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iOS 6 |OT| New Maps? googy pls
- Thread starter bananas
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Yeah it is, I got embark app, they have it for a lot of hte major cities but it is a really bad replacement. You can get routing maps as 'app's inside the new maps so hopeully the transit company updates it.
Keep in mind the auto-change is more subtle on iOS 6 than it was on 5 (where it was pretty much instantaneous when it needed to switch).
It's not even the vile Skeuomorphism. The UIs for Clock and Phone have not been updated in the same way, say, iTunes has: the buttons at the bottom are a different style.
Like I said a couple of pages ago, Apple shouldn't really boast in one breath that their attention to detail is such that they now measure phone tolerance in micrometers, but leave such a glaring inattention to detail as having different UIs revisions in different apps.
planar1280
Banned
This is not an ios 6 issue
Here is the fix
Here is the fix
That wasn't even a fix because no one here did that.
It just started working again.
Technosteve
Banned
it doesn't leave a cookie
I haven't tested Siri fully in iOS 6 (to use all of its new features) but based on iOS 5...
Google Now > Siri >> S-Voice
smokeandmirrors
Banned
How do I get facebook birthday's out of my events and notifications? I can't find an option.
Its definitely not because you used S-Voice. That thing is trash.
Kung Fu Jedi
Member
Go into the Facebook settings and turn the switches off.
Sorry, that is Settings ==> Facebook
Settings > Facebook > Switch off Calendar.
nhlducks35
Member
Is it not big enough already?
How do I download music from iTunes match? I know I can't do individual songs now but I can't find the option to download by album, either.
edit - OK, now I see the icon in the album view but it's weird that some of the albums don't give me the download option.
This sucks compared to iOS 5.
edit - OK, now I see the icon in the album view but it's weird that some of the albums don't give me the download option.
This sucks compared to iOS 5.
Weather is IN the clock app.
Only if you believe in the power of Google.
Kung Fu Jedi
Member
Clock app is awesome on the iPad, in part because it contains weather.
me neither, I downloaded the cineplex app and all it does is bring me to the app store.
What gives? Is it cause I'm in Canada or some shit?
I like the Podcasts app. I used to manually build a playlist that puts the podcasts in order by release date. I had a smart playlist that would sort them for me on iTunes on my Mac but when I synced it wouldn't carry the sort order over.
The Podcasts app just does it for me automatically. Big win for me.
The Podcasts app just does it for me automatically. Big win for me.
Technosteve
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safari fullscreen mode is iphone 5 only feature? fuckers
seems the same to me. ios6 has crashed twice already after only a few hours of use, not impressed.
Good job guys, we made it on Venturebeat!
http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/19/ios-wifi-bug/
See Update #2
http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/19/ios-wifi-bug/
See Update #2
TheGreatDivide
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...am I blind? Where? It has a tiny little current weather icon on the world tab, but I don't live in my nearest city (London). Besides, no one needs to know the current weather, people need a forecast.
I just ask Siri, but it's pretty tedious.
The new App Store is bad, particularly the search results. You can't Wheel of Fortune it anylonger, causing the entire process to be artificially tedious. Theres a pause at each centered result to give time for the next results graphics to load. This is the first instance I can think of on the iPhone where scrolling is forcibly stalled, by design.
Edit. It's not for the graphics to load, as they force the delay even when you scroll back the other way, through results that have already loaded.
Edit. It's not for the graphics to load, as they force the delay even when you scroll back the other way, through results that have already loaded.
LyleLanley
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What? It seems to be working fine on my 4S.
Technosteve
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it only works in landscape mode, booooooo earnssssss
Works on Touch and iPhone, but not on iPad.
LyleLanley
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Transit directions included means it was better. But the current maps app along with a transit app isn't as horrible as some people are making it out to be.
You can change the clocks using the edit button in the top left.
In what way? The actual cartographic data in Google maps was light years ahead. New Maps makes no differentiation between under and overground train stations in London, for instance, and some stations are missing. That's kind of unacceptably bad.
Also the kind of information that I might want to see at different zoom levels is way off.
Granted, transit stuff isn't something I ever use living in Nevada so I have NO clue how that was affected.
Bud my goodness the 3D vector maps, the turn by turn, the Yelp reviews on businesses, the business photo and info when you click it. INFINITELY better than Google Maps.
jobber
Would let Tony Parker sleep with his wife
Siri and S-Voice were tied for 2nd place but Siri calls me jobber now and that elevates it to 2nd place all on it's own.
The new app store design seems really stupid to me, like it was just trying to copy a netflix like layout just for the hell of it. I'm specifically talking about how the "Paid," "Free," and "Top Grossing," categories are now shown. It shows 2 categories at a time on the screen while always having one of them off screen. The layout would be useful if there were a bunch of categories but only having 3 and having just 1 of them off screen at all times makes it more annoying than useful IMO.
That's all well and good, they don't really have a choice when it comes to YouTube. Chrome is just reskined Safari and Google earth is not really a map service, it's a toy. Google maps on the other hand is one of androids key selling points, I don't think Google or there partners want to just hand that to apple. Plus apple has there own map app service now, and they don't really like to share stuff they hype up in there os releases.
Apple has let Baidu Maps on its platform, which has competed with Apple's own built-in Maps both before and after iOS 6. This is in Apple's second largest market:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bai-du-de-tu/id452186370?mt=8