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iOS 11 Release Notes

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iOS 11 Release Notes:

iOS 11 brings hundreds of new features to iPhone and iPad including an all new App Store, a more proactive and intelligent Siri, improvements to Camera and Photos, and augmented reality technologies to enable immersive experiences. iOS 11 is also the biggest release for iPad ever and adds powerful new multitasking features, a new Files app and more ways to use Apple Pencil.

App Store

  • All-new App Store designed for discovering great apps and games everyday
  • New Today tab helps you discover new apps and games with stories, how-to guides, and more
  • New Games tab to find new games and see what’s most popular with top game charts
  • Dedicated Apps tab with top picks, dedicated app charts, and app categories
  • App pages include more video previews, Editors’ Choice badges, easier access to user ratings, and information about in-app purchases

Siri

  • New Siri voice is more natural and expressive
  • Translate English words and phrases into Chinese, French, German, Italian or Spanish (beta)
  • Siri suggestions based on your usage of Safari, News, Mail, and Messages
  • Works with notes apps to create to-do lists, notes and reminders
  • Works with banking apps for account transfer and balances
  • Works with apps that display QR codes
  • Hindi and Shanghainese dictation

Camera

  • Portrait mode now supports optical image stabilization, HDR and True Tone flash
  • Photos and videos will take up half the space with the new HEIF and HEVC image and video formats
  • Redesigned set of nine filters optimized for natural skin tones
  • Automatically identify and scan QR codes
  • Photos
  • Loop, Bounce, and Long Exposure Live Photo effects
  • Mute, trim, or choose a new key photo for Live Photos
  • Memory Movies automatically adapt content for portrait and landscape orientation
  • More than a dozen new memory types including pets, babies, weddings, and sporting events
  • People album is more accurate and stays up to date across devices with iCloud Photo Library
  • Animated GIF support

Maps

  • Indoor maps for major airports and shopping centers
  • Lane guidance and speed limit information with Turn-by-turn directions
  • One-handed zoom with double tap and swipe
  • Interact with Flyover by moving your device

Do Not Disturb while Driving

  • Automatically silences notifications while driving and keeps iPhone silent and display off
  • Optional iMessage auto reply to alert selected contacts that you’re driving

New features designed for iPad

  • An all new Dock provides quick access to your favorite and recently used apps and can even be shown on top of active apps
  • Dock resizes so you can add all of your favorite apps
  • Recently used and Continuity apps are available on the right
  • Enhanced Slide Over and Split View
  • Apps can be easily started in Slide Over and Split View from the Dock
  • Slide Over and background apps now run simultaneously
  • Apps in Slide Over and Split View can now be placed on the left side of the screen
  • Drag and drop
  • Move text, images, and files between apps on iPad
  • Multi-Touch to move multiple items at the same time
  • Spring-loading to move content between apps
  • Markup
  • Markup works across documents, PDFs, webpages, photos and more
  • Instant markup anything in iOS – just place Apple Pencil on what you want to mark
  • Create a PDF and markup anything that can be printed
  • Notes
  • Instantly create a new note by tapping on Lock Screen with Apple Pencil
  • Inline drawing available by simply placing Apple Pencil in body of a note
  • Search handwritten text
  • Document scanner autocorrects for skewing and uses image filters to remove shadows
  • Table support to organize and display information
  • Pin important notes to the top of the list

•Files

◦All-new Files app to browse, search and organize files

◦Works with iCloud Drive and 3rd party cloud file providers

◦Recents view for quick access to recently used files across all apps and cloud services

◦Create folders and sort files by name, date, size and tags

QuickType

•Flick down on letter keys to enter numbers, symbols and punctuation marks on iPad

•One-handed keyboard support on iPhone

•New keyboards for Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Georgian, Irish, Kannada, Malayalam, Maori, Odia, Swahili, and Welsh

•English input on the 10-key Pinyin keyboard

•English input on the Japanese Romaji keyboard

HomeKit

•New accessory types including AirPlay 2 speakers, sprinklers and faucets

•Expanded occupancy, time and accessory based triggers

•QR code and tap to pair accessory setup support

Augmented Reality

•Augmented reality technologies that apps from the App Store can use to deliver content on top of real-world scenes for interactive gaming, immersive shopping experiences, industrial design and more

Machine Learning

•Core machine learning technologies that apps from the App Store can use to deliver intelligent features with machine learning data processed on device for high performance and user privacy

Other features and improvements

•Control Center redesign brings all controls on one page

•Control Center custom controls including accessibility, guided access, magnifier, text size, screen recording and Wallet

•Apple Music now helps you discover music with friends. Create a profile so friends can listen to playlists you’ve shared and see the music you listen to most

•Apple News now includes Top Stories picked just for you, recommendations from Siri, the best videos of the day in Today View, and great stories selected by our editors in the new Spotlight tab

•Automatic Setup signs you in to iCloud, Keychain, iTunes, App Store, iMessage, and FaceTime with your Apple ID

•Automatic Setup restores device settings including language, region, network, keyboard preferences, places you frequently visit, how you talk to Siri, home and health data

•Easily share access to your Wi-Fi networks

•Storage optimization notifications and free up space in Settings for apps like Photos, Messages, and more

•Emergency SOS calls emergency services based on your current location and automatically notifies emergency contacts, shares your location, and displays your Medical ID

•FaceTime lets you capture Live Photos from the other person’s Mac or iPhone camera

•Easily check Flight status in Spotlight and Safari

•Definitions, conversions and math support in Safari

•Russian and English bilingual dictionary

•Portuguese and English bilingual dictionary

•Arabic system font support

Accessibility

•VoiceOver descriptions support for images

•VoiceOver tables and lists support in PDFs

•Type to Siri support for basic search queries

•Spoken and braille caption support for videos

•Dynamic Type increases text and app UI to larger sizes

•Redesigned Invert Colors make media content easier to view

•Highlight Colors improvements in Speak Selection and Speak Screen

•Switch Control typing can scan and type whole words at a time

iOS 11 is performance optimized for 64-bit apps. 32-bit apps will need to be updated by the app developer to work with this version of iOS.

Some features may not be available for all countries or all areas, for more information visit: https://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability and https://www.apple.com/ios/whats-new

For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

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iOS 9: Ad-pocalypse Now

iOS 9 is coming

Apple is set to release iOS 9 on Wednesday, September 16, 2015. One of iOS 9 features that gained a lot of attention is what many calls as “Ad-Blocking”.

Apple calls it Content Blocking Safari Extensions.

Content Blocking gives your extensions a fast and efficient way to block cookies, images, resources, pop-ups, and other content.

This would be the beginning of “Ad-Pocalypse”. Publishers should have realized that there are ways to display ads without alienating the readers. Irrelevant and annoying ads would only drive readers away. Extended page-loading time paired with clickbait-ads are disservice to the readers. Promise of of targeted-advertising are nothing but privacy-invading tracking system. One would wonder why a site would have the need for 16 different trackers and analytics.

Take a look at one of The Macalope’s columns at Macworld. There’s the “Promoted Links by Taboola” which is one of the most irrelevant ad-networks on the Internet. Then there’s a “Dell Latitude 11 3000 Series Laptop” ad. A Dell advertisement on an Apple/Mac-oriented site! Don’t forget the Amazon Affiliate link on the top of the screenshot. Three different monetization scheme in 2048-pixel span. There are a lot more in the post. Shame on you, Macworld!

Macworld Ad-infested

Daring Fireball and The Loop are much smaller operations compared to others. What these two sites have done are good examples in presenting ads the right way. Remember that readers could easily walk away whenever they find sites being unfriendly.

Content-Blocking/Ad-Blocking will be the new gold rush in the Apple App Store. Watch for apps such as Crystal and Purify on the App Store,

The Ad-pocalypse is coming, at least to the iOS platform.

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iOS 8.1: Text Message Forwarding

One new feature in iOS 8.1 is: Text Message Forwarding
Any text messages sent to a phone number on an iPhone will be forwarded to other iOS devices using the same Apple ID.

Go to: Settings > Messages
Enable Test Message Forwarding for other iOS devices. They have to be logged in to iCloud using the same Apple ID with the iPhone.

One thing I noticed is that at this point I cannot forward text messages to other (service-less) iPhones.

iOS 8.1: Text Message Forwarding

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iOS 8 Beta: Supported Devices

iOS 8 Beta Devices Support

iOS 8 Beta supports the following devices:

  • iPhone 4s
  • iPhone 5
  • iPhone 5c
  • iPhone 5s
  • iPod touch 5th generation
  • iPad 2
  • iPad with Retina display
  • iPad Air
  • iPad mini
  • iPad mini with Retina display
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WordPress 4.0.1 for iOS

WordPress 4.0.1 for iOS is now available for download.

Some of the updates included are:

  • Improved the performance of stats.
  • Made the “Options” page easier to locate and access.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the app to freeze when you tried to update a post’s settings.
  • Fixed a bug that stopped you from moving the cursor to the end of a line.
  • Fixed a bug that broke the UI when you inserted a link in the post editor.
  • Fixed a bug that crashed the app when you added a featured image to a post.
  • Increased the minimum required version of WordPress to 3.6.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the post editor to malfunction if you inserted a link.

WordPress 4.0.1 for iOS

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Random Pick: EasyAcc

Should you have multiple devices such as phones and tablets, you might want to take a look at EasyAcc 25 Watts (5V/5A) 5-Port USB Charger.

It features:

  • Two 10.5 watt USB Ports
  • One  6.5 watt USB Port
  • Two 5 watt USB Ports

EasyAcc supports charging iPad, iPhone, iPod, and Android devices.

EasyAcc

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