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iOS 8 Beta 5 Tidbits: SMS Relay, New iCloud Icons, Health App Updates, and More
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I have read that WiFi calling is a significant improvement in quality when compared to carrier calling.
I believe that your call should transition to the carrier signal. But based on the quote below, the process needs to have improved since he used WiFi calling with Android:
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Must be part of the iOS 7 & 8 redesigns stolen from Android.
At this point it's more about fine tuning and stability than anything new.
If I choose to have my original (hi-res) photos stored on iCloud, rather than the phone itself, how do I access them in the future when needed?
Presumably via (as yet unavailable) photos app for mac os and a (as yet unavailable) web interface at iCloud.com.
...and not only "recent" -- T-Mobile has offered Wi-Fi Calling for select/supported phones since at least 2010 (my Samsung Vibrant had it). A great feature; really glad to see it coming to iPhone!
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AT&T doesn't support Wifi calling. It's something the carriers have to enable specifically. AFAIK only T-Mobile and Cincinnati Bell support it. Maybe a couple other regional carriers, too.
Looks bad, to be sure.
Carrier can be useful when you travel - you can easily see what network you are using, and easily refer to which networks have better reception for you.
Also for people with 2 iphones (work and home, for example) on 2 different carriers, this can be useful.
Agree its got limited usage, and probably should be able to be switched off, but its not entirely useless.
My carrier also only has 2 lower case letters, so it wouldnt look so terrible as T-Mobile
So that when you're traveling someplace outside your carrier's coverage area, and/or if you are swapping SIMs, you know what carrier you've connected to. Can make a big $$ difference.
Question for developers who've downloaded the iOS 8 beta. How much of a refinement is this over iOS 7 in terms of aesthetics and usability? I
feel that iOS 7 very much has a beta feel to it. Hoping ios 8 improves upon whats already there instead of bringing more chaos.
feel that iOS 7 very much has a beta feel to it. Hoping ios 8 improves upon whats already there instead of bringing more chaos.
or get rid of the signal dots and replace them with a wifi-phone icon. Since you don't really need to know your cell signal then.
No, to keep the menu area from becoming a cluttered mess I thought that was obvious given the image I referenced.
They don't have to revert back to the previous bars; I was just poking fun at Apple's rare insistence on making a design less concise than before.
I'd imagine it'll be done using iCloud, so regardless if you're on the same wifi network or not, each device logged into the same iCloud account will receive the message. Of course the phone would have to be turned on so the initial text message can arrive on the phone before iCloud kicks in.
Not sure why it's so hard to understand what SMS relay means lol. Relay = handball, pass on, yada yada yada.
It's interesting to think that an actual human designed the menu area here:
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I hope Apple innovates a method of consolidating those dots into, say, thin vertical rectangles. They could even be called something like poles or bars.
Well, you know Apple -- they like to think different, even to the detriment of usability at times.
The prices are about to change - quite looking forward to that - my camera roll is a part of the iCloud backup these days = not been possible for a long time because of the low storage space
It's not. The swift language is due some improvements in following betas (they explicitly say that on xcode release notes) and with that some known issues on iOS should also be fixed.
We may get to beta 7 this time.
Thanks to government interference and anti-competition court rulings, Microsoft have had to scale back and remove a lot of native applications. Even in the XP days Microsoft was forced to bundle a native email client, Messenger, Photo editor/organiser, Video editor as a separate optional download (Windows Live).
Here in Europe, the EU came within a whisker of forcing Microsoft to not have any web browser installed by default & media features stripped out (a compromise resulted in the Windows K & Windows KN versions).
I guess you need to educate yourself before talking utter nonsense based on no facts whatsoever.