This might just be me, but this thing doesn’t feel very Apple-like to me. I always liked how a MacBook would run exactly the same whether connected to the wall or on battery power. There were no modes, no management, no battery strategies to choose from like on Windows, the machine was just powerful when needed and efficient when idle.
Now we have both High power and Low power modes on MacBooks and we’re getting “gaming mode” on iPhone? Like, can’t the latest flagship phone just tell? This thing can decide whether to show me my boarding pass, if I’m driving home or to work, but I need to put it in “gaming mode” manually?
macOS has had power management settings for years and years - used to be branded "Energy Saver"
No, I don't think so. I'm pretty sure the point is that the phone does it automatically when you're playing a full screen game.
Is this true of Apple Silicon Macs? From my memory, Intel Macs did the normal Intel frequency scaling stuff, but perhaps I've got that wrong.
It turns on pretty much automatically but you can turn it off.
That would be a huge improvement.
Not to try to do anything predictive, but just to get words right when it would be clear to any human what the intended word would be in context, both gramatically as well as in subject matter.
I have to assume you could do this pretty well with a vastly smaller model that would run on an iPhone.
I mean, dictation on my iPhone is vastly better than it was 10 years ago -- it's usable for a lot of stuff that it simply wasn't usable for previously (dictating brainstorming ideas while lying on the couch, for example). But it still makes a lot of mistakes and just skips far too many words it can't seem to figure out.
I really fucking wish I could turn off auto selection.
I only use this damned thing because work pays for it.
If I could just set the alert to something different and minimal, I'd let it run. Bonus if the alert could be one thing for the first message sent, and a simpler thing for the ongoing chatter.
...a very cheeky "Welcome to 2007", from Android-land! =D
Didn't expect that.
Not that this will ever be available on the 6s I’m still using.
Also, wasn't this already announced?
It's a cool feature. I'm just not sure how impactful it will be. You could argue it's important in less connected areas of the world but are folks there using iPhones or are they using a cheap phone provided by Facebook or something?
It seems like this impacts the millions of people who visit the National Parks in the US?
There is essentially no cellular service anywhere in the parks because the Park Service thinks people should put down their phones and enjoy nature. Wifi is only for guests of the in-park hotels, and is barely adequate for sending short text messages. I actually can't remember that last time I saw a payphone, but they are everywhere in the parks (and people use them) because of the lack of cellular coverage.
> Also, wasn't this already announced?
You're thinking of emergency SOS. This is for chatting to your friends.
I think super basic SMS or SOS of some kind was announced? Full imessage support is new.
Apple's "Emergency SOS" feature launched back in November 2022 (in the U.S., on iPhone 14 and up).
Normal texting via satellite will be subtle, perhaps, but it will be one of those things where we will look back and thing "huh, wasn't that weird when we could message people almost everywhere instead of everywhere?"
people who drive through areas where there's no cell coverage is certainly a larger demographic than 0.01%. having coverage to contact a friend or family member if you get in an accident or your car breaks down on 100% of your route instead of 99% of your route would be a big peace of mind upgrade for me.
- Accessibility -> Display & Text Size -> Colour Filters -> Greyscale switches it on. It also sets the default colour filter which is helpful because ...
- Accessibility -> Accessibility Shortcut -> Colour Filters means you can then triple-press the Home button (on an SE) to toggle that setting at any time
As various studies have suggested in the past, I do find I use it less in greyscale.
The space cursor trick is an hidden feature users have no way of visually discovering unless by typing accident, or when someone tells them. It only exists because the cursor behaves unexpectedly.
Seems to be an issue across commercial dictation systems, not just iOS.
Really impacts their usage in a hands-off and eyes-off manner.
i suspect adding iMessage to the service is an effort to make it valuable enough to start charging for it.
There's no denying that smartphone messaging via satellite is game-changing in this space (and I hope my Garmin Fenix watch will one day have 2-way SOS messaging capability integrated into it) but I wouldn't trust a smartphone for this.
I would like 2 completely different channels to communicate over.