Imagine an iPad with 2 different profile accounts and switching instantly between them with touch ID...... maybe on iOS100
Likely if you got this Apple would only allow a shared iCloud account
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Likely if you got this Apple would only allow a shared iCloud account
Yeah, it was useful to have, but seems like was there only for that single iOS 6 version, not before or since. Another reason why iOS 6 is the one to compare things against (rather than iOS 8.4.1 or anything like that).
Give me the option in Spotlight to list "New OS Features" and select them individually graying them out after I have reviewed or set them.
MailKit
Setup your mail accounts centrally and let the OS manage the connections and fetches etc, but allows 3rd party apps to plug in to this and create their own UI and features on top of this.
Means 3rd party mail apps don't have to rely on APNS for mail notifications (APNS is not really designed for that) or have to store your passwords on their server, but wouldn't be so open that 3rd party apps can create mail connections here, there and everywhere.
Setup your mail accounts centrally and let the OS manage the connections and fetches etc, but allows 3rd party apps to plug in to this and create their own UI and features on top of this.
Means 3rd party mail apps don't have to rely on APNS for mail notifications (APNS is not really designed for that) or have to store your passwords on their server, but wouldn't be so open that 3rd party apps can create mail connections here, there and everywhere.
Security Lock specific apps! E.G. Photos, Messages, Mail....so others can use it without me worrying people going through personal messages!
Not only that but they also removed the social media widget for Facebook and Twitter in the Notification Center as well as the weather forecast widget which are all btw still present on OS X.
Recently, in the Music app, Shake-to-Shuffle a great (optional) feature was removed for no reason as well as the landscape view. The landscape view in the music app in iOS 7-8.3 wasn't nearly as good as the original CoverFlow view but if you're gonna remove a feature, you damn well should have something of substance to replace it with but given Apple's recent incompetence with UI design, they didn't.
Removing features is very un-Apple if you ask me. iOS 7 was the first iOS release that I remember any significant features being removed for dubious reasons. Every previous release added features and built upon them and while the recent iOS releases have included a lot of new features and functions, they also unnecessarily removed stuff that didn't need to be removed in the first place.
Sounds like the "new guy" didn't like the "old guy" and preceded to remove all original design reference to him.
That's why firing Scott Forstall was and remains Tim Cook's biggest mistake to date. Apple's quality of software design and engineering was top notch when he ran the helm and so what if he was a jerk? Steve Jobs was known to be something of a prick as well.
Forstall created the iOS that I and many others fell in love with and when Cook made the boneheaded decision to let him go and let someone with practically ZERO experience in software design completely rip everything that was built up to that point just for the sake of boosting his ego, I knew that it would have a boatload of negative repercussions. I get that Jobs want Cook to let Jony Ive have a great deal of creative control over the company, but I'm also pretty sure that Jobs wouldn't have had Scott Forstall fired considering that Jobs saw a lot of himself in Forstall and knew that while he may have been difficult for others to work with, he was too important to the company to be fire but Tim Cook did not honor that and caved into the demands of the rest of executives.
The least Cook could've done was hire new professional UI designers and continue to separate the hardware and software teams because ironically, Apple products were at their best when the hardware and software teams worked independently of each other and not this "collaboration" BS that Cook was spewing after he fired Forstall.
At least in regards to Apple, the quality of their products both hardware and especially software were much better when a "jerk" was in charge (like Jobs and Forstall), now with spineless softies like Tim Cook and well-meaning but incompetent buffoons like Craig Federighi, we've seen the quality of software take a huge hit both on the GUI and UX ends of it.
MAIL SEARCH FEATURE needs improvement, so I can search for a word in all emails or in specific folders, or from specific senders.
Current mail search in 9.1 is horrible.
Also sub search needed so that when I find all emails form a specific sender, I can search for a word in those emails only.
I.e. ....Make the search work the way it does on a MacBook. Please.
This really matters. I do email consulting, file emails in folders, and need to be able to verify or find or quote something that was said somewhere, by a specific person, very quickly.
An efficient search is essential in Mail.
FILE ATTACHMENT IN MAIL:
I also need to attach files to emails, from apps like Textilus, Familytree, Pages, which are already on my iPad, without first putting the attachment somewhere else like iCloud or Dropbox.
Current mail search in 9.1 is horrible.
Also sub search needed so that when I find all emails form a specific sender, I can search for a word in those emails only.
I.e. ....Make the search work the way it does on a MacBook. Please.
This really matters. I do email consulting, file emails in folders, and need to be able to verify or find or quote something that was said somewhere, by a specific person, very quickly.
An efficient search is essential in Mail.
FILE ATTACHMENT IN MAIL:
I also need to attach files to emails, from apps like Textilus, Familytree, Pages, which are already on my iPad, without first putting the attachment somewhere else like iCloud or Dropbox.
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You can set music that is calm as your alarm sound. But it will replay forever.
What I want is the alarm to shut up ...after a time I specify ....and not to ring forever.
I have to take medication in the middle of the night while my iPad is across the room getting charged up. I just need a short alarm then and other medication times, not something I have to actively go switch off.
When an alarm goes off when I am on the freeway, am I supposed to find an exit, so as to interrupt my journey and switch the alarm off? how ridiculous.
PLEASE.
How hard is it to set a time for the alarm to last?
Even cheap alarm clocks switch off without help.
What I want is the alarm to shut up ...after a time I specify ....and not to ring forever.
I have to take medication in the middle of the night while my iPad is across the room getting charged up. I just need a short alarm then and other medication times, not something I have to actively go switch off.
When an alarm goes off when I am on the freeway, am I supposed to find an exit, so as to interrupt my journey and switch the alarm off? how ridiculous.
PLEASE.
How hard is it to set a time for the alarm to last?
Even cheap alarm clocks switch off without help.
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That is annoying and agree an option for length in disarms would be good.
However in the meantime have you considered alternatives? Perhaps use the Reminders app or other third party alarms nice may have this setting. The problem here is you cannot use Do Not Disturb mode (which only the stock Alwrm app can override). But certainly for day time ones/when no DND it may be useful. You can set Reminder alerts to a longer ringtone which will stop on its own.
Reminders does not work on iPad mini. I can set reminders with alarms till I am blue in the face but no alert or alarm ever occurs. I also tried Calendars with no luck. Reminders has been that way since I got the iPad three yrs back, and stayed that way with the new iPad mini I got this year. I see multiple unanswered complaints on the Internet from other iPad mini users, regarding malfunctioning Reminder app.
A third party option is likely my best interim bet for a limited time alarm. Thanks for the suggestions.
I sure hope Apple fixes this obvious issue.
Not to mention the Reminders app ☹️
A third party option is likely my best interim bet for a limited time alarm. Thanks for the suggestions.
I sure hope Apple fixes this obvious issue.
Not to mention the Reminders app ☹️
This is so obvious I don't know why they didn't introduce it with the iPhone 6. If you park in a multilevel garage and mark your location, it should be able to use the built in barometer to tell you which level you parked in. I say this because I got lost in a parking garage tonight, lol.
I think you significantly overestimate the accuracy of a barometer
They work on air pressure and the pressure difference between 2 floors of a building is negligible.
From what I understand, GPS might be able to do the trick, as would iBeacons.
I think you significantly overestimate the accuracy of a barometer
They work on air pressure and the pressure difference between 2 floors of a building is negligible.
From what I understand, GPS might be able to do the trick, as would iBeacons.
It should work though. The health app tells you when you walk up stairs, so I imagine it would be a similar thing with the barometer and going up or down a level in a carpark
1. Numbers at the top of the keyboard as an option instead of text prediction.
2. Larger dictation button on keyboard. Triple click option maybe?
3. User options for 3D Touch lists on home screen (reorder lists, customize what you want it to do)
4. Completely re-do Podcast app. (Next track button needs to come back at least)
5. Calendar app. Differentiate the dots on the calendar days to reflect the colors of that specific calendar. I know I'm not the only person with a month full of dots and I don't have a clue what is work, school or personal.
6. Wifi assist - where did it go again???
7. Maybe some more ringtones?
2. Larger dictation button on keyboard. Triple click option maybe?
3. User options for 3D Touch lists on home screen (reorder lists, customize what you want it to do)
4. Completely re-do Podcast app. (Next track button needs to come back at least)
5. Calendar app. Differentiate the dots on the calendar days to reflect the colors of that specific calendar. I know I'm not the only person with a month full of dots and I don't have a clue what is work, school or personal.
6. Wifi assist - where did it go again???
7. Maybe some more ringtones?
Big step up in performance
Updates for Safari in app store (like on osx)
New redesign
+1 For 60 fps animation
Updates for Safari in app store (like on osx)
New redesign
+1 For 60 fps animation
With larger phones and more RAM, if we don't get at least one of the three types of multitasking that they announced for iOS9 on the new iPads, I'll be very disappointed.
Also, how easy would it be to just give us a "close all" button for apps?
Also, how easy would it be to just give us a "close all" button for apps?
It would likely be easy, Apple likely just sees it not only unnecessary but also in some ways going against how they designed things in iOS and even worse for most typical users to use something like that, which is more than likely why they haven't offered something like that so far after all these years.
It's been proven that force quitting apps and relaunching them worsens battery life.
I thought of three things:
A) WebKit: Burn it to the ground and remake it. We need fewer specific WebKit tags and more sticking to the standards. With any luck, it could even make it leaner and faster if they trim the code enough.
B) Change the iPad Safari UI. It's not unfriendly, but could be less of an obvious desktop metaphor and more touch friendly. Metro I.E. was pretty good at that.
C) Metal 2.0: It needs to work better than what we have now and maybe even better than OpenGL.
Those are just some things that came to mind.
Shouldn't screen size be a factor with multitasking?
A) WebKit: Burn it to the ground and remake it. We need fewer specific WebKit tags and more sticking to the standards. With any luck, it could even make it leaner and faster if they trim the code enough.
B) Change the iPad Safari UI. It's not unfriendly, but could be less of an obvious desktop metaphor and more touch friendly. Metro I.E. was pretty good at that.
C) Metal 2.0: It needs to work better than what we have now and maybe even better than OpenGL.
Those are just some things that came to mind.
Shouldn't screen size be a factor with multitasking?