Apple Updates iOS 11, watchOS 4, and tvOS 11
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Posted on 09/19/2017 4:10:20 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple today released iOS 11 which 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
MacDailyNews Take: It’s schnappy!
Seriously, if you have any issues whatsoever, please let us all know below.
Happy downloading!
“Apple today released watchOS 4, the newest version of the operating system designed to run on the Apple Watch,” Juli Clover reports for MacRumors. “watchOS 4 is a significant update that brings a whole host of new features from new watch faces to tools that will better motivate you to get moving.”
“watchOS 4 can be downloaded through the dedicated Apple Watch app on the iPhone by going to General –> Software Update,” Clover reports. “To install the new software, the Apple Watch needs to have at least 50 percent battery, it needs to be placed on a charger, and it needs to be in range of the iPhone.”
“There are several interface improvements, including a new vertical dock, a Quickstart interface when starting a workout, a better interface and more options in Apple Music, access to Apple News, new gestures in Mail, new complications for unread messages and Now Playing songs, and more,” Clover reports. “A new Flashlight option is available in Control Center for running or walking at night, person-to-person Apple Pay is coming to the Messages app starting this fall, and third-party apps are faster than ever with better load times and a more responsive interface, plus developers have access to even more features like the heart rate monitor, accelerometer, and gyroscope.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Enjoy watchOS 4 while you last (until October 5th), Apple Watch Nike+ Series 2!
“There’s a new software update out for the fourth-gen Apple TV that brings a few useful new features to the set-top box. tvOS 11 brings automatic dark mode switching, Home Screen Sync, proper AirPods support, and more to the Apple TV,” Zac Hall reports for 9to5Mac.
“When you set up or update an Apple TV with tvOS 11, Home Screen Sync is a new option that can be enabled after connecting your iCloud account,” Hall reports. “With Home Screen Sync enabled, you can rearrange your apps from any Apple TV running tvOS 11 and see the changes reflected on all other Apple TVs with the same iCloud account. Home Screen Sync also automatically installs apps across Apple TVs with the feature enabled.”
“AirPods now appear as a new speaker option automatically on Apple TVs with iCloud accounts connected to iPhones with AirPods paired. This means you can play music or easily listen to video from Apple TV through AirPods without using the TV speakers,” Hall reports. “The tvOS 11 software update adds new features to the fourth-generation Apple TV for free, but the big story this year is the new Apple TV 4K. tvOS 11 for Apple TV 4K has been enhanced for 4K TVs with support for high dynamic range color.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We love Home Screen Sync. All of our Apple TV 4 units now look and operate exactly the same, but we can’t wait for our Apple TV 4K units to arrive!
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“Apple News picked just for you”..
I can just imagine.
Thanks for the list. Looks like some good additions.
Killed my old Tiger Woods golf video game.
If you have old favorite 32bit apps, don't upgrade...
My iPhone 6+ is the perfect weight. I hope they don’t make it lighter. When a phone is too light, it gets harder to keep it safe.
Oh gezzuz, more updates? Every time these AH’s put out an updates, they’re more like viruses...And then they rearrange everything as if that’s what people wanted, so they can learn where everything is all over again.
Gak~
They embed these updates with small bugs and other undocumented features which will bog down your phone...slowly frustrating users to entice them to go out and buy the new iPhone. After all, if your current phone is working fine there is no incentive to upgrade to a new $800 phone with largely the same functionality.
Downloaded, so far so good. Like what I see so far.
Make sure you have adequate backups, and can revert to the former software. One way is to make a clone hard drive, then you can swap back to it in order to use an app that no longer works after the upgrade. Been there, done that.
Been there done that too many times as well. With certain devices every time I get an update warning I get the hebegeebees. What some of these people consider updates, I consider a viruses.
Today I got an update notice on one of my apps on my Mac, it's Drive Genius, a tool for fixing hard drives like defragging etc. The purpose of the update, is to stop the app from working if my Mac were updated to the latest version of OS X. Until they can come up with a proper update of Drive Genius, they don't want you crashing your hard drives if it hiccups with the new OS X release. Cool. An update to make your app fail on purpose! Needless to say, I won't upgrade OS X until Drive Genius provides a proper update. I did some work last week on some 6TB drives and would not want them crashing with a data loss, if I were to do more such work.
Updated the iPad Pro: Took just short of an hour to get the whole thing done (45 minutes just for the download) and from first glance it....well, it’s definitely got a different look. Plus it SEEMS to load pages on Safari a bit faster.
Okay, so it looks different but the stuff we need to see it do shows up when it should and it seems to go faster.
We’ve gotta take it outta town to do some work tomorrow so I’ll get a better idea of how it’s working then.
Now, I guess I get to stay up until 10:30 or so getting the update on the SE’s. Going to be a sight to see all of that cutesy display stuff they put on the iPad on that 3 1/2 inch screen on the SE......
(Or maybe I’ll just have to get some stronger reading glasses.)
My android phone is heavy too. I like it this way. I know it is there. Also heavy means older battle tested electronics inside. Not the cutting edge.
After reading reviews and doing comparisons on cellphone cameras, I bought my Sony Xperia.. It had the best camera at the time.. It has features Apple is just now putting into their phones. Though I must say, the new Apple is tempting! But at that price I can resist!
I have read that there are issues with bluetooth and sharing and that the new iOS does not really turn them off thru the screen but only through settings.
Is it worth the upgrade?
The Control Center turns off the BlueTooth Radios, it does not turn off the functionality by disabling the entire applications. That's the way it has always been. The Control Center is intended to be a temporary Ad Hoc control for use on the fly. If you want to turn off the functionality, you use the Settings panels.
Thanks. I just downloaded to my ipad.
I'm still trying things out. Safari is a lot faster. Some things are different. I kinda like the new look. So far, I think it is.
The Control Center switches for BlueTooth and WIFI is a red herring. The functionality stays available, but the radios are turned off when those buttons are pressed. It just doesn't toggle off the selection in the Settings app.
You can select your news sources from a list of sources. It's more limited than I would like, but there are some conservative choices on the list.
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