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iOS 11 Released (theverge.com)
Today, Apple released the final version of iOS 11, its latest mobile operating system. If you have an iPhone or iPad that was released within the last few years, you should be able to download the new update if you navigate to the Settings panel and check for a software update under the General tab. The Verge reports: OS 11, first unveiled in detail back at Apple's WWDC in June, is the same incremental annual refresh we've come to expect from the company, but it hides some impressive complexity under the surface. Not only does it add some neat features to iOS for the first time, like ARKit capabilities for augmented reality and a new Files app, but it also comes with much-needed improvements to Siri; screenshot capture and editing; and the Control Center, which is now more fully featured and customizable. For iPads, iOS 11 is more of an overhaul. The software now better supports multitasking so you can more easily bring two apps into split-screen mode, or even add a third now. The new drag-and-drop features are also much more powerful on iPad, letting you manage stuff in the Files app more intuitively and even letting you drag and drop photos and text from one app to another.
Fuck this iOS...
Or escaped??
slashdot: A failed experiment.
But where is the source?
I use Fing quite a bit for quick network scans. It's super useful because it identifies a large number of devices by brand. It does this by using MAC addresses. I got a notification in the app that with ios11 it would lose this capability as MAC addresses are no longer available for apps to see. The OS doesn't allow it. I remember when you could scan wifi channels with iOS. I like iPhones but I guess they just want normal people using the device, and not professionals who use it as a tool as well. Fing mentioned they will use other methods available to supplement the old method, but to expect it not to be as accurate.
I have an iPad2 that is working perfectly well - except the AppStore won't let me upgrade past iOS 9.something.
Thanks Apple!
I'm not sure the new headers, like "Inbox" and other top level descriptions looks right. Odd design choice with a big ugly text string at the top of the page. Surely they could have made it more aesthetically pleasing.
How long until Apple collapses into a heap of the past?
tbh their mistakes aren't much worse than Microsoft's or Ubuntu's though, so maybe they'll keep going for a while.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Before today I never heard of HEIF photo format which is some sort of spinoff of HEVC video. And apparently HEVC or H265 is the video format. More confusion.
iOS devices were automatically converted to APFS back with iOS 10.3....
Yes more Apple Hater ignorance on parade, like a giant floating turkey with the word STUPID stamped on the forehead.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
"If you have an iPhone or iPad that was released within the last few years, you should be able to download the new update [...]"
Take that Google.
Aaaahhhhhh!
Sorry, it was the first thing I noticed, because I never pay for apps, so nothing broke.
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I'm sure glad Apple is on top of this.
...but you probably don't want to.
When you don't include an SDCARD and put it Live View Photos using a 20-quadrillion pixel camera, you have to do something to optimize space on the device. Hope HEIF and HVEC are good choices.
They are very good choices, HEIF offering much better than JPG compression, and more importantly allowing them to store exotic metadata like depth maps with each photo.
But on top of that, if you enable pushing photos out to iCloud, over time the originals will be removed from your system and kept in the cloud until you need the full size version. That enables you to store a ton of photos/video even on the 64GB devices...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
How does it perform in older iPhones, like the 6 for instance? It seems Apple devs focus on newer devices, so I'd wait a bit before installing 11 on my 6.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
these go to 11
In other words, if you have an iDevice that is older than , you can pretty much guarantee that the new version, from which you won't be able to revert, will bring your still-working hardware to its knees.
It happened with my original $800 IPad, and again with a perfectly fine IPhone 5.
Not sure if this is a typical Apple 'progressive' feature or a byproduct of bugs but sit long enough at a location with public wifi and listen to the people who upgraded having a powwow trying to figure out how they can connect after upgrading to IOS 11.
Users reported issues during the dev builds earlier in the summer but it seems they've rolled out these 'features' (bugs) regardless and piles of people can't connect to public wifi, especially if it doesn't have a password. There's an auto-join function to override whatever the feature is supposed to represent but it's not working.
For myself itâ(TM)s a mixed bag given that itâ(TM)s a bit sluggish on my iPad Mini 2 but fine on my iPhone SE so beware if you have a device that just made the cut.
Why the fuck am I losing about an inch of screen real estate for Apple to tell my I'm looking at my mailboxes? Or that I'm in my Inbox?
Who designed this shit?
I hadn't looked at it in a while and thought that was the new image format and the other was the container. Oops! Regardless, the point stands that they have a new format that has a much better compression than JPEG, and the container (as I also noted) lets them hold lots of other stuff alongside.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
The operators now own all the tracking... this is not about privacy its about control
Network/Carriers simply inject cookies for advertising if they own media assets
(https://www.accessnow.org/verizon-fined-1-35-million-use-supercookies/)
The real problem is that Mobile network Operators can decrypt the streams via the MITM after all they own the Certificate authorities and can sign on the fly (its so bad that even advertisers had to ban some from their browsers)
EV certificates are not the answer IMHO :
https://0.me.uk/ev-phishing/
we could move to a situation where we explicitly publish our certificates in DNS such as DANE then ALSO use Certificate Authorities we as users opt into
heck you could even publish the certificates on a blockchain or a P2P system to supplement DANE anything has got to be better than the current situation
https://mitm.watch/
regards
John Jones
It's wrong on so many levels, simply unbelievable. Hideous, 'flat' icons that look like absolute rubbish, all the same colour background (on some of the screens I saw), randomly swiping in different directions reveals other screens underneath. How is anybody supposed to know any of this without being shown it? This is just getting beyond a joke. Apple are making their user interface worse and worse with every new OS release.
thanks, but I'll use v10.2 as long as possible.
You used to be able to show the db strength all the time (vs bars) by dialing the *3001#12345#* and doing a few button pushes, but it appears that Apple in their wisdom removed your ability to do that.
The old interface, font and graphics were fine. They keep following this stupid flat graphics fad horseshit. Fuck all these designers
I bought the new iPad Pro 10â a while ago and just installed ios11. It is a great improvement - now it is finally easy to drag and drop between apps. For lighter computer users it may be an acceptable single computer.
So what is the frustration - I didnâ(TM)t expect that I had such a large number of 32 bit apps that donâ(TM)t work anymore. Hope that enough of them will still be upgraded.
this ios 11 thing is good... believe it or not... hard to imagine they didn't drop a stinkbomb on us... kudos apple for IMPROVING usability for once ... particularly nice is how there's less crap around the edges of the screen where you're swiping and scrolling in the app and accidentally trigger some useless ios feature you don't want - now everything like that is accessible by double-pushing the one button on the device... ios11 all day every day for me!
If you have an iPhone that is being used to access email from Microsoft Exchange servers, you may want to hold off on this update. The update currently is having issues getting email from Exchange. See https://suppot.apple.com/en-us/HT208136.