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iPhone X | OT | Hello Future | November 3
- Thread starter wachie
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This guy gets it. If they can do top right, just go bottom right. Easy to do one handed
The bar Looks bad. The issue isn't really discoverabilty, it's that the control center is even there at all. I guess one possible reason they put it at the top is to have it seem more natural when pulling down pulls down the top clock, battery indicator, etc.
Ugh. That bar is just insult to injury. Just make the CC a damn double tap on the Home Indicator. I suggested it, I saw someone else here mention it, and Gruber just suggested it on his podcast. Double tap, Apple. Do it.
Looks like 11.2 is the update that enables 7.5W wireless charging if you have a compatible base. So far the publicly known ones are the two that Apple sell (Mophie and Belkin) and a RAVPower one (which I just bought off Amazon, so thank god for that)
Sheesh, they really hid the auto-brightness option. I had my phone since launch day, didn't find it until just now, though I really hate auto brightness. I had just assumed they forced brightness changes as part of Tru Tone. Now to find it in Apple Watch...
Wouldn't that screw with all apps with buttons at the bottom of the screen? Very few apps would have a swipe up or down down there, but I could see lots of apps with reasons to tap the bottom.
It's actually better to just enter the passcode. This tells the phone that that WAS your face, and it learns to be more accepting of your face. The phone learns more about you and starts accepting your face more easily. But if you cancel out and try again, it doesn't learn anything. It sounds weird but it really works. My phone accepts my face like 99% of the time now.
Apple Watch has contextual auto-brightness that stays within whatever you set the brightness to, but cannot be turned off
I can't justify spending more than $20 on any of these wireless chargers. Maybe when they're like fully wireless I'll shell out the coins.
You can have scrolling content there, but nav elements aren't encouraged in that area. I don't really see a big negative in reserving taps in that 50ish point vertical area for the home indicator.
The Anker chargers are like $25 for their top model. Quality brand.
They have slower cheaper ones as well.
Except for the tens of thousands of apps already on the market that already use the bottom of the screen.
I believe it was always located there, it just had a sensible default (2 minutes) that never needed changing. This new 30 second default for auto-lock is overly aggressive, a lot of people are going to have the display shut off on them in the middle of reading articles unless they start tapping or swiping the screen.
To add to dallow_bg's useful tip on searching settings, you can also use Siri to do the same from anywhere in the OS. Tell Siri "Open Display settings" or "Change wallpaper" etc. This even works for app-specific settings: for example if you wanted to turn off notifications for Instagram you could just tell Siri "Go to Instagram settings".
Whats the battery life looking like? Coming from big phones, the battery is the smaller battery is gonna be a big issue for me.
I get about 4 hours SOT and 14-15 hours total on my Note.
I get about 4 hours SOT and 14-15 hours total on my Note.
If we're voting on where to move Control Center, I nominate dragging up and to the left. Plenty of "space" over there to house CC.
Yep.
Yep! I read about it here in this thread earlier and started doing it and sure enough it worked.
Well damn, I've had the passcode prompt come up like 25 times already since I got it from false reads. Actually entering the code will hopefully reduce this haha.
Is that 100%-0%? I'll be spending the entirety of my day out of the house tomorrow, we'll see what my numbers look like
Completely true. It's how I got my Face ID to just about 100% reliable
Apps that haven't updated to support the X don't even go down into the Home Indicator area, so it wouldn't conflict with them at all. Apps that do update will need to account for the indicator. Auto Layout has a new safeAreaInsets property in iOS 11. The bottom inset for this property puts content attached to it above the Home Indicator. Basically, aside from scrolling content or fullscreen content like videos, devs shouldn't be putting any UI elements down there.
As stated in the X design guidelines:
Yeah it's actyally in the official FaceID documents.
Face ID today is way, way, way better for me than it was at launch. It's because I plug in my passcode when it asked after failing, no doubt.
Super quick way of seeing it learn is to try and unlock while making a weird expression or yawning. Then enter the pass code when it fails. It won't fail the second time you do that expression.
These things are almost £50 on Amazon.
I'm getting one of these. Yeah it's an ancient slow one but it's cute and I can find it at a good price so meh. To the bedside table it goes.
I don't find it much of an issue. I have a coaster like charger and I just plonk the phone in the middle and it's charging, doesn't have to be exact either.
I just bought the Spiegen slim fit case and a RAVPower wireless charger for the grand total of £25. Both seem to be getting rave reviews.
I just got pushed an article about the Tozo ultra thin case and PITAKA Magcase. Does anyone have these cases that can offer an opinion?
I'm getting one of these. Yeah it's an ancient slow one but it's cute and I can find it at a good price so meh. To the bedside table it goes.
Its just a bag with a 901 inside. It is cute though. You could probably make your own with a pad and some beanbag filling
Watched Star Trek on my phone last night. Can't tell if Netflix is serving me HDR but it looked great. They also have what seems like an odd zoom - the default had small black bars top and bottom, but it seemed to be slightly zoomed in - didn't have big side pillars. Not sure how they're displaying content because they didn't zoom to exactly fit the top/bottom black bars, which they could have without touching the notch. I watched it fully zoomed in so I lost a little off the top and bottom but not much and it looked really nice.
Man the multi select home screen icon thing in ios 11 is really hard to do lol. Makes more sense with a mouse and not with my fat fingers.
Been wondering the same just yesterday while shopping for the link bracelet tbh. Perhaps it doesn't need direct contact, iPhones charge through certain cases as well. Then again, metal. I guess we'll see.
My phone is stuck in USPS limbo. It's been in transit for 3 days now with no rescheduled delivery date, so who knows when the hell it will show up. It's now a race between this phone (purchased from Swappa) and my Apple order due Dec. 6 - 13, sadly. I wish I could return my Swappa phone when it arrives on the basis that the seller was a bonehead to send it USPS during the holiday season.
New dev beta adds another pointless bar to the lockscreen.
Damnit apple, at least give us an option to them off
Sounds like a real Sophie's Choice situation going on with you, Jeff. I turn on my Pixel 2 every single day just to keep it updated and scratch my Android itch. I just get so put off by the lower resolution and lack of vivid colors on that screen. I've had an S8 and the OS is so laggy due to all the bloatware Samsung installs on it (I returned it a while ago).
The thing I hate about Pixel 2 is there is no continuity between sound levels (ie. phone over car bluetooth at 100%, turn car off, use bluetooth headphones at 50%, back to car, bluetooth audio stays at 50% in car while I'm expecting it to jump to 100%). It's little QOL things like that that keep me on my iPhone X.
What's your daily driver now, Jeff?
I am baffled by how anyone can claim control center is worse. I mean it's ugly as shit.. but iOS <11 control center was fucking miserable. We got used to it like an abusive relationship, but abso-fucking-lutely terrible.
the new one is ugly as shit, but spending a couple of minutes setting up the stuff you use makes it 100% more usable than the prior POS.
the new one is ugly as shit, but spending a couple of minutes setting up the stuff you use makes it 100% more usable than the prior POS.
The Choetech charger I have is like $15-$20on Amazon. You don't get a power brick though. Just the charger and a cable. It works fine.
You don't need to spend $50 to get one. You can easily get one from Choetech or Anker or the like for not much cash.
Pixel 2 XL.
Yeah android audio management is trash. Check out Bluetooth volume control on playstore.
It's functionality is fine. Wish I could move the default stuff around because I hold the phone with left hand so it's hard to reach media controls.
I'm mostly annoyed with the action to invoke it. Not the easiest to reach without 2 hands or reachability. Also you can't go directly to the setting for more details if you like force press wifi or Bluetooth which feels like a no Brainer.
I turned reachability on. Not the most elegant gesture to invoke it, but you quickly become a pro at it.
I agree that force press on wifi and bluetooth giving you a context option to go right to settings would have been simple. I do find Apple's solution to "turning off" wifi and BT to do exactly what most people expect in terms of functionality (don't connect to anything or try to connect to anything) while not compromising the QOL features of their ecosystem.. I think people have such an incredibly hard time with change. I have a buddy who swore he'd never turn raise to wake on because it was different than how he used his phone. Begrudgingly he turned it on with his X because he was so frustrated that he had to tap his screen to turn it on. I was like "what? It comes on as soon as you lift the phone??" forgetting that he still had it off from his stubbornness prior to X.
I agree that force press on wifi and bluetooth giving you a context option to go right to settings would have been simple. I do find Apple's solution to "turning off" wifi and BT to do exactly what most people expect in terms of functionality (don't connect to anything or try to connect to anything) while not compromising the QOL features of their ecosystem.. I think people have such an incredibly hard time with change. I have a buddy who swore he'd never turn raise to wake on because it was different than how he used his phone. Begrudgingly he turned it on with his X because he was so frustrated that he had to tap his screen to turn it on. I was like "what? It comes on as soon as you lift the phone??" forgetting that he still had it off from his stubbornness prior to X.
But I like buying ready made stuff (it cost me 30€ btw, so I think it's more than fine for a wireless charger).
You did remind me that I could just also use the Fatboy bag on a faster charger later on.
Anyone try fast charging? Is it noticeably quicker than iPad charger?
Is there even any indication that fast charging happens? Like double lightning bolt or something.
Curious if some of my other usbc pd chargers work.
Is there even any indication that fast charging happens? Like double lightning bolt or something.
Curious if some of my other usbc pd chargers work.