Many of these look like solid feature updates, but I'm waiting to hear about a native keyboard that doesn't pick the dumbest, most context-free possible word from the smear of letters I've fat-fingered into it.
Still waiting on the ability to set a custom alert tone for group messages. I'm in a couple that occasionally will just go off. The alert is the standard one that also sounds for regular (direct to me) messages, so I either have to mute that group chat for an hour—and hope it settles down within that timeframe—or mute it entirely, and risk forgetting to unmute it later.
If I could just set the alert to something different and minimal, I'd let it run. Bonus if the alert could be one thing for the first message sent, and a simpler thing for the ongoing chatter.
Nice but the thing they said that interested me was iMessage via satellite. Now that is impressive for a minor feature.
I've dumbed down my phones main screen so much to turn it into less of a distraction machine that I just don't care.
I moved from Android to iOS last year and am excited to see many of the features I had mourned losing now available in iOS.
Surprisingly, they're adding RCS Messaging support!
Didn't expect that.
Finally. Icons don’t have to be stuck in the top left corner of the screen.
Not that this will ever be available on the 6s I’m still using.
Congratulations to iPhone users on the ability to "place app icons anywhere", a true innovation.
Apple is like a bully who is not gonna stop unless a bigger bully (EU) forces him to. I'm glad about RCS addition, it was long over due.
I wish they would provide useful customization features, such as adjusting the drop shadow on the app names that appear under the icons. Look at those images in the article; the "News" text is way less legible because it's over the highlight of the dog's ear. This has been an issue for years.
It's funny to observe the trends over the year. An Apple event is just meh. A single entry on the OpenAI blog cause excitement, hundreds of comments and speculations.
Cydia had this 10 years ago xD
> Game Mode is coming to iPhone, minimizing background activity to ensure the highest frame rates.
This might just be me, but this thing doesn’t feel very Apple-like to me. I always liked how a MacBook would run exactly the same whether connected to the wall or on battery power. There were no modes, no management, no battery strategies to choose from like on Windows, the machine was just powerful when needed and efficient when idle.
Now we have both High power and Low power modes on MacBooks and we’re getting “gaming mode” on iPhone? Like, can’t the latest flagship phone just tell? This thing can decide whether to show me my boarding pass, if I’m driving home or to work, but I need to put it in “gaming mode” manually?