Apple’s call and sms spam filtering remains subpar to say the least. When I had a Pixel, I had the option to let the OS transcribe what the potential spammer was saying and end the call. It’s puzzling why Apple isn’t doing more here.
Anyone surprised by the Island notch software/hardware design? I don't mean the idea of a pill shaped notch. But the fact they're pouring so much software resource into it (even building dev tools) when the shape/size of that cutout should in theory change in the future when technology allows for smaller (or non-existent) cutouts.<p>They will either feel commited to that hardware design and stick to it longer than they should, or they will have to abandon a lot of software.
Apple, for iOS 17 can you please let me freely rearrange the apps on the screen? Having them shuffle every time I add or remove an app is really a pain
Passkeys gonna be fire. Goodbye password managers, credential stuffing, and phishing attacks!<p>(photo deduplication is nice too btw, been a long time coming)
Still no ability to have separate accounts on an ipad... I sort of understand that a phone is a single user OS, but the ipad most certainly should be a multi user OS.
This may be an unpopular opinion but I find iOS to be a much better appliance OS than Android, Chrome, or Windows. That said they are getting close to the 'computer' gap.<p>Back when computers were super expensive (like millions of $) the owners (or lessors) would try to get them to do as many things as possible all the time so maximize the "value" of their investment. What was truly revolutionary about microprocessors was that they were inexpensive enough that you could dedicate them to doing just one thing.<p>But then the capabilities of microprocessors started to greatly exceed the level of computation you needed to do that "one thing" and so the age of "featuritis" was born where the "wasted" compute resource in the dedicated microprocessor could do something to differentiate or add value to a product. That could be as silly as adding more indicator lights, but usually it was a way of altering the thing the appliance did. Today, nobody things twice about a washing machine that has a combinatorial set of 20 different wash cycles, versus the simple "water level", "water temperature", "number of cycles" that was achievable with just simple mechanical switches and a few dumb sensors.<p>However, it seems we might inflect again, as even cheaper microprocessors make even less expensive appliances available. Further, the subsumption of dozens of devices into the "phone" (copier, camera, recorder, navigator, television, Etc.) has created its own "traffic jam" where you might be watching TV on your device, and suddenly there is something you want to take a picture of and call someone about it. Multiplexing the device kind of works but it can also become annoying.<p>It will be interesting to me to see how this more "computer os like" version of iOS will fare, and whether or not multi-functioning on a single devices develops into a negative feature vs the current economic win.
After all of the iterations of iOS, there is still no way to have only the first new/unread message per SMS/iMessage thread generate a notification--particularly the notification sound or tone.<p>I find the feature would be useful in all situations, but would be especially useful in group threads. I don't need to hear a ding every time someone in a group thread sends a message if I don't have my phone in my hand. One ding generated when the first unread message is received will do just fine.
Well, looks like it's the end of the line for my 1st gen SE. It's been a good run. I'll miss you, little guy.<p>Looks like my other options for a small phone are 12/13 mini or possibly the 2nd/3rd gen SE. But not nearly as compact as the 4" SE.
I'm surprised they aren't using the iPhone 14 in the promo images.<p>Anyway, looks like my old iPhone 7 is finally going to have to retire. :/ I can't wait for a good Linux phone.<p>Edit: 7 years of use isn't bad compared to Android, but the phone is still just fine, and it really bothers me that it's turning into e-waste for no good reason.
Is anyone else anxious about updates?<p>I used to be so pumped for them when I was a teen. They’d unlock a world of new opportunities.<p>Now I just feel anxious that there’s change for change sake to justify the resourcing of the design teams and that they’ll make things I’m used to worse all for a bunch of features I’ll never use or want.<p>I don’t want more features. There’s so many already and they’re really cluttering.<p>Like when they moved the address bar to the bottom in Safari. Bad. Shame. But they let you revert it. I’m just waiting for that team to decide, “no those users are idiots. It’s been a year. Time to remove the setting and impose our new vision on existing users.”<p>…it’s me isn’t it? This sounds like old man yells at cloud speak.
Been on the β for a while; it’s a good OS. Particularly like the ability to use the iPhone as a Zoom cam. 3D printed a phone mount and everything works pretty seamlessly. Lock Screen widgets are nice too.<p>Stage manager on iPadOS doesn’t do it for me though.
For those with older devices, a list of supported (& unsupported) hardware -<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_16#Supported_devices" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_16#Supported_devices</a>
I'm just happy that a decade later Apple is finally catching up to the industry standard home screen and lock screen notifications/widget experience that they resisted so hard for some reason.
Huge!<p>But the bigger surprise is that there's literally nothing in it that I care about despite being an iOS user.<p>Also, multiple stops on Maps? That's Google maps 15 years ago.
Next to CarPlay it says "Vehicle announcement coming in late 2023" - what is this related to? Showing car-related information in CarPlay, or are they announcing a car of their own?
The iPhone 8 only compatibility means that many teams will be stuck supporting Safari 15.6 for a very long time. Anything under "no support" on this page will continue to be out of reach for years to come <a href="https://caniuse.com/?compare=safari+15.6&compareCats=all#results" rel="nofollow">https://caniuse.com/?compare=safari+15.6&compareCats=all#res...</a>
The improvements with photo sharing seem promising. Right now my partner and I have Dropbox Photo Sync enabled on our iPhones, but viewing the shared photos must be done through the Dropbox app.<p>But now with the new improvements it looks like there is an automatic option "you can share photos instantly right from Camera, choose to share automatically when other shared library members are nearby".
Interesting the tyranny of "you read my message and didn't reply right away" is strong enough for iOS 14 to allow to mark a message as unread. Doesn't this make the whole point of read receipts moot, actually?<p>I secretly hope this read-receipts feature (anti-feature?) is coming to an end. I <i>believe</i> read-receipts should be a per-message option or be discarded from apps. I know read-receipts can be disabled as a user choice, but most people expect them nowadays (me too, to be honest). It's that very expectation that I'm questioning and for which I suggest we should at least have a specific notion of ethics or politeness.
I got one or two spammer calls a week on TMobile over the course of maybe 8 years.<p>Six months on Verizon and I get more spam calls a week than those 8 years.
Do people still get excited for these smartphone OS updates? I remember a couple of years ago I couldn't wait to see what the new features were. Now I don't think I've changed the way I use my phone for several years.
I recently published an article[1] on How Apple could improve the VPNs experience on iOS. I hope someone at Apple finally decides to improve it on the next update.<p>It surprises me how Apple continues to add a lot of fancy feature and ignore basic day to day usability features like these.<p>[1] <a href="https://medium.com/@contact_54652/how-can-apple-improve-the-vpns-experience-on-iphone-ios-be93713879ba#68d5-f055ca2da018" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@contact_54652/how-can-apple-improve-the-...</a>
> Freeform. Freeform is a productivity app where you and your collaborators can bring ideas to life. Jot down notes, share files, and insert web links, documents, video, and audio.<p>> Coming later this year<p>Apple going to start offering email too?