jts
...hate me...
I want the end of landscape home screen for the Plus
Hell, I'd love granular control to allow each app to be landscape or not. Don't want landscape Safari either.
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WWDC 2017 |OT| iOS 11, macOS 10.13, watchOS 4 & tvOS 11
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I want the end of landscape home screen for the Plus
Hell, I'd love granular control to allow each app to be landscape or not. Don't want landscape Safari either.
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
Member
I want the end of landscape home screen for the Plus
Hell, I'd love granular control to allow each app to be landscape or not. Don't want landscape Safari either.
What the...!?
I need to take a seat...
(Granular controls are a good idea though. I'd force everything to be landscape. EVERYTHING!)
Always-honest
Banned
Is the hype around these events significantly less these days? Or is it just me?
No way they will go back in pixel density from the Plus models.
But keep your expectations for today's event in check, they will not show the new iPhone
Oh I'm not expecting it, just curious what direction they'll take for the screen res and whether there will be any hints in the iOS developer versions
TimFL
Member
So I guess significant iPad updates incoming with the split-view drag & drop confirmed.
Also, what are your thoughts on a potential iOS10.4 being announced tomorrow? It just crossed my mind that carpool karaoke is scheduled for August and we know that the music app needs to be updated to add support for Apple shows.
I could see them showing off the new Apple Music app that incorporates their show offerings with the bomb dropping "and you'll get access to this via iOS 10.4 in August, available to testers now".
That's not the first time they announced updates for the current iOS at WWDC: they announced Apple Music back in 2015 and added it to the iOS 8.4 beta build after the show.
Also, what are your thoughts on a potential iOS10.4 being announced tomorrow? It just crossed my mind that carpool karaoke is scheduled for August and we know that the music app needs to be updated to add support for Apple shows.
I could see them showing off the new Apple Music app that incorporates their show offerings with the bomb dropping "and you'll get access to this via iOS 10.4 in August, available to testers now".
That's not the first time they announced updates for the current iOS at WWDC: they announced Apple Music back in 2015 and added it to the iOS 8.4 beta build after the show.
I was thinking this also, because iPad improvements were originally intended to arrive in iOS 10.3 along with the new iPads, before the iPads apparently got delayed. If the iPads are now ready at WWDC, it'd be a bit weird for those improvements to be withheld until iOS 11.
The Last One
Member
I have a 4th generation Ipad, the chances are bad for IOS 11 support?
Rumors are pointing to Apple moving to 64 bit only. The iPad Air would be the first iPad with a 64 bit processor.
The Last One
Member
Damn, sucks for me.
jts
...hate me...
The constant rotation bothers me a lot in bed or sometimes even when laying the phone on a table. End up just having rotation locked most of the time, and then I have to turn it off when I want to watch a video. And then on again after it.
Other solutions:
Bring back the chance to set the hardware switch as the orientation lock toggle, from the old school iPads.
and
Put in every video player a button that overrides orientation lock status and goes landscape fullscreen... like the Youtube app has.
This would already please me greatly. But I'll take any general QoL improvements in that area.
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
"Portrait. No, portrait! Stupid phone, portrait!!"
*sigh*
*slowly rotates to landscape, then portrait*
Erebus
Member
This.
Junior Mint
Member
*Except videos and photos app
LordOfChaos
Member
WWDC 2017 |OT| Something to Speak about
LyleLanley
Banned
I agree with this.
Four hours till go time. Feels like it's going to be a big one for iPad, no pun intended.
The speculation about APFS allowing for a significant Time Machine upgrade in macOS is exciting; I don't know if that's a 2017 or 2018 thing, but the ability to use Time Machine with iCloud Drive or to finally be able to boot from a Time Machine back up would be great.
The speculation about APFS allowing for a significant Time Machine upgrade in macOS is exciting; I don't know if that's a 2017 or 2018 thing, but the ability to use Time Machine with iCloud Drive or to finally be able to boot from a Time Machine back up would be great.
Lights and Waves
Member
I'm excited to see the iPad and pencil updates. I've been looking to get one for sketching.
The only time I turn off rotation lock (on iPhone) is for embedded videos.
It's ridiculous that full-screening videos doesn't automatically set the matching orientation. The YouTube app does it, but the system's built-in player does not. At the very least there should be a rotation button in the system player.
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
I thought E3 was THIS week until yesterday afternoon when I couldn't find a Sony stream
Imagine my disappointment, lol.
my guess is the actual UIKit view will be 1080p on the 8, but the actual resolution of the screen will be wider.
edit - I have no idea what you guys are going on about orientation lock.. I mean I've been using iphones now for almost exactly 8 years and have never once been affected by any sort of wrong orientation?
RiggenBlaque
Member
I thought E3 was THIS week until yesterday afternoon when I couldn't find a Sony stream
Imagine my disappointment, lol.
Ha, I thought the same thing because I feel like E3 and WWDC are always the same week. I woke up this morning looking for info about what was announced at the EA and whoever else press conferences that I had assumed happened this Saturday and Sunday and it took an embarrassingly long amount of time for me to realize I was a full week off.
Ghost Lynx
Member
I want this so bad, now. You're exactly right, it would fix just about every problem I have with screen rotation on my phone.
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
I'd like it for more simple attachments in email. Sending more than one attachment in Mail is a pain in the ass, currently.
I hope this will make a dedicated file space within every app obsolete and they can all access the same central place. I expect it to be somewhat like Goodreader and the likes.
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Guess I'll be tuning in!
LordOfChaos
Member
Download docs of any file type and attach them right in email for instance, rather than going through an app or other steps.
NOLA_Gaffer
Banned
I like having music on my phone because I'd rather not chew through my data and have to pay a separate fee to listen to music.
LyleLanley
Banned
You don't need a file browser for that though.
Yea I can see that.
That's an interesting idea. If it worked well then sure. Could get rid of several apps that way. Would have to be super reliable though. I've always found that kind of app pretty unreliable with connecting.
Ooh good point. Downloading things from Safari would be pretty neat. Doubt I would use it but having the option would be nice.
Now I'm a supporter haha. Anything beats the garbage system they have now with the iCloud app. Main thing I want is a better Siri. iOS does everything else I want. A redesign would be cool too.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
I just want to be able to save files from Safari or other apps that aren't just images. Then be able to browse through them at any time. Have them sync to my computer and other devices. I don't know why we need a Files app when they could just integrate this with the iCloud Drive app. Make iCloud Drive have the ability to store these files and sync them. Apps need better integration with iCloud Drive. Especially apps that deal with image files. Like you can't even set an image file in iCloud Drive as your wallpaper. You have to first save it to Photos then load it from Photos. So clunky and unintuitive. Fix this shit Apple! Let's hope this is a step towards that.
Also let me download audio files like MP3 from other sites (Remember, not all music or audio is a regular song available on iTunes. Overclocked, stuff on SoundCloud and other similar sites.) and import them directly into my Music library, then sync those down to my computer on the next sync. Right into whatever playlist I put them in.
badcrumble
Member
Amazing. Just a proper file browser (omg what if you can download things from safari into this space, or import mp3s into your music collection from it) will be a huge deal. Hopefully they'll get closer to sharing/collaboration parity with Google Drive and Dropbox with iCloud Drive stuff too.
SuperEpicMan
Banned
Does anyone know if I will be able to stream this on YouTube?
It is a file explorer, they haven't been innovative since Norton Commander.
LordOfChaos
Member
Someone will probably be rebroadcasting with commentary.
Official apple stream is on Safari and Edge for some video filetype thingy.
badcrumble
Member
There are cases where innovation is less important than good design and nailing the technical nuts and bolts and I think this is one of them. Definitely don't want it to feel clunky or old-fashioned but that's pretty easy to avoid. But yeah, it's more important for it to get the ground-level stuff exactly right so it can support developers in being the ones responsible for innovation.
Not to mention I don't think anyone particularly *wants* innovation, they just want a way to transfer workflows so they can use iOS devices for more work.
Lights and Waves
Member
Any chance we get iOS 11 this week instead of sometime this fall..?
LyleLanley
Banned
It's a file explorer, the more straightforward the better.
0% chance. They need to give developers time to develop for it first. Just get in on the beta if you want it sooner.
As much as I want a nice hardware upgrade for the iPhone it's still one of the best phones on the market. I just want them to keep opening it up, if they are going full in on Siri with this new speaker we need more access to other services, otherwise it's just what Siri is now, a glorified timer.
I want pretty much any app to be able to utilize it. Spotify is obviously the big one, but with the airpods having the quick access in the ears at all times it needs to do more. I'd love to be able to tell it to play a podcast on overcast without having to pull my phone out of my pocket. Let me tell MFP to add a food to my day.
I want pretty much any app to be able to utilize it. Spotify is obviously the big one, but with the airpods having the quick access in the ears at all times it needs to do more. I'd love to be able to tell it to play a podcast on overcast without having to pull my phone out of my pocket. Let me tell MFP to add a food to my day.
LumpOfCole
Member
History tells us that Developers will get to download an early beta of iOS 11 this week, then the public will be able to download the a more stable version of the beta during the summer, before it finally gets released in autumn.
The Main Event
Member
This, and iCloud Drive.
……forgetit
Member
I thought this was next week, sweet.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
*pffft*
Apple hasn't made a great file explorer since the one in iOS 9. OS X's Finder lost so many things 9 had and they still haven't put them all back. I have very little faith in Apple making a better Finder unless they bought out the people who make Path Finder and let them have mostly full reign over how it works. (With some restrictions like not making it too complicated, but still let them put a lot of features in it even if they have to be optional and off by default.)
Wont happen.
But we can hope. Again. For the 17th year in a row.