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iOS 6 |OT| New Maps? googy pls

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LyleLanley

Banned
KingKong said:
lol at the Seoul, South Korea max zoom. that's terrible. This is going to affect people outside the US a lot more
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I remember reading that if you're in certain countries you'd get a different version of maps. I think it specifically showed maps someone would see if they were in China being vastly different from someone in America who looked at that same spot.
 
S

solarus

Member
cloud_sleep said:
Maps is bad. The POI data is really incomplete for my location. It thinks the nearest ATM is 15 miles away when actually there are several much nearer. That's just one example of many. Will not be replacing my Satnav just yet.

Also satellite view is laughably bad - is Apple using Sputnik?
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Agreed. Maps app sucks and satellite view looks like garbage.
 
W

Wrestlemania

Banned
Top tip if you hate playing podcasts through the podcast app - you can still play them through the music player by searching for them on the home screen.
 
M

Majine

Banned
Can't wait for the future where I can do anything on my phone that my wallet can do. Fuck creditcards, drivers license and whatnot, give me all of that in my phone.

Tickets are a good start, hope companies catch on.
 
C

cloud_sleep

Member
planar1280 said:
huh?
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I'm in the UK

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L

Lucifon

Junior Member
Wait....you can't use the web browser for YouTube "flash required for video playback". What the hell are iPad users meant to do now that there's no YouTube app?!
 
C

criesofthepast

Member
Twitter app feels slower. Maybe it's re-caching or something but it was faster before the update. Only app I've tried so far other than safari and typing this post right now.
 
F

Fuu

Formerly Alaluef (not Aladuf)
lol damn, no way that's the max satellite zoom view for Seoul for people living there.
 
Z

zephervack

Member
So any Canadian has IOS6 already, im seriously afraid of the new maps, something tells me that traffic and on foot directions wont work with the new maps, I absolutely need that.

Also, is there any way to download the old google map apps on iOS 6?
 
T

Tunesmith

formerly "chigiri"
The iPhoto update is now live, loads of new stuff it seems:

What's New in Version 1.1
• Added support for iPod touch (4th generation and later)
• Coaching tips have been added to the Help system on the iPhone and iPod touch
• Effects now include six new Apple-designed ink effects such as Chalk and Palette Knife
• Images up to 36.5 megapixels are now supported*
• Full resolution photos can now be imported via iTunes File Sharing
• Tag albums can be created by adding custom tags to photos
• "Updating Library" alert appears less frequently
• Multiple photos can now be saved to the Camera Roll at one time
• Cropping presets now use detected faces to determine composition
• Tilt-shift and gradient effects can now be rotated
• Facebook sharing now supports single sign-on in Settings
• Comments can be added more easily when posting photos to Facebook
• Videos can be uploaded to Facebook
• Locations and friend tags can now be set when posting photos to Facebook
• Comments and locations can be set on individual photos when sharing a group of photos to Facebook
• Any photo previously posted to Facebook can be more easily replaced with a more current version
• A notification is now displayed when an upload to Facebook completes in the background
• Photos can now be shared directly to Cards, iMovie, and other supporting apps
• Journals now include new layout options
• Fonts and alignment of text in journal items can be modified
• New style and color options are available for Note and Memory items in journals
• Journal Note and Memory items can now be resized
• Dividers can be added to break journal pages into sections to control the reflow of layouts
• A new Swap mode makes it easier to change the placement of items in a journal layout
• You can now place a pin on a journal map when no location data is present
• Links to journals can now be shared directly to Facebook and Twitter, and via Messages
• Links to remote journals can now be shared even if the journal was created on another device
• A new Publish Changes button provides control over when to update your journal
• An overlay displaying month and year now appears when scrolling in Photos view
• Photos can now be sorted by date and can be filtered using new criteria
• Photos view now includes a Power Scroll strip for high-speed scrolling
• Grid of thumbnails can now be expanded to multiple rows in portrait orientation

*36.5MP images supported on iPhone 5 and third-generation iPad
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http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iphoto/id497786065?mt=8
 
H

Heel

Member
Lucifon said:
Cheers, just noticed this when I opened Youtube in Safari. For some reason my chrome doesn't seem to redirect to that.

Holy moly Safari is super fast! Damn, I hope Google get Chrome updated to this speed.
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Yeah had a little confusion with this, as the plain YouTube.com worked on the iPad up until maybe a month ago. Not sure why they broke compatibility.

I think a dedicated app would be more ideal (on the way Google says), but setting a home screen link for my YouTube subscription page in Safari has been fine. Give that a try.
 
C

criesofthepast

Member
zephervack said:
So any Canadian has IOS6 already, im seriously afraid of the new maps, something tells me that traffic and on foot directions wont work with the new maps, I absolutely need that.

Also, is there any way to download the old google map apps on iOS 6?
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Well I can tell you traffic for where I am (Brampton/Mississauga) used to work on Gmaps and on apple maps there is no info. I'm only seeing traffic info further into the downtown toronto core. But even there its really sparse. Walking directions are there...whether they are good and accurate or not I have no clue as I rarely used it.
 
Z

zephervack

Member
criesofthepast said:
Well I can tell you traffic for where I am (Brampton/Mississauga) used to work on Gmaps and on apple maps there is no info. I'm only seeing traffic info further into the downtown toronto core. Walking directions are there...whether they are good and accurate or not I have no clue as I rarely used it.
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Well that sucks, im farther away from Toronto than you, so this is a deal breaker for me.

Anyone knows how to get the old google maps app on ios6, dont tell me to use the mobile site please.
 
F

Foov

Member
So when I sign into facebook in settings, it's going to immediately dump all of my facebook friends into my contacts? How do I get it not to do that?
 
C

criesofthepast

Member
zephervack said:
Well that sucks, im farther away from Toronto than you, so this is a deal breaker for me.

Anyone knows how to get the old google maps app on ios6, dont tell me to use the mobile site please.
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Yeah sorry man. Traffic and public transit are the two big things apple maps are not up to par with google on yet. Jailbreak or wait for google maps to realese on the App Store. That's the only option right now. The latter no one knows when it's coming. Actually, the jail break no one knows when it's coming either so you pretty much have to stick with iOS5. :/
 
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UltraMagnanimous

Member
zephervack said:
So any Canadian has IOS6 already, im seriously afraid of the new maps, something tells me that traffic and on foot directions wont work with the new maps, I absolutely need that.

Also, is there any way to download the old google map apps on iOS 6?
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No but you can just use the Google web app in Safari.
 
B

BlackWaltz

lotta black folks here
zephervack said:
So any Canadian has IOS6 already, im seriously afraid of the new maps, something tells me that traffic and on foot directions wont work with the new maps, I absolutely need that.

Also, is there any way to download the old google map apps on iOS 6?
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Only on a touch so I've really never used the maps apps, but I checked it out. I live in Hamilton and decided to check out how the walking directions were, and it gave me the most roundabout route you could possibly take to get downtown on foot(down the Claremont cut, rather than the escarpment stairs).
 
D

Downhome

Member
I'm sure it's been mentioned, but if you can answer really quick it would be great. I have an iPhone 4. Is it worth updating? Are any of you with an iPhone 4 going to go ahead and do it?

EDIT:

I just saw the mention up above me. Anyone else got any opinions on it?
 
C

criesofthepast

Member
K really annoying bug right now. My wifi signal keeps jumping from 2 bars to 3 bars over and over. I'm not moving. I'm sitting in my chair not moving at all. Back and forth back and forth. Wtf. It's not my router. Family members phone is fine.
 
RedAssedApe

RedAssedApe

Banned
Downhome said:
I'm sure it's been mentioned, but if you can answer really quick it would be great. I have an iPhone 4. Is it worth updating? Are any of you with an iPhone 4 going to go ahead and do it?
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Yes. There is no reason not to update to ios 6.

Well ok...unless you think Maps is a deal breaker.
 
T

The Real Abed

Perma-Junior
Ugh. I have all my devices updated. My MacBook Air, iPhone and iPad and for some reason now I can't get my iPhone to show up in iTunes again. The iPad shows up fine. But I had to restart iTunes just to get that. Before updating it was fine. Why is this still a problem? It's a year later. Ugh.

*sigh*

Makes no sense. In fact if I go into iTunes Sync on the iPhone I can click the button but it takes forever before failing and erroring. It knows iTunes is open. But why the fuck won't it link? The iPad doesn't have any problems and that's not even connected to power and the screen's off.

It's just so stupid. I hope the New iTunes will fix this problem. If all my devices are on the same WiFi they shouldn't be having this problem!
 
A

AlexMogil

Member
giga said:
Your wife's phone won't have imessage period. Not sure what you mean?
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Right. I just was confused (and a little disappointed) that iMessage is an iPhone only club. I was spoiled by google voice, where from my desktop I could respond to *everyone's* texts, not just people who are registered with iMessage.
 
C

cloud_sleep

Member
Nevasleep said:
What!, I'm certainly not updating yet then.
Although I wasn't anyway, because I still need streetview.
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On the other hand, if you live in a big city then you get this:

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So a bit of a lottery. Whereas Google has every inch of the country covered, including at street view level. Can't wait for their app.
 
L

Lucifon

Junior Member
Heel said:
Yeah had a little confusion with this, as the plain YouTube.com worked on the iPad up until maybe a month ago. Not sure why they broke compatibility.

I think a dedicated app would be more ideal (on the way Google says), but setting a home screen link for my YouTube subscription page in Safari has been fine. Give that a try.
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Hope it's soon. Just tried using the web version and the quality is noticeably worse plus I'm not seeing the ability to fullscreen Safari on the iPad or am I missing something? Irritating having to watch videos with the Safari UI. Youtube content is what I spend most of my iPad time doing :(

Anyone else finding maps to be very slow? Alot of grey boxes taking their time to load. Could just be the servers getting slammed.
 
J

Jea Song

Did the right thing
Can anyone explain why I can't read more than 5 reviews on an apin the App Store reviews tab? It goes up to 5, and then at the bottom says more reviews. Nothing is there
 
T

Tunesmith

formerly "chigiri"
I'd take a stab at using the "Report a problem" feature in the Maps and report that the imagery is outdated or low-res. During the beta I did this a few times and had Apple responses emailed to me. Some of the issues have even been fixed (others pending updated satellite imagery).

Also, Stockholm is in 3D now, impressed.
 
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