Apple WWDC 2014 – iPhone 6/ iWatch? / iWotM8?

(from my iPhone 4s on iOS 7)

Bing turned off for Spotlight. First thing I needed to do.

@Graham – thats why the Apple Tips app will be good and the big text so I can actually see stuff ! A while ago my iPad keyboard split in two and I discovered that feature had been around for years 😳

if you plug it in to a computer you don’t need any space to do the update

Mine said it needed 500M on my 5s, so I had to get rid of some of the mysterious “other” that was eating my storage. Having done that the update still failed with an “unknown” error leaving it needing a full restore. Seems like a lot of hassle to go through to get novelty emoticons.

Seems like a lot of hassle to go through to get novelty emoticons.

Pay attention at the back – the “novelty emoticons” are one of the few things that aren’t new. Plenty of other stuff is though:

https://www.apple.com/uk/ios/whats-new/

Yeah, liKe the double cliCk “home” key whiCh brings up “recents” 😀

Does anyone know what the shop stock situation will be like? Thinking about popping into my local Apple Store to have a look at the 6 plus and buy one.

had a text earlier from o2 confirming my order was ready for dispatch, I asked and they said its a courier not royal snail. happy… I may actually get it before the weekend.

Does anyone know what the shop stock situation will be like? Thinking about popping into my local Apple Store to have a look at the 6 plus and buy one.

They will have demo models to look at / play with and a mahoosive queue of people trying to get their hands on one for a play. Wait time for an pre-order is currently 3-4 weeks I think.

You’d think they’d use a peer to peer bit torrent style protocol for distributing massive updates to millions of people.

Probably using akamai or A N Other content distribution network. Might be difficult to blacklist or withdraw stuff from a bittorrent swarm.

That said, Blizzard use it for WoW / Diablo etc… but I guess they are a lot easier to rush another mini patch too than a whole OS.

Cheers Peteimprezza seems I’m legible for a new battery.

Upgraded my iphone 5 and seems to run Ok certainly not slow. All photos and emails still there although the new album will take some getting use to. The new predictive text is good though I do like that.

Was kind of hoping for lower case letters on the keyboard when typing in lower case…push for Gmail would have been nice too.

Gmail is a separate app though so up to them to sort that out.

anyone tried IOS8 on a 4S?

@Drac, you are very welcome

@stevemorg , yes, no problems at all

installed ios8 on my 4S this morning, seems ok in terms of performance. Allegedly it is supposed to be slower but doesn’t seem too bad. It is the 64GB version so maybe that helps. It’ll be for sale once my new 6 arrives, allegedly by courier today… not holding my breath.

Maybe a little bit excited…

anyone tried IOS8 on a 4S?

Yes and we already posted about it 😉 Runs fine on my 16GB phone. I like it very much especially predictive text, larger fonts and more apps carry the font size over, double click last contacts. Make sure you do a backup to your computer and I would suggest downloading the update via iTunes, The gf had a problem with her 5 and had to restore phone from backup but the update worked second time around.

And on a sliGht tangent..

Anyone used/triEd iMovies yet? i had a peek last niGht but iT looks kinda complex 😐
i Haven’t uploaded iT to my MAC yet cos iT looks liKe i’Tll stiLl be loadiNg thiS tiMe next year 😛

Not used iMovie but I do use Pinnacle Studio on the iPad which is pretty good.

iPhone 6 just got delivered.

….unfortunately, it’s for my brother. UPS guy said he had about 25 to deliver today.

Oops: http://mashable.com/2014/09/18/australian-perth-drop-apple-iphone/

@Jamie well if it where my kids they’d be trying out their siblings stuff pronto.

My delivery date just came forward, tomorrow am apparently….

Had a play with a 6 Plus today.

The size looks ludicrous at first, but the more you use it the better it feels.

Disappointments for me coming from an Android phone thinking things would be intuitive:
– The card system to check running applications.
– No automatic rotation when trying to use the phone horizontally to type/browse.

Other disappointments
– The much hyped manual camera mode. You now have exposure control which then fiddles with shutter speed for you. Not really full manual mode like some articles light on substance would have you believe.

Will probably wind up getting one just for a change, and partly to check if Omnifocus integration will change my life like I want to though.

– No automatic rotation when trying to use the phone horizontally to type/browse.

It should rotate, it could have been locked though.

– No automatic rotation when trying to use the phone horizontally to type/browse.

Very surprised at that. You sure rotation lock wasn’t activated, as even my crappy 4 does the above.

same here, my delivery has come forward to tomorrow 🙂

Probably was locked. I checked the settings to see if there was something going on there, but it wasn’t “intuitive”!

checked the settings to see if there was something going on there, but it wasn’t “intuitive”!

Slide from the bottom and untick the little padlock. Done.

The card system to check running applications.

Interested why that of all things was a disappointment?

Had the 6 for a day now. It’s lovely to use and the big screen is very nice. Not sure if the size is going to be annoying as an every day phone though. I’ve not seen a plus but that will be way too big IMO.

Just had a quick play on my brother’s iPhone.

My 4 is a bit slow in comparison.

Interested why that of all things was a disappointment?

Well, it annoys me. I want to see more than a handful of my running apps.

I guess it depends on your expectation.
As I said earlier its not a Task Manager. It doesn’t show running apps, just the most recent ones.

If you’re expecting a process list with details of CPU, memory use, swap state, resource allocation, child processes etc then yeah it’s not that, but that’s a deliberate design decision. Phone users shouldn’t need a computer science degree. 😀

Being able to see running apps at a glance, rather than just the app I’m using, and the two I can remember using just now, would be more useful. Swipe, swipe, swipe…

Ironically, one of the few things that Apple have copied off of ‘droid… looks good but not useful.

mine is here, 64gb, got all my music on 8000 tracks, plus room left over

had a 4s before, screen on the 6 is much better, looks quite a bit larger cos its kinda gone up 2 sizes from my 4s

think i will get used to it, typing texts when used landscape mode make the buttons nice and big so thats good

now just got to wait on a case ive ordered, ad not damage it till it turns up

Had a quick play with a 6+ today, and I was very impressed; it didn’t feel too huge, but I have fairly large hands and the slimness of it helped. I like the double-tap feature that drops the home screen down to allow the user to access the top of the screen one-handed, although I hardly ever use my phone one-handed anyway, but the portrait/landscape rotation is really nice, and that will come in useful.
I was watching some demos of time-lapse videos, and they look absolutely stunning on the larger screen, with really rich colours.
Looks nice in gold, but mine, when I finally get it, will be in an Otterbox Defender anyway, so the colour is irrelevant.