Apple Releases iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 (macrumors.com) 43
Apple today released iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, the newest operating system updates designed for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. From a report: As with all of Apple's software updates, iOS and iPadOS 15 can be downloaded at no cost. iOS 15 is available on the iPhone 6s and later while iPadOS 15 is available on the iPad Air 2 and later. The new software can be downloaded on eligible devices over-the-air by going to Settings - General - Software Update. It may take a few minutes for the updates to propagate to all users due to high demand.
A new Focus mode cuts down on distractions by limiting what's accessible and who can contact you, and notifications can now be grouped up in daily summaries. There's an option for a new Safari design that moves the tab bar to the bottom of the interface, and Tab Groups keep all of your tabs organized. Maps has been overhauled with even more detail, a 3D view in major cities, a globe view, improved transit, a close-up driving view when navigating complicated routes, and AR walking directions. Across the operating system, there's a new Live Text feature that detects text in any image and lets you copy, paste, and translate it, plus there's a system-wide translation feature. In Photos, plants, pets, landmarks, and more can be identified, and there's a system-wide translation feature that goes well with Live Text. iCloud+ with iCloud Private Relay protects your IP address and obscures your location to prevent websites from tracking you, and a Hide My Email feature lets you create temporary email addresses. You can even use your personal domain with iCloud in iOS 15. Further reading: 19 Things You Can Do in iOS 15 That You Couldn't Do Before.
A new Focus mode cuts down on distractions by limiting what's accessible and who can contact you, and notifications can now be grouped up in daily summaries. There's an option for a new Safari design that moves the tab bar to the bottom of the interface, and Tab Groups keep all of your tabs organized. Maps has been overhauled with even more detail, a 3D view in major cities, a globe view, improved transit, a close-up driving view when navigating complicated routes, and AR walking directions. Across the operating system, there's a new Live Text feature that detects text in any image and lets you copy, paste, and translate it, plus there's a system-wide translation feature. In Photos, plants, pets, landmarks, and more can be identified, and there's a system-wide translation feature that goes well with Live Text. iCloud+ with iCloud Private Relay protects your IP address and obscures your location to prevent websites from tracking you, and a Hide My Email feature lets you create temporary email addresses. You can even use your personal domain with iCloud in iOS 15. Further reading: 19 Things You Can Do in iOS 15 That You Couldn't Do Before.
Not exactly quick (Score:2)
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Apple wants to have its defense to the inevitable EU anti-trust/privacy/tax lawsuit ready, before it makes iOS15 available.
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At least an hour ofter the release her in Europe, you are slipping msmsars
English, please?
Installing! (Score:4, Funny)
AppleTV: updated!
iPhone: almost done updating
iPad: almost done "preparing" update
Yeah - Apple Haters gonna Hate. I don't mind.
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Re: Installing! (Score:1)
Probably next week (;
Re:Installing! (Score:4, Insightful)
Good for you. I don't use Apple products myself, but I hope you find the updates useful.
Hating on things has taken too much of my energy and sanity, and I am trying not to do any more of it.
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Good, although a "senior" mode would be nice. Their users are getting older and the product needs to adjust.
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I'm getting older and I wish all products would "adjust". Thin, light grey, 8 pt fonts are not readable. Zooming in but losing text to outside the window and/or making the window wider without the viewable text area getting wider is just plain stupid. I don't want to use "mobile" web page versions on desktops, laptops, or even tablets. And using the cell phone for much more than phoning doesn't cut it with my tired old eyes.
Re:Now with increased spyware (Score:4, Informative)
Feel free to be concerned about Apple's photo scanning plans, but they have delayed the implementation of it, and it is not presently in iOS15
https://www.techradar.com/au/n... [techradar.com]
Also this isn't to say that it wont be implemented later - but if you have an iOS device, you can upgrade to 15 now and you wont have this controversial "feature".
(And yes I generally believe Apple when they make big statements about what they're doing, as the risk/benefit ratio of them lying about wouldn't doesn't add up).
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Restrict network connectivity per app (Score:2)
If apple is so privacy focused why not add the ability to restrict the network connectivity _per_ application (e.g. allow/disallow lists/masks or for local or general internet access for an app), _regardless_ of how the network is provided (wifi or cellular).
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Start with an on/off radio button for internet access for each app (local network on/off is already there for any app that tries to access local network, I believe).
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Start with an on/off radio button for internet access for each app (local network on/off is already there for any app that tries to access local network, I believe).,
How do you do a radio button for lists and masks?
Re: Restrict network connectivity per app (Score:2)
That gets messy very quickly. It's practical on iOS, at least for mobile data, because you don't have third party windowless processes. Even then, it's necessary only because mobile data remains prone to metering.
It would get very complex very quickly on desktop. I'm fine with pf and Little Snitch, and I'm motivated to accept the hassle. The vast majority of users are not. The tools are already there for the people who need them.
What's be useful is automated detection of suspicious network activity.
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Because the UI would be horrendous? Listing and managing permissions on a per-app basis already is pretty unusable on Android requiring a dozen taps and even though it isn't buried (it's under "Apps" on Settings), it's still complex.
And then there's the
19 Things You Can Do in iOS 15... (Score:1)
Which you previously couldn't do on Apple's devices.
Innovation? What's that?
Huh? (Score:1)
There is iOS, tvOS, and macOS. iOS covers both iPhone and iPad hardware platforms I believe. There is on iPadOS, unless Apple changed something yet again. No fan boy here, but reading the headline made me cringe a little.
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There is iOS, tvOS, and macOS. iOS covers both iPhone and iPad hardware platforms I believe. There is on iPadOS, unless Apple changed something yet again. No fan boy here, but reading the headline made me cringe a little.
https://www.apple.com/ipados/i... [apple.com]
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Yep, sure enough they changed it. Go figure :)
It was a while ago... (Score:1)
Apple split it out because they needed to have a variant that could handle multi-windowing better, I think also mouse support might be limited to iPad OS currently. The initial split was announced at WWDC in 2019, and released September 24, 2019 [wikipedia.org].
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Live Text is really useful. (Score:4, Interesting)
I really like the Live Text ability from photos, it works really well and I think I'll be using it a lot. You can basically just select text from anywhere in a photo and then paste it elsewhere.
Not had it long enough to say how the on-device Siri processing fares.
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Same end result, but Apple implemented it nicely for sure. You can just go to a text message, tap scan text, and then as you move the phone around looking at text, it will live add it to your message. You can scan in a page of text (e.g., from a book or whatever) tilting the phone up and down, updating as you go.
Maybe Lens does that on Android?
No new phone required. (Score:2)
I can install it on my almost 3 year old iPhone Xs. Take that Android!
Re: No new phone required. (Score:2)
No new iPhone required unless you want the new features.
https://www.macrumors.com/2021... [macrumors.com]
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Most of those are hardware availability related (e.g. camera features, motion/augmented reality features, etc.).
Safari Extensions (Score:2)
No comments yet on opening Safari to browser extensions. That's potentially a very big deal if they do it right. Yes, that is a big if, but there's real potential here. Being the only major mobile operating system with an extension library for their builtin browser could be a killer feature.
Android Firefox almost got there. They didn't miss boat and were en route. Alas, they never told anyone they were on the boat, and then they abandoned ship with a shitty life raft. Then they called an airstrike against t
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My impression is that if you're going for a "just the essentials" level of extensions, Firefox android has little value because many of those available in Firefox are builtin to other browsers. Particularly ad-blocking; that's a feature in virtually everything but vanilla Chrome.
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No comments yet on opening Safari to browser extensions. That's potentially a very big deal if they do it right. Yes, that is a big if, but there's real potential here. Being the only major mobile operating system with an extension library for their builtin browser could be a killer feature.
Android Firefox almost got there. They didn't miss boat and were en route. Alas, they never told anyone they were on the boat, and then they abandoned ship with a shitty life raft. Then they called an airstrike against the boat. Presently they are starving to death and had to eat the cabin boy. I...think I may have gone too far with my metaphor.
Safari did get browser extensions on iPadOS 15 and iOS 15 [apple.com].