Agreed! iOS 16 is a solid update.
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16 Hidden iOS 16 Features You Didn't Know About
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Granted I am old fashioned and actually use my phone, gosh forbid, to make phone calls. So some "hidden features" I am still searching for are; a way to stop the phone from doing something unexpected when my face touches the screen, speed dial, short cuts, etc. Or easy built in settings to change the LED for specific contacts.
As for the web, I would like to have a one press button to take me back to the top or to the bottom of the webpage instead of the endless swiping, able to enter information/type in landscape in ALL applications and instances....
I could continue, but I have to get back to searching....
As for the web, I would like to have a one press button to take me back to the top or to the bottom of the webpage instead of the endless swiping, able to enter information/type in landscape in ALL applications and instances....
I could continue, but I have to get back to searching....
Other thread I have touching on this:
Thread 'Duplicate photos; merging metadata; demystifying Photos.app and many other questions'
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-photos-app-and-many-other-questions.2355811/
Has anyone been able to determine the criteria for what the duplicate photos function considers to be better/relevant data?
- GPS tagged (it definitely takes this data)
- Date captured
- Resolution
- Compression
- Size
For example, I have a lot of photos saved from Facebook, some of which are duplicates of varying quality (same resolution, but worse compression/smaller size). It sometimes picks the worse photo.
Also, it seems to favor capture/created dates that are more recent.
This duplicate detection, while the most opaque, is so far the only duplicate utility that has the ability to merge metadata.
Thread 'Duplicate photos; merging metadata; demystifying Photos.app and many other questions'
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-photos-app-and-many-other-questions.2355811/
Has anyone been able to determine the criteria for what the duplicate photos function considers to be better/relevant data?
- GPS tagged (it definitely takes this data)
- Date captured
- Resolution
- Compression
- Size
For example, I have a lot of photos saved from Facebook, some of which are duplicates of varying quality (same resolution, but worse compression/smaller size). It sometimes picks the worse photo.
Also, it seems to favor capture/created dates that are more recent.
This duplicate detection, while the most opaque, is so far the only duplicate utility that has the ability to merge metadata.
So, your attitude and generally snottyness forced me to sign into an account I created and used once like 3 years ago, just so I could reply to you and point out how your crotchetiness is to your own detriment. Congratulations.
If you had maybe thought to take a little, and I mean a very little, amount of time to look up any of your stated issues, you would find that most of them (granted, not all) are already solved, or were never actually issues in the first place.
1) Phone doing something when it touches your face while on a call. - Very first iPhone and all subsequent models have a proximity sensor built into or near the ear piece that disables the screen when on a call, and close to your face. If that‘s not working, either yours is busted, or more likely, you have a poorly-designed case/screen protector preventing it from working.
2) Speed Dial - Open the phone app, go to “Favorites” in the bottom left. Nothing there? Plus button in the top left to add any contacts you want.
3) Shortcuts - Sorry, don’t know what you mean. You’ll have to be more specific.
4) LED change for specific contacts. - Still don’t know what you mean.
5) One button press to go to the top/bottom of a page. - For top: just tap the status bar at the top. Maybe 2 if the first only makes the address bar appear. For bottom: Not sure there‘s a one-button solution, but if you scroll just a little, the scroll bar appears. Tap-and-hold that for a second, then drag it to the bottom of the screen. Takes like 1.5 seconds.
6) Able to enter information in landscape in ALL applications/instances. - I mean, I’ve not experienced a situation that comes to mind where I wasn’t able to type in landscape, but if you have a keyboard orientation issue, it’s likely app-specific. Use better apps.
In the future, instead of being the embodiment of a boomer, take a little initiative, realize that someone, somewhere, probably has a solution for your issue, and research. For problems 1, 2, and 5 i was able to find the answers within the first 5 results on Google every time.
Select “done,” and it will be one of several options available.
No, I believe landscape face ID is available on the 14 (13 too?). Probably something with the particular camera thy Face ID camera they use.
Face ID in landscape. Such an annoying thing finally solved. I wonder why it's not possible in older phones.
It's just my guess but it's possible that the TrueDepth camera does the face recognition on the module and only is programmed for portrait so a new module would be needed for landscape/portrait recognition.
Quite, usually, they’re worried about cyber security, which the update improves. But because new software usually has glitches they don’t want to update. But literally, every release of every software has issues. At least have the latest features and security. It’ll make the bugs more endurable.
For many people, it's the new features themselves they are trying to avoid. They find them, at best, irrelevant to their personal needs or, at worst, intrusive and annoying - and clearly intended to simply drive sales. Personally, I haved mixed feelings about this. I'm generally flexible and can adapt but a few changes along the way have bugged me. I won't need most of the new features in iOS 16. We'll see how many annoy me. I usually wait until the .2 update of any new OS just to avoid the worst bugs. But it's true - one will have to eventually update in order to get security patches.
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Haptic Feedback is my favorite, and I always wondered why Apple hasn't had it before. But it's here now and I hope to stay.
From a security standpoint, you shouldn't share anything to anyone if you wouldn't want it revealed.
Not sure if iOS could share the wifi password with Android phones this way but Android phones could reveal the wifi password for some time already. So if you ever shared your wifi password to them, chances are someone knows your wifi password already.
Thank you for taking the time to respond. Although, I must admit, you do make an incorrect assumption about my age, and of course, you do seem a little angry. In response to your suggestions and questions;
1) Will investigate as I do not use a case.
2) For speed dial, I refer to the ability to be able to dial from any application, by the simple long press of a "key" and dial said number. I do know of the Favorites, but that is not as simple or as fast.
3) Similar to the speed dial, these are buttons that allow for the opening of an app very quickly
4) Assign different colours to contacts that will then blink said colour when the phone call, sms, email, etc come it. Have managed to find a few clunky apps, but nothing overly efficient, built into the OS.
5) Your kind explanation just reinforced my statement - there is no single button/process. Also, I have tried your suggestion, and I can only get the address bar to appear, but no movement to the top of the webpage. And as you rightly noted, no single press solution to the bottom.
6) There are many applications, and most are good. For example, I can not get the Apps app to change to landscape when typing a search.
Again, thank you for your suggestions. And this is not to minimise the fact the iPhone is a wonderful device. However, each person has their own needs. My are relatively simple - making phone calls, texting/emails, reading webpages. As an aside, this is why I do get a little frustrated with the ever increasing bumps on the back of the phone - makes it wobbly on a table or flat surface.
Isn‘t Siri a speed dial? Press & hold side button and says “call …”?
or better yet, don’t press anything but says “Hey Siri call …”.
tap top of address bar will bring you to the top of the page. This function is with us since the first iPhone.