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iOS 9: More than meets the eye

Gobbly

Banned
I did this and I get Alerts for Birthdays, but I want them to show up in the Notification Center

Notifications_2.jpg
I do get these, strange. You have 'show in notification centre' selected under calendar notifications right?
 

GAMEPROFF

Banned
Now I see it. I have to activate the Birthday Calender, I thought its ok to just have the Birthday Calender under Other (The ones with the small present) activated.

Strange.
 

Ambitious

Member
Apple Approves 'FlexBright' iOS App That Adjusts Display Temperature

FlexBright, an app that allows the user to manually adjust the display temperature of an iOS device, was recently approved by Apple, marking one of the first third-party apps that's able to function in a manner similar to the company's own Night Shift mode, set to be released in iOS 9.3. The only catch is it must be triggered somewhat manually in response to a notification, rather than continuously, like Night Shift or f.lux.

Currently available for download in the App Store, FlexBright was created by Intelligent Apps, who worked with Apple to find a way to implement blue light reduction capabilities. The app includes controls that allow it to both dim an iPhone or iPad's display and adjust the display temperature to cut down on blue light exposure.

(...)

According to one of the developers behind FlexBright, using this notification system was the only way Apple would allow the app to change brightness or blue light while running in the background. The app does not use private APIs to change the screen temperature, instead utilizing a "native objective-c library that filters the blue light from the iOS screen."

Sounds legit, right?

Well, Apple pulled it in less than a day. Obviously, they don't want third party devs to imitate built-in iOS features (Night Shift, iOS 9.3), which is funny as hell, considering they stole the idea from f.lux.

So why was it approved in the first place? What the hell are the App Review pricks doing?
 

Tunesmith

formerly "chigiri"
Apple Approves 'FlexBright' iOS App That Adjusts Display Temperature



Sounds legit, right?

Well, Apple pulled it in less than a day. Obviously, they don't want third party devs to imitate built-in iOS features (Night Shift, iOS 9.3), which is funny as hell, considering they stole the idea from f.lux.

So why was it approved in the first place? What the hell are the App Review pricks doing?

Content Approver error I'm assuming.

App approval reviews are akin to customer service answering tickets. There are bound to be advisors that don't adhere to policy 100%.
 

Ashhong

Member
Apple Approves 'FlexBright' iOS App That Adjusts Display Temperature



Sounds legit, right?

Well, Apple pulled it in less than a day. Obviously, they don't want third party devs to imitate built-in iOS features (Night Shift, iOS 9.3), which is funny as hell, considering they stole the idea from f.lux.

So why was it approved in the first place? What the hell are the App Review pricks doing?

It really bothers me when people say they stole this or that. It's just color temperature.
 

Gobbly

Banned
I kinda wish there was just an option to just disable animation, really dislike the 'fade' effect when reduce motion is enabled.
 

The Real Abed

Perma-Junior
The latest betas of 9.3 have had some really weird lock screen bugs. The current one (6) seems to ignore my "timeout" setting and keeps requiring a passcode after 5 minutes even if I have it set to 15 minutes or an hour. But I don't know if it's more or less annoying as the one the previous beta (5) had where swiping to unlock would display a blank screen until I swipe back then try again to make it show the keypad. That one was annoying but I was getting used to it when the latest beta (6) came out. Now I'm just entering my passcode way too often. But it's okay I guess. More secure. But if I wanted it more secure, I'd just set it to 5 minutes myself. lol

Wish I had a 6S+ with Touch ID. Silly 5C doesn't have fingerprint scanner. (Should have splurged back then and gotten a 5S instead. But I really liked the white 5C casing.)

How-To: Disable iOS SpringBoard animations and make your Home screen feel faster

This is amazing. The slow, tap-ignoring iOS animations suck so much.
It's a glitch that people will get used to before Apple fixes it. I wouldn't bother relying on it. Just beg Apple to make "Reduce Motion" have a lower setting for animations. OS X has, or at least had a setting to speed up the Mission Control animations. If only iOS does. Though OS X's were hidden in .plist files you had to use Terminal commands or editors to change.
 

hirokazu

Member

Ambitious

Member
Something's wrong with the Mail app and/or email notifications on my iPad.

Occasionally, one of the following three things happens:
1) Mail.app does not check for new mails in the background at all. I have to manually open the app to do so.
2) When I receive a new email, the iPad plays the "new email" sound, but does not display a notification at the top of the screen. There's nothing in Notification Center either.
3) When I receive a new email, I receive two notifications for the same email at the same time. But there's only one of them in Notification Center.

I have already checked all relevant settings, like the notification configuration of Mail.app, background refresh or the push/update settings of my email accounts. Everything's fine. I've also tried disabling notifications and enabling them again, as well as disabling and re-enabling my email accounts, but this didn't fix anything. The problems might be gone for a while, but sooner or later, one of the three issues I mentioned above happens again.

Issue 1) just happened again, although on my iPhone. I received an email at 2am last night, but it didn't show up on my iPhone at all. In fact, even when I opened the app and it refreshed, the email didn't appear. Some other emails from the last few days were also missing. Only after manually triggering refresh again did it actually sync its state (and the new email showed up).
 

dLMN8R

Member
I activated the glitch to remove the animations and everything was nice and fast, but I still didn't like it. Things are fast enough without that glitch.

I had other problems after activating it which I never had previously, too - Safari crashing as I'm simply reading an article, background audio from a Podcast randomly stopping, etc.
 

FerranMG

Member
Things are fast enough without that glitch.

The biggest problem I have with animations is that the phone is basically unresponsive until the animation has finished.
Open a tab in the background in Safari, and you can't do anything for half a second. Very annoying. :/
 

RedAssedApe

Banned
has 9.3 fixed the issue where app updates will hang at installing and have a blank icon and then require you to reboot your device and reinstall? or is that an app store issue?

seems to be no rhyme or reason why this happens. i'll be fine for months and then it happens again with a random app update.
 

Red

Member
I activated the glitch to remove the animations and everything was nice and fast, but I still didn't like it. Things are fast enough without that glitch.

I had other problems after activating it which I never had previously, too - Safari crashing as I'm simply reading an article, background audio from a Podcast randomly stopping, etc.
Music app also sometimes stops playing for no reason.
 

Ambitious

Member
Holy fuck. I just discovered that you can switch between Notification Center tabs instantly if you use the animation-disabling glitch. This is amazing.
 

Ambitious

Member
What glitch is that? You can just swipe left and right. Or am I missing something here?


Yep. When I just take a quick glance at the Messages tab before swiping back to the Today tab, that swipe is ignored most of the time (because the animation of the first swipe hasn't completely finished yet), which is incredibly annoying. This doesn't happen when the glitch is active. It actually feels responsive now.
 

The Real Abed

Perma-Junior
So I decided to turn on "Reduce Motion" myself and see how it feels and I'm really liking it. Well at least in some ways.

Now I love animations when they're smooth and instant, but the delay that iOS 9 has before the animation starts has become annoying and makes my phone feel slow when it's not. Disabling them, even though the delay is still there, still feels responsive.

Sure I miss the zoom of the task manager, it's weird to have it fade all the time, but it actually makes the task manager USABLE. What I mean is that when the animations are turned on, the task "pages" slide way too much. I want to switch to one app over, "Oops, it slid right past the app I wanted and I accidentally closed one I didn't want to. Fuck." But with the reduce mode turned on, it actually snaps to each app one at a time LIKE IT SHOULD. So no longer does it show apps halfway over others and no longer do I accidentally close the wrong app. It's actually pleasant to use now. I wish I could just enable the less slippery task manager separately from the Reduce option. It's the only huge benefit I get from turning it on but it's enough to make me want to keep it on. I'd rather have this be how the task manager works than how it does since iOS 8. It was much better in iOS 7. And this is as close as you'll get to 7's version.

I know some will say it makes managing a lot of apps at once harder but I don't care. I think they should put a slider along the bottom for quickly scrubbing through long lists of apps but keep the behavior like it is in Reduce mode.

I made a video to show the difference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwFWsFMQFKE

Notice how it snaps to each app when Reduce is enabled, but doesn't display entire apps at once when it's off. Instead overlaps each app halfway with the next app. And you end up with tiny slivers of other apps on the left edge which results in accidental closing of an app you can't even really see if you're touching just a pixel offset. Instead when Reduce is turned on you see three apps at once. And there's no way to accidentally close one that's way off the edge. The friction is way too low in normal mode. Apps slide like they're on ice so I spend most of my time chasing them down with my thumb. Also notice that the 3D effect is gone. Task manager was the most frustrating part since the iOS 8 change. Now it's tolerable.

But I miss the animations.

Maybe iOS 10 will bring a nice medium. A usable Task Manager by default and no delay before launching apps or opening task manager so I don't have to use the option.

Also... um... I didn't even notice this. And it's unrelated to the post above. But WTF at my clock? Why the fuck does it say 9:41AM? It's obviously 2PM there. The clock icon is correct but the top clock is frozen at 9:41. So weird. Fortunately I just checked and it's fixed now but WTF? Hopefully that's fixed in the final version of 9.3 when it comes out today. (I'm on the latest beta which I think is 7.)
 

Tunesmith

formerly "chigiri"
updating!

I'm really wondering how the night shift feature is going to pan out for me

Been using the beta since it came out, I can't live without the feature now and turning it off manually or when the phone goes into low power mode makes everything look disgusting and harsh.

It's a lovely overdue feature.
 
Been using the beta since it came out, I can't live without the feature now and turning it off manually or when the phone goes into low power mode makes everything look disgusting and harsh.

It's a lovely overdue feature.

It's like blasting your eyes with a bright laser when you turn it off at night. I agree, can't go on without it now.
 

Tunesmith

formerly "chigiri"
The screen looks strange when I activate it. Cant wait to try it out tonight

I've left it as scheduled at sunset/sunrise and that's been working out without issues for me so far. Once daylight savings kick in here (end of month) we'll see if it still holds true then.
 

Ambitious

Member
Can't activate my phone after upgrading because it's not able to reach the activation server. Great. There's a "Try again" button, but whenever I go back, it clears the username and password textfields, so I have to enter my credentials again every single time. Fuck this.

edit: When I use the Back button in the top left corner, it actually keeps my credentials. However, the Next button simply doesn't work in that case. So I have to go back another time, go Next again, and re-enter the credentials. Amazing.
 
Full 9.3 Patch Notes

iOS 9.3

With this update your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch gain improvements to Notes, News, Health, Apple Music and a new feature called Night Shift that may even help you get a better night’s sleep by shifting the colors in your display to the warmer end of the spectrum at night. New features, improvements, and bug fixes include:

Night Shift
• When enabled, Night Shift uses your iOS device’s clock and geolocation to determine when it’s sunset in your location, then it automatically shifts the colors in your display to the warmer end of the spectrum and may even help you get a better night’s sleep.

Notes improvements
• Protect notes that contain your most personal data with Touch ID or a passcode
• Sort notes alphabetically, by date created, or by date edited
• When sketching, quickly bring up a fresh canvas with a two finger swipe, or by tapping the New Sketch button
• A new checklist button at the bottom of every note makes it easier to create lists
• Show thumbnails instead of large images and attachments by long-pressing on any image or attachment in a note
• Choose whether photos and videos taken within Notes are stored only in Notes, or also added to Photos
• Long-press on an Evernote Export file to import its contents into Notes

News improvements
• New Top Stories section in For You highlights the most important stories of the day
• Discover something great to read in Editors' Picks, a selection of channels and topics handpicked by our Apple News editors
• Swipe left on stories in For You on iPhone to quickly share or save or swipe right for more options
• Play video stories right from For You — without opening the article
• Read stories and watch videos in landscape orientation on iPhone
• Change the text size in articles to make reading easier

Health improvements
• Related third-party apps for select data types such as weight, workouts and sleep are displayed in the Health app
• Health dashboard adds support for move, exercise, and stand Activity data and goals from Apple Watch
• Easy access to Dashboard and Medical ID using 3D Touch Quick Actions from the Home screen
• Third-party apps now have access to Activity rings and summaries from Apple Watch through HealthKit

Apple Music improvements
• Add songs from the Apple Music catalog to playlists without having to add them to your library
• Watch music videos on iPad in full screen
• See what’s playing on Beats 1 directly from the Radio tab — without having to tune in
• Tap the name of the currently playing song in Now Playing to go to the album
• See which songs are most popular on albums in the Apple Music catalog

Photos improvements
• Extract the still image from a Live Photo by tapping Duplicate which will give you the option to duplicate the Live Photo, or just the still image
• Improved download performance of full size original photos or videos stored in iCloud Photo Library
• Share Live Photos between iOS and OS X through AirDrop and Messages

iBooks improvements
• Adds the ability for iBooks to store your PDFs in iCloud, making them available across all of your devices
• Adds support for downloading previously purchased audiobooks from the iBooks Store
• Adds the ability to share your audiobook purchases with any of your family members using Family Sharing
• New controls for reading Manga more comfortably with faster page turns and simple controls for enlarging text
• Adds Apple Pencil support to highlight and save your favorite passages for later

Education improvements
• Introduces a preview of Shared iPad that enables multiple students to use the same iPad at different times throughout the day
• Adds support for signing into iCloud with Managed Apple IDs
• Adds compatibility for the new Classroom app
• New configuration options to control the organization of apps on the Home Screen
• New controls to determine which apps to show or hide on the Home Screen
• Adds support for new restrictions for iCloud Photo Library and Apple Music

CarPlay improvements
• Apple Music members now have access to their For You and New content in CarPlay
• New Nearby screen in Maps to quickly find Gas, Parking, Restaurants, Coffee, and other driving essentials
• Siri speaks more concisely when reading back and composing messages in CarPlay
• Equalized sound levels between different audio sources in CarPlay

Dolby Digital Plus
• Adds support for playing video encoded with Dolby Digital Plus audio streams with support for multichannel output using the Apple Lightning Digital AV Adapter

Hardware keyboard improvements and fixes
• Enables the use of arrow keys to navigate through lists in Spotlight, Mail and Safari
• Enables the use of space bar to scroll in Mail
• Improves performance when using the space bar to scroll in Safari
• Adds the ability to bring up the software keyboard from the Shortcut Bar when a hardware keyboard is connected
• Fixes an issue that could prevent unlocking an iPad using the hardware keyboard
• Fixes an issue that caused hardware keyboards to become unresponsive in captive login pages
• Fixes an issue that could cause the Messages input field to disappear behind the Shortcut Bar when connected to a hardware keyboard

Other improvements
• Maps adds support for getting a highlighted view of destinations and stops for a specific transit line by tapping on it
• Maps now displays whether there are multiple transit line options for each route suggestion
• Wallet app adds the ability to view the app related to a card or pass in the Wallet app by tapping an icon on the card or pass
• Apple Pay adds support for signing up for store rewards programs with Apple Pay at point of sale terminal
• Podcasts adds support for fullscreen video playback
• Activity app adds a new Workout tab with monthly summaries of key metrics and the ability to filter by workout type
• Move to iOS now offers app suggestions from the App Store based on apps installed on your Android device
• iCloud Storage adds proactive status information and in-app notifications to let you know before you run out of space
• Two-factor authentication is now available for all iCloud accounts
• Support for Spanish (Latin America) system language
• Siri support for Finnish (Finland), Hebrew (Israel), and Malay (Malaysia)

Enterprise bug fixes
• Resolves an issue that could prevent some VPP purchased apps from launching after being updated
• Adds iCloud backup support for device-assigned VPP apps
• Addresses an issue that could prevent certificates from installing correctly when updating configuration profiles
• Fixes an issue for some IPSec VPN configurations that could cause the internet connection to be interrupted after a VPN session was ended
• Fixes an issue to prevent iBooks from emailing enterprise managed PDFs from unmanaged accounts
• Resolves an issue for some Exchange users that caused Calendar to send multiple responses to the same invitation
• Improves reliability for devices connecting to OS X Caching Server

Accessibility bug fixes
• Improves 3D Touch reliability with Switch Control Accessibility option
• Fixes an issue where VoiceOver interferes with speech after dictation
• Fixes an issue where VoiceOver users could not write a review on the App Store
• Resolves an issue where VoiceOver becomes unresponsive when receiving a phone call with a Bluetooth headset
• Fixes an issue where large text was unreadable in Reminders

Other bug fixes, performance and stability improvements
• Fixes an issue where manually changing the date to May 1970 or earlier could prevent your iOS device from turning on after a restart
• Fixes issues that could prevent some iCloud Backups from completing
• Fixes an issue for some users where Health data was incomplete after restoring from iCloud Backup
• Fixes an issue where an inaccurate battery percentage could be displayed
• Addresses an issue that prevented iMessage or FaceTime activation for some users
• Addresses an issue that could prevent displaying the Phone interface while receiving a call
• Fixes an issue that enabled overriding restrictions applied to cellular data toggle
• Fixes an issue that caused notification settings to appear in the Watch app for apps that were not installed on Apple Watch
• Improves reliability when using 3D Touch on the keyboard
• Improves stability of the Phone app when setting up voicemail
• Improves stability of the Mail app when your device is low on storage
• Improves stability in Mail while using Mail Drop to send large attachments

Some features may not be available for all countries or all areas, for more information visit:
http://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability and http://www.apple.com/ios/updates/

For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222
 

Vyer

Member
SE was a lot better package than I was anticipating, really only missing 3D Touch. I'm not looking for a small phone, but it may be a pretty attractive option for those who were.

iPhone, iPad and Apple TV all updated.

Dictation on Apple TV was sorely needed.
 

Ambitious

Member
Can't activate my phone after upgrading because it's not able to reach the activation server. Great. There's a "Try again" button, but whenever I go back, it clears the username and password textfields, so I have to enter my credentials again every single time. Fuck this.

edit: When I use the Back button in the top left corner, it actually keeps my credentials. However, the Next button simply doesn't work in that case. So I have to go back another time, go Next again, and re-enter the credentials. Amazing.

Two hours later, my phone is still a useless brick.
 
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