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- Tim Cook says Apple is donating $1 million to earthquake recovery efforts in Mexico
- iPhone 8 Is World's Fastest Phone (It's Not Even Close)
- Netflix just updated their iOS app allowing iPhone 8(+) and X owners to watch HDR content.
- 3D Touch App Switcher to return in future iOS 11 update.
- TIL on iOS 11: Tapping on other app icons while trying to move a single one will stack them all together for easy re-arranging.
- Apple does right by users and advertisers are displeased | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- iOS 11 tip: You can press the power button to stop screen recording so that the Control Center doesn’t appear at the end of the video
- Low light photography: iPhone 7 Plus vs. iPhone 8 Plus. Huge difference.
- Apple Pay Coming to Nearly 1,700 ALDI Grocery Stores Across United States
- Is the Tim Cook we see at Keynotes and on the media the same Tim Cook in meetings and in the boardroom?
- [iOS11] PSA - If you’re running screen recording on Snapchat, it shows up as you took a screenshot if you open a snap/chat log
- TIL on iOS 11, pressing a link with 2 fingers with proceed to open it in a new tab
- Anonymous answers to "What's it like working with Tim Cook?"
- I got my hands on an iPhone 8 Plus. The new gold colour is gorgeous!
- Why the hell do you oftentimes have to hit "Enter" twice in Safari to go to an URL?
- Discussion: Apple's Frequent UI Changes Can Present Usage Challenges For Some People
- For all the original Apple Watch owners, how is it holding up?
- PSA: on iOS 11 and NON-3D Touch devices, long-press many Control Center controls for shortcuts.
- Touch ID on iOS 11 faster?
- Is anyone else's Podcasts experience completely ruined after iOS 11?
- Apple TV 4K review: so close, so far
- Why doesn’t apple build LTE into laptops?
- First iPhone 8 teardown reveals few internal design changes
- Video with Angela Ahrendts and footage in distribution centers on how Apple prepares for iPhone launch day
- The iPad finally gets a flashlight toggle with iOS 11
| Tim Cook says Apple is donating $1 million to earthquake recovery efforts in Mexico Posted: 21 Sep 2017 02:10 PM PDT |
| iPhone 8 Is World's Fastest Phone (It's Not Even Close) Posted: 21 Sep 2017 05:33 PM PDT |
| Netflix just updated their iOS app allowing iPhone 8(+) and X owners to watch HDR content. Posted: 21 Sep 2017 01:46 PM PDT |
| 3D Touch App Switcher to return in future iOS 11 update. Posted: 21 Sep 2017 10:02 AM PDT |
| Posted: 21 Sep 2017 09:43 AM PDT |
| Apple does right by users and advertisers are displeased | Electronic Frontier Foundation Posted: 21 Sep 2017 02:37 AM PDT |
| Posted: 21 Sep 2017 10:12 AM PDT And the notification about the video being saved in the Photos app will be displayed on the cover sheet right after. [link] [comments]  |
| Low light photography: iPhone 7 Plus vs. iPhone 8 Plus. Huge difference. Posted: 21 Sep 2017 06:43 PM PDT Check out the difference! It's massive and shows the power of the slow-sync flash. They emphasized it in the keynote but I didn't think it'd make this big of a difference. [link] [comments]  |
| Apple Pay Coming to Nearly 1,700 ALDI Grocery Stores Across United States Posted: 21 Sep 2017 07:48 AM PDT |
| Posted: 21 Sep 2017 04:41 PM PDT I just imagine him being more fast spoken and fierce during executive meetings or one to one conversations. He's a fascinating fellow, it would be interested to see what he's like at work vs. how we perceive him in the media [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 21 Sep 2017 01:42 PM PDT I just tried it with a friends chat log from a few hours ago. Turned on screen recorder and opened his chat (empty) and it showed at the top "you took a screenshot of this chat" I'm sure it'd do the same for a photo/video snap. Use caution ;) [link] [comments]  |
| TIL on iOS 11, pressing a link with 2 fingers with proceed to open it in a new tab Posted: 21 Sep 2017 05:03 AM PDT |
| Anonymous answers to "What's it like working with Tim Cook?" Posted: 21 Sep 2017 09:24 PM PDT |
| I got my hands on an iPhone 8 Plus. The new gold colour is gorgeous! Posted: 21 Sep 2017 08:16 AM PDT |
| Why the hell do you oftentimes have to hit "Enter" twice in Safari to go to an URL? Posted: 21 Sep 2017 09:37 AM PDT I don't get this. Is there a way to disable this and does this even serve a purpose? [link] [comments]  |
| Discussion: Apple's Frequent UI Changes Can Present Usage Challenges For Some People Posted: 22 Sep 2017 12:19 AM PDT I'm a pretty tech savvy guy. I've been using iOS devices since the original iPod Touch 1 and iPad 1 and iPhone 4. I remember in the beginning how new the iPod Touch was to me, but how intuitively designed the UI was. UI elements that were meant to be dragged, had a slider, or a handle on a pane. It made visual sense. My grandparents and parents got iPad 1 devices when they came out, and I didn't need to teach them how to use them. They were more comfortable using a brand new slate in their hands, touching technology, touching the web, than they were ever comfortable using desktop PC's they had been using for 20 years. That really says something. The UI was very self explanatory, natural, easy to understand, easy to learn. I feel that at some point as the iOS versions counted up, the priority in UI design changed. From what maybe used to be an intended effort for the UI to look obvious or friendly, teaching, turned to a focus on new new new - be different from the competition - Tron-esq, a drive to somehow just be like a carbonated drink, refreshing to existing users. But I think this also presents a very big problem. The UI is no longer self explanatory. The intent has clearly changed. For the past several iOS versions since iOS 7, I have had to teach my family members how to use the device and system they've been using for so many years. Changes to how the basic controls work, what they look like, where they are, where settings are, app management - have changed so drastically so many times... The early versions of iOS maintained UI functionality or subtly altered the functions over time. But the changes are so drastic now. The loaded apps and how to close them... I don't even know what it's called anymore, it's when you double press the home button... I am not complaining because I personally find this difficult. I grew up in the digital age. I get it. UI navigation isn't a challenge to me. In fact I find artistic changes like bezel to flat to look cool and feel fresh. But I really feel that these massive changes between versions are almost becoming eccentric. It's like someone can't make up their mind. It's not slowly changing direction from one version to the next, slowly introducing users to new ways... It just drops massive reconfiguration of basic functions. This has to be aggravating for people like my older family members who used to find this piece of technology so intuitive... but now find it foreign... despite using an iPad as their primary computing device and connection to the world of information... I know how to edit the shortcuts when I need to send something from one app to another but I have no idea how I would explain that over a landline phone to my grandmother now. It doesn't occur to technically challenged persons to even search for a youtube video about the technology they're using... even that is just a challenge to arrive at logically when they can't yet comprehend the basic functional changes of the device they are holding... my grandmother isn't even sure how to form words for what she is seeing on the screen and then how to describe what it is she is trying to do, how can she search for a youtube video of that? She's not senile or incapable. She's one of the smartest biochemists in the northeastern US, she's incredibly smart, and even in retirement she tries to go out of her way to do things for people. You don't have to be 'old' or senile to find these drastic changes to be problematic. I just updated my iPad to iOS 11. What has sparked off my concern for this is when I opened the App Store. The interface is incredibly different from iOS 10, and that was a lot more confusing than prior versions... But this iOS 11 app store is just a mess of craziness now. What used to be a system of organized sliders, listings, and category selectors, is now a free for all. Every other panel is different, and you have to scroll half way down to find 'some' categories, and have to tap see all? This used to be one tap in the corner. I mean, if the UI designers and coders truly wanted to increase usability a long time ago, they would have enabled app tags instead of just categories. Like, say I was looking for a notetaking app. I could select the productivity category and then select tags: notes, pen writing, picture insert... and get apps like Penultimate, notability, or whatever. I like that things seem freeform and boundless. But what pisses me off about this design and function direction also is incredibly chaotic and ignorant of the varying age groups and technology skill levels that are so very impacted by these changes. And no. 'Just walk into an Apple store' really is not a solution to a problem that comes from poor design. You have a device that is mailed to you. It's supposed to be your replacement for going to brick and mortar stores, for opening a paper atlas, for searching encyclopedias and library index cards. You shouldn't have to go to an apple store for this. Apple stores are not close to everyone. And it really doesn't matter. This isn't an issue of "I don't know how to use it." The issue is, "The redesign is no longer intuitive enough. It was made too complicated." My grandmother used to like to browse the app store. Since iOS 10, she didn't anymore. She told me she thought it was too difficult to use. I get how to do this, but now I will have to explain to my grandmother how to close running apps... again... for the third iOS version in a row... This is ridiculous... Or how about the brightness slider... it used to have an obvious button and a track, now it looks like a bar graph... to my grandmother it might as well be a readout of how high the sun is. Wifi, bluetooth used to look like switches... now they look like colored dots. It is not apparent that these are buttons that can or should be changed. If someone didn't know that the wifi symbol was wifi and accidently hit it... would they even know how to connect to the web again? And why does it look like a dot on the front screen and a switch in the settings app? The priority for UI design can not only be, "star trek/tron/24th century futuristic." The priority can not simply be to look hip, cool, refreshing, young, lit, yeet, and new. It has to be usable, consistent, effective, and desirable to the wide gamut of lives and lifestyles it touches. Design should evolve, yes. I obviously don't know this, but I feel that this is something Steve Jobs would have hounded on... I think that is why the first iOS devices and UI's made so much sense to so many people without explaination. I have to wonder if I brought two ipads, one with an iOS 6 like UI, and one with the iOS 11 UI to a rural farming village in some third world country and handed it to people who didn't know how to use Apple tablets, if they would gravitate to a UI that was so seemingly intuitive, or something that looks like 2001 Space Odyssey? Seriously. When Steve Jobs stood on that stage all those years ago and introduced the iPad 1, I had doubts that it would be a revolution. But when a slider looks like a button, with a channel to move it across... When an alarm clock dial looks like a wheel you rotate... When it is so intuitive that it makes such plain sense... and you're touching a digital object that can do so much... You're not touching the future. You're living today. And you're today you no longer need an alarm clock on your dresser. Again, I'm not saying I don't appreciate or like the chic design updates. I like that I am holding something in my hand that feels like Captain Janeway handed it to me. But I am young, and this is not a niche product. Major changes to the usability of technology affects a lot of people. It makes me upset that something so technologically innovative was so appealing and easy for my grandmother to use, and now it's confusing... it's like, another terrible reminder for an elderly person that she is old... that's not how iOS 1 made her feel. It made her feel like she could easily embrace it without hesitation. That's life changing instead of life stressing. My grandfather passed away some years ago now, but he had the same issues as I've been trying to say. He loved his iPad. But as it got more and more visually complicated, it just made him want to use its higher functions less and less. The issue is not just Apple's design functions. Apps follow the designs Apple pushes out, for better or worse whether they need to or not for usability, Do you see how these rapid changes can be difficult for some people? I am concerned. Are you? [link] [comments]  |
| For all the original Apple Watch owners, how is it holding up? Posted: 21 Sep 2017 07:20 PM PDT I was debating getting getting the Series 3 Apple Watch when it was leading up to the event. I've had the original 'Series 0' since launch day when it originally came out. I thought with my deteriorating battery and it being a tad sluggish often, it would be a reasonable upgrade. I have the Steel one and comestically it's still going strong. I wanted to get a feel for anyone in a similar position. [link] [comments]  |
| PSA: on iOS 11 and NON-3D Touch devices, long-press many Control Center controls for shortcuts. Posted: 21 Sep 2017 05:36 AM PDT Many of them have feature shortcuts available that can be convenient. To enable/disable Control Center controls, go to Settings-> Control Center -> Customize Controls. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 21 Sep 2017 12:31 PM PDT I have really sweaty hands and in iOS 10, I could hardly ever get the Touch ID to work. On updating to iOS 11 I noticed that I'm rarely entering the passcode now. On a 6s. Anyone else experiencing this? [link] [comments]  |
| Is anyone else's Podcasts experience completely ruined after iOS 11? Posted: 21 Sep 2017 10:53 AM PDT DOUBLE EDIT: Basically all my critical complaints have been resolved by restarting my phone. I still think the removal of mark as played and the stupidly large sizing of the UI is terrible for the experience. This is definitely a value-removed update. Probably switching to Pocket Casts [link] [comments]  |
| Apple TV 4K review: so close, so far Posted: 21 Sep 2017 05:51 AM PDT |
| Why doesn’t apple build LTE into laptops? Posted: 21 Sep 2017 09:58 PM PDT iPads, iPhones and iwatch have LTE built in but not laptops. Any reason why? [link] [comments]  |
| First iPhone 8 teardown reveals few internal design changes Posted: 21 Sep 2017 07:15 PM PDT |
| Posted: 22 Sep 2017 12:09 AM PDT Here's a video from Buzzfeed on how Apple prepares for iPhone launch day with their distribution chain and their launch war room, with exclusive behind-the-scenes footage with Angela Ahrendts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-WJZq9E7L8& I could not submit this as a direct video link because "/r/Apple does not allow videos and images to avoid low effort Karma posts and self-promotion" and the direct link was deleted. [link] [comments]  |
| The iPad finally gets a flashlight toggle with iOS 11 Posted: 21 Sep 2017 06:26 PM PDT It's about damn time. I use my iPad Pro all the time at night in bed and sometimes I need to quickly find something in the dark. Before I've had to scrabble around for my phone in the dark and use its flashlight. Not sure why this wasn't there before but it's finally here. [link] [comments]  |
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