That's fantastic. ibtimes really shows how over the top and obnoxious advertising has become on mobile. Mobile GAF is probably the only site I visit that doesn't take the piss.
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WWDC15 Thread of iOS 9, Mac OS X 10.11 & watchOS: The epicenter of change.
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That's fantastic. ibtimes really shows how over the top and obnoxious advertising has become on mobile. Mobile GAF is probably the only site I visit that doesn't take the piss.
enanogrande
Member
I've never used an adblocker before (except for the pop-up blocker built in to most modern browsers), but mobile ads have become so horrible that I might have to start on iOS.
The single best feature ever introduced into iOS.
Mobile GAF is fine except for constantly being redirected to the App store.
I haven't had that problem on Android. I would definitely feel differently if that was happening to me.
I've never had that happen to me. I must be lucky. I use mobileGAF a lot on both iPhone and iPad.
I've had the app store redirects on other sites, of course
This is amazing. I love how the sites showed just how shitty mobile ads are with the big popup and then those banner ones getting stuck in the middle of the page. This might be the best feature of iOS9 for me. Good on Apple for allowing this to finally be allowed.
and App Thinning
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Thank you based Tim Cook.
LyleLanley
Banned
Apparently you can now share voicemails.
badcrumble
Member
Apple's not really talking about it too much. Hopefully they'll definitely allow things like this.
Also, let me install Cloud2Butt on my iPhone pls
smokeandmirrors
Banned
yesssssssssss
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
RE: Space
The thing that would help the 16 gig problem the most would be better space management for Messages.
RE: Purify
I'd pay $10 or so for that. Mobile advertising is exponentially worse than desktop advertising was during the X10 Spy-Cam era that resulted in browsers adopting across the board popup blockers.
The thing that would help the 16 gig problem the most would be better space management for Messages.
RE: Purify
I'd pay $10 or so for that. Mobile advertising is exponentially worse than desktop advertising was during the X10 Spy-Cam era that resulted in browsers adopting across the board popup blockers.
Why wouldn't they allow this? That is the whole point of content blockers. Google must not be happy about it though.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
I'd like I be able to export message threads or import them. Also show the space they use up in iTunes instead of lumping them with other.
LyleLanley
Banned
You can check on your phone how much space your messages are taking up. Mine currently take 663 MB.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Ah. Mine only take like 65MB. I always like to save and archive photos and delete them from the messages portion when I can.
LyleLanley
Banned
In theory that's a good idea but there are some pictures in my messages that I don't want showing up in my camera roll.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
I didn't say camera roll. I save them to the roll then immediately upload them to Dropbox. Then I later do whatever I need to with them. Or I just save them to the roll and move them out of Photos when I get home. Either way if it's important I keep it anywhere but the messages.
Well they added the delete old messages setting (after 30 days, 1 year...could stand to have more granular settings), and the details view makes it easier to delete/save images selectively...course that could stand to use a multi select. Some type of archive/export would be nice of course.
Yeah the new feature is content blocking, not some other feature being used by a tricky dev for blocking, this is exactly what it's meant for. And it's only for Safari (and perhaps the new web view thing for other apps), it doesn't affect iAds and other in app advertising.
brianmcdoogle
Member
If anyone wants an example of PiP in iOS 9, in a background tab, I have The Daily Show Month of Zen stream playing, and when you hit PiP for it, you can open a new tab, which is what I have open that is allowing me to compose this post. So, you can have video from different tabs PiP play in other tabs. Kind of neat!
Is the PiP video reactive in any way? For example, does the video lower in opacity if you're scrolling on the current window?
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Well, here's an example:
- I want to keep every text message my wife has sent me
- I want to selectively keep images and videos she's sent me. If it's a video of a dog or a picture from the grocery store or something dumb I want to delete it
- When I delete something from my attachments, I want that to synchronize across my devices. I shouldn't need to also delete the attachments on my computer, for example.
- I want to be able to sort attachments by size for any conversation to make it easier to clear the worst cruft
- I want to be able to export everything, naturally.
- I don't really care about images or videos anyone else has sent me. I don't really care about any text they sent me older than, say, 2 weeks, but it'd be nice to keep the last, say, 5-10 messages exchanged beyond that period just for context (and sometimes to remember who the person in question actually is)
This kind of stuff feels like it would be pretty standard functionality in any third party messaging program, because when you make a messaging program it's important for it to not suck at messaging.
brianmcdoogle
Member
No. It's completely opaque. You can slide it into any corner, and you can choose between two sizes for it by pinching (roughly 1/3 or 2/3 of screen size).
Fucking finally, I can now apply to jobs on an iPad.
Biggest thing for me will be squelching the App Store redirects that plague a lot of the webcomics I visit.
brianmcdoogle
Member
Anyone use Parallels with El Capitan? It can't find my boot camp partition anymore, and I can't install a new virtual machine using my boot camp partition anymore (but I can still boot into boot camp just fine).
Also, can anyone with a fusion drive post an image of disk utility showing their drives/layout? Mine looks like a mess, and I don't know if my drive is failing (I've had nothing but problems with fusion drive and wish I never did it back when it was brand new).
Also, can anyone with a fusion drive post an image of disk utility showing their drives/layout? Mine looks like a mess, and I don't know if my drive is failing (I've had nothing but problems with fusion drive and wish I never did it back when it was brand new).
The most annoying thing about App Store redirects is that they have an in app sheet functionality that, while still annoying, is meant to make that shit much less annoying (the App Store page pops up kinda like a mail compose sheet). They just haven't bothered using it for their own apps.
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
Member
Has anybody tried opening a Preview file via iCloud Drive in iOS9?
What happens?
What happens?
LyleLanley
Banned
Is anyone else getting awful battery life on El Cap?
brianmcdoogle
Member
Parallels doesn't work because of rootless. Turn off rootless to get Parallels working.
Also, what I want on the phone is handling of the "other" data and the mysterious eating of data. I have barely any apps on my phone, 30 photos, no videos, and no music, and yet I have less than 200 mb of free space left. WHY? WHY WHY WHY? I've had this problem on all iOS devices since 7 or so. I have an iPad 2 with only 3 apps, and they only stream things (no downloads). It has no music, no videos, no photos, nothing. Yet, it always tells me that it is near full storage. URG!!!!
Also, what I want on the phone is handling of the "other" data and the mysterious eating of data. I have barely any apps on my phone, 30 photos, no videos, and no music, and yet I have less than 200 mb of free space left. WHY? WHY WHY WHY? I've had this problem on all iOS devices since 7 or so. I have an iPad 2 with only 3 apps, and they only stream things (no downloads). It has no music, no videos, no photos, nothing. Yet, it always tells me that it is near full storage. URG!!!!
Yeah, I just have it to keep everything because there's not enough control. But maybe there's no point in keeping anything older than a couple months because it's a super frustrating and futile trying to search old messages for something specific on both iOS and OS X anyway.
enanogrande
Member
It should be, but at least in the case of WhatsApp it isn't. Then again, the WhatsApp iOS app is total garbage, so maybe android has some of these features.
It's happening isn't it?
Uh, why wouldn't you just back everything up, reformat both drives as separate partitions and then restore less crucial stuff on the HDD?
(Custom) Fusion drives are a bag of hurt, particularly when things go wrong. If you're not already doing regular backups from it, you're living life on the bleeding edge and I won't pity you if things go wrong.
brianmcdoogle
Member
Never mind. not worth responding to.
infiniteloop
Member
i'm getting hopeful it'll be announced in Sept, but probably setting myself up for disappointment
I'm with you on the first one. I'm fine with space but my messaging app is like 2 gb just from my conversation with my gf which I don't want to delete. I'd love to be able to easily just export it and not to have to use some third party software.
Just giving you a heads up on not being dumb before you lose all your shit dude. Custom Fusion drives have way too many negatives for very few positives.
That'd probably be the Apple-est way of doing it, and theyre all in the device iCloud backups to begin with, granted in some encrypted format.
Course that leads to the annoying issue of iCloud's free and low end storage tiers being crappy. 5-20GB isnt much for something like a 64GB phone full of pictures or just using multiple devices and backing everything up.
And theyre not always fusion drives. There's some weird magic that auto chooses between making a fusion drive vs some more basic core storage spanned volume that works similarly but not entirely the same.
Someone created a prototype ad blocker and tested it on iMore. Loading time dropped from 11 seconds to 2 seconds. Tsk tsk.
http://murphyapps.co/blog/2015/6/24/an-hour-with-safari-content-blocker-in-ios-9
http://murphyapps.co/blog/2015/6/24/an-hour-with-safari-content-blocker-in-ios-9
I, for one, welcome the web finding something less crappy than banner ads
Meanwhile advertisers are probably thinking of ways to force us into ads that'd work around ad blocking. Like forcing you to use whatever site's app where there's no blocking.
Easily my most anticipated feature of iOS 9.
Mobile web browsing has gotten damn near intolerable lately with all these scumbag ad networks redirecting users to the app store and whatnot. And the annoying ads that take over your entire screen and trick you into clicking on them when you were really trying to just close it. Just the speed increase alone will be huge especially since I mostly load mobile sites off of slower 3G/LTE.