Handoff available for 3rd party apps?

[giancoes]

Ever since I upgraded to public beta 3 I've had my Bluetooth and wifi on constantly to see how well handoff worked with my other devices in beta and its been great. But today I was using facebook on my iPad and when i went to check something on my phone on the left corner was the facebook logo like it does for regular handoff. This has never happened to me before so do you guys think it was a one off glitch or are 3rd party apps getting support for handoff?

 

[Stickharuhi]

Since iOS 8 support Handoff for 3rd party app.

 

[giancoes]

Since iOS 8 support Handoff for 3rd party app.

For apps like facebook and twitter and such though?? Cause obviously I know starbucks and airline apps had location based handoff but i had never seen it work for those apps I mentioned and even now I can't get it to handoff facebook again.

 

[Stickharuhi]

Handoff only working. When Facebook has on OSX desktop client. I think then working

 

[GreyOS]

This could be Proactive not Handoff, which would mean you regularly use Facebook at that time or location and it was suggesting it to you

See this recent MacRumors article about Proactive suggestions https://www.macrumors.com/2015/08/11/proactive-suggestions-ios-9-closer-look/

edit: but it could be Facebook has added support for Handoff... but what could you possible be handing off? Were you in the middle of a status update? Did handoff take you to the same profile/page you were looking at?

 

[giancoes]

This is probably Proactive not Handoff. It means you regularly use Facebook at that time or location or something else about the particular time it showed up it felt like you were likely to use it.

See this recent MacRumors article about Proactive suggestions https://www.macrumors.com/2015/08/11/proactive-suggestions-ios-9-closer-look/

No see I thought that too but it said facebook from my iPad on the phone, if it would have been proactive it would have said good morning or something thats how i know it was handoff.

 

[GreyOS]

No see I thought that too but it said facebook from my iPad on the phone, if it would have been proactive it would have said good morning or something thats how i know it was handoff.

Cool, see my edit. Will be interested to hear more about this if it's the case. I don't have a 2nd device on me to test

 

[giancoes]

Cool, see my edit. Will be interested to hear more about this if it's the case. I don't have a 2nd device on me to test

I know right hopefully developers start updating their apps so that it can be done or if its on apples side they allow developers to do it. Also i had read the article when it came out Ive been thinkering with proactive since I installed the first beta on my phone and I love it even though it doesn't drastically chamge my iPhone/iPad experience its cool that my phone gets to know the patterns of my day to day life.

 

[GreyOS]

I know right hopefully developers start updating their apps so that it can be done or if its on apples side they allow developers to do it. Also i had read the article when it came out Ive been thinkering with proactive since I installed the first beta on my phone and I love it even though it doesn't drastically chamge my iPhone/iPad experience its cool that my phone gets to know the patterns of my day to day life.

by the way you said proactive suggestions normally have a message (like 'good morning' if it's the morning) - however i think that's only in the app switcher. you only mentioned that you saw it in the bottom left hand corner, so i'm assume the lock screen, where i don't think messages show. the other thing is i'm not always sure it always has a message, though i have no idea. say you always used an app at 5pm, what would its message be.. good afternoon/evening? eh i dunno. maybe only when it's an obvious thing like you're waking up? hmmm

 

[Krevnik]

I know right hopefully developers start updating their apps so that it can be done or if its on apples side they allow developers to do it. Also i had read the article when it came out Ive been thinkering with proactive since I installed the first beta on my phone and I love it even though it doesn't drastically chamge my iPhone/iPad experience its cool that my phone gets to know the patterns of my day to day life.

Handoff has been supported for 3rd party apps since iOS 8. But developers have to enable it in their app, since it is supposed to be context aware (If I'm looking at a specific project in Things, Handoff puts me in the same place on the desktop app or on my other iOS device). That context has to come from the app, Apple can't do it itself.

Facebook updates frequently enough that it might have simply been added in their recent update too. Not many apps jumped on the feature immediately, to be honest.

 

[giancoes]

by the way you said proactive suggestions normally have a message (like 'good morning' if it's the morning) - however i think that's only in the app switcher. you only mentioned that you saw it in the bottom left hand corner, so i'm assume the lock screen, where i don't think messages show. the other thing is i'm not always sure it always has a message, though i have no idea. say you always used an app at 5pm, what would its message be.. good afternoon/evening? eh i dunno. maybe only when it's an obvious thing like you're waking up? hmmm

Once I saw it on the lockscreen I opened the phone and went to the app switcher and thats where I saw that it said it was handoff from my iPad. And I'm not sure when its at different times of the day but cause i have yet to experience it at another time other than the morning but when its proactive in the morning it has always said good morning to me haha.

 

[giancoes]

Handoff has been supported for 3rd party apps since iOS 8. But developers have to enable it in their app, since it is supposed to be context aware (If I'm looking at a specific project in Things, Handoff puts me in the same place on the desktop app or on my other iOS device). That context has to come from the app, Apple can't do it itself.

Facebook updates frequently enough that it might have simply been added in their recent update too. Not many apps jumped on the feature immediately, to be honest.

Yeah that does make sense since it was a feature introduced last year lets hope developers change their mind and update their apps for it.

 

[giancoes]

I finally got it to work again apparently it does the handoff when you are reading articles not just plain old using the app alone.

 

[0000757]

I finally got it to work again apparently it does the handoff when you are reading articles not just plain old using the app alone.

I believe they've had that feature for a while. I remember pre iOS 9 I was able to do that in only very certain scenarios. I don't have the iPad anymore to test.

Possibly one of those "limited feature testing releases" they do literally all the time (one of my friends has a Google Material design like button for making posts, but I don't, for example)

 

[giancoes]

I believe they've had that feature for a while. I remember pre iOS 9 I was able to do that in only very certain scenarios. I don't have the iPad anymore to test.

Possibly one of those "limited feature testing releases" they do literally all the time (one of my friends has a Google Material design like button for making posts, but I don't, for example)

Then maybe its that but i hope it sticks its a pretty good feature.