“After Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference last week, everyone was talking about new hardware,” Liam Stack writes for The New York Times. “The company also announced an update to its mobile operating system — the one that powers the millions of iPhones and iPads that have become a common part of everyday life for many people. Apple will roll out iOS 11 this fall, with a host of new features.”
“The Control Center, that panel full of easily-accessed buttons and tools you see when you swipe up from the bottom of your iPhone screen, will also get an overhaul in the new update. Soon all the controls will be located on one colorful, widget-filled page,” Stack writes. “The Control Center will be customizable, so you can add as many (or as few) widgets as you like, including quick access to your camera, calculator or Apple TV.”
“Siri, Apple’s personal assistant program, will get an overhaul too,” Stack writes. “The biggest changes for Siri will be under the hood, powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. Here is what that means: Apple says Siri will learn so much from you that it will be able to anticipate your needs and make suggestions before you even ask for them.”
Much more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Also in iOS 11 (at least in the current beta) on iPhone, Multi-Touch Drag and Drop works within apps (as opposed to across apps as on the iPad, thanks to Apple’s tablets’ much larger displays as their split-screen and multi-app features) and the new new Files app will deliver a Finder-like experience to Apple’s smartphones, too.
So far, Siri stays firmly off, as I don’t really want a conversation with anyone except another human.
So, you actually think that most of the people with whom you are interacting on the Internet are “human.” Half of them are bots and the other half are aliens slumming it on Earth (or evading the law…time for a space wall).
When is Apple going to make IOS multi-user? Grrrr.
Probably not as long as they think people will be willing to buy more than one for their home. It sucks. I’d like to be able to let other people use my iPad, but since it has all my chat, photos, mail, personal documents on it, I don’t feel comfortable doing that. Very annoying missing feature, unless you want to use a feature intended for schools. I don’t know how that works or how well/poorly.
Another boring update along with the rest of Apples boring hardware, these days they are just going through the motions. Tom Cook needs to go work for Samsung, where he can join the rest of the junk droids.
You must be joking…
You call it boring, I call it ignorance and a failure to understand technology.
Tom Cook 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
Hi Mike. I’d like to help you out here. There are many other kinds of computers and phones. Just let me know if you’d like me to post a few urls. I’m sure you can find something out there that is not boring.
Number 5 need more input!
As long as I can turn off those stupid suggestions. I want a phone that does what I want, not what it thinks I want.
Maybe Move & Scale will work again like it did in iOS 6!
Apple used to work with how people think. Think different to me meant not to think like i am forced to work under a repressive windows os. Apple now has forced me to think like their developers want functions to work. Ergo is no more. Now its think like apple. No matter how narrow minded that is. What ever happened to simplicity and ergonomics.
Apple’s keeping up and moving forward with the folks that find touch to be second nature… those people’s first computer was an iPhone or iPad.
Things are going to get more and more intuitive for those folks (which are most of them) but more complex and harder to understand for those raised on keyboards and mice.
Cant we have both?