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Apple Unveils iOS 12 (apple.com)
Apple on Monday unveiled iOS 12, the major software update that is coming later this year to all the iPhones and iPad models the company has released since 2013. iOS 12 offers a handful of new features but the focus this year, said company's VP of engineering Craig Federighi onstage, is on performance improvements. Apps will launch up to 40 percent faster, and you can slide to take a photo at up to 70 percent faster than with iOS 11, Federighi said. Part of the major push this year is also on augmented reality. The company is introducing a Measure app, which will people to use their phone's camera to measure real-life objects accurately. There's also 3D graphics that you can place into the real world through AR. Apple made a new file format called USDZ, which was developed in conjunction with Pixar.
Apple is also introducing something called "personalised Memoji characters," ability to have a group FaceTime call, and minor new features and improvements to Siri, and Photos. There is also grouped notifications, a feature that Apple claims to have invented. (Android has had it for more than 8 years.) Additionally, Apple is also bringing new tools to iOS that will allow users to take better control of the time they spend interacting with their iPhones and iPads. Note from the press release: New modes in Do Not Disturb automatically end based on a specified time, location or action and Do Not Disturb during Bedtime helps people get a better night's sleep by dimming the display and hiding all notifications on the lock screen until prompted in the morning. To help reduce interruptions, iOS 12 gives users more options for controlling how notifications are delivered. They can instantly manage notifications to be delivered quietly or turned off completely. Grouped notifications make it easier to view and manage multiple notifications at once. Screen Time provides users with detailed information and tools to help them better understand and control the time they spend with apps and websites. Daily and weekly Activity Reports show the total time spent in individual apps, usage across categories of apps, how many notifications are received and how often iPhone or iPad are picked up.
Apple is also introducing something called "personalised Memoji characters," ability to have a group FaceTime call, and minor new features and improvements to Siri, and Photos. There is also grouped notifications, a feature that Apple claims to have invented. (Android has had it for more than 8 years.) Additionally, Apple is also bringing new tools to iOS that will allow users to take better control of the time they spend interacting with their iPhones and iPads. Note from the press release: New modes in Do Not Disturb automatically end based on a specified time, location or action and Do Not Disturb during Bedtime helps people get a better night's sleep by dimming the display and hiding all notifications on the lock screen until prompted in the morning. To help reduce interruptions, iOS 12 gives users more options for controlling how notifications are delivered. They can instantly manage notifications to be delivered quietly or turned off completely. Grouped notifications make it easier to view and manage multiple notifications at once. Screen Time provides users with detailed information and tools to help them better understand and control the time they spend with apps and websites. Daily and weekly Activity Reports show the total time spent in individual apps, usage across categories of apps, how many notifications are received and how often iPhone or iPad are picked up.
Too bad they didn't adopt the edu model and allow multiple users....now that would be groundbreaking.
Now is not. Strange.
personalised Memoji characters
Send maymays with a single character is indeed a significant advance. With this single stroke, Apple has beheaded Android and, by extension, Linux.
Apps will launch up to 40 percent faster, and you can slide to take a photo at up to 70 percent faster than with iOS 11
What did apple do? Remove the CPU throttling code.
"Apps will launch up to 40 percent faster" is Apple speak for "We removed the performance crippling "feature" that "saves" your battery that we put in without your knowledge"
Macrumors reported that IOS12 will support CarPlay with third party navigation apps, specifically including Waze. This is huge for me! I hate all native car navigation apps and will use my phone mounted on my dashboard just to get Waze. Enabling CarPlay is a huge deal.
Thank God Slashdot is returning to stuff that matters. No more articles with that curing cancer nonsense.
It would have been nice had they went with virtualization. That way, I can have my work stuff, personal stuff, and my side projects, all on separate VMs/containers, where none can see each other. This would especially useful with a dual-SIM setup, where one can flip to the other VMs. Bonus points where a VM can be hidden, only accessed by a PIN/password, so if it gets searched, one can just show the "travelling schmuck" VM with some clown pr0n on it to get past border security.
This is significant because - I just know Apple has something revolutionary or at least humanitarian to announce - you can run it on the Pi, right??
Do app developers have to pay Apple to gain access to CarPlay?
I'm guessing that it's not merely a question of making your app meet CarPlay UI standards and meeting some "distraction free" criteria.
Or is it one of those cases where Apple has some weird opaque standard tied to internal strategies and you never have any way of knowing how to get CarPlay enabled?
Because even with a fresh new battery from Apple I still want longer battery life over eye candy, up to the microsecond email delivery, and "hey siri" always listening.
How about the ability to connect to and disconnect from bluetooth devices from the swipe-up screen thingy instead of auto-pairing when I turn a spaker on and then having to poke around so someone else can connect to it?
mac hardware is in dire need of upgrades
and 5400 RPM HDD's in 2017 much less 2018?
Also the mini why is that so out of date still?
Buawhahahahaha! Who cares!?
I can shove an iPhone X almost 75% up my asshole before the vibrating notifications cause acute pain.
For people like you, there is Do Not Disturb mode. The warden will not hear rings or notification tones from your concealed iPhone.
New modes in Do Not Disturb automatically end based on a specified time, location or action and Do Not Disturb during Bedtime helps people get a better night's sleep by dimming the display and hiding all notifications on the lock screen until prompted in the morning.
Are Apple users really too stupid to be able to sleep because of their phone? Did this really need an OS update for them to cope?
No sig today...
* if you are on the latest devices. For any device more than 2 years old it will be 40% slower.
Keep trying. All it takes is dedication.
Where is dark mode for IOS??? and don't give me the smart invert crap.
It is kind of sad that my iPhone 6 is now slower than the iPhone 1...I hope this gets sorted out.
It looks like app developers are using the upcoming release as a good time to abandon IOS 9.74, which is the best you get for any device released before 2013. 2012 iPads are still pretty useful other than that problem.
There are other browsers, like Brave or SnowHaze, that are superior in terms of security and functionality to Safari. It's super annoying that Apple doesn't let us change the default browser, and makes alternate browser developers run on their engine. There's no good business reason to do this. Get your head in the game, Cook!