iOS, iPhone and iPad Hardware Catch All - WWDC Today at 10PST

TempestBlayze wrote:

Edit:
It turns out that it does reduce transparency automatically if you don't have a 5S or iPad air to increase performance.

But it'll let you manually switch it back on?

misplacedbravado wrote:
TempestBlayze wrote:

Edit:
It turns out that it does reduce transparency automatically if you don't have a 5S or iPad air to increase performance.

But it'll let you manually switch it back on?

Yep

TempestBlayze wrote:
misplacedbravado wrote:
TempestBlayze wrote:

Edit:
It turns out that it does reduce transparency automatically if you don't have a 5S or iPad air to increase performance.

But it'll let you manually switch it back on?

Yep

I just checked that and it didn't do that to my iPad Mini.

Hum, I just checked iTunes, and no update for iOS 7.1 here.. Maybe I'm missing something.

Try checking on the device itself, in the Settings. iTunes might not be as diligent as it once was.

The last iTunes update broke the Apple Mobile Driver somesuchthingamabob on my Windows pc. I had to manually re-install the driver.

Make sure iTunes is up-to-date and actually recognizes your device.

Kurrelgyre wrote:

Try checking on the device itself, in the Settings. iTunes might not be as diligent as it once was.

That worked.

Chaz wrote:

Anyone tried 7.1 on an ipad 2?

It improved some marginal complaints, but not others. Keyboard will still lag randomly, which is still a huge hit for me in terms of comfort and usability. Your icons can lag, your apps can take a minute to load, and even your screen-swipe animation can be jerky, but keyboard lag - that's unforgivable. When I hit a virtual key, I want the response within a second, not 10 seconds later.

7.1 is still better than iOS7 on an iPad 2, IMO, but I bought Apple for a smooth, pleasant computing experience, and that's not what I'm getting anymore. This is not what Apple was at its height in the past decade. The crap experience is making me want to upgrade to an iPad Air, but the prospective awful OS support is warning me off with huge blinking red lights. The topping is the yellow screen issue on the current iPad Air generation. Local product support and customer service are basically non-existent. Even a clear manufacturing defect on a warranty claim needs a week to process. If your replacement unit is also a dud? Good luck.

I want to continue buying Apple, but iOS7 and 7.1 (still) is killing my enthusiasm.

7.1 has appeared to completely hose my iPhone 5's battery. And iOS 7 in general has killed my 5's ability to hook up with my Alpine iDA-100 receiver in my car - it plays music for a few seconds, then displays a "This device not compatable" error. Nothing online about either product, except Apple seems to blame Alpine and Alpine seems to blame Apple.

Xeknos wrote:

7.1 has appeared to completely hose my iPhone 5's battery. And iOS 7 in general has killed my 5's ability to hook up with my Alpine iDA-100 receiver in my car - it plays music for a few seconds, then displays a "This device not compatable" error. Nothing online about either product, except Apple seems to blame Alpine and Alpine seems to blame Apple.

I get that when I plug my 5S into my car dock, originally made for 12V 30-pin connector, going through a 5V and then Lightning adapter. Once I dismiss the warning, though, it controls fine, it just doesn't charge the phone.

except Apple seems to blame Alpine and Alpine seems to blame Apple.

Alpine probably hasn't paid toll.

WWDC is today at 10 PST. Live blogs are pretty much everywhere and you can watch it here (Safari only).

iOS 8 Finally Lets You Install Any Keyboard You Want

Many prayers were answered on Monday, when Apple announced that iOS 8 would support third party keyboards. That means you folks complaining that Swype doesn't work on iPhone, don't need to complain anymore. This, in addition to the new native keyboard functionality means that typing on iOS device just got a lot better.

I like:

  • Airdrop between OS X and iOS, finally
  • Family sharing of purchased media: we only buy music and since it's DRM-free anyway it's next-to-no-hassle to copy it—but nice to know the ethical barrier has been lifted.
  • iCloud Drive: I might give up DropBox for this, as I sink deeper into the Apple ecosystem.
  • 20GB of iCloud for 99¢/mo: I might trade LastPass for iCloud Keychain and spend that LastPass app sub on this as I sink deeper into the Apple ecosystem.

Did I understand correctly that there will be extensions for Safari and/or app extensions? If an app like LastPass can interact with iOS that would leapfrog the kludgy implementation of Android.

Also, native texts and calls on OSX is fantastic.

Gravey wrote:

I like:

  • 20GB of iCloud for 99¢/mo: I might trade LastPass for iCloud Keychain and spend that LastPass app sub on this as I sink deeper into the Apple ecosystem.

The thing is, that's where my device backups go, and those occasionally have wildly varying sizes. Windows 8's settings synchronization and backup may be managed using the OneDrive web site, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't count against your OneDrive usage.

What was the deal with being able to use OneDrive for cloud storage? Was that system-wide in iOS? I'd love to have the choice for any app to store to OneDrive.

PaladinTom wrote:

What was the deal with being able to use OneDrive...

I think you mean iCloud Drive.

Kurrelgyre wrote:
PaladinTom wrote:

What was the deal with being able to use OneDrive...

I think you mean iCloud Drive.

I caught a bit of a live blog and there were definitely screenshots that seemed like they were saving iWork docs to OneDrive.

Edit: Here it is.

IMAGE(http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2014/06/wwdc1924.jpg)

Now I'm confused. That's MS Word. It must be a mock-up.

Kurrelgyre wrote:
Gravey wrote:

I like:

  • 20GB of iCloud for 99¢/mo: I might trade LastPass for iCloud Keychain and spend that LastPass app sub on this as I sink deeper into the Apple ecosystem.

The thing is, that's where my device backups go, and those occasionally have wildly varying sizes. Windows 8's settings synchronization and backup may be managed using the OneDrive web site, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't count against your OneDrive usage.

I think it will work for me and my limited uses at least. I've been backing up both my phone and iPad to the same account, and haven't bumped up against the 5GB limit in two years (Photostream is the saviour there). That leaves 15+ GB, which is five times as much as my DropBox storage. YMMV of course.

Word is on iOS for people that subscribe, right?

TheCounselor wrote:

Word is on iOS for people that subscribe, right?

Yes but it doesn't have an option to open files from iCloud or Box. Unless that option IS there for higher tiers? I just have Personal sub.

PaladinTom wrote:
Kurrelgyre wrote:
PaladinTom wrote:

What was the deal with being able to use OneDrive...

I think you mean iCloud Drive.

I caught a bit of a live blog and there were definitely screenshots that seemed like they were saving iWork docs to OneDrive.

I think they were claiming that you could choose to use other select providers in place of iCloud, and that it wouldn't be limited to individual apps. MS Word was only there as a coincidence because they were in the middle of pitching enterprise features.