvement, IMO.
How often are you switching between devices like this? In a meaningful and useful way? I don't want to accidentally copy/paste some code snipped on my iPhone. I can tell you the number of times I want to actually do this: Once per iPhone connected to my WiFi network at home. That's it. I don't like having to copy/paste my WiFi key. But guess what, I can just sync that already with notes. So I guess really my count goes down to 0. Now you want to talk about a meaningful way to transfer documents between my phone and my computer? That is a different story. Right now I have to fire up webdav or use email to copy a picture or a PDF from my computer to phone or vice versa. I'm far more likely to want to print something to PDF on my computer and haul it with me on my phone than I am going to want to copy and paste from my computer to my phone.
Oh and that's something you can easily do with Android but can't so conveniently do on an iPhone.
You apparently have never heard of GoodReader. Best $5 you will ever spend.
I have heard of GoodReader. But like I said it is not a native file manager. I obviously know that there are other ways to manage files with iOS or I wouldn't have mentioned webdav. And guess what? You could use that to copy/paste text between your phone and your computer via text files. So why does Apple need to add native copy/paste 'continuity' between machines? I mean that's basically what you've said in your last two replies to me.
I'm sure many people will whine about being underwhelmed by this year's WWDC and the lack of any new hardware announcements, etc. But IMO, there were some really solid improvements shown. The "universal clipboard" is a HUGE improvement, IMO.
How often are you switching between devices like this? In a meaningful and useful way? I don't want to accidentally copy/paste some code snipped on my iPhone. I can tell you the number of times I want to actually do this: Once per iPhone connected to my WiFi network at home. That's it. I don't like having to copy/paste my WiFi key. But guess what, I can just sync that already with notes. So I guess really my count goes down to 0. Now you want to talk about a meaningful way to transfer documents between my phone and my computer? That is a different story. Right now I have to fire up webdav or use email to copy a picture or a PDF from my computer to phone or vice versa. I'm far more likely to want to print something to PDF on my computer and haul it with me on my phone than I am going to want to copy and paste from my computer to my phone.
Oh and that's something you can easily do with Android but can't so conveniently do on an iPhone.
You apparently have never heard of GoodReader. Best $5 you will ever spend.
I have heard of GoodReader. But like I said it is not a native file manager. I obviously know that there are other ways to manage files with iOS or I wouldn't have mentioned webdav. And guess what? You could use that to copy/paste text between your phone and your computer via text files. So why does Apple need to add native copy/paste 'continuity' between machines? I mean that's basically what you've said in your last two replies to me.
End to end encryption. That's why.
Well, that pretty much describes me so it works great for me. This is really one of the first world problems where if it doesn't work for other people I'm not going to spend any time worrying about it.