Daniel Hruska Immediately after the first keynote at WWDC 2012, Apple released the first beta version of the upcoming iOS 6 to developers. On the same day, we brought you summary all news. Thanks to cooperation with several developers, jablickar.cz had the opportunity to test this new system. We bring you first impressions and descriptions of new features, functions and illustrative screenshots. An older iPhone 3GS and iPad 2 were used for testing purposes.
Readers are reminded that the features, settings and appearance described only refer to iOS 6 beta 1 and may change to the final version at any time without notice.
User interface and settings
The operating system environment remained unchanged from its predecessor except for a few details. Attentive users may notice a slightly changed font for the battery percentage indicator, a slightly modified icon Settings, recolored call dial or slightly changed colors of other system elements. Big changes have been made to the "share" button, which until now has triggered the release of several other buttons for sharing on Twitter, creating an email, printing and other actions. In iOS 6, a pop-up window appears with a matrix of icons. It's also worth noting that new apps come with a label New, much like books in iBooks.
In itself Settings several changes in the layout of the offers then took place. Bluetooth finally moved to the first layer immediately below Wi-Fi. The menu has also moved up a layer Mobile data, which has been hidden in the menu until now General > Network. It appeared as a brand new item Privacy. Here you can turn location services on and off, and show which apps have access to your contacts, calendars, reminders, and pictures. A small detail at the end – the status bar is colored blue in Settings.
Do not disturb
Anyone who likes to sleep undisturbed or needs to immediately turn off all notifications will welcome this feature. Quite a number of users connect their devices to the projector for presentation purposes. Pop-up banners during it certainly don't look professional, but that's over with iOS 6. Enable function Do not disturb can be done using the classic slider to position "1". All notifications will remain disabled until you re-enable them. The second way is to plan the so-called Quiet time. You simply choose the time interval from when until when you wish to ban notifications and for which groups of contacts this ban does not apply. Do Not Disturb is active if the crescent moon image is lit next to the clock.
Safari
Principle of operation iCloud panels no need to go into detail - all open panels in mobile and desktop Safari simply sync using iCloud. And how does it work? You walk away from your Mac, launch Safari on your iPhone or iPad, navigate to an item iCloud panels and you can pick up exactly where you left off at home. Of course, synchronization also works in the opposite direction, when you start reading an article on your iPhone on the bus and finish it at home on your computer.
It came with iOS 5 Reading list, which launched an attack against Instapaper, Pocket and other services for reading articles saved "for later". But in the fifth version of the Apple mobile operating system, this function only synchronized the URL. In iOS 6, it can save the entire page for offline reading. Safari for iPhone and iPod touch now has full-screen viewing. Since the 3,5″ display is a compromise between compatibility and usability of the device, every extra pixel comes in handy. Full-screen mode can only be activated when the iPhone is turned to landscape, but despite this shortcoming, it is a very useful feature.
The fourth new feature in Safari is Smart App Banners, which alerts you to the existence of a native application of the given pages in the App Store. Fifth - you can finally upload images on some sites directly through Safari. Take Facebook desktop pages as an example. And sixth - finally, Apple added the ability to copy a URL without its lengthy designation in the address bar. Overall, we have to praise Apple for the new Safari, because it has never been full of features.
Thanks to the integration of Twitter in iOS 5, the number of short messages on the Twitter network has tripled. Even so, Facebook continues to reign over all social networks, and it will still be on the throne some Friday. Its integration into iOS has become a logical step that will benefit both Apple and Facebook itself.
You still have to view your wall through the official client, third-party apps or websites, but updating statuses or sending pictures is now much easier and faster. First, however, it is necessary in Settings > Facebook fill in your login information, and then enjoy the full convenience of social networking.
Updating your status is more than simple. You pull down the notification bar from anywhere in the system and tap the button Tap to publish. (They'd like to rename the rickety title, but the localization team still has a few months to do that.) However, a keyboard label will eventually appear to send the status. In addition, you can connect your location and set who will be shown the message. This procedure also applies to Twitter. Sharing photos directly from the application is also a matter of course Pictures, links in Safari and other applications.
Facebook has "settled" in the system, or of its native applications, even a little deeper. Events from it can be viewed in Calendars and connect contacts with existing ones. If you have named them the same as on Facebook, they will be merged automatically. Otherwise, you will link the duplicate contacts manually, keeping the original name. When turned on Synchronization of contacts you will see their birthday on the calendar, which is very handy. The only drawback for now is the inability to encode Czech characters in "Facebook" names - for example, "Hruška" is displayed as "HruȂ¡ka".
Hudba
After half a decade, the coat of arms of the application was changed Hudba, which was merged into iOS 4 with Videos into a single application iPod. The music player has been repainted in a combination of black and silver and the edges of the buttons have been slightly sharpened. It can be said that it resembles the iPad player that has passed redesign already in iOS 5. Finally, both players look the same, or rather their graphical environment.
Hodiny
Until now, you had to use your iPhone as an alarm clock or install a third-party app on your iPad. This solution put the nail in the coffin of the iOS 6 that it contains Hodiny also for iPad. The app is divided into four parts just like on the iPhone – World time, Alarm clock, Stopwatch, A minute. It can also display more information thanks to the larger display.
Let's start with world time, for example. Each of the six visible slots can be assigned one world city, which will appear on the map in the lower half of the screen. Attention, that's not all. For selected cities, the current temperature is also displayed on the map, and when you tap on the clock of a city, the clock face expands over the entire display with accompanying information about the time, day of the week, date and temperature. It's just a shame that the weather still can't be displayed in the notification bar.
The card for setting alarms is also cleverly solved. Just like on the iPhone and iPod touch, you can set multiple one-time and recurring alarms. But even here the iPad benefits from its display, which is why it offers a place for a kind of weekly schedule of alarm clocks. With one blink of the eye, you can see on which day and at what time you have set which alarm and whether it is active (blue) or off (grey). This was very successful. The stopwatch and minute minder work exactly the same as on "smaller iOS".
The native email client has seen three major changes. The first is support VIP contacts. Their received messages will be marked with a blue star instead of a blue dot and will be at the very top of the message list. The second change is the embedding of images and videos directly from the client, and the third is the integration of the familiar swipe-down gesture to refresh content.
Feelings from the first beta
In terms of nimbleness, the iPad 2 handled the system admirably. Its dual-core crunches all detunings with such speed that you hardly notice them. Also, a solid 512 MB of operating memory gives restless applications enough space. The 3GS is worse. It only has a single-core processor and 256 MB of RAM, which is no big deal these days. App and system response times have increased on the oldest supported iPhone, but this is an early beta, so I wouldn't jump to conclusions at this point. The 3GS also behaved similarly with some beta versions of iOS 5, so the truth is that we have to wait until the final build.
iOS 6 will be a good system. Some of you were probably expecting a revolution, but Apple just doesn't do that often on its operating systems. After all, (Mac) OS X has been running in many versions for over 11 years, and its principle and operating philosophy remains the same. If something works and works well, there is no need to change anything. iOS hasn't changed much on the surface in the last 5 years, but it's still adding new and new features to its guts. Likewise, the user and developer base is growing dramatically. The only thing I'm not quite sure about are the new maps, but only time will tell. You can look forward to a separate article about system maps.
Could you please write if the alarm clock can only wake up with sound? That is, without vibrations, if I have them turned on globally. Thank you
They can't, so yes, there is no vibrator on the iPad, but I couldn't find the option to set vibrations for the alarm clock on the iPhone. Is there a practical reason why the alarm clock vibrates?
In my case, for example, an alarm clock on the edge of a shelf on an almost stretched charger cable (it is a fact that if it does not wake up the alarm clock, it wakes up the iPhone crashing to the ground :D )
It's ideal to have a shelf above your head ;) if he doesn't wake up the alarm clock wakes him up with an iPhone slap :D
In my case, it's a brutal awakening to the sound of a vibrating engine that ruins my whole day. I currently use an external app that wakes up by gradually increasing the level of the wake tone without vibrating. The catch is that the app must be running, so the phone must be on the charger. The vibrations of the iPhone are comparable to an impact drill in the morning.
Unless you put the iPhone on a pillow or something like that ;) I personally have Alarm as the sound, so I don't really worry about any vibrations :D the wake-up time is approx. 0.5-1s after the first ringing of the alarm clock and that suits me. I haven't fallen asleep since I got my iPhone (that is, if my alarm goes off).
Maybe more - if they worked on making it wake up when the iPhone is turned off :-) regularly, if someone in my area newly buys an iPhone, they will fall asleep for the first time, if they are used to turning off the phone completely at night :-)
You need to teach your friends to use Airplane mode or the new Do Not Disturb function ;-)
Exactly ;), moreover, I tested it just to be sure and it still doesn't turn off, on the other hand, that's understandable. When the operating system is not running, the phone cannot wake up.
Sure, of course I teach them... Now my colleague and I tried his Jamtung with Bada and it wakes up even when it's turned off :-) But maybe Android can't do that either
You forgot to add that the appstore has been completely redesigned and when I install an application, it no longer switches to the home screen, but only "installing" is shown. :-) otherwise great, apart from the maps it's a luxury
If he was just wandering around... I love when it just bites me for 5-10 seconds and the processor can run its wheels to calculate it :-) I understand that the demands of the new system are probably brutal for an old man, but at least the fluidity could be improved a bit tune in :-)
You write that the testing took place on an iPhone 3GS. What was your impression of the speed? Will it make sense to update? The current iOS is already quite laggy on the 3GS at some points :(
I added a paragraph about subjective feelings at the end of the article.
I'd take the crap… display the date in the top bar.
Can it be downloaded somewhere and put on my devices if I'm not a developer? Please…
Hooray, finally a native clock on the iPad... the user's complaints have been heard...
I wonder if profile photos will be assigned to Facebook contacts after merging.
yes that would be great…
Yes, the profile picture is shown for contacts from FB ;)
I hope it can be set up somehow. There's really nothing nice when you have a user's profile picture on your phone and the integration function overwrites it with a meaningless photo from Facebook - a cat, a flower and similar birds...
No need, the original images will not be overwritten.
That is awesome :-)
If I'm not mistaken, it still works since about iOS3. However, it is not done through the settings in the iPhone, but through the settings in the FB application.
you tactically avoided the new maps, which are absolutely hopelessly unusable, I don't know if Apple means it seriously or if they will work on it intensively for half a year until the release of the final version (hopefully so)... there is absolutely no POI, the nearest pharmacy or an ATM in the center Prague really isn't in Vienna, and also the level of map detail, it's at the level of Google maps 7 years ago when they started (and I'm afraid that in half a year it won't change significantly)... after a few hours I went back to iOS5
In conclusion, there is this sentence: Regarding system maps, you can look forward to a separate article.
Unfortunately, I agree with this, Google Maps are certainly more usable in the Czech Republic, not to mention the satellite view, which in the Czech Republic, except for Prague, is completely lacking in detail. If Apple releases this in the final release in this state, I think that it will not be very successful except in America. In addition, even in the USA or Australia, if you look at the maps, despite the breathtaking details, there is still something that bothers me, and that is, there is no streetview option, which is sometimes useful, and in addition, if you look very close to the city in 3D view, you will find that it looks like after the apocalypse, no cars, no people... At least it's "live" in GMAPS. Well, if they want to catch up and overtake Google, then they should deploy satellites and run across the sky and take pictures and take pictures and take pictures and then get POIs of all countries and, in addition, make a speech synthesizer for maps for Czech.
and you haven't seen Bratislava. it's just one big blurry pixel :)
He has already seen… I call it brutus…
The best thing about San Francisco is what I managed to discover so far. The 3D home objects (only sitting models without textures) in the "Standard" view work fine there. What surprised me the most so far is that this doesn't work in most places. I find this quite important for orientation in the city.
I'm sure I'll try, but I don't believe that it will be in a better condition than google maps at the final release even in our insignificant regions. This will be a few more years of improvement. If only the Google Maps (Earth) app could be downloaded, but for some reason it is only available for America.
San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Sydney, Melbourne and others have 3D display support, so somewhere there is already quite a high quality of maps. I think that Apple cannot afford too many scandals, and if the maps are not at least as good as Google Maps overall, then it will simply be a scandal. Moreover, maps are something we use practically every day, so I honestly can't imagine that Apple would cut me off from quality map materials with this step. In addition, if nothing really changes, it will be completely different, although Apple will change the maps in order to cut off Google from the data, but I, as a user, will start using the WebApp Google Maps on an iOS device, and in addition, I will strongly protest and write to Apple every week when I finally reach their map similar quality to GMAPS.
BTW: Google Earth is normally downloadable, at least in the CZ AppStore.
And Liptovský Hrádok? :-)
It looks ok in terms of resolution, but the satellite images are black and white.
I see that the developers do not look at the NDA and calmly forward the builds to the editors...
Why so complicated? It's easier if the editor registers as a developer ;).
And what about the two cases where a developer works with an editor and no or the editor is also a developer? :)
I would like to ask if you know what will happen with Siri. Will it be integrated into the new iPad?? Or will he always keep it only iPhone 4S?
The iPhone 4S and the new iPad will have it.
siri works on new ipad (3rd gen). bitten off
there are a couple of nice details... E.g. the one where the reflection in the round volume slider in the music player changes as you tilt it, as if it were real. And incredible attention to detail...
Now I notice too, it's really cruel!! Any other details?
Finally, you can write "triangle" and not "triangle". That accented button changes dynamically - finally.
I also noticed that this is quite a good thing, but anyway it is not possible to write the second nested U with a circle, you have to make a space, write the circle, then delete it and erase the space and there will be a comma.
this word is being written about with enthusiasm now, perhaps on all servers I'm killing myself with the new version of iOS 6, and everyone is cheering "finally you can sleep the word triangle" ... I really don't want to rant ... but how many times in the last year have you needed to write this word on an iOS device? except for the reactions on the forums
Billing, accounting, rectangular, most successful... there are more words.
Hello, can someone tell me how in this version and what news are there with the use of Voiceover? I am a satisfied iPhone and iPad user, I just need this reader to work with them. Thanks in advance for the answers.
Hello, I have a problem with the map, that somewhere it only shows a black screen in the satellite view, it bothers me, but hopefully they will add to it.
But I can't enter anything into the search, after tapping the first letter it freezes, after which the maps drop. So I couldn't display the vaunted 3D. Places there can only be entered from contacts, and unfortunately, for example, I don't have anyone in Washington.
Has anyone encountered this?
it works for me without any problem... by the way, you can access the original google map from safari...
quite a nice article. but as I noticed, my iPhone drains very quickly (something like the previous positional setting of the cast, etc.) overall, it's going to be acceptable for the fact that it's only the first beta, but there are still a lot of bugs and you'll have to get used to the maps.
ps: I didn't notice the contrast change when changing the volume in the player. and I'm a little sorry that Siri doesn't work (ip4)
Daniel you have 100 points for listening to Ixnay :-) find an album from them, old childhood days
Does anyone know how it is with the mentioned blacklist?
Do you know if the contact screen, when someone calls you, will be able to display other data in addition to the name in the new ios6? For example, company and other data? I have a lot of people with the same name on my phone and I never know which one is calling.
Thanks
I know people like Facebook, but I can't stand Facebook. Can it be set somewhere in the new ios so that fb does not interfere with my life. I have everything turned off in the FB settings, but even so, when I want to download some apps, it gives me a voice saying that the App store wants to access the date on fb, once a day the iphone texts me that fb wants to access my contacts, etc.
I don't use Facebook either, and it doesn't bother me at all. I don't even have it in the ios base, so you probably had to download it. Uninstalling Timpad will help :)
I don't use Facebook either, and it doesn't bother me at all. I don't even have it in the ios base, so you probably had to download it. Uninstalling Timpad will help :)
Thanks, I didn't realize it was installed by a woman :)
Anyway, another insight or question: When upgrading any app, sometimes it doesn't even ask for a password, and sometimes instead of the upgrade button, there is a buy button. And when I click on it, it says that I have to have bought the previous version in order to have a discount on the purchase???
Someone similar problem
I would like to ask which programs are automatically installed in iOS 6. (If possible from users with iPhone 4S.) At the keynote, Youtube dropped from the first screen.. Or a complete departure from Google? Thank you.
I don't have a 4s, but I think it will be the same with the new iPad. Youtube has everything there, just the addition of the Passport app (again, it's not on the iPad)
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Maps are good shit.