Just installed iOS 6.....

iOS 6 adjusts metallic button reflections as you tilt your phone

A video uploaded by YouTube user streborhcaz has revealed a neat little detail in the new iOS 6 music app. The iOS 5 slider, pictured above, is just a static image. However, as you can see below, Apple seems to be using one of its movement sensors to detect when the phone is being tilted from side to side and adjust the reflection of the volume button at the bottom of the screen. Pointless? Perhaps, but thoroughly fun nonetheless.
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[video=youtube;c9X7D87uJ7Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9X7D87uJ7Q&feature=player_embedded[/video]
http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/13/3082329/ios-6-button-tilt-change-reflection
 
bwana said:
I'm confused.
If you add /iPad as a source in iTunes then your subfolders will be copied across as individual albums.
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Mine aren't ...

On the PC it's Photos/iPad/Photos and Photos/iPad/Music ... So sub folders of each event. However on the iPad all photos are just mixed in the single iPad folder. Really annoying.

Maybe a setting?
 
Dolby said:
Mine aren't ...

On the PC it's Photos/iPad/Photos and Photos/iPad/Music ... So sub folders of each event. However on the iPad all photos are just mixed in the single iPad folder. Really annoying.

Maybe a setting?
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On the top of the iPad (Photo app) there's an option for "Photos" or "Albums".

On the Photo option it will show all your photos, on the Album option it will show all your individual albums.

EDIT: Pic added

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techead said:
sorry I dont see how those maps are 3d. Its 2d maps with a different viewing angle?? :confused:
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Maybe this will help:

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You would see it better when on the device as you can pan and zoom around the objects.
 
@elimentals: Have you played with the directions?
Mine are hideous. Tried to get from Bellville to Century City, took me through town.

I can't seem to figure out how to get alternate routes either.
 
MongooseMan said:
@elimentals: Have you played with the directions?
Mine are hideous. Tried to get from Bellville to Century City, took me through town.

I can't seem to figure out how to get alternate routes either.
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Well its still beta, in fact the entire OS is so beta that I am on previous version :)
 
MongooseMan said:
@elimentals: Have you played with the directions?
Mine are hideous. Tried to get from Bellville to Century City, took me through town.

I can't seem to figure out how to get alternate routes either.
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The navigation options are being reported as being very poor, however as said it's a first build beta so I expect it to work flawlessly by the time apple actually push it to consumers...

Apple app thinks Indian Ocean is somewhere in Greenland, tells people to drive off bridges

Apple, Inc. (AAPL) earlier this week announced its latest upcoming version of its mobile operating system, iOS 6. The beta build showed off some new features including the new Maps application, which allowed Apple to toss rival Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Google Maps, the previous mapping application in iOS.

CNN described:

But it was Maps which may have marked the most direct anti-Google move. Google has been providing mapping information to Apple since the iPhone launched in 2007.

At the iOS 6 announcement, mobile chief Scott Forstall was all braggadocio commenting, "In iOS 6, we have built an entire new mapping system from the ground up; and it looks beautiful. This is a worldwide effort. We're covering the world."

Perhaps he was right, but the world Apple is covering seems to be one quite different from our own. In the beta build the map names the ocean between Australia and Asia as the "Arctic Ocean". It thinks the continent of Africa is the "North Pacific Ocean" and the island of Greenland is the "Indian Ocean". Whoops.

Then there are reports that the mapping app has a penchant for suggesting curious shortcuts that take drivers on creative turns directly off bridges. Hopefully nobody tries to follow that navigator's advice unless they have one of those fancy car-boat-transforming vehicles.

True, this is just a test build, but it's a surprisingly poor showing for a company who has a reputation for polished core applications. It looks like Apple may come to regret its snub of Google Maps.
Source: Gizmodo
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Link: http://www.dailytech.com/Quick+Note+Apples+Maps+App+Flunks+at+Geography+Navigation/article24926.htm

After reading that I would not recommend using it if you really have to get somewhere until it's more stable and the bugs have been ironed out.
 
Can anyone confirm whether Siri local search now works in SA? For like businesses?
 
Can ios6 multitask?

We're in 2012 now and you'd think Apple could at least have a real multitasking on their OS
 
Dolby said:
Can ios6 multitask?

We're in 2012 now and you'd think Apple could at least have a real multitasking on their OS
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Can you multitask?

Can you type here, place your ipad on gumtree and switch to Android at the same time?

:-)
 
I'm slowly making the switch to Android ... 2 weeks I get an Android phone over the iPhone ;)

Then once I save up more, I'll get the tablet to boot. Like I've always said, the iPad is a stepping stone to a real device :)

But in all honesty - you don't think in this day and age multitasking should be available? I have to sit and stare at Newstand while it downloads a magazine, as it stops if I leave. Likewise for a video - I have to watch it buffer and can't browse/do anything else.
 
Dolby said:
I'm slowly making the switch to Android ... 2 weeks I get an Android phone over the iPhone ;)

Then once I save up more, I'll get the tablet to boot. Like I've always said, the iPad is a stepping stone to a real device :)

But in all honesty - you don't think in this day and age multitasking should be available? I have to sit and stare at Newstand while it downloads a magazine, as it stops if I leave. Likewise for a video - I have to watch it buffer and can't browse/do anything else.
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So Apple are to blame for our lame broadband throughput? In this day and age they probably didn't design their iOS with 384kbps DSL and buffering Youtube videos in mind.

I have a number of apps installed on my iPad that run (rather than suspend) in the background when closed. iPod, Tune in radio and Teamviewer to name but a few. The functionality is supported in iOS since iOS4. The developers then choose (or not) to write it into the app.

I always have a good chuckle at the Android brigade and their obsession with multi tasking yet one of the most downloaded Android apps is advanced task killer, an app that closes any apps running in the background.

Anyway, enjoy the Droids meneer.

Personally I wouldn't mind a new droid my self but I've invested too much time and effort in understanding and ironing out the nuisances in iOS.

Yes, it is not without its flaws but a simple process of jailbreaking and all of a sudden you can unlock all that potential.

Said it before and I'll say it again, 15%-20% improvement on standard.

What I'll never understand is why someone who is unhappy as you are with your iDevices has not jailbroken them.
 
I'm not asking it to be able to wirelessly decode nuclear missiles in Korea ... I'm asking for a simple multitasking - and again you run to their rescue and defend them?

Wow - there is truly nothing wrong with Apple or their devices at all in your eyes.

Sad really :/
 
What's sad is you coming back to a thread that has been dead for the last 6 weeks to comment about a feature that has been around since June 2010.
 
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