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iOS 13 To Feature Dark Mode and Interface Updates, Report Says (9to5mac.com)
9to5Mac has learned of several new features expected to be included in iOS 13. From the report: Dark Mode: There will be a system-wide Dark Mode that can be enabled in Settings, including a high contrast version, similar to what's already available on macOS. Speaking of macOS, iPad apps that run on the Mac using Marzipan will finally take advantage of the Dark Mode support on both systems.
Multitasking: There are many changes coming to iPad with iOS 13, including the ability for apps to have multiple windows. Each window will also be able to contain sheets that are initially attached to a portion of the screen, but can be detached with a drag gesture, becoming a card that can be moved around freely, similar to what an open-source project called "PanelKit" could do. These cards can also be stacked on top of each other, and use a depth effect to indicate which cards are on top and which are on the bottom. Cards can be flung away to dismiss them.
Undo gesture: With iOS 13, Apple is introducing a new standard undo gesture for text input on the iPad. The gesture starts as a three-finger tap on the keyboard area, sliding left and right allows the user to undo and redo actions interactively.
Safari improvements: Safari on iOS 13 for the iPad will automatically ask for a desktop version of websites when necessary, preventing a common issue where websites will render their iPhone version even when running on an iPad with a big screen. YouTube is notorious for this behavior, forcing users to rely on a 'Request Desktop Site' button.
Font management: Font management is getting a major upgrade on iOS 13. It will not be necessary to install a profile to get new fonts into the system anymore. Instead there will be a new font management panel in Settings. A new standard font picker component will be available for developers and the system will notify the user when they open a document that has missing fonts.
Smarter Mail: The upgraded Mail app will be able to organize messages into categories such as marketing, purchases, travel, "not important" and more, with the categories being searchable. Users will also be able to add messages to a "read later" queue similar to third-party email apps. Improved multiple item selection: The focus on productivity on iOS continues with the inclusion of new gestures to allow for the selection of multiple items in table views and collection views, which make up for most of the user interfaces found in apps that list large amounts of data. Users will be able to drag with multiple fingers on a list or collection of items to draw a selection, similar to clicking and dragging in Finder on the Mac.
New Volume HUD and other changes: Other features to come with iOS 13 include a redesigned Reminders app, which is also coming to the Mac, a new volume HUD, better "Hey Siri" rejection for common mistaken noises such as laughter and crying babies, better multilingual support for keyboards and dictation, and expanded in-app printing controls. Apple is expected to officially unveil the next major iPhone and iPad OS at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference on June 3rd.
Multitasking: There are many changes coming to iPad with iOS 13, including the ability for apps to have multiple windows. Each window will also be able to contain sheets that are initially attached to a portion of the screen, but can be detached with a drag gesture, becoming a card that can be moved around freely, similar to what an open-source project called "PanelKit" could do. These cards can also be stacked on top of each other, and use a depth effect to indicate which cards are on top and which are on the bottom. Cards can be flung away to dismiss them.
Undo gesture: With iOS 13, Apple is introducing a new standard undo gesture for text input on the iPad. The gesture starts as a three-finger tap on the keyboard area, sliding left and right allows the user to undo and redo actions interactively.
Safari improvements: Safari on iOS 13 for the iPad will automatically ask for a desktop version of websites when necessary, preventing a common issue where websites will render their iPhone version even when running on an iPad with a big screen. YouTube is notorious for this behavior, forcing users to rely on a 'Request Desktop Site' button.
Font management: Font management is getting a major upgrade on iOS 13. It will not be necessary to install a profile to get new fonts into the system anymore. Instead there will be a new font management panel in Settings. A new standard font picker component will be available for developers and the system will notify the user when they open a document that has missing fonts.
Smarter Mail: The upgraded Mail app will be able to organize messages into categories such as marketing, purchases, travel, "not important" and more, with the categories being searchable. Users will also be able to add messages to a "read later" queue similar to third-party email apps. Improved multiple item selection: The focus on productivity on iOS continues with the inclusion of new gestures to allow for the selection of multiple items in table views and collection views, which make up for most of the user interfaces found in apps that list large amounts of data. Users will be able to drag with multiple fingers on a list or collection of items to draw a selection, similar to clicking and dragging in Finder on the Mac.
New Volume HUD and other changes: Other features to come with iOS 13 include a redesigned Reminders app, which is also coming to the Mac, a new volume HUD, better "Hey Siri" rejection for common mistaken noises such as laughter and crying babies, better multilingual support for keyboards and dictation, and expanded in-app printing controls. Apple is expected to officially unveil the next major iPhone and iPad OS at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference on June 3rd.
It's telling, when the key changes are purely cosmetic and little tweaks that usually came standard in every UI before.
(Windows 3.x had color schemes. I bet the Xerox Alto did too.)
You're playing ketchup!
The list also made me think of Windows 3.1, and 1980s Mac.
Separate windows, putting mail in folders. Does it come with a Prodigy or AOL disc?
Does it come with a Prodigy or AOL disc?
There's a HuffPost (formerly AOL News) app, and Prodigy is on iTunes. Is that close enough?
Not the "smarter" mail please :( I am on the current iOS and the damn mail is so smart, I can't simply see individual messages - it insists on folding all previous replies into a single concoction (so that if you want to delete one - it kills them all).
And photos - they are so "smart" there is no longer a simple chronological set. Instead it's trying to come up with its very own groupings that, while making no sense to me, cannot be easily turned off.
When will "smarter" crap stop? Please give me simple applications that do nothing unless *I SPECIFICALLY ASK THEM TO*!!!!
Would be great if they could also add support for TLS 1.3 IMAP mail accounts.....
The subdividing of mail is a useful feature. lets say 100 emails come in and 80% are sorted correctly you have 20 that are wrongly sorted and you can correct that pretty quickly and the filters may even learn and do better next time. With 100 unsorted mails it's all random and you sort everything. Thats a bigger task. Think of it as a venn diagram with yes no and maybe as the intersection items in the yes or no group are pretty much correct so you just need to filter the maybes, the majority are already in the right grouping.
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the ios interface has reached gesture overload, which is obvious with the new buttonless ipad pro with no bezel - to control the device requires looking up, memorizing, and using a bewildering number of fine motor control gestures which are not intuitive - apple is making ipads almost impossible to use
They need to have bugs, so they can crow about 'updates' coming regularly for years and years.
I miss the days when Apple was an innovator.
First widely successful music player? Apple
First widely successful smart phone? Apple
First small footprint TV streaming device for laptops and smart phones? Apple
Hell, go back to the 80's, first widely successful computer platform? Apple.
Without Steve Jobs, apple lost its innovation. Even near the end for Steve, his focus obviously shifted and his level of Innovation went down.
Now, Apple is playing catch up to Android, their Macs aren't innovative, maybe except for the touch bar, and the laser mapping face unlock.
My first two smart phones were iPhone 4 and 4s. My fiance has an iPhone X, and I see absolutely no reason to ever go back. The experience on my Pixel 3 is much, much better.
They finally finished copying all the multitasking features that Palm's webOS introduced a decade ago.
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OR I can rewrite whatever functionality the webapp provides using Apple's own development tools and package it as an app in iTunes, which more than doubles maintenance costs
Offer the WebGL version without charge and charge for the iOS version. Every year or so, a story comes out that iOS users are still far more likely to pay for nice things, to the tune of 9 times the revenue per user for paid apps and IAPs compared to an Android user.
Does this mean we'll be able to set the relative volumes without having to guess as to which application is being considered in the "foreground"? Trying to adjust the turn by turn volume while you have music playing is extremely annoying.
What does it mean when the biggest feature the tech world covets is Dark Mode. The leading title is "Dark Mode" and probably "new emojis" oooh. Tech is dead because people expect so little.
iOS is missing a basic "HUD" There no longer exists way to see the day's schedule, or reminders, or todo lists. Everything is a pop-up task on the home screen that goes away once you unlock the screen. I like to pick up my device and see a continual list of "things coming up that you haven't done yet" Apple still hasn't come up with a way to display important information vs "all notifications"
iOS still has icons ala Windows 3.1. It is time to merge apps and data and provide a single overview. That's hard I know. But I watch my friends with Android and they can see all kinds of things while texting in the middle of the screen - all from the lock screen. UI Envy is what it is.
Dark mode - I could give a rats ass.
"Undo gesture: With iOS 13, Apple is introducing a new standard undo gesture for text input on the iPad. The gesture starts as a three-finger tap on the keyboard area, sliding left and right allows the user to undo and redo actions interactively."
Whoever came up with "shake to undo" should be condemned to use Android for the rest of their life as it's one of the two most un-Apple-like GUI misdesigns in recent history (the other being MacOS Safari in full-screen mode and the jumping clo