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ios 11...your personal reflection..Do you enjoy ios 11?
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Glad to know I'm not alone. It has nothing to do with the Forstall/skeuomorphic designs (which I did like, admittedly). It's just stability and syncing with iTunes. I think they moved to the cloud too fast. Jobs said it wasn't "a hard disk in the sky", but I'm not sure Apple as a whole understands it yet.
Installed iOS 11 on my 6 Plus today. (Waiting for 8 Plus to be delivered on Friday.)
Maybe it’s because iOS 11 is stretching the capabilities of the 6 Plus, but waking to the home screen by TouchID takes forever. It was almost instant with iOS 10. Maybe Apple really is trying to kill off TouchID to benefit FaceID.
Maybe it’s because iOS 11 is stretching the capabilities of the 6 Plus, but waking to the home screen by TouchID takes forever. It was almost instant with iOS 10. Maybe Apple really is trying to kill off TouchID to benefit FaceID.
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Very true, but with Apple placing control center in the top right hand corner of the iPhone X screen, it doesn’t look like it’s much of much importance to them at the moment.
Congrad on ip8 plus.
Takes forever to wake? 5 seconds?
I know they are obsoleting older models.
Just updated to the public release today. I tried it back in the first beta but downgraded to iOS 10.
So far so good. I do notice the odd bug: have to quite messages in order to reply if I try to quick respond, among other minor bugs.
I quite enjoy the new control centre, however I’d like for the currently playing portion to have its own “screen” or tab like in iOS 10. Personal preference though.
Apart from that, I’ll continue to play around with it and report back in a day or so
So far so good. I do notice the odd bug: have to quite messages in order to reply if I try to quick respond, among other minor bugs.
I quite enjoy the new control centre, however I’d like for the currently playing portion to have its own “screen” or tab like in iOS 10. Personal preference though.
Apart from that, I’ll continue to play around with it and report back in a day or so
Do you think ios 11 makes sense to you in a sense of function? Does lof of these functions work because it makes sense?
6 plus checking in here. New control center is nice. Finally have variable controls for flashlight, and some other icons. After a little settle in time, I powered down my iPhone and turned back on. There is some lag occasionally, but the phone seems faster. No problems with any installed apps. Most seem to open faster. In my opinion, iOS 11 is a keeper.
Screen unlock with touchID is fast for me, might be 0.4sec faster.
iPhone 6, upgraded directly from 9.3.5 on Sunday. So some things that are "new" to me may have actually been in 10.
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Overall, though, I'm quite happy with my decision to jump ahead after avoiding iOS 10 altogether.
Good:
- Mail - new thread view is a nice improvement. However, messages always take 1-5 seconds to load, whereas it was pretty much instant in iOS 9 (this is for messages that have already been downloaded). I like that the Load All Images link is now at the top, much better than scrolling all the way to the bottom.
- Control Center - love the customization. Finally, I can open Clock.app to the alarm page, which is all I ever use! Wish there were a few more toggles available - Location Services enable/disable, others. But this is mostly what I've been asking for since CC was introduced.
- Maps - haven't really used it, but was pleasantly surprised to see that it automatically saved my car's parked location. Could be useful one day.
- Screenshot Editor - nice addition. Was about to say I wish it had a crop tool - but what do you know, it does. Nice!
- Animations, once they run, are smoother. But often there's an extra delay before starting them.
- HUGE FONTS in headings taking up way too much precious screen real estate.
- Apps are definitely a bit slower to launch than on iOS 9. The perils of having a device that's 3 generations old.
- It's still a bit early to say if battery life is worse, but it does seem to drain faster. Doesn't help that the battery is over 2.5 years old.
- Messages - can't disable stupid "apps". I know this is a carryover from iOS 10. I deleted/hid all of them, but the button is still there.
- Bugs/issues encountered so far:
- Got stuck on lock screen once - nothing would actually unlock the phone. Had to restart. Can't reproduce.
- Share button from the screenshot editor goes to Preparing... and never completes.
- Some of my mail servers use self-signed certificates that need to be explicitly trusted. When setting up a new server, you're given a dialog with a button to Trust the certificate, no issue. BUT after resetting network settings, you get a slightly different dialog with no option to Trust the server certificate. Why the difference? Will report bug later.
- Related, when adding a new Mail account (had to delete/re-add due to the above), it said I had already added the account to Mail when I really hadn't! I had to add it with a wrong username to get it to go through, then edit after the fact.
- After the upgrade, my iMessage was not using my Apple ID, so messages weren't going to my Macs. After signing back into the Apple ID for iMessage, I had a heck of a time turning text message forwarding back on. Multiple resets and reboots of all machines involved (triggered above Mail certificate trust bug).
- Got stuck on lock screen once - nothing would actually unlock the phone. Had to restart. Can't reproduce.
Overall, though, I'm quite happy with my decision to jump ahead after avoiding iOS 10 altogether.
Dude! Flashlight control. I’m so glad you told me, that’s a great new feature.
It's actually there in iOS 10 as well (at least for 3D Touch devices).
Just a little slower / more stutters here and there.
I'm also a rare person who doesn't even like the iPad multitasking "enhancements."
Torn on going back to 10.3.3 because procreate, my favourite iPad app, tends to make new features I do like that require the lastest ios. But I think their next release isn't for a bit so maybe I can hold off to 11.1 or so. iPhone 7 is staying on 10.3.3.
Thabks for heads up!
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Mail got slower a bit, huh?
Good point on load all images...definitely better than scrolling down.
Sounds cool about that parking loaction. lol.
Slower than ios 9? That's what I'm afriad.
I’ve only been using iOS devices for 4 month. So I didn’t know it was there in iOS 10.
The new keyboard is interesting on an iPad. Very cool.
The large fonts are a tad “bold”, but not big.
I found 2 bugs.
First bug.
If I set volume to mute via volume buttons, the iPhone still makes sound when I get txt messages. Had to use the mute click button on the side of the phone.
Second bug.
The message app on the iPad, does not retrieve all the txt messages going back a month, but they are there on iPhone.
I also didn’t get a new txt on message app on iPad from few min ago.
Ipad is tethered to iPhone for internet.
First bug.
If I set volume to mute via volume buttons, the iPhone still makes sound when I get txt messages. Had to use the mute click button on the side of the phone.
Second bug.
The message app on the iPad, does not retrieve all the txt messages going back a month, but they are there on iPhone.
I also didn’t get a new txt on message app on iPad from few min ago.
Ipad is tethered to iPhone for internet.
I like it on the iPad, but it feels totally useless on my iPhone apart the smart invert colours feature. File app is totally useless as I expected with mediocre integration of one drive, Google Drive etc. Plus local files not supported yet for the app I have.
Overall, great update for the iPad, but on the iPhone there is nothing really new worth upgrading and the new features are disappointing so far.
Overall, great update for the iPad, but on the iPhone there is nothing really new worth upgrading and the new features are disappointing so far.
Thank you! I’m enjoying iOS and community is great, a bit crazy but great.
Not in my experience. My 1st gen 12.9 Pro feels more fluid and responsive on 11 than it did on 10.... but I don't doubt that it will be worse for others. I'm usually on THAT end of the upgrade experience.
There are different volumes controlling different things in iOS--volume of the ringer/notifications, media volume, Siri volume, etc.