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iPhone 7 will have things you can't live without says Tim Cook
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Stereo Steve
07-06-2016
Maybe the plus will be big enough to fit the windscreen of your car and give you picture in picture of the road ahead while you play Angry Birds.
jonmorris
07-06-2016
I just drive into nearby farms and chase pigs for that.
Stereo Steve
07-06-2016
So you are the one who has been lobbing my chickens at the pigs.
pad-e
07-06-2016
Originally Posted by Master Ozzy:
“Something major that I want is to be able to choose where I save a photo. If I'm saving a photo from say Facebook, Twitter or from the internet or even taking a screen shot, I want to be able to choose what album to save the photo in. It's incredible annoying having all the pictures saved in the camera roll and then having to go in and manually organise them all. By now you should be able to choose where you want to save a picture. Such a simple feature, yet they still haven't bothered to sort it out.”

I also hate that if you create your own album and move photos to it, deleting them from the main camera roll (so it only appears in your custom album) is something you can't do, and deleting it in one place removes it from all others. Madness. I'm going to look for a better photo app as the stock iOS one is terrible IMO.
shaggy_x
07-06-2016
I just want a charging cable that doesn't break after 6 months.
Master Ozzy
07-06-2016
Originally Posted by Lyceum:
“So what features do you want on the new iPhone that will make you think yes I'll have that!

What other features do others makes of phone have that are enough to make you move away from iPhones.

Not being arsey just genuinely curious.

I have a 6s upgraded to it from a 5. It does the same as the 5 just faster. Although I do love the fingerprint scanner. But the 5 does the same as the first ever iPhone. Just faster. That's kind of what phones do. I can't think of a single feature any manufacturer had introduced for years now that's been a complete game changer and left their follow phone making companies shockingly behind the times. (and for those that can't see beyond the spec sheet I'm not talking octocore cpu's and 8 gig of ram with super 4K screens because let's be honest they mean 0 to the average phone user).

So I'm curious as to what it is that you actually want either from Apple or from a different manufacturer before you go yes! I'm upgrading.”

I've already answered this. I want better integration with the photos app for a start. If you take a screen shot for example it automatically goes into your camera roll. I have about 13,000 photos on my iPhone. It's ridiculous that if you screenshot a photo from somewhere or you save a picture from Facebook/Twitter or you save a picture from Safari, that it then goes straight into your camera roll and you can't select which album you want to save it in. Kind of makes it a bit pointless in my opinion to even be able to create albums in the first place, as it's a nuisance having to manually go through the camera roll each time and sort pictures into the albums you want them in. Being able to choose which album you save a picture in is such a simple feature too. Then there's the issue with how if you delete a picture from the camera roll, it also deletes it from the album you have the pic saved in. They need to work on these small little features, many of which are available on other phones, instead of worrying about things like using your phone in Starbucks to pay for your Frappuccino.
Stereo Steve
07-06-2016
I have to admit that Android, in my view, handles photos better than iOS. For a user like me who hasn't the will to understand what's going on, all this iCloud, camera roll etc is just confusing. Why are some photos duplicated on my iPad but not on the PC? Where actually are they? If I delete them on the iPad, does that delete them from everything?

I'm sure there are many shouting 'it's so simple you idiot' but the fact is it ain't.

Also,last time I tried to edit a photo, I ended up getting it onto the PC where it made sense. It's probably possible but certainly not intuitive to the casual user so I agree, that could be improved.

More of a software thing than hardware really though.
jonmorris
08-06-2016
Photos for Mac is sh*t. It's a bit faster than iPhoto (not hard) but still seems a total mess.

That said, Google Photos works all in the cloud and on my iMac, it may manage things better but it's often slow because of my broadband speed.

I do still prefer it, as it's so easy to sort and filter through the search bar.
alanwarwic
13-06-2016
Back to the possibility of the 7 having a folding screen.
http://uk.businessinsider.com/samsun...-unique-2016-1

Ignoring the 'Samsung to launch 2016', it would actually make sense to let Apple pay decent money for this feature thus giving Samsungs factories a certainty on quantities and production costs.

The added benefit is that folding screens will get instant media acceptance, thus also increasing sales when Samsung launch theirs early 2017.

Here it is dubbed 'the smartlet'.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ease-2017.html

It would also allow Apple to kill 2 birds with one stone, it also being an easy escuse to move to OLED.
Faust
13-06-2016
Quote:
“iPhone 7 will have things you can't live without says Tim Cook”



What like food and water? The man's a pretentious ***t. What a ridiculous thing to say.
Stereo Steve
13-06-2016
Originally Posted by Faust:
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What like food and water? The man's a pretentious ***t. What a ridiculous thing to say.”

Nothing pretentious in it. I've heard it will have a bacon maker and also a tea dispenser in place of the headphone jack. OK, it can't do the bread yet but that's scheduled for the 8. At least you will be able to give your virtual girlfriend app some tasty bacon with a cup of tea. And they say romance is dead.
Everything Goes
13-06-2016
WWDC showed off some of iOS10. New animations for messenger looks cool. Apple Music has been enhanced as has the lock screen notifications.

Public beta is available in July if you are lucky.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/13/11...ures-wwdc-2016

https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/
Broken Hope
13-06-2016
iOS 10 finally allows us to delete the stock apps.

http://i.imgur.com/DaQ1ZlT.png
JasonWatkins
13-06-2016
Originally Posted by Broken Hope:
“iOS 10 finally allows us to delete the stock apps.

http://i.imgur.com/DaQ1ZlT.png”

I hope that's true. I don't necessarily think it'll free up a ton of space to be fair, but i think at last count i've got nine stock apps in my junk folder that i've never used, so to be able to actually dump them would be great after all this time.

#edit

aha, apparently it really is true ..

http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/13/11...ete-stock-apps

excellent
Theporter
13-06-2016
Yes it's true and it's very very slick on both the iPad Pro and ip6+ and wicked on the watch I'm impressed for a beta
JasonWatkins
13-06-2016
I might actually give the beta a whirl this time - i've tried some in the past but with the past few versions i've waited until the full official release. The ability to delete the stock apps might just tempt me to try again though.
jchamier
13-06-2016
Originally Posted by Stereo Steve:
“I have to admit that Android, in my view, handles photos better than iOS. For a user like me who hasn't the will to understand what's going on, all this iCloud, camera roll etc is just confusing. Why are some photos duplicated on my iPad but not on the PC? Where actually are they? If I delete them on the iPad, does that delete them from everything?

I'm sure there are many shouting 'it's so simple you idiot' but the fact is it ain't.

Also,last time I tried to edit a photo, I ended up getting it onto the PC where it made sense. It's probably possible but certainly not intuitive to the casual user so I agree, that could be improved.

More of a software thing than hardware really though.”


I think its confusing because there are two separate services. If you don't have iCloud Photo Library turned on then you have local pictures and a "photo stream" which stores the last 100 in the cloud and all other iOS, Mac and Windows machines (with the applet) download. You can turn this off though.

If you have iCloud Photo Library then you probably need to buy iCloud space, but you then get to keep your albums/folders in the cloud, and every device can see them but any change on any iOS, or Mac device affects all the others. Windows can't change the cloud but the applet can download copies of the pictures.

I was using iCloud Photo Library (50gb storage is 79p/month) but I'm going to stop as I don't use my ancient Mac anymore, and so I'll keep photos in OneDrive instead as I have a lot of space thanks to Office 365.

Google Photos has a maximum resolution that means the pictures from my DSLR would be degraded, so I ignored that, but it may be good for others.
calico_pie
14-06-2016
Originally Posted by Everything Goes:
“WWDC showed off some of iOS10. New animations for messenger looks cool. Apple Music has been enhanced as has the lock screen notifications.

Public beta is available in July if you are lucky.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/13/11...ures-wwdc-2016

https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/”

Hold on to your hat, but Apple Music certainly hasn't been enhanced.

They've added a ridiculous big and bold font throughout, which is fine if it didn't mean titles and artists were chopped off due to lack of space. This is always going to happen, but when there are only 12 characters or so it's ridiculous.

The mini player at the bottom which had a bit of finesse and functionality is now reduced to mini album art, song title (first 12 characters), a play/pause button.

The view that lists album tracks no longer has duration, or the ... icon to do things like add to a playlist or add to play next etc. You can currently only do that per album - so add album to playlist, and then delete the album tracks you don't want to add.

I don't know why so many people seemed to struggle with the previous version - this one feels like a sarcastic response to everyone who thought it was too complicated before.

Hopefully they'll add stuff back a refine it a bit in subsequent betas, but it seems a bit strange to undo so much for this beta, only to add it back in again.
pad-e
14-06-2016
I don't know why they have the artist name and album name on the same line under the track. There's lots of white space, why not have the album on the line below the artist. Gives each of them more room and lessens the likelihood of having to scroll the text because of a lack of room.

I wonder what enhancements the messenger app gets. It is rather basic. We still don't have bold or italic text in Messages. That may be a limitation of the SMS service, but surely they could be introduced in iMessage at least as it isn't based on SMS architecture so can incorporate more features.
-GONZO-
14-06-2016
Originally Posted by pad-e:
“We still don't have bold or italic text in Messages. That may be a limitation of the SMS service, but surely they could be introduced in iMessage at least as it isn't based on SMS architecture so can incorporate more features.”

Isn't that what the 3rd party keyboards are for?
Faust
14-06-2016
Had to be the worst WWDC in history - Apple really need a good corporate shakeup. SJ must be spinning in his grave.
Stig
14-06-2016
Originally Posted by Faust:
“Had to be the worst WWDC in history - Apple really need a good corporate shakeup. SJ must be spinning in his grave.”

Why? Big changes in MacOS, iOS, WatchOS etc.
Faust
14-06-2016
Originally Posted by Stig:
“Why? Big changes in MacOS, iOS, WatchOS etc.”

Perhaps you should head over to the Mac forums if you need to ask why. Even hardened Apple fanboys are saying what the ***k. There was so little in it they had to spend an inordinate amount of time droning on about messaging emojis - is this what Apple is now reduced to?
jonmorris
14-06-2016
So many people, myself included, didn't even watch this time. I just wanted for the press releases and they didn't excite me much either.

Of course that doesn't mean I won't be watching the next one to launch new hardware.

I have enrolled for the macOS beta and will give that a play on my old iMac next month, but even that hardly sets the world alight with new features.
calico_pie
15-06-2016
To be fair, when was the last time an OS feature did set the world alight?

I think to a large degree the expectations people have now far exceed the expectations people had even 5-10 years ago.

I never really use Siri on my phone, but the use case of using it to find and open files I was working on previously seems potentially useful.
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