Touch ID improvement already? Has it been just a month?
Doesn't anyone over there know what they're doing?
Well, the more improvement, the better.
After so many decades, we are still finding improvements in video playback. Doesn't mean the industry are ignorant in this area. It just means they are working actively in said area.
It can be speed, space, feature, security, and other enhancements.
Wake me when they get Swiftkey. Instead of spending more on dividends and buybacks, why not go out and just buy Swiftkey and give us a real keyboard...? The iOS keyboard is a total relic.
But, there is one thing that annoys me with it, but it's not actually its fault.
I almost never used passwords before. On my Nexus S I didn't even use a lock screen : a press on the wake button would show me the home screen directly. With touch ID when I receive notifications I can't just swipe the notification and get to it, I need to authenticate first. Same thing goes when I ask some things to Siri and it tells me that I need to unlock first.
Real first world problems!
Touch ID improvement already? Has it been just a month?
Doesn't anyone over there know what they're doing?
Touch ID is by far the best implementation of a fingerprint sensor on any consumer device (look at the fail that is the S5 implementation as an example), and for most people Touch ID works perfectly (at least everyone I know)- and Apple is doing it's best to continuously and actively improve it for the small percentage that are having issues- but no you're right, nobody there has any clue what they're doing. You should go over there and show them how it's done.
I've stopped being stunned by the self-entitled, ignorant, unappreciative, perspective-lacking, knee-jerk reactive armchair critics that post on the internet. It takes a special kind of person to claim Apple "doesn't know what it's doing" with Touch ID, when in the real world all evidence points towards the fact that its the ONLY company that knows what its doing in the consumer fingerprint biometrics field.
You too? Same here. Though my iTunes Music Library.xml is 133MB which I believe is the file it needs and might explain the long wait. Why it doesn't finish I don't know. No biggie or me; I just noticed it the other day.
I get the long wait before it loads too. It only sends a few megabytes over the network though, and the progress "pie" is only about 1/3 the way through by the time the network has quietened. As previously mentioned, the library loads almost instantly on the AppleTV - which in my case has a slower connection to iTunes (N WiFi vs 100mbps Ethernet).
With touch ID when I receive notifications I can't just swipe the notification and get to it, I need to authenticate first. Same thing goes when I ask some things to Siri and it tells me that I need to unlock first.
That annoys me too. For some simple things such as a Siri web search, a simple sandboxed version of Safari with no personal info in would be good. What annoys me more though, is when you use your iPhone and think of something else you needed to use it for a couple of seconds later; it asks for your fingerprint again. It needs a 10 second or so grace period before requiring your print. Or better still, the ability to change the idle interval for requiring your fingerprint, in the same fashion that you can set 1/5/10/30 mins before you're asked for your passcode again.
AppleInsider, you guys do a great job, but please make a headline when Apple TV has an software update, today was just a mention in a paragraph. Thank you and keep up the great work!
iOS 7.1.1 just crashed my iPhone 4!!! SO MAD AT YOU APPLE! After update installed, the screen showed a white cord and iTunes logo telling me to connect to the computer. I connected to iTunes and it says the phone must be restored now. ...30 minutes just to download restore.
I get the long wait before it loads too. It only sends a few megabytes over the network though, and the progress "pie" is only about 1/3 the way through by the time the network has quietened. As previously mentioned, the library loads almost instantly on the AppleTV - which in my case has a slower connection to iTunes (N WiFi vs 100mbps Ethernet).
Ethernet? Certainly not to your iPhone; for that device I would presume WiFi...
My iPhone now simply times out when loading the Shared iTunes from my Mac. Then the phone falls asleep and when I wake it it doesn't even display the Mac anymore. Not that it matters (to me), but it certainly isn't working. And a setup like this I can understand it being used by some: you get to control your Mac's iTunes from your phone. Though you can already do that from the Remote app. And that one loads the library with all playlists instantly. Weird.
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Doesn't anyone over there know what they're doing?
Funny, because they didn't issue any updates you'd also claim Apple didn't know what they were doing.
OTA is only 30MB !
Well, the more improvement, the better.
After so many decades, we are still finding improvements in video playback. Doesn't mean the industry are ignorant in this area. It just means they are working actively in said area.
It can be speed, space, feature, security, and other enhancements.
Also, Touch ID is blazing fast with this update. It was fast with 7.1, though
Touch ID improvement already? Has it been just a month?
Doesn't anyone over there know what they're doing?
Touch ID is by far the best implementation of a fingerprint sensor on any consumer device (look at the fail that is the S5 implementation as an example), and for most people Touch ID works perfectly (at least everyone I know)- and Apple is doing it's best to continuously and actively improve it for the small percentage that are having issues- but no you're right, nobody there has any clue what they're doing. You should go over there and show them how it's done.
I've stopped being stunned by the self-entitled, ignorant, unappreciative, perspective-lacking, knee-jerk reactive armchair critics that post on the internet. It takes a special kind of person to claim Apple "doesn't know what it's doing" with Touch ID, when in the real world all evidence points towards the fact that its the ONLY company that knows what its doing in the consumer fingerprint biometrics field.
Touch ID improvement already? Has it been just a month?
Doesn't anyone over there know what they're doing?
Dog forbid they make improvements.
I get the long wait before it loads too. It only sends a few megabytes over the network though, and the progress "pie" is only about 1/3 the way through by the time the network has quietened. As previously mentioned, the library loads almost instantly on the AppleTV - which in my case has a slower connection to iTunes (N WiFi vs 100mbps Ethernet).
That annoys me too. For some simple things such as a Siri web search, a simple sandboxed version of Safari with no personal info in would be good. What annoys me more though, is when you use your iPhone and think of something else you needed to use it for a couple of seconds later; it asks for your fingerprint again. It needs a 10 second or so grace period before requiring your print. Or better still, the ability to change the idle interval for requiring your fingerprint, in the same fashion that you can set 1/5/10/30 mins before you're asked for your passcode again.
AppleInsider, you guys do a great job, but please make a headline when Apple TV has an software update, today was just a mention in a paragraph. Thank you and keep up the great work!
26.0 MB on my Aus 5S but why do I need to have Wi-Fi to download 26.0 MB?
Bit of a typo there Soli.
Ethernet? Certainly not to your iPhone; for that device I would presume WiFi...
My iPhone now simply times out when loading the Shared iTunes from my Mac. Then the phone falls asleep and when I wake it it doesn't even display the Mac anymore. Not that it matters (to me), but it certainly isn't working. And a setup like this I can understand it being used by some: you get to control your Mac's iTunes from your phone. Though you can already do that from the Remote app. And that one loads the library with all playlists instantly. Weird.
Damn you, Macky!
For once, I thought we were going to have an update thread without the 'S' word!
Normally we get the a few "zzzz" posts on updates like these, so I like the "snappier" from Macky the Macky.
But maybe you'd prefer a: