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Sat, 31 December 2016
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Sat, 31 December 2016
TRANSCRIPT FOR EPISODE 416 Welcome to the show I am your host Rob and this is the Today in iOS podcast - First up I want to thank JEFF for sending in the music you hear in the background. JEFF wrote: Hi Rob, I made this song Called Dreamer with my iphone 4s using the GarageBand app. For free downloads and more music follow me @jeffj6 on twitter. Regards, Jeff J SONG_Dreamer.mp3 Thanks JEFF for the music and folks I will put the full song at the end of the episode. The artwork for this episode is something I created from a picture of me and the Wife from Halloween 2015 - I added the text with the Over App. The picture is with my Wife dressed as Princess Leia - The Original White outfit from Episode 4 a new Hope - not the gold bikini from Ep 6 - This would be the last anyone heard of me if I released the gold bikini photo - if said photo existed - which I am not saying it does. You can see the artwork in the FREE Tii App via the BONUS button for ep 416 - or at instagram.com/todayinios and also as a stand alone post in the VIP section and at Facebook.com/todayinios. If you have some artwork and or music you have created on your iOS device that you would like to share with the audience please email it to me at today in iOS at gmail dot com and please make sure to include which app or apps you used to create said artwork and or music. AND I am completely out of Music again - so if you have some music created on an iOS device - please please please send it in. 02:13 In this segment of how wrong were they we have the following quote -- quote “Our approach is different. The metaphor I like to take is – if it’s Star Wars, you have these robot personalities like C-3PO who runs around and he tries to do stuff for you, messes up and makes jokes, he’s kind of a comic relief guy. Our approach is more like Star Trek, right, starship Enterprise; every piece of computing surface, everything is voice-aware. It’s not that there’s a personality, it doesn’t have a name, it’s just ‘Computer’.” Matias Duarte, Director of Android User Experiences, Google, 27 October 2011 It is ok for the technology we work with to have a personality - There is a reason Princess Leia put the plans in that R2 unit - it was a feisty little guy. So now we have 3 primary voice personalities - Siri, Alexa and Google. The first two seem approachable - the last one well the commercials fall flat with me. 03:19 Per Promo Codes - This week - No soup for you - sadly no good marketing minded devs that were looking to spread the precious word about their app in exchange for giving up 5 not so precious promo codes. You are half witted scruffy looking Nerf Herder of an App dev - if you have not sent in your promo codes or even just 60 sec or less review of your free app. A QUICK REMINDER if you are an App developer or an iBook Author email me if you want your app or iBook featured in the promo give away segment FOR FREE We Just need the 5 promo codes or more to give away. simply email me at today in ios @ gmail.com and please include a 60 sec or less audio review of your app or iBook - indicating you are the dev or author. Also when you send in the promo codes - please make sure to let me know when they expire. 03:58 http://www.technobuffalo.com/2016/12/20/ios- 10-2-1-beta-2-is-out/ 6 days after the release of iOS 10.2.1 beta 1 came beta 2. As with any double dot update this one is about squashing bugs and optimizing performance - and beta 2 is about squashing more bugs than beta 1 and better optimizing than beta 1. I looked over quite few posts about the Beta 2 update and not one of them listed a single new feature - actually none of them listed any new updates for beta 1 either. So 10.2.1 looks to be purely about squashing bugs and optimizing performance. I have had it running on my iPhone 7+ and I have not seen any issues - not do I know of any bugs that were squashed. 04:41 When I ordered my AirPods I was originally told by Apple I would not see them until Jan 12th. HOWEVER - I am happy to report Apple actually shipped them to me on Dec 27th. You can see the unboxing video in the Tii App - which is right between Eps 415 and Ep 416. I need to qualify that this review of the AirPods is based on just two days of use with them. Per the fit and feel - For me they are really comfortable. I have not had them fall out even one time. They don’t even get to feeling loose. After a while with them in you forget they are in. Per how they look when they are in - that is a subjective question - One My wife was more than willing to give her opinion which was: Quote You look really dorky, Those are Apples - Really? They need to do better than that. unquote So yeah - there is that issue. My wife is not techie at all. So understand that from her perspective these things are quote Hideous unquote And she said you really need me on your show to tell people what I think. But I am guessing you get the gist of it - she would rather kiss a wookie than put these things in her ears. However as more and more people get Airpods - it will become more and more common - not sure if that de-dorkifies them or not - just it will make people more and more numb to them. Setting them up was really easy - place them within a couple of inches of your iPhone and open the lid on the Airpods case with them in it - and it asks if you want to pair. If you want to use them with your Mac as well - then you need to have Sierra installed - Sorry El Captain will not cut it. I will be updating to Sierra this weekend hopefully - and then I can use them to do some direct to computer recording. Per how they sound - Great. How you control them - Not so great. If you are getting a call - you have to tap twice on one to answer the call - but if you tap twice - and it answers but then there is a delay and you thought it did not answer and you tap twice again it seems to hang up on you. At least I think that is what happened a couple of times already for me. It is REALLY REALLY easy to accidentally hang up on someone. But these are not just about talking on the phone - there is listening to Podcasts and music. Here is where there is one clear disadvantage. If you want to increase the volume - you double tap - and siri kicks in and you have to ask siri to raise or lower the volume. There is no volume up and down button like on the wired ear pods. If you want to pause a song - you pull one of the Airpods out of your ear. Really - that is how you pause. No kidding. Ok - If you want you can change the double tap settings from Siri to Play / pause - you do that by going to Settings - Bluetooth and with the Airpods connected - tap on the I - and you will see a full page of settings - one is change the double tap behavior. By default it is Siri, but you can also choose - Play / Pause or Off. There is also options for Automatic ear detection. This is on by default - and when you place an Airpod in your ear - it automatically routes the audio to your Airpod - if for some reason you want to manually control this - turn it off there. But most likely you will want to leave it on. Apple has basically replaced the 3 button controller with Siri by default. Which means you have to vocalize anything you want to do. Say you are in a library and you want to lower the volume - yeah you need to pull out your phone and do it that way - as asking siri out loud to change the volume is not ideal. Same with switching Tracks. Yes - I know you can adjust the volume or switch tracks of something playing with your apple watch if you have an Apple Watch - to Do so push the side button on your Apple Watch - and then find the now playing widget and there you can change the volume with the digital crown or switch tracks. Which is way way way more complicated and distracting when you are driving your car then simply reaching up and tapping the up or down volume buttons on the traditional wired ear pods or pressing the center button twice quickly for skipping to the next song. With the AirPods You can use them either in tandem or one unit only. Both have mics. If you are a heavy user - you may need to go with just one in at any given time - with the other unit in the Charging case ready to go when the current one dies. It is either that or having down time while they both are charging. I mentioned the ROAM Ropes before - one thing I really liked about them - is you can be charging them while using them. And they have a 3 button controller - and they are a lanyard design - so they will never fall out and be lost. And while as I said the AirPods did not fall out when I was using them - The level of anxiety walking around with them in - is something that will last a while - and will never go away when standing at a urinal. The Laynard design completely eliminates that fear. Another issue with the AirPods - if you are a podcaster - they do not register with BossJock nor many other recording apps. Some apps they do work with - but most recording apps - no soup for you. Hopefully this is something devs can fix in future updates. I like to read reviews last paragraphs of their reviews - so here is my longish Last Paragraph for my Review of Apples AirPods: The Airpods are not perfect - there are annoying little paper cuts with them - i.e. not easy to adjust the volume, to easy for accidental hangups and they are easily ingestible by small dogs - to name a few. But the AirPods are still the best Bluetooth headphones over all for the iPhone and or Apple Watch. Are the AirPods a necessary purchase - Well if your iPhone does not have a 7 in its name - Nope. If it does then they kinda sorta are. If your reasoning so far for not buying the Airpods is the fear of them falling out - then that is not a valid reason - if your reasoning for not purchasing the Airpods is the fear of looking like a dork - then yeah save your money for a while. But Remember even bell bottoms were in fashion at one time - and I predict so to will be the Airpods. Sorry honey - but for now you have to deal with your husband looking like a Dork in public - because I do like them - so far. From Jonah Salvatore in the Tii Google+ community Quote I have been running with them and haven't fallen out yet. I also have been shaking my head on purpose and haven't fallen out. unquote And thanks to Jonah for also pointing out that if you tap on the battery level on your watch face - it shows on the power reserve screen not just the battery % of your Apple watch - but also the % for the left Airpod and the % for the right Airpod. And you don’t need to be using them with your Apple Watch - just with the iPhone - and it still shows. PLAY VOICEMAIL - AirPods_Review_Matthew_AU Hi Rob. I just realized that I forgot to include something in my review, and that is that when you are listening to something with your AirPods, it will automatically pause when you take one AirPod out, and will resume playing as soon as you put it back in. Regards, Matt PLAY VOICEMAILS - ME_AirPods 16:40 We are happy to have Away sponsoring us again. To save $20 on the best luggage go to away travel dot com slash tii and use promo code tii Christmas and Hanukkah have come and gone - and now it is time to treat yourself to something special. And if you travel at all - Away has the absolute best Language for you. Away sent me their Carry on bag earlier this year and I as I said before I love it. It has a 10,000 MAH battery pack built in. That will charge an iPhone 6 or 7 Five times. The best part is you can be charging it as you are walking through the airport and waiting on line or even in the restroom or in my case last week walking around NY City. But beyond the battery pack it is a great bag and meets my requirements - wheels under all 4 corners and swivels 360 - making it easy to get down the isle and smooth flow in the airport. And it is double wheels under each corner. Something I really like. 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They really looked at all the details in making the best Carry on bag I have ever owned or seen. Even the shipping box has nice Away Travel artwork on the inside. Very very apple-ish. In addition to the original carry on they just added a 2nd slightly larger carry on and they also have mid size and large check in bags. But only the carry on bags have the battery pack. To save $20 go to away travel dot com slash tii and use promo code tii . Again away travel dot com slash tii and use promo code tii to save $20. This will make a great post holiday present for yourself. http://www.computerworld.com/article/3152103/personal- technology/the-essential-airpod-user-guide-for-iphones- macs-and-android.html 19:29 https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/AirPods+Teardown/75578 iFixit - did a tear down of the AirPods and its charging case and they gave them a score of 0 out of 10 for repairability. So un-like Darth Vader - once your Airpods go to the Dark side - they are not coming back. Only Apple could be so bold as to make a device that costs so much and is so completely un-repairable. 19:50 http://appadvice.com/post/airpods-water-test/732814 Granted the repairability score is as bad as it gets. But some initial testing shows their survivability is actually pretty good. The Airpods survived 10’ drops just incase you have then in your ears when you are doing a chin up dunk or walking around on stilts. And they survived a trip through the washing machine and submersion under a foot of water for 5 minutes. None of which I would ever suggest you voluntarily test on your own. These will get washed - I think that is a given - since if you go out in public with them you are likely to take the charging case and you will no doubt at some point forget the case is in your pocket and into the washing machine they go. Or you might just put the Airpods directly in your pocket - forget about them and into the wash they go. One thing I did not see them do - is run them then through the dryer. But again initial tests from one Youtube shows that for 10’ drops and washing machine tests - the Airpods hold their own. Which means if you are out running with them your sweat should not damage them - if you are running with them and it starts raining - same thing - they should be fine. So running in the rain - walking in the rain - heck - even singing in the Rain - well Apple has you back with the AirPods that is. 21:11 http://www.macworld.com/article/3153393/ios/fire-in-the- earhole-no-airpods-don-t-spontaneously-combust.html International Business Times - IBT - is one of those questionable new sites. That over uses link bait titles and over fills their site with annoying ads - Once such link bait title was Quote Apple airpods can catch fire question mark. New Headphones batteries can ignite if not recycled properly, breakdown found. unquote Except - yeah that is all BS Question mark. So the answer is simply - Yes it is BS - And no they will not catch fire. The improper recycling is if you were to try and recycle the airpods like you do wired headphones by putting them through a shredder. So unless you have a metal shredder in your ear holes - yeah you are going to be just fine. Really what the article that the writer of IBT’s article clearly did not actually read was trying to say is that with Wired head phones - they are easier to recycle and get the base metals from - then it will be from the Airpods. The article from IBT was so bad it even said this quote With the launch of the iPhone 7, which does not have a headphone jack and thus requires a pair of wireless headphones, Apple users will no longer receive the white string headphones that are much easier to recycle. according to reuters unquote Except two things - 1 That is not what reuters said - and 2 - as everyone listening already knows - the iphone 7 and 7+ DO come with wired headphones. Airpods are optional - not required. Anyway - if you see any articles saying the Airpods can catch fire - likely it is more mis-reporting of the really really bad or par for the course journalism from International Business Times. 23:01 VOICEMAIL - Justin_PA_mario_run_fdbk Hi Rob, I purchased the full version of Mario Run on my son’s iPhone. All four in our family share an iTunes Store account and typically, in-app purchases extended to all devices logged in under the same account. I’m trying to determine if this will be the case with Mario Run. When I go to the Mario Run purchase screen on my iPhone, I’m given the option to purchase all six worlds for $9.99, even though it was previously purchased on my son’s iPhone. There is no indication that I’ve already purchased it. Not wanting to pay another $9.99, I’ve held off tapping the purchase button on my iPhone. Just wondering if you are experiencing the same with your family, or if you know if I’ll only be charged once. Regards, Mark Hi Mark - thanks for asking. If you have the same iTunes account - you can get Mario Run on multiple devices and only pay one time. It looks like you are paying the second time - but after you go through and approve the second purchase on the second device - it says you already purchased it - and asks if you would like to download / get it for free on this other device. So the process to buy it the first time and get it free there after. Tap on Tour from the initial screen and then tap on the red button at the bottom “Purchase Screen” is under the button. Then on the pop up window is a Big Green $9.99 button. Tap that and it will either ask for your password or to use touch ID. Then you see the message Quote You’ve already purchased this. Would you like to get it again for free? unquote Tap OK - and now you have it on your second or third device. Actually you get another window that says quote Your purchase was successful unquote and you tap ok again. And then you see all the other levels fill in. I have done this on 3 devices - but paid one time. The issue many have is it really looks like you are going to have to pay a second time. I was even willing to do that for the show - just to find out. Luckily - I did not have to actually pay that second time. So I am happy - and my kids are both happy as they each have it on their phones and I now have it on my phone - just because. Hi Rob, Send simple text message Happy New Year to another iPhone - automatic video and audio of fireworks Regards, Bill Sholar Hi Bill - thanks for the heads up - and it needs to be exactly Happy New Year. Not Happy New Years - so it seems to be very specific to Happy - NEW and YEAR. combined. And it is a cool little easter egg. Again Thanks Bill for the heads up on that. VOICEMAIL - Kim_OR_fdbk_pebble_apple_watch_accessible 29:57 https://plus.google.com/u/0/+EmikoFreund/posts/ JDsNBwuiZBH?cfem=1 https://plus.google.com/communities/ 105412562215997292912?cfem=1 We are now over 3,500 members in our Google+ community and growing. Thanks to everyone that has joined and thanks for the great posts. One new post in the G+ community that went up since the last episode that had lots of comments came from Emiko Freund who posted the following quote I've received a refund from Kickstarter for Pebble Core, and picked up a stainless steel Series 0 Apple Watch about a week ago. So far I miss the always-on display of Pebble but otherwise I like my Apple Watch, even if it's not the latest model. Battery life is not as bad as I thought, but I do have to charge it daily. Does anyone have nightstand dock recommendations? Preferably something that I can take with me for traveling, too. unquote Ge rd replied quote This is nice, cheap and simple. The material is plastic, but a little bit flexible, it will not break in your baggage. Apple Watch Stand, Spigen unquote MIKE P replied quote I bought my wife the Apple watch charging dock. It's a bit pricey at $79 (duh, it's Apple) but works very well. It's solid, quite heavy and folds into a small disk so great for traveling. I also supports night stand mode. Granted there are probably plenty out there on Amazon for much cheaper but when I looked about a year ago there weren't many that supported night stand mode. unquote Robert S replied quote Don't forget that the one sold by Apple includes the charging cable/inductive coupler. The price is not so bad when you keep that in mind. All the other stands expect you to use your existing charger. so you might end up buying an extra charger cable anyway. And then gave a link to an article on portable chargers for the Apple watch. unquote Interestingly I purchased a night stand charger from Belkin for my Wife from Christmas - and she looked at and it and said - No. That is going back. It was a little too big for her tastes. It charged both the Apple Watch and her iPhone. So now we are on the hunt for something functional and stylish - that later point the Belkin night stand did not cover at all according to my wife. Since the last episode there were also dozens and dozens of other new posts and comments in the Tii Google+ community - which is an Android fan bois free zone and spammer free zone. Yup it is the most civil Google+ community covering iOS. Folks Go to today in iOS dot com slash community to join in. And thanks to all 3,500+ of you already in the community and contributing. 32:55 https://plus.google.com/116669136289833138788/ posts/6X2yUUA6ENr There was another post in the Google+ community I wanted to look into - it was from Steve Bana - and he asked quote TV App - I used my iPhone 7 and an HDMI connection to share videos at work and home movies at home via the video app. With the TV app, my home movies disappeared and I can't figure out what Apple expects you to do to play your saved videos. Anyone figure this out yet? unquote Surely that can’t be the case - as third party videos you upload in iTunes under movies - that you previously sync’d to the Video - app - they must all still play natively on your iPhone right? Ummm - No. Actually when I tried to sync over 2 videos from my movies section on itunes - here is the error message I received. quote iTunes cannot sync movies or TV shows to the iPhone “iPhone 7+” because the Videos app is not installed. You must download the Videos app from the App Store on your iPhone in order to sync movies or TV shows. unquote Well there you have it - you just need to download the Videos app from Apple in the App store. So I went and search for Videos in the App store - and app after app came up that was not THE Videos app from Apple. Well maybe it is just way down on the list and I did not scroll further enough. I know - I will just search for Garageband - and then under the title tap on Apple - and it will show me ALL the Apple apps in the App store - and the Videos app will definitely be in that list - Right?? Ummm - No. So it seems at least from the App store on my iPhone 7+ - I can not find the Videos App - Apple said I need for my videos - to play them natively. Which at that point makes me just want to say - Help me Obi-wan Kenobi - you’re my only hope - except well even Obi-Wan can’t help here. The new TV app - which booted the Videos app off your iPhone - the same Videos app Apple now says you need to have installed so you can sync over your videos from the movies section of iTunes - the Videos app which is not currently in the App store. Well back to the TV App - it does not play your videos natively off your iPhone - but will get them from the cloud. Seems Apple wants you to put your videos up on the cloud - which is not what I want to do - or is overly practical all the time. Uggg - Sorry - Steve - looks like Apple needs to actually bring back the Videos app to fix this issue. I guess we gotta have faith - apple will bring this back. 35:50 http://www.macrumors.com/2016/08/30/third-party-siri- support-useful-and-long-overdue/ The more I think about Apples focus and direction with Apple Watch and AirPods - the more I think Apple is trying to say - keep it in your pants - don’t just whip it out anywhere. I mean if you are in the Mens room and standing near the sync and whip it out - people will look at you oddly and Wham that action may even get you in trouble with the law - as some places it is illegal to have a camera in a restroom and guess what is on all smartphones. But if you can keep your iPhone in your pants pocket - and see who is calling on your apple watch and answer on your Airpods - you can save yourself a lot of strange looks and more. So yes - the more I think about it the more I can see Apples strategy moving to the hub and spoke model - with the hub being the iPhone and Apple Watch and AirPods and more being the spokes. 36:39 https://9to5mac.com/2016/12/30/leaker-claims-ios-10-3- beta-1-codename-erie-featuring-new-theatre-dark-mode- popcorn-shaped-control-center-icon-debuts-jan-10th/ Here is a little rumor - Sonny Dickson - who has had people leak to him hardware in the past - is claiming to have a source that says iOS 10.3 Beta 1 will be seeded to devs within 2 weeks - jan 10th to be specific. So if by Jan 11th there is still no iOS 10.3 Beta 1 - we know it was not a real source. Either that or unforeseen issues were discovered that caused Apple to delay the roll out. Supposedly 10.3 will have a new Theater Mode - along with a quote popcorn-shaped control center icon unquote At this point details are pretty sparse beyond what I just mentioned. 37:25 The only thing that beats an iPhone is a new iPhone - and the only razor blade to beat a Harrys Razor is a new harrys Razor. With Harrys new Gen 2 Razor Head - they took the best Razor and made it the bestest Razor I have ever used. And Harrys also has a brand new offer for you. - Harry’s is so confident in the quality of their blades, they’ll send you their popular Free Trial Set, which comes with the Razor and the Gen2 five-blade Cartridge, and shaving gel. All Free when you sign up for a shave plan, you just pay shipping.
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Harrys Post Shave Balm is incredible - it soothes and moisturizes and best of all my Wife says it makes me smell really good - really really good. So good Wearing it now has somehow become code. Per their Gen 2 Blade - It is still the great 5 blade razor - but they made some improvements - It is more flexible for better control and more comfortable shaving. They added a 6 th blade at the top for trimming hard to reach spots, and they still of course have the lubricating strip. I don’t just shave my face - if you met me you know I shave my whole head and before Harry’s I tried a lot of different blades ALL the expensive 4 and 5 blades out there and the Gen 1 was better than all of them and the Gen 2 is better than Gen 1 - Harrys moved the bar folks. I am 100% a harrys customer period. To get the bestest blades - Harry's went and found a German blade factory that was almost 100 years old and purchased it. 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Regards, Leif Hi Leif, We have mentioned this a little bit - and said Apple is requiring the $149 fee to fix something many people consider a design issue - but Apple calls a mis-usage issue. Yeah no cool. That said - if anyone out there was able to get their iPhone 6+ fixed for free that was showing the issue of touch disease - when was it you had it fixed and what did you say / do to get it covered for free? Give us a call - 206-666-6364 - that’s 206-moon-dog or send an email to today in iOS AT gmail dot com. VOICEMAIL - Wayne_henderson_iPhone6s_With_battery 44:32 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/991035804/accessport- hi-res-audio-amplifier-for-iphone-7-cha This week for a Kickstarter project we have the AccessPort - one word. It is a Hi-Res Audio Amplifier for the iphone 7 and 7+ which includes charging as well. What does it do. Well according to their Kickstarter page it does the following. Provides True lossless music playback You can listen and charge at the same time. No battery is required. Fully compatible with siri Physical buttons for music playback Allows you to maintain call functions. It offers full 24-bit audio Yes - Yes this is a dongle for your iPhone 7 and 7+ that allows you to plug in 1/8th inch headphone jacks - or 3.5 MM headphone jacks - depending on where you live and what you call it. Their goal was $10k - they have raised over $45k - so congrats to them - they are funded. If you would like to be part of this - you have until Jan 20th at 8:56 AM CT to purchase or pledge for this. Pricing is $29. It is expected to ship globally in March 2017 Search for AccessPort one word at kickstarter dot com or in the show notes for ep 416 45:38 http://www.guidingtech.com/54013/beautiful- scenery-new-apple-tv/ Thanks to Dr. John for this next one - which is an article titled - 4 Apps to Get the Most Astounding Scenery on Your Apple TV One of the 4 is free - it is titled - Scenic TV - and gives a rotating group of video clips of calming and pretty nature scenes. It also goes over Scenic Loops and Earthlapse - two no free - but still pretty low cost apps for Apple TV. Link in the show notes to the article. 46:26 VOICEMAIL - SpareMIN-Tii_podcast Hi Rob I went into the music app to discover all my Apple Music songs downloaded for offline use had been removed. Unsure, why this occurred, but a bit frustrating having to downloaded the songs again. Just wondered if you or the listeners have experiences this issue? Regards Steve Brisbane Hi Rob, A few months ago my iPhone 6 (not 6S) would suddenly go from 30%, 50%, or even 70% battery remaining to shutting down due to critically low battery. On the first visit to the Apple Store they recommended a wipe and install as a new phone. I did that and the problem persisted. I also noticed that there was a faint bluish streak on the screen that was visible only when the screen was mostly filled with a solid white or light grey. When I brought the phone back after a couple of weeks the Genius noticed the streak, told me it was a symptom of a bulging battery, and (because the phone was less than two years old) replaced the phone. The lessons are: a battery that suddenly goes from 50% full to Critically Low is probably not a software problem and a streak on your screen may be a symptom of a bulged battery. Regards John Wasser Hi Rob, Can you please talk about Kodi and Exodus and the ins and outs of putting it on our iOS devices? Regards, Evan B Evan - Thanks for the email - andI will put this out to anyone that has installed the Exodus Add On for Kodi on an iOS device. What are the pros and cons you found. For those not in the know - Kodi is the Open Source Software originally called XBMC - Xbox Media Center. And Kodi is now managed by the Non Profit XBMC foundation. In a nut shell - Kodi turns a smartphone into a set top box for streaming video content. For the most part you need to be jailbroken for it - but I did find some tutorials that said you could install it unjailbroken. But it is not something I tried. Again I will send out the request for those that are using Kodi and in this case also the Exodus add on for it - on their iOS device - let us know the pros and cons - and if you are jailbroken or not. VOICEMAIL - Rich_AL_issue_bluetooth_not_connecting 51:31 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/ 09/21/apples-bag-of-tricks-includes-the-bag-itself/ This is an older story - but fits with the holiday’s - you know all those bags you see people walking out of an Apple store with. The ones that say - hey follow me to my car and see if I leave this bag in the car while I go back for more shopping so you can break into my car and steal this very valuable item - yes those bags. And you know how I say Apple patents way to many things and I hate talking about Patents as a future product - because well Apple patents too many things - Well take these two things and put them in a blender. Apple submitted a patent in the fall for their bags. I am not going to get into the patent other than to say - really Apple - a Patent on the bags. This is why some people think a few of your patents are well kinda well like your bags on the weekends and are full of it. Put hey next time you are at the apple store - don’t forget to ask for one of those bags - so you can see all the great patent pending tech that goes into them. Sighhhhh 52:39 Ep 416 - Ask Siri - May the Force be with you What is star wars about May the force be with you Did you see star wars May the force be with you Happy New Year (multiple times) May the Force be with you Carrie Fischer Comments 54:35 Thanks again to Harry's for sponsoring this episode. Folks please go to Harrys.com right now and enter code Tii at checkout to claim your Free Trial Set and post shave balm. That’s Harrys.com and then enter coupon code Tii And Before we go today I want to remind you to send in your feedback to the show - 206-666-6364 - that 206-moon-dog - or record your feedback and email it to the show at today in iOS at gmail dot com - The feedback can be a question or comment per something someone said on this episode or it can be a question or rant you have about something else. An App or product review - good or bad - as long as it is iOS related - it is welcomed. I am always looking for new Artwork to feature that you created on an iOS device - just put some Tii branding on it and send it in. And of course we are always looking for more music created on an iOS device to play on the show. This is your show and your feedback is greatly desired. Also don't forget to check out our Moderated Google Plus community by going to todayinios dot com slash community. 55:31 For $20 off your order of the best Language at an affordable price please visit away travel dot com slash Tii and use promo code Tii when you check out. Thanks Away for supporting this show. Finally check out the newly updated Tii App which is Free to you. We now have Apple Watch App included. Search for Tii in the iTunes App Store - it is the best way to consume the show and to get push notifications each time a new episode of Tii is released. It is fully Voiceover friendly of course. Please go right now and download the Tii App. Until the next time - I am your host Rob - Reminding you to phone Different. OUTRO OUTRO MUSIC
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TRANSCRIPT FOR EPISODE 415 Welcome to the show I am your host Rob and this is the Today in iOS podcast - First up I want to thank JEFF for sending in the music you hear in the background. JEFF wrote: Hi Rob, I made this song Called Antique Parachute with my iphone 4s using the GarageBand app. For free downloads and more music follow me @jeffj6 on twitter. Regards, Jeff J SONG_Antique Parachute.mp3 Thanks JEFF for the music and folks I will put the full song at the end of the episode. I also want to thank SHANNON for sending in the Artwork for today's show. SHANNON wrote the following: Good morning Rob, This is a photo I took of the Apple flag that flies outside the new data center, under construction in Mesa, AZ. I took this with my iPhone 6 (since I'm still a couple weeks away from receiving my matte black, 256 GB, iPhone 7 Plus) and added the text with "Text on Photo" Regards. Shannon in AZ Thanks SHANNON, for sending in this artwork and folks you can see SHANNON'S artwork in the FREE Tii App via the BONUS button for ep 415 - or at instagram.com/todayinios and also as a stand alone post in the VIP section and at Facebook.com/todayinios. If you have some artwork and or music you have created on your iOS device that you would like to share with the audience please email it to me at today in iOS at gmail dot com and please make sure to include which app or apps you used to create said artwork and or music. AND I am completely out of Music again - so if you have some music created on an iOS device - please please please send it in. 02:09 In this segment of how wrong were they we have the following quote -- quote “Here are four reasons why I don’t think Apple’s stock will see $100 again: 1. Growth in phones is slowing as competition increases 2. Margins are shrinking 3. Apple is losing its innovative edge 4. Apple may no longer be a growth story” Howard Gold, MarketWatch, 1 February 2013 At the time he said Apple stock would not hit $100 - Apple was below that. Of course Today I would say I hope he is right and that Apple never hits $100 again as it is already beyond. Just Sayin 02:46 Per Promo Codes - This week - No soup for you - sadly no good marketing minded devs that were looking to spread the precious word about their app in exchange for giving up 5 not so precious promo codes. Bad App dev marketer are you - if you have not sent in your promo codes or even just 60 sec or less review of your free app. A QUICK REMINDER if you are an App developer or an iBook Author email me if you want your app or iBook featured in the promo give away segment FOR FREE We Just need the 5 promo codes or more to give away. simply email me at today in ios @ gmail.com and please include a 60 sec or less audio review of your app or iBook - indicating you are the dev or author. Also when you send in the promo codes - please make sure to let me know when they expire. 03:25 http://venturebeat.com/2016/12/07/apple- releases-ios-10-2-public-beta-7/ Well iOS 10.2 made it all the way to Beta 7. Apple rolled that out a little after I release the last episode - and that meant 4 different betas in less than 2 weeks. But Beta 7 was the last beta - as next to be released was the gold master. Per Beta 7 and the Gold Master - what was different vs Beta 6 seems to have been all Bug Fixes. 03:47 https://www.cnet.com/how-to/ios-10-2- best-new-features-update-tv-app/ But rather than try and even look for difference vs Beta 6 - lets look at overall what is new with iOS 10.2 vs 10.1.1 1. New Emojis - As in 72 new emojis or as apple says 100’s of new and redesigned emoji's. You get a face palm, An Avocado - Because Face Palm - why did they not think of that before. And well 70 others that are new and 100’s that are redesigned. Because well if you can’t say it with an emoji why bother saying it at all. And my feelings on all this - would be the new Shrug emoji if I had to pick one - definitely not the bacon emoji. 2. You can now Save Camera Settings. To get access go to the Settings App and under Photos and Camera scroll down to the new Preserve Settings options - then select which ones you want to make as defaults - including the live photos features or you could make sure they are not on. 3. You can now resume your test from a quick response when you switch to full screen in Messages Mid-Sentence. Not sure this is as much a feature as a bug fix - as that is of course how it should work - duhhh. 4. There are also new Love and Celebration screen filters in the Messages App on iOS 10.2 - To access, long-press or 3D-touch the arrow in the chat bubble at the right of your message, toggle to screen and swipe to pick the option you want. 5. New Wallpapers on the 7 and 7+. 3 new wallpapers to choose from to be precise. Ok - not very exciting. 6. The New TV App - which is more exciting and really the biggest update of 10.2 - if you live in the US. The idea behind the TV app is a good one - A single App to aggregate together all your streaming TV Apps - like HBO now, Starz, Hulu, Showtime, NBC and more. Sadly that more part does not include Netflix and of course does not include Amazon Video. But it does include most of the others I use - so now I am down to 3 apps - The TV App, Netflix and Amazon Video when I am looking for something to watch. The TV App also replaces the Video App that was previously used to play purchased videos. To be fair - it is said in the future Netflix and Amazon Video will be supported. But not sure how Amazon Video will be supported if it is not yet even an app on Apple TV. Maybe it will just support on the iOS side and not tvOS side. 7. Single Sign-on - Means you log in one time for all your streaming TV services that are not named Netflix - assuming your TV provider is supported. The supported Pay TV Service providers include - CenturyLink Prism, DirecTV, Dish, GVTC, GTA, Hawaiian Telcom, Hotwire, Metrocast, Service Electric and Sling TV. 8. Updated Photos, News and Music Apps - These apps all received minor but useful updates. The Photos App has improved functionality around grouping similar photos of the same person. For the News App - There is a new Saved Section where you can find stories you well saved for later reading. And you can now swipe left to go to the next story. For the music App - the swipe up from the bottom of the screen music controls now include - Shuffle, repeat and up next. 9 - Accessibility updates include: Adds BraillePen14 support to VoiceOver – Fixes an issue where the braille table could switch unexpectedly with VoiceOver – Fixes an issue where sometimes Siri enhanced voices were unavailable to VoiceOver – Fixes an issue where VoiceOver users could not re-order items in lists – Fixes an issue where Switch Control was sometimes unable to delete Voicemails 10 - Other improvements and fixes – Adds notification support for HomeKit accessories including window coverings, occupancy, motion, door/window, smoke, carbon monoxide, and water leak sensors – Adds notification support for HomeKit accessories when software updates are available to HomeKit accessories – Improves Bluetooth performance and connectivity with 3rd party accessories – Fixes an issue that could cause FaceTime participants to appear out of focus – Fixes an issue that could cause FaceTime calls to appear with incorrect aspect ratio and orientation – Fixes an issue that prevented some Visual Voicemail from completing playback – Fixes a Safari Reader issue that could cause articles to open as empty pages – Fixes an issue that could cause Safari to quit unexpectedly after marking an item as read in Reading List Hi Rob, I recently updated my iPhone 6s and iPad Air2 to IOS 10.2. Imagine my chagrin to discover that zero, yes, zero, of the Voiceover bugs introduced in IOS 10.01 were fixed. Ergo, I was less surprised to learn that TV-OS 10.1 fixed exactly zero of the Voiceover bugs introduced in TV-OS 10.0. This is extremely irritating especially with regard to the Apple TV. It remains the only Apple device I've ever owned that I wish I could revert to an earlier version of the OS. Regards, Kevin Barry http://bgr.com/2016/12/13/ios-10-2-features-list-emojis-tv-app/ 11:12 http://www.macworld.com/article/3149514/consumer- electronics/apple-releases-updates-for-ios-watchos- and-tvos.html#tk.rss_all Not only was iOS 10.2 released - so were updates for tvOS and watchOS. For the Apple TV with tvOS 10.1 - The biggest item in this update is the TV app - which becomes the single point of access for many of your streaming TV apps and syncs with the TV app on iOS. The main screen is now the TV App. So if you hit the home button above the volume button - it now takes you to the TV App. Not sure if I like that. Actually right now I don’t - maybe in the future when Netflix is part of it - I might like that better. But if you use lots of game apps - you really will not like it. And finally watchOS - 3.1.1 is the latest new version - and to update - make sure your iPhone is updated to 10.2 first, and then make sure both your iPhone and Apple Watch are on the same Wifi network, and that your apple watch is charged to over 50% and your apple watch is connected to the charger. Some of the changes include the following: - Fixes an issue that could prevent contact names from appearing in the Messages app and notifications
- Fixes an issue that could impact ability to respond to notifications
- Fixes an issue that may prevent the Activity rings from displaying on the Activity watch faces
- Resolves an issue where the incorrect date could be displayed in the Calendar app month view
- Resolves an issue where the Stocks complication may not update on the watch face;
- Fixes an issue that prevented the dials on an analog watch face from appearing after changing the temperature unit in the Weather app;
- Resolves an issue that could cause the Maps app to stay launched after navigation has ended;
https://www.appleworld.today/blog/2016/12/12/apple-rolls- out-watchos-311-with-a-variety-of-bug-fixes 13:09 http://fortune.com/2016/12/14/apple-watch-watchos-update/ Well that Watch OS update was actually pulled shortly after it was released at least for Series 2 Watch owners - as there were reports from Series 2 owners of their watches being bricked. Apple said the following: “A very small number of Apple Watch customers experienced an issue while installing watchOS 3.1.1, so as a precaution we’ve pulled back the software update. Any customers impacted should contact AppleCare, but no action is required if the update installed successfully. We are working on a fix for an upcoming software update,” On Apples website, users were instructed to force a restart by pressing down the side button and the Digital Crown and holding both down until it reset, but when they did that, if the problem still wasn’t fixed - the only suggestion was to take the bricked Watch to the nearest Apple Store. Brilliant. As always it is always best to wait before jumping in. At this point - it seems safe to update to iOS 10.2 and also tvOS 10.1 - but For watchOS 3.1.1 - well it sounds like for at least series 2 owners that version is no longer available for updating to. I did update my original Apple watch to version 3.1.1 with no issues - but luckily did not get around to updating my wife’s series 2 watch. Because again for her I always wait. 14:59 http://www.macrumors.com/2016/12/14/apple-seeds- ios-10-2-1-beta-1-to-developers/ And 2 days after iOS 10.2 gold master was released to the world - Apple released 10.2.1 Beta 1. As with Any double dot update - it is mostly about squashing bugs. Actually every post I read on 10.2.1 beta 1 says it is just about bug fixes - no one in any of those posts had found any changes or additions to the features. 15:22 Why not treat yourself to something special this Christmas - Something you can enjoy every night, something that will improve the quality of your sleep - I am of course talking about getting yourself a great Casper Mattress. Casper Mattresses are a mix of Latex foam and Memory foam. No noisy springs to be wake up your significant other when you get up in the middle of the night to sneak some holiday cookies. Time Magazine even named it one of the best inventions of 2015. And with Casper you get a 100 day risk free trial period. You don't like it you get your money back and they come and pick it back up and donate it to a charity. - Casper is an obsessively engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price.
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Again to Save $50 off of the prices I mentioned go to casper dot com slash tii and use promo code t i i - all lower case on the promo code. again casper dot com / tii - promo code tii to save $50 - thanks Casper for the great mattress and for sponsoring this show. 17:20 http://fortune.com/2016/12/13/apple-airpods-on-sale/ VOICEMAIL - Todd_AirPods Thanks to Larry T and Richard E who sent in emails at 8:23 AM CT and 8:24 AM CT respectively on December 13 th saying the AirPods were for sale. I was on early morning conference calls and did not see them until a little after 9:45 AM - and by 9:54 AM when I had placed my order and received my confirmation email - I missed the first group of AirPods that were shipping before Christmas. Luckily I ordered them for me - but still it will be Jan 12th before I get mine. I did send out a push notification as soon as I heard - and depending on where you live that seems to have come just in time. Here is one email I received: Hi Rob. I've just received my AirPods in the mail. I wanted to thank you for the notification in the Tii app as I would have missed out otherwise. It came through at 6:30am and I ordered them straight away. When I checked at 3pm that day shipping time was out to 4 weeks and by the next morning it was out to 6 weeks. Regards Matt, Adelaide, Australia 19:33 http://betanews.com/2016/12/13/apple-airpods-sold- out-wireless-headphones-christmas/ Well evidently - they did sell out quickly - and depending on where you lived - very very quickly. So if you were like me and received a Jan 12th or later delivery - but unlike me are looking at them as a gift for someone - what can you do? Well this week you can camp out at a local apple store and hope to get really lucky. According to Apple quote AirPods will be shipping in limited quantities at launch and customers are encouraged to check online for updates on availability and estimated delivery dates. Stores will receive regular AirPod shipments unquote It is either camping out in-front of an Apple store - or you could order them and print out the receipt and pit in a nice box. Because - yes that always has the same impact as getting the physical device. And no - cutting the wires off the current airpods and putting them in the box with the receipt is not going to make it any better. 20:26 http://www.indabaa.com/how-to-pair-airpods-with- iphone-ipad-apple-watch-mac-apple-tv/ So lets assume you are one of the lucky ones and you do get the AirPods - and you have multiple devices - maybe you want to pair them with your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV and Mac. Very reasonable to have all those devices. Is it possible to pair the same set of headphones to all 5 of those different devices. Yes - Yes it is. And there is a link in the shows notes for Ep 415 titled - How to Pair Apple AirPods with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV That will go over how to do this. It is pretty easy for the iOS and Apple Watch. And should be easy for the mac - but the Apple TV - that gets a little trickier. But still doable. 21:08 http://ww6w.idownloadblog.com/2016/12/15/apple- airpods-69-replacement/ Now lets fast forward to oh the day after you get your Airpods. So what happens WHEN you loose one of the AirPods - well no problem says apple you can replace either one for JUST $69. But what happens WHEN you loose the Charging case. No problem says Apple - you can replace it for JUST $69. Because you know $69 + $69 + $69 equals the original $159 right. Wait I just went to check that on my Apple calculator app - and it must be broken because it says $69 + $69 + $69 = $207 - Yup my calculator must be broken that is $48 higher than it should be well either that or Apple is trying to get that 200+ Billion cash horde up to 250+ billion. I just hope the AirPods come with a nutrition statement - as I have a feeling one of them will eventually end up in the belly of my French bull dog. But seriously - what happens when stomach acid and Lithium ion batteries meet? Any Vets want to chime in on this? You know this is going to happen to more than a few people and their dogs. Give me a call 206-666-6364 - that’s 206-moon-dog - or send us an email to today in iOS at gmail dot com 22:40 http://digg.com/2016/apple-airpods-reviews The reviews are coming in from the different press orgs out there. Here are the last few lines from some of those reviews. From MacWorld quote The three-button remote on wired earbuds is a much faster, easier way to control your music than double-tapping one ear and then trying to get Siri to do what you want. But I can’t help liking the AirPods—the cool design and powerful sound just keep me coming back. I just wish they had another gesture, or smarter/faster Siri, to be as convenient as what they’re replacing. unquote From Engadget quote If Apple had made the software and controls a little more flexible, this review might have taken a very different turn. If you're reading this, Apple, this was a solid first attempt. Don't give up on the concept, because I believe future AirPods could be great. unquote From Wired (which yes is a little ironic to do a review on wireless headphones - but I digress) quote All that said, I’m really looking forward to what the AirPods become. They have the potential to be the kind of project that goes from accessory or hobby to critical piece of Apple’s future. The AirPods, above all else, are Siri machines. And just like Siri, they have a bright future—and a seriously awkward present. unquote From CNET quote As proof of how more connected devices could glom onto your iCloud device world, AirPods show interesting promise. And they could be the type of always-in wearables to extend beyond the Apple Watch. But for now, they're mostly just small, nice wireless earphones that cost a lot and lack a good remote. unquote From Mashable - once I could past the pop ups / pop overs / pop unders and other annoying ads. quote What I do know is that my fears of being laughed at on Broadway never materialized. The more I wore the AirPods, the more I enjoyed them and it occurred to me that the more people who bought them, wore them comfortably and enjoyed using them and even started singing their praises, the more public sentiment on the AirPods' look might shift. after a commute through the city, a trek through a crowded Penn Station and a ride home on a busy train (the conductor noticed my iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, but didn't comment on the odd white devices hanging from my ears), I arrived home with the realization that opinions on Twitter are one thing, but reality may be another another. unquote And now from those that kiss Apples ring - to those that have no skin in the game. From Michael Polinske from the Tii G+ community quote Just opened my AirPods. They seem to stay in my ears quite well. Haven't tried walking around with them, but much better than the EarPods. Currently charging them because the case only had 10% and one of them only had like 75%. I'll let you know tomorrow after using them for a full day how it goes. I noticed that it was automatically added to my MacBook and iPad though I only initially paired it to my iPhone. So far I am impressed. I don't listen to music too much, but do listen to a lot of podcasts. unquote Then there is a Video of a guy running 10 kilometers with them in and they stayed in place. Most of the reviews I am seeing with regards to them staying in your ears - say they do. Congrats to all that received them already. I am a good 3 weeks out before I see mine - SAD TROMBONE. 26:40 http://fortune.com/2016/12/16/nintendo-stock-super-mario-run/ From Myron Uecker on Google+ Quote Apple is really promoting Mario on iOS. I was in a local Apple Store today and every one of the employees were wearing Mario pins on their shirts. unquote Yes folks - Super Mario Run is out and it is a hit - it has been the top free app and the top grossing app since its release. How can it be both - simple - there are 3 free levels - and then if you want to unlock the rest of the levels - you need to pay $10. Both my boys really love it and both are bugging me for the $10 unlock. Which I will do as a Christmas present for them. We will talk more about this in a few minutes. 27:22 VOICEMAIL - Jeff_fdbk_bluetooth_issues Hi Rob, I heard him say having incoming calls and his iphone6s freeze up. I have an iPhone 6s Plus and had this same issue and I cleared network settings in reset settings. I'm on T-Mobile it has not done it since I reset network settings. Hope it helps. Regards, John Hullinger Hi Rob - Just thought I’d mention a fun differentiator for the series 2… the digital crown can turn the brightness up really gradually. Apparently that’s not on the series 1 I haven’t become an Apple Watch wearer yet - maybe someday. regards -Dan Hi Rob, You were discussing that the battery issues for the iPhone may be related to a software issue rather than a hardware problem. I found that i only have the issue when using the podcast app. When i get up early in the morning and do a update of the podcast list my phone shuts down and tells me to plug in the charger because the battery is dead. Even if the charge was at 43% just before. When I plug it in my phone starts up and shows 43% and charges. I don't have this problem when it has been on the charger at night and is at 100%. (Even when no longer on the charger) Maybe this can help your listeners resolve this issue. Or at least reproduce this problem. Regards, Harald Heijmans VOICEMAIL - Carl_Detroit_fdbk_random_shut_off_issue 32:46 https://plus.google.com/115348269522560425138/ posts/TCD17Ld5Q7r?sfc=true https://plus.google.com/communities/ 105412562215997292912?cfem=1 We are now over 3,500 members in our Google+ community and growing. Thanks to everyone that has joined and thanks for the great posts. One new post in the G+ community that went up since the last episode that had lots of comments came from MYRON UECKER who posted the following quote For all those who just cannot wait, Mario is now on the App Store. unquote Caryl Goodman replied quote I never played this game. But I did download it!!! Gotta see what everyones talking about!!!!!!! unquote BARRY SMITHERMAN replied quote It's fun, but not 9.99 fun. I really appreciate pay once and play forever games, but a 10'er is a lot for this. unquote APPLE DYSTOPIA replied quote +barry smitherman $9.99 for that?!? It's an auto run game, all you can do is jump. Kind of boring. I agree, too much, but the Mario brand will probably attract a lot of customers. I'm sure they researched that price. unquote FRANCISCO TAPIA replied quote +barry smitherman it's perfectly fine, the animations are fantastic! These take time to build and they are extremely polished! +Apple Dystopia Mario games may not be for all, but it's more than just a run and jump. There are multiple actions such as the hurdle over turtles/ toads. The 9.99 unlocks the additional worlds all without ads. I grew up with Nintendo so I really enjoy the playfulness of the game. unquote MYRON UECKER replied quote This game reminds me of the Rayman series, which are also well made but limited on iOS. unquote BARRY SMITHERMAN replied quote It's worth it for people who are into that type of game I guess. The animations are good, but the sounds and music are awesome. Still, I would personally get bored of it way before I felt like I got my money's worth. unquote FRANCISCO TAPIA replied quote When you consider that you pay between $35 to $45 for a Nintendo 3DS game, $10 is a bargain. You do get lots of levels, amazing sound and graphics, hands down better than any .99 cent game of course if you don't care for runner games, I understand you not liking it. not long ago I bought the Formula 1 game as well for 9.99 I love that I don't have to wait for paid periods that encourage me to not play (ala RealRacing i'm looking at you!) I much rather pay for a fully working game so I can play when I have time, instead of getting gimped unquote Since the last episode there were also dozens and dozens of other new posts and comments in the Tii Google+ community - which is an Android fan bois free zone and spammer free zone. Yup it is the most civil Google+ community covering iOS. Folks Go to today in iOS dot com slash community to join in. And thanks to all 3,500+ of you already in the community and contributing. 35:49 http://www.applemust.com/how-to-use-apples-new- icloud-calendar-anti-spam-tools/ We talked about the iCloud Calendar spamming going on the last couple of episodes. Apple has some new Anti-spam tools available. According to Johnny Evans - who wrote a post - How to use Apple’s new iCloud Calendar anti-spam tools Quote The tool becomes visible when an iCloud user receives an unsolicited calendar invite from a sender who is not known as a contact within their contacts database. You can then double-click the event and report is as junk. Here’s how to do it: 1. Select the offending invitation in iCloud Calendar online - 2. Double-click the event
- 3. A new window opens in which you’ll see the ‘Report Junk’ option
- 4. Tap this and a window appears to confirm this is what you want to do or tap ‘Not Junk’ if you’ve made an error
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- - Pebble devices will continue to work as normal. No immediate changes to the Pebble user experience will happen at this time.
- - Pebble functionality or service quality may be reduced in the future.
- - Warranty support is no longer available for Pebble watches. How-to information and troubleshooting can still be found on our Support page and in the Pebble Forum.
unquote And you can find more info from Pebble by looking for the link titled - Pebble’s next step - in the show notes for ep 415 It is clear the Apple watch had a lot to do with the demise of the Pebble - and for that I am sad. I really liked my Pebble - and in some ways it was better than the Apple watch - at least in terms of Battery life. I talked before on this show - that depending on what you wanted a smartwatch for - the pebble was in some cases the better choice. I am again sad for this news. To those who remained loyal to Pebble - you have my condolences. https://backchannel.com/the-real-story-behind-pebbles- demise-303802a7afaa?mbid=synd_digg#.kbf4h5ukm https://9to5mac.com/2016/12/07/pebble-acquired-by-fitbit/ https://blog.getpebble.com/2016/12/07/fitbit/ 42:21 http://www.inferse.com/44183/26-android-mobiles- including-lenovo-factory-malware/ Thanks to all that sent in this next article. And this one goes under - I am sure glad I have an iOS smartphone category. It seems that brand spanking new Android handsets might have malware pre-installed at the factory. This according to the Antivirus company Doctor Web. Malware has been found to be pre-installed in the firmware of dozens of cheap android handsets right out of the box. While most of those discovered do come from low-end devices from companies most no one has heard of - at least two of the handsets came from Lenovo. One way to reduce the stress level Android users have about their phone getting infected with Malware - is to just infect it before they get it - then they will not have to worry about getting infected for the first time. Brilliant !! 43:08 VOICEMAIL - Gary_fdbk_10_1_1_issues Rob, I, like you, have the iPhone 7+ jet black & bought the bumpies. I love the practicality and show-off color ... but ... the iPhone without a case is slippery as a greased pig. Do you or the listeners have solutions? Regards, Rich Hi Rob, In response to the caller regarding being able to pause audio when your iPhone is inside the armband I have 2 ideas to get around this issue without buying a different band. First, I would say that instead of using the home button to wake the phone, grab the side of the phone to depress the wake/sleep button. This does not need skin contact to wake the screen. You then can tap the pause icon. Second, I would try and use headphones with the controls either on the cord or the headphones themselves. Earpods work great for this and they came with your phone. Regards, Jim VOICEMAIL - Ben_CA_Fdbk_issue_armband_fingerbrint 48:51 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1483155071/moonlite- a-bedtime-story-projector-for-your-mobile For Kickstarter projects - we have two this week. The first one is called - Moonlite - a bedtime story projector for your mobile phone. This one had a goal of 20k - and has raised over 100k and counting. You have until Jan 12th 6:27 PM CT to fund this one. So what is Moonlite. Well according to the site quote Imagine projecting your child's favorite bedtime story onto the ceiling or wall while they are snuggling in bed with you. Moonlite makes bedtime stories come to life, with full HD story images and in-app sound effects to make the reading experience immersive and magical for children. unquote Simple put - it uses the light from your iPhone to power the projector - and you have disc that you turn to have different image you project on the ceiling or wall that go along with the story you are reading. The starter pack is $35. Pricing goes up from there - with more stories and additional units. The $65 Super Value Pack gets you 1 moonlite device and all 7 story reels. They are showing an April 2017 ship date. This looks like a great one for anyone with toddlers and young children. Search for Moonlite - one word spelled - m o o n l i t e - at kickstarter.com or in the show notes for ep 415 at today in iOS dot com. 50:14 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wiplabs/idockall- 2-true-one-hand-undocking-with-a-twist I mentioned two projects and the second one is called iDockALL2 - true one hand undocking with a twist This one had a goal of $10k and has raised over 17k. So congrats. This one you only have until Dec 22nd at 9:59 AM CT to fund - so snap snap. From the description quote One hand undocking, works with all iPhones, iPads, and iPods. Release system allows continuous charging! The iDockAll 2 is very easy to use: secure it to your desk and the sticky pad will allow a true one hand undocking experience. The special cable head that we have designed tilts back and forth in the dock allowing the docking of practically any Smart Phone or Tablet. If you pull your phone straight up, it detaches from the dock. If you move your phone back first, and then pull up, the head is released. This means you can keep using your phone without interrupting the charge. Perfect if you're low on battery! unquote Pricing on this is $29 and they say it will ship in April 2017 You can find more on this one by searching for idockall2 - one word at kickstarter dot com or in the show notes for ep 415. 51:34 Hi Rob, Say "Merry Christmas, Siri!" :) And a blessed and Merry Christmas to you and your family! :) Btw... I LOVED Porter's game review! PLEASE have him on the show more!!!! He's awesome!!! Thanks for all you do! Regards, - Tammy Hi Tammy - thanks for the suggestion - Ep 415 - Ask Siri - Merry Christmas Siri Bonus - Ask Siri - What do you want for Christmas Siri Happy Holidays. Next Episode 53:26 Thanks again to Texture for sponsoring this episode - Folks go right now to Texture dot com/ Tii to get your free trial and access to well over 200 of the best and most popular magazines. And Before we go today I want to remind you to send in your feedback to the show - 206-666-6364 - that 206-moon-dog - or record your feedback and email it to the show at today in iOS at gmail dot com - The feedback can be a question or comment per something someone said on this episode or it can be a question or rant you have about something else. An App or product review - good or bad - as long as it is iOS related - it is welcomed. I am always looking for new Artwork to feature that you created on an iOS device - just put some Tii branding on it and send it in. And of course we are always looking for more music created on an iOS device to play on the show. This is your show and your feedback is greatly desired. Also don't forget to check out our Moderated Google Plus community by going to todayinios dot com slash community. 54:22 Thanks again to Casper for their support of Tii - and if you go to casper.com slash tii - and use promo code tii - all lower case - you will save $50 off a mattress shipped right to your door - again go to casper dot com slash tii and use promo code tii. Finally check out the newly updated Tii App which is Free to you. We now have Apple Watch App included. Search for Tii in the iTunes App Store - it is the best way to consume the show and to get push notifications each time a new episode of Tii is released. It is fully Voiceover friendly of course. Please go right now and download the Tii App. Until the next time - I am your host Rob - Reminding you to phone Different. OUTRO OUTRO MUSIC
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TRANSCRIPT FOR EPISODE 414 Welcome to the show I am your host Rob and this is the Today in iOS podcast - First up I want to thank KARTHIK for sending in the music you hear in the background. KARTHIK wrote: Hi Rob, I am submitting my song Dinosaur to play on the show. This song was created completely using the apps GarageBand and Auto-Tune Mobile on my iPad Air 2. My vocals were recorded using an Apogee MiC Digital Microphone which I purchased from the Apple Store. The song is dedicated to my daughter who is also my #1 fan. To find more of my music please check out SoundCloud.com/RXtracks Regards, KARTHIK M SONG_DINOSAUR Thanks KARTHIK for the music and folks I will put the full song at the end of the episode. I also want to thank JOHN for sending in the Artwork for today's show. JOHN wrote the following: Hi Rob, I used SnapSeed to create & tune the image then overlay the branding text, and tweak the image further with filters. I wanted to see how far I could take it with a single App - and SnapSeed is pretty full featured with a nice intuitive interface to make a lot of powerful image tools easy to use. Thanks John Poser Thanks JOHN, for sending in this artwork and folks you can see JOHN'S artwork in the FREE Tii App via the BONUS button for ep 414 - or at instagram.com/todayinios and also as a stand alone post in the VIP section and at Facebook.com/todayinios. If you have some artwork and or music you have created on your iOS device that you would like to share with the audience please email it to me at today in iOS at gmail dot com and please make sure to include which app or apps you used to create said artwork and or music. 02:30 In this segment of how wrong were they we have the following quote -- quote “‘iPhone Killer’ BlackBerry 10 is here: iPhone is Dead! Emotions run high as BlackBerry 10 smartphones Q10 and Z10 make their debuts” UNQUOTE Bob Brown, InfoWorld, 30 January 2013 That is something I would expect from Bobby Brown the singer - not some bloke from InfoWorld. Just Sayin 02:55 For Promo codes - On Ep 413 we offered up chances to win promo codes for The Apps - SYSTEM UTIL Dashboard and - MYCARDLISTS. Promo Codes for System UTIL Dashboard have already been given out - but If you are interested in winning a promo code for MyCardLists or want more info go back and listen to the beginning of Ep 413 A QUICK REMINDER if you are an App developer or an iBook Author email me if you want your app or iBook featured in the promo give away segment FOR FREE We Just need the 5 promo codes or more to give away. simply email me at today in ios @ gmail.com and please include a 60 sec or less audio review of your app or iBook - indicating you are the dev or author. Also when you send in the promo codes - please make sure to let me know when they expire. 03:42 http://www.redmondpie.com/ios-10.2-beta-4-download- now-available/ Apple went and released two new beta’s last week - on Monday they released iOS 10.2 Beta 4 and then at the end of the week they released iOS 10.2 Beta 5. While one more beta was thought possible - no one was predicting two more beta’s in one week for iOS 10.2. With Beta 4 - it was mostly you guessed it about squashing bugs. Actually I could not find any articles that talked about any new features found in Beta 4 vs Beta 3. 04:12 http://www.macrumors.com/2016/12/02/apple- seeds-ios-10-2-beta-5/ And with beta 5 - it is the same as with beta 4 - bug squashing seems to be all anyone is reporting. Some are saying Beta 5 is the Gold master version that will go out to the public - and the GM version of iOS 10.2 is likely going out this week. http://www.redmondpie.com/download-apple-releases- ios-10.2-beta-5/ 04:29 http://www.technobuffalo.com/2016/12/05/ios-10-2-beta-6- out-for-developers-and-public-testers-now/ And another first for Apple - they released Beta 6 on Monday the 5th. That means 3 betas in 8 days - that is a new record for Apple. Anyone saying they predicted betas 4,5 and 6 in an 8 day window is full of it. This was really a unique situation. What is new in Beta 6 vs beta 5 - well that is hard to say - because most people were still trying to find anything new in Beta 5 vs beta 4. Safe to say beta 6 is about bug squashing and optimization. Beta 5 actually ran pretty well for me over the weekend with the exception of one issue and that being the home button would not always wake up the phone and I would have to hit the power button. I have not seen that issue since I updated to Beta 6. So maybe that was the one key bug they squashed. Both Devs and public beta testers can get iOS 10.2 beta 6 - but hurry because Apple could release beta 7 tomorrow or maybe this will be the one that becomes the gold master. 06:00 https://9to5mac.com/2016/12/06/tvos-10-1-beta-5/ Apple also updated tvOS 10.1 to beta 5. I have not talked much about this - but it seems likely before the next episode tvOS 10.1 will launch - and the biggest additions are the TV App Apple recently announced and single sign on - which is great as it unlocks all the apps your cable provider allows for. So no more going through the CBS app getting the code from your computer and unlocking and then the NBC app and getting the code from your computer and unlocking and the AMC app and so on and so on. These are both very nice additions for the Apple TV and I am looking forward to updating once this goes gold master. Updating to Apple TV’s right away is typically ok - it is not something you normally need for work. That said the Wife will not let me run beta software on our Apple TV’s. 07:04 https://www.apple.com/support/iphone6s-unexpectedshutdown/ http://www.macrumors.com/2016/12/01/apple-iphone- 6s-battery-replacement-serial-number/ VOICEMAIL - Tom_NJ_iPhone6S battery Apple has a tool where you can enter in your Serial number for your iPhone 6S to see if it is eligible for a new battery. This relates to the unexpected shut down issue. Apple is still saying it is just a small number of iPhone 6S models that were manufactured between Sept and Oct 2015 that have the faulty battery. And these battery issues are the opposite of Samsungs where they went boom - Apples batteries just go completely inactive. From Jack Reeder in the Tii Google+ community: Quote For the record, yesterday I was driving with Apple maps. At 50% power the phone shut down. I could not restart until I got home and plugged it into power. It showed 44% when it powered up. I'm in line for the 6s battery replacement. They said it will be on the store in 2-3 weeks. I will then bring in phone. If battery replacement works we're done. If it doesn't they will give me a new phone. They ordered both the battery and the new phone at the same time. unquote 10:49 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-store-workers- getting-frustrated-190720169.html There are reports that Apple Stores are being inundated with customer complaints with regards to devices shutting down early when the battery is showing around 30% or more left - according to some Apple store employees according to Business Insider. Apple keeps stating that this issue is just per the iPhone 6S and just a small number - however according to Business Insider Apple Store Employees are saying the issue is actually very common and it is more than just the iPhone 6S. I personally can say my Son’s iPhone 5S has had this issue since updating to iOS 10. It is also being reported by one Apple Genius that there weren’t enough batteries on hand to handle all the requests for replacements. It really does look like there is more here then Apple is letting on. 11:46 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ios-10-1-1-update-causing- iphone-battery-drain-1594001 And for the most part Apple is saying it is a hardware issue - but that is not what it appears to be when you look at the reports. It looks to be an iOS 10 issue. There are some posts / reports coming out now that say iOS 10.1.1 software in particular is part of the issue. I wonder if all of these releases of 3 betas in 8 days are also focused on this issue. I will be updated my son’s iPhone 5S to the new Beta 6 and will see what happens. Right now it is fully charged. I will see later on how it is doing. From Mark Jarvis in the Tii Google+ community quote I have an iPhone 6s and it is probably entitled to a battery swap, but I believe the problem is software! It only started happening since the ios version 10 happened. Why aren't Apple doing something about it? unquote 13:50 http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2016/11/17Free-Hour- of-Code-Workshops-December-5-through-11-at- Every-Apple-Store.html It might be too late for some of you when you hear this - but Apple from Dec 5th to Dec 11th is having their Free hour of Code Workshops at all 487 apple retail stores worldwide. quote Among the most popular events at the Apple Store®, Hour of Code workshops teach the basics of computer science with Code.org’s programming tutorials. Apple and Code.org share the goal of giving every student the opportunity to learn computer science. unquote A big part of this years hour of code will include an introduction to Swift playgrounds. Which you have heard me sing the praises of earlier this year. Again this is running from December 5th to December 11th - and is geared towards kids - so check your local Apple store to see it is not too late this year. 14:35 http://www.macrumors.com/2016/11/30/tim-cook-airpods-email/ One thing you are not yet too late for is the Apple Air Pods - as well they are still not for sale. Despite lots of rumors for the past 6 weeks that it was going to be tomorrow whenever today was during that 6 weeks. But tomorrow has yet to come for the AirPods - but one rumor posted up on MacRumors - is from a supposed email exchange with Tim cook and an average joe consumer. Joe Consumer wrote to Tim quote "Give us a release date. I really bought in to the wireless vision you painted. Now I'm stuck waiting with my EarPods but can't charge my 7 at the same time which I need to do at work. Let us know if it's a month or 6 months, because then I'll just buy some other wireless headphones.” unquote Tim replied back with quote "Thanks for your note. Sorry for the delay---we are finalizing them and I anticipate we will begin to ship over the next few weeks." unquote MacRumors says the email headers look legit - but yeah faking that is not tuff. And Mac Rumors pretty much says as much. Said email exchange happened the last week of November. So that means Tomorrow could actually be tomorrow or maybe the next day or the day after that or - well - look for a push notification from the Tii App when the AirPods finally go on sale. Hopefully they will be here in time to make a nice Christmas gift. 15:57 And speaking of Gifts - A perfect gift for a man in your life is Harry’s razors. I love my Harry’s razors - they are with out a doubt the absolutely best razors I have ever used at any price level. and Harrys just sent over a great limited edition Holiday Shave kit - that Looks great and is filled with great stuff. o It has a Midnight blue chrome razor handle (which you can get engraved with initials) o 3 of Harry’s German-engineered 5-blade cartridges that again provide the best shave I have ever had. o The Foaming shave gel that smells amazing o and a Beautifully designed gift box. o and all of this for just $30 and if you use promo code tii - that brings the price down to $25 if you are a first time customer. Go to Harrys.com right now to get this limited edition holiday shave set while supplies last, and don’t forget to enter promo code Tii at checkout for $5 off. • If you haven’t heard of them before, Harry's was started by two best friends – Jeff and Andy – who were fed up with being overcharged for razors, so they started their own razor company to give people what they deserve: a great shave at a fair price. ▪ They also offer handles and sets starting at just $10 bucks if you haven’t tried Harry’s for yourself! • If you are looking to send a Harrys kit as a gift this year remember Free shipping ends on December 9th, so ACT NOW. Go to Harrys.com right now to get a limited edition holiday shave set while supplies last, and don’t forget to enter code Tii at checkout for $5 off. That’s Harrys.com, with promo code Tii. 17:31 VOICEMAIL - Apple_Watch_series_1or2 Rob Regarding the listener who noticed the Apple Clock App no longer displays seconds - and a desire to set clocks to the actual second... My suggestion is to skip adding another "uni-tasker" App to your home screen. I use a website: time.is It is mobile friendly and displays exact time with running seconds. You can use the Safari app and keep the page in your timeline without adding another icon. But if you like one-touch access then you can add that page to the home screen. As always- keep the good work going with all things iOS... Cheers, PaulG in Lawrenceville Hi Rob, Enjoy the show as always. My favorite clock app is Grand Clock by Ansette LLC. This universal app gives you the look and sound of a grandfather clock. Visually, you can zoom in on the face of the clock, including second hand, or zoom out to see the whole clock including swinging pendulum. My favorite aspect is the sound. When the app is focused you hear the ticking of a real grandfather clock. The developer says all sounds are recordings of a real grandfather clock and they certainly sound that way. I hate the ticking of a cheap plastic clock. Also, you can have the app sound chimes (or in my case just gongs) on the hour, half hour or quarter hour. You can also set a schedule to have it keep quiet at night. The app costs $.99 and there is an in app purchase for additional chimes but I do not think they are at all necessary. Hth Kevin Barry Hey Rob Thank Bruce for his instructions on how to delete those calendar spammers. I swear I was getting like 5 new one a day. Love the show. Keep up the great work. Roy VOICEMAIL - Calendar_Spam_Workaround 22:55 https://plus.google.com/u/0/107722079381586985625/ posts/ejBiMkncEMf?cfem=1 https://plus.google.com/communities/ 105412562215997292912?cfem=1 We are now over 3,500 members in our Google+ community and growing. Thanks to everyone that has joined and thanks for the great posts. One new post in the G+ community that went up since the last episode that had lots of comments came from Patrick McCann who posted the following quote I forget the name of the caller from the last episode who brought this up, but yesterday I did receive a Spam calendar invite. I showed my wife and we were able to create another calendar from our mac and delete it without notifying the sender. I however couldn't figure out how to do this from my phone. Does anyone know how from your iPhone or does this have to be done from a mac or PC? unquote Ken Ostrander replied quote The same thing happened to me, I saw the post as well, irritating as heck https://astralbodi.es/2016/11/25/preventing- spam-icloud-calendar-invites/ unquote And then Ken gave a link to an Article on how to Prevent Spam iCloud Calendar Invites. Barry Smitherman replied quote I sure hope apple addresses this soon. It seems like more and more people are talking about it. unquote Patrick McCann replied back saying quote The solution was actually posted by Ken Ostrander earlier today. You have to log into iCloud.com from a web browser (used my mac for this, not phone) and change the setting in your calendar from there unquote And then Patrick added a link to a youtube video to help on this. Since the last episode there were also dozens and dozens of other new posts and comments in the Tii Google+ community - which is an Android fan bois free zone and spammer free zone. Yup it is the most civil Google+ community covering iOS. Folks Go to today in iOS dot com slash community to join in. And thanks to all 3,500+ of you already in the community and contributing. https://astralbodi.es/2016/11/25/preventing- spam-icloud-calendar-invites/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5JJii269Y0 24:42 https://9to5mac.com/2016/12/05/icloud-web-apps-and-account-sign-in-experiencing-system-outages I know one of the arguments against needing the largest storage or large storage is you can store a lot in iCloud. Which can be fine as long as you have a good internet connection and you know iCloud is working. Which for part of December 5th it was not. If you were having issues with iCloud on the 5th it was not you it was Apple. I know this first hand because I have one spread sheet I keep up on iCloud and edit from multiple devices all the time. And I ran into this issue mid stream working on it. Luckily I had other things to work on during the outage - but if it was a time I needed it ASAP - it would have been really frustrating. This Teaches me to pull an off line copy of that spread sheet each week just in case and reminds me once again why I like to have large storage devices. 26:30 https://www.theinformation.com/fitbit-to-buy-pebble All of you that have a pebble - some sad news - FitBit is buying Pebble and supposedly phasing it out - this according to an article on The Information - which was widely re-reported. It was purchased for a quote small amount unquote. According to The article the deal will have Pebble and its products closed down over time - with Fitbit really doing the acquisition for assets which include intellectual property and software. In 2015 watch maker Citizen was supposedly trying to purchase Pebble for $740 million. The deal fell through. Then before the Pebble 2 launched - Intel made an offer for $70 million - The CEO of Pebble refused both offers sources say. Sources are now saying the current deal was for between $34 and $40 million barely covering their debts. It is sad news - I really liked my Pebble watch. We still have it and my kids use it now. Some will say it was the Apple watch that killed Pebble - others will say it is a tanking in the Smartwatch market. I would say it really is about smartwatch sales tanking for any smartwatch not called the Apple Watch. In any case good bye Pebble it was nice knowing you - say hello to Blackberry, Rio and the Nomad Jukebox when you get to that Tech Pasture in the sky. 28:02 http://fortune.com/2016/12/01/apple-google-maps-drone/ Thanks to Dr. John for this next one. Remember when tech futurists thought the sky would be full of Drones delivering packages from Amazon. Well now it looks like those drones might actually be working for Apple and there trying to Make Apple Maps Better. Seem Apple secured approval from the FAA to use drones to capture photos, videos and other traffic data according to Bloomberg. They feel that Drones could replace lots of the Minivans Apple currently uses to collect Street data. Look up in the sky - is it a bird - is it a plane - is it underdog - nope it just a little ole lovable Apple Drone. 28:36 http://money.cnn.com/2016/11/30/technology/ android-phones-infected/index.html CNN had one of those - I am glad I do an iOS podcast articles. It was titled - Nearly One Million Android Phones infected by Hackers. According to the article quote Hackers have gained access to more than 1.3 million Google accounts -- emails, photos, documents and more -- by infecting Android phones through illegitimate apps. unquote To which Google confirmed to CNN the nature and extent of the problem. So basically they said - yup - sounds about right. What I love about this hack however is what the infected devices and by devices I mean Android Phones. Quote Infected Android smartphones begin to install other, legitimate Android apps -- then rate them highly. This fraudulently inflates their reputation, unquote So if you download an android app in an unofficial app store and it infects your android device - your android device then goes and starts downloading apps from the legit app store and gives them higher ratings. BRILLIANT. Google has stated they removed Apps they found to benefit from this. But what if the hackers were actually counting on that - and they would boost the app that is a competitor of the app they are working for - then the competitors app gets removed clearing the path for their real client to benefit. I mean it is possible right. Looking at some of 85+ apps found and removed a few were: memory booster memory booste Memory Booster System Booster Minibooster phone booster - Seems if like they might be boosting multiple apps with similar features. Nice End game Hackers.
In any case yup - glad I do an iOS podcast. 30:28 http://venturebeat.com/2016/12/05/android-nougat- hits-0-4-adoption-after-3-months/ Speaking Android - Androids latest OS is version - 7.0 and has the nick name - Nougat. My dyslexia was kicking in and I kept reading it as Naught - not Nougat - I even said to myself why did Google go away from Candy names that is strange - then I finally - and I mean as in last month finally realized it was Nougat not Naught. And well I was initially thinking it was my dyslexia that caused the name issue that is until I saw what Nougat’s adoption rate has been. It was released in August 2016 before iOS 10 which was released in September 2016. iOS 10.x has an adoption rate of over 63 % at the end of November 2016 according to Apple. Nougat has an adoption rate in the beginning of December 2016 of 0.4% - and if you rounded it to no decimal places - that would be 0% . So maybe Naught was actually the correct way to read Nougat after all. At least for the mean time I can keep calling it Android Naught. 31:31 VOICEMAIL - Chris_DeBro_issues_with_256GB A quick tip for those running iOS 10. If you are ever in the Message app and typing a message and go from portrait to landscape mode and you get that screen where you can do handwriting. But you really just wanted the keyboard an wish it would stop giving your the handwriting option. Simple enough - in the lower right tap the keyboard and back to keyboard you go - with the lower right now having a button to handwriting. So going forward you will have the keyboard back as default. My son was asking how to get rid of that - so figured others would have that question as well and I can’t see I ever talked about it on the show before. DISNEY TRIP - WAITING IN LINE Hi Rob, Love the show. Weird stuff on a recent trip to Paris. My SE iPhone was in my shirt pocket and off. Over 2-3 days when I opened it, the phone was in delete app mode. I cancelled each time, but noticed that at least 5 apps HAD been deleted and most were Apple apps. Maps, Video, and Podcast were removed and I never gave ok. I had to reinstall after I figured out they were gone. Just curious how this could happen. Regards, Tom VOICEMAIL - RON_NM_review_CaseLogic 35:52 Last year for Christmas I gave my Parents Boll & Branch sheets - that right there should tell you what I think of Boll & Branch and my Parents love their sheets. And me and the Wife love the Boll & Branch sheets and towels. They have the best Cotton Products Period as I have been telling you for well over a year now. And you know what makes a great holiday gift - Warm Flannel sheets from Boll and Branch or maybe a Cable Knit Scarf or an Origami Infinity Scarf, or a nice Throw blanket. Boll & Branch makes it easy to find the right gift for your parents or your significant other or anyone And All of the Boll and Branch products are made from 100% organic cotton - because organic cotton is incredibly soft. Right now you can get $50 OFF YOUR FIRST SET OF SHEETS at Boll at Branch dot com, with promo code TII. Again that is Boll and Branch Dot Com. Promo code TII. Their sheets are only sold online at boll and branch dot com - you can’t buy them in any stores. That is how they keep the pricing low and free of markups. And they stand behind their sheets as well - giving you 30 nights to try them out - if you are not thrilled just send them back for a refund. This Year Don’t wait until it is too late go right now and get some of your holiday shopping done with Boll & Branch. get $50 OFF YOUR FIRST SET OF SHEETS at Boll at Branch dot com, and use promo code TII. 38:45 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/590415795/the- perfect-iphone-case-extra-battery-extra-memory This week for a kickstarter project I had a few of you send in this one. It is called Perfect iPhone Case - Extra Battery, Extra Memory & More Umm - Yeah - nice pithy name. This one has a goal of $30k - it has raised $10k and has until Friday December 30th at 12:00 PM CT to get the other $20k. They have versions of this case for iPhone 6, 6S, 6+, 6S+ and 7 and 7+ What does said case do - well a few key things. 1. Extends your battery life by up to 2X. 2. It adds external storage - either 64 GB or 128 GB of extra storage. 3. It has a headphone jack - for the iPhone 7 and 7+ versions. Pricing starts at $80 for the 64GB version and $100 for the $128 GB version. Pricing is very nice for what you get - but those prices are the super early bird pricing - so don’t delay. If this sounds like something that you are interested in - look for quote Perfect iPhone case unquote in kickstarter.com or in the show notes for ep 414 40:02 https://www.twelvesouth.com/store/product/new-mac-candle The craziest Christmas present I saw this year is the New Mac Candle. And burning this candle it is supposed to give off the scent of a new Mac. Which evidently is a mix of Mint, Peach, Basil, Lavender, Mandarin and Sage. Right now it is out of stock. It is $24 and there will be a link to it at twelvesouth.com If you can’t wait for them to get back in stock right now they do have in stock the New Samsung Candles - when you burn those - it just smells like your house is on fire mixed with the smell of the rubber gloves the TSA agents wear. Oh come on - how could I not go there. 40:46 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MAF6wSKVjw One of the benefits of this podcast is when the kids want an app - I can just email the devs and get a promo code. So they don’t have to spend their money. It is my way of showing off to my Kids. Besides if you work in a bakery you bring home doughnuts for your kids, If you are a cop well you bring him doughnuts for your kids. And if you do an iOS podcast - you don’t get doughnuts you get apps. But I need to teach the kids there is always a price - and one game my Kids received a promo code for in October and they are still playing is Toca Kitchen 2. First - here is the Review from my youngest son - Porter. VOICEMAIL - Toca Kitchen 2 But hey both kids are playing this game - and Henry put together a screen cast video of him playing Toca Kitchen 2 - which he uploaded to his youtube channel. Link in the show notes to that video review. Thanks to the devs for the promo code - and for my son’s for doing their reviews. And again both are still playing the app almost 2 months later - that means it is a good app. 44:03 VOICEMAIL - Gil_Boston_issue_skin_to_homebutton Hi, Rob, About eight years ago I wrote you about my iPhone 3 (yes, 3). It was after the iPhone 4 came out and you encouraged me to upgrade my phone. Well, I went Android instead (bigger screen, more flexibility, etc.) and my Samsung was OK. I dropped it two stories while trying to go out on the roof of the Montgomery County courthouse (I'm a reporter). I used my insurance to have it replaced and finally, the charging port went bad on my second Samsung. About that time Samsung pulled the Note 7 and a few reports hinted the same issue could affect other smartphones. OK, I was not a fan boy so I started looking again at the iPhone. I didn't want to go with the iPhone 7 and found a great deal on an iPhone 6 SE at AT&T. I love it! Glad to be back and last night subscribed to your podcast once again. Thanks for all you do. Regards, Frank Phillips Reporter The Brazil Times Brazil, Indiana Hi Rob, My Apple Watch (Gen 1) was bricked by Watch OS 3.1. The watch had Apple Care. When I took the watch to my local Apple Store; they would not swap it out but instead sent it to their local repair depot with an expected turnaround of 5-10 days. Unlike iPhones that can be swapped out when required, apparently Apple Watches aren't. That surprised me, and the Apple employee sheepishly agreed with my disappointment. So, I'm out a week without my watch all because of the update. Just wanted you to know this policy (if you didn't already). Regards, PR 48:31 VOICEMAIL - Scott_DC_issue_still_with_new_6SPlus Hi Rob I have a question or rather a problem with voicemail on my iPhone. I have an iPhone 7 with iOS 10.1.1 on Verizon. My problem is that I get my voicemail and when I tap on the voicemail to listen to it will attempt to start play the voicemail and then stop or it will start playing the voicemail and then stop after a few seconds. I have reset network settings and also restarted my phone which did not solve the problem. Have you or any of your listeners had a similar it and if so what did they do to fix it. Thanks for your help. Regards, Howard 53:06 Ep 414 - Ask Siri - What's your sign? 53:34 Thanks again to Boll & Branch for sponsoring this episode - Folks go right now to Boll at Branch dot com, and use promo code TII. to get $50 OFF the nicest sheets and cotton products you have ever owned with free shipping to boot. And Before we go today I want to remind you to send in your feedback to the show - 206-666-6364 - that 206-moon-dog - or record your feedback and email it to the show at today in iOS at gmail dot com - The feedback can be a question or comment per something someone said on this episode or it can be a question or rant you have about something else. An App or product review - good or bad - as long as it is iOS related - it is welcomed. I am always looking for new Artwork to feature that you created on an iOS device - just put some Tii branding on it and send it in. And of course we are always looking for more music created on an iOS device to play on the show. This is your show and your feedback is greatly desired. Also don't forget to check out our Moderated Google Plus community by going to todayinios dot com slash community. 54:34 Today's episode is again brought to you by Harry's, right now you can get a limited edition holiday shave set while supplies last, by going to harrys dot com and using promo code TII at checkout for $5 off. Finally check out the newly updated Tii App which is Free to you. We now have Apple Watch App included. Search for Tii in the iTunes App Store - it is the best way to consume the show and to get push notifications each time a new episode of Tii is released. It is fully Voiceover friendly of course. Please go right now and download the Tii App. Until the next time - I am your host Rob - Reminding you to phone Different. OUTRO OUTRO MUSIC
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TRANSCRIPT FOR EPISODE 413 Welcome to the show I am your host Rob and this is the Today in iOS podcast - First up I want to thank BRUCE for sending in the music you hear in the background. BRUCE wrote: Hi Rob Here is a song I made back in 2014 using an iPad Air and the GarageBand app it is called Waves Regards, Bruce SONG_Waves Thanks BRUCE for the music and folks I will put the full song at the end of the episode. I also want to thank STEVEN for sending in the Artwork for today's show. STEVEN wrote the following: Hi Rob, I took this photo with my iPhone 7 Plus using portrait mode and used Over to add TII. Hope you like it. Keep up the great work! Regards, Steven Lue Thanks STEVEN, for sending in this artwork and folks you can see STEVEn'S artwork in the FREE Tii App via the BONUS button for ep 413 - or at instagram.com/todayinios and also as a stand alone post in the VIP section and at Facebook.com/todayinios. If you have some artwork and or music you have created on your iOS device that you would like to share with the audience please email it to me at today in iOS at gmail dot com and please make sure to include which app or apps you used to create said artwork and or music. 01:47 In this segment of how wrong were they we have the following quote quote “Sorry Apple, the BlackBerry Z10 Is Hotter Than the iPhone” unquote Jesus Diaz, Gizmodo, 28 January 2013 Seems someone at Gizmodo was a little too biased after Apple banned them from events. Either that or Mr. Diaz was just really clueless. 02:15 For Promo codes - On Ep 412 we offered up chances to win promo codes for The App - DUMBER LEAGUE - If you are interested in winning a promo code for this app or want more info go back and listen to the beginning of Ep 412 This week we have promo codes for a couple of apps - The first App is - SYSTEM UTIL Dashboard Here is the review from the devs: Quote Greetings from the AppHome dev team. Today we’re proudly presenting you with our app “SYSTEM UTIL Dashboard”. SYSTEM UTIL Dashboard provides effective battery,memory and network monitoring for your iPhone and Apple watch.Its simple and elegant interface makes everything super easy and crystal clear. Check your Real time active/inactive memory with visual status display. Display detailed network info like sent/received data or connection speed.Get easily managable battery maintenance alert,alarms and notifications.Also you get a 3d touch enabled quick action menu for you convenience.With all these and more ,get stylish visual representation of you device at any given moment and become the true master of your device. Thanks for hearing us out .Hope to see you folks join our community of over 1.6 million people. UNQUOTE Well thanks to the Devs for their Review of THEIR App - SYSTEM UTIL Dashboard and for sending in the promo codes to give away. Folks if you would like a chance for a promo code for this App - please send an email to todayinios at gmail dot com and put SYSTEM in the subject line. The promo codes are only good to Nov 30th - so I will be sending these out before Thanksgiving. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/system-util-dashboard/ id578119993?mt=8 We also have promo codes for the App MYCARDLISTS - one word. Here is the review from the dev: PLAY PROMO MYCARDLISTS Well thanks to the Devs for their review of their App - MYCARDLISTS and for sending in the promo codes to give away. Folks if you would like a chance for a promo code for this App - please send an email to todayinios at gmail dot com and put LISTS in the subject line. As Always - just send in one email for one specific APP. If you send in multiple emails or ask for multiple APPS in a single email - then well - No Soup for you. A QUICK REMINDER if you are an App developer or an iBook Author email me if you want your app or iBook featured in the promo give away segment FOR FREE We Just need the 5 promo codes or more to give away. simply email me at today in ios @ gmail.com and please include a 60 sec or less audio review of your app or iBook - indicating you are the dev or author. Also when you send in the promo codes - please make sure to let me know when they expire. 05:39 http://www.siliconbeat.com/2016/11/17/apple-admits-iphone- touch-disease-blames-users-offers-149-fix/ Good news and bad news for those with an iPhone 6+ suffering from touch disease. The Good news - Apple has finally admitted that said issue exists. The Bad News - they said it was your fault. Or from Apple quote “Apple has determined that some iPhone 6 Plus devices may exhibit display flickering or Multi-Touch issues after being dropped multiple times on a hard surface and then incurring further stress on the device,” unquote The badder news - it will cost you $149 to fix this issue Apple feels you are responsible for. Assuming your screen is fine and not broken. I would just like to know how exactly it is that 1000’s of people are all able to drop and mishandle their phones the same way to cause the touch disease issue. Seems rather questionable per Apples response. For those that don’t remember Touch Disease is where you see a gray bar across the top of the screen on the iPhone 6 + and it becomes non-responsive to touch input. There is a link to the post on Apple.com titled Multi-Touch Repair Program for iPhone 6 Plus At the bottom of the article it says Quote This worldwide program covers affected iPhone 6 Plus devices for 5 years after the first retail sale of the unit. unquote So that means we are a little over 2 years into that 5 year window. September 2019 would be when this offer is over. VOICEMAIL - Scott_DC_apple_issue_phone_given_new_phone https://www.apple.com/support/iphone6plus-multitouch/ 09:09 http://money.cnn.com/2016/11/21/technology/apple-iphone- 6s-battery-fix-china/index.html But Touch Disease is not the only thing Apple is offering a fix for. There is Also the issue where some iPhone 6S’s would suddenly shot down for no apparent reason and in some cases not come back on. We have had a few people email and call in about this issue before. From Apple quote Apple has determined that a very small number of iPhone 6s devices may unexpectedly shut down. This is not a safety issue and only affects devices within a limited serial number range that were manufactured between September and October 2015. If you have experienced this issue, please visit an Apple Retail Store or an Apple Authorized Service Provider and have your device's serial number checked to confirm eligibility for a battery replacement, free of charge. unquote Apple said this in a support article titled - iPhone 6S program for unexpected shutdown issues Also from that article quote Note: If your iPhone 6s has any damage such as a cracked screen which impairs the replacement of the battery, that issue will need to be resolved prior to the battery replacement. In some cases, there may be a cost associated with the repair. unquote In other words you best repair the screen before bringing it in for the shut down issue. What is interesting is that Apples Support Article / announcement came less than a week after a Chinese Consumer Watch Dog group reported this issue. Apple was also quick to say this is not a safety issues - IE not a Samsung go Boom issue. One other rumor on this issue - was it was caused by bad 3rd party chargers that are damaging the batteries - and this is why most of the failures with this issue are coming from China where fake and low cost 3rd party chargers are in great supply. https://www.apple.com/support/iphone6s-unexpectedshutdown/ 11:27 https://plus.google.com/107722079381586985625/ posts/D9dUuRGNQKj There is a new Lock Screen bypass. And not surprisingly this one involved Siri. We have said it before if absolute security is required for your device - then turn off siri from the lock screen. And yes - in this case if Siri is turned off from the lock screen - the bypass no longer works. That said - As this issue goes all the way down to iOS 8 and all the way up to well iOS 10.2 beta 3 - expect a bunch of updates shortly to fix this issue. But in the mean time if security is job one - then turn off Siri from the lock screen. And no I am not going to go through how it is done - it is multiple steps - but it is repeatable. I will include a link to a youtube video showing this bypass in action. Oh and yes - this does require physical possession of your iOS device to do the bypass. 12:26 http://www.macworld.com/article/3141955/ios/apple-brings- back-the-peach-butt-emoji-in-ios-10-2-beta-3.html iOS 10.2 beta 3 was released last week - of course with any new beta - squashing bugs is job one. But there were also some changes. And some of the key changes are: 1. The fuzzy peach butt emoticon is back. Ok it is not technically called the fuzzy peach butt emoticon - but if you see it - well then you will see it. There are other emoji additions - as Apple is supporting unicode 9 - and yes that includes the new selfie emoji - Wow so excited. 2. Apple intro’d a new App called feedback - which is for beta testers to report feedback. 3. The SOS feature is now removed in beta 3. Well unless you live in India - where it is still available. 4. In the Settings App - for the TV App there are new setting options - which includes allowing the users to choose whether or not to use cellular data for playback. 5. There is also a TV App Widget now available. 6. In the Messages app there is a new Send with Love screen effect option - that will sends a heart along with a text message. 7. Videos App has been removed completely in the US. It is generally felt this last update is either the last one before 10.2 launches - or maybe they slip one more in on Nov 28th or 29th. http://bgr.com/2016/11/15/ios-10-2-beta-3- features-list-how-to-install/ 14:20 https://www.cnet.com/news/the-best-ipad-iphone-apple-watch- and-mac-deals-for-black-friday/ Black Friday in the US is this Friday and apple has been hinting that they will have some specials this year. While Apple has not said specifically what those deals will be - just to come back on Friday to see. Others are spilling the beans already on what their specials deals will be. Right now Best Buy, Walmart and Target have shown in their advertisements special deals for the following products: iPad Mini 2 - just $200 at Target and Walmart. iPad Air 2 - Save $125 at Target. iPad Pro 9.7 inch version - save $150 at target. Apple Watch Series 1 - just $198 at Target. iPhone 7 and 7+ - Get some big gift cards if you get a payment plan. And macBook Air for $799 at Best Buy Also look for some other get a big gift card deals to come out as well. As always start checking for many of these deals to kick off on Thanksgiving - not just on Black Friday. And if you are looking for accessories - lots and lots of accessory makers will have special deals on their own sites and at amazon.com 16:12 We are happy to have Away sponsoring us again. To save $20 on the best luggage go to away travel dot com slash tii and use promo code tii Away sent me their Carry on bag earlier this year and I am loving it. It has a 10,000 MAH battery pack built in. That will charge an iPhone 6 or 7 Five times. The best part is you can be charging it as you are walking through the airport and waiting on line or even in the restroom or in my case last week walking around NY City. But beyond the battery pack it is a great bag and meets my requirements - wheels under all 4 corners and swivels 360 - making it easy to get down the isle and smooth flow in the airport. And it is double wheels under each corner. Something I really like. It is lightweight and very very durable and comes with a lifetime warranty - if anything breaks they will fix or replace it for you for LIFE. I mentioned I was in New York city - I was actually all over - walking over 10 Miles in 3 days with my Away suit case and it held up great. I am talking from Wall street up to mid-town down to Tribeca and then to Chelsea and over to Pennstation. That is not smooth ground to cover lots of cracks, bumps and bruises - and the wheels held up great. It is one thing to go through an airport but completely another to do 10 miles of side walks and streets in NY City. Still not convinced - well there is a 100 day trial. If it is not for you then just return it for a full refund no questions asked. I love when a company stands behind their product like that. The Away bag comes with a charging cord and comes in a really nice Laundry bag. And on the inside there is a bag for your shoes as well. They really looked at all the details in making the best Carry on bag I have ever owned or seen. Even the shipping box has nice Away Travel artwork on the inside. Very very apple-ish. In addition to the original carry on they just added a 2nd slightly larger carry on and they also have mid size and large check in bags. But only the carry on bags have the battery pack. To save $20 go to away travel dot com slash tii and use promo code tii . Again away travel dot com slash tii and use promo code tii to save $20. This will make a great christmas present for the frequent or infrequent flyer in your life. 18:46 VOICEMAIL - Tom_CA_answr_wifi_Calling Hi, On episode 412 a listener asked about dealing with.DAT files. There's a free app, winmaildat opener. It can open these type of files. You simply tap on the attachment in your email, and then open it in this app. From there, you can read, or save the PDF, or.doc, or whatever file. I use this app almost daily, as most of the people emailing me with attachments at work are using Windows computers. However, as more places switch to Gmail, this problem is gradually going away. The app is free. I paid the $.99 to remove the ads to help support the developer. Your show is invaluable to me, keep up the great work. Regards, Bruce VOICEMAIL - Justin_PA_positive_Apple_store_story 21:23 https://plus.google.com/communities/ 105412562215997292912?cfem=1 We are now over 3,500 members in our Google+ community and growing. Thanks to everyone that has joined and thanks for the great posts. One new post in the G+ community that went up since the last episode that had lots of comments came from HERMAN BOTHA who posted the following quote I'm getting an Apple TV (64GB) with 2 steel series nimbus controllers for the kids (11 and 8 year old) for Christmas. - Can anybody give me recommendation for multiplayer games for the Apple TV? - I've search online but need assistance, it seems some multiplayer games require another IOS device for the second player? unquote Steven replied quote Can you use more than one game controller at the same time with an Apple TV? I seem to recall you are limited to using just one game controller at a time. I hope I am wrong. unquote Steven thankfully you are wrong. You can have up to 4 simultaneous controllers. Crossy Road is one multi controller game my boys like a lot - another is But Soon it will be MineCraft - assuming they allow multiplayer play. Folks what are some of your favorite Multi player games on Apple TV? Shoot us an email - or give us a call. Since the last episode there were also dozens and dozens of other new posts and comments in the Tii Google+ community - which is an Android fan bois free zone and spammer free zone. Yup it is the most civil Google+ community covering iOS. Folks Go to today in iOS dot com slash community to join in. And thanks to all 3,500+ of you already in the community and contributing. 22:59 http://www.computerworld.com/article/3142895/apple-ios/us- iphone-factories-designed-in-california-made-by-machines.html Lots and lots of articles about that Apple is going to make the iPhone in the US - or so it seems by the titles. Some like that from computer world titled - US iPhone Factories: Designed in California, made by Machines - make it sound like it will be happening. Ummm - No. Seems a lot of the articles go back to reports that Apple asked their Contract Manufacturers what it would take to make the iPhone in the US. Many think this is a result of the recent US elections - but it actually seems Apple asked both FoxConn and Pegatron - their two main CM’s to put together a plan on what it would take to make the iPhone in the US. Pegatron deciding it had more important things to do - like build the current iPhone 7’s in China and get ready for that launch - decided not to even submit a plan. FoxConn however appears to have complied with the request. That said Terry Gou - the Chairman of Foxconn said quote Making iPhones in the U.S. means the cost will more than double, unquote Well that sounds promising. The issue is right now manufacturing of new iPhones takes over a million assembly people - then there are support engineers and more. That is just not possible to duplicate in the US. You can’t find any pool of workers close to that number willing to do that type of job at a wage that will not kill on costs. The only way to manufacture at a lower cost in the US is via Robots - lots and lots of really smart and very flexible robots that can learn and change how they manufacture for each new product launch. But even then - that is a lot of robots and not something we are close on yet. 25:06 http://money.cnn.com/2016/11/15/technology/ apple-book/index.html Under the category of Really ??? Apple released a new product - a book. Not mac book - a Book book - as in paper and binding with a cover. The Book starts with 1998’s iMac - but hey - lets listen to Apple talk about it. PLAY AUIDO - APPLE_BOOK_BOOK Ok - maybe that was not from Apple - but it could have been. Kudos to the Stephen Colbert show for that clip. Like they said - if I want to see high res images of Apple products - I can just go in my basement and look at the horde of old apple products I have down there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W63_N63Qy-w 27:04 http://bgr.com/2016/11/17/iphone-vs-android- reliability-crashing-apps/ There is a new study or really an updated study from Blancco Technology Group. Their latest version finds iPhone fail more often than Android devices. From the study quote "While iOS devices running social oriented third-party apps like Instagram and Snapchat were more likely to crash, Android devices were more likely to crash when running more basic system apps such as the Address Book and Google Play Services.” unquote However what is not really explained in this report - well clearly that is - their definition of a crash is any app failure or dropped call or any other issue. And more importantly - that failure rate appears to be from looking at devices using their apps to monitor devices. And the % of crashes is not leveled for amount of time on the devices. So if you use the iPhone 10 times more than the android device - and per hour it crashes half as much as Android - it will still show as crashing 5 time more often. Which is why the top android crashing devices were Samsungs - the only Android devices that actually seem to get used. This also explains why Android users had more crashes with native apps - because that is all they use. So all this data seems rather like a lot of Link bait - and hey - link bait worked. But really their methodology from what I get looking at their reports is highly questionable if not down right complete BS. I did send them questions about how they measured crashes - are they from devices running their software and crash reports or from observation and manual reporting from clients. Here is my concern - if it is about their software that gets installed via MDM and the IT department - is it not possible many crashes could be caused by their software and 3rd party apps not getting along. At the time of this recording they had not replied to my inquiries. http://download.blancco.com/download/en-rs-state-of-mobile- device-performance-and-health-q3-2016.pdf 29:16 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-14/apple- said-to-explore-smart-glasses-in-deeper-wearables-push Hi Rob, Say it ain't so. Regards, Well a lot of people. And this is per rumors that Apple is considering coming out with Digital glasses. Because well google Glass proved that there is a market for looking like a dork??? We can only hope this rumor is based on nothing more than someone not realizing it is not April 1st. Because really this would be a bad joke any other day. 29:41 VOICEMAIL - Ricardo_CA_fdbk_getting_7plus Hi Rob, We need some help with this Kickstarter project. Things are turning bad if you read the comments section, one person has posted a link to there Facebook page "ZNAPS - Snap・Charge・Sync" and it hasn't had an update since June of this year. The Kickstarter page last update was Sept. There is now a Facebook page "znaps customers", a lot are not very happy. Can you hep us find out if ZNAPS is a scam or company with awful communication skills? Regards, Thomas Well Thomas - I sent multiple emails now to them on an update - and just auto-responder replies. So far nothing from them. I even send them your comments / concerns - and so far I would say it is not looking good for just bad communication - I mean that is possible - but I would not be holding my breath waiting for these. Likely they are not going to happen. Probably a 90+ % probability that ZNAPS is Dead. Sorry. VOICEMAIL - Danny_AR_part1 VOICEMAIL - Danny_AR_part2 35:57 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/543647765/250-braille- display-and-braille-keyboard-for-ipad?ref=nav_search This week we have a kickstarter project I had hoped would be much much further along. It is called - $350 Braille Display and Braille Keyboard for iPad It has a goal of $40,000 - it has raised $80. I think part of the issue is they say it is a $350 Keyboard - and when you go over the options to fund - the price of the keyboard starts at $400. So something right there does not jive. They describe it as quote A very low cost tablet based refresh-able Braille display. Single or Multi-line Braille display and keyboard cover for a iPad or tablet unquote I am not going to go over the details - as with just $80 raised out of $40k - and only 10 days to go - sadly this one is not going to happen. Funding on this goes until December 3rd at 4:44 AM Central time. Link in the show notes for ep 413 for $350 Braile keyboard . 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Regards, Jeff Thanks for the link - and that is to vidangel.com/invest - and it is a good video - and they had a mini round of funding - where they were looking to raise $5 Million - they felt with $5 Million they could take their case to the supreme court. Well they actually raised a little over $10 Million - so I guess they can do two trips to the Supreme court or travel first class on the first trip. I like what they offer - which is a way to allow the consumer to filter out content that the consumer is no comfortable with for themselves or their kids. Typically it is about the kids. I know my 10 year old wants to see Matrix - and well there are some words I don’t think he is ready for. VidAngel offers a way for him to enjoy the Matrix and other good sci-fi films that are R-Rated. Will be interesting to see where this ends up. 40:20 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/recipe-convert/ id1173332638?mt=8 Hi Rob, Long time listener, second time responder, I just recently made an app that is live only in the Apple App Store, and here it is: If you like to cook or bake, and have an iPhone or iPad, then you are going to love this new app called “Recipe Convert”. When you are cooking anything from an online recipe, that recipe is preset to make a certain amount of food, meaning you have to make exactly that much, unless you want to convert the recipe to your desired amount. If you want to convert it accurately, you probably need to use a calculator, and even if you do that, translating Cups, Tablespoons, and teaspoons can be tricky. This new app does all those calculations and conversions for you, then displays it right back into the recipe, so it’s too easy for you. It’s a brand new concept, and get it now while it’s still free. Two words: Recipe Convert - in the Apple App Store. Thanks everyone, Regards, -Christopher Meehan 41:23 VOICEMAIL - Larry_San_Fran_applePay_london Hi Rob, Yesterday, when I checked my calendar I saw an ad for $20 sunglasses. It appeared as an invitation to an event in my calendar. There was no way to directly delete it and when I checked I saw it had been sent to a large range of randomly generated emails. I knew if I selected deny, the spammer would get my actual email address. I've attached a link to the solution below. Basically, you create a new calendar, I called mine spam. You then move the invitation to that calendar, and then delete the calendar. I am hoping that this does not become a popular method, as it requires some time to deal with. Hopefully, sharing this with your readers will allow them to solve the immediate problem of having spam in their calendar. https://www.google.com/amp/s/9to5mac.com/2016/11/09/ icloud-photo-sharing-and-calendar-spam/amp/?client=safari Thanks for everything, Regards, Bruce VOICEMAIL - Kim_OR_question_TV_app_can_you_use_without_appleTV 45:37 http://www.donovanbrown.com @donovanbrown I was invited by Microsoft to Microsoft Connect last week in NY City. Thanks to Microsoft for bring me out and putting me up for that show. In the Keynote of the event - There was a strong push on MobileFirst + cloud But also on Visual Studio Code They talked about GitHub and had Chris Wanstrath - CEO of GitHub speak. He said 10,000 people a day contributing for the first time now. Top contributor on GitHub - is MS, followed by Facebook. It was announced that MS joined the Linux Foundation MS talked about Visual studios and their goal to help devs build Beautiful native apps Visual Studios is Mission control for mobile apps. Continuous build, Test, deploy and monitoring. And works with Any Mobile App. They had a video with some of their clients - I did think the guy from Coke was rather arrogant - he said in the video if it is good enough for Coke it is good enough for you. Really??? Wow. That said - MS introduced Visual Studio 2017 And that includes now for the first time - Visual Studio for Mac - It is just in preview offering - which is like their beta. If you already have a current Visual Studios subscription when it launches live - it will be included. But for now Visual studios for Mac is free for the trial / preview period. But for Mac Devs - Visual Studios now being available natively for macOS - that was the big news. 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TRANSCRIPT FOR EPISODE 412 Welcome to the show I am your host Rob and this is the Today in iOS podcast - First up I want to thank BRUCE for sending in the music you hear in the background. BRUCE wrote: Hi Rob Here is a song I made back in 2014 using an iPad Air and the GarageBand app it is called Funky Four Regards, Bruce SONG_funky_four Thanks BRUCE for the music and folks I will put the full song at the end of the episode. I also want to thank COLIN for sending in the Artwork for today's show. COLIN wrote the following: Hi Rob, Here's a painting first created using InkPad on my iPad which was then processed using Brushstroke to create the painted look. Regards Colin from Sydney, Australia. Thanks COLIN, for sending in this artwork and folks you can see COLIN'S artwork in the FREE Tii App via the BONUS button for ep 412 - or at instagram.com/todayinios and also as a stand alone post in the VIP section and at Facebook.com/todayinios. If you have some artwork and or music you have created on your iOS device that you would like to share with the audience please email it to me at today in iOS at gmail dot com and please make sure to include which app or apps you used to create said artwork and or music. 01:55 In this segment of how wrong were they we have the following quote quote “Phones and tablets are inevitably following computers into commoditization. Apple may still charge a premium for its products, but it will ultimately have to settle for a relatively small market share as a result, just as it has in computers. There is also a limit to that premium – with the likes of Google and Amazon setting the pace, the respective days of $700 smartphones.. are numbered.” Peter Nowak, MacLeans.ca, 28 January 2013 Well almost 4 years later - the Pixel Phone from Google costs - Yup $700. Oh and when it comes to market share - People keep forgetting the most important one - share of Profits. Which Apple pretty much last quarter had all of that share. Just sayin. And I love and by love I mean hate the comparisons to what happened with computers. Looks at the shape all those computer makers with large market shares for units are in. Shipping large quantities of units for a loss is not a long term business plan. 03:09 For Promo codes - On Ep 411 we offered up chances to win promo codes for The App - RETSNOM - If you are interested in winning a promo code for this app or want more info go back and listen to the beginning of Ep 411 Retsnom is Monster spelled backwards - which is a neat idea - except auto correct WANTS to keep changing it to restroom. Just an interesting factoid. This week we have promo codes for The App - DUMBER LEAGUE - two words. Here is the description slash storyline of this Game Quote Here comes a totally new soccer game you have never played! Funny and uproarious matches of people who know nothing about soccer! Two lazy guys who don't know the rules of soccer challenge to a soccer match of their town. There are no difficult rules! The only thing that's important is to kick around a ball and put it in the opponent's goal! Watch their sweat, tears and slapstick moments. UNQUOTE Well thanks to the Devs for their DESCRIPTION of THEIR App - DUMBER LEAGUE and for sending in the promo codes to give away. Folks if you would like a chance for a promo code for this App - please send an email to todayinios at gmail dot com and put DUMBER in the subject line. https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1166863768?l=ko&ls=1&mt=8 A QUICK REMINDER if you are an App developer or an iBook Author email me if you want your app or iBook featured in the promo give away segment FOR FREE We Just need the 5 promo codes or more to give away. simply email me at today in ios @ gmail.com and please include a 60 sec or less audio review of your app or iBook - indicating you are the dev or author. Also when you send in the promo codes - please make sure to let me know when they expire. 04:42 VOICEMAIL - KEITH_NO_Accessibility_website. Thanks Keith for the voicemail - and the site apple announced at the beginning of the keynote event on October 27th is Apple.com/accessibility The first 3 1/2 minutes of the key note were all about accessibility. Very nice to see it get top billing. The next 6 1/2 minutes was mostly ra ra - marketing speak around the iPhone and iOS. At little past the 10 minute mark they got into news. Apple TV - first up there are now 8,000 apps available for the Apple TV. MineCraft will be coming before end of the year. 1,600 of the 8,000 apps are for TV shows and other video content. I will go over all the Apple TV items in more detail in a couple of minutes. But To round out the Apple Event - Apple Introduced the new MacBook Pro’s - And I mention this because what Apple did was take a Pickup truck and turn it into an El Camino. The USB 3 ports - gone. Thunderbolt Ports - Gone - SD card slot - Gone. HDMI Port - Gone. Mag-Safe Power connector - GONE. What you are left with are a few USB-C ports and a head phone jack. Seems Apple is still including the HEADPHONE jacks on MacBooks. I mention the MacBook Pro update here because one thing missing is the USB 3 port - that means you know that sync / charging cord you get from Apple with your iOS device - yeah - now you need a dongle / adapter to connect and sync / charge from your MacBook Pro. Ummmmm REALLY??? Huh?? Well good news is I will not have to spend any money for a new MacBook Pro for well - a long time - because the 2015 MacBook Pro - is the last Pickup Truck Apple made - and for Podcasters at least - or anyone that speaks publicly or Photographers - you know - PRO’s - Yeah - the MacBook Pro 2015 is the way to go. I sent an email to Tim Cook saying basically all that. No response yet. 07:36 http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2016/10/27Apple-Unveils- New-TV-App-for-Apple-TV-iPhone-iPad.html Ok - lets get back to the Apple Event on October 27th as it relates to iOS. And that is mostly around Apple TV - and not that there was a new one - just a new Apple App for it. Here are the key points from Apples Press release on this. Quote October 27, 2016 ― Apple® today introduced the new TV app, offering a unified experience for discovering and accessing TV shows and movies from multiple apps on Apple TV®, iPhone® and iPad®. The TV app provides one place to access TV shows and movies, as well as a place to discover new content to watch. Apple also introduced a new Siri® feature for Apple TV that lets viewers tune in directly to live news and sporting events across their apps. Watching TV shows and movies across Apple devices has never been easier. Unquote Again down side is this does not include Netflix or Amazon Prime. In their press Release Eddy Cue said the following QUOTE “Using apps on Apple TV, iPhone and iPad has become the primary way for so many of us to watch television, The TV app shows you what to watch next and easily discover TV shows and movies from many apps in a single place.” UNQUOTE Here is a more detailed description from Apple on the updated features for Apple TV - and I am putting the trolo music in the back ground to know it is all from Apple. Oh and when we get to availability it is US only for now on most of it. Sorry. PUT TROLO MUSIC IN BACK GROUND Quote Key Features Within the TV App Include: - Watch Now: Watch Now is where viewers will see their collection of available shows and movies from iTunes® and apps. From Watch Now, viewers can then go to Up Next or Recommended to choose what to watch.
- Up Next: Users can enjoy the shows and movies they are currently watching, including recent iTunes rentals and purchases — all presented in the order they are most likely to watch first. For example, when viewers finish an episode, the next one will automatically appear at the start of the Up Next queue, as will any new episodes as they become available. At any time, users can simply ask Siri to continue watching a show and immediately pick up where they left off.
- Recommended: Viewers can explore a great selection of curated and trending shows and movies, including collections handpicked by Apple’s curators, and dedicated categories and genres such as kids, sci-fi and comedy.
- Library: Viewers can access their entire collection of iTunes movies and TV shows that they have rented or purchased on iTunes.
- Store: If users are looking for something new, they can check out the Store to discover great new content across video services that they have not yet downloaded or are not yet subscribed to, along with the latest releases on iTunes.
The TV app will be available for Apple TV, iPhone and iPad and always stays in sync so that when users begin watching on one device they can easily continue where they left off on their Apple devices. Live Tune-In With Siri Siri continues to gain powerful new capabilities, including making it really easy to tune right to live news and sporting events on Apple TV. Siri is now aware of live sporting events across apps so users can simply say things like, “Watch the Stanford game” or “Which games are on right now?” Siri knows additional details of the games, can provide live scores and can take viewers directly to the live stream within the app that’s carrying it. Viewers can also tune directly to live video by just saying the name of the app, for example “Watch CBS News” without having to navigate to the live stream from within the app. Single Sign-On for Pay-TV Apps In addition to the new TV app, customers in the US will have a simplified way of enjoying their pay-TV video apps by using single sign-on. Starting in December, subscribers to DIRECTV, DISH Network and more will just sign in once on Apple TV, iPhone and iPad to enjoy immediate access to apps that are part of their pay-TV subscription. Since its introduction just a year ago, the latest Apple TV has revolutionized the experience in the living room with 8,000 apps, including 2,000 games and 1,600 video apps, across categories such as sports, news, fitness, education, kids, lifestyle and more. Availability The TV app and single sign-on will be available in December as free software updates for Apple TV - 4th gen only, plus for iPhone and iPad customers in the US. Live tune-in with Siri is available today. Some features may not be available in all regions or all languages. UNQUOTE Ok - Well per availability - December and US only. 12:34 http://www.recode.net/2016/10/26/13427676/apple-airpod- wireless-headphone-delay VOICEMAIL - JEFF_CT_AIRPODS_DELAYED On the last episode I said quote For the iOS side of things - expect the new AirPods to be officially launched - either available in store on the 27th or for order on the 27th. But I would expect some amount available in stores on the 27th or 28th. unquote Ummmmm Not so much. Seems the AirPods were not ready for prime time. And Apple rather than push them out with issue - did the right but embarrassing thing of Delaying the launch. Apple said in a statement. Quote “The early response to AirPods has been incredible, We don't believe in shipping a product before it's ready, and we need a little more time before AirPods are ready for our customers.” Unquote First - Ok - Better to get it right than right now. I believe the same thing with releasing these episodes. It is the right way to do things - even if it means you get some grief for not releasing when others wanted you to. But two - how do they know the response has been incredible - it is not like they opened up pre-orders. At this time it seems to be lots of guesses going around on when they will launch - Some indications are not until after the Holidays sometime in Q1 2017. Maybe they are ready - but the current quarter is going so well - Apple wanted to hold them off until next Quarter to help bump up that quarters revenue. Would be something a paranoid person looking for conspiracies around every corner would say. Good thing I am not one of those people. From the Google+ community - Barbara E said the following quote People are upset if it takes too long to release something, then if Apple releases the item too soon, they take guff because it isn't working perfectly. Can't make all the people happy all of the time. unquote So true. Per when we will be able to get them - the latest rumor is that the rumor of it being Q1 2017 is wrong - and that Apple will actually put them on sale in November and that Apple store employees are already being trained on the units. Some say they may go on sale as early at November 18th. We shall see. In any case it looks like Apple is taking the approach of Better to get it right than right now. And I am ok with that - hopefully more on this shortly. http://appadvice.com/post/apples-airpods-might-not-arrive- until-january-2017/725835 http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/11/01/after-missing- october-debut-apples-airpods-remain-on-track-to- launch-this-year-sources-say 15:56 http://roamwith.com Ok - So the Apple Airpods are delayed and you have the iPhone 7 or 7+ and you want to know what to get for headphones. Well as I mentioned I have been testing out the ROAM bluetooth headphones. And I really really am liking them. When I was traveling last week - I really came to appreciate them even more. They are a lanyard design - which again is something I really like. Means no chance at all for a urinal drop or a drop of any sort. The audio quality is really good - and you can even optimize the audio settings of the unit to your preferences. The person that designed this is the engineer that was the original designer for Beats. It comes with lots of ear pieces so you can find the ones that work best with your ears. The battery life is very good - On Friday and Saturday at DC Podfest I left the hotel room at 8 AM and used them all day with the battery’s finally needing a charge around 8 or 9 at night. As I mentioned they are lanyard design - there is a main unit that is on the lanyard loop and this will be in the front - which you can then just put under your shirt if you don’t want people seeing it - and with a Sports Coat - the head phones would then be under coat - so when not using them they were completely out of sight. But if you needed them to answer a call - then you pulled one out and answered the call. I want to thank ROAM again for sending these to me to review. You can find out more about these at http://roamwith.com 17:31 Thanks again to Texture for supporting this show. As I said before Texture is essentially the netflix of Magazines. You get access to well over 150 of the top magazines - we are talking binge reading. Sweet. I have really been enjoying my subscription to texture - as it gets me access to my favorite magazines - MacWorld, Wired, Popular Science and Fortune. Plus I also get access to PC World and PC Magazine - two I would normally never ever think of paying for but occasionally will have an article that is beneficial for this show or just interesting. That is the beauty of Texture you get access to over 150 top magazines covering every niche with your subscription. And Now that College Basketball season is finally here there are a bunch of Sports Magazines I am reading. ESPN and Sports Illustrated to name two. And I have 16 magazines in my favorites library now - and the beauty is you don’t just get the latest issues - you get past issues. 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Once again go to texture dot com slash tii to get your free 14 day trial. And let me know what your favorite magazines are. 19:30 http://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/10/31/apple-releases- ios-10-1-1-with-bug-fixes-for-health-data/ Apple rolled out iOS 10.1.1 since the last episode - and as with ANY double dot update - it is about fixing bugs. The key bug it seems to fix is with regards to a problem where Health data would not be viewable for some users. Again 10.1.1 is a minor bug fix update - which actually got an update to the update - seems 10.1.1 which was released at the end of October - got replaced by a new version of 10.1.1 on November 9th - which had a new build number. Which well very odd. In any case if you are running iOS 10.x and have not upgraded to 10.1.1 you should. Into the email bag. Hi Rob , Last week I wrote that I had installed iOS 10.1 on my iPad mini 1 in an attempt to solve the intermittent small text that I experienced in incoming emails...iOS 10.1 did not eliminate this bug. So last night I downloaded and installed iOS 10.1.1 which was another attempt to solve this bug (plus a lot of others). Well, as expected iOS 10.1.1 didn't solve my problem either. I close out my email app and reopen it and the text is normal size for a few hours, but eventually it gets reset to a very tiny font, and I have to repeat that procedure. Same as it was in iOS 10.0 and iOS 10.1 I never had this problem in iOS 9.x.x Regards, Michael Dries https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=tt5rSrFKRh0 21:05 http://www.redmondpie.com/ios-10.2-beta-brings-back-star- ratings-in-apple-music-app/ Apple Also released iOS 10.2 Betas 1 and 2 since the last episode. With iOS 10.2 Betas - this is what is new or changed. First is a new SOS feature - under Settings - General - you will see - Emergency SOS. One option that is on by default is that when you rapidly click the sleep / wake button five times it will automatically call emergency services. If you never plan to use that you might want to turn it off - especially if you have an iPhone with a flakey sleep / wake button. There is an option for an audible countdown sound as it gets ready to call emergency services. You probably will want to keep that turned on either way. Also new with 10.2 - are three shiny new wallpapers. None of which are nearly as cute as my French bull dog puppy - so I will not be using any of them. There is now a new Videos Widget - similar to the Netflix Widget - not that Apple copied that at all. The new Videos Widget shows you the Video you are watching and with a tap you can jump right back into that app without opening up the App. There is now an option under Settings - Photo’s and Camera - Called - Preserve Settings. Going to that there are 3 options all turned off by default. 1 - Camera Mode - Turning this on Preserves the last mode such as Video or Square or Portrait rather than automatically reseting to Photo. So if you are always changing the camera to a different mode - turning this one will keep you where you were previously. 2. Photo Filter - if turned on - yup you guessed it - returns you to the last filter setting used. Rather than the default of no filter. and 3. Live Photo - Which up goes back to the last setting - which if you don’t like live photos - then you want to turn this option on - as it will keep returning to it turned off - rather than the default of live photos on. Star Rating in Apple Music were also brought back with iOS 10.2 beta. So not a new feature - just one that went away and is now back. With the Beta 2 - There is no the TV app that Apple mentioned at the October 27th event. It does seems not everyone one running iOS 10.2 Beta 2 is seeing the TV App - as well I am one not seeing it yet. For those seeing it - the App allows users to browse through all TBV shows, movies and videos hosted online through various platforms not named Netflix or Amazon Prime. There is now a new Headphone icon next to the battery level. This previously was only shown with the Beats Solo3 - but now show for any bluetooth headphones. There are some new Emoji’s with the 10.2 beta. One of which is a clown. Because emoji’s were not scary enough before. There is a new celebration messages screen effect. There is now a Press and Hold to Speak menu under home button accessibility settings. Where you can choose either - Siri or Voice Control or nothing - for when you press and hold the home button. As you would expect that means it will be either Siri or Classic Voice Control or nothing. So some nice new features coming with iOS 10.2 once it gets out of beta. http://www.universityherald.com/articles/48931/20161111/ apple-reveals-ios-10-2-beta-details-new-emoji-tv.htm http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/ios-10-2-new-features- download-release-date-beta-wallpaper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypc51Ol-uIU 24:40 http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulmonckton/2016/10/31/ iphone-7-camera-issue/ One issue being reported out there by a small number of iPhone 7 and 7+ users is a strange watercoloring of photos. It is where pictures are being muted and blurred and lack sharpness vs what they saw on their previous devices. Almost like it is watercoloring. There is an iTunes support forum post on this with many complaints and a few potential solutions. And it does not look to be a hardware issue - as some of the users suffering from the problem reported that using third party camera apps had the issue go away. Apples response is if you have this issue - make a genius bar appointment or contact Apple Care. Again this seems to only be affecting a very small number of users at this point. 25:35 VOICEMAIL - John_CA_issues_springboard_crashing Dear Rob, Here are two sets of photos taken in Portrait or Depth Effect mode on my iPhone 7 Plus. These photos show why it is important to use the Settings/Photos & Camera button “Keep Normal Photo” for Portrait Mode. Sometimes the computed depth effect will have an unfortunate effect and you’ll want to use the normal version. In the first set of photos (taken while USC was whooping my alma mater Cal), the guy behind the subject loses his teeth and a bit of his nose. In the second set, the edge of the eyeglasses on the subject disappears in a blur. Slight problems, to be sure, unless the photo is viewed on my 27” iMac or AppleTV. By having the saved normal shot, a photographer has a choice. One other note, I’ve been using Obscura to easily shoot and save photos in RAW. The app hasn’t updated to the 7 Plus’ two cameras and doesn’t have a portrait mode, but all cameras from the 6S forward may use the app and get fantastic photos in RAW which Photos processes automatically. I’m hoping an update will come soon (the problem is the dev ordered a Jet Black 7 Plus which he hadn’t received due to supply issues when we last corresponded). The big advantage is each shot looks better and has more information which makes it more flexible should you want to change exposure, bring down highlights, or bring up shadows. Every shot is automatically saved to your Camera Roll. Also, Obscura lets you change ISO and shutter speed to have more photographer friendly control of your image. In contrast, Lightroom Mobile is perhaps a better app in many respects but you need to have a subscription to Lightroom to be able to move full RAW files to your desktop. That runs $29.99 per month. And it takes many steps to save into RAW. That’s about it for now. Keep doing what you’re doing. I learn so much from your show. Best, Jeff in Burbank Hi Rob, Please share some tips to use Unsecured Public Wifi safety? Is it even a good idea to use them even though they are free at places like Malls and Restaurants. ~Karthik Hi Karthik, You should never do anything secure on public wifi. But if you are going to use free public wifi - you may and should look into using a VPN offering that will offer end to end security. Look at Opera VPN - which is a free offering. VOICEMAIL - Justin_PA_battery_case 33:12 https://plus.google.com/communities/ 105412562215997292912?cfem=1 https://plus.google.com/u/0/+PaulKELLYkeith/posts/ RwB3nosn441?sfc=true We are now over 3,500 members in our Google+ community and growing. Thanks to everyone that has joined and thanks for the great posts. One new post in the G+ community that went up since the last episode that had lots of comments came from Paul Keith Kelly who posted the following quote Hi guys, I like to know what is the "best" (paid or free) apps to keep scans of loyalty cards so that I don't have to carry them in my wallet? I am thinking some kind of picture and data/barcode so I could use insurance cards also. I saw many "wallet" apps in the app store, but all of them have too few reviews to allow me make judgment on which to try. Is there a popular app to do this kind of thing? Thanks for all your help! unquote Igor replied quote I have been using Stocard for about a year and like it. Stocard - Rewards Cards Wallet by Stocard https://appsto.re/us/eX7FA.i unquote Tosin O also had a vote for StoCard Patrick Mccann replied back to say quote I use Key Ring for all of my rewards cards. It actually has a robust list of stores so you are sure to find the one the card applies too. If not you can still add it and the cards show up as a barcode that is easy for the cashier to scan. I don't know about your insurance cards though. I did take pictures of those and keep them in an app called Mustbin. I use that to keep all of my passwords . I was able to share the pictures of the insurance cards with my family because they use it as well. unquote Mike Pienarr, Jack Reeder, Rick C and Kenneth Berger all also use Key Ring. Andrew Millar replied back to say quote I use cardstar, for companies that provide cards with bar codes or numbers on them. I first heard about this on the Today in iOS Podcast quite a few years back and have been using it since. unquote So sounds like Key Ring followed by StoCard followed by Cardstar are some apps to look at for help with loyalty cards. Since the last episode there were also dozens and dozens of other new posts and comments in the Tii Google+ community - which is an Android fan bois free zone and spammer free zone. Yup it is the most civil Google+ community covering iOS. Folks Go to today in iOS dot com slash community to join in. And thanks to all 3,500+ of you already in the community and contributing. 35:37 http://www.investors.com/news/technology/click/apple- iphone-grabs-104-of-smartphone-industry-profit-in-q3/ You know in the past I talked about How About was getting 70+% of all Smartphone industry profits - then it was 80+% and then 90+ % - well last quarter - it was not 70 or 80 or 90 some odd % of Profits - and not it was not 100% of profits either. Nope - it was 104% of Smartphone industry profits. According to BMO Capital Market Analyst - Tim Long - he estimates that Apple accounted for 103.6% of smartphone industry operating profits in the 3rd quarter of 2016. It share is over 100% because well others are loosing money. To say Apple was ahead of all others in Profit share is to put it mildly. No 2 in profits was Samsung with 0.9% of profit share. Yes - Number 1 is Apple at 103.6% and Samsung is number 2 at 0.9%. ouch ouch ouch. Sammy did have 21.7% of unit share vs Apples 13.2% and huawei’s 9.7%. But what good are unit share if you are not making any money. Last I checked this was not supposed to be a charity venture. Anyway - Apple has a business model - and the others - yeah - not so much. And just think what Sammy’ profit share will look like this quarter given the whole Note 7 really did not fully blow up - pun intended - until the end of the last quarter. http://qz.com/827931/apple-is-basically-the-only-company- making-any-money-selling-smartphones/ http://www.cultofmac.com/452627/apple-smartphone-maker- made-real-profit-last-quarter/ 37:08 http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/8/13567010/apple- refurbished-iphone-online-store-sale Thanks to Dr. John for this next one. Which is Apple is once again selling Refurbished iPhones. So if you are ok with the thought of someone else having held that iPhone up to their face and coughed or sneezed all over it or had it in their back pocket or in their bra - and none of that bothers you when you put it up to your face - when then great news you can get a slightly reduced priced refurbished iphone from the Apple store. The good news it they do come with a new battery, one year warranty and a quote new outer shell unquote. But shell is not glass. But hey if you are not a germ a phobe - then this might be something for you. This is for now - just per past generation iPhones - not any iPhone 7 or 7+’s And the next time you see an iPhone 7 or 7+ in someones back pocket or see them sticking it in their bra - just think some day that could be your iPhone - that is if that whole refurbished thing is ok by you. 38:02 Winter is Coming and so are the Holidays - and you know what makes a great gift - Warm Flannel sheets from Boll and Branch. The sheets from Boll and Branch are made from 100% organic cotton - not because organic is a buzzword but because organic cotton is incredibly soft. And the sheets get softer each time you wash them. We have had ours for over a year now and they are incredible and really soft. You’ll get the nicest sheets you’ve ever owned for about half the price of what stores and boutiques would be charging for sheets of far lower quality. I really could not believe how excited my wife was to get these new sheets. And the box they came in and the individual pouches for the sheets and pillow cases - well the presentation was incredible. get $50 OFF YOUR FIRST SET OF SHEETS at Boll at Branch dot com, promo code TII. Again that is Boll and Branch Dot Com. Promo code TII. These sheets are only sold online at boll and branch dot com - you can’t buy them in any stores. That is how they keep the pricing low and free of markups. But here is the best part - don’t take my word for it - try them out yourself for 30 days risk free. Boll and Branch is so sure your going to fall in love with their sheets that they give you 30 nights to try them out. If you don’t love them for ANY reason - they will take them back and refund you without any hassle at all. They also have towels - and the ones I purchased for my Wife are by far the best towels in the house - plus they have other cotton products. Don’t wait until it is too late go now and get some of your holiday shopping done with Boll & Branch. get $50 OFF YOUR FIRST SET OF SHEETS at Boll at Branch dot com, and use promo code TII. Go to Boll and Branch Dot Com today for $50 OFF YOUR FIRST SET OF SHEETS. That's B-O-L-L and Branch dot com, promo code TII. 39:47 VOICEMAIL - Jerry_indy_issues_with_mail_app_crashes Hey Rob, I have iCloud back up storage 50gb for .99 cents a month . The storage has my iPad Pro , and the 6 plus Now that I have the new 7 plus . With over 250gb The next storage amount that will give me enough space will be 1tb for $9.99 a month Is there a better option And can you explain the difference of iCloud Photo Library And iCloud Drive iCloud storage And just where dose my phones back up live Regards, David Hi Rob. I ordered the fireflies from kickstarter about 2 days before the podcast came out where you talked about them. I got them about a week ago. I did notice the left ear bud was cutting out. Fireflies sent an email explaining that there was a problem in a small number of the units specific to the left side. I have just received an email with the procedure to exchange the faulty ones for new ones. I love using them except for the cutting out part. Thanks for a great show. Your Friend Paul M. VOICEMAIL - Steve_VA_Fire_flies_feedbk_issues 43:52 http://getcmra.com/ Hey Rob, this looks interesting, an Apple Watch smartband with two cameras for HD video and photos, one facing towards you for selfies or video chat, one outward facing. Ready for pre-order $149, ships in Spring 2017: Regards, Aric Boyles Thanks Aric for the heads up on the CMRA for Apple Watch. Which as he mentioned you can pre-order now for $149. It offers 2 HD cameras - an outward facing 8 MP camera and a self facing 2 MP camera. All Day battery life - which they claim will allow you to capture 100s of photos or 30 minutes of video per charge. It comes with a dual charging dock to allow you to charge both it and your Apple Watch at the same time. It looks interesting - and is not a crowd funded project - but is in pre-order mode now. Go to - get CMRA dot com for more info and to pre-order. 44:55 VOICEMAIL - Ben_Canada_issue_ask_to_join_networks Hi Rob, I'm curious if you or the listeners can help me. I recently had to upgrade my work laptop (Lenovo T460) & now anytime I email myself a file (to iPhone/iPad) it comes as a winmail.dat file that is useless. Even pdfs come like this. Never had this happen before & don't know how to fix it. Thank you, Laura B Celina TX Good morning Rob, Have you received any reports of iPhones going to the shut down screen without holding down the power button or when pressing the home button the iPhone takes a screenshot or when you're doing something on the phone it will just turn off? I have updated to 10.1.1 and done a full restore and the problem still persists. My local Verizon store said I had dust in the power button and blew it out but this didn't solve my issues. It's really frustrating. Regards, Derrick Everything you are describing sounds like a faulty / flakey power button. How old is your iPhone? And to answer your question - no have not heard of this from others. Sounds very specific to your unit and the power button. And Derrick reported back that quote Replacement/refurbished phone is on the way free of charge. The Verizon dude didn't have a clue why my phone is acting the way it is. unquote VOICEMAIL - Gil_Boston_Keyboard_autocorrect_ 50:00 Ep 412 - Ask Siri - What's your sign? 50:42 Thanks again to Boll & Branch for sponsoring this episode - Folks go right now to Boll at Branch dot com, and use promo code TII. to get $50 OFF the nicest sheets and cotton products you have ever owned with free shipping to boot. And Before we go today I want to remind you to send in your feedback to the show - 206-666-6364 - that 206-moon-dog - or record your feedback and email it to the show at today in iOS at gmail dot com - The feedback can be a question or comment per something someone said on this episode or it can be a question or rant you have about something else. An App or product review - good or bad - as long as it is iOS related - it is welcomed. I am always looking for new Artwork to feature that you created on an iOS device - just put some Tii branding on it and send it in. And of course we are always looking for more music created on an iOS device to play on the show. This is your show and your feedback is greatly desired. Also don't forget to check out our Moderated Google Plus community by going to todayinios dot com slash community. 51:37 Thanks again to Texture for sponsoring this episode - Folks go right now to Texture dot com/ Tii to get your free trial and access to well over 150 of the best and most popular magazines. Finally check out the newly updated Tii App which is Free to you. We now have Apple Watch App included. Search for Tii in the iTunes App Store - it is the best way to consume the show and to get push notifications each time a new episode of Tii is released. It is fully Voiceover friendly of course. 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Tii - iTem 0411 - iOS 10.1 and Apple Q3 2016 Quarterly Report Give us a call - 1-206-666-6364 Send us an email - todayinios@gmail.com Apple Q3 2016 - Quarterly Report Summary:
Rev = $46.9 Billion (vs $51.5 Billion a year ago quarter and $42.4 Billion last quarter)
Total Cash = $237.6 Billion (Up $6.1 Billion for the quarter from $231.5 Billion)
Last Quarter Sales:
iPhones Sold = 45.5 Mil (vs 48.1 Mil a year ago quarter and 40.4 Mil last quarter)
iPads Sold = 9.3 Mil (vs 9.9 Mil a year ago quarter and 10 Mil last quarter)
Mac's Sold = 4.9 Mil (vs 5.7 Mil a year ago quarter and 4.3 Mil last quarter) Apple PR Apple PDF Links Mentioned in this Episode: Today's Sponsor - Harrys.com/tii - Promo Code = tii Today's Sponsor - Casper.com/tii - Promo Code = tii Security Warning: Update Your iPhone’s iOS Now Apple iOS 10.1 Has A Great Secret Feature Apple Oct 2016 - Hello Again event Google+ Community - Ep 411 iPhone 7 models are not created equal 32 GB iPhone 7 slower than 128 GB iPhone 7 Apple Watch Nike+ Everything About WatchOS 3 For Apple Watch watchOS 3.1 iPhone 7+ vs Pixel Apple - FY 16 Fourth Quarter Results Conference Call Look who added 2.3 million iPhones to their Apple models Apple Q3 2016 Results - Earnings Call Transcript Apps Mentioned in this Episode: Tii - Free App Nano Studio iMaschine Notion Garageband Over Retsnom SpareMin
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TRANSCRIPT FOR EPISODE 411 Harrys and Casper - Welcome to the show I am your host Rob and this is the Today in iOS podcast - First up I want to thank BRIAN for sending in the music you hear in the background. BRIAN wrote: Hi Rob, Here is a song called - HeySunshine On iOS I used the apps: nanoStudio iMaschine Notion GarageBand Most of the song started on the iPhone (iPad) then brought to the mac for finishing. On the mac I used the apps Studio One Logic Notion You can find more of my music at reverbnation.com/timfate Regards, Brian SONG_HeySunshine Thanks BRIAN for the music and folks I will put the full song at the end of the episode. I also want to thank well Me for the Artwork for today's show. This is Episode 4 -1- 1 - and if you know my past that is kinda a very special number for me - so I wanted to make sure the Artwork was appropriate. I created this artwork on my iPhone by searching for Podcast411 icon - and finding the 4-1-1 on its own and then with the App Over - I added in the Tii in the upper left. You can see this artwork in the FREE Tii App via the BONUS button for ep 4-1-1 - or at instagram.com/todayinios and also as a stand alone post in the VIP section and at Facebook.com/todayinios. If you have some artwork and or music you have created on your iOS device that you would like to share with the audience please email it to me at today in iOS at gmail dot com and please make sure to include which app or apps you used to create said artwork and or music. AND I am completely out of Music - so if you have some music created on an iOS device - please please please send it in. 02:40 In this segment of how wrong were they we have the following quote quote “However, for the company to truly move forward as a tech power, Apple should hang-up on the iPhone after one more iteration – presumably the iPhone 6. You might disagree.” unquote Richard Saintvilus, Forbes, 6 January 2013 Might disagree - Might? Huh - So Apple should just shut down the iPhone line - which is what 65 - 70% of its revenue - Genius. Evidently Forbes is pretty liberal with their drug screening policy for employees - because whatever Richard was smoking even Gary Johnson is not for the legalization of. 03:18 This week we have promo codes for The App - RETSNOM - which is monster spelled backwards. Here is the description slash storyline of this Game Quote You have a daughter. She is unfortunately infected by a zombie virus. The only way to save your daughter is to visit the laboratory in the future and steal the medicine that is expected to be made by your colleagues. But the future research team is hiding in the maze using mirrors. They decorated the maze using features of a mirror in each level. UNQUOTE Well thanks to the Devs for their DESCRIPTION of THEIR App - RETSNOM and for sending in the promo codes to give away. Folks if you would like a chance for a promo code for this App - please send an email to todayinios at gmail dot com and put RETSNOM in the subject line. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/retsnom/id1163684161?l=ko&ls=1&mt=8 A QUICK REMINDER if you are an App developer or an iBook Author email me if you want your app or iBook featured in the promo give away segment FOR FREE We Just need the 5 promo codes or more to give away. simply email me at today in ios @ gmail.com and please include a 60 sec or less audio review of your app or iBook - indicating you are the dev or author. Also when you send in the promo codes - please make sure to let me know when they expire. 04:29 http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/10/update-ios-10-1- security-flaw-jpeg-executiable.html Apple on Monday the 24th released updated for iOS 10.1, tvOS 10.0.1, watchOS 3.1 and for the Mac crowd - macOS 10.12.1 It was a busy day for Apples servers. Pre 10.1 - the update notes had a lot of info listed per what was changed / updated / fixed. Camera and Photos - Introduces Portrait Camera for iPhone 7 Plus that creates a depth effect that keeps your subject sharp while creating a beautifully blurred background (beta)
With out a doubt if you own an iPhone 7Plus - this is a killer feature and you definitely want to upgrade just for this. I saw a comment from Tosin O where he said - Quote I honestly am not to fussed about portrait mode. Well not for now anyway (might change my mind when I see the pictures). UNQUOTE - Yes Tosin - yes you will change your mind once you see the pictures. And then he posted that Yup he changed his mind - Nailed it - It is just soooo different then what you have ever been able to do with a smartphone camera that again as I mentioned on the last episode - you start taking these depth effect photos of everything and everyone. I have one hanging on the fridge right now of my younger son flying a kite and I did the depth effect on him with the kites all blurred - it is pretty cool. Tosin posted one of his Coffee mug. Warning it is addicting - Bokeh(ay) is DA BOMB. ok other changes for Camera and Photos include - People names in the Photos app are saved in iCloud backups
- Improved the display of wide color gamut photos in the grid views of the Photos app
- Fixes an issue where opening the Camera app would show a blurred or flashing screen for some users
- Fixes an issue that caused Photos to quit for some users when turning on iCloud Photo Library
Maps - Transit support for every major train, subway, ferry, and national bus line, as well as local bus systems for Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya
- Sign-based transit navigation including layouts of all underground structures and walkways that connect large transit stations
- Transit fare comparison when viewing alternative transit routes
Messages - New option to replay bubble and full screen effects
- Messages effects can play with Reduce Motion enabled
- Fixes an issue that could lead to contact names appearing incorrectly in Messages
- Addresses an issue where Messages could open to a white screen
- Addresses an issue that could prevent the report junk option from displaying with unknown senders
- Fixes an issue where videos captured and sent in the Messages app could be missing audio
Apple Watch - Adds distance and average pace to workout summaries in the Activity app for outdoor wheelchair run pace and outdoor wheelchair walk pace
- Fixes issues that may have prevented Music playlists from syncing to Apple Watch
- Addresses an issue that was preventing invitations and data to appear in Activity Sharing
- Fixes an issue that was allowing Activity Sharing to update over cellular when manually disabled
- Resolves an issue that was causing some third-party apps to crash when inputting text
Other improvements and fixes - Improves Bluetooth connectivity with 3rd party accessories
- Improves AirPlay Mirroring performance when waking a device from sleep
- Fixes an issue where playback would not work for iTunes purchased content when the “Show iTunes Purchases” setting is turned off
- Fixes an issue where certain selfie apps and face filters used with the FaceTime HD Camera on iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus did not display a live preview
- Fixes an issue in Health where individual strokes are converted to separate characters when using the Chinese handwriting keyboard
- Improves performance of sharing websites from Safari to Messages
- Fixes an issue in Safari that caused web previews in tab view to not display correctly
- Fixes an issue that caused certain Mail messages to be reformatted with very small text
- Fixes an issue that caused some HTML email to be formatted incorrectly
- Fixes an issue that in some cases caused the search field to disappear in Mail
- Fixes an issue that could prevent Today View Widgets from updating when launched
- Fixes an issue where Weather widget sometimes failed to load data
- Fixes an issue on iPhone 7 where Home Button click settings would not appear in search results
- Fixes an issue that prevented spam alert extensions from blocking calls
- Resolves an issue that could prevent alarm sounds from going off
- Fixes an issue where audio playback via Bluetooth would cause the Taptic engine to stop providing feedback for some users
- Resolves an issue preventing some users from restoring from iCloud Backup
But the biggest item from 10.1 was this security fix quote Available for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted JPEG file may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling. Found by Marco Grassi (@marcograss) of KeenLab (@keen_lab). unquote This one item is why unlike in the past where I say wait - this time I am saying if you have not updated to 10.1 - you need to - this security fix - fixes a big hole - where if you viewed - not downloaded and opened - but just viewed a malicious JPG - it could execute code on your device - meaning looking at an innocent looking puppies and dandelion images could actually allow a bad guy to take control of your iOS device. So yeah - update to 10.1 ASAP - even if this exploit was not out in the wild before this patch - you know it will be now. So no 10.1 is not just about Portrait mode for iPhone 7+ owners - it is an update for ALL iOS users that can update to 10.x 11:55 http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2016/10/24/apple- ios-10-1-iphone-cellular-phone-signal-upgrade/#54d821a9780d One thing I did not see clearly shown in Apples list of what was updated was the fact Apple with 10.1 quietly improved cellular performance for all iPhones with the update. If you were having issues with 4G and 3G signals dropping for no known or apparent reason - then this is the update you have been looking for. One of the things that 10.1 is also supposed to improve is battery life. I did run last week my iPhone after it was fully charged to see the type of battery life I could get when not tethering. This included when I went to the EntreLeadership conference with Dave Ramsey all day really great event - so it was a good set of mix use - but no tethering. I had 13 hours and 37 Minutes with 2% left. That is with 34 hours and 31 minutes of standby. So if 10.1 does improve battery life - wow. Because those numbers are pretty darn impressive on their own. Here is some feedback from listeners. From Shannon H quote I have been running the public beta for awhile. I can't wait to update my wife's 6 plus tonight so I can begin the bombardment of lasers, fireworks, etc. I know I could’ve already but we both really dislike the motion effect. unquote From Stan B quote I updated my Series 1 Watch, Apple TV and two iPads last night OTA with no problems. Will do the same on my two iPhones today. unquote From Craig B quote I've updated one iPhone and one Apple TV so far with no issues; I will update the rest of my devices and computers as soon as possible. As usual, no reason to wait unless you are completely risk adverse. unquote Hi Rob, Love the show. As a blind person who uses Voiceover I was eagerly awaiting the 10.1 updates for IOS and TV-OS. Apple introduced a multitude of bugs and annoyances for voiceover users in IOS and TV-OS 10 many of which I, and others, have reported to Apple. So, imagine my joy upon discovering that IOS 10.1 and TV-OS 10.1 fixed exactly zero of them. The podcast app on the Apple TV was made almost unusable in TV-OS 10 and if anything it's worse now. It seems that IOS 10.1 is Apple attempting to cram in a few features they wish they had for IOS 10.0. Perhaps they should rename this version IOS 10.0 (for real). And now, kindly fix those bloody irritating bugs you introduced. I really wish I could revert my TV to 9.2.1. That version worked quite well and I've been unable to discover any redeeming features of TV-OS 10.x even if the bugs didn't exist. Okay, enough rant. Thanks for the show. Kevin Barry Hi Rob, I downloaded and installed the newly released iOS 10.1 on my iPad Mini 2 yesterday (October 24). Among other bug fixes, Apple promised to fix a 'very small text' problem in their native Mail App. Quote: - Fixes an issue that caused certain Mail messages to be reformatted with very small text
- Fixes an issue that caused some HTML email to be formatted incorrectly
Since I had been experiencing this small text problem for some time on my iPad Mini, I was excited to get the problem fixed. However the 'very small text' problem was not fixed in this latest iOS 10.1 update. At least not for me. The text in my mail did appear as normal size for several hours, but when I opened my Mail app this morning, the text had again returned to its small size. I am using AOL and Exchange mail accounts. Rebooting, closing the mail App, resetting the text size in Accessibility and in Display settings all fix the problem for only temporarily. Then something causes the small text size to return after a few hour. Does anyone know how to fix this? Resetting network settings didn't work either. Michael Dries 16:48 http://www.apple.com/apple-events/october-2016/ On Thursday the 27th - Apple will have an October event with Hello Again being the key words in the invite. That is clearly a reference to updated computers. The event will be the 27th at 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET. Standard Apple Event times. Speculation again is around this event being very Mac centric. New MacBook Pros, and MacBook Airs are expected. Some speculation about updated Mac Pro’s and Mac Minis and possibly even updated iMacs - again mac heavy. For the iOS side of things - expect the new AirPods to be officially launched - either available in store on the 27th or for order on the 27th. But I would expect some amount available in stores on the 27th or 28th. As the website for Apple does say they are Available late October - and traditionally in Apple lingo Available means you can put in your hands - not just available to order. If there is anything else that is announced that is iOS related - I may do a blog post at today in iOS dot com and in the Tii App to go over what is announced. I will not be putting out another episode this month - as I will be taking a couple of vacation days this week and weekend as my parents are coming to visit. Of course if they are available to buy this week - if you do get them - please call into the show - 206-666-6364 from your new AirPods and let us know your thoughts. I do plan to get them as soon as they are available - but would love your feedback and thoughts as well. 18:59 The only thing that beats an iPhone is a new iPhone - and the only razor blade to beat a Harrys Razor is a new harrys Razor. With Harrys new Gen 2 Razor Head - they took the best Razor and made it the bestest Razor I have ever used. And Harrys also has a brand new offer for you. - Harry’s is so confident in the quality of their blades, they’ll send you their popular Free Trial Set, which comes with the Razor and the Gen2 five-blade Cartridge, and shaving gel. All Free when you sign up for a shave plan, you just pay shipping.
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Harrys Post Shave Balm is incredible - it soothes and moisturizes and best of all my Wife says it makes me smell really good - really really good. So good Wearing it now has somehow become code. Per their Gen 2 Blade - It is still the great 5 blade razor - but they made some improvements - It is more flexible for better control and more comfortable shaving. They added a 6 th blade at the top for trimming hard to reach spots, and they still of course have the lubricating strip. I don’t just shave my face - if you met me you know I shave my whole head and before Harry’s I tried a lot of different blades ALL the expensive 4 and 5 blades out there and the Gen 1 was better than all of them and the Gen 2 is better than Gen 1 - Harrys moved the bar folks. I am 100% a harrys customer period. To get the bestest blades - Harry's went and found a German blade factory that was almost 100 years old and purchased it. Harry’s owns the most important part of the razor - the blade and by cutting out the middle men on both sides means they can keep the price low to you. Plus Harrys as an organization helps those looking for jobs - by donating 1% of their sales and 1% of their time to help prepare people for professional success. Yes a shave that feels great from a company you can feel great about. Once again go to Harrys.com right now and enter code Tii at checkout to claim your Free Trial Set and Free post shave balm. That’s Harrys.com and then enter coupon code Tii and start shaving better. 22:12 VOICEMAIL - Dave_SD_difficult_typing_swipe_selection And from Shannon Holden in G+ Quote I just discovered that you can use the stock iOS keyboard on the iPhone as a trackpad to move the cursor around while typing. I'm not sure when this became available. Just 3D Touch on the keyboard and it grays out all of the keys, this is the most exciting feature I've seen in a long time. unquote Now those of you with iPhone 6S and 6S+ already know about this feature as it came out in iOS 9 - but for new iPhone 7 and 7+ users coming from something other than the 6S and 6s+ - this is a cool new feature - that should be mentioned again. And if you have an iPad or at least for most iPads - you can also do this same thing by tap and holding with two fingers on your keyboard - this is a really nice way to accurately and quickly get your cursor where it needs to be when typing. VOICEMAIL - Angel_VA_fdbk_issue_player_controls_missing 29:52 https://plus.google.com/communities/ 105412562215997292912?cfem=1 We are now over 3,500 members in our Google+ community and growing. Thanks to everyone that has joined and thanks for the great posts. Since the last episode there were also dozens and dozens of other new posts and comments in the Tii Google+ community - which is an Android fan bois free zone and spammer free zone. Yup it is the most civil Google+ community covering iOS. Folks Go to today in iOS dot com slash community to join in. And thanks to all 3,500+ of you already in the community and contributing. Also FROM the Google Plus community were these comments per the last episode - which I always pin the last episode at the top. From John Poyser quote I had to wipe & re-set up as new iPhone with iOS 10 to try and resolve some glitches & crashes I was experiencing. Most issues are resolved and the rest I can live with until 10.1 comes out. BUT - now I have to redo all the battery tweaks I've done over months. I heard people mentioning a recent podcast covering this - is it written down in a post OR can someone tell me how to find the episode of TII that coveted it ? unquote From Shannon Holden quote +John Poyser Go to the Tii app and then go to the PDF section. There you will find 19 battery saving tips. I believe this is what you're looking for. unquote From Francisco Tapia quote +Shannon Holden +Rob Walch the iOS8 PDF? Battery saving should be as easy as just turning on low power mode? I mean you pretty much get there by following the PDF. unquote From ME Low Power mode will turn off some other features and limit others more then you may want - going item by item allows you to customize more for what is important to you. Low Power mode basically lobotomizes your iPhone. And low Power mode causes frustration if you are being active - like locking / turning off the screen in 30 seconds. And there are other items as well. So it is better to optimize the iPhone per you individual use case needs - and that do helps - but yes it is also 2 years old and there are new features that need to be shown that when turned off help improve batter life. And From John Poser quote Thanks to all who shared info - I like using the incremental method in the PDF because I like controlling the features & apps that use the juice. I feel that the Low Power Mode is my emergency battery life extender - only for those times I need my phone to last and know I won't be able to charge. Like when I'm on the conference floor. Or on that last day of a long business trip - when nothing's gone right :) unquote Exactly John. Low Power mode is when you need your Smartphone to be just a phone. That is how I look at or as I said when you find it is ok to Lobotomize your iPhone for the sake of keeping the Phone part active - then low power mode can be used. Into the email bag. Hi Rob, For some reason anytime I post something to the Today in iOS Google Community, it shows up for a few seconds and then goes away. Have I done something to offend your filtering system there? Thanks for all you do. Love the podcast and all the posts in the community. Guy Whelan Hi Guy - sadly sometimes google will mark posts for review thinking they are spam - and the sad part is I don’t get an email saying the post needs to be reviewed and approved - I must just log in and manually check as such there are some that sit in approval for a couple of days. Nothing I can do - if Google thinks it is questionable - then it is flag for review. You could always email me letting me know if your post is not showing. Otherwise you need to wait until I get around to reviewing those posts. 33:52 https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/20/iphone-7-qualcomm-intel- modem-cellular-performance/ Seems when Apple made the new iPhone 7 and 7+ they did not use the same manufacturers chips for their Modems. They sourced from Qualcomm and Intel. The Qualcomm chips are in the Verizon and Sprint and Sim-Free Models. The Intel Chips are in the T-Mobile and AT&T models. And people have been doing some testing - mind you pre iOS 10.1 testing. So results may have changed some - but initial testing showed some clear results - those with the Qualcom chips had a clear and significant Modem performance edge over the intel chips. At least when there is any drop off in signal level. I will not go over the MB through put vs Signal strength - other than to say - it did not take much drop off in signal level to start the intel version dropping in data through put. One other thing - the Qualcomm chip versions are only sold in the US, China and Japan. Everyone else is getting the Intel version. So not all iPhone 7’s and 7 pluses are created equal. 35:08 https://www.cnet.com/news/yes-your-32gb-iphone-7s- storage-is-slower-but-heres-why-it-doesnt-matter/ And another place where there is a difference in performance is in Write speeds. Seems the 32 GB iPhone 7 and 7S write at a significantly slower speed than the 128 and 256 GB versions. Read speeds - what you do must often - is the same. But write speeds are a quite a bit different. So if you were looking for another reason not to get the 32 GB version - the write speed is one - but really a small one. In day to day use it is read speed you need to be concerned with and that again is the same. But when you initially are setting up your iPhone 7 or 7+ from backup - yeah at that point you will be glad you have the faster write speed for the 128 and 256 GB versions - of course - writing 100 GB to the 256GB version is still going to take longer than writing 20 GB to the 32 GB version. Technically there is a difference between the 32GB version and the 128 and 256 GB versions. Which if you listened to me and did not get the 32 GB version you would not need for me to try and down play the differences and could just say whew - glad I got the 128 or 256 GB version. An really glad if it is the Verizon or Spring or Sim Free 128 or 256 GB version - because that one is the bomb. 36:32 http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2016/10/24Apple-Watch- Nike-The-Perfect-Running-Partner-Arrives-Friday-October-28.html Apple made one announcement before the Hello Again event and that is that on Friday October 28th the special Apple Watch Nike+ or AWN+ for all your runners out there - will be finally available for you to pick up - just prior to your long weekend runs. The AWN+ will be available in 38 and 42 mm aluminum cases. It is the 2nd Gen series 2 Apple Watch - so it is fully water proof. So yes you can wear it during your tri-athalons. Pricing is $369 for 38 MM and $399 for 42 MM versions. It will be available on the 28th in Australia, Austria, Agamotto, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Macau, Malaysia, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Russia, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Vishanti, the UK and the US. Then on the 29th in Bahrain, Greece, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE. And the 30th in Israel. 37:54 http://www.makersofiphone.com/apple/everything-about- watchos-3-for-apple-watch/ Hey Rob! I just got my Best Buy preorder for the Watch series 2 space black stainless steel!! All I can say is I looooove this thing! I can't believe how much faster it is than my series zero aluminum. I like the weight too. Good upgrade! Regards, Oshkosh Josh Ok - so now it is time to go over the changes of Watch OS 3.x To start with the biggest change - when you tap the side button - it is now a quick link to a new dedicated dock - no longer to list of friends. There are new complications and watch faces, including fitness-focused options. - Swipe up on a watch face for Control Center, and swipe left or right to switch faces.
- A new Breathe app helps you relax - except when I don’t actually have time to breath and relax - having it remind me I need to - makes me even more stressed. Which then makes me get up and get a cookie. I eat when I am stressed.
- Send text messages directly from your Apple Watch by scribbling letters on the screen. Which is something I have used a few times and well - it has a ways to go to understand my finger writing. But when it works it is cool.
- New apps: Reminders, Home, Find My Friends, heart rate - all came with iOS 3.0
When you use the workout app - there is a quick start feature - which speeds up getting your workout started. Emergency SOS was added - you just hold down the button for a few seconds and it can dial 911 on your phone and notify your emergency contacts. One of the best new features how ever for WatchOS 3.x is the speed in which apps - especially 3rd party apps open. As mentioned earlier watch OS 3.1 was just released and for the most part it is mostly about bug fixes. Here is a list of key things that changed with 3.1 - New option to replay bubble and full screen effects in Messages.
- Messages effect can play with Reduce Motion enabled.
- Fixes an issue that could pause the notification for Timer complete to be delivered twice.
- Resolves an issue that could prevent Apple Watch Series 2 from fully charging.
- Resoles an issue where Activity rings may disappear from the watch face.
- Fixes an issue that prevented Force Touch options from appearing in some-third party apps.
https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/24/apple-releases-watchos-3- 1-to-the-public-with-bug-fixes-update-through-iphone-watch-app/ 41:06 http://bgr.com/2016/10/21/iphone-7-plus-vs- google-pixel-speed-tests/ We are starting to see some speed tests between the Google Pixel and the iPhone 7+ come out. In Bench mark tests - not even close - the 7+ more than doubled the single core bench mark score 3,488 to 1,565 - ouch. And remember single core is where most apps live. But in the multi core speeds the 7+ was still a lot faster - 5590 vs 4103 - higher is better. In real world testing - some launching of stock apps went to the 7+ - some went to the Pixel. But when it came to games - forget about it - the 7+ destroyed the Pixel — this comes back to those bench mark scores - and many games push the smartphones limits. The most likely smartphone that will finally beat the 7+ in speed tests will be the 7S+ or 8+ or Pro or whatever the next gen 5.5 inch iPhone is called. But for now - nothing is close on the bench and in real world for graphic CPU intensive applications. On the front for light weight apps - then the 7+ and pixel were pretty even. 43:08 We have a new dog and he is supposed to be taking turns sleeping with the different boys - the last few night I say who you sleeping with and each time he ran into my Son Henry’s room - and the it dawned on me - oh yeah - he has the Casper Mattress - smart dog. Casper Mattresses are a mix of Latex foam and Memory foam. No noisy springs to be woken up by when you master or significant other gets up in the middle of the night. Time Magazine even named it one of the best inventions of 2015. And with Casper you get a 100 day risk free trial period. You don't like it you get your money back and they come and pick it back up and donate it to a charity. - Casper is an obsessively engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price.
. Twin Mattresses are just $500, they also have Twin XL for $600, Full for $750, Queen for $850 and then King and Cal King - for $950. That is less much much less than my iPad Pro setup. And as I said you have 100 days to return it risk free. And if you go to casper dot com slash tii and use promo code tii - you will save $50 off those prices - Terms and Conditions Apply. This is an american made mattress with delivery right now for the US and Canada only and it is free delivery. And When said mattress is delivered - it is from UPS - in a squarish box that you think no way is there a mattress in there - But you get a cool little tool to cut open the package and the mattress opens up and expands to form. It is really cool Just google Casper Mattress unboxing. Winter is coming and snuggling down with a thick blanket or two or three is made even better when the Mattress under those blankets is really comfortable. Again to Save $50 off of the prices I mentioned go to casper dot com slash tii and use promo code t i i - all lower case on the promo code. again casper dot com / tii - promo code tii to save $50 - thanks Casper for the great mattress and for sponsoring this show. 45:11 VOICEMAIL - JOE_KY_feedbk_android_HI Hi Rob, Last year I made my first apple purchase, an iphone 6s plus. I am blind and apple seemed to be the most accessible to the blind of all my options. I was just about to purchase an ipad pro when the iphone 7 was introduced without a headphone jack and now I'm wondering if its a mistake to invest in a ecco-system that is eliminating the headphone jack. I need to switch my headphones quickly between devices, including devices without a lightning connector and bluetooth lag is a killer for voice over users. will apple be eliminating the headphone jack from ipads and computers in the near future? How can I efficiently switch a pair of headphones from analog and digital test equipment, audio recording devices, PC, and ios products in the future? They say Android is catching up in accessibility and I'd like to have to learn as few operating systems and their accessibility gestrues as possible. Should I get a windows tablet instead of an ipad proe? This headphone jack issue is really concerning to me. thank you for yur advice, Regards, Greg A, Pennsylvania Greg - My recommendation is stick with iOS - and if you get an iPhone 7 or 7+ get a dongle or adapter for our 1/8th inch headphones so you can use the same headphones between devices. No it is not perfect - but I think you will find on Accessibility features - iOS is still a much better solution than Android. Hi Rob, As per the last episode I tried a while back to do a credit card dispute for a project I funded that was a no show and they told me since it too long ago I was S.O.L. Is the law 6 months or something? Many projects take so long what can we do are we supposed to dispute it one or two months after the delivery date and even by then by the time we paid to the time that we're disputing six months or more he could have easily passed. Regards, Michael 50:38 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1478028788/auxillite- lightest-2-in-1-dac-converter-for-your-i For Kickstarter this week I was going to talk about Auxillite - which is a dongle type solution for adding powering and listening to your iPhone 7 and 7+ - I say was - because then some others warned me not to and to read the comments. I have reached out to the project developer for comments per the concerns some folks had - and If they reply before the next episode I will mention their reply then. ————— Hello, This is a message from Kickstarter’s Integrity team. We’re writing to notify you that the iLDOCK - charge and listen to iPhone 7 at the same time (Suspended), project has been suspended, and your $31.00 USD pledge has been canceled. A review of the project uncovered evidence that it broke Kickstarter's rules. We may suspend projects when they demonstrate one or more of the following: - Offering purchased items and claiming to have made them yourself
- Presenting someone else’s work as your own
- Misrepresenting or failing to disclose relevant facts about the project or its creator
Accordingly, all funding has been stopped and backers will not be charged for their pledges. No further action is required on your part. We take the integrity of the Kickstarter system very seriously. We only suspend projects when we find strong evidence that they are misrepresenting themselves or otherwise violating the letter or spirit of Kickstarter's rules. As a policy, we do not offer comment on project suspensions beyond what is stated in this message. Regards,
Kickstarter Integrity Seems the issue was with claiming to be MFI certified. —————— Speaking of Kickstarter. The FireFlies mentioned back on Ep 398 - have started making it to listeners. Here is one email on this. Hi Rob, Thank you for mentioning these on the podcast! I love them Jessica in PA From Jerome Horowitz on Google+ who said he got the firefly(kickstarter) earbuds on Friday.. They had Seriously poor Bluetooth connection. then updated to iOS 10.1 today. Now Flawless connection. . Others on Twitter and social media reached out to say they got theirs as well. 55:44 VOICEMAIL - PROMO_SpareMin_Tii Hi Rob, Greetings from sunny Sitka. I have scanned several hundred old family photos. I want to put several lines of text on them so that my great grands know something about their family history. I am looking for a VoiceOver friendly app for iPad or something for my PC. Please send this out to your listeners. Regards, Bob Purvis Sitka VOICEMAIL - Brent_OKC_battery_case_searching 1:00:32 http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2016/10/21FY-16-Fourth- Quarter-Results-Conference-Call.html Apple Q3 2016 - Quarterly Report Summary: Rev = $46.9 Billion (vs $51.5 Billion a year ago quarter and $42.4 Billion last quarter) Total Cash = $237.6 Billion (Up $6.1 Billion for the quarter from $231.5 Billion) Last Quarter Sales: iPhones Sold = 45.5 Mil (vs 48.1 Mil a year ago quarter and 40.4 Mil last quarter) iPads Sold = 9.3 Mil (vs 9.9 Mil a year ago quarter and 10 Mil last quarter) Mac's Sold = 4.9 Mil (vs 5.7 Mil a year ago quarter and 4.3 Mil last quarter) ———— http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2016/10/25Apple-Reports- Record-Fourth-Quarter-Results.html ==== http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2016/10/25Apple-Reports- Fourth-Quarter-Results.html http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q4fy16datasum.pdf Apple had their quarterly conference call. One thing to remember - that last quarter they had one additional week of new iPhone sales vs the same quarter a year ago. Tim said results were very strong and high end of their guidance - but in the guidance range. And then Apple reported a lot of downs vs same quarter a year ago - Revenue, Profit, EPS, iPhone Sales, iPad Sales, Mac Sales and Gross Margins All down again vs the same quarter a year ago. The only up was Services - up 24% to $6.325 Billion. Starting with iPhones - iPhone sales for Calendar Q3 2016 were - 45.5 Mil vs 48.1 mil a year ago — or a 5.4% decline vs the year ago quarter which is smaller than the previous quarters 15% decline - I mean if you are really looking for a positive spin that is. Also Back in July the Anal-ists estimated that last quarter would be 43 Million units sold on average. However right be the earnings call the analysts average estimate was 45.3 Million - which is pretty much dead nuts on. So Congrats to all of the anal-ists as a group. But specifically T. Michael Walkley from Canaccord Genuity with a guess of 45.65 Million iPhones sold last quarter as being closest to the pin. Tim Cook said iPhone 7 supply should equal demand before end of quarter - but iPhone 7+ demand will likely remain greater than supply. And that right now Apple was very supply constrained with regards to the 7+. For the iPhones the ASP were actual up at $619 in Q3 2016 vs an ASP of $595 in Q2 2016. While that is up - it is still lower than the traditional range of $650 to $700 we had seen the 6 quarters prior to Q2 of this year. iPad sales for last quarter were 9.3 Mil units. vs 9.9 Mil the year ago quarter. This seems to be where the iPad is setting into for a base of sales in the non-holiday period. Turning now to Cash - Yeah seems Apple has all of it - for a total of 237.6 Billion Cash over 91% which is not in the US vs 93% 3 months ago that was not in the US. That said Apple still Returned over $9 Billion to Investors last quarter. If you are an investor you will be getting two quarters, a nickel and two pennies for each share you own of Apple stock assuming you are still an owner come early November. Looking forward Apple gave some Guidance and a key part of the guidance has Apple returning to growth this quarter. After 3 quarters of the opposite of Growth year over year. An interesting fact-toid - Tim said that there are 2 Billion with a B requests a week for Siri. Again - numbers were lower all around vs the year ago quarter. Same as last 2 quarters. But again Tim seems to think we will see growth for this quarter. Which I thought Wallstreet would be giddy about - but in after hour trading Apple was down about $2 - so go figure. I should point out I own Apple stock. I am clearly long on Apple for full and fair disclosure. At the end they have a Q&A with the Anal-ists - and one I guess does not want to be on Tim Cooks Christmas card list. Steven I got the biggest Milunovich asked quote does Apple today have a grand strategy for what you want to do? I know you won't tell us what it us, but do you know what you want to do over the next three to maybe five years? Or is it more a read the market and quickly react? unquote Or Put another way - Tim - do you know what you are doing - or a you just winging it hoping for the best and reacting when things don’t work out. Or put another way - Tim do you have a clue? Was essentially what Steven Who is going to get those big ones cut off Milunovich asked. Tim was pretty terse in his response - and rightly so - he said quote We have the strongest pipeline that we've ever had and we're really confident about the things in it. But as usual, we're not going to talk about what's ahead. And if you don’t like that answer you can shove it up your pipeline. unquote Ok - I might have embellished a bit on the last part of the quote - but you know that was what he was thinking. But if that was not enough Steven I don’t ever want to be allowed to step foot in Apple Campus Milunovich asked the following followup. And this is no joke Quote But in terms of your approach I guess to new products, do you have a strong sense of where technology is going and where you're going to play? unquote Which is like Asking well - do you have strong sense of where technology is going and where you’re going to play - which is about as insulting a question you could possibly ask the CEO of the largest Tech company or any tech company period. To Which Tim responded - quote Actually Steve-oh - we define our road map once a year on take your child to work day. We let the kids pick the next round of products each year - And then afterwards we have a bunch of Scary clowns chase the kid around campus whose picks last year did not pan out - it is a wonderful time and has helped make us the biggest tech company in the world. unquote Which was actually slightly less ridiculous of an answer than the question Mr Milunovich asked - what the heck was Steve-Oh thinking. http://ped30.com/2016/10/22/apple-iphones-q4-2016/ http://seekingalpha.com/article/4014922-apple-aapl-q4-2016- results-earnings-call-transcript 1:08:19 VOICEMAIL - Scott_DC_iphone7_apple_care_plus VOICEMAIL - Jason_Apple_Care_square_trade Hi Rob I ordered my Black 256gb iPhone 7 Plus from Sprint on September 10th and it arrived yesterday on September 27th. It was very painless activating my new phone as an upgrade using my old phone. My old phone was the 64gb Gold iPhone 6 Plus and this is a crazy upgrade. I'm glad I took your advice and went for the 256gb version. Total out of pocket for the new phone is roughly $365 dollars to get the financing program started. I owe about $680 but if I send my old iPhone 6 Plus back to Sprint they will credit my account all but .90 cents of the month payment so roughly $400 for the top end iPhone 7 Plus, can't beat that deal and without a two year contract. I'm thinking about just sending Sprint roughly $23.00 to pay off my obligation along with my old phone and all I'll be pay is my month service plan. Love the show, I just figured I'd share the deal I got. regards, Keith W VOICEMAIL - Fdbk_unlocking_not_bug_raise_to_wake_is_on 1:13:16 Ep 411 - Ask Siri = When is your birthday? 1:14:04 Thanks again to Casper for their support of Tii - and if you go to casper.com slash tii - and use promo code tii - all lower case - you will save $50 off a mattress shipped right to your door - again go to casper dot com slash tii and use promo code tii. A quick note - our next episode will likely not be for two weeks. next week I will be traveling the end of the week. But I will work on show notes when I am away. My guess is next episode will be November 6th or 7th or 9th. the 8th is my 19 year anniversary. And Before we go today I want to remind you to send in your feedback to the show - 206-666-6364 - that 206-moon-dog - or record your feedback and email it to the show at today in iOS at gmail dot com - The feedback can be a question or comment per something someone said on this episode or it can be a question or rant you have about something else. An App or product review - good or bad - as long as it is iOS related - it is welcomed. I am always looking for new Artwork to feature that you created on an iOS device - just put some Tii branding on it and send it in. And of course we are always looking for more music created on an iOS device to play on the show. This is your show and your feedback is greatly desired. Also don't forget to check out our Moderated Google Plus community by going to todayinios dot com slash community. 1:15:31 Thanks again to Harry's for sponsoring this episode. Folks please go to Harrys.com slash tii right now and enter code Tii at checkout to claim your Free Trial Set and post shave balm. That’s Harrys.com slash tii and then enter coupon code Tii Finally check out the newly updated Tii App which is Free to you. We now have Apple Watch App included. Search for Tii in the iTunes App Store - it is the best way to consume the show and to get push notifications each time a new episode of Tii is released. It is fully Voiceover friendly of course. Please go right now and download the Tii App. And per this episode that folks is almost going to do it for us - I say almost as there is some additional listener feedback after the music - so please stick around for that - but that is it for me on this episode - until the next time I am your host Rob reminding you to phone different OUTRO OUTRO MUSIC VOICEMAIL - Ryan_Seattle_iOS10_feedback_note7
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Transcript for Episode 410 Welcome to the show I am your host Rob and this is the Today in iOS podcast - First up I want to thank COLIN for sending in the music you hear in the background. COLIN wrote: Hi Rob, This piece of music was built entirely in GarageBand on my iPad and iPhone. Even the ambient sounds were recorded with the mic on my EarPods directly into GarageBand's sampler. Best regards Colin from Sydney, Australia. SONG_Colin_Sydney Thanks COLIN for the music and folks I will put the full song at the end of the episode. I also want to thank DEBBIE for sending in the Artwork for today's show. DEBBIE wrote the following: Hi Rob, I am a new listener and enjoying the show and information. I'm submitting my first Fall photo. Taken with native camera app on iPhone 6s updated to iOS 10. Edits in Snapseed. Regards, Debbie B Thanks DEBBIE, for sending in this artwork and folks you can see DEBBIE'S artwork in the FREE Tii App via the BONUS button for ep 410 - or at instagram.com/todayinios and also as a stand alone post in the VIP section and at Facebook.com/todayinios. If you have some artwork and or music you have created on your iOS device that you would like to share with the audience please email it to me at today in iOS at gmail dot com and please make sure to include which app or apps you used to create said artwork and or music. AND I am down to just two songs in my queue - so if you have some music created on an iOS device - please please please send it in. 02:03 In this segment of how wrong were they we have the following quote quote “If the market spits up Apple and Android devices for their inability to meet business user needs, RIM stands alone—or will, on Jan. 30, 2013 and the days that follow the BlackBerry 10 launch—as the company ready to embrace them. This is an unprecedented opportunity. As a result, 2013 could be an amazing year for RIM.” unquote Rob Enderle, CIO, 31 Dec 2012 Mind you Mr Enderle was predicting good things for Blackberry at the end of 2012 / beginning 2013. Ouch - it was pretty apparent for quite some time by then Blackberry was dead. As bad as Mr. Enderle is at predicting the future of tech it is amazing that even still today a lot of people follow what he says. 02:53 For Promo codes - On Ep 409 we offered up chances to win promo codes for The App - LET’S PICK IT - If you are interested in winning a promo code for this app or want more info go back and listen to the beginning of Ep 409 A QUICK REMINDER if you are an App developer or an iBook Author email me if you want your app or iBook featured in the promo give away segment FOR FREE We Just need the 5 promo codes or more to give away. simply email me at today in ios @ gmail.com and please include a 60 sec or less audio review of your app or iBook - indicating you are the dev or author. Also when you send in the promo codes - please make sure to let me know when they expire. 03:34 http://www.macrumors.com/2016/10/17/apple- releases-ios-10-0-3-for-iphone-7/ Apple today October 17th release iOS 10.0.3 And if you are saying hey wait my iOS device is not seeing iOS 10.0.3 available for download - Rob are your sure? Yes - Yes I am - as 10.0.3 is for the iPhone 7 and 7Plus only. 10.0.3 fixes a bug with cellular connectivity issues with the iPhone 7 and 7+ - which included losing cellular connectivity for small periods of time. Which when you are trying to do anything would make it seem like long periods of time. Verizon users in the US seemed the most affected by this issue - but it was reported by users on all carriers with LTE and not just in the US - users around the world were reporting short outages for LTE connections. https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/17/apple-releases- ios-10-0-3-iphone-7-and-7-plus/ http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/10/ios-10-0-3- fixes-iphone-7-cellular-connectivity-problems/ 04:32 http://www.macrumors.com/2016/10/10/apple-seeds- ios-10-1-beta-3-to-developers/ Last Monday Apple released iOS 10.1 beta 3 to devs and later in the week to public beta testers. As with Beta 2 - it seems the biggest change is bug fixes and stability improvement. Apple also release last week new betas for other devices - Watch OS 3.1 beta 3 and tvOS 10.0.1 beta 3 were also released. For my new iPhone 7+ I had been running iOS 10.1 Beta 3 since it has been available and it seems to be running pretty well for me. Battery life without really trying yet to optimize for battery life has been good. On Friday I did a day trip to Denver and back - and on that day I had 9 hours and 35 Minutes of battery life and 16 hours standby - that was with 3% battery life remaining. I used my personal hot spot for my laptop that day and it chewed up 36% of my battery life. 20% went to youtube 36 minutes on screen and 19 min background. Hmmmm. 15% went to phone for 1.7 hours of use. 6% went to mail. So really the Personal hot spot really skewed things. Back in September on the 20th and 21st I ran my 2 year old iPhone 6+ off of battery to see the life I could get. I was able to get 8 hours and 43 minutes of battery life with 30 hours and 47 minutes of standby. That saw 30% of battery life going to the Mail app, and the phone app chewing up 20% of battery life. I will try another experiment with the iPhone 7+ this week where I run the battery all the way down but don’t use the hotspot and see the life I get then. The two take aways per these two experiments - 1. a 2 year old iPhone 6+ still is getting great battery life. and 2. A new iPhone 7+ with a really heavy usage day and no real battery optimization tricks also had great battery life. 06:48 http://www.iphonehacks.com/2016/10/ios-10-1-dev-beta-4.html And then earlier today October 17th - Apple released iOS 10.1 beta 4 - both to Devs and Public beta testers. If you were already on beta 3 - beta 4 is a pretty small over the air update. Interestingly - Apple on the beta side did not update Watch OS or tvOS as they did last week when 10.3 for iOS was released. With Beta 4 for 10.1 - as near as I can find - it is just bug fixes and stability improvements. No one is reporting any new features or changes to older features. 07:49 https://www.cnet.com/how-to/iphone-7-plus- bokeh-effect-how-to-use-portrait-mode/ VOICEMAIL - Bokeh pronunciation When talking about the new iPhone 7+ without a doubt the biggest change is the dual cameras and the newest effect / feature available is the Bokeh effect - thanks emiko - and I hope I got that right. This new effect will make you start taking pictures of anything and everything to see it close up and in focus but with the background out of focus. And well it is really cool. Of course you do need to upgrade to 10.1 - which right now is still just available as a beta. But assuming you have upgraded to 10.1 beta X - you need to remember this - be respectful of your social media followers - don’t start posting pictures of anything and everything with the bokeh effect - I just don’t think your social media followers want to see a box of Imodium AD with the bokeh effect. Just because you can do it - does not mean you should do it. Speaking of your iPhone 7+ and the Beta’s for 10.1. If you have an iPhone 6S+ or earlier and you are upgrading to an iPhone 7 or 7+ - and if you are doing an upgrade from a back up - note this - if you earlier iPhone is running iOS 10.1 Beta X - then when you go to set up the iPhone 7 or 7+ from the backup - iTunes will stop you and say you need to upgrade the out of the box iPhone 7 or 7+ to the same version of iOS as your phone you are backing up. Which is what happened to me - so first I needed to upgrade to iOS 10.1 beta 3 - and then I was able to set up from the back up. 10:24 http://www.todayinios.com/utomic But before I did any of the setting up of my iPhone 7+ - I did put on my utomic bumpies. They are black and look great with my jet black iPhone 7+ - or really I should say - they are barely even noticeable - which makes them look great. If you are in the US - and want the utomic bumpies go to todayinios.com/utomic As I said if you are in the US. As well here is an email to explain more: Hi Rob, Just to give you a heads up, I have listened to you talking about the bumpees for your phone over a long period of time at this stage, so when I got my new iPhone 7 I decided I would try them for myself. I tried the link you have given in your podcast, but couldn't order them, so I sent them an email. Sadly they do not at this point ship to outside the United States. I know you have a large audience far beyond your shores, so I just wanted to share this information with you for future reference. Keep up the good work. Regards, Brian Mitchell. Galway, Ireland. Brian - sorry for that issue and thanks for letting us know. So far knock on wood - I have not had any scratching of my jet black iPhone 7+ - and I really do like how it looks. 14:13 http://roamwith.com 15:56 http://www.digitaltrends.com/wearables/ apple-watch-uk-government-ban/ Thanks to all that sent in links on this next one - which is that the UK government has banned the Apple Watch from top-level meetings. The reason why is it has a microphone and the UK govt is afraid that Russian hackers could get control of any device with a microphone and use it to eavesdrop on the meetings. There is no evidence or indication or anything showing that Russian hackers or anyone else for that matter have actually hacked an Apple watch to do this - just that Theresa May’s team has implemented this change - which follows up on the ban of smartphones from meetings put in place by Former Prime Minister David Cameron. So she is just being overly conservative or cautious. For some reason this ban generated a lot of posts / articles. Really it is just about the UK government doing something on the side of caution - banning wifi or cellular connected devices that have a microphone from being in the meeting. It if has a mic and can be connected to the internet - then it is banned from the UK Cabinet meetings - and again that sounds reasonable. 17:12 http://www.iphonebackupextractor.com/blog/ 2016/oct/12/itunes-backup-security-update-ios10/ With iOS 10 some reported back in September that it actually made the encrypted back up less secure than with iOS 9.x Something Anonymous accused Apple of doing to cow tow to the FBI. Except by the time Anonymous had said that Apple had already said - oooppss our bad - we did not mean to make the encrypted backups less secure and we will fix that post haste. And post haste seems to mean iOS 10.1 - it seems that with iOS 10.1 beta 3 - Apple did indeed go back to the much more secure and FBI hated and Anonymous approved encryption method. So when iOS 10.1 is finally released and if you are one with lots of tin foil hats around - then you will want to upgrade to 10.1 to get the more securely encrypted back up. 18:09 We are Happy to welcome a new sponsor to the show - and that is Hello Fresh please visit hellofresh.com and use the promo code tii to save $35 off your first week of deliveries. Hello Fresh is a meal kit delivery service that makes cooking supper simple and fun. My Wife and I really enjoyed both making and eating the meals they sent. That later point kinda sorta being really important for me and the former point for her. Even if you never cooked before you can do this. I even learned how to Zest a lemon. That was for a great citrus salad dressing. Each week HelloFresh creates new recipes with nice step by step instructions to follow that take less than 30 minutes to make. They deliver the meal kits right to your door in an insulated box with free shipping. Each kit has all of the ingredients you need to make a delicious meal. And having all the ingredients is really key. The other day my wife was making spaghetti and meatballs - seems simple enough - until about 5 minute before it was done when we realized that the sauce jar had been opened on Aug 20th and it was Oct 9th - yikes. So off I had to run to the store to get more sauce. And that is as easy a meal as there is. With Hellofresh no issues like that - you get everything you need to make your meal in each meal kit and you can choose either meat or vegetable meals depending on your preferences. But Since this was something for both of us - I ask my wife to give me her thoughts and they are: quote “ We’ve tried it all. Planning dinner for the week. Prepping dinner in advance for the whole month. Eating the same meal on the same day each week. Resorting to making "breakfast for dinner" because that's the best we could do. Making Dinner is just not really our thing. It’s not the cooking that’s the issue but it’s the planning that gets us every time. It seems hard to to find a rhythm. After receiving our first box of Hello Fresh , I've been made a believer. Dinner is so much more enjoyable when you don't have to think about what to prepare. You just open the fridge, pull out a box and start cooking. Every bit of the ingredients are included except for olive oil, salt + pepper. The meals are more diverse than I would cook on my own. Each one was delicious. We ate healthier the week of our hello fresh box. Hello Fresh is Great solution to the dinner time struggle. “ unquote Again please visit please hellofresh.com and use the promo code tii to save $35 off your first week of deliveries. 20:37 VOICEMAIL - Gary_FL_assistive_touch_fdbk Hi Rob, How do you enable the virtual home button i know you have to turn on assistiveTouch i don't want to worry about wearing out my Home button I am also a voiceover user and have to click the home button a lot regards Maria Hay Rob On my iPhone 6 I have about 5 voicemails from my aunt she passed away September 28. And I want to get the iPhone 7+ but I don't want to know lose those voicemails. If I get the iPhone 7+ will I still have those voicemails and yes my iPhone 6 is backup Regards, Sharde Hi Sharde - Right now - before you do anything else - go to each voice mail - tap on it - and at the top right tap on the box with the arrow out and email yourself those voicemails. This way you always have them. Yes - you should still have them when you update - all mine came over - but Should and will are not the same word. Best to email yourself each and then back them up on your computer somewhere. Hello Rob. I Love your show. I called Apple and asked about the availability of the SIM Free iPhone 7. They simply said it's not available. They added, you need an account with a carrier. They would not say when it would become available. We folks on Straight Talk or Total Wireless (bring your own phone plans) need the SIM Free version to just move our SIM card over to the new phone. What are your "Spies" at Apple saying about the SIM Free option availability for US customers in the future? Thank you for all you do. Regards, Mark Denton Hi Mark - My spies are telling me the SIM free version is now available to order in the US. So no more waiting for you or anyone else on Straight talk or any other carrier that is not one of the big 4 in the US. VOICEMAIL - Carl_B_MI_thoughts_bluetooth 29:39 https://plus.google.com/communities/ 105412562215997292912?cfem=1 We are now over 3,500 members in our Google+ community and growing. Thanks to everyone that has joined and thanks for the great posts. Since the last episode there were also dozens and dozens of other new posts and comments in the Tii Google+ community - which is an Android fan bois free zone and spammer free zone. Yup it is the most civil Google+ community covering iOS. Folks Go to today in iOS dot com slash community to join in. And thanks to all 3,500+ of you already in the community and contributing. Also FROM the Google Plus community were these comments per the last episode - which I always pin the last episode at the top. From Brian Lancaster quote thank you so much for the tip on Assistive Touch for Screenshots. This was a tip you should have helped us out with a long time ago when the sleep wake button was moved to the side of the phone… LOL unquote From Chris Frazier quote +Rob Walch just another super helpful episode, especially answering the listeners' questions about how to do a hard reset on the new iPhone 7. Still waiting on my 7 Plus to come in, but I'm making a note of this now! unquote Thanks to others that left messages as well - and if you don’t want to email into the show or call into the show - then go to today in iOS dot com slash community and you can leave some comments for Ep 410 which will be pinned at the top of the page at least until Ep 411 is released. 31:15 Time to continue on with some of the new features / changes of iOS 10 very very quickly - just to remind you what they are. This is the final group of updates for iOS 10 I will be going over. ————————————— QuickType - New emoji, including gender diverse options to existing characters, single parent family variations, rainbow flag and beautiful redesigns of popular emoji
- Contextual predictions for current location, recent addresses, contact information and calendar availability using deep neural network technology
- Emoji predictions
- Calendar events are intelligently populated using deep learning technology with information from your conversations in Mail and Messages
- Multi-lingual typing now lets you type in two languages at once without having to switch keyboards
- Rest & Type on iPad intelligently adapts to your unique typing patterns
- Predictive typing now uses deep neural network technology for greater prediction accuracy
Phone - Voicemail transcription (beta)
- Spam call alerts with spam call identification apps
- Support for third party VoIP apps receiving calls on the Lock screen, including support for Call Waiting, Mute and Do Not Disturb
Other improvements - Apple Pay in Safari
- View two pages at once using Split View in Safari on iPad
- Notes collaboration lets you invite people to work on your notes together
- Markup support in Messages, Photos and PDFs stored in Notes
- Bedtime Alarm in the Clock app lets you set a regular sleep schedule and receive bedtime reminders
- Health adds support for health records and organ donation (US Only)
- Stabilization support for Live Photos for improved camera capture
- Live Filters support when capturing Live Photos
- iCloud Drive now supports Desktop and Documents folders from macOS
- Live search results in Spotlight for Chinese and Japanese
- Siri support for Spanish (Chile), Chinese (Cantonese - China), English (Ireland), English (South Africa)
- Ling Wai and Kaiti Black document fonts for Chinese
- Yu Kyokasho and Toppan Bunkyu fonts for Japanese
- New definition dictionaries in Traditional Chinese and Danish and bilingual dictionaries in Dutch and Italian
- New keyboard for Spanish (Latin America)
Of course some features are not be available for all devices, countries or carriers. 35:35 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/12/business/international/ samsung-galaxy-note7-terminated.html?_r=0 On the last episode which I wrote notes on Saturday and recorded on Sunday the 9th - I said the following about the Note 7. Quote This device is seriously dangerous - it is not a manufacturing issue at this point it is a design issue - the whole Note 7 line - and mark my words on this will be recalled and scuttled. unquote And on Monday the 10th - Samsung recalled the entire line and on Tuesday the 11th Sammy scuttled the whole line. Hey sometimes it takes a while for my predictions to prove out - this time it took two days. I think what Samsung did was the right decision - take the short term - but big hit - vs a long term series of bigger hits. This whole situation will be studied over and over and over by every smartphone OEM and analyst and MBA school for years to come. 36:27 http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/12/technology/ samsung-fireproof-box/index.html So when I saw the first reports of the boxes as in plural users of the Note 7 were being sent to return their devices - I thought it was another of the many jokes out there around the Note 7 - after all it showed there even being gloves sent with it. But nope no joke - you get safety gloves - and then an antistatic bag, and an inner OEM Replacement box - then there is an inner box and finally that all goes inside the thermal box. And on the side of it it says ground and vessel shipment only - forboden to be transported by air. That is what Sammy Note 7 users are being sent to send back their Exploding smartphones. 37:13 http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/14/technology/ samsung-galaxy-note-7-flight-ban/index.html While it might have been Samsung that hammered in the final nail in the Note 7 casket by rightfully scuttling the whole product. But it was the FAA that then lowered the casket of the Note 7 into an unmarked grave. They issued a complete and utter flight ban for the Note 7 - That started on October 15th in the US - you can not fly with a note 7 turned on or off or in a bucket of water or in a fire proof box or any way shape or form. From the FAA Quote “Anyone violating the ban may be subject to criminal prosecution in addition to fines.” unquote To put that in perspective if you are a US Air marshall - You can bring on board your P229 Sig Sauer side arm - but even the US Air marshals can not bring on board a Note 7 with out themselves being subject to criminal prosecution. 38:08 Thanks again to Texture for supporting this show. As I said before Texture is essentially the netflix of Magazines. You get access to well over 150 of the top magazines - we are talking binge reading. Sweet. I have really been enjoying my subscription to texture - as it gets me access to my favorite magazines - MacWorld, Wired, Popular Science and Fortune. Plus I also get access to PC World and PC Magazine - two I would normally never ever think of paying for but occasionally will have an article that is beneficial for this show or just interesting. 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I'd add Raise to Wake to that hit list. ;-) Woody - thanks - Yup plan to add that and a few others once I really get play around with my iPhone 7+ There are some features for it - that are not available for the 6+. Hi Rob, I am not the best to help with this, but I was listening on the way home from work and had a thought. The guy that needs three headphones, for his laptop, iPhone, and such. I only have an Apple Iphone and iPad (one old iPad and several old iPhones also), no MacBook or any other apple products. But thinking back, the pencil has a lightning coupler I believe. Is it possible that you could use your lightning headphones on the MacBook? Maybe use an iPhone cable then the coupler into the lightning headphones? I don't have the pencil coupler myself so I can't test this, but it seems like it could work. Just a thought. I personally haven't used corded headphones on my phone in years, so to me it makes no difference. I didn't think about my laptop, it's the only thing I use corded headphones on. Love the show, long time listener! Regards, Kirk Gustafson Hmmm - Hi Kirk - I have not tried yet - but I will now try and see if I can get my Lightening headphones to work with my Mac via a USB to lightening cable with the coupler. wonder if Mac OS will recognize them. I will test this week and report back. If anyone else was able to get lightning headphones to work with their PC and or mac - let me know what you did. but be careful not to blow them up. Hi Rob, Just writing in to give my thoughts about the iPhone 7 Plus. Got my black 256GB 7 Plus 5 days ago. It arrived 10 days late because O2 UK and apple botched the supply of the devices and the delivery company messed up by failing to deliver for another 3 days (they couldn't be asked to find my address). I got my device after a painful 10days and so I know your pain as you await yours. At any rate love the device. Not sure I regret not getting the jet black as this one just looks perfect to me. Not sure what all the fuss about the missing headphone jack is personally. I stopped using it ages ago. I find it very annoying when it gets caught on things while I'm running and gets yanked out of my ears. It's dated technology anyway. It needed to go and I think as always, people will moan and moan and get over it. I haven't tried the lightening earphones yet. Got beats Bluetooth headphones which work perfect. Battery life is mind blowing coming from my 6s which I always had to have in a waterproof battery case. Now with the phone being water resistant I might not be needing the waterproof case (poor LifeProof, whatever are they gonna do for money now?😓). I can't believe the bass on the stereo speaker especially the one up top. Impressive! Overall I consider it a good upgrade for anyone really. That all said I still seem to be having what I believe are iOS 10 issues. Still get the control of music and podcast playback being lost when connected via Bluetooth to my car. I started experiencing this with iOS 10 on my 6s so I think it's a software issue. Also the apple maps app sometimes stops working during a commute which can be a bit annoying. I wonder at time whether this is related to my alerts for "time to leave" for next destinations going off while I'm driving and then taking me back on the maps app to the start off screen. I wonder if any other listeners to the show are experiencing this? Would love to know. Anyway, thanks for the opportunity to praise and vent. Love the show. Keep up the good work. Regards, Tosin from Redditch UK. VOICEMAIL - Brent_OKC_comments_kickstarter_indiegogo 50:51 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1955835125/juuk- premium-aluminum-apple-watch-bands?ref=nav_search This week for a kickstarter project there is the JUUK premium aluminum Apple Watch bands - or just search for J U U K This one had a goal of $10,052 and has reached $10,886 and they have reached their goal. This one you have until Nov 4th at 1:32 PM CT to fund if interested. Which would be surprising yet - as I have not said much about it. Pricing on this is about $50 US and it will not ship until Jan 2017. It is as the name gave away an aluminum Apple Watch band - they have multiple colors and two sizes one for each Apple watch. This is a very masculine and looking thick watch band. If you are looking for a stylish and sturdy watch band for any of the Apple watches out there - this is a good looking option. Search again for J U U K at kickstarter dot com or in the show notes for ep 410 at today in iOS dot com Note - it is coming from Hong Kong - so there is a shipping charge - and the note is that the shipping costs are in Hong Kong Dollars - not US dollars. So it is not as high as it looks. 52:14 VOICEMAIL - Louis_Dohar_7Plus_fdbk Hi Rob 2 negatives I notice with iOS 10 is there no longer in the mail app, is the option to delete all emails in a folder in one hit, apart from the the bin folder. Also, my keyboard shortcuts appear to have not been retained in the update. I wonder if these 2 things are bugs or intentional. Regards Steve Brisbane VOICEMAIL - Danniel_UK_battery_improved 59:07 Ep 410 - Ask Siri = why is your name siri? 59:40 Thanks again to Texture for sponsoring this episode - Folks go right now to Texture dot com/ Tii to get your free trial and access to well over 150 of the best and most popular magazines. And Before we go today I want to remind you to send in your feedback to the show - 206-666-6364 - that 206-moon-dog - or record your feedback and email it to the show at today in iOS at gmail dot com - The feedback can be a question or comment per something someone said on this episode or it can be a question or rant you have about something else. An App or product review - good or bad - as long as it is iOS related - it is welcomed. I am always looking for new Artwork to feature that you created on an iOS device - just put some Tii branding on it and send it in. And of course we are always looking for more music created on an iOS device to play on the show. This is your show and your feedback is greatly desired. Also don't forget to check out our Moderated Google Plus community by going to todayinios dot com slash community. 1:00:35 Thanks again to Hello Fresh for sponsoring this episode. Folks please go to hellofresh.com and use the promo code tii to save $35 off your first week of deliveries. Next episode is ep 4 1 1 - which if you know my start in podcasting is a very special ep number indeed. Finally check out the newly updated Tii App which is Free to you. We now have Apple Watch App included. Search for Tii in the iTunes App Store - it is the best way to consume the show and to get push notifications each time a new episode of Tii is released. It is fully Voiceover friendly of course. Please go right now and download the Tii App. And per this episode that folks is almost going to do it for us - I say almost as there is some additional listener feedback after the music - so please stick around for that - but that is it for me on this episode - until the next time I am your host Rob reminding you to phone different OUTRO OUTRO MUSIC *** VOICEMAIL - Kim_OR_Parts1 to Part5
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TRANSCRIPT FOR EPISODE 409 Welcome to the show I am your host Rob and this is the Today in iOS podcast - First up I want to thank Aaron for sending in the music you hear in the background. Aaron wrote: Hey Rob! Long time listener & emailer, first time art contributor. This a song called “Atomic” that I wrote for a YouTube commercial for my wife’s tattoo shop here on Maui. I started out with a ukulele idea and recorded the demo on the stock Music Memos app just using the external microphone of my iPhone 6S then added on the Modern Kit & Electric Bass. I then took it into GarageBand on my MacBook Pro (via the share, iTunes, GarageBand options in Music Memos) and added many layers & tracks including waves, synth, horns, percussion, and much more realistic sounding drums using ToonTrack EZDrummer 2. I hope you and the listeners enjoy some island sounds, aloha! -AAron McVeigh SONG_Atomic Thanks Aaron for the music and folks I will put the full song at the end of the episode. I also want to thank BRUCE for sending in the Artwork for today's show. BRUCE wrote the following: Hi Rob, Here is a shot I took using the Portrait/bokeh mode on my iPhone 7 Plus running the iOS 10.1 beta. I did some light editing and added the text using the Snapseed app. Thanks for everything Rob! Love the show! Regards, Bruce W. Thanks BRUCE, for sending in this artwork and folks you can see BRUCE'S artwork in the FREE Tii App via the BONUS button for ep 409 - or at instagram.com/todayinios and also as a stand alone post in the VIP section and at Facebook.com/todayinios. If you have some artwork and or music you have created on your iOS device that you would like to share with the audience please email it to me at today in iOS at gmail dot com and please make sure to include which app or apps you used to create said artwork and or music. AND I am down to just two songs in my queue - so if you have some music created on an iOS device - please please please send it in. 02:47 In this segment of how wrong were they we have the following quote quote “Apple has just one product, we have a portfolio. One size doesn’t fit all.” unquote Jim Balsillie, VERY Former Co-CEO, Research in Motion, June 2012 What good is having a portfolio of products when all the products would be the equivalent of 1970’s leisure suits. Vs Apples iPhone which is equivalent to Levis 501 Button Fly Jeans - always a classic and in style. 03:16 This week we have promo codes for The App - LET’S PICK IT Here is the written review from the dev. Hi Rob - I wanted to promote my first app. It's called "Let's pick it" and it just got approved on the app store! It is a productivity App to help indecisive people pick things. The main feature of this app is called "Ask Some Friends." It allows you to create an online poll with your list of choices which you can then share with anyone in the world and let them vote for you. Here are 10 promo codes for the App. Regards, Kenny D Well thanks to the KENNY D for HIS review of HIS App - LET’S PICK IT and for sending in the 10 promo codes to give away. Folks if you would like a chance for a promo code for this App - please send an email to todayinios at gmail dot com and put PICK in the subject line. A QUICK REMINDER if you are an App developer or an iBook Author email me if you want your app or iBook featured in the promo give away segment FOR FREE We Just need the 5 promo codes or more to give away. simply email me at today in ios @ gmail.com and please include a 60 sec or less audio review of your app or iBook - indicating you are the dev or author. Also when you send in the promo codes - please make sure to let me know when they expire. 04:24 http://www.cultofmac.com/447984/everything-thats-new- ios-10-1-beta-2/ iOS 10.1 beta 2 was released last week - of course it fixes some bug fixes. One of those fixes had to do with notifications on lock screen not taking you where they were supposed to. The imessages App draw was redesigned for those power iMessage apps users. Under Setting - General - Accessibility - Reduce Motion - there is a new setting to allow you to turn on Message Animations. And there is now a replay button under iMessage animations to you know let you replay those animations. Something new or actually returning with beta 2 is a message warning you an app is a 32 bit app - Essentially if you have an old app installed that is of the 32 bit variety vs the new 64 bit version Apple wants / makes new apps be - then you get a warning - as the 32 bit versions can greatly impact battery life and performance. If you were using 10.1 beta 1 - you would be advised to update to beta 2. If you have not tried out the 10.1 beta yet and are wondering if it is for you - one simple question - do you have an iPhone 7+ and are you a dev - if the answer is no and no - then stick with 10.0.2 for now. If you do have the 7+ or are a dev - then sure update to the beta 2 of 10.1. With the caveat for non-devs - don’t update if you don’t like when things are not perfect - betas = bugs. Into the email bag. Hi Rob, Is there an app where I can take a screenshot of a song playing with one hand? I miss that about my 4s. Regards, Mike R Hi Mike, Better than an App there is a way to set your iPhone up to do this for easy one handed screen shots. I have mine set this way. Go to: Settings -- General — Accessibility -- Assistive Touch -- Customize Top Level Menu Then tap on an icon to Change one and select Screenshot. Then remove all the other icons. It is really Important to remove all the others - so you have just one and it is screenshot Then go to: Settings -- General — Accessibility — Accessibility Shortcut And select - AssistiveTouch Exit the Settings app - and triple tap the home button. You will see a new virtual button on the screen - move it to just above the home button. Now when you need to take a screen shot - triple tap the home button and tap on the virtual button. And it will take a screen shot for you. I love this feature as it allows me to do quick screen shots when I am doing a tutorial - as the virtual button stays on until you triple tap again. So if you know you are going to be taking a bunch of screen shots just triple tap and it is there ready to go whenever you need it. Once again to set this up. Go to: Settings -- General — Accessibility -- Assistive Touch -- Customize Top Level Menu Then tap on an icon to Change one and select Screenshot. Then remove all the other icons. It is really Important to remove all the others - so you have just one and it is screenshot Then go to: Settings -- General — Accessibility — Accessibility Shortcut And select - AssistiveTouch 08:01 http://www.macrumors.com/2016/10/04/apple-pay- available-in-10-countries-russia/ Thanks to Dr. John for this next one. Apple Pay is now available in 10 countries around the world as Russia joined the Apple Pay club. The ten countries Apple Pay is available in include the United States, United Kingdom, China, Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Hong Kong, France, Singapore and now Russia. In Russia participating retailers include ATAK, Magnit, Media Markt, Auchan, Azbuka Vkusa, bp, M.Video, TsUM and authorized Apple reseller re:Store. Contactless payments are expected to roll out at Electronics store Eldorado and Burger King in the near future. Per the banks supporting Apple Pay - It is supported via Mastercard and through Moscow-based Sberbank. Congrats to those of you in Russia this impacts. Next up is likely New Zealand based on past Apple comments. 09:09 https://aka.ms/todayinios I will be at Microsoft Connect in NY City in November - if you are going please let me know. I will be interviewing folks from the MicroSoft team again. And hope to get a few other interviews / conversations in with devs while there. So please let me know if you will be there so we can set up a time to talk. For those not in the Know MS Connect - will be Nov 16th and 17th. In NY City - and this is a Developer focused event. For those devs not going - you should watch or listen to the live streams. If you go to AKA DOT MS DOT todayinios - you can watch the live broadcast which starts November 16th at 8:30am ET, and continues with interactive Q&A and immersive on-demand content through November 17th. Again if you are going - email me - today in iOS at gmail dot com to set up a meeting on the 16th. 10:18 VOICEMAIL - Woody_NJ_answer_smitty_bluetooth Hi Rob, With respect to Smitty's question you have to be connected to Bluetooth for the maps feature for remembering where you parked to work in its current state. What I use is the Bluetooth adapter from Anker SoundSync Drive Bluetooth Car Receiver. Anker SoundSync Drive Bluetooth 4.0 Car Receiver. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0176G5TRO/ref= cm_sw_r_cp_api_pfw9xbJ2TGFH5 The things that make it a good buy is that it is small, the audio quality really good, and the price. Right now it is $22 on Amazon. I do recommend purchasing a ground loop isolator. This will remove annoying interference from the engine. The one I am currently using is from Mpow it $9 on amazon and works well with the Anker device. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B019393MV2/ref= cm_sw_r_cp_api_-kw9xbCS7W093 I was previously using a different isolator but as I found out if the two devices don't play nice you can hear the low end frequencies removed completely from your speakers which isn't good. Hope this helps, love the show! Regards, -Jim Hi Rob, Here is a item I purchased. The nonda ZUS Smart Car Charger with car finder Device/Cigarette lighter charger with free Zus App.It Charges iPhones 7,7plus ,iPhones iPads and more. When you turn off your car and power goes off Charger cigarette lighter unit It marks your parking spot on your phone so you can get back to the car later. Using their app. It will ask you with a notification if you would like to mark the parking spot.. Here is the name and Amazon link where I bought it. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HMF7M38/ref= oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 David D Dick Springfield MO David - thanks for the heads up on the Zus - They actually sent it to me to test - and once I have my iPhone 7+ set up I will be testing it to see how well it works. I will talk about the Zus on a future episode. Hi Rob, This week I can't seem to do a soft reboot on my 7+. Have you had any other feedback on this issue? I've tried all home button types - no luck. Regards, Laura B Celina TX Well Laura - Yes - there was this feedback. VOICEMAIL - Scott_DC_iPhone7_hard_reset_how_to_do_question: For Scott, Laura and many others - On the iPhone 7 and 7+ to do a forced reboot - Press and Hold at the same time - the Sleep wake button AND the volume down button for at least 10 seconds. This is the same as pressing and holding the sleep wake button AND the Home button on the iPhone 6S and 6S+ and earlier devices. 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Harry’s owns the most important part of the razor - the blade and by cutting out the middle men on both sides means they can keep the price low to you. Plus Harrys as an organization helps those looking for jobs - by donating 1% of their sales and 1% of their time to help prepare people for professional success. Yes a shave that feels great from a company you can feel great about. Once again go to Harrys.com right now and enter code Tii at checkout to claim your Free Trial Set and Free post shave balm. That’s Harrys.com and then enter coupon code Tii and start shaving better. 19:32 https://plus.google.com/communities/ 105412562215997292912?cfem=1 We are now over 3,500 members in our Google+ community and growing. Thanks to everyone that has joined and thanks for the great posts. Since the last episode there were also dozens and dozens of other new posts and comments in the Tii Google+ community - which is an Android fan bois free zone and spammer free zone. Yup it is the most civil Google+ community covering iOS. Folks Go to today in iOS dot com slash community to join in. And thanks to all 3,500+ of you already in the community and contributing. Also from the Google Plus community were these comments per the last episode - which I always pin the last episode at the top. From Myron Uecker quote I find it interesting that not long ago Apple was suing people for infringing on their "Swipe to Unlock" patent. Now they abandoned it. +Rob Walch glad to hear you got your shipping notification. I got mine as well and UPS is scheduled to deliver it Thursday. I'm looking forward to trying out the new dual camera and plan to register it for the beta on Thursday as well. unquote From Stan Bentley quote +Myron Uecker I really don't like this new "feature". In iOS 9, I woke the device by pressing the home key and then just held my thumb on the key after releasing it to unlock via Touch ID. Now I have to press the home key twice. Or is there another technique? unquote From Francisco Tapia quote +Stan Bentley go into accesbility and then enable the rest finger to open under the home button option unquote From Stan Bently quote +Francisco Tapia ahhhhh, the world is right again. Thx! unquote From Francisco Tapia quote +Stan Bentley once you start using an iPhone 7/Plus it's not a bad setup to press down a 2nd time... but for button devices iPhone 5S, 6 and SE the rest finger to unlock should be the default. unquote From Karthik M quote This is the perfect example of HW SW integration. Apple changing the unlock gesture based on Hardware capability. and Wow. I didn't know Bluetooth had anything to do with the Parked location. But it makes sense. unquote Thanks all - and folks go to Today in iOS dot com slash community if you want to leave comments about the latest episode or participate in the Best Google+ community on the iPhone with over 3,500 members - and no google fan boyz. 21:47 http://investor.apple.com Apples next quarterly conf call will be Tuesday Oct 25th at 4:00 PM CT. It will be interesting to see what is said on that call - but really anything with regards to new iPhones sold for the week+ of iPhone 7 and 7+ availability will be more a measure of supply logistics and not demand. It is the current quarters shipments that will be over scrutinized in January when Apple does that conference call. But any hints of guidance for the current quarter will also be heavily vetted. It does not look like at this point there will be another fall event for Apple - and that means the iPad’s we have now - and the Apple TV and iPod Touch - that is what we are going into the Christmas shopping season with. Rumors around next gen iPad’s have fallen off the cliff - with now the rumors pointing just to some Spring Event possible to announce next Gen iPads. Which is fine by me - get the iPad updates on the opposite side of the calendar from the iPhone updates. That means a lot more to talk about in first quarter other than how iPhones sales went in the previous quarter. 23:19 http://www.siliconbeat.com/2016/10/03/apple-iphone-7- has-worst-battery-life-in-its-class-new-report/ In some bad news for iPhone 7 owners vs Android equivalent phones - the iPhone 7 came in as worst in its class for battery life. I mean sure it was faster - twice as fast for some tasks - so maybe since it takes less time to do things with the iPhone 7 - it all washes out in the end. Well except the part about Phone calls. the iPhone 7 lasted 712 minutes, compared to 1,492 for the Samsung Galaxy S7, 1,579 for the LG G5 and 1,859 for the HTC 10. Web Browsing was closer. iPhone 7 lasted for 615 minutes. The LG G5 lasted 640 minutes, the Samsung S7 for 677, and the HTC 10 came out on top, with 790 minutes of battery life. They did also say the HTC 10 had a 3,000 mAh battery vs the 1960 mAh battery. So Apple on the web browsing side definitely gets more life per mAh. But if you are looking to go all day and all night long - you will likely be looking for a battery pack for iPhone 7. VOICEMAIL - Holly AZ Fdbk7_experience VOICEMAIL - Holly AZ Part 2 26:33 http://www.applemust.com/apple-on-track-for-next-era-in- personal-technology-ubs/ Interesting Article from Johnny Evans - titled - Apple on Track for Next Era in Personal Technology. This is based on comments from UBS analysts Steven don’t call me malkavich Milunovich and Benjamin No witty middle name yet Wilson. They say Investors and others are missing the point with what Apple is rolling out product wise. Many are mocking Apple for their Air Pods - and when people mock apple product it is probably a good bet they just are clueless. Milunovich and Wilson say the point is iPhone don’t matter anymore - and what does matter is for Apple to lay a bedrock of multi-devices infinitely connected. Quote We consider the Apple Watch and AirPods transition products today on the way to an integrated user experience based on multiple products seamlessly connected, We call it the Ambient Paradigm. It is Tim Cook’s ‘iOS everywhere, unquote according to the Analysts. Essentially it allows you to do what you want when you want with the right device at the right time - seamlessly switching between devices. There is the connected world you hear about all the time - and then what Apple is trying to create which is the seamlessly interconnected world. VOICEMAIL - Matt_NC_thoughts_on_design 31:06 https://www.idropnews.com/2016/10/06/apples-3rd-generation-apple-tv-is-officially-dead/ What was mostly dead now even miracle max can not save - and I am talking about the 3rd Gen Apple TV. Apple has officially killed it off. And this is a shocker to pretty much no one. If for some reason you want a 3rd gen Apple TV - you can probably pick one up for less then the $69 retail price it used to be available for at apple.com 31:38 http://www.appleworld.today/blog/2016/10/6/samsung-is- buying-viv-labs-the-company-formed-by-siris-creators Many may not realize or remember that Siri was something Apple acquired - well the basic tech for it. Apple Payed $200 mil for Siri inc back in April 2010. And when they purchased that company - the founders stuck around just a short time. It looked like they would just go off and party or change the world or who knows what. But in May the Original Siri Creators Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer - introduced VIV - which was probably just after their non-compete agreement expired. And Viv seems to have been the next generation of Siri. With more advanced natural language processing skills and more - of which we will not get to really know anything about - because - Samsung swooped in and purchased them. You would thought Apple would also have had a right of first refusal clause for any future venture. Shame on you Apple. Anyway their Tech is going to Sammy. Or put another want So Yes - Sammy even copied Apple in acquiring a company started by the same guys Apple acquired a company from - is there no limit to Sammy’s level of copying. 32:57 http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/5/13175000/samsung- galaxy-note-7-fire-replacement-plane-battery-southwest Hi Rob, I feel badly ragging on Samsung during this latest fiasco. Well, now that I think of it, I don’t feel badly at all. Does that make me a bad person. I hope not. I am just an Apple lover. Regards, Steve from AZ Nope Steve - not a bad person are you or others that emailed in on this. And Where there is smoke there is fire and where there is fire - there is likely a Samsung Note 7 as the source. I really was going to ignore the Note 7 reports - because you know been there done that and did it again and again. But the story changed a bit. To the email bag. Hi Rob, The last line in this report is the best. Regards Mike B And this from an article titled - Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phone catches fire on Southwest Plane. Yes - you heard that right a replacement Note 7 smoked and burned on a Plane. I even heard Samuel Jackson is working on a new Horror Movie called Notes 7 on a plane. Here is a short trailer from that upcoming movie PLAY CLIP In this report they checked the IMEI number on the phone in question on Sammy’s recall eligibility checker and reported back = Great news that Note 7 is not affected by the recall. The phone was even purchased on Sep 21st - and had a black box on the label that is supposed to mean it is fine. Per Mikes comments about the end of the article - quote Green’s Note 7 is in the hands of the Louisville Fire Department’s arson unit for investigation and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission is opening an investigation into the incident. He has already replaced it with an iPhone 7. unquote 34:51 http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/9/13215728/samsung- galaxy-note-7-third-fire-smoke-inhalation And if that was the end of this story or the only one - I might have let it go - but there is another article many of you sent in titled. Samsung knew a third replacement note 7 caught fire on Tuesday and said nothing In the past week - 3 different Note 7 - all of which were of the Note affected by the recall or replacement units - caught fire. And those are the ones we know of. And right now - you know the only ones it sucks more to be than Sammy - is someone that owns a note 7. My recommendation for anyone listening that owns a note 7 or more realistically knows of someone that owns the note 7 - tell them to return it. This device is seriously dangerous - it is not a manufacturing issue at this point it is a design issue - the whole Note 7 line - and mark my words on this will be recalled and scuttled. They tried to take 10 pounds of sausage and stuff it in a 5 pound casing. They just tried to do to much with the battery - it is too dense - and this issue will keep coming up over and over with the Note 7 until the battery is completely redesigned to a lower density battery. But seriously - if you own one return it - turn it off - and take it back ASAP - if you know someone that owns it - tell them - plead with them to return it. It is really just a mater of if not when some one will be killed by this phone. That might sound dire - and yes - yes it is. As an add on - AT&T just announced they are halting all sales of the Note 7 - expect all others to follow suit this week. 36:32 I mentioned last year and last month about PIDS - Post iPhone delivery syndrome and many of you are suffering from PIDS. And by Suffering I mean your significant other is letting you know that they need some attention and are feeling a little jealous of your new shinny Apple device. Folks we have a sponsor that can help defeat PIDS - and that is Boll and Branch. How does Boll and Branch help you defeat PIDS - by allowing you to buy luxury sheets at an affordable price in a package your significant other will love and feel appreciated when you gift it to them. Like I said a year ago - do something to let them know you still care - and this is that something. The sheets from Boll and Branch are made from 100% organic cotton - not because organic is a buzzword but because organic cotton is incredibly soft. And the sheets get softer each time you wash them. 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It includes a lot of technical information that you and your listeners may find interesting. Best regards, Marc from Boston Marc - thanks for the heads up. A delay from Sep to Feb is not to bad. Just Ask Levi - who wrote: Hey Rob just wondering if you have any insight on the znaps product? Have you received yours yet? Have you looked into their progress? Love the show, Levi from Moreno Valley, CA The Znaps have still not shipped - they were originally scheduled for Nov 2015 I think that was three different cities ago for Levi. I think you were in Riverside probably when you ordered those. And other projects I have backed have not shipped and may never ship. Kickstarter and indie gogo - are an investment in a new product and many times the delivery dates listed do not happen or come even close. If a project ships with in 6 months of its estimated delivery date - consider that a success. Here is another email on a Kickstarter project. Hi Rob, I think you also backed the Sound Band (it is now more than 2 years) and I can’t believe they still pretend they will be shipping this. I really don’t believe it any more, I think very early this year they sent out an update saying they were getting close and I think people were asked to log in to Kickstarter to confirm their address. Then again 9 months of nothing and now this, do you actually think we still get this thing? I just wish I could get my money back for this, with the Airpods almost ready for release I think this will be outdated to begin with. Yes, I know, this doesn’t sit in the ears and all that, but what a joke it was. I’d love to hear your comment regarding this on the next episode. Regards, Sieghard Now I should point out most of the kickstarter projects I have backed over the years have shipped. Only the SOS charger was I ever charged for and completely canceled - no money returned. The Soundband - Is one I was going to write off as well - so not sure what to think on this. Original ship date was supposed to be December 2013 - so if they get it out before the end of the year it would be just 3 years late. Again most shipped close to schedule or own schedule. A couple were a little late - and a couple are very late. Kickstarter is not a store - it is a funding environment for start ups and not all startups succeed. unforeseen issues can happen. That said when they do succeed - you typically will get a leading edge product or unique product at a fraction of the retail price. Please folks remember that when I talk about Kickstarter and indiegogo projects. VOICEMAIL - Kona_HI_fdbk_iPhone7_headphone_returned 48:09 http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/07/technology/apple- iphone-headphone-jack/index.html Apple definitely has been getting grief from all quarters about the removal of the head phone jack. Videos popping up on youtube go down a rabbit hole of conspiracy around apple wanting more fees from the MFI requirements to others to use the lightning port. So really there are a few options for iPhone 7 and 7+ users. Go wireless on headphones - with Apples $159 air pods being the option Apple wants you to choose. But there are a plethora of Wireless options - I am test one of them - and will talk about it once I get it running with my iPhone 7+ - which is sitting here next to me waiting for me to finish this episode so I can get it set up. See how much I love you all - I put this episode ahead of playing with my new iPhone. Option two - use lightning headphones - but loose the option of charging while listening or Option three - use the dongle from apple for your 1/8th inch head phones but again - loose the option of charging while listening. Or Option four - get a 3rd party dongle. 49:21 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/291423994/ildock- charge-and-listen-to-iphone-7-at-the-same-t And Thanks to Michael for this next Kickstarter Project - which is Option 4 and the one I personally choose and backed. It is called the I L Dock - it allows you to charge and listen with 1/8 inch headphones at the same time. This is something I need for my iPhone 7+ so that I can also use my iRig Mic HD and headphones at the same time. I hope at least. This project had goal of $5k - and has raised over $87k - so yeah - they are well past their goal - congrats. This one you have until Friday Oct 28th at 9:38 AM CT to fund. The IL Dock actually have 3 versions. One is the plain ILDock - and that is where it has an 1/8th inch headphone jack and a lightening port. That is $10. Then there is the ILDock duo - that has two Lightening ports - one for listening with your new lightening headphones and one for charging. That one is $12 Then there is the ILDock plus - which has a 1/8th inch port, a lightening port, a USB port, a TF card port and an SD card Port. That one is $20. They also have some combo deals - if you get the ILDock and ILDock plus - combined they are $27 - which is what I ordered. Like I said I am backer of this one. I like on the ILDock plus the USB as well. This really will cover me in most of my uses for Podcasting. And for $38 you can get all three versions. They are estimating delivery in December for these. Note if you are in the US - which they are not - then it will be an additional fee for shipping - which was $4 for me - so really for $31 I am getting both the ILDock and ILDock plus. Considering that Apples USB and lightning Camera Connection kit set me back $39 - just for it - that $31 is a really good price for two different dongles and one with way more options than Apples $39 offering. Search ILDock one word at kickstarter dot com or in the show notes for Ep 409 at today in iOS dot com 51:31 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-04/behind- the-pixel-google-s-first-real-threat-to-apple-s-iphone Hi Rob, Today was the Google Pixel phone announcement and of course, there has to be the "iPhone killer" verbiage from Bloomberg...lol. You may want to save this one for a future "how wrong were they" segment… Regards, Darius W I love this title - The Pixel Google’s first real threat to Apples iPhone. Well first real threat since the last first real threat which was the first since their previous first real threat and so on. Each time a new Nexus phone was released someone said it was Google First real threat against the iPhone. Some will say - well this is the first one Google designed - the others were designed by 3rd parties. Unless you could the Nexus 6 - which was designed by Motorola Mobility which was owned by google for 2 1/2 years prior to the Nexus 6 announcement. It is all semantics - Google approved the other phones - and in the case of the Nexus 6 designed it. And the key on the nexus series as with the Pixel is they can be updated on software right away. But it is really the 9th and 10th First real iPhone killer from Google. Or put another way - YAWN. Now some in the Google+ community have a different thought on this. But me - I don’t see the Pixel being any different as far as impact on the iPhone then any of the previous Nexus’s - which was negligible at best. Really the Pixel will impact other Android phone OEM’s more than the iPhone. The big feature was Google offering Cloud storage for Pixel owners for uploading their photos and videos. I can say I already have 1TB of free cloud storage with google as I signed up for google fiber. And yawn - not exciting - been there done that - and yes - Yawn. We will see if it impacts the iPhone - but again as in the past - this seems a lot to do about nothing - just like every other Google phone that has come before it. VOCIEMAIL - JustinPA_fdbk_google_hardware 56:45 Ep 409 - Hi Rob, Tell Siri "Bueller" Regards, Ian 57:17 Thanks again to Boll & Branch for sponsoring this episode - Folks go right now to Boll at Branch dot com, and use promo code TII. to get $50 OFF the nicest sheets and cotton products you have ever owned with free shipping to boot. And Before we go today I want to remind you to send in your feedback to the show - 206-666-6364 - that 206-moon-dog - or record your feedback and email it to the show at today in iOS at gmail dot com - The feedback can be a question or comment per something someone said on this episode or it can be a question or rant you have about something else. An App or product review - good or bad - as long as it is iOS related - it is welcomed. I am always looking for new Artwork to feature that you created on an iOS device - just put some Tii branding on it and send it in. And of course we are always looking for more music created on an iOS device to play on the show. This is your show and your feedback is greatly desired. That said - I am trying hard to get as much feedback into the show - and the next couple of episodes will be even more listeners feedback oriented. I spent a lot of time this last week filtering and organizing the feedback. If yours did not make this episode look for it on the next couple of episodes. Also don't forget to check out our Moderated Google Plus community by going to todayinios dot com slash community. 58:28 Thanks again to Harry's for sponsoring this episode. Folks please go to Harrys.com slash tii right now and enter code Tii at checkout to claim your Free Trial Set and post shave balm. That’s Harrys.com slash tii and then enter coupon code Tii Finally check out the newly updated Tii App which is Free to you. We now have Apple Watch App included. Search for Tii in the iTunes App Store - it is the best way to consume the show and to get push notifications each time a new episode of Tii is released. It is fully Voiceover friendly of course. Please go right now and download the Tii App. Next episode may be out late Wednesday / early Thursday as there might be breaking news on Wednesday - I will leave it at that. And per this episode that folks is almost going to do it for us - I say almost as there is some additional listener feedback after the music - so please stick around for that - but that is it for me on this episode - until the next time I am your host Rob reminding you to phone different OUTRO OUTRO MUSIC VOICEMAIL - Mike_R_texas_long_feedback
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TRANSCRIPT FOR EPISODE 408 Welcome to the show I am your host Rob and this is the Today in iOS podcast - First up I want to thank DOUG for sending in the music you hear in the background. DOUG wrote: Hi Rob, I used to write music for music libraries but decided that it was too difficult to try being a full-time musician/composer and a web/mobile developer and raise a family at the same time, so I took a hiatus from music making. Now that I have a little more time and had a nice creative recharge, I've decided to start writing music again, but with one constraint - it has to be done on a mobile device, phone or tablet. So right now I'm experimenting with lots of apps, primarily on my iPad Air. The music I've sent is titled "Experiment A1," because it was just an experiment to learn the app I used, which was Auxy. I wrote and rendered this track on my iPad Air. I did however use Audacity on my MacBook Pro to add the reverse effect at the end of the track. Regards, doug sparling SONG_Experiment_A1 Thanks DOUG for the music and folks I will put the full song at the end of the episode. I also want to thank BRUCE for sending in the Artwork for today's show. BRUCE wrote the following: Hi Rob, Here is some artwork I created using an image based off of Apple's most recent invite. It was edited and the text was added using the Snapseed app. Thanks for all that you do, and as always keep up the great work! Regards, Bruce W. Thanks BRUCE, for sending in this artwork and folks you can see BRUCE'S artwork in the FREE Tii App via the BONUS button for ep 408 - or at instagram.com/todayinios and also as a stand alone post in the VIP section and at Facebook.com/todayinios. If you have some artwork and or music you have created on your iOS device that you would like to share with the audience please email it to me at today in iOS at gmail dot com and please make sure to include which app or apps you used to create said artwork and or music. AND I am down to just two songs in my queue - so if you have some music created on an iOS device - please please please send it in. 02:38 In this segment of how wrong were they we have the following quote quote “All of a sudden, every teenage girl has an iPhone. The real danger is that Apple becomes so mainstream that there is a breakaway by consumers to something new.” UNQUOTE T. Michael Walkley, Analyst, Canaccord Genuity, 26 Feb 2012 So again this is the it is too popular for its own good fear. And if you are going to be afraid of something be too popular - don’t let it be what is popular with Teenage girls - because what they do very very much influences teenage boys. And if you doubt the power of teenage girls - realize this - there were 5 Twilight movies made - count them 5. Just Sayin. 03:22 For Promo codes - On Ep 407 we offered up chances to win promo codes for The App - ERNIE VS EVIL - If you are interested in winning a promo code for this app or want more info go back and listen to the beginning of Ep 407 A QUICK REMINDER if you are an App developer or an iBook Author email me if you want your app or iBook featured in the promo give away segment FOR FREE We Just need the 5 promo codes or more to give away. simply email me at today in ios @ gmail.com and please include a 60 sec or less audio review of your app or iBook - indicating you are the dev or author. Also when you send in the promo codes - please make sure to let me know when they expire. 04:03 http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/9/23/ 13031438/apple-ios-10-0-2-released-headphone-bug-fixed VOICEMAIL - Preston_WI_7plus_shipping Early. Right after the last Episode Apple released iOS 10.0.2 - and yes - finally I can say release the hounds. At least for most people. If you happen to be traveling - always best to wait until you are home to upgrade and if you need your phone for work - also best to upgrade on the weekend - as early as possible - so you have time to work through any issues. Also if there are some Apps that you absolutely - positively most use for work or school - and are concerned about them working in iOS 10.x - then go to their page in iTunes and see when they last updated and see if it says the app is iOS 10.x compatible - and if it does not say - then email the dev. I feel now based on reading reports and listening to feedback - that most issues left are not iOS 10 issues as much as some apps having issues with iOS 10. Per iOS 10.0.2 - as with any double dot update it is all about squashing bugs man. The key one that is squashed with 10.0.2 is the issue that caused lightning headphone controls to be disabled after a period of inactivity. If your buttons on your lightening headphones were not responsive for your iPhone 7 or 7+ - 10.0.2 should fix them. Not something I needed to worry about - because you know - my Phone is still be in China and not in Overland Park. There are some other bugs fixed in this update. One is a bug that caused Photos to quit when switch on iCloud Photo Library. Another fixes a bug that prevented you from enabling some app extensions. If you happen to be an owner of the Kevo Smart Lock from Kwikset - they had warned not to update to iOS 10 yet because of a bug in iOS 10 that cause the lose of some features of their locks. Now they say iOS 10.0.2 fixed that bug and their smart lock is smart again. Again if you were on the less than 50% that has held off updating to iOS 10 - then again it is time to release the hounds and update to 10.0.2 - 07:41 http://www.applemust.com/ios-10-now-on-over-50-iphones- fresh-data-claims/ Yes - you heard me right - over 50% of iOS users are now using iOS 10.x It took about 16 days for iOS 10.x to cross the 50% installed user base - that was September 26th. This according to AppLovin. To put that in perspective - Android's latest version Marshmallow - is at an 18% and change adoption rate. And it was released on October 5th officially - oh I should point out that was October 5th 2015. In one year less than 20% adoption rate vs Less than 3 weeks to be well over 50% for iOS. VOICEMAIL - Ricardo_CA_fdbk_why_getting_plus-over_7 11:56 https://www.change.org/p/apple-bring-back-slide-to-unlock- 1f477a10-d58c-4d3d-a9bb-19c3874e0cca One new feature of iOS 10 is really not a feature it is a change - and that is you now push the home button to unlock. No longer do you slide to unlock. And everyone loves change - right. Well not so much. There is a petition out there for Apple to bring back slide to unlock - back to the iOS 1 to iOS 9 way of doing things - not this new fangled push the home button to unlock way of doing things in iOS 10. Folks are saying - hey Apple - you trained us for 9 years to do this slide to unlock thing - it is now built well into muscle memory - how are we supposed to change now. Bring back slide to unlock seems to be the mantra for at least a vocal minority - if not also a silent majority - What say you - are you set in your slide to unlock ways - or are you able to adjust to this revolutionary new push to unlock method. Give us a call - 206-666-6364 or email us - today in iOS at gmail dot com. 13:09 http://www.investors.com/news/aetna-will-subsidize-apple- watch-in-health-care-win-for-apple/ Interesting story - Aetna will subsidize Apple Watch for select large employers and individual customers. Aetna said the following quote "a new initiative to revolutionize members' consumer health experience by combining the power of iOS apps and the unmatched user experience of Apple products including Apple Watch, iPhone and iPad with Aetna's analytics-based wellness and care management programs." unquote Aetna is also as the phrase goes - eating its own dog food and will provide Apple Watch at no cost for all of its employees - nearly 50,000 strong are they. Aetna said their employees will receive a free Apple watch is they quote participate in the company's wellness reimbursement program, to encourage them to live more productive, healthy lives.” unquote. What is not spelled out - is how much of that movement and health data collected from your Apple watch will be sent to Aetna - I would have to imagine - if you agree to getting an Apple watch - you are also agreeing to share your health data collected on the Apple Watch. It does appear Aetna has some big app releases scheduled for 2017 for iOS users. More on this in the future. In the UK - insurer Vitality also this past week announce they will be subsidizing Apple Watches for those that that take part in wellness efforts over two years. Obviously if you are more active and lead a healthier lifestyle - it will mean you will cost Aetna and other insurers less money to insure you long term. VOICEMAIL - JEFF_AR_iPhone7_observations http://www.investors.com/news/external-content/ 19:29 We are happy to have Away sponsoring us again. They make great luggage. They sent me their Carry on bag which I am loving. It is great - it has a 10,000 MAH battery pack built in. That will charge an iPhone 6 or 7 Five times. Waiting on a flight last week at LAX - all these people were Standing around this Power Kiosk - charging their phones - I on the other hand was sitting comfortably at a seat while my Phone charged from my Away Suitcase. Even better is you actually can be charging it as you are walking through the airport and waiting on line or even in the restroom. But beyond the battery pack it is a great bag and meets my requirements - wheels under all 4 corners and swivels 360 - making it easy to get down the isle and smooth flow in the airport. And it is double wheels under each corner. Something I really like. It is lightweight and very durable and even has a lifetime warranty - if anything breaks they will fix or replace it for you for LIFE. And there is a 100 day trial. If it is not for you then just return it for a full refund no questions asked. I love when a company stands behind their product like that. The Away bag comes with a charging cord and comes in a really nice Laundry bag. And on the inside there is a bag for your shoes as well. They really looked at all the details in making the best Carry on bag I have ever owned or seen. Even the shipping box has nice Away Travel artwork on the inside. Very very apple-ish. In addition to the carry on they also have mid size and large check in bags. But only the carry on has the battery pack. To save $20 go to away travel dot com slash tii and use promo code tii . Again away travel dot com slash tii and use promo code tii to save $20. 21:34 VOICEMAIL - Woody_NJ_icloud_drive VOICEMAIL - Woody_NJ_part2_icloud_Sync_issue_update Hi Rob, Because of the headphone jack removal I decided before buying the iPhone 7 to try a set of Bluetooth headphones as I use plugged in headphones currently for at least 3 hours a day. I found even the cheap ones I bought to be sufficiently good sound quality wise and they allowed me to answer calls and change volume etc with ease. My concern was at the end of the day my battery level had plummeted compared to my normal daily use. I have always had Bluetooth enabled as I use a Bluetooth speaker when at home occasionally and have never had a battery issue with the Bluetooth functionality left on. So it looks to me that by Bluetooth being actually used drains the battery much faster than simply having Bluetooth enabled, which makes sense as it's doing much more. But I had no idea it was such a marked jump upwards for battery drain. That is a real deal breaker right now for me to make the jump to a non-headphone jack phone. Might it be because I was using a VERY cheap set, or is that normal? Love your work, thanks for your time Regards, Anthony Vickers London CLIP Hey Rob, On episode 406, when I heard Justin from Pennsylvanias message about the preorder and the apple store app my reaction was “so it wasnt just me!”. However mine wasnt with the payment, it was the shipping address. I had moved out of my parents house this January but hadn’t ordered anything from Apple since then so I knew I had to change the shipping address. I go and do it ahead of time just like Justin did with his and when I went to complete my order, not only would they not let me change the shipping address beforehand, but it was my old one! And it did waste some precious time. And to add to that, Apple wouldnt let me change it afterwards when I chatted with them. Thankfully my parents house is right up the street and this shouldn’t be a problem. But the fact is it couldve been. So I definitely feel Justins pain! Something must’ve been wrong with the app... Good timing Apple. Anyway love the show Rob! Regards, Tony Ellicott city, Maryland VOICEMAIL - Brian_FL_fdbk_battery_bigger 32:46 Time to continue on with some of the new features / changes of iOS 10 very very quickly - just to remind you what they are. Apple Music - An all-new design for Apple Music brings greater clarity and simplicity to every aspect of the experience
- Navigate your Library with an improved menu and see all of the Downloaded Music that you can play on your device while offline
- See recommendations in For You that highlight mixes, playlists, albums, and Connect posts—selected for you based on the music and artists you love
- Visit Browse to more easily see exclusive releases, find curated playlists, and discover the most important new releases—picked by our editors each week
- Listen to Radio more easily—clearly see what’s live on Beats 1, hear your favorite shows on-demand, or choose a curated station for any genre of music
- Play music with an improved Now Playing experience—swipe up to view available lyrics and quickly see or edit songs that are coming up next
Apple News - An all-new design in For You adds bold typography, vibrant color, and distinct sections that make it easier to find stories on specific topics
- See the most important stories of the day within Top Stories—updated by our editors throughout the day
- Find the most popular stories right now within Trending Stories—selected based on what others are reading
- See all of your stories grouped into easy-to-understand sections on the topics you follow or read
- Discover the best and most interesting stories of the week within Featured Stories—selected by our editors
- Share stories more easily—just tap the icon on any story to send it to a friend right from For You
- Receive breaking news notifications from some of your most trusted sources
- Subscribe to your favorite magazines and newspapers directly in News
- New personalized Today View widget lets you keep up with the latest stories throughout the day
Experience - Raise to Wake automatically wakes the screen as you raise your iPhone
- Rich notifications that support real time information, audio, photos and videos
- Today view is redesigned and supports all new widgets for apps like Weather, Up Next, Maps, Stocks and more
- Control Center is redesigned with easier to access controls including dedicated cards for music playback and Home
- Expanded use of 3D Touch
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- Lock screen notifications to support an expanded view and access to quick actions
- New quick actions for built in apps like Weather, Stocks, Reminders, Health, Home, FaceTime, iCloud Drive and Settings
- Home Screen widgets
- Control Center for access to quick actions for Flashlight, Timer, Calculator and Camera
- Clear all in Notification Center
Next time I will go over QuickType, and other improvements / changes for iOS 10. 36:30 VOICEMAIL - Scott_DC_7plus_fdbk_screen_protector Hi Rob, One of the IOS 10 enhancements I looked forward to, was the maps program automatically "remembering" where I parked. I was more than a bit disappointed when I realized that I had to have Apple Car or a Bluetooth enabled car to use this feature. I do not want to buy a new Apple car stereo as I am quite happy with my current system. I tried buying a Bluetooth accessory for my car that plugged into my sound system' auxiliary port. That didn't work - apparently it worked as headphones and didn't the required ID. Do you, or any of your listeners, know of a way around this requirement. If there is no workaround, does anyone know of an inexpensive way of adding Bluetooth to my car. I enjoy listening to your show! Keep up the good work. Regards, Smitty Hi Rob thanks for the heads up on The plug electrical battery on Ep 406. I've ordered two pack can't wait till December! Regards, Thomas W Hi Rob – See email thread below. Like you, I am still awaiting arrival of my iPhone 7+. I ordered the Utomic edges based on your recommendation on Episode 406. You stated they told you that the edges designed for the 6+ would also be compatible with the 7+. After I placed my order, I received an email from Utomic advertising the soon to be arrival of the edges for the 7+. When I questioned their representation to you, they advised me to return the edges designed for the 6+ and wait until the 7+ models were available. - Todd VOICEMAIL - Andy_utomic_bumpers_not_for_back_camera Hi Andy and Todd - thanks for the feedback - I reached out to Utomic about this and they said quote Hello Rob, We are sorry to hear that one of your listeners had issues with fit with their iPhone 6 Plus Edges on their iPhone 7 Plus. That should not be the case. Our Edge protectors for the iPhone 6 Plus will fit on the iPhone 7 Plus. That being said, we are not satisfied with the amount of lift the iPhone 6 Plus Edge protectors provide the i7 Plus for the camera, so we are redesigning the Edge protectors. The new design will be thicker to provide more protection. So, if you want super slim, stick with the current design, but if you want a bit more protection, the new design is your choice. If your listeners have any issues, they can contact us for help with replacements or advice - support@utomic.com. Regards, Your friendly Utomic support staff unquote 44:36 https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/1907298 Hey Rob, Here's an indigogo campaign for a 7/7+ case with a built-in audio jack, but unlike the last one I sent you this one also protects the phone and doubles your battery life (2,400 mAh (iPhone 7), or 3,600 mAh (iPhone 7 Plus)). Just went up today and already raised 34%... https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fuze-cases-bringing-back-the-audio-jack-iphone-headphones#/ Aric Boyles Thanks also to AP and others that sent in the link to this one. It is called the FUZE cast - spelled F U Z E - and there is one for the 7 and one for the 7+ and this battery case - also offers screen protection and a lightening port and most importantly to those that like 1/8th inch headphone ports - one of those. No dongle for you. And no micro usb port - just the standard lightning port - which is really nice. And it also means you can charge both the iPhone and the case at the same time. The battery size for the 7 is 2,400 man and the 7+ is 3,600 maH - which means more than double the battery life for both devices. They had a goal of 50K - when the email from Aric came in they were 34% of the way there - now they are over the 50k mark. you have until around the end of October to fund this one. Pricing for a single case - 7 or 7+ costs $69. You can get two cases for $109. Or 4 cases for $249. If you are interested in this and just can’t let go over your 1/8 inch plug - search for FUZE - F U Z E - at indie gogo dot com or in the show notes for ep 408 46:31 http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2016/09/28Apple-Deloitte- Team-Up-to-Accelerate-Business- Transformation-on-iPhone-iPad.html VOICEMAIL - Alex_walnut_creek_issues_with_iPhone_looking_for_help Apple put out a press release this past week titled - quote Apple & Deloitte Team Up to Accelerate Business Transformation on iPhone & iPad unquote. From the PR Apple said quote As part of the joint effort, Deloitte is creating a first-of-its-kind Apple practice with over 5,000 strategic advisors who are solely focused on helping businesses change the way they work across their entire enterprise, from customer-facing functions such as retail, field services and recruiting, to R&D, inventory management and back-office systems. Apple and Deloitte will also collaborate on the development of a new service offering from Deloitte Consulting called EnterpriseNext, designed to help clients fully take advantage of the iOS ecosystem of hardware, software and services in the workplace. The new offering will help customers discover the highest impact possibilities within their industries and quickly develop custom solutions through rapid prototyping. unquote We know this is important to Apple because they have a quote from Tim Cook - and most PR’s do not have that. 50:46 VOICEMAIL - Shannon_AZ_promote_slack_group_iTruckers CLIP Hi Rob, I am a blind user of the I phone six. I am using iOS 10. The only issue that I am having is using messages with invisible ink with voice over. I am not sure how to review a message that is sent in invisible ink. If someone could please let me know how to do this. I would greatly appreciate this, and I love this app. It is very informative, considering that I want to go into a field where I would be working with technology and tech-support for Apple. Regards, Brittney. Hi Rob, I am learning to deal with the missing headphone jack and trying out some bluetooth ear buds, but what I didn’t expect was the hassle that my new iPhone ear buds won’t work on my MacBook Air. I did not realize how often I went back and forth from one to the other when I take a skype call or something. I am finding that instead of carrying one set of ear buds I am now carrying 3. lightening ear buds, blue tooth ear buds and my old ear buds to use with the Mac :-( I am hoping Apple’s new bluetooth ear buds will make this all work better Regards Chris C VOICEMAIL - Joe_NY_question_battery_life VOICEMAIL - Joe_NY_part2_followup xx:xx https://www.apple.com/support/accessibility/contact/ And FINALLY - I received an email at 1:13 AM while recording - that said - YOUR SHIPMENT IS ON ITS WAY - right now it looks like October 7th is when I will have it - so next episode will be up on October 6th - so I can be starting with a clean slate for the following episode - YEAH - Finally. Hi Rob, I know that you are an iBooks author and you helped to share the work of other authors in your promo giveaway segment. I also know that you are committed to accessibility, andI thus make the following request of you and your listeners: Would it be possible to create a small campaign to make iBooks Author more accessible on the Mac with voiceover? Maybe we can all email the apple accessibility team or find some other way to make this possible. There are still many problems with the app and it is difficult to use at best. This app has been out for much too long and I feel that us visually impaired folk need to have access to all the features possible in this piece of software. I noticed that this app does not really meet quality standards for accessibility from apple and hope that with your help and that of the listeners, we can make a change. The email address to send your thoughts / request for Accessibility with the iBooks Author tools is accessibility@apple.com Thank you Rob and I love your show.. Regards, Ricardo from California 57:40 Ep 408 - Ask Siri - Kiss Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E00Zuayv9Q PPAP Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen/PIKO-TARO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E00Zuayv9Q 58:56 For $20 off your order of the best Language at an affordable price please visit away travel dot com slash Tii and use promo code Tii when you check out. Thanks Away for supporting this show. And Before we go today I want to remind you to send in your feedback to the show - 206-666-6364 - that 206-moon-dog - or record your feedback and email it to the show at today in iOS at gmail dot com - The feedback can be a question or comment per something someone said on this episode or it can be a question or rant you have about something else. An App or product review - good or bad - as long as it is iOS related - it is welcomed. I am always looking for new Artwork to feature that you created on an iOS device - just put some Tii branding on it and send it in. And of course we are always looking for more music created on an iOS device to play on the show. This is your show and your feedback is greatly desired. Also don't forget to check out our Moderated Google Plus community by going to todayinios dot com slash community. Finally check out the newly updated Tii App which is Free to you. We now have Apple Watch App included. Search for Tii in the iTunes App Store - it is the best way to consume the show and to get push notifications each time a new episode of Tii is released. It is fully Voiceover friendly of course. Please go right now and download the Tii App. And one of the new features in the Tii App is the Watch OS App for it. After you download an episode on the iPhone app for Tii - there is an option on the Episode detail page to upload the episode to the Watch. Just click the little watch icon on the download button. The upload when completed allows you to playback an episode on the watch without it being connected to the iPhone. Just choose watch playback on the watch when picking a playlist. This is great for those that want to go running or biking or now also swimming and have bluetooth headphones connected to the apple watch - you can now consume the latest Tii episodes directly on the Apple watch with no tether / connection needed. Yes - feel free to leave home your iPhone - but still now easily being able to play Tii from the Apple Watch. And that folks is going to do it for us today - until the next time I am your host Rob reminding you to phone different OUTRO OUTRO MUSIC PPAP - Song
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TRANSCRIPT FOR EPISODE 407 Welcome to the show I am your host Rob and this is the Today in iOS podcast - First up I want to thank AARON for sending in the music you hear in the background. AARON wrote: Hey Rob, This song called "Be Released" is about life and love in the modern world. The track was originally written using Garage Band on my iPad Pro 9.7 and my Casio Px5s synthesizer. It was then later exported to Logic Pro on my MacBook Pro and mastered using a very cool software package called Lurssen Mastering, (pronounced Ler-sen) from IKMultimedia which is available for both IOS, and Mac OS. I continued to use the iPad during this process via Logic Remote. I can be found online on my official site: http:www.aarontoddmusic.com, on Twitter: @aarontodd, my blog about music: https://aarontoddonline.wordpress.com and on Reverb Nation At: https://www.reverbnation.com/aaront Thank you for all you do to share useful information about IOS products, you rock brother! Hope you will get a chance to say hey, the next time you are in L.A. In soul and song, Regards, Aaron Todd SONG_Be_Released Thanks AARON for the music and folks I will put the full song at the end of the episode. I also want to thank BRUCE for sending in the Artwork for today's show. BRUCE wrote the following: Hi Rob, Here is some artwork I created using an image based off of Apple's most recent invite. It was edited and the text was added using the Snapseed app. Thanks for all that you do, and as always keep up the great work! Regards, Bruce W. Thanks BRUCE, for sending in this artwork and folks you can see BRUCE'S artwork in the FREE Tii App via the BONUS button for ep 407 - or at instagram.com/todayinios and also as a stand alone post in the VIP section and at Facebook.com/todayinios. If you have some artwork and or music you have created on your iOS device that you would like to share with the audience please email it to me at today in iOS at gmail dot com and please make sure to include which app or apps you used to create said artwork and or music. AND I am down to just two songs in my queue - so if you have some music created on an iOS device - please please please send it in. 02:30 In this segment of how wrong were they we have the following quote quote “Imagine Samsung introducing revolutionary new lines of mobile phones and tablet computers with twice the battery life of Apple devices! Imagine colors more vivid than you have ever seen in any display before and half the thickness of Apple devices! The foregoing is not just a hyperbole; Samsung is pouring billions into making this happen. unquote Nigam Arora, Contributor, Forbes, 10 Feb 2012 Wow - Really Think with Twice the battery life of Apple devices - that sounds hot. And just like the type of Phone the Talking Heads could get into you know if they were speaking in tongues. Well Nigam all I can say is Watch out you might get what you’re after. Just Sayin. 03:18 This week we have promo codes for The App - ERNIE VS EVIL Here is the review from the dev. PLAY PROMO ERNIE VS EVIL Well thanks to the devs for their review of their App - ERNIE VS EVIL - and for sending in the promo codes to their App to give away. Folks if you would like a chance for a promo code for this app - please send an email to todayinios at gmail dot com and put EVIL in the subject line. A QUICK REMINDER if you are an App developer or an iBook Author email me if you want your app or iBook featured in the promo give away segment FOR FREE We Just need the 5 promo codes or more to give away. simply email me at today in ios @ gmail.com and please include a 60 sec or less audio review of your app or iBook - indicating you are the dev or author. Also when you send in the promo codes - please make sure to let me know when they expire. 04:36 http://www.macrumors.com/2016/09/21/apple-seeds-ios- 10-1-beta-to-developers/ Well Developers - Apple has released iOS 10.1 beta 1 for testing on Sep 21st - nice way to end the summer. The big add with 10.1 beyond bug fixes and optimization upgrades - is The new Portrait bokeh feature - that is where it focuses on the person you are taking a picture of and blurs the background. This is just for iPhone 7Plus owners - so I should say it is the biggest part of the update as long as your iPhone 7 plus has been delivered to you and is not still showing 2 to 3 weeks for delivery like oh I don’t know - MINE. And there is is also a fix for motion handling in 10.1 beta 1. It is rumored 10.1 beta 1 will be available for non-devs by the end of the week. Betas for Xcode 8.1, Watch OS 3.1 and tv OS 10.0.1 were also released to devs on the 21st. 05:40 http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/15/12930974/t-mobile- apple-ios-10-problems VOICEMAIL - Rob_usdin_feedbk_what_happened_update_iOS10 Rob - Thanks for that explanation on what happened - and yes if you like living on the edge and are careful enough to back up fully before trying a new update - go for it. Well unless you are on T-Mobile. Again - each year there are a few things that go on with the new updates. - And this year the 2nd item and bigger item is well T-Mobile USA is saying essentially - Boom babies strange but not a stranger - which means - do not update to iOS 10 at this time. Seems if you have an iPhone 6, 6 plus and SE - it is telling customers not to install iOS 10 - as there are or were connection issues. Since this issue was announced late last week - Apple has rolled out a fix - so if you did update to iOS 10 - there is an update to the update. And if you are just updating now - you should be ok. Again - if you are conservative and really want all your apps to work all the time - you still may want to wait until one or two more updates roll out. But if you like living on the edge and are ok fixing things or dealing with some small issues - then go ahead and update to iOS 10.0.1 Just make sure to back up fully before doing so. And make sure to update all your apps before hand as well. Then force quit all open apps - and do a network settings reset - then reconnect to wifi and then do your update from iOS 9.x to iOS 10.0.1 Good luck. Into the email bag. Hi Rob Having updated to iOS almost immediately (yes, I'm one of those people), I have to say overall I am very happy with it. Stuck in traffic last night, I decided to see how Siri had improved. All I can say is thank you Apple. I often use Siri to change music when I am driving and in the past this could be a very frustrating exercise (the phone nearly getting chucked out the car window a few times). But now, none of that. Not once last night did it get a request wrong. My only gripe is with the Music app interface - it looks like a cheap Word Press site. Regards, Mark 09:42 https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone+7+ Plus+Teardown/67384 After each new iOS device hits the market - there is one post I and many others really look forward to - and it is the tear down post from iFixit. And yes - they have their iPhone 7 plus teardown available and it well is not really surprising - Repairability wise the 7Plus gets a score of 7 out of 10 - which is the same as the 6S plus and 6 Plus. Final Thoughts to start from iFixit. On the positive - The battery is straight forward to access and replace. And the Solid state home button eliminates a common point of failure. The addition of making it more water resistant means it is more difficult to open up. Which means getting to the battery and screen to replace them is more difficult - but once you get it open it is easier to replace them. And Apple added tri-point screws for no apparent reason other than to make manufacturers of try-point screw drivers really happy as it is one more screw driver you need to purchase to repair and iphone. The Battery - which some bogus teardowns claimed was much smaller than the 6S plus - ended up being bigger then the 6S plus and on par to the battery of the 6Plus. Coming n at 2900 mAh vs 2750 mAh for the 6S Plus and 2915 mAh for the 6 Plus. Of course with iOS devices - Battery size is not a direct correlation to battery life - as there are new optimizations with the updated chips. Still nice to see a good size battery in there again. Looking at the Logic board is physically confirmed there are 3GB of Ram in the iPhone 7Plus vs 2GB for the iPhone 7. Again really nothing shocking or even unexpected discovered. Into the email bag. Hi Rob, It hadn't occurred to me until yesterday why I might miss the headphone jack. When driving, I typically use google maps on my iPhone, but I plug in the iPhone to keep the battery charged. I also listen to podcasts (like Tii) while I'm driving but to keep to myself I use a wired headphone. I wonder if there will be a way to charge and listen at the same time, maybe a jumper of some sort. Or I guess I just get a pair of wireless headphones (and keep them charged...). Love the show, Regards, Mike VOICEMAIL - Scott_TX_redo_part2_headphone_jack Hi, Rob, Something I haven't heard mentioned concerning the absence of the headphone jack in the iPhone 7 is the awkwardness of using wired headphones while carrying the iPhone in a belt case. Every case I've seen allows the headphone cable to escape through the case corner with the "old" iPhone configuration. The iPhone 7, with its adapter dongle which sprouts from the Lightning connector in the center of the body, doesn't work with belt cases. Regards, Larry 14:56 http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/15/technology/iphone- 7-jet-black-sold-out/index.html Early on a lot of the articles about sales this launch talked about higher than expected demand - then the pendulum swung the other way and said there was actually less than needed inventory. And any shortages are inventory related and not demand related. The iPhone 7Plus - Jet Black sold out to November at least on that first night. Other 7 Pluses are hard to get as well right now. But it is the Jet black that clearly has had the highest demand or major inventory shortage depending on who is telling the tale. Hi Rob, here are a few of my initial thoughts after receiving my black 7 Plus. I love the new home button. I had problems with it on my iPhone 5 and 6, where after a while it stopped working properly. On my 6S I actually turned on the accessibility on screen home button to not wear out the physical one. Depending on the surface my phone is laying on, the haptic button to me at least feels like an actual button. Totally fools my brain. The sound quality is so much improved by the addition of the second speaker. I use text to speech to communicate, so the improved sound quality and loudness is great. I look forward to using the new camera system. Anyways, I am totally pleased with my new phone. Regards, Darrin 16:20 http://qz.com/784332/iphone-7-jet-black-scratches-apple-aapl/ One thing reported early on is the Shinny Jet Black version is a scratch magnet. There is a video on youtube showing someone scratching it. Hint - If you take out a sheet metal screw and rub it vigorously on your iPhone - ummm - yeah it will scratch your iPhone - duhhhh. It did also scratch - with keys and a penny and of course with a razor blade. So you know - you might just want to keep change, Razorblades, Sheet Metal screws and your car keys out of the pocket you have your Jet Black iPhone in. Hi Rob, Per the iPhone 7 - I'm not sure, may be my imagination but seems like a little better sound from the 7 on Bluetooth and lightning port adapter. FYI as I've said some podcasts are not loud enough on Bluetooth. I've found a Bluetooth to headphone jack adapter that's pretty loud. I've got to figure out which one I ordered and get more. Both of this type require USB power so no charging necessary. $2 amazon from china. I'll probably try to get $10 or $20 worth to have on hand for extras or someone that needs one. Great for your aux jack. Mike R Sent from my iPhone 7! 17:38 http://fortune.com/2016/09/20/perfect-iphone-7-display/ Hi Rob, Just got my iphone 7 256gb (up from a 16gb 6!!) love it so far and as per the article here i think the display is fantastic! Looking forward to putting the camera through its paces but again, very impressed so far. No sign of the hissing i keep reading about either. I went for black by the way and to be honest its gone straight into a case so who cares! Sent my old 6 back to EE and they have offered me £200 ($260) which I'm pretty happy about too. Great show Rob, been listening for more years than i care to mention! All the best Simon Reedman Nottingham England Thanks simon for the email and the heads up on this article from Fortune that says the iPhone 7’s display is just about perfect - this based on testing from Displaymate. They said quote “It is the most color accurate display that we have ever measured, It is visually indistinguishable from perfect, and is very likely considerably better than any mobile display, monitor, TV or UHD TV that you have.” unquote Display mate has been testing smartphone displays for years - we have mentioned them before and they found that the iPhone 7 display has the top performance across the board for all their tests. Their biggest question mark about the iPhone 7 screen is why Apple was not jumping up and down at the keynote event touting how great it is. Hi Rob, Got the new 7 today in mail Updated to iOS 10.0.01 I'm waiting a few days or week to activate celluar as its my primary phone. Coming from a 4s this is wonderful. Especially the display zoom. The home button is very cool. There is a indention that looks like a button. You program from three choices the feel. It's like how the vibration works. It actually feels like it clicks. This is way cool. Really tricked out. If you know 10.0.1 is ready for prime time reply with the word. Bigger screen is going to be great in the truck. Hope battery will last me all day using the headphone adapter. Need to download your app. Going from 6.3 to 10.0 and 16g to 254 Mike R 21:01 Thanks to our new sponsor Texture for supporting this show. Texture is essentially the netflix of Magazines. You get access to well over 150 of the top magazines - we are talking binge reading. Sweet. I have really been enjoying my subscription to texture - as it gets me access to my favorite magazines - MacWorld, Wired, Popular Science and Fortune. Plus I also get access to PC World and PC Magazine - two I would normally never ever think of paying for but occasionally will have an article that is beneficial for this show or just interesting. That is the beauty of Texture you get access to over 150 top magazines covering every niche with your subscription. 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Once again go to texture dot com slash tii to get your free 14 day trial. 23:05 http://www.applemust.com/hissgate- await-a-software-patch-probably/ There are posts and some reports about what is being dubbed hiss gate - that is where some iPhone 7 owners are reporting hearing a hissing sound when under heavy use. I do not have any reports yet of listeners saying they had this issue - just that they have not. If your iPhone 7 is hissing - let us know. 206-666-6364 - 206 - moon - dog or send an email to today in iOS at gmail dot com. 23:34 http://swipetounlock.com/antutu-benchmark- results-show-iphone-7-takes-the-crown/ Some bench mark tests are starting to come in. GSM arena ran the iPhone 7 through the AnTuTu testing. And the results - the best they ever tested. About 25% better than the OnePlus 3 One thing we will see through out the next year - is that the only phone that beats the iPhone 7 in these tests will be the iPhone 7Plus. 24:05 http://www.news.com.au/technology/gadgets/mobile- phones/if-the-iphone-7-isnt-for-you-check-out-some-of- these-other-android-devices/news-story/ 19c0b73b16cbebd6be2e0ae72ff08cf2 Hi Rob, Thought you might like this opening line to an article about Android Phones: Quote Despite a product recall due to exploding batteries, the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is still considered to be the best Android on the market. unquote Made me laugh. Great podcast by the way. Regards, John Della Franca Perth, Australia 24:36 http://www.imangoss.net/2016/09/iphone-7-beats- samsung-galaxy-note-7-in-speed-test.html Well John - Thanks for that funny little quote - Kinda like besides the food poisoning it was the best Burrito I ever had. Well so now that we know the Note 7 is the best Android fun - despite the whole exploding battery problem. How does it do in a real world speed test vs the iPhone 7. Hint - The Note 7 lost on this head to head speed test vs the iPhone 6S. Which smoked the Note 7. Well the iPhone 7 did more then Smoke the Note 7 - it dare I say incinerated it. This is a test where they get the same apps on both devices and then launch each app and in some of them do a task - then move to the next app and so on - basically moving from app to app. Then they go back and relaunch all the apps again. This shows also how the devices work in holding the apps in stasis between uses. In short it worked out like this. The iPhone 7 was finished with everything before the Note 7 even completed the first lap and the iPhone 7 was done a lot sooner. Over all it took the iPhone 7 - one minute 40 seconds vs the note 7’s the minutes 14 seconds. So essentially half the time of the note 7. Imagine what would happen on this test with the 7Plus - which has more ram. 26:06 VOICEMAIL - JUSTIN_PA_answr_send_receive Hi Rob I've been listening a long time. Love your show. I have always been an S model upgrader. I had decided not to make the jump to the 7. I work outdoors and to be honest the louder speakers and water resistance and better battery are very tempting. But I couldn't justify the jump from my 6S. I also have the original iPad mini, which is almost unusable so I was considering upgrading that. Now I see ATT deal to send in my iPhone 6s and receive monthly credit for a total of $650. This makes the 7 only cost me $100 in the end and I would be eligible to upgrade again to whatever next year brings. I am on the grandfathered unlimited data plan so I have no plans of switching carriers. What would you advise? 7 for a $100 or just wait it out? Regards, Dan Dan - why not kill two birds with one upgrade - go to the 7 plus - and that gets you in-between the 6S and iPad mini size wise. People forget there are extra features with iOS with the plus versions when you go landscape. so go with the 7 plus for $200 if you can. VOICEMAIL - Laura_TX_iPhone7plus_battery_settings 1. Anytime you want to see what is draining your battery - first make sure you have your device running without power until it is down to 20% - at that point go to Settings - Battery - and scroll down and look for the last 24 hours and see what chewed up the most of your battery life. Make sure it is all apps you expected to see. 2. Make sure handoff is turned off - unless you are actually using that feature. Go to Settings —> General —> Handoff - and toggle off. 3. Goto Settings - iTunes & App Stores and turn off automatic downloads for all items. 4. Turn on Time Zone Override - this is one many people forget about - Go to Settings - Calendar - Time Zone Override - and toggle on. And select your time zone. If you do not have it on - then events will display according to the time of your current location and looking for your location over and over drains the battery. 5. Speaking of Locations - go to Settings - Privacy - location services - and turn off location services to all games - and set to while using for any you think need it - and turn fieldtester from always to never. 6 Also under Privacy - go to Diagnostic & usage and set to don’t send. 7 Turn off Airdrop - unless you plan on using it now or in the next few minutes - the rest of the time keep it off. Swipe up from the bottom of the screen and toggle it off there. 8 Check your brightness setting - and try turning it down some and see if you are ok with the screen a little dimmer. That are just 8 quick tips for getting improved battery life. If you look in the Tii App - under PDF’s there is the list of battery improvements for iOS 8 - many still important. And yes I need to update that doc. That doc had 19 tips for battery improvement. 32:05 https://plus.google.com/communities/ 105412562215997292912?cfem=1 We are now over 3,500 members in our Google+ community and growing. Thanks to everyone that has joined and thanks for the great posts. One new post in the G+ community that went up RECENTLY (since the last episode) that had lots of comments came from Stephen Williams ON September 8th who posted the following quote Considering changing to a different email service as Hotmail appears to be spam galore. Do you get much spam with a gmail email? unquote And Butch Jones replied quote I get SOME spam but nowhere near as bad as things used to be. I may get 20 spam msgs per week now. I don't complain about gmail at all! unquote Kenneth Berger replied quote My Yahoo mail gets tons of spam, but almost all of it gets caught in the spam filter. My Gmail gets almost no spam. unquote Vinny Trent replied quote I get very few spam msgs on my gmail account, moved over from using yahoo, it's night & day unquote Timothy Arnold replied quote I don't get much spam at all with +Gmail Most of my spam comes from Hotmail. I can block it, mark it as spam and it still shows up. unquote Gary Adams replied quote GMail has great spam blocking, as well as anti-virus scanning. I use GMail for mail, calendar, and contacts. I just add my GMail account to my new iPhone, and I'm ready to go. unquote And there were other no spam with Gmail messages. Long of the short - if you are using Hotmail or Yahoo Mail and getting spam - lots of it - check out gmail. I have used it for the show for over 9 years - and for podcast411 for 12 years - and it is something a podcaster needs for their show. Since the last episode there were also dozens and dozens of other new posts and comments in the Tii Google+ community - which is an Android fan bois free zone and spammer free zone. Yup it is the most civil Google+ community covering iOS. Folks Go to today in iOS dot com slash community to join in. And thanks to all 3,500+ of you already in the community and contributing. Also from the Google Plus community were these comments per the last episode - which I always pin the last episode at the top. From John Poyser quote Nice little article on the Amazon lawsuit :) unquote From Rick C quote Thanks for another great podcast. Your "plug" for the Plug got me curious. I took the plunge. First time backing something on Indigogo so hoping it is a success. unquote From Francisco Tapia quote The plus is basically one of these GoalZero Heavy Duty Portable power unquote Well yes - kinda - except the plug is much cheaper, much smaller, and much much much lighter. The lightest version of the GoalZero is 12 lbs - vs 2 lbs 3 oz for the plug. And the one that is comparable spec wise - which Plus has mentioned on their indie gogo page weighs in at 29 lbs. ouch - I mean literally ouch. If you want to learn more about the plug - go back to ep 406 around the 44 Minute mark for more info. It is a pretty cool indiegogo project for anyone looking for truly portable back up power for all their devices including their laptops. 35:43 Hi Rob, I have recently found “Today in iOS” and it is very informative. I have just upgraded my iPhone 5s to 10.0.1 with no issues, however I have identified that the Podcast app cannot be added to the Widgets screen. I view and listen to several podcasts and if they were able to be added to this screen it would be great. Is there any way this can be resolved, if not can you please check with your listeners and see if this would be good for them. Which is the best way to contact Apple developers so I could suggest this to them. Regards, John Time to continue on with some of the new features / changes of iOS 10 very very quickly - just to remind you what they are. Maps - All new look
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- Proactive suggestions for places you’re likely to go next, based on your routine or appointments in Calendar
- Improved search with new callout design, clustered results and category filters
- Home, work, favorite locations, and locations from upcoming Calendar events are displayed on the map
- Displays where your car is parked via CarPlay or Bluetooth
- Weather for the currently viewed area
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- Make a reservation within Maps using extensions from participating reservations apps
- Book a ride to a destination within Maps using extensions from participating ride service apps
- Turn-by-turn navigation improvements
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- Search along route for gas stations, food, and coffee shops
- Automatic view adjustment of the road ahead
- Use pan and zoom during navigation
- Option to avoid tolls and highways
Photos - Advanced face recognition designed with deep learning to automatically group similar faces together
- Object and scene recognition to intelligently search for photos by what’s in them using advanced computer vision that scans your library locally on device
- Places album to see all your photos, videos and Live Photos on a map
- Memories
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- Intelligently highlights forgotten events, trips, and people, and presents them in a beautiful collection
- Memory movies automatically edited with theme music, titles, and cinematic transitions
- Related memories make it easy to rediscover even more photos in your collection, based on location, time, people, scenes and objects
- Easily share with family and friends
- Brilliance control applies region-specific adjustments to brightness, highlights and contrast
Home - New Home app to securely manage and control HomeKit enabled accessories
- Scenes to control groups of accessories with just a tap
- Rich Notifications with quick actions to control accessories
- Optionally share home access with family and friends
- Remote access and automation of accessories with Apple TV or iPad
Next time I will go over Apple Music, Apple News and more. 39:38 VOICEMAIL - Shannon_AZ_getting_7Plus_quest_waterproof Hi Rob, As always, the latest episode concerning the September seventh roll-out was great. Apple prides itself on producing beautiful and excellent products. They continue to improve the camera but it is still true that the phone is woefully poor at two things. Most cell phones have terrible audio.Facetime Audio helps a little, but the difficulty in understanding people's phone calls particularly when calling from a car is a significant. Apple's audio quality is no worse than that of other cell phones, but it is no better either. It may simply be a fact that the nature of cell phone means poor quality audio which may be the reason texting has become more popular than calling. My other concern may sound silly, but Apple's ear buds which came with all phones prior to the seven, are just awfull. They are better than airplane buds, but not much. I wish Apple valued its audio as much as it valued the video. I like better speakers on the new phones but will not be upgrading because I want my head phone jack to work without some kind of adapter which I will probably lose. Wired always trumps bluetooth for quality mentioned above and simplicity. That is enough grumbling from me. I hope they bring back the small phones next year when my upgrade cycle comes up. Jan Brown. Hi Rob, I've been holding onto my 4s mainly because I like the headphone jack on the top which I feed into my freightliner radio aux jack. The 7 with the dongle will work for me and be better than the 6 off to the side. Supposedly belkin is releasing on oct 10 a dongle to 2 female lightening lighting ports blessed by apple which will allow charging while using the headphone adapter,although a little clunky. Price $40. Additional apple headphone adapters $9. Since I keep my phones longer than usual ill be getting the 256g. Everyone should keep in mind, aftermarket battery packs may not allow use of the dongles. I'm not sold on the air buds as I find the new ear design does not give much bass, I like the old design better. I'll finally be able to get the tii app, as I didn't like the new pastel look when ios7 came out so my 4s is on 6.3. And the tii app won't run on 6.3. I'm starting to have other performance issues as well probably related to 6.3. Regards, Mike R Hi Rob, your listeners might know of the 'trick' to free up space on your iOS device where you go to iTunes and 'rent' a movie too big for the space you have available. You aren't charged as your phone 'cleans' the cache of various apps looking to create space for the download. Upon doing this I often had another gb or so available. Well it looks like iOS 10 has killed this, I tried it the other day and was charged for the rental and no cleaning of apps and no freeing up of space. Hopefully this won't be an issue too much longer as Thankfully any new phone I get will be a 32gb one due to Apple no longer producing the 16gb phone. For those of us who have their device provided to them by the company they work for, like me many I guess have just been provided with the entry level phone (16gb) Thanks Rob Sim-mo Christchurch New Zealand VOICEMAIL - Eric_detrioit_order_iPhone_october 46:03 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/475818007/ sparkslide-20?ref=discovery I have mentioned before iPhone cases that also have a bottle opener. Not exactly the kind of torque you want to put an iPhone through - but this next one says - hey - don’t just kill your liver - you need to kill your lungs to - and they have both a bottle open and a lighter built into the iPhone case. They say it is an iPhone case with a battery pack, credit card holder, bottle opener and lighter. It is called the Sparkslide Version 2. And they haver versions for the iPhone 7 and 7+ So if you want to be able pound down a few while lighting up a few - this is the case for you. They hit their goal of $80k. And you have until Oct 10th at 9:11 PM CT to fund this one. Interestingly they have a version for the samsung Note 7 - but only have the bottle opener built in - guess there was no need to add the lighter part - as that feature is apparently built into the Note 7. If you want more info search for Sparkslide in the show notes for Ep 407 at today in iOS dot com. http://www.todayinios.com/utomic On the last episode I mentioned the Utomic edge bumpers that you can get to at todayinios dot com slash utomic - well they sent an email saying if you use promo code upgrade - upper case - that you will also get a free utomic glass screen protector - that is a nice $30 value - for free when you order your edge bumpers. Again go to - todayinios dot com slash utomic which is our affiliate link. And yes I have mine and they are sitting here mocking me as I wait for my iPhone 7+ to arrive - but the first thing I am doing with my new iphone is putting these bumpers on it. 48:05 https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/30/griffin-itrip-clip/ If you have some favorite wired headphones - but are upgrading or just upgraded to the iPhone 7 or 7+ - there is a Bluetooth receiver from Griffin for $20 that will allow you to plug your headphones into it - and then connect to your iPhone 7 or 7+ via bluetooth. It is call the iTrip Clip and has a range of about 30 feet and a battery that lasts about 6 hours on a single charge. Search for iTrip Clip in the show notes for ep 407 48:36 VOICEMAIL - Scott_DC_ordered_jetblack VOICEMAIL - Ryan_iPhone7plus_order Hey Rob, It seems none of your blue shirt listeners responded to a few of the questions that have been asked in episodes 403-405. I just caught up, so I figured I would be your blue shirt for some of the questions asked. 1) For the callers reporting issues with getting a passcode change screen coming up frequently for them, this is new for iOS 8. It doesn't have a rhyme or reason, but it does seem to be targeted at people who have set pass codes that do not follow secure rules. When it comes to 6 digit passcode, these are restricted to devices with Touch ID as they are easier to access without the passcode, so having a longer code does not hinder the user. This may also be a reason some people are seeing forced passcode changes to be more secure. 2) For AppleCare pricing, I think it was said before, but the pricing is actually based off the full destruction of a phone, which doesn't come cheap. While I was working as a Genius in Apple with the new pricing for AppleCare, I started changing how I handled repairs. If a customer with AppleCare came in with a busted screen, I would go over pricing that a screen repair is $129/$149 without AppleCare, but I would also mention that a replacement phone was almost $200-$300, depending on the model. One thing to think of when getting a repair is "How damaging am I to the phone?" If you think you'll continuously break the screen on the phone, it might be better to space out when to get repairs, because a cracked screen is still usable in a sense. Once the phone is destroyed and not usable may be a better time to use AppleCare. Another thing to think is that if you expect to hit water damage at some point, you can opt not to use AppleCare and get the screen repaired. You save your AppleCare and pay about the same cost so that you can continue to have that "Just in case..." If you have any more questions for a blue shirt, I'll be listening! Thanks for all you do! Regards, Blue Shirt - Name Redacted Dear Rob, We are glad to inform you and the Tii listeners that Fotor has developed a new App, GoArt, which can transform ordinary photos into artistic masterpieces! Fotor is one-stop multi-platform photo editing and online design platform, which establishing a community of over 150 million photo enthusiasts from around the world. We are not content with the achievements at present, so we release GoArt to satisfy user’s special needs. GoArt provides the smartphone user the ability to apply a range of dynamically modified filters, and utilizes AI to simulate the extraordinary painting styles of the fine art masters, from van Gough to Monet. User can easy edit photo into an artwork. We are pleased to invite you to download GoArt for trail. Regards, Maggie from Fotor. And folks search for GoArt - one word in the iOS app store - it is free right now. VOICEMAIL - Daniel_UK_apple_event_my_thoughts 59:01 Ep 407 - Ask Siri - Guess What? (multiple times) 59:28 Thanks again to Texture for sponsoring this episode - Folks go right now to Texture dot com/ Tii to get your free trial and access to well over 150 of the best and most popular magazines. And Before we go today I want to remind you to send in your feedback to the show - 206-666-6364 - that 206-moon-dog - or record your feedback and email it to the show at today in iOS at gmail dot com - The feedback can be a question or comment per something someone said on this episode or it can be a question or rant you have about something else. An App or product review - good or bad - as long as it is iOS related - it is welcomed. I am always looking for new Artwork to feature that you created on an iOS device - just put some Tii branding on it and send it in. And of course we are always looking for more music created on an iOS device to play on the show. This is your show and your feedback is greatly desired. Also don't forget to check out our Moderated Google Plus community by going to todayinios dot com slash community. Finally check out the newly updated Tii App which is Free to you. Search for Tii in the iTunes App Store - it is the best way to consume the show and to get push notifications each time a new episode of Tii is released. It is fully Voiceover friendly of course. Please go right now and download the Tii App. And that folks is going to do it for us today - until the next time I am your host Rob reminding you to phone different OUTRO OUTRO MUSIC OUT TAKES
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Thu, 15 September 2016
TRANSCRIPT FOR EPISODE 406 Welcome to the show I am your host Rob and this is the Today in iOS podcast - First up I want to thank RICK for sending in the music you hear in the background. RICK wrote: Hey, Rob, love the show. Both as an educator and as a scholar whose work has examined the intersection of rhetorical and disability studies, I deeply appreciate the attention you give to issues of accessibility. Your deft handling of complex topics is admirable, characterized, as it is, by informed, respectful commentary that avoids the well-meaning but gratingly insulting condescension that so often plagues the discussions of others. Bravo! I say. I've included a short musical piece (hopefully not too short) for consideration as a possible episode intro/outro selection. My wife left me and I had the summer off, and so, in my sorrow, I turned to the iPad Pro for solace. I'm not a musician per se, but I do love learning new things. The piece, called The Struggle of Hope, was composed, performed, recorded, and mixed entirely on a 12.9-inch iPad Pro using GarageBand, DrumKick, and the wonderfully powerful GeoShred. Additional musical selections, along with an assortment of animated shorts and blog musings focusing on Apple-related topics and mental health can be found at my newly established blog located at www.regardless.website. Regards, Rick Valdosta, Georgia SONG_The_Struggle_of_Hope Thanks RICK for the music and folks I will put the full song at the end of the episode. I also want to thank MATHIEU for sending in the Artwork for today's show. MATHIEU wrote the following: Hey Rob, I made this picture on my iPhone 5S with these apps: Photoshop Mix, Photoshop Fix, and Aviary. I used a Apple special event invite from 2015 for the background and I edited an iPhone 6 to remove the headphone jack and replaced it with speakers! Thanks for the show, Regards, Mathieu from Canada. In the Artwork he made the iPhone 6 look just like the iPhone 7 - but here is what is really special about his artwork - He sent it in on February 15th. NAILED IT. Good Job MATHIEU AND OF COURSE Thanks for sending in this artwork and folks you can see MATHIEU'S artwork in the FREE Tii App via the BONUS button for ep 406 - or at instagram.com/todayinios and also as a stand alone post in the VIP section and at Facebook.com/todayinios. If you have some artwork and or music you have created on your iOS device that you would like to share with the audience please email it to me at today in iOS at gmail dot com and please make sure to include which app or apps you used to create said artwork and or music. AND I am down to just two songs in my queue - so if you have some music created on an iOS device - please please please send it in. 03:22 In this segment of how wrong were they we have the following quote quote “The Lumia 900 and its successors will help Microsoft to reclaim the number 2 ranking (replacing iOS) in smartphone operating system market share in 2015.” unquote Wayne Lam, IHS analyst, 19 Jan 2012 Ummm = not even close. Depending on which survey you believe in 2015 - iOS’s market share was between 12 and 18% Globally. With MS coming in around 0.5 to 1.5% Globally. No mater how you look at it - it was not even close. Of course Apple did account for 91% of the profit for Smartphones - and is that not more important than number of units market share. 04:09 For Promo codes - On Ep 405 we offered up chances to win promo codes for The Apps - Franken Girl and Silk ASMR - If you are interested in winning a promo code for one of these apps or want more info go back and listen to the beginning of Ep 405 A QUICK REMINDER if you are an App developer or an iBook Author email me if you want your app or iBook featured in the promo give away segment FOR FREE We Just need the 5 promo codes or more to give away. simply email me at today in ios @ gmail.com and please include a 60 sec or less audio review of your app or iBook - indicating you are the dev or author. Also when you send in the promo codes - please make sure to let me know when they expire. I usually don’t cover court cases - but this one is interesting - seems - Amazon is suing Samsung in Washington State court - accusing them of Trademark violations. According to Jeff Bezos from the court transcript. Quote Samsungs recall notice multiple times mentions fire when describing their smartphone and that is in clear violation of our Trademark for the Amazon Fire, we ask that Samsung only use words like Explosion, Thermal runaway, or incendiary event when describing their smartphones in their recall notices going forward - heck we would even be ok with them using the word flammable - we are not unreasonable here. unquote 05:33 http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/13/technology/apple- ios-10-bricks-iphones/index.html Each major update and even minor ones I say - hold off updating - don’t be the first. And each time I typically get emails that fall into either the wow this is taking longer to download then I expected bucket or the Smug bucket where people say - Ha I did not listen and all went well. This year for iOS 10 or really 10.0.1 when it launched I receive a few messages that had a different tone / message. And they went like this - HELP. Or this message from Rob Usdin quote First time I've had trouble with an iOS update. Backed up to iTunes before I left the house. iPhone SE - went to,work, downloaded update on my phone over wifi. Told it to update. Went to meeting. Come back, pick up iPhone, turn it on - it shows recovery mode. Just got home, plunged into iTunes, says it is in recovery mode, says it will update to 9.3.5 to try and fix. And..it is downloading that right now. It was on 9.3.5 before the attempted iOS 10 update. unquote And there were others with that same - oh no - my phone is bricked message. And I sent out a Push message to the Tii App users about do not upgrade. It does look like Apple fixed the issue within about an hour of it appearing. And it seemed to be an issue with those doing an Over the Air update. But Still I can not stress this enough - just don’t upgrade right away. Stay at iOS 9.3.5 for a bit - wait until iOS 10 Gold Master is really vetted and updated. Now don’t get me wrong - there were still many of the smug - ha I did not listen and all went well emails - but this time again there were a bunch more messages in the OH crap I am bricked category then we have seen in a long time. Now to fix the bricked iPhone you need to connect it to iTunes on your computer. Which I mean - you did go into and sync / back up your iPhone before you tried to upgrade it right???? And Apple did actually issue a statement saying they fixed the issue. From Apple quote We experienced a brief issue wit the software update process, affecting a small number of users during the first hour of availability. The problem was quickly resolved and we apologize to those customers. Anyone who was affected should connect to iTunes to completed the update or contact AppleCare for help - and next time you should listen to Rob at Toady in iOS and not be so eager to update early unquote ok - maybe I added that last part. VOICEMAIL - Karen_seatle_issue_updating_iOS10_had_issue 09:35 http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2016/09/13Swift- Playgrounds-Now-Available-on-the-App-Store.html In my mind the absolute best reason to update to iOS 10 - at least from my time playing with the betas - was Swift Playgrounds - and Apple has added it to the App store for free. Previously it was integrated into the beta releases of iOS 10 and there was no need to download it on its own. But now again you have to go to the iTunes app store and download the Swift playgrounds app for free. It does of course require iOS 10 to run - and an iPad. Sorry - not for iPhones - just iPads - and just those running iOS 10. From Craig Federighi Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering quote “Everyone should have the opportunity to learn coding, and we are excited to bring Swift Playgrounds to the next generation of programmers looking for a fun and easy way to explore key coding concepts using real code, More than 100 schools around the world have already committed to adding Swift Playgrounds to their fall curriculum, and we can’t wait to see what students create with it.” unquote Again to me Swift Playgrounds is the best addition from iOS 10. Yes - I say not to update to the new version of iOS - actually if we stick with last years mantra - I Would say wait until iOS 10.1 before updating - by then at least most if not all of your favorite apps will have been updated. But I do not expect all or even most to listen to my warning - actually I rely on many not - so that they can send in feedback of their experiences for those that do wait. Here is some other feedback about the iOS 10 updates from those listeners that well did not listen to me Hi Rob, Got iOS 10 up and running on four iPads and two iPhones, not many problems except all the apps are asking for permissions that they already had for years. And I'm signing in again for most of them. As for WatchOS 3, there are so many changes, it boggles my mind. Glances are gone. Watch faces work in a different way. The Friends selector is gone. The animated emoji are gone. The exercise apps all work in different and unpredictable ways. But why should I complain when a black and white classic Mickey can now say, "It's eight-oh-three!" with a mere tap on his face. And, I can get confetti with Messages (even though it's impossible to see behind the messages themselves). Best always for all you do, Jeff in Burbank Hi Rob, A couple of things: firstly, the update to iOS 10 didn't resolve my issue whereby callers struggle to hear me when I'm speaking through a Bluetooth headset which appeared from iOS 9.3.5. Now, I'd like to use iMessage, but without using my Apple ID (i.e. just using the phone number). Can this be done and are there any disadvantages? Regards Alf, Sheffield UK Hi Rob, iOS 10 loaded on my 4th gen iPad without problem. There was a lengthy delay that I waited out, but it finished just fine. regards, Tom Hay rob I updated to iOS 10 on the iPhone 6 at around 11:59am I'm not having any problems at all regards, Sharde Hi Rob, I installed iOS 10.0.1 on my iPhone 6s from iTunes and everything is well so far, no problems. Regards, Fabio E And there were many many more that did not have issues or if they did - fixed the issues and are working fine now with iOS 10.0.1 I will get into some of the new features / changes later in the episode and in future episodes - but will leave with this - if iOS 9.3.5 is working fine for you - and you don’t have an apple watch - are not looking at developing an app - and generally just like it when everything and every app just works - then stay at 9.3.5 for now and wait for a couple of updates to iOS 10 before updating. But I am not the only one saying this - App devs are saying it to. Beth LeBas sent me an email from the developer of the Apple Simpl - spelled S I M P L - of course. Quote Apple releases iOS 10 today. As always with major releases of iOS, our advice is "Wait to Update". We recommend users wait one or two months before downloading the newest version of iOS. Why do we always say this? - Waiting one or two months provides a better all-round user experience for you. iOS 9 is already very stable, whereas iOS 10 is not quite as stable as it is so new.
- Waiting one or two months gives time for Apple to squash bugs in iOS 10 (remember: it's a major release)
- Waiting one or two months gives Simpl and your other app developers time to optimise their apps for iOS 10
unquote Ok - and with that said - later is in this episode and future episodes - we will get into some of the new features of iOS 10 - or you could go back to Eps 396 and 397 - where I did a really detailed run through of what changed and moved around in the settings app. 15:04 http://digg.com/video/steve-jobs-courage Hi Rob, Wow. Even though I knew the headphone jack was to disappear in the iPhone 7 I still find myself surprised. Surprised by the idiotic way Phil stood there and justified it. Courage? I think perhaps someone at Apple needs to look that word up in the dictionary as Phil perverted its meaning. Unless he means the courage to stand up before millions and sound like an idiot. Of course he's in marketing so that's par for the course. Why such hostility on my part? Well, Apple has just removed a port that many people use and many would still have a use for into the future. It is not like the floppy drive or the optical disc drive which were clearly losing their relevance. Plus those items were not used by many users constantly. Plus, I strongly suspect that those iPhone owners who never use the headphone jack barely notice its existence. So, did we gain something in return? Not that I can discern. The phone is no thinner and waterproofing is not relevant as a headphone jack is easy to waterproof. Now, what about those of us who use the headphone jack constantly? Apple throws in an adapter which in itself gives the lie to what they say about the irrelevance of the jack. However, this adapter does not allow for charging. So, you can do one or the other but not both simultaneously. So, Apple moved a useful function from inside the phone to outside where it can get lost, damaged and you lose the ability to charge the phone. This is design fetishism run amok. Notice Apple didn't have the courage to include wireless charging. So, will the headphone jack disappear from the iPad line plus the Macs? After all, the only port the Macbook has besides a single USB port is a 3.5 mm headphone jack. Okay, end of rant. For now. Keep up the great work. Regards, Kevin Barry Hi Kevin - I agree - When Phil said it was about courage - jaw dropped and hit floor. Then I remembered he was Apple Marketing Guy - as I mentioned on the last episode. That said - here are some Comments from Steve Jobs with regards to Courage. PLAY BACK END OF COMMENTS voicemail - Steve_Jobs_courage 18:56 I mentioned last year about PIDS - Post iPhone delivery syndrome and soon some of you will be suffering from PIDS. And by Suffering I mean your significant other is letting you know that they need some attention and are feeling a little jealous of your new shinny Apple device. Folks we have a sponsor that can help defeat PIDS - and that is Boll and Branch. 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Go to Boll and Branch Dot Com today for $50 OFF YOUR FIRST SET OF SHEETS. That's B-O-L-L and Branch dot com, promo code TII. 21:04 http://digg.com/2016/iphone-7-reviews-plus-worth-buying Every new release of Apple Hardware - Apple gives out test / evaluation units to their pets - ummm I mean to some select and respected tech journalists. And each time they have to sit on their reviews until a few days before it hits the stores. And then I like to look at a bunch and cut to the chase and read the last few sentences or paragraph of the reviews. First up is a review from Nilay Patel - from the Verge - to end his review quote But unless you’re eager and ready to live the early adopter life, you won’t actually be missing out on much if you don’t get an iPhone 7. This is an iPhone that lays a marker in tech history, and it will serve as the foundation for many important changes to how phones work and integrate into our lives. We’re going to remember the iPhone 7. It’s going to be the next iPhones that actually build a useful future on that foundation. unquote From Brian Chen now with the New york times quote Sooner or later, consumers will probably look back at the iPhone’s puberty phase and accept that changes had to be made for the smartphone to mature. I, for one, am looking forward to a future with fewer wires. unquote From Mike Wuerthele at Apple Insider quote Regardless of the slightly older chip manufacturing process still in use for the A10 Fusion, the chip brings both power and battery life to the line, and is another reason why pre-release criticism of the iPhone 7 not being innovative were mistaken. unquote From Chris Velazco with Engadget quote If you can get over the all-too-familiar design and the no-headphone-jack thing, then the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus are serious contenders for best smartphones, period. Note that I used the word "best," not "most innovative" -- neither of these devices is groundbreaking. We've seen many of these features (or features like them) pop up in rival phones already. That headphone jack thing aside, most of the choices made in the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus feel like safe ones. There's nothing wrong with that, but no matter how good the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus are (answer: very, very good), Apple already has us all wondering what next year's iPhone is going to be like. unquote From David Pierce at Wired dot com quote So, no, the iPhone 7 won’t blow your mind with its design or features. It’s still a fantastic phone. And philosophically, it feels like Apple is throwing open a door. The iPhone 7 might not be a revolution, but it might be the catalyst for lots of them. Your phone will be better in a few months, and even better a few months after that. And wouldn’t that be exciting? unquote From Steve Kovach at Business Insider quote As for the iPhone 7, it's the best phone you can buy. I don't recommend upgrading if you have an iPhone 6s, but there are enough improvements here to make it a worthwhile upgrade for just about everyone else. unquote From Nicole Nguyen at Buzzfeed quote If you’re a loyal iOS user and due for an upgrade, it’s a no-brainer: Get this iPhone. If you’re perfectly happy with your current device, wait for it to break, preferably on its way to the bottom of a pool — and then get one. With Google’s new Nexus (or Silver Surfer) phones around the corner, wait a month or so to switch. Maybe, uh, hold off on that Samsung for a while. unquote From Andrew Cunningham at Arstechnica quote If you understand things best when they’re phrased as tired idioms: the missing headphone jack is a fly in the iPhone 7’s ointment. Plenty of people will be happy to scoop out the fly and use the rest of the probably-fine ointment. It’s good ointment! There’s just a fly in it. And the transition from wired to wireless is going to be more painful now than it will be a year or two down the line when more accessories and devices have adapted to follow Apple’s lead. Waterproofing and better battery life have been common iPhone feature requests for years, and the camera and speed improvements are nothing to sneeze at, but you’ll need to buy into Apple’s vision of the future if you want to get them. unquote From Walt Mossberg with Recode quote But, despite the undisputed improvements, this new iPhone just isn’t as compelling an upgrade as many of its predecessors. Some might want to wait a year for the next really big thing — and maybe a better audio solution to boot. unquote http://www.recode.net/2016/9/13/12896952/iphone-7- review-mossberg From Ed Baig at USA Today quote Whether a water-resistant phone coupled with an excellent camera will drive you to the store remains to be seen. This is a strong handset for sure. But if you can hold out, there's already talk that the truly dramatic leap forward for iPhone comes next year when this seminal smartphone celebrates its tenth anniversary. unquote http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/baig/2016/ 09/13/iphone-7-plus-review-excellent-camera- phone-can-get-wet/90286162/ From Scott Stein at CNET quote This iPhone feels like it's laying the groundwork for a more sealed-off, improved, wireless system. In the meantime, it's a little bit boring. I'm OK with that if it's reliable. This year's upgrade isn't something you need to have. But its improvements are likely doing some subtle paving of the way toward changes in another iPhone next year. If you care about better photos, and want to be a little more future-proofed for whatever Apple has in store for that dual camera, seriously think about getting the 7 Plus. unquote http://www.cnet.com/products/apple-iphone-7/review/ And finally Anick Jesdanun - AP Tech Writer quote The new iPhones now have stereo speakers and play audio twice as loud as before. I could do the dishes with the faucet running and still hear my music without putting on headphones. The screens are also brighter, which could help in direct sunlight. Apple says battery life improves by an hour or two, thanks to higher capacity and efficiencies. No battery is ever going to be enough, but Apple promises 12 to 15 hours of internet use. If you do upgrade, consider the new jet black model. The back is polished so finely that it looks like glass, yet has the strength of aluminum. It smudges easily — but of course you ought to have a case anyway. unquote And there were actually more than those 12 - do you remember the days when it was 3 or 4 people that received a new iPhone to test and that was it - well those days are over - Apple has definitely ramped up the PR machine this year. As near as I could tell at least 20 english language reporters received an iPhone early to review. http://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/13/the-iphone-7-reviews-are- in-camera-praised-airpods-panned.html 27:46 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cedwwL7kCSg Actually there is one more review to play - this is the audio from Stephen Colbert PLAY AUDIO - Stephen_colbert 29:40 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-lens-phone-camera- good-2-better-192117466.html If one lens is good - then 2 must be twice as good - right - well there are articles out there that get into how good two lenses can be. But rather go into some of them - I thought I would play this next segment sent in from Sharky James - from the PetaPixel Podcast. Here we go: AUDIO CLIP - SharkyJames_iPhoneCameras http://petapixel.com/podcast/ Thanks Sharkey James for your thoughts about the new cameras in the iPhone. and I will have a link to the Peta Pixel podcast in the show notes for ep 406. Here is some audio feedback from Tosin in the UK. PLAY VOICEMAIL - Tosin_UK_7Plus_dual_camera. 37:38 email bag time: Hi Rob, For how many years might they include the mini jack to lightening adapter? Any surprises despite all them leaks? I like stereo sound and was hoping for a blue color despite using a case Which had more 6 to 6s or 6s to 7 ignoring the outside & looks? I'm sure with more time we'll find out more improvements apple didn't discuss such as supposed improved laser sensor for the ear/proximity sensor, etc Regards, Michael Per your questions - I would be surprised to see the dongle on the next iPhone. Most likely these are the only two iPhones that will come with the minijack adapter. No - no real surprises - as I said on the last show - we had more bingo card boxes hit this time than any other time and by a good margin. And per which device had the biggest upgrade vs the previous model. Hint it is not the iPhone 7 or 7+ GO THROUGH UPGRADES PDF - Which is in the bonus content for ep 406 on the TII app only. Hi Rob, I won't be upgrading to iPhone 7 this year, not because it's not compelling enough (jet black and double the space, damn!), but because I'm still in love with my 6s: it's a terrific device with still many years of usability and good performance. But the temptation will endure a whole year until I finally crumble to the 7s... Thanks for the great show! Regards, Fabio E 44:17 http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/1256338/fblk I have an indie gogo project that the developers of contacted me about. It is called Plug - It is a 48,000 MAh battery Pack - this is a serious serious battery pack - and it even has AC outlets - 2 AC outlets up to 250 Watt Capacity - yes enough to charge two Mac Book Pros. It has two fast charge USB ports and a USB C port. As they say you can charge 28 iPhones, 2 laptops and countless other devices. This just launched and already has $130k raised well over their $30k goal. Pricing on this is $199 for the early Bird. Or $349 for the Plug plus a solar Panel - for those that want to live off the grid. It has Tesla Battery cells - so none of those exploding Samsung battery cells. The size of this is 8.6 inches by 5.6 inches by 1.6 inches. If you camp or do lots of road trips - this may be the device you are looking for. There is about a month left to order this. But there are only about 650 early bird units left. And pricing goes up to $209 on September 18th. and then to $229 on October 1st and then to $329 when it goes to retail. And this is one I actually am a backer on - if you look through the backers you will see Today in iOS listed. I don’t back many of the projects I mention on the show - but when I do — umm ok - now it is sounding like a beer commercial - Anyway this one just seemed too good to pass on - when I think of all the times I need to power up. And now I can do that for any device - USB - USB C - or plain outlet. Search for Plug at indie gogo dot com or in the show notes for ep 406. 44:17 VOICEMAIL - Justin_PA_fdbk_apple_event VOICEMAIL - Justin PA_fdbk_ordering_online Hey Rob, How did you do getting your 7 plus? I gotin at about 12:12 am pst and had to settle for a 2 to 3 week delibery estimate. Regards, James M Ummm - well - I made what I would call a bone headed mistake. My ordering process went like this - starting at 11:55 AM PT - refresh App store app - and refresh apple.com - and repeat and repeat - then at 12:00 AM PT It said I needed to update the App store app - Doooh - should have checked before hand. Bone head mistake 1. Finally around 12:12 AM PT - the App store app - came alive - And I went to order my Jet black 256 GB iPhone 7 plus - and when I saw the lead time flash up as 7 to 10 days - I paused and went back to confirm that is what it said. Bone head mistake 2. where I said to myself - gee - I wonder what the other colors have for lead time is it a 7+ issue or a color issue and then Bonehead mistake 3 - I went and checked and took screen shots. Then I came back and it said lead times 1 to 2 weeks - and I went back to double check and it said 2 to 3 weeks and I then smacked myself pushed through. So if I had not been an bonehead - I would have had 7 to 10 days - Instead I would up with 2 to 3 weeks and delivery at the home date range of October 4th to 10th. It was like my mind just went blank for a bit and forgot about the 100’s of thousands also trying to order at that same time. First up in the email bag - from Emiko - she sent in the following message with her paypal donation to the show. It said quote Another new iPhone season, reminds me of how much I enjoy your show and the community. I'm upgrading my phone this year and will be looking forward to hearing discussions around it! As everyone says, keep up the great job! unquote Thanks again Emiko for donating and contributing to the show. Folks if you would like to donate to the show - just go to today in iOS dot com - and in the lower right look for the donate button. Hello Rob, A quick note on my thoughts regarding the Apple event today. New bells and whistles with the latest iPhone and watch aside, the thing that most interested and pleased me is that even though Apple didn’t actually drop pricing, they effectively did by doubling storage capacity on the phones maintaining the same pricing structure. I guess you can say they’ve been doing this already by previously dumping the 32GB models on phones and tablets (because whose going to get a 16GB model when you can get a 64GB version for $100.00 more?), but with the bump in storage, prices are much more palatable. I’m blind and thus still contemplating whether to get the SE (checking the Apple store, the 64GB phone is now at $450.00) since all the fancy visual stuff doesn’t interest me, but even then, scoring a 6S Plus at $650.00 or the 7 at $750.00 with all that storage is also an appealing option. In my case, I’ve got around $180.00 in redeemable BestBuy certificates, so I’ll wait to see if there are any further deals towards the end of the year. You have to love saturation… Airpods…? I’m going to need more than 5 hours of playtime on a charge before I pay $160.00. Sounds like a second or third generation buy or at least until they can boost playtime without a charge. Thanks, Cris VOICEMAIL - Hansel_fdbk_apple_Event_apple_watch 57:52 I want to go over some of the new features / changes of iOS 10 very very quickly - just to remind what they are. And just some this time - and more each of the following episodes. First is Accessibility - Magnifier now uses the camera on your iPhone or iPad like a digital magnifying glass for real-life objects
- New range of display color filters to support different forms of color blindness or other vision challenges
- VoiceOver adds a Pronunciation Editor to customize the way words are pronounced, additional voices, and support for multiple audio sources
- Additional text highlighting options in Speak Screen and Speak Selection, as well as the ability to speak keyboard letters and predictive typing suggestions to support multi-modal learning
- Switch control now lets you control iOS, macOS and tvOS all from the same iPhone or iPad, so you don’t need to configure switches for the secondary device
- Software TTY allows you to place and receive TTY calls without the need for traditional hardware teletypewriter accessories
Next is the one Apple made the biggest deal about - back at WWDC. Messages - Expressive Messaging
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- Bubble effects let you send messages loudly, gently, slam or with invisible ink
- Full-screen effects to celebrate special moments
- Tapback for quick replies to messages, links, and photos
- Handwritten messages animate like ink on paper
- Digital Touch lets you send sketches, taps, and heartbeats
- Tap to replace can emojify your text with just a tap
- Rich links show a preview of web pages you share
- iMessage apps
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- New App Store for iMessage
- Use the power of apps in Messages to share and collaborate with friends
- Download stickers to send and place on text bubbles and photos
Siri - Siri now works with the following types of apps
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- Messaging apps to send, search and read back text messages
- VoIP apps to place phone calls
- Photos apps to search for images and photos
- Ride service apps to book rides
- Payment apps to make personal payments
- Fitness apps to start, stop, and pause workouts
- CarPlay automaker apps to adjust climate, radio, seat, and personal settings
Next time I will go over Maps, Photos and more. 1:01:37 http://www.utomic.com?rfsn=321804.377c8 The very first accessory I ordered for my Jet Black iPhone 7+ even before I ordered the iPhone 7+ itself - were the Atomic Edge bumpers. These are the ones formerly called Bumpies - that I have on my 6+. I order the black Edge bumpers. And Yes I ordered this time - I did not even try to get them free - I did not want to wait - I was hoping at that time I would have the 7+ this week - and not in October. So when the Edge bumpers come they will be kind of mocking me for a few weeks. That said - when the iPhone 7+ does come - the first thing I will do is put on the Edge bumpers - I hear the jet black is slippery. And yes they have bumpers for the 7 as well. I did send an email to Utomic to confirm the bumpers for the 6+ / 6S+ would work for the 7+ and they did confirm they will. They also offered me up an affiliate link - so if you go to todayinios dot com slash utomic - u t o m i c - that will help out the show. They are $35 for the bumpers - and as I said on the show before - you are paying for what you are not getting - and that is a big bulky case. I also heard from some 6 and 6S users that they love the camera on the 7+ but don’t want to go the larger 5.5” size and are really torn about what to do. Well if you are someone with a life proof or other water proof case on your 6 / 6S - you don’t need water proofing anymore - you just need drop protection - and the bumpers provide that and really the size difference between the 7+ with Bumpers vs a 6 / 6S with a big cases is minimal and actually will feel smaller. Definitely thinner. If you are on the fence about upgrading to the 7+ for the great new camera but the size is holding you back - look at the Utomic Edge bumpers as a way of getting the best of both worlds. I have a feeling a lot of people will be getting these bumpers. Plus if you are getting the Jet black - you want people to see it and not cover it up with a case - but given how slippery it is - according to those that touched it at the Apple event - you definitely need some protection. Again go to today in iOS dot com slash utomic if you plan on getting the bumpers. Link in show notes of course. 1:04:31 Ep 406 - Ask Siri - Rock paper scissors 1:04:52 Thanks again to Boll & Branch for sponsoring this episode - Folks go right now to Boll at Branch dot com, and use promo code TII. to get $50 OFF the nicest sheets and cotton products you have ever owned with free shipping to boot. And Before we go today I want to remind you to send in your feedback to the show - 206-666-6364 - that 206-moon-dog - or record your feedback and email it to the show at today in iOS at gmail dot com - The feedback can be a question or comment per something someone said on this episode or it can be a question or rant you have about something else. An App or product review - good or bad - as long as it is iOS related - it is welcomed. I am always looking for new Artwork to feature that you created on an iOS device - just put some Tii branding on it and send it in. And of course we are always looking for more music created on an iOS device to play on the show. This is your show and your feedback is greatly desired. Also don't forget to check out our Moderated Google Plus community by going to todayinios dot com slash community. Finally check out the newly updated Tii App which is Free to you. Search for Tii in the iTunes App Store - it is the best way to consume the show and to get push notifications each time a new episode of Tii is released. It is fully Voiceover friendly of course. Please go right now and download the Tii App. And that folks is going to do it for us today - until the next time I am your host Rob reminding you to phone different OUTRO OUTRO MUSIC OUT TAKES
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TRANSCRIPT FOR EPISODE 405 Welcome to the show I am your host Rob and this is the Today in iOS podcast - First up I want to thank DAYMOND for sending in the music you hear in the background. DAYMOND wrote: Hey Rob, I was the one who first suggested playing music from your listeners during your intro. Thank you so much for entertaining the idea! It's so cool that it's still a part of your show and that it's become part of that cool connection you have with all of us. I've got another song that I created this in GarageBand on an iPad 2. Love the show! Thanks for all the wonderful info Regards, — Daymond ps. I created 2 versions of the song — one you can talk over in the intro and one that you can play at the end of your podcast that has some vocals I sampled. Hope you like it! Thanks DAYMOND for the music and folks I will put the OTHER VERSION OF THE song at the end of the episode. I also want to thank BRUCE for sending in the Artwork for today's show. BRUCE wrote the following: Hi Rob, Here is some artwork I created using an image based off of Apple's most recent invite. It was edited and the text was added using the Snapseed app. Thanks for all that you do, and as always keep up the great work! Regards, Bruce W. Thanks BRUCE, for sending in this artwork and folks you can see BRUCES'S artwork in the FREE Tii App via the BONUS button for ep 405 - or at instagram.com/todayinios and also as a stand alone post in the VIP section and at Facebook.com/todayinios. If you have some artwork and or music you have created on your iOS device that you would like to share with the audience please email it to me at today in iOS at gmail dot com and please make sure to include which app or apps you used to create said artwork and or music. 02:21 In this segment of how wrong were they we have the following quote quote “iHeads” who continually proclaimed the imagined superiority of Apple smartphones vs. those of Samsung now have grudging respect for the Korean giant, and will soon be awed by Sony and LG.” unquote Henry Long, Seeking Alpha, 6 September 2013 Evidently Mr. Longs definition of Respect vs that from us iHeads is a bit different. Just Sayin. 02:52 For Promo codes we have codes for a couple of Apps this episode. First up Are promo codes for the App - Franken Girl. The devs describe the app as a game of Collecting where you create different parts of a girl - eyes, nose, mouth and other features and fuse them to make your own franken girl. They say it is a collecting game with a unique concept - I could not disagree with that. Thanks to the devs for sending over the promo codes for this app and Folks if you would like a chance for a promo code for this app - please send an email to todayinios at gmail dot com and put Girl in the subject line. We also have promo codes for the app - Silk ASMR - here is the review from the dev PLAY PROMO SILK ASMR Well thanks to the Devs for their review of their App - SILK ASMR and for sending in the promo codes to give away. Folks if you would like a chance for a promo code for this App - please send an email to todayinios at gmail dot com and put SILK in the subject line. As Always - just send in one email for one specific APP. If you send in multiple emails or ask for multiple APPS in a single email - then well - No Soup for you. A QUICK REMINDER if you are an App developer or an iBook Author email me if you want your app or iBook featured in the promo give away segment FOR FREE We Just need the 5 promo codes or more to give away. simply email me at today in ios @ gmail.com and please include a 60 sec or less audio review of your app or iBook - indicating you are the dev or author. Also when you send in the promo codes - please make sure to let me know when they expire. 05:33 http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/09/02/samsung-issues- global-recall-of-galaxy-note-7-replacement-program-announced First up for this episode - I recorded it in two parts - the first half on Tuesday Night the 6th - and then the second half will be recorded after the September 7th event. So during the first half - I have no idea what Apple is or is not going to announce. Well it is official - The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 was the Hottest Smartphone Selling this summer. That would be around 500 Degrees Celsius and 932 Degrees Fahrenheit to be specific. Thanks to ALL that sent in emails on this one. Emails with Subject lines like Merry Christmas or Rob Try Not to Smile - I dare you. Jeez some of you think I am going to get some sort of Pleasure from reading these article almost like Schad-en-freude - which was actually what one clever person put in the title of an email. And All I can say - is well you know me too well. And for those still not clued in on what I am talking about it is Per the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 and that 500 Degrees Celsius I mentioned earlier all the chemistry majors can tell you that is the rough combustion temperature for Lithium Ion. Seems there were some units going boom goes the dynamite when they were being charged. This issue is so bad - that Samsung had to recall ALL the Note 7’s it sold in 10 countries including the US - and that is over 2.5 Million units. Apparently when charging up said Note 7 a small % of the units may catch on fire and basically look like they exploded. Which by the way is finally a feature Samsung did not rip off from Apple. Funny thing is if you watch the ads for the Note 7 it shows it working under water - which now turns out is a good thing as it is only safe place to charge one. So if you are hearing this and you have a Note 7 or know someone that does - make sure they return it ASAP and don’t try to charge it up. Really - this is a major issue - and one for Samsung that could not possible come at a worse time. Just as Apple was getting ready to roll out the new iPhones - which we will get to later in this episode. From an article on CNN money about the recall. Quote it's believed 0.1% of all devices sold are at risk. The company added that 2.5 million Note 7 devices have sold since launch. unquote So that is only 2,500 ticking time bombs that could burn down your house. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission says that consumers should stop using this product immediately. Then you want to return it to where you purchased it. And the best thing to do - is upgrade to the iPhone you should have purchased to start with. http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/02/technology/samsung- galaxy-note-7-recall-details/index.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSADhUBIiaU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJtmQ5DAU3s 09:09 https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=09012016a On September 1st Apple announced some App Store Improvements. Well improvements for the end users and those devs that have recently updated apps with short titles. Like oh I don’t know the - Tii App - a total of 7 characters counting the Space. See Apple is going to be cracking down on those App devs that are gaming the system by putting really long titles with a bunch of keywords stuffed in the title. Going forward titled will be limited to no longer than 50 characters. Which the marketer in me says - Hey Rob - you are leaving 43 characters on the table you could be key word spamming with. This all goes back to how iTunes search works - and it is about the title - and it has such a strong influence on the results - many App devs tried to spam their titles with almost random keywords. Marketers love to do this One example of an app I found doing this is one called - Marketing Plan & Strategy COLON SEO, Social Media Marketing & Advertising. Over 60 characters - and it is the first 25 Characters before the colon which really are the apps title. Going forward App names for new Apps and any updates need to be 50 characters or shorter. The other place Apple is cleaning up the App store is in removing Apps that have not been updated in while and are not updated to support the current version of iOS or no longer function as intended. If you are a dev and your app is deemed to be one of these apps you will be contacted by Apple then will have 30 days to make the needed changes or your app will get the boot from the App store. If you have one of these apps installed - it will NOT affect your installed app. Some interesting factoids from the Apple note on this is there are now over 2 Million Apps available - and each week there are 100,000 New or updated apps submitted for review. As a consumer of many apps - these are both welcome changes - and as an someone with with a 7 character app that gets updated all the time - I like these changes as well. From the google+ community - Vinny Trent said quote That's great news, but I have to say it's about time. It's one thing to be able to say we have 2 million apps in our store, but if even a small % of those are rubbish or faulty it does't look good for the company responsible for policing the store. unquote http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-announces-plan-to- clean-up-the-app-store/ 11:48 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-25/apple- weighs-iphone-video-editing-app-in-renewed- push-on-social-isa5rhlu Interesting rumor in Bloomberg - and one not on the bingo card - and that is Apple is supposedly working on a Social sharing App. PLAY AUDIO CLIP - Ain’t got time for that. Ok - yes yes yes - I know - Ping - and the failure that was - is probably going through some of your minds. Apparently this time around it would be an app for Video recording / sharing to go after SnapChat. Supposedly this app would allow user to record video, apply filters and drawings to the media - similar to what Snapchat does and send it to contacts or to other social networks. Which ok - that last part lost me - are they creating their own social network - i.e. Ping. Or are they just creating video creation apps that can take the output and send it via social media. The rumor according to Bloomberg is this app would be released in 2017. There are other rumors of other social sharing features / applications in the works at Apple. But maybe Social Networking is just not something in Apples DNA. I mean after all - Social Networking means being social and sharing way more info about yourself then you have any right to. Or as I call those people - front to backers. Because the basically every share which way they - well you get the picture. And Apple is soooo exactly the opposite - everything is hush hush - don’t share. Don’t tell. It is very very likely the Social Media gene is just missing from Apple’s DNA. And that is ok - After all no one is every great at everything - well unless you are one of the four people with JB for your initials - but outside of James Bond, Jason Bourne, Jack Bower and of course Johnny Bravo - everyone else is lucky to be really good at just a couple of things. And I think social networks - well that is something Apple should support but not participate in. http://www.computerworld.com/article/3112645/apple-ios/ apple-hopes-to-stake-fresh-space-in-social-media.html 13:46 VOICEMAIL - Justin_PA_3rdParty_fixing_iPhone Hey Rob! In episode 403, the listener named Tammy was asking for help with her photo upload to Google. Specifically, her problem was that she was running out of space while Google backed up her photos, and she didn't know why that would happen. Well, I have the answer! When you have optimized photos turned on, Google photos has to download the full versions of your photos and videos to your device from iCloud in order to upload them to its servers. That's why her phone keeps running out of space. The iPhone should manage itself by re-optimizing the photos, but it doesn't always work. She might have to manually delete the photos that have already been backed up as she goes to make the process go more smoothly. Alternatively, if she has access to a computer, she might want to try to download her iCloud stuff to the computer, and then upload to Google with the desktop uploader app. Oh, and don't forget to clear out the "recently deleted" folder to regain that storage space! Barry Smitherman Hi Rob, A few things I wish were added to ios. On control center, the bottom row of apps functions like a mini app launcher. I uninstalled calculator and some other stock apps now I have only three icons. I wish I could choose those apps which appear in control center. At the very least I wish the wallet app was one of them. I find double clicking on the home button when my phone is locked often unlocks the device instead of bringing up the wallet. The same gesture behaves differently when the phone is unlocked. (I believe this is the only thing that behaves this way in iOS). With my.phone now unlocked I then scramble to find the wallet buried in a folder. Secondly I wish there was a way to mark an iMessage as unread. Sometimes I receive a message, will read it, but don't want to reply at that time. Being able to mark it as unread would remind me to respond. Lastly the stock keyboard should have some sort of swipe option. I would think Apple cops do a very good job implementing a solution. When you launch the health app and click on mindfulness are you able to launch the "video"? There is a play button but it doesn't do anything. I don't think the mindfullness part of the health app is active at all.. Regards, John North Lake Wisconsin VOICEMAIL - Kim_OR_Passcode_issue_thoughts VOICEMAIL - Bart_change_device_passcode 22:49 https://plus.google.com/communities/ 105412562215997292912?cfem=1 We are now over 3,000 members in our Google+ community and growing. Thanks to everyone that has joined and thanks for the great posts. One new post in the G+ community that went up since the last episode that had lots of comments came from Ed Tilden ON September 6th who posted the following quote Has anyone else noticed unreliability of Touch ID since 9.3.4/5? I'm finding myself constantly re-teaching both my phone and iPad my finger prints. Before these updates I never had issues. unquote Nic Brown replied quote Same Here unquote Lawrence McFarland, Jim H, Bob Berberick and Rick C all replied Theirs is working fine. As is it working fine on my Wifes iPhone SE. Myron Uecker replied quote I'm running iOS 10 beta and noticed Touch I has not worked well on my iPhone the last week. It is working fine on my iPad Air 2, though. unquote Nic Brown replied back to say quote So mine is working great since i added my print upside down. I don't see how that would do any good but it did for me at least. I should mention neither my daughter or wife have had any problems. unquote I should say I had emails from others with some different issues with iOS 9.3.5 - like from Alf in Sheffield UK who reported issues since updating to iOS 9.3.5 that people he is trying to talk to via the phone when using bluetooth can not hear him speak. And others are reporting that issue as well. If you had this issue and fixed it - please email us today in iOS at gmail dot com and let us know what you did to fix the issue. So iOS 9.3.5 while needed for security reasons - may have introduced for some a few bugs. Does that mean you should run out and update to iOS 10 Gold Master on the first day it is released - HECK no. Even if you are having issues wait a few days. And if you are not having issues - wait until the at least the first update to iOS 10. Say iOS 10.0.1 before updating. Just my warning - next episode I will go over iOS 10 in greater detail and re-emphasize waiting on the update. Since the last episode there were also dozens and dozens of other new posts and comments in the Tii Google+ community - which is an Android fan bois free zone and spammer free zone. Yup it is the most civil Google+ community covering iOS. Folks Go to today in iOS dot com slash community to join in. And thanks to all 3,000+ of you already in the community and contributing. 25:42 http://www.macworld.com/article/3114170/ios/apples-new- 2tb-icloud-storage-tier-will-give-your-iphone-tons-of- space.html?google_editors_picks=true Thanks to Dr. John for this next one. And this is for those thinking about getting the smaller or larger capacity storage new iPhone. Apple last week launched a 2 TB iCloud storage tier for $20 a month. Really though at $20 a month - that is much more in two years than the difference between the 128GB and 256 GB versions of the iPhone - which likely will be $100. If you feel 2 TB is much more than you need in the cloud - Apple does also offer 1TB for $10 a month, 200 GB for $3 a month. and 50 GB for $1 a month. If the main reason you run out of space is photos and videos - then this might be worth looking into. At $3 a month - that is $72 in two years - for 200GB is more additional storage than the extra 128 GB you get going from 128 to 256 GB - and is $28 cheaper. That all said - I am sure I will get the 256 GB version. I will talk more about this later in the episode. Just know there is now a 2 TB version of iCloud to store all your photos and movies. 27:00 VOICEMAIL - Daniel_Apple_Music_Free_to_uk_news Hi Rob, I have an iPhone 6. Out of the blue, my headphones stopped working. I could hear static when I plugged them into the iPhone, but no sound came through. Step 1, I checked to see if there was any dirt in the jack – NO. Step 2, I tried a different pair of headphones – SAME PROBLEM. Step 3 – Settings\General\Reset\Reset Network Settings – BINGO! I remember, on one of your shows a long time back, you said resetting the network settings fixes many problems. Thank you! Your solution worked for me. All headphones are now working. Regards, Janet Texas Thanks Janet for that reminder - the all Reset Network Settings trick really does fix a bunch of issues with your iOS devices - even if theoretically it should not. Hi Rob, I Have not heard any complaints in a while about apple maps. Would I be right in assuming the maps are as good a google in mapping and driving directions? Wonder also about accidents and traffic slow flow info posted to apple maps. Just curious. I may be getting a new phone soon. I've still got google maps and search but really need more gigs than 16. Using my 4s dinosaur'ed on 6.3. Will be getting a headphone jack however. Regards, Mike R Apple Maps keeps getting better with each major update of iOS and even some minor updates. Is it on par with Google Maps today - probably not - but is it close enough as a native app to no longer make you need Google Maps - for the most people that answer is absolutely. Sure there are still some small % use cases by location that Apple Maps falls downs vs Google Maps - but vice versa can be said as well. I personally am all in on Apple Maps and stopped using google maps a while ago. Apple Maps with integration with my Apple Watch really works the best for me. I have traveled a bunch this year - next flight actually gets me A-list on Southwest - and I have only used Apple Maps this year and they have worked great for me. Again the real question is not - if Apple Maps is as good as Google Maps - just is it close enough - and in my opinion and based on feedback from many listeners for 99%+ of users - yes it is close enough - and that is all Native apps need to achieve to be the most used app. Hi Rob I have a question more of a idea but either way maybe you can answer it for me. Is there an app or a new update coming to the Apple Watch that will flash a notification when my cell phone drops signal. Down here in Albuquerque you can lose signal very quickly indoors or even driving a few miles down a street before it catches up to the next tower. There are many times that I have lost signal only to bounce back. During those times I feel it would have been nice to know if my phone was on NO Service before I pulled it out of my pocket to look. If the watch can flash notifications from the phone and tells you when the phone is out of range then it should be just as simple as a little icon changing colors bases on whether or not there is a signal. I tried a couple of free ones like Dash Phone and RemoteBattery that were free. I went up to the hiking trails on top of the Sandias knowing where there are places to find and lose reception to test. Results? Neither worked. Both these apps merely told me either who my carrier was or how much battery my phone had or how much battery my Apple Watch had left in it. Having an app tell me that I have 4g T-mobile on my watch while looking at the no service bar on the iPhone really doesn't help me. Love the show - Regards, Tom VOICEMAIL - Scott_DC_life_proof_case_son 35:35 I have mentioned the RING doorbell - well let me tell you A trued story on how it kept me out of the dog house with the wife. Two weekends ago - My wife was going out with her mom shopping for the day and she was giving me the list of things I needed to do while she was gone - and one of them was to be at the house at 1:00PM because Tesha the lady that cuts my boys hair was coming over. Like with most husbands That info went in one ear and right out the other. A little after Noon - I decided to take my boys to lunch and for ice-cream at culvers. At 1:00 PM on my phone there was a notice of a ringing of the doorbell. I answered the door bell from Culvers saw Tesha standing there and was like Oh Crap. I told her we were 3 minutes out - I grabbed the boys, the rest of our lunch and rushed home. Tragedy avoided well except we did not get the ice cream and I needed to tip a little better. And the Wife was never the wiser that I totally forgot what she said. That is the power of being able to answer your doorbell anywhere any time. If you go to Ring dot com slash T i i - you will get for a limited Time $50 off the Ring of Security kit - which includes a video doorbell, Stick up Cam, solar Panel and indoor chime. The Video Door bell quickly - and easily connects to your wired door bell wires. The main unit is not something you have to worry about charging if you wire it up. It took me all of twenty minutes if that to remove the old door bell and replace it with the Video Doorbell from Ring. And you can also share access to it with others in your house. The RING doorbell has quickly become one of those accessories you can’t see yourself living with out ever again. Beyond the front door - The Stick up Cam can be used to watch other parts of your house and also installs in minutes. Go to ring dot com slash t i i - to save $50 off either Ring Security Kits. Thanks Ring for sponsoring this episode. 37:39 http://www.apple.com/apple-events/september-2016/ And now we get into the September 7th 2016 Apple Keynote Event. It started off as expected with Tim Cook - except it started with Tim as a passenger with James Cordon - And as they say hilarity ensued or at least Carpool Karaoke ensued. Apple Music is what Tim started talking about. Apple Music is now at 17 Million subscribers. Access to over 30 Million songs. YADA YADA - YADA YADA Then on to the App store. >140 Billion App downloads. YoY growth of Apps download of 106% for July and August. 2X the revenue of Android. >500,000 Games in the App store. And then he introduced finally Mario is coming to the App store and Nintendo - FINALLYYYYYY Super Mario Run for iOS will be the new app released. They had Nintendo come on stage and do a demo of Super Mario Run. No mention of it being available for Apple TV. Next up Tim went over Education. He talked about ConnectEd and the 114 schools they are involved with. Susan Prescott from Apple came out to talk about iWork. And Real Time Collaboration for Pages, Keynote and Numbers. Finally Tim gets to the good stuff. New Products. And first up is Apple Watch. Apple Watch is the top selling Smartwatch and in 2015 Apple was the #2 Watch seller - even though they only sold Watches for 8 of the months of the year. SCREENSHOT. Jeff Williams from Apple came up to talk about the new Apple Watch. And yes - Pokemon go is coming to the Apple Watch and shipping before end of year. Shhhh - don’t tell my son’s. Finally 35 minutes in we get to the video of the new Apple Watch. showing people swimming in pools. Nice. It is called Apple Watch series 2 - is officially swim proof. Water Resistant to 50 Meters. And it is robust enough for swimming every day. Internally it is S2 - the next gen - dual core processor - 50% faster. 2X graphics performance. 2nd gen display twice as bright as the original Apple Watch. As expected - Built in GPS. Another bingo card item. Actually looks like all three bingo card items for Apple watch are hits. Apple Watch 2 introduced, Same size, and GPS - but no Cellular are all hits. They also introduced a ceramic version of the Apple Watch 2 to go with the Aluminum and Stainless Steel versions. And a new Apple Watch Nike+ designed specifically for Runners - which is the Aluminum version with a special band. Which is not the type of band I would recommend for runners. You will want to change that ASAP. Faster processor, Brighter display, GPS - hmmm - what about battery life? 20 minutes in on the Apple watch and still there was nothing yet about Battery Life. Pricing for Apple Watch 2 - starts at $369 Apple Watch series 1 - starts at $269 and now has the same 2nd gen core. September 16th for Apple watch 2 availability. But NOTHING NADDA - not a single word about Battery Life. Next up is the iPhone. Yeah. As previously mention over 1Billion iPhones sold. Then there was an iOS 10 overview. Which I will not overview. He did go over HomeKit - and Yes - Today’s sponsor Ring - works with HomeKit. And now the iPhone 7 and the first thing they show is is the dual camera module. And off to a video with Sir Johnny. It is of course very pretty. Then Phill the thrill Yes - same basic design as the 6 / 6S. 1. Jet Black Finish - high gloss finish. And second black - just called black. Gold, Silver and Rose Gold. Antennas moved up and down as expected. 2. Home button - redesigned. Force sensitive. With taptic engine. So it is no longer a moving button or so it appeared. Need to confirm that. 3. The new iPhones are Water and dust Resistant - again as expected. IP67 protection standard. which means it is rated to a depth of 1 meter. 4. Camera - iPhone 7 is actually one camera module. f/1.8 aperture 6 element lens and bigger lens as expected - new 12 MP module. And with New 4 LED flash. Yes on the bingo card. Faster processor for Photos. Optical image stabilization. Body and face detection vs just face detection before. iPhone 7+ - yup 2 camera module - Two 12 MP cameras. Shocker. New button on screen - 1x or tap to 2x - optical zoom. Or you can do 1x to 10x - beyond 2x it is software zoom. Having the 2nd lens allows for Optical zoom and better pictures. This is the key reason I am updating to the iPhone 7+. This was the feature I have been waiting for - This will give you as close to DSLR as you can get on a smartphone. Not as good - but close enough for most. In theory - and it will be fun testing it out. For Video recording on the 7+ you can do 2X optical zoom and up to 6X digital zoom - vs 3x on the 6S+. For both iPhones there is a new 7 MP FaceTime HD camera up from 5MP. Which allows for 1080p HD video recording with auto image stabilization. New feature - portrait - with depth effect. gives a blur in the background and pops out the portrait of the person in the foreground. that will be via a software update later this year. 5. Display - 25% brighter display, wide color gamut, cinema standard, 3D touch. but same exact resolution as the 6S and 6S+. 6. Speakers - stereo speakers - one top and one bottom. and twice the volume of previous speakers. good news about the speakers at top and bottom - is that to enjoy stereo audio - you don’t have to put it on the bridge of your nose after all. 7. EarPods - As expected - Lightening for headphones - no more 1/8th inch headphone port. and they are including the lightening to 1/8th headphone jack adapter with the new iPhones. Phill said the reason they are moving on is courage. Did I mention Phill is a marketing guy. 8. Wireless - Apple AirPods - new wireless earPods. 5 hours of listening on a single charge - and the case gives 24 hours of playing. and can switch to Apple Watch from iPhone. the case is pretty nice. Connecting is really easy. Open case - up pops a box - you tap connect and that is it. No buttons - no pairing. With a special Apple chip - the W1. If you remember the kickstarter project a few episodes back - where they had earbuds that charged in the case - same exact thing with the Apple AirPods. Pricing is $159 and availability is late October - more on these on a future episode. Speaking of Wireless. LTE was improved on both iPhones now supporting up to 450 MBPS vs 300 MBPs on the 6S and 6S+ 9. Apple Pay - fellica - Apple Pay in Japan - and Transit in for Japan. 10. Performance - A10 fusion chip. 64 bit - four core processor. 40% faster than A9. 2X faster than A8. Now 120 times faster than the Original iPhone. Two cores for faster - two cores for higher efficiency. New GPU - 6 core - 50% faster than A9 and 3 times faster than A8. Now 240x faster on graphics than original iPhone. Quote A10 most powerful chip ever in a smartphone unquote Longest battery life ever on an iPhone. For Battery life. Apple stated that the 7+ will get up to 1 hour longer battery life than the 6S+ - and the 7 will get up to 2 hours longer battery life than the iPhone 6S. But looking at the specs for the 7+ to start. Talk time is now up to 21 hours wireless vs 24 hours wired for the 6S+. Internet use is where you see the improvement on battery life - that is where the additional time comes from. But if you are doing audio playback wirelessly - vs wired - then there as would be expected be a degradation. If you are moving from a 6+ or 6 to the 7+ or 7 - then battery life improvements should be the same. Physically the 7 and 7+ are identical in dimensions to the 6S and 6S+ Early on I said if they did away with the head phone jack it would NOT be because of thinness - and that is true. the 7 and 6S are both 7.1 MM thin. And the 7+ and 6S+ are both 7.3 MM thin. NO change at all in the dimensions. The 7 is 5 grams lighter than the 6S and the 7+ is 4 Grams lighter than the 6S+. iPhone 7 Costs - $649, $749 and $849 - That is the same pricing as the 6S - except it is Double the storage with 32 still not enough GBs, 128 ok - that is more like it GB’s and 256 I have a new puppy GB’s. The 7+ Costs $769, $869 and $969 for the same storage levels. In both the 7 and 7+ the Jet black is only available in 128 and 256 GB. All storage options are available for Silver, Gold, Rose Gold and plain black. Pre-Orders start September 9th - Traditionally that means 12:01 AM PT. So September 9th at 12:01 AM PT as in Friday Morning at 3:01 AM ET. or 2:01 AM CT in my case. NOT SATURDAY - but FRIDAY. iPhones will start shipping on September 16th. 20 countries will get the iPhone on the 16th - then 30 more countries one week later. Those countries getting it on the 16th are: Australia Austria Belgium Canada China Denmark Finland France Germany Hong Kong Ireland Italy Japan Luxembourg Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Norway Portugal Puerto Rico Singapore Spain Sweden Switzerland Taiwan UAE United Kingdom and of course the United States And then on the 23rd of September these additional 30 countries get the iPhones and they are: Andorra Bahrain Bosnia & Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Estonia Greece Greenland Guernsey Hungary Iceland Isle of Man Jersey Kosovo Kuwait Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Maldives Malta Monaco Poland Qatar Romania Russia Saudi Arabia Slovakia and Slovenia If your country was not named in either group - you likely will still be getting it prior to the end of the year. But 50 countries in the first 8 days is by far the widest fastest roll out ever for new iPhones. iOS 10 - Sept 13th - I can not stress this enough - WAIT on updating to iOS 10 - don’t be the first ones that update to iOS 10. There is no Killer feature you can not wait a week or more to update to. Every year there are some sort of issues with upgrades - maybe this year will be different - maybe not. Next episode will be about iOS 10 and the new features and more info on the iPhones. And speaking of the new iPhones - This is an important point - if you are going to be pre-ordering - in the past the Apple Store App on iOS has been the first place pre-orders were live. Sometimes a few minutes before the web store - sometimes an hour before. That said - be checking both places an hour or so before the stated time and keep pinging them. Make sure you have an account set up in the Apple Store app before hand. https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/07/apple-iphone-7- live-blog-september/ http://digg.com/2016/apple-iphone-7-liveblog 56:40 Hi Rob, My prediction for the removal of the headphone jack is: they will remove it. They will provide a headphone that is both wired and wireless. Like a combo. They will include it with the phone I hope. No basis for my prediction. I guess we will see. Thanks for all you do, Dan Well lets go over the bingo card really quickly on what definitely hit - what definitely missed and what is up in the air until the tear downs start. VOICEMAIL - Emiko 1:01:30 Ep 405 - Ask Siri - SEE YOU ON THE 7th 1:02:05 Thanks again to RING for sponsoring this episode - Folks right now and for a limited time only go to RING dot com slash t i i - to save $50 off the Ring of Security kit - Thanks Ring for sponsoring this show. And Before we go today I want to remind you to send in your feedback to the show - 206-666-6364 - that 206-moon-dog - or record your feedback and email it to the show at today in iOS at gmail dot com - The feedback can be a question or comment per something someone said on this episode or it can be a question or rant you have about something else. An App or product review - good or bad - as long as it is iOS related - it is welcomed. I am always looking for new Artwork to feature that you created on an iOS device - just put some Tii branding on it and send it in. And of course we are always looking for more music created on an iOS device to play on the show. This is your show and your feedback is greatly desired. Also don't forget to check out our Moderated Google Plus community by going to todayinios dot com slash community. Finally check out the newly updated Tii App which is Free to you. 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click to get larger PDF version As always - I would like to point out - not everything on the bing card are items I think will be announced. However these are the top rumors out there leading into the September 7th 2016 keynote event. Remember the event will be live streamed September 7th at 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT - http://www.apple.com/apple-events/ Live streaming requires an iOS device, Safari on a Mac, An Apple TV or PC with Microsoft Edge on Windows 10. Please leave comments about the live event in the post this is pinned to the top of the Tii Google+ community - go there to add in your comments live as the keynote unfolds. Per the Rumor Bingo card above for those sight impaired and using Voiceover. Below is the actual layout of the bingo card going left to right in plain text. Top Row: 5.5 inch iPhone with dual camera module on back side iPhone 6 and 6+ are killed off the Apple store 4 LED's for the new and improved back side flash Apple Watch 2 with GPD but not with Cellular The new iPhones will be called the iPhone 7 and 7+ Second Row: New MacBook Pros announced A10 Processor with M10 coprocessor announced in new iPhones Smart Connector for the 5.5 inch iPhone only Apple Watch 2 introduced Apple Watch 2 same size as original models Third Row: The Homebutton is now flush with the screen and does not move Black is introduced as a new color for the iPhones Free Box New iPhones are the same basic design as the 6 / 6S Stereo Speakers on the bottom of the new iPhones Fourth Row: Improved NFC with full access to NFC New iPhones come with lightening EarPods iPhones announced as Water Resistant Storage levels of iPhones now 32, 128 and 258 GB Improved 3D touch with lower latency Fifth Row: 3GB of RAM for the 5.5 Inch iPhone only. iPad Mini 5 in Rose Gold and Water Resistant iPad Mini 5 Introduced iPad Mini 5 with 3D touch, 5MM thin, A9 Processor HeadPhone Jack Removed from New iPhones
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TRANSCRIPT FOR EPISODE 404 Welcome to the show I am your host Rob and this is the Today in iOS podcast - First up I want to thank BRIAN for sending in the music you hear in the background. BRIAN wrote: Hi Rob, Here is a song called - Someone Like You On iOS I used the apps: nanoStudio iMaschine Notion GarageBand Most of the song started on the iPhone (iPad) then brought to the mac for finishing. On the mac I used the apps Studio One Logic Notion You can find more of my music at reverbnation.com/timfate Regards, Brian SONG_someone_like_you Thanks BRIAN for the music and folks I will put the full song at the end of the episode. I also want to thank FRED for sending in the Artwork for today's show. FRED wrote the following: Hey Rob Here is my contribution to your Tii artwork collection. I took a photo of a stack of bright colored towels with my iPhone 6S. Then cropped it on my iPad with Snapseed. And finally added the text "Today In iOS" using the new Text tool in Snapseed. Cheers! Fred Zelders The Netherlands Thanks FRED, for sending in this artwork and folks you can see FRED'S artwork in the FREE Tii App via the BONUS button for ep 404 - or at instagram.com/todayinios and also as a stand alone post in the VIP section and at Facebook.com/todayinios. If you have some artwork and or music you have created on your iOS device that you would like to share with the audience please email it to me at today in iOS at gmail dot com and please make sure to include which app or apps you used to create said artwork and or music. AND I am down to just two songs in my queue - so if you have some music created on an iOS device - please please please send it in. 02:19 In this segment of how wrong were they we have the following quote quote “What we see is that youth are pretty much fed up with iPhones. Everyone has the iPhone.” unquote Niels Munksgaard, Director of Portfolio, Product Marketing & Sales , Nokia, 13 Dec 2011 Ahh - the old - no one goes there anymore it’s too crowded argument. Brilliant. 02:43 A QUICK REMINDER if you are an App developer or an iBook Author email me if you want your app or iBook featured in the promo give away segment FOR FREE We Just need the 5 promo codes or more to give away. simply email me at today in ios @ gmail.com and please include a 60 sec or less audio review of your app or iBook - indicating you are the dev or author. Also when you send in the promo codes - please make sure to let me know when they expire. 03:05 http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-releases-important- security-update-for-iphone-after-malware-found/ Well that update was unexpected and I am talking about iOS 9.3.5 which Apple released on Thursday and which has to start today’s show. iOS 9.3.5 patches a zero day bug. IE - one built into iOS - and apparently in there since iOS 7. Actually it patches three different vulnerabilities. These could be used for nothing major - just to access the devices location, or to read contacts, texts, calls and emails as well as turn on the devices microphone. And worse yet there was a company in Israel that created spyware to exploit these vulnerabilities. The good news is you can patch all this by simply updating to iOS 9.3.5 - which yeah - you really should do. And you should thank Human Rights Activit - Ahmed Mansoor. Mansoor is a citizen of the United Arab Emirates - and he was someone the Government there looked at as a menace and someone that needed to be spied on. Note Mansoor is someone his government has not treated well over the years to say the least with imprisonment, beatings, and a travel ban - so you know to make sure the imprisonment and beatings could continue. Well they also liked to spy on him and tried many times. In the past they sent him a PDF packed full of spy ware - which he did not open. And early in August he received two unsolicited SMS message on his iPhone 6 - which contained links to quote secrets concerning Detainees in UAE prisons unquote. Well luckily for all of us - he did not bite. But rather he forwarded them to The Citizen Lab - and Citizen Lab researchers working with the security company Lookout found that those SMS messages were a series of Zero Day exploits designed to take over Mansoor’s iphone in hopes of spying on him. From the Citizen Labs blog quote Had he followed those links, Mansoor’s iPhone would have been turned into a sophisticated bugging device controlled by UAE security agencies. They would have been able to turn on his iPhone’s camera and microphone to record Mansoor and anything nearby, without him being wise about it. They would have been able to log his emails and calls — even those that are encrypted end-to-end. And, of course, they would have been able to track his precise whereabouts. unquote If you read the part in the article about the company behind the spyware and the triple exploit - it sounds like something out of Spy novel. Quote our team was able to positively link the exploit infrastructure behind these exploits to an obscure company called “NSO Group”. Don’t look for them online; NSO Group doesn’t have a website. They are an Israeli-based “cyber war” company owned by an American venture capital firm, Francisco Partners Management, and founded by alumni of the infamous Israeli signals intelligence agency, Unit 8200. This unit is among the most highly ranked state agencies for cyber espionage, and is allegedly responsible (along with the U.S. NSA) for the so-called “Stuxnet” cyber attack on Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities. unquote The irony in all this is Apple’s biggest issue with developing a back door was fear that some government would use that access to track down its citizens and those calling out human rights violations and that is EXACTLY what happened here. Mansoor is not a terrorist he is a human’s rights activist and the UAE right now is being looked at by the CIA and NSA and Israel intelligence as a bumbling fool for wasting 3 zero day exploits on Mansoor. I can tell you right now - the October 4ths SOYC con also known as the Spy on your citizens Conference which is held each year at Fort Meed - well its going to be pretty awkward for the UAE representative when he shows up. Check in might go like this. Hello I am His Excellency Jassem Bu Ataba Al Zaabi, director general of NESA from the UAE looking for my badge and a free Bag oh and can I get one of those double connect lanyards. I just hate the ones with the single connect in the middle they always flip around and having to say my name over and over - well it could be a very long night. To which the person at the check in desk would look him up in the computer and say the following: PLAY YOU GET NOTHING I do not want to down play the seriousness of these three exploits and what this spyware could do - and if you have not updated to iOS 9.3.5 - then you need to do so right away. Luckily any iOS device running iOS 9.X is able to get the update now. Citizen lap stated that once they realized what they had - the contacted Apple with a responsible disclosure concerning the Zero Day exploits - and they stated Apple responded immediately. And by the time you get this far in you are thinking - well I just will go to Android - ummm - yeah - they have had these type of Zero day exploits for years and they were known and for most Android devices they are still not patched. Imagine what that Israeli company has created for Android devices. And that is something Citizen Lab and Lookout researchers basically said when they said there is evidence that the Group has ways to get this spyware onto other mobile operating systems - notably Android. This next bit will definitely sound fan boyish - but At least with iOS - when something this bad is discovered - within 2 weeks - Apple was able create and roll out the update where it was instantly available to all of its users of iOS 9. Something not even remotely possible on the Android side. Again I do not want to down play this issue - so I will leave on this note - it was a bad group of exploits that were being used for the worst of reasons where a government was trying to spy on one of its citizens who is known for calling out the government for human rights violations. If anyone ever had any doubt about Apples stance vs the FBI - this hopefully will but that doubt to rest - Apple was right - there are bad people and governments out there looking for exploits - and the FBI asking Apple to create a new exploit was the wrong call by the FBI. Now go and update your iOS device and come back and finish the rest of the episode once you do. https://deibert.citizenlab.org/2016/08/disarming-a-cyber- mercenary-patching-apple-zero-days/ http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/your-apple-iphone- had-been-vulnerable-to-hackers-since-ios-7-332079.html 10:27 https://www.lawfareblog.com/cost-using-zero-days Into the email bag on this subject. Hi Rob, I'm sure you've seen the latest update, but here are a couple fascinating if not unnerving articles with regard to the phone hack. One titled - The Cost of using Zero-Days - by Nicholas Weaver at Lawfareblog dot com and the other titled - Government Hackers caught using unprecedented iphone Spy Tool over at vice.com My favorite quote from the first article by Weaver is quote “It is time to update your iPhone software. Today. (And if you have a non-Nexus Android phone then you need to “upgrade” by throwing that directly into a trash can).” unquote Regards, brian Thanks for the links - And I really liked the time line spelled out in the article by Weaver this is an officemate of the folks from Citizen Labs. And here was the time line with dates. August 10th the text SMS messages are sent to Ahmed Mansoor who then sends them to Citizen Labs. They captured the Zero Day vulnerabilities on August 11th. They reported them to Apple on August 15th and Apple Patched them on August 24th. That article also pointed out that it takes a triple Exploit to really take control of an iOS device. quote To exploit an iPhone you need more than a single vulnerability, functional exploits are chains of two or three. In this case the "Trident" attack required exploiting a chain of vulnerabilities: a corruption in WebKit to take over Safari, a kernel memory disclosure vulnerability necessary to bypass the kernel's defenses, and a kernel memory corruption used to take over the phone. unquote In the second article - there is an actual quote from NSO - the company that made the spyware called pegasus - that was busted. NSO's spokesperson Zamir Dahbash said the company’s quote mission is to help make the world a safer place by providing authorized governments with technology that helps them combat terror and crime. unquote Hmmm - no where in there do they mention spying on Human Rights Activists. Guess that is buried at little further down in their company mission statement. Oh wait they went on to say quote “The agreements signed with the company's customers require that the company's products only be used in a lawful manner. Specifically, the products may only be used for the prevention and investigation of crimes.“ unquote Oh well that changes everything - as long as you have a contract that says that I am sure no government would ever miss use your software. I mean if you don’t count the ones that already have and then got busted doing so and lead to a patch that broke your software and cost you millions of dollars in sales and R&D for the update. Karma http://motherboard.vice.com/read/government-hackers- iphone-hacking-jailbreak-nso-group 13:33 http://bgr.com/2016/08/26/ios-10-beta-8-download-public- beta-7-released/ iOS 10 beta 8 also was released last week - and what at first just looked like a security patch for the Triple Exploits - actually had a few other minor tweaks. Apple Music has a new look as does Apple News App. And I am sure there are other bug fixes and stability improvements - but really iOS 10 beta 8 was about patching the triple ZeroDay exploits. Obviously if you are a dev or public beta tester - then you need to update right away to the latest version of the beta - it will patch that bad security bug we talked about. And now - I think finally that is the last Beta we will see for iOS 10. 14:12 http://www.apple.com/apple-events/september-2016/ Well Apple confirmed what we said was going to be the case back on Episode 400 which goes to my Blog post - Apple Fall Event 2016 confirmed for Sept 7th. This really was not surprising news to anyone covering the space - yet - I did see a few articles surprised by this - Really??? As I said previously the Sept 7th date make a lot of sense based on it being the first day of CTIA super mobility 2016. And Apple wanting to get the iPhones for sale on Sep 16th - meaning they really had to do the event that day. The event will be live streamed from the Bill Graham Civic Center in San Francisco - and the next episode of Tii will be out the afternoon or evening of September 7th - going over all the specs that made it into the next gen iphone and all the ones that missed. Plus any other announcements and all or any surprise announcements. The Tag line for the event this year is - See you on the 7th. Some are speculating that means Apple will be adding face detection for unlocking phones - and others saying it is per the update to the dual cameras. The invite this time is a bunch of circles 45 by my count - with many different colors and levels of transparency. I think the 45 circles represent the number of countries that will get the iPhone 7 or whatever it will be called in the first month - or maybe there is absolutely no relevance at all with the number of circles and I just wasted a couple of minutes counting and recounting all circles. Nahhh - must be about the number of countries it will be rolled out to in the first month. Later on we will go over what specs we think will be introduced - but right now - it is safe to say the first part of that blog post on the September 7th even at 10:00 AM PT was dead on. Now to see if the Saturday September 10th at 12:01 AM PT will be the pre-order time or will it be September 9th at 12:01 AM PT. http://cydianerd.com/iphone-7-launch-event/ http://www.appleworld.today/blog/2016/8/29/iphone- event-scheduled-for-september-7 16:37 I mentioned the last time I talked about Harrys that they have their new Gen 2 blade - as I said they took the best Razor and made it the bestest Razor I have ever used. It is still the great 5 blade razor - but they made some improvements - It is more flexible for better control and more comfortable shaving. They added a 6 th blade at the top for trimming hard to reach spots, and they still of course have the lubricating strip. They also sent me some of their After Shave Balm. This is incredible - it soothes and moisturizes and best of all my Wife says it makes me smell really good - really really good. And yes having your significant other liking how you smell is a very good thing. if you go to harrys dot com - that is h a r r y s dot com and use the promo code t i i - you will save $5 on your first order. That is right - first time customers for just $10 can get the starter kit when you use promo code T i i at checkout. And Harry’s starter set is an amazing deal. You get a weighted razor handle of your choice, moisturizing shave cream, 3 precision-engineered Gen 2 blade cartridges, and a travel cover – all for just $10 bucks for first time buyers when you use promo code tii at check out. To get the bestest blades - Harry's went and found a German blade factory that was almost 100 years old and purchased it. Harry’s owns the most important part of the razor - the blade and by cutting out the middle men on both sides means they can keep the price low to you. This is a great shave that does not feel like it cost a buck. Plus Harrys as an organization helps those looking for jobs - by donating 1% of their sales and 1% of their time to help prepare people for professional success. Yes a shave that feels great from a company you can feel great about. Once again go to Harrys.com now and save $5 off when you enter the code - t i i with your first purchase. That is h a r r y s dot com and enter the coupon code T I I at check out to save $5 on your first purchase and start shaving better. 18:40 VOICEMAIL - Anita_MD_coverage_math.mp3 Hi Rob, OK let me try to understand this. To accept the premise that it's cheaper to pay out-of-pocket rather than to have AppleCare one would have to assume that AppleCare only allows for the repair of a broken glass once, or that your phone is never going to be crushed by a moving vehicle etc. The whole idea of having insurance is to cover for the unexpected. With your logic, One will never need to have car insurance If the deductible for a fender-bebder was more expensive than the cost of repair plus insurance. What happens if you totally a car/iPhone. This is insurance coverage for multiple unexpected not just for broken glass. They may be cheaper insurance plans out there for example Square Trade which office you up to four claims with a $75 deductible. Regards, Glenn VOICEMAIL - Scott_DC_quest_apple_care_screen 26:20 https://plus.google.com/communities/ 105412562215997292912?cfem=1 We are now over 3,000 members in our Google+ community and growing. Thanks to everyone that has joined and thanks for the great posts. One new post in the G+ community that went up since the last episode that had lots of comments came from Ken Lecomte ON AUGUST 24th who posted the following quote I'm looking for recommendations for a printer that works well with IOS. Preferably one that has inexpensive ink cartridges. unquote David the Computer Guy replied quote HP OfficeJet 8600series works just fine with my mobile devices since it has Built in wifi. But just about any wifi printer should work unquote Nic Brown replied quote Any HP 8000 series is what your looking for unquote Bob Berberick replied quote If you don't need colour, I've been using an HP Laserjet Pro MFP M127fw for quite a while. Print quality is very good. It's reasonably priced and the printing cost per page is very low. I almost never need colour so it works for me. unquote Haywood Morgan Jr replied quote The Epson Home Expressions Small in One series are all air print capable. I have an older model the ink cost is not bad. unquote Myron Uecker replied quote Others mentioned the HP 8600 series. We have an 8600a plus, which is a few years old now. What is nice with those printers is the external ink tanks, which reduce cost because you mostly just buy ink. The print heads are expensive but you don't replace them often. We replaced our print heads once. unquote Barbara replied quote I have a $79 HP Printer D110, and am on InstaPrint plan. I pay $2.99/mo for 50 pages, they know when I need new cartridges, so they send them in mail. I can send an email to my printer when I am out and come home and it has been printed. Print/copy/scan. I use AirPrint from iPhone, iPad, MacBook Pro. Printer also does double-sided printing. I like it a lot. In one year I will pay $36, a lot cheaper than buying cartridges. unquote And then I replied quote I just upgraded to the Epson Workforce WF-3640 - it is nice in that there are two trays - one for photo paper and one for regular paper. This means my wife can print photos from her iPhone and I can print what I need from my computer and no need to change paper. Works great with iOS devices. It was just $109 at Target. unquote Thanks to Jerome Horowitz for the heads up that the Epson Workforce printer is just $99 at Staples. Let me say this about the Epson WF-3640 and why I picked that one after looking at a lot of printers. And it is that it has two trays - one you can put in Photo paper and one you put in Regular paper. The printer is also ePrint friendly - so my Wife can print a photo from her iPhone and I can print a doc from my Computer - and I don’t have to change around the paper in the printer. There are others that also have a special tray for photo paper - but the WF-3640 seemed to be the easiest to add paper to. And you can add in a bunch for both. Since the last episode there were also dozens and dozens of other new posts and comments in the Tii Google+ community - which is an Android fan bois free zone and spammer free zone. Yup it is the most civil Google+ community covering iOS. Folks Go to today in iOS dot com slash community to join in. And thanks to all 3,000+ of you already in the community and contributing. 30:20 http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-lawsuit-touchscreens-idUSKCN1141OJ Filed under the That did not take long category. Remember last episode where I talked about TouchGate - where iPhone 6 and 6+ iPhones became touch unresponsive and a grey bar showed up at the top - and iFixit speculated that it was do to a bad design on one of the circuit boards. Well now of course there is a class Action lawsuit that was filed on Saturday. I guess I could have filed this under - Of course there is category as well. According to the lawsuit - quote Apple has long been aware of the defect, which often surfaces after a flickering gray bar appears atop the touchscreens, but has refused to fix it. The plaintiffs linked the problem to Apple's decision not to use a metal "shield" or "underfill" to protect the relevant parts, as it did on versions of the iPhone 5. The iPhones are not fit for the purpose of use as smartphones because of the touchscreen defect," according to the complaint filed in federal court in San Jose, California. unquote What will this mean for us that have an iPhone 6 or 6+ - well that is TBD - but likely - if you have this issue any time in the next year or two - and you bring it in to Apple - I have a feeling they will be repairing it for free. As I said last time - more on this in the future for sure. 31:49 http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/iphones-android- crashes-blancco-study/ This next article is really a perfect fit for Ep 404 - it is titled quote ‘It Just Works?’ Not quite: iPhones crash more than Android phones, study finds unquote This article is based on a study called - The State of Mobile Device and Performance by a company call Blancco Technology Group. What did they find? Quote - Out of the 58 percent of iOS devices that failed, iPhone 6 had the highest failure rate (29 percent), followed by iPhone 6S (23 percent) and iPhone 6S Plus (14 percent).
- In analyzing the causes of iPhone performance issues, crashing apps (65 percent), WiFi (11 percent) and headset (4 percent) were found to be the primary culprits.
- Despite their tremendous popularity and record-setting growth rates, Snapchat (17 percent), Instagram (14 percent) and Facebook (9 percent) dominated the list of crashing iOS apps.
unquote One of the comments I read said the report included devices running the Betas. If that is true then you can throw all this data out the window. However I went and downloaded the report and the word Beta is no where in the report. This report is based on Crashes for Q2 2016. The Top 10 crashing Apps for Q2 2016 were in Order from worst to less worst were: SnapChat Instagram Facebook Facebook Messenger Google Pinterest WillyWonka Groupon Pandora Google Photos What’s App http://info.blancco.com/state-of-mobile-device- performance-and-health-trend-report-q2-2016.html 33:25 http://www.computerworld.com/article/3112575/apple-ios/1- 5m-us-iphone-users-are-about-to-switch-to-android.html And all of this bad news for Apple is probably why Fluent put out data that lead to articles with titles like - 1.5 M US iPhone users are about to switch to Android - quote unquote. However - when we look at how the data comes to be - and look as Android switchers to iOS - we see that 4 Million Android users will switch to iOS. However all is not great news for Apple - leading up to the September 7th event - interest based on rumors is lets say muted at best. A survey from Fluent found the following. Just 31% of iPhone users think the new model will be a big deal. just 28% think the new models will be a major improvement. Which makes me wonder about the 3% that did not think it would be a major improvement but did think it would be a big deal? hmmm 56% of consumer think Water proofing is important. 63% of consumer think the rumored loss of the headphone jack is a drawback. The other 37% asked what is a head phone jack. Of course all this data is thrown out the window once the September 7th event comes and we actually know what said next gen device really does or does not offer. 34:36 http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/24/technology/apple-iphone- headphone-jack/index.html Speaking of the Headphone jack and the impending removal there of - one person that is not a fan of that removal is this guy that kinda knows Apple a little - The Woz. He said quote "If it's missing the 3.5 millimeter earphone jack, that's going to tick off a lot of people,” unquote Many people point to Bluetooth as the way to connect going forward rather than a dongle. Steve Wozniak said quote "I would not use Bluetooth. I don't like wireless. I have cars where you can plug in the music, or go through Bluetooth, and Bluetooth just sounds so flat for the same music. So there is one persons opinion prior to the Sep 7th announcement. 35:16 https://www.amazon.com/iPhone-Spigen%C2%AE-Hybrid- Kickstand-Crystal/dp/B01J9DVEEY Call it a leak - but really just likely a guess - Some iPhone 7 and 7+ cases started showing up on Amazon already. Spigen has a whole bunch of iPhone 7 cases on Amazon. But one place Spigen does not have any cases for sale - well that would be Apple.com STM, Mophie, Tech21, Otterbox, Evutec, Logitech and many others - yes - on Apple.com - but not Spigen - they are not an approved vendor by Apple. So any info Spigen received for their iPhone 7 cases - did NOT come from Apple. However in the past it was shown that Case Manufacturers were paying off people on the line to get iPhone enclosures early so they could make their cases prior to launch. and it is possible - highly possible - Spigen spent a bunch of their money for exactly that purpose. And if we look at the Spigen cases what do we learn. 1. There are dual speakers on the bottom 2. There is no headphone jack 3. The Plus design has dual cameras. 4. It is basically the same design as the iphone 6 and 6+ except per items 1, 2 and 3 above. There were also iPhone 7 and 7+ cases from Ringke, Caseology, Luvvitt, Maxboost, and Trainium in Amazon and what they all have in common is the Dual Camera for the 7+ and no head phone jack on the bottom - oh and none of them are vendors at Apple dot com. Yeah that too. 36:53 https://9to5mac.com/2016/08/29/apple-event-date-iphone-7/ So now we are a week away - what is expected for the iPhone 7 and 7+ or what ever the next gen devices will be called? And what else will be announced. Well give me a call 206-666-6364 - that is 206-moon-dog and let me know your predictions prior to September 6th - and I will try to get them on the show. I will also put up a bingo card prior to the event. Right now I think from a top level of predictions here is where we go into the event. New 4.7” and 5.5” designs that look very similar to the 6S and 6S+. Except - no head phone jack and for the + model - dual cameras. The device will likely be water Resistant - that is likely what Apple will site as a key reason for the removal of the headphone jack. There will be either one or two new colors with Space Black most likely and a Dark Blue with a much smaller % chance. Of course they will have an A10 processor. The 16 never designed for 4K video GB version will be replaced by the 32 not really designed for 4K video either GB version on the low end. With 128 ok you can buy me GB and 256 Fully future proofed GB versions also available. The home button may go away and it be built into the screen. The down side there is a crack to the screen - were before it was usable - maybe not so much now - plus what happens when you have a screen protector. As an FYI - all the iPhone 7 and 7+ cases basically show it with still having a home button. There will also be some other additional specs - which we will have on the Bingo card - but let me know which ones are missing that you think will or should happen. It is also very likely new Mac Book Pro’s with a brand new design will be introduced - I really will not get into those. An Apple Watch 2 is expected now to be the same size as the original Apple watch - but with a bigger battery. That is also expected to have faster CPU in it and likely GPS. But not Cellular. There will likely be new iPad’s announced as well. But not new Apple TV’s. Again give us a call or shoot us an email and let us know you predictions for the September 7th event. http://itpro.co.uk/go/25916 http://www.thechipped.com/iphone-7-everything-need-know/ 39:36 VOICEMAIL - Robert_SD_issue_passode_being_changed Hi Rob. Like your other listener that reported it on the last episode, I too saw the message on my phone asking me to change my passcode, and while I didn't want to change it, I did so because I assumed it was a security measure Apple put there so I didn't think I had a choice, in the same way that you need to enter your passcode after a certain amount of time, rather than using TouchID. It never would have occurred to me that it was a bug, like your other listener thought. Regards, Matt VOICEMAIL - Mike_Indy_pop_up_message_passcode 42:41 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1465703413/lift- anti-gravity-levitating-smartwatch-charger?ref=nav_search This next one is under the category of you don’t need it - you want it. IT is the LIFT Anti Gravity Levitating Smartwatch Charger and Lamp. I guess the lamp was thrown in because you know the whole Anti Gravity charging your smartwatch thing on its own is just not enough. This one had a goal of $44k - and has raised well north of $250k - because again it goes under you want it category. You have until Thursday Sept 22nd at 11:56 AM CT if you wants win the day. Anti Gravity as you know is not cheap - and you will need to levitate $159 out of your wallet to get this. That will get you the Lift charger or Orb Lift Base and Power Adapter. There are other prices and options. I will not bore you with them - and just say - Anti Gravity Charger Estimated Delivery will be Oct 2016. This works with both the Apple Watch and the Pebble Watch. Quote The only levitating system that wirelessly charges your Apple Watch or Pebble while suspended in thin air. Unleash the smartwatch! unquote Search for Lift - L I F T at kickstarter dot com or in the show notes for Ep 404 at today in iOS dot com 44:04 https://9to5mac.com/2016/08/26/dropbox-password-change/ Thanks to Tosin O for the heads up on this next one - which is that Dropbox has announced it will be requiring some users to change their passwords. It is not about accounts being compromised. Rather quote If you signed up for Dropbox prior to mid-2012 and haven’t changed your password since, you’ll be prompted to update it the next time you sign in. We’re doing this purely as a preventive measure, and there is no indication that your account has been improperly accessed. We’re sorry for the inconvenience. unquote If you are not prompted to change your password - then nothing is needed on your end - again just some users are being asked - and it is not a phishing scam - yet. That said - the scammers will now start sending out emails asking you to click a link to change your password - so be leery of that. Anytime you get an email asking you to click a link to change a password - don’t do it. Go to a browser - manually type in the sites URL - and then log in and change the password. NEVER EVER EVER click on a link in an email from anyone you were not specifically looking to get a link from - and in this case one that has publicly stated they are asking people to change your password. The scammers know that right now Dropbox people are expecting an email about this and will pounce. Be ready. 45:41 VOICEMAIL - Kim_OR_quest_more_wearable_tech Hi Rob, I was on the road this week when my iPhone 5S stopped taking a charge. I took it to the first repair shop I found and they fixed it by replacing the lightning port. While I was waiting for them to fix my phone, I started to wonder about the risks of having a third party repair your phone. I am not talking about losing my data. I am wondering if I should be worried about them getting access to my data/information or installing malware on my phone. Also, what precautions should I take if this happens again. Regards, Mike Sir, Your personal opinion when you expect the Apple 2 watch to ship? Kind regards Mike Hi Mike - I would say with in about 30 days of the September 7th announcement maybe as much as 45 days later - but can’t imagine it later than that. But we shall see. VOICEMAIL - Kim_OR_fdbk_song VOICEMAIL - Kim_OR_part2_song_daniel 49:28 VOICEMAIL - Feedbk_iOS10_beta_bug Rob, My wife's iPhone 6 Plus has the touch issue. Once the phone is unlocked it just is unresponsive to touch about 30% of the time. She locks it and unlocks it again (sometimes several times to get it to respond). We just assumed it was related to having the screen replaced about a year ago. Looking forward to hearing any info regarding a fix. Thanks, Corey from Ohio Hi Corey - hang in there - more to come on this in the future. The only down side - is Apple may say since it was damaged and repaired by a third party you may have voided any warranty. But again - lets see how this plays out - they may get very liberal in fixing the issue if it gets worse and bad or worse PR starts building up around it. 411 - Interview Aaron Mahnke - LORE - Ep 233 52:02 Ep 404 - Ask Siri - From Mike Pompa - "I didn't say anything" 52:27 Thanks again to Harry's for sponsoring this episode and please go to Harrys.com now and save $5 off when you enter the code - t i i with your first purchase. That is h a r r y s dot com and enter the coupon code T I I at check out to save $5 and start shaving better today or well at least as soon as your new shave kit arrives right to your door step. And Before we go today I want to remind you to send in your feedback to the show - 206-666-6364 - that 206-moon-dog - or record your feedback and email it to the show at today in iOS at gmail dot com - The feedback can be a question or comment per something someone said on this episode or it can be a question or rant you have about something else. An App or product review - good or bad - as long as it is iOS related - it is welcomed. I am always looking for new Artwork to feature that you created on an iOS device - just put some Tii branding on it and send it in. And of course we are always looking for more music created on an iOS device to play on the show. This is your show and your feedback is greatly desired. Also don't forget to check out our Moderated Google Plus community by going to todayinios dot com slash community. Finally check out the newly updated Tii App which is Free to you. Search for Tii in the iTunes App Store - it is the best way to consume the show and to get push notifications each time a new episode of Tii is released. It is fully Voiceover friendly of course. Please go right now and download the Tii App. And that folks is going to do it for us today - until the next time I am your host Rob reminding you to phone different OUTRO OUTRO MUSIC - Song intro and Willy Wonka to end it. OUT TAKES
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TRANSCRIPT FOR EPISODE 403 Welcome to the show I am your host Rob and this is the Today in iOS podcast - First up I want to thank BRIAN for sending in the music you hear in the background. BRIAN wrote: Hi Rob, Here is a song called - Ain’t Missing On iOS I used the apps: nanoStudio iMaschine Notion GarageBand Most of the song started on the iPhone (iPad) then brought to the mac for finishing. On the mac I used the apps Studio One Logic Notion You can find more of my music at reverbnation.com/timfate Regards, ‘Brian SONG_Ain’t_missing Thanks BRIAN for the music and folks I will put the full song at the end of the episode. I also want to thank KEVIN for sending in the Artwork for today's show. KEVIN wrote the following: Hi Rob! Watch tan line since early October 2015. Created with Camera, Photos, and PhotoStudio Regards, Kevin Crossman Fremont CA Thanks KEVIN, for sending in this artwork and folks you can see KEVIN'S artwork in the FREE Tii App via the BONUS button for ep 403 - or at instagram.com/todayinios and also as a stand alone post in the VIP section and at Facebook.com/todayinios. If you have some artwork and or music you have created on your iOS device that you would like to share with the audience please email it to me at today in iOS at gmail dot com and please make sure to include which app or apps you used to create said artwork and or music. AND I am down to just two songs in my queue - so if you have some music created on an iOS device - please please please send it in. 02:25 In this segment of how wrong were they we have the following quote quote “The reliance by Apple and Android phones on the ‘app’ as the central metaphor is outdated.” unquote Chris Weber, President, head of North America, Nokia, 10 August 2011 Those quote Outdated metaphors combined to limit Nokia branded smartphones to a staggering 0.7% global market share in Q1 of 2016. Obviously Mr Weber’s definition of Outdated is much different then the rest of the worlds. Heck in Urban dictionary for Outdated the example given was quote He is so outdated, that he is unaware of anything popular on vine and he didn't even have a smartphone! unquote. Rather fitting for Mr. Weber. 03:12 Per Promo Codes - This week - No soup for you - sadly no good marketing minded devs that were looking to spread the precious word about their app in exchange for giving up 5 not so precious promo codes. Bad App dev marketer are you - if you have not sent in your promo codes or even just 60 sec or less review of your free app. A QUICK REMINDER if you are an App developer or an iBook Author email me if you want your app or iBook featured in the promo give away segment FOR FREE We Just need the 5 promo codes or more to give away. simply email me at today in ios @ gmail.com and please include a 60 sec or less audio review of your app or iBook - indicating you are the dev or author. Also when you send in the promo codes - please make sure to let me know when they expire. 03:34 https://adtmag.com/articles/2016/08/22/ios-10-beta-7.aspx Apple did something last week I can't remember them ever doing before - they released TWO beta’s in the same calendar week. iOS 10 Beta 7 came out on Friday the 19th - with iOS 10 Beta 6 coming out Monday the 15th. To put things in perspective - last year for iOS 9 there were 5 beta’s with the last one released on August 6th. The year before for iOS 8 - there was also 5 beta’s with the last one on August 4th. So iOS 10 beta 7 is most likely the last beta - given it is two above the norm and 2 weeks later than expected. It goes with out saying that Beta 7 squashed some bugs and oh yeah it improves things too. What bugs and things were improved? well Apple had this for the official change log. • Voicemail transcription (beta) is available on iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, and iPhone SE with Siri language set to English (United States or Canada). • People syncing is not enabled via iCloud Photo Library in iOS 10. • WebGeolocation now requires a secure (HTTPS) website to work on both iOS and macOS to prevent malicious use of location data. • Swift Playgrounds is included with iOS 10 beta 7. Swift Playgrounds beta 7 contains Learn to Code Part 1 and Learn to Code Part 2. Beta 7 has been very stable for me - I updated on Friday right after it was released. Here is some email feedback on iOS 10 beta 7. quote Hi Rob, iOS 10 Developer Beta 7 has been released. Not much to say about a 60MB update. Other than to say more bugs squashed. On a side note, my iPhone 6+ took an unusually longer time upgrading to Developer Beta 7. It looked as if there were multiply attempts to update. But I figure no more than 3 times. In all, the update had taken me about 10-12 minutes to complete.. I figure that my phone was the exception when it came to the longer update time in relation to the download size. Regards, Shane unquote 06:41 http://host.madison.com/business/investment/markets-and- stocks/ouch-iphone-s-crushes-new-galaxy-note-in-app-speed/ article_0ababf6a-65de-5891-b9d3-650b05ba45da.html I love reports like this next one. Seems someone took the brand new top of the line Galaxy Note 7 - the one released this month - August 2016 and ran a speed test against last years iPhone 6S - the one released in September 2015 - 11 months before the Galaxy Note 7 - so how did the iPhone 6S hold up - how close in speed was it. Well short answer - it was not close in speed at all - it toasted the Galaxy Note 7. Actually toasted is a really mild term - it obliterated it. For this test - the person doing it launches a bunch of the same apps on the different devices and in some of them does some task. Then they go for a second lap and relaunch all the apps to see how quickly they reopen. Not only was the iPhone 6S faster - it finished both laps well before the Galaxy Note 7 finished the first lap. In fairness - in this tests - the iPhone 6S has beaten every Android phone thrown at it for the past 11 months. That includes the Galaxy Note 5, Nexus 6P and every other quote high end Android phone unquote. So the iPhone 6S will retire never being beaten by and Android device. Thus proving even when An Android Phone might have appeared to have a Technical specs advantage - the iPhones Hardware / Software integration was just to much of an advantage. Will be very interesting to see how much faster the next Gen iPhones are. 08:41 http://www.applemust.com/apple-earns-a-dollar-per- customer-per-day-analyst/ Intersting article about how much Apples makes per user per day. Horace Dedius - broke out where Apples revenue comes from and then worked out that they make about $27 a month per customer on the low side and may be as high as $40 a month. This versus the pennies per month that Facebook and Google collect and the few dollars a month that Amazon receives. Now clearly I am not an average Apple customer - as I worked out my spend on Apple gear on average at over $6 a day for the past 12 months - and well well over $10 a day for the 12 months prior to that. Still it is amazing to think how much money Apple makes per customer vs Facebook or google. Which comes back to why I can never understand the market cap of Google vs Apple. 09:39 http://swipetounlock.com/iphone-6-plus-design- defect-breaking-a-ton-of-devices/ The is a new potential issue popping up with the iPhone 6 and 6+ - and that is where there are more and more reports of these devices loosing the touch responsiveness and there is a small gray bar at the top. This report is gaining steam because iFixit released a video going over the reported issue. This is not an issue with the iphone 5S - and just seems to be for now the iPhone 6 and 6+ - and also NOT the 6S and 6S+. Again Just the 6 and 6+ They speculate the reason for the issues are that the circuit board the Touch IC is on that is failing no longer has a metal covering offering additional rigidity. Jesse Jones at iPad Rehab - a repair center for iOS devices - claims that now around 50% of the devices she gets for repair are for the Touch IC issue. There are more reports on this from other repair centers. From the blog post on iFixIt quote Lots of repair pros are experiencing the same influx of faulty iPhones—most with flickering gray bars and all with glitchy touch functionality. Rami Odeh, a repair tech from New Orleans, sees up to 100 iPhone 6 and 6 Pluses a month that don’t respond well to touch. About half of the repairs sent to Michael Huie—the specialist behind Microsoldering.com—show symptoms of the same problem. unquote I am sure some will call this touch gate - and I was going to go and register touchgate dot com - but it seems Former FOX CEO Roger Ailes already registered it before me. If you have had your iPhone 6 or 6+ have the issue where it is no longer touch responsive and / or is showing that gray bar at the top of the screen let me know. Sadly I expect we will be hearing a lot more about this one in the future. http://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2016/08/23/iphone-6-touch-disease-faulty-screen/ 12:11 I want to Thank Boll and Branch for sponsoring this episode. 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And use promo code TII. 13:39 VOICEMAIL - Aric_uber_driver_answer Hi Rob, I’m not sure if this is a feature on software versions below the current iOS 10 Betas, but I do have an answer to the question asked by the Uber driver who wants to push audio from Maps to a separate audio source while still allowing to play music to the car radio. On iOS 10 when on the navigation screen after putting in the desired location you can pull up on the bottom bar and you can then press the audio button and there will be an option below the “pause spoke audio” which will ask for where you want to audio to go to, and make sure it is set for the bluetooth connection. From there you should be able to choose the audio source it goes to. Could be possible for separate audio output than that of the music. Hope this works, and I love the show! Keep up the good work. Regards, George Hi Rob, The app Grub Hub for the iPhone has accessibility problems. Many times I’ve had to place an order 3 times as the program keeps crashing. The developers removed headers which makes navigating it difficult for blind and visually impaired users. Some blind people on a list I’m on have attempted to contact the developers. Their emails were ignored. From what I’ve heard from other blind and visually impaired users it once was very accessible. I don’t know if you might address this on one of your podcasts or one of your blogs. It’s just another way of shutting us out of opportunities the sighted user takes for granted. Regards Marie L Hi, Rob! In regards to the person in episode 402 who was asking about which iPad Mini to get. I have the Mini 2 and I use VoiceOver. It works very well. I can use Braille screen input. And the screen size is good for traveling Regards, Maria VOICEMAIL - Trina_new_listener_voice_over 18:30 https://plus.google.com/communities/ 105412562215997292912?cfem=1 We are now over 3,000 members in our Google+ community and growing. Thanks to everyone that has joined and thanks for the great posts. One new post in the G+ community that went up since the last episode that had lots of comments came from JONAH SALVADOR ON AUGUST 20th who posted the following quote So what is the best place to get iPhone batteries? I am going to repair an iPhone 5 64GB model any help would be greatly appreciated!! unquote Gerd Silkening replied quote Apple Store unquote Mark Henry replied quote iFixiT - They are a pretty good company who stand behind their work and products, in my opinion. unquote And I would have to second iFixIt as well. Since the last episode there were also dozens and dozens of other new posts and comments in the Tii Google+ community - which is an Android fan bois free zone and spammer free zone. Yup it is the most civil Google+ community covering iOS. Folks Go to today in iOS dot com slash community to join in. And thanks to all 3,000+ of you already in the community and contributing. One thing I need to point out - The Tii Google+ community is NOT for putting up videos of your dog or iOS devices you have for sale. It is about asking questions - answering questions - and posting links about news, tips and tricks related to iOS. Dog videos - get you the ban hammer real quick same with any other NONE iOS related posts. iTems for sale - in the past would just get removed - but going forward may get you the ban hammer as well. Point is this WE ALL have iOS devices we could sell - and there are sites for doing just that - The Tii Community just is not one of those sites. 20:19 http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/15/technology/apple- iphone-waterproof-camera-patent/index.html More rumors about the next iPhone being highly water resistant. This in part coming from a recent patent Apple was awarded which highlights editing tools that could be used for underwater photos. Ok one patent about an under water phone is not enough to really mean anything - but when you add in previous patents around this topic - like the one for submersion detection circuitry - which would help iOS devices sense where they are being dipped into water or other liquids - but lets just stick with Water for now. Another patent in late 2015 that Apple received was for a protective barrier that covers ports to make the area water-resistant. And in March 2015 Apple was awarded a patent for a protective barrier to shield electronics from moisture. I think the real question on all our minds though is - will we be able to pour champagne over our next gen iPhone with no issues. http://www.wearobo.com/2016/08/you-will-be- able-to-take-pictures-with.html 21:19 https://verdictforu.com/2016/08/18/256gb-iphone-7-of-your- dreams-is-on-the-way-but-will-be-a-little-late/ Seems the rumors about the iPhone being delayed are starting up. Well at least the 256 GB version. Some are not speculating that while the iPhone 7 will go on sale on Sep 16th - the iPhone 7+ or Pro or what ever the top end device is called - it will not ship until Sep 23rd - at least for the 256 GB version - the 32 GB and 128 GB versions are supposed to ship on the 16th. Again this time around for iPhones the 3 storage sizes are rumored to be 32 Barely enough GB’s. 128 Ahhh this feel good GB’s and 256 Hey Honey look at this funny thing the Dog is doing GB’s. 22:01 http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2016/08/20/apple- iphone-7-pro-cancellation/ Previously we poo poed the though that there would be both an iPhone 7+ and iPhone 7 Pro - which would have meant two different units at the 5.5 Inch size. IT seemed a little out there in the rumor mill. And now it is being rumored that one of the 5.5 inchers is a goner. So it would just be the iPhone 7 a 4.7 inch single back side camera iphone and the iPhone 7+ a 5.5 inch dual back side camera iphone. Now the rumors about the Smart Connector - seem to be tied to the iPhone 7 Pro - meaning the iPhone 7 Plus will not have a smart connector. The reason given in the rumor mill for the quote change in plans unquote - is that there are no longer any worries about getting dual camera modules. If that was not the case and dual camera modules were constrained - then only the 7 Pro would have received it. Again - it all sounds fishy at best. For some time now - in aggregate the rumors pointed to a 4.7 inch and 5.5 inch upgraded iPhones. With the 4.7 getting one larger camera module - and the 5.5 incher getting the dual camera module. One other thing per the rumors of late are two new colors. Joining Space Grey, Rose Gold, Gold and Silver - would be Space Black and Blue. 23:32 http://www.ubergizmo.com/2016/08/iphone- 7-plus-mockup-space-black/ Hi Rob, My thoughts on the new iPhone I think it would be cool if they made a projector on the iPhone you could really watch a great movie any where you are located that way you are not limited to a small screen. Think about you stop in a hotel get your Netflix out or movie on your iPhone put it against the wall you have it made. You don’t have to pay extra money to watch a show at the hotel. Regards, Aaron 24:22 http://www.manstoc.com/2016/08/ipad-mini- 5-user-manual-and-review.html Another rumor picking up steam of late is that there will be an update of the iPad Mini to the iPad Mini 5. One of the rumors is it will be just 5 MM thick vs the current 6.1 MM thickness of the iPad Mini 4. As it will be really think - it would use the same high strength aluminum that is in the iPhone 6S+ - to keep bendgate at bay. Rose Gold would be a new color for it. 3D touch would be added. As would be water resistant construction. Apple will not call it water proof - but Water Resistant is something Apple might start touting at events. And the iPhone mini 5 would only have the A9 Processor and not the new A10 processor. Which make sense as the iPad Mini 4 only has the A8 processor. 25:18 http://appadvice.com/post/analyst-10-5-inch-ipad-pro-next- year-revolutionary-ipad-pro-to-launch-in-2018/719343 Hi Rob, I hope this is true. Could be a nice replacement or substitute for a MacBook! What do you think Rob of a 10.5 mid maxi pad?! Would they cancel the mini or iPod touch? Regards, Michael Thanks Michael - and this is per the rumor that in 2017 - Apple would update its larger iPad’s - and introduce the 2nd gen iPad Pro 12.9 inch and a new 10.5 inch iPad Pro and then a 9.7 Inch iPad - which likely would be a mix of the iPad Air 2 and the 9.7 inch iPad Pro specs. Where as the 10.5 Inch iPad Pro would be an upgrade from the 9.7 inch iPad Pro. That said - I just don’t see the 10.5 Inch version - it seems to needlessly add another screen size to the ecosystem that does not really buy you much. Lets just say I am highly highly skeptical of the 10.5 Inch iPad Pro rumor. 26:26 http://daringfireball.net/2016/08/bloomberg_apple_watch_2 Nice article from John Gruber on his Daring Fireball site. He rips into the Bloomberg report about the Apple Watch 2 hitting production issues. Here is a quote from the bloomerg article quote Apple Inc. has hit roadblocks in making major changes that would connect its Watch to cellular networks and make it less dependent on the iPhone, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The company still plans to announce new watch models this fall boasting improvements to health tracking. The updated versions will also be able to integrate GPS-based location tracking, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans aren’t public. An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment. unquote The first thing John takes issue with is the use of current tense as in Apple just hit these issues - where as if Apple had any hope or plans to release a new Apple Watch in Sept / October - then they needed to have finalized specs and production plans back at the beginning of the year worst case. As I have said all along the idea of adding all these specs to the Apple Watch 2 - including full cellular capabilities - while making it thinner - seemed the stuff of fantasy land. John says while the article makes it out that Apple is disappointed the Apple Watch 2 will not have cellular connectivity - inside Apple he thinks there was never any serious thought about getting Cellular features until the 3rd or likely 4th gen version. 27:54 VOICEMAIL - Colby_CO_iOS10_beta_tester_fdbk Hi Rob & All! I'm wondering about something here... I've been trying to back up all my iPhone photos and videos, trying out several different options. So far, I'm having no issues backing up the photos to Dropbox and Google Photos, and the videos are backing up to Dropbox with ease. What's got me puzzled is trying to save videos to Google Photos. I keep getting a message saying my phone is almost out of space (I have around 5 gig left after deleting a bunch of seldom-used apps). Why does it matter how much or how little space I have on my phone? There is unlimited space on the Google Photos site since I'm saving in lower resolution. Am I missing something? The reason I want things backed up is for safe keeping (of course) but also so I can delete a bunch of photos and videos on my phone. So why does the phone need more space available in order to back things up online? Also, does anyone have suggestions for good online backup for photos and videos? I have backed them up to my PC using iTunes, but there is no way (as far as I know) to view those backed-up files on the PC. Regards, - Tammy VOICEMAIL - Scott_DC_glass_broken_apple_care_the_numbers 33:53 You have heard me say it before On the nights or really early mornings I record the kids go sleep with mom - and I go and sleep in my Son’s Casper bed. Kind of my reward for a long night getting out the show. Casper Mattresses are a mix of Latex foam and Memory foam. No noisy springs to wake up your significant other when you get up to sneak a snack in the middle of the night or in my case when I slip in late at night. Time Magazine even named it one of the best inventions of 2015. And with Casper you get a 100 day risk free trial period. You don't like it you get your money back and they come and pick it back up and donate it to a charity. - Casper is an obsessively engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price.
. Twin Mattresses are just $500, they also have Twin XL for $600, Full for $750, Queen for $850 and then King and Cal King - for $950. That is less much much less than my iPad Pro setup. And as I said you have 100 days to return it risk free. And if you go to casper dot com slash tii and use promo code tii - you will save $50 off those prices - Terms and Conditions Apply. This is an american made mattress with delivery right now for the US and Canada only and it is free delivery. And When said mattress is delivered - it is from UPS - in a squarish box that you think no way is there a mattress in there - But you get a cool little tool to cut open the package and the mattress opens up and expands to form. It is really cool Just google Casper Mattress unboxing. September is coming that means - you will likely be buying a new iOS device - why not also get a new mattress do something for your significant other and then you will not feel so guilty upgrading to the next iphone. Again to Save $50 off of the prices I mentioned go to casper dot com slash tii and use promo code t i i - all lower case on the promo code. again casper dot com / tii - promo code tii to save $50 - thanks Casper for the great mattress for my show nights and for sponsoring this show. 36:06 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/waterfielddesigns/the- intrepid-travel-wallet-for-iphone-7-made-in-us?ref=discovery This week for a Kickstarter project we have the Intrepid Travel Wallet for iPhone by Waterfield Designs. They have two sizes - small for the 6 and 6S and most likely 7. And Large for the 6+ and 6S+ and most likely 7+. This one had a goal of $5,000 - and has raised over 7 times that number and growing and you have until Sep 26th at 1:59 AM CT to fund or really buy this one. As it is well funded already. Per what it is - quote A WaterField (SFbags) play-through RFID-blocking travel wallet and iPhone case. Holds phone, passport, cash, credit cards, & more. unquote If that sounds like a man purse - bingo. Pricing for this is $79 and that is for Run 2 - Run 1 is sold out. Run 2 is expected to ship in October 2016. One of the things on this Man purse - I mean Travel Wallet is that there is a front panel that allows you to use your iPhone while it is in your travel wallet. They also have a padded and larger Gear Pouch and for $119 you can get both the Travel Wallet and the Gear Pouch. If you want more info search for - The Intrepid Travel Wallet - at kickstarter dot com or in the show notes for ep 403 37:35 VOICEMAIL - Rich_AL_suspend_health_tracking-block_how Hi Rob - this app update description - almost had me. It is from Yelp for Version 10.25.0 and said quote If your mobile device has a fingerprint sensor, the app can now identify what kind of condiment you’re enjoying if you just dab some on. Not really, we just fixed some bugs. Please don’t put sriracha on your mobile device. unquote Regards, Michael Oh those cheeky devils - The Yelp folks seem to have a sense of humor. VOICEMAIL - Danny_AR_401_JB_pop_up_message_phishing 42:04 VOICEMAIL - Dennis_RI_ep402_thanks_music Hi Rob, What it the best place to get iPhone batteries and replacement parts. Thanks for your help.. Regards, Jonah VOICEMAIL - Jason_unlocked_will_it_work_boost_mobile 44:05 Ep 403 - Ask Siri - Tell me a tongue twister 44:46 Thanks again to Boll & Branch for sponsoring this episode - Folks go right now to Boll and branch dot com with boll spelled b o l l - and use promo code t i i - to save 20% off the nicest sheets and cotton products you have ever owned with free shipping to boot. And Before we go today I want to remind you to send in your feedback to the show - 206-666-6364 - that 206-moon-dog - or record your feedback and email it to the show at today in iOS at gmail dot com - The feedback can be a question or comment per something someone said on this episode or it can be a question or rant you have about something else. An App or product review - good or bad - as long as it is iOS related - it is welcomed. I am always looking for new Artwork to feature that you created on an iOS device - just put some Tii branding on it and send it in. And of course we are always looking for more music created on an iOS device to play on the show. This is your show and your feedback is greatly desired. Also don't forget to check out our Moderated Google Plus community by going to todayinios dot com slash community. 45:55 Thanks again to Casper for their support of Tii - and if you go to casper.com slash tii - and use promo code tii - all lower case - you will save $50 off a mattress shipped right to your door - again go to casper dot com slash tii and use promo code tii. Finally check out the newly updated Tii App which is Free to you. Search for Tii in the iTunes App Store - it is the best way to consume the show and to get push notifications each time a new episode of Tii is released. It is fully Voiceover friendly of course. Please go right now and download the Tii App. And that folks is going to do it for us today - until the next time I am your host Rob reminding you to phone different OUTRO OUTRO MUSIC
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TRANSCRIPT FOR EPISODE 402 Welcome to the show I am your host Rob and this is the Today in iOS podcast - First up I want to thank BRIAN for sending in the music you hear in the background. BRIAN wrote: Hi Rob, Here is a song called - You’re Not Alone On iOS I used the apps: nanoStudio iMaschine Notion GarageBand Most of the song started on the iPhone (iPad) then brought to the mac for finishing. On the mac I used the apps Studio One Logic Notion You can find more of my music at reverbnation.com/timfate Regards, ‘Brian You’re Not Alone Thanks BRIAN for the music and folks I will put the full song at the end of the episode. I also want to thank DAN for sending in the Artwork for today's show. DAN wrote the following: Hi Rob! This was a photo I took of a flower in my friend’s mother’s garden using the stock camera app with my iPhone 6. I tweaked the photo when it was originally uploaded to Instagram with the app’s editing tools. I decided to take a copy of the photo and run it through the app Prisma and added a Tokyo filter at 86%. Finally I used the app Over to add the TII branding. Thanks for all you do and keep up the great work! Regards, Dan S New Jersey Thanks DAN, for sending in this artwork and folks you can see DAN'S artwork in the FREE Tii App via the BONUS button for ep 402 - or at instagram.com/todayinios and also as a stand alone post in the VIP section and at Facebook.com/todayinios. If you have some artwork and or music you have created on your iOS device that you would like to share with the audience please email it to me at today in iOS at gmail dot com and please make sure to include which app or apps you used to create said artwork and or music. AND I am down to just two songs in my queue - so if you have some music created on an iOS device - please please please send it in. 02:30 In this segment of how wrong were they we have the following quote quote “Can you imagine Windows Phone 7 in two years, powered by the twin engines of Nokia’s global reach and RIM’s enterprise base? It would be a powerhouse platform, the stuff of dreams for Ballmer—and nightmares for Apple and Google.” unquote Peter Pachal, PC Mag, 4 May 2011 - this per speculation MS would buy RIM. Well just a few years after that speculation MS in April 2014 finalized their deal to buy not RIM - but rather Nokia and for $7.9 Billion dollars. And then in July 2015 - MS wrote off $7.6 Billion in Impairment charges - which you don’t need a calculator to see that is pretty much all they spent on it - OUCH. Sounds like while Peter at PC Mag was wrong about his speculation on who MS was going to buy - MS really had to have been better off buying RIM or then again maybe not. Either way the only one having nightmares in this case was Ballmer - not Apple and not Google. 03:45 For Promo codes - On Ep 401 we offered up chances to win promo codes for The App - AZZL - A Z Z L - If you are interested in this app or want more info go back and listen to the beginning of Ep 401 This week - No soup for you - sadly no good marketing minded devs that were looking to spread the precious word about their app in exchange for giving up 5 not so precious promo codes. Bad App dev marketer are you - if you have not sent in your promo codes or even just 60 sec or less review of your free app. A QUICK REMINDER if you are an App developer or an iBook Author email me if you want your app or iBook featured in the promo give away segment FOR FREE We Just need the 5 promo codes or more to give away. simply email me at today in ios @ gmail.com and please include a 60 sec or less audio review of your app or iBook - indicating you are the dev or author. Also when you send in the promo codes - please make sure to let me know when they expire. 04:42 http://cydianerd.com/ios-10-beta-6-download-update/ And Apple is really rolling out the updates now. Another week and another beta. Beta 6 this time for iOS 10. Of course key things with this update are Bug fixes and optimization. Yada yada yada yada. One new feature which we hoped was a feature and not a bug - was the ability to purchase with touch ID after a reboot with out the need for re-entering your passcode - that Feature slash bug - looks to be a feature as it is still active in iOS 10 Beta 6. But really there were no new features anyone is reporting on - just bug fixes for beta - and they are not worth going over. Betas have bugs - new beta kill bugs from past beta - that what they do. Into the email bag Hi Rob, Ever since installing iOS 10 beta 5, my Accessibility feature inverted screen color was slow to turn on and even slower to turn off. Took me a few days to realize that it was the update that may have caused the issue. Well I figured that an update would come in the next day or so and sure enough, beta 6 arrived and it works flawlessly. Anyway, this accessibility feature is highly recommended for those who find it easier to read text that is White on Black. Now, if we could get an option to either have some way to keep pics in their original color while in inverted mode or some sort of toggle switch on each pic, that would be awesome. Regards, Shane 07:01 http://www.valuewalk.com/2016/08/ios-10-beta-5- whats-new-features/ I have been running the iOS 10 betas on my iPhone the past week - first beta 5 and then beta 6. The bugs at this point are minor. And I really am enjoying the improved notifications. 07:30 http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/wp/2016/08/ 13/2016/08/13/tim-cook-the-interview-running- apple-is-sort-of-a-lonely-job/ A very interesting interview with Tim Cook in the Washington Post this week. Look for the link - Tim Cook the interview - in the show notes for ep 402. A few interesting points - one is that Tim Cook eventually sees Smartphone and people at a 1 to 1 ratio - meaning everyone will have a smartphone - TV’s globally are not even close to 1 to 1 and never will be 1 to 1. Another really interesting bit from the interview was with regards of the Apple V FBI fight - and this quote from Tim - quote Could we create a tool to unlock the phone? After a few days, we had determined yes, we could. Then the question was, ethically, should we? We thought, you know, that depends on whether we could contain it or not. Other people were involved in this, too — deep security experts and so forth, and it was apparent from those discussions that we couldn’t be assured. The risk of what happens if it got out, we felt, could be incredibly terrible for public safety. unquote It is interesting to hear Tim say they did know how to backdoor it - as in the past - there was always this message that they were not sure if it was possible. The overall interview was very long and detailed and takes you into the culture of Apple and thoughts of Tim cook - I do recommend taking some time out to read it when you have a chance. 09:12 http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-apple-likes-to-keep-secrets- and-why-it-has-a-lot-of-secrets-to-keep/ Another article in the culture of Apple is from ZDNet titled - Why Apple likes to keep secrets and why it has a lot of secrets to keep. Eddy Cue - had this quote in the article. quote "We don't want to tell the world what we want to solve, what we're trying to solve. Why? Because we haven't solved it. Other than trying to make ourselves look cool or good, what's the purpose of that? I don't understand that part of it. So, yeah, there are a bunch of things we're working on that we'd like to solve--some we've been working on for years and we haven't solved, for that matter. I don't feel like we should be tooting our own horns that we're trying to solve that problem, when we haven't really solved it." unquote Makes sense - why talk about what you want to solve - if you have not solved it - 1. it gives the competition a head start on what to work on and 2. if you don’t solve it - people ask what is wrong with you for not solving that thing you said you would solve. The article talks about R&D spending at Apple which has never been higher. Prior to 2011 it was always under $2 Billion a year. 2013 it was at around $4 Billion. 2015 was about $8 Billion and this year will be over 10 Billion. In other words - Apple is working on something. This is good news for this show - because it means lots of future products to talk about. Spend baby - spend. 10:41 http://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/hackers-tricking- iphone-users-handing-8600297 Seems Cyber crooks are targeting iPhone users who have had their iPhone stolen. What they are doing is trying to steal their iCloud login details. They try to trick the victim into giving up their Apple ID credentials - they do this by sending out a SMS and email with a link to click to show you the location of your stollen iOS device with what looks to be a legit iCloud login screen - it is however not legit and just a phishing scam. So if you get your iOS device stolen look out for emails and SMS messages claiming to have discovered the location of your device and asking you to log in. Only log in to find my iPhone App on a trusted iOS device and never sign into to a site where the link was sent to you. Victim beware - don’t become a double victim. 11:57 Pokemon Go - really really makes me appreciate RING. How you ask - we are across the street from a library where there is a Pokemon Gym - and My sons friends have been coming by EVERY day multiple times asking for the boys so they can go over and get them some pokemons and whatever else you do at the Gyms. And it seems our internal door bell is at frequency my kids can’t hear either that or they ignore it. So I am able to just answer the door from my iPhone - tell the neighbor kids to hold on - and then call my son’s phone and tell him his friend or friends are at the front do. No need to run down the stairs or leave my office - just answer on my iPhone. I really really love my Ring - especially with Pokemon Go kicking up my kids popularity. If you go to Ring dot com slash T i i - you will get for a limited Time $50 off the Ring of Security kit - which includes a video doorbell, Stick up Cam, solar Panel and indoor chime. For the Video Door bell it quickly - and easily connects to your wired door bell wires. The main unit is not something you have to worry about charging if you wire it up. It took me all of twenty minutes if that to remove the old door bell and replace it with the Video Doorbell from Ring. And you can also share access to it with others in your house. My Wife also gets access to the door bell and video. If I can’t answer or even if I do - she can answer as well. The RING doorbell has quickly become one of those accessories you can’t see yourself living with out ever again. Beyond the front door - The Stick up Cam can be used to watch other parts of your house and also installs in minutes. Go to ring dot com slash t i i - to save $50 off either Ring Security Kits. Thanks Ring for sponsoring this episode. 14:01 VOICEMAIL - Rick_MD_answr_lightening_cords_durrable Hi Rob, I've been using cables from monoprice.com 4 years and they're about $7 they're really good and they have a harder plastic on the cable more durable. cable come in different colors and I really love them. Regards, Aiman Rob, I buy mine at monoprice.com Cables are MFI certified and lifetime guaranteed. No questions asked. David D Dick Springfield MO Hi Rob, Love the podcast. Longtime listener. Real quick, I’ve had two Amazon Basics black lightning cables for several months to a year ant they’ve both held up nicely. I use one inside, and one in the car. Pretty cheap if I recall and they offer a few sizes. Regards, Andrew Hi Rob, I use Amazon basic lighting cables there great for family's with kids & to carry as extras ,I've had mine for over a year now & there still going strong 6 feet $7.99 3 feet $5.99 10 Feet $9.99 Regards, James B Hi Rob, I have been using the Amazon basics lightning cables for the past year. While I would not consider them heavy duty, they are a good medium duty cable at a good price. They do not hold up forever but they last much longer than the cheap cables. Just my two cents Regards, Joe from Iowa Hi Rob, I purchased a set of these cables from Amazon last year. They seem to be the best I've ever come across!! The link to Amazon is listed below: Cable Lightning, Cambond Apple MFI Certified 6.6Ft 8 pin USB SYNC Charger Cable Cord... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00O1I0MFA/ref=cm_sw_r_ sms_c_api_rU0QxbH5H76CQ Grace & Peace, Brian L Hi Rob! You asked about Lightning cables in Episode 401. We've been using Amazon Basic Lightning cables for a few years now without any issues. They are all "Made for iPhone." We saved lots of money and have them at home and in the car. Best regards, Ken Berger Philadelphia, PA VOICEMAIL - Tom_CA_lightening_cable_fdbk Hi Rob, The only company I use for my cables and chargers is anker to give you an idea here is a link Anker 6ft Nylon Braided USB Cable with Lightning Connector [Apple MFi Certified] for iPhone 6s Plus / 6 Plus, iPad Pro Air 2 and More (Space Gray) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UBLOJJG/ref=cm_ sw_r_cp_api_8gjRxbPR7QWSV Regards, Conrad B Hi Rob, I've had a 1m (3ft) Belkin USB to Lightning cable for as long as I've had my iPhone 5S (almost 3 years). It gets thrown in my work bag, wrapped tightly around my in car charger, it takes some abuse. And it's as good as new. Never a problem. Regards Alf Sheffield, UK Hi Rob, Per your question on durable lightning cables for iPhones , I always buy my cables from Apple they all have year warranties on them Regards, Long time listener David from south Florida Hi Rob, Here's some lightning cables - the Avolare 3Pack 3ft 6ft 10ft - that you can recommend to Lara in LA. They are extremely affordable at $12.99 for a 3-pack. You get a 3,6 & 10 footer. I've owned these about 5 months with no problems at all. Regards, Shannon in AZ Iphone 6 Charger, Avolare 3Pack 3ft 6ft 10ft Iphone Charging Cord Durable Nylon Braided Cable for iPhone 6/6s/6 plus/6s plus, 5c/5s/5, iPad Air/Mini,iPod Nano/Touch(Grey) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01C7814C0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_FT4Qxb7FF0C7Z VOICEMAIL - Kevin_KC_answer_cables_dont_go_cheap VOICEMAIL - Kevin_KC_part_2 Kevin Shannon David Alf Conrad Tom Ken Brian Joe James Andrew David Aiman Rick and others - thanks for your feedback. 20:13 https://plus.google.com/communities/ 105412562215997292912?cfem=1 We are now over 3,000 members in our Google+ community and growing. Thanks to everyone that has joined and thanks for the great posts. One new post in the G+ community that went up since the last episode that had lots of comments came from KATIE FREDERICK ON AUGUST 11th who posted the following quote Trying to decide which iPad Mini model to get; I use Apple's built-in screen reader, VoiceOver, so wondering if the Mini 2 would work, or go for a 3 or 4 mini model. Thanks in advance for your feedback and thoughts. unquote KEN Ostrander replied quote We have the Air 2 and love it. I know it's not a mini but I think they are a great deal. If I could figure out how to use it as a phone I would move to the mini. I can use Google Voice but not my primary as there is no app for that. unquote NIC BROWN replied quote The 2 is to far outdated and the 3 was just a placeholder. I agree with Ken on the air 2 But if your set on the mini go with the 4 unquote LAWRENCE McFARLAND replied quote There are many (unsubstantiated) rumors that an iPad Mini 5 will be released in the autumn. unquote KEN DOM replied quote Katie always go for the latest model as it will last at least four years my iPad 3(9.3.4) is still as good as it was from day one in 2013.iPads are the best. unquote AND MICHAEL DRIPS replied quote I would go for the latest model as you get better hardware, starting with the faster CPU. unquote I have to agree with both Michael and Lawrence - in that you should get the latest and highest end version of the Mini - and you should wait until this fall where the iPad Mini is due for an upgrade - assuming you can wait until October for the next gen iPad Mini. The reason to get the latest version is it will last you 4 years at least where it is updatable to the latest version of iOS. You will get a longer useful life from the current top of the line version and with a new version likely to be announced next month - I recommend waiting to purchase until after the Sept 7th special event. All thanks for your replies. Since the last episode there were also dozens and dozens of other new posts and comments in the Tii Google+ community - which is an Android fan bois free zone and spammer free zone. Yup it is the most civil Google+ community covering iOS. Folks Go to today in iOS dot com slash community to join in. And thanks to all 3,000+ of you already in the community and contributing. Also from the Google Plus community were these comments per the last episode - which I always pin the last episode at the top. From Myron Eucker quote I thought I added this comment earlier. For the listener looking for Lightning cables, the ones I have been buying are from IXCC on Amazon. They offer various sizes and I'm impressed with the quality. Like all Lightning cables I have used so far, the gold plating will eventually wear off the middle connector. However, I have had several of their cables for a couple of years now and they still work well. Please note that the connectors are slightly larger on the longer cables, but they all fit through the openings on my Lifeproof case. One thing to be careful on Amazon is to make sure you buy cables from the original manufacturer whenever possible. I once bought Belkin cables and they broke almost immediately. Since Belkin is generally a decent manufacturer, I'm pretty sure they were counterfeit. unquote 24:20 http://www.seikowatches.com/world/technology/kinetic/ Hi Rob, You asked for what my wishes are for the iPhone 7, well I'd like to see wireless charging in a form similar to Seiko's Kinetic system. http://www.seikowatches.com/world/technology/kinetic/ This would add a bit of charge throughout the day generated from movement rather than from solar or RF. I know this isn't likely and, given current technology, won't add scads of power to the phone. But it might give an extra 5-10% during the day for relatively active individuals. Perhaps they could use the space recovered from the headphone jack? Regards, Brian in Appleton, WI Brian - while it would be nice to have something like that - the amount of energy generated vs what is used - is very very different than with a regular watch. It was not even be an extra 5% during the day for the typical user. Not even close. There is a big difference how much your iPhone in your pock moves around in a day vs how much a watch moves around on your wrist. And even there - the amount of energy needed to run your watch is insignificant compared to the power of the force touch panel on your iPhone. So in theory it would be nice - in practice it would not make sense to use that space. Better to just have more lithium Ion battery in that space. 25:42 http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2016/08/11/apple-developing- non-watch-wearable/ One of the latest rumors is Apple is working on a new wearable that would supplement the apple watch but not actually be a watch. Think of a health and fitness tracker. Now here is what I don’t get. Quote Apparently the product will sport a screen and will, similarly to the Apple Watch, make use of 3D touch. The report cites that the product has been in development for over two years under Jay Blahnik, an employee who – according to his LinkedIn profile – works on ‘special projects unquote. So in reports on this they say it will not be a watch - but it will have a touch screen - so why not just display the time. I can see Apple possibly doing a device that is meant just as a wearable fitness / health tracker - that is more robust than an Apple Watch - and does not have a screen. But if you put a touch screen on it - how is that NOT an Apple Watch. I mean it would be ridiculous at that point NOT to put a watch option in it. Do I think Apple is working on some sort of Non-Watch wearable - Sure - I would be surprised if they were not. They work on lots of things. Do I think they are working on a fitness tracker with a 3D touch screen - that will not have a watch feature on it - HECK NO. That just does not make sense. 27:08 VOICEMAIL - Neal_OR_frustrated_with_iPhone_update_requests Hi Rob, Ran into a problem with the iOS 9.3.4 update on an iPad Mini 2. My wife upgraded last night from 9.3.3 and this morning, her location services are turned off and restrictions is turned on with a passcode we don;t know. My wife daily uses Google Maps for directions and used them yesterday without issue. This morning, she's unable to use Google Maps as following the update location services are disabled and restrictions are enabled. No one used the device after she initiated the update last evening and only her and I live in the house, so it wasn't a child or a prank. Not sure what happened with the update. Be sure to backup before doing the updates. Regards, Brian from Appleton 30:58 I received a package in the mail from Harrys late last month - it was their new updated Gen 2 Razors. It is still the great 5 blade razor - but they made some improvements - It is more flexible for better control and more comfortable shaving. They added a 6 th blade at the top for trimming hard to reach spots, and they still of course have the lubricating strip. They took the best razor I have ever used and made it betterer or bestest. And Harry’s starter set is an amazing deal. You get a weighted razor handle of your choice, moisturizing shave cream, 3 precision-engineered 5-blade cartridges, and a travel cover – all for just $15 bucks. And, for a limited time only, there’s a special offer for fTii listeners where you can get it for less. if you go to harrys dot com - that is h a r r y s dot com and use the promo code t i i - you will save $5 on your first order. That is right - first time customers for just $10 can get the starter kit when you use promo code T i i at checkout. To get the bestest blades - Harry's went and found a German blade factory that was almost 100 years old and purchased it. Harry’s owns the most important part of the razor - the blade and by cutting out the middle men on both sides means they can keep the price low to you. This is a great shave that does not feel like it cost a buck. Plus Harrys as an organization helps those looking for jobs - by donating 1% of their sales and 1% of their time to help prepare people for professional success. Yes a shave that feels great from a company you can feel great about. Once again go to Harrys.com now and save $5 off when you enter the code - t i i with your first purchase. That is h a r r y s dot com and enter the coupon code T I I at check out to save $5 on your first purchase and start shaving better. 32:56 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2067761922/smart- jacket-for-iphone-and-android-user-hallam-ne?ref=discovery Winters Coming and you know what that means - you need a jacket or dragon glass - but per this next item - lets just talk about the jacket. There is a kickstarter project called HALLAM New York Smart Jacket for iPhone users. Quote The world’s first smart jack for smartphone user / bluetooth wearable apparel NFC power bank charging LED GPS travel bike running music unquote Huh - sounds like random keywords and not a sentence. The project has a goal of $15,000 - and to date has raised $5k. With funding going on until Sep 24th at 11:56 AM CT. They have 5 styles to choose from - Hoodie, Sweatshirts, Varsity Jacket, Padded Vest, and wool jacket. They say delivery will be in Jan 2017. Pricing for these starts at $179 for the Hoodie and sweatshirt, it is $189 for the Padded Vest, $199 for the Varsity Jacket and $229 for the Wool Jacket. Then there are add ons - $69 for the charging battery Pack, $59 for the LED Pack and $59 for the H Key Chain and $59 for the H Ring, $49 for the Selfie Tripod, and $39 for the magnetic Charging cable, and there are other accessories. Any way Winter is coming and if you are looking for a multifunction winter coat that has a batter pack, LED pack and more - search for H A L L A M at kickstarter dot com or the show note for ep 402. Honestly - This has to be one of the most confusing projects I have ever seen when it comes to ordering. I think it would be easier for me to explain where White walkers came from then it would be to explain how to order one of their jackets. 34:47 https://www.hypershop.com/products/hyperlink-316l-stainless- steel-band-for-apple-watch-classic One of my favorite Kickstarter funding was the Hyperlink stainless steel band for my Apple Watch - it looks like the $300 version from Apple - but was only $50 for kick starters - and they were selling it for $70 retail - I say that in the past tense - because right now - they lowered the price to $30. If you have an apple watch and you are using that rubber band that came with it - you know the ugly blue one or white or one of the other colors. It is time you moved up to this band. At the current price I am tempted to buy an extra one just to have around. There is a link to this in the Show notes - they have versions for 38 mm and 42 mm Apple Watch and Apple Watch Sport. And they have the stainless steel version and black version as well. Link in the show notes - not sure how long this sale will last. 35:47 VOICEMAIL - Andrew_CO_first_time_caller_question_ear_piece_maps Rob, Love the show as per usual. A few comments. I guess I am the "one" who bought the Apple smart battery case for my iPhone 6s. What can I say, I love it. I always had a case for whatever iPhone I have as I dislike how slick the phone is naked. The battery case does what it is supposed to do, gives me insane battery life and does it without making me constantly cycle the internal battery of the phone plus I can use a lightning cable to charge the whole thing. I truly loath micro USB for constant plugging and unplugging. As for the headphone jack, or lack of it, I am blind and thus use Voiceover. This means, of course, I am always listening to the phone. I am not at all happy about what appears to be the impending demise of the headphone jack but it's not as big a deal as all that. I have tried Bluetooth. I hate it. Not only does BT still not reliably stay paired up, there is one more thing to keep charged and, most irritating of all; there is a lag between action on the screen and hearing the result. This is a huge issue when using Voiceover as you are often touching the screen to perform actions and the lag drives me insane. If all of that were not enough (and it truly is) when you use the phone to communicate with someone else using BT the phone switches to a protocol that makes a 70's era long distance phone call sound great by comparison. So, going forward, guess I'll need a dongle to plug in my cheap but durable headphones which I use for things such as podcasts, books and all the other functions of a modern smartphone. No music, I have a much better rig for that. I already have a dongle of sorts; I have a headphone extender which is necessary to fit through the battery case to reach into the headphone jack. Keep up the great work. Regards, Kevin Barry Hi Rob, On episode 401 I have asked about a slow search from home screen. Here're some more details. Most of the time I search for an app on the phone. It seems to be slow more of the time when I am using a cellular connection. However, I expect the results for matching app names to be fast before the phone uses the network. Maybe Apple didn't implement this "right" -- local result first, then move on to a slower search requiring network. Regards, --Alex from Walnut Creek. 40:41 http://www.applemust.com/apple-really-is-printing- money-with-pokemon-go/ Interesting article by Johnny Evans about the cash machine that Pokemon Go is for Apple. A research group called YouGov - claimed Pokemon Go has been downloaded over 6 Million times and has 5 Million active users and 1 million of them are paying players - and that is just in the UK alone. But think about that 5/6th of downloaders are active players - that is outstanding and 20% of those active are paying - that is way way about the 2 to 5% number I have seen for other apps. The more interesting thing is that they estimate 80% of total pokemon go spending is via iOS users. And globally Players have spent over $250 Million in the game already. Which means about $200 Million in iOS in app purchases and that is a cool $60 Million for apples 30% cut. Not to shabby. 41:45 VOICEMAIL - Brent_OKC_MFI_convention_mentioned_past_ep Hey Rob, What is that song at the end of episode 401? Im not having luck figuring it out, sounds a little bit like Prince but.. Thanks:) Love the podcast! Regards, Paul N From google+ community From Bob Berberick Quote I don't know if this has anything to do with 9.3.4 but here goes: I have a 6S plus that replaced a 5s months ago. I keep my phone in my front pocket. Twice today, I "bum dialled" my home land line. I have never had this happen before. The last time I was at home when it happened and I am absolutely certain that there was no way I accidentally called home. I'm stumped. Anyone have any idea why this might be happening? Unquote Hi Bob - yes - I had this happen a few time as well - and I never had that happen before iOS 9.3.4 - and it has not happened since I updated to iOS 10 beta 5. I thought it was something I had done - but when I read your post - I realized it was not me - it was the iPhone. Podcast411 - Ep 232 - Jen - Congressional Dish - Recording done face to face using bossjock and iRig Lav Mic - 2 pack. Really good quality. VOICEMAIL - Daniel_UK_I_AM_BACK_APPLE_CUSTOMER_Service 46:53 Ep 402 - Ask Siri - Why do you vibrate? 47:15 Thanks again to RING for sponsoring this episode - Folks right now and for a limited time only go to RING dot com slash t i i - to save $50 off the Ring of Security kit - Thanks Ring for sponsoring this show. And Before we go today I want to remind you to send in your feedback to the show - 206-666-6364 - that 206-moon-dog - or record your feedback and email it to the show at today in iOS at gmail dot com - The feedback can be a question or comment per something someone said on this episode or it can be a question or rant you have about something else. An App or product review - good or bad - as long as it is iOS related - it is welcomed. I am always looking for new Artwork to feature that you created on an iOS device - just put some Tii branding on it and send it in. And of course we are always looking for more music created on an iOS device to play on the show. This is your show and your feedback is greatly desired. Also don't forget to check out our Moderated Google Plus community by going to todayinios dot com slash community. 48:11 Thanks again to Harry's for sponsoring this episode and please go to Harrys.com now and save $5 off when you enter the code - t i i with your first purchase. That is h a r r y s dot com and enter the coupon code T I I at check out to save $5 and start shaving better today or well at least as soon as your new shave kit arrives right to your door step. Finally check out the newly updated Tii App which is Free to you. Search for Tii in the iTunes App Store - it is the best way to consume the show and to get push notifications each time a new episode of Tii is released. It is fully Voiceover friendly of course. Please go right now and download the Tii App. And that folks is going to do it for us today - until the next time I am your host Rob reminding you to phone different OUTRO OUTRO MUSIC VOICEMAIL - Tom_CA_easter_eggs OUT TAKES
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TRANSCRIPT FOR EPISODE 401 Welcome to the show I am your host Rob and this is the Today in iOS podcast - First up I want to thank AARON for sending in the music you hear in the background. AARON wrote: Hi Rob, Please find the song "Strange." This is a track that was originally written using Garage Band on my iPad Pro 9.7 and my Casio Px5s synthesizer, in a hotel room, somewhere on the road, and then later exported to Logic Pro on my MacBook Pro where I captured the live electric bass and timbale performances. I continued to use the iPad during this process via Logic Remote. I can be found online at my official site: http:www.aarontoddmusic.com, on Twitter: @aarontodd and my blog about music: https://aarontoddonline.wordpress.com Regards, Aaron Todd Song_Strange_The MatrixMix Thanks AARON for the music and folks I will put the full song at the end of the episode. I also want to thank Me for sending in the Artwork for today's show. I created the artwork by putting the noir filter on with the photo app and added in the text wit the Over App - Which was really easy to do. More About that photo later in the episode. you can see MY artwork in the FREE Tii App via the BONUS button for ep 401 - or at instagram.com/todayinios and also as a stand alone post in the VIP section and at Facebook.com/todayinios. If you have some artwork and or music you have created on your iOS device that you would like to share with the audience please email it to me at today in iOS at gmail dot com and please make sure to include which app or apps you used to create said artwork and or music. AND I am down to just two songs in my queue - so if you have some music created on an iOS device - please please please send it in. 02:27 In this segment of how wrong were they we have the following quote quote “The launch of Storm 3 gives RIMM the long-awaited answer to the iPhone and high-end Android devices.” unquote Michael Li, Investing Blog, 16 January 2011 Well if The Storm 3 gave Rimm an answer to the iPhone and High End Android phones - then the question must have been - what do those devices not need to worry about? Alex that would be the Storm 3. 02:54 This week we have promo codes for The App - AZZL - A Z Z L Here is the written review from the dev. Quote AZZL is a game that pops out of the screen with bright colours and a distinctive art style, but up until now it had only been available on iPhone and iPad. That is no longer the case though, with the title landing on Apple TV this week. A combination of game and cartoon, AZZL sees you tapping, swiping, moving, and rotating a range of animated puzzle pieces to complete images. There's a variety of worlds to explore with each one being inhabited by a range of characters - all animated as slickly as the protagonists in your usual Saturday morning cartoon. unquote Well thanks to the devs for their review of their App - AZZL - and for sending in the promo codes to their App to give away. Folks if you would like a chance for a promo code for this app - please send an email to todayinios at gmail dot com and put A Z Z L - iOS or A Z Z L TV in the subject line. depending on if you want a chance to win the iOS or Apple TV version https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/azzl/id640484311 A QUICK REMINDER if you are an App developer or an iBook Author email me if you want your app or iBook featured in the promo give away segment FOR FREE We Just need the 5 promo codes or more to give away. simply email me at today in ios @ gmail.com and please include a 60 sec or less audio review of your app or iBook - indicating you are the dev or author. Also when you send in the promo codes - please make sure to let me know when they expire. 04:30 http://appletoolbox.com/2016/08/notifications- not-working-ios-9-3-3/ Hi Rob, When I opened up the Tii app I got the notification in the first picture here. Which shows the error message quote An Error occurred with push notification registration unquote. So I deleted the app, re-downloaded, it and upon launching the new download I got the notification in the second picture which has the same error message. And I have not received notifications from you. Please advise. Regards, Dr. John M Sadly it looks like iOS 9.3.3 - is causing issues with Push Notifications for many apps - and Tii is part of Many Apps. As is the Facebook App, and the What’s App and well many apps. However our devs have a fix and a new version is coming. And a couple of users also sent in word that the App showed all episodes saying they were premium - it seems to be just a small number of users with that issue - and running iOS 9.3.3. If you are seeing the episodes locked down and saying premium only - let me know which version of iOS and which iOS device you have. We also believe we have an fix for that - but in the mean time if you have the issue - let me know there is a fix you can do now to reset that. Sorry about that issue. iOS 9.3.3 - and the Tii app - yeah not peanut butter and Chocolate. 05:53 http://9to5mac.com/2016/08/04/ios-9-3-4/ Beyond just messing with the Tii App and the Facebook App and other apps - iOS 9.3.3 had some other issues. And that lead to iOS 9.3.4 - which apple said quote iOS 9.3.4 provides an important security update for your iPhone or iPad and is recommended for all users. So I updated to iOS 9.3.4 - and the Push notification Error message - Sadly is still there. As is the issue being reported of the episodes showing as premium. So any changes to iOS 9.3.4 - did not affect the issues that came about from iOS 9.3.3 - they are still there. And Our dev teams believes both will be fixed in the next update of the Tii App - which I believe is in and being reviewed. So hopefully it will be live shortly. And literally right after I originally typed that - the update appeared. So here is the solution for anyone with the Tii App - update to version 2.1.20 - which you should see under updates. And I did the update and the Push Notification error is squashed. Thanks to Michael S - Our lead dev for the quick turn on the fix. Per what iOS 9.3.4 fixes one of the items is a problem with memory corruption that was discovered by the Pangu Team. Apple did give credit to the Pangu Team for discovering the Vulnerability. In the google+ community - when Kenneth Berger asked is anyone updated to 9.3.4 and if there were any issues - there were a bunch of responses and all were positive. If you have not updates to iOS 9.3.4 - go ahead and release the hounds. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/apple-releases-ios-9-3-4-important- security-patch-iphone-ipad-1574533 07:47 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-offers-big-cash- rewards-233001706.html One thing I have not been able to find out is if Apple gave a bounty to Pangu for finding the exploit. My guess would be No. Some might say - but Rob - you recently said Apple does not give out bounties for finding security bugs. And in the past tense that would be correct - But Apple is seeing the error of their ways and now will start paying bounties to those quote researchers unquote that find security bugs. Apple said those rewards will be up to $200k. Apple joins pretty much ever other major tech company creating and OS that offers bounties. However there is a catch - because well this is Apple and there is always a catch. Initially the program will be limited to about 25 researchers who Apple will invite to help find potential security bugs. Sorry any thoughts you had of claiming this - yeah - not so much. According to info supplied by Apple to Reuters at the Black Hat Conference - earlier this month - the most lucrative category - the one that offers up to that $200k reward is for finding bugs in Apples secure boot firmware - for preventing unauthorized programs form launching when an iOS device is powered up. Apple did say their reason for limiting who can be part of this is because their competitors told them that is the right way to do it. And Apple believed them - yikes. Apple did say eventually they would open it up to more people but for now - don’t call us we will call you. More info on this one I am sure on a future episode. 09:32 http://appadvice.com/post/apple-adds-faster-3d- touch-text-deletion-in-ios-10-beta/718800 Last week iOS 10 beta 4 was released - I should point out for Devs it was beta 4 for the public it was beta 3 - but we just talk per the Dev version - and that was the 4 th version of the iOS 10 beta. One of the new features in the 4th beta - was the addition of a new 3D touch feature - the harder you press down on the delete key the faster it deletes things. Of course the 4th beta contains the obligatory Bug fixes and improvements as well. Some other items new in it include: There is a New Control center splash page. In Beta 4 Folder animations are sped up vs past betas. Apple also redesigned emoji characters. And the Taptic Engine vibration when manually locking the phone is gone. So last one was more what is taken away. http://www.ubilio.com/topics/ios-10-beta-4- is-now-available-to-download/ 10:29 http://cydianerd.com/ios-10-beta-5-download-released/ With iOS 10 beta 4 released last week a few sites over the weekend were reporting on rumors / leaks that Beta 5 would be released on August 15th. Said Leaks were the same ones that reported when the Apple event would be - as in it was a calendar and they were guessing - and they guessed wrong - because iOS 10 Beta 5 was released today August 9th. And I held off on releasing this episode - because my inside sources said - Rob don’t release on Sunday - Wait until Tuesday then you can report on beta 5. I’ll buy that for a dollar. So what is new in Beta 5 - well of course the first is the obligatory Bug fixes and improvements. Initial reports of other changes are a different sound when locking your iPhone, plus louder typing sounds. There is also a new Music output icon in control center and the stock music app. One other new feature or bug - is that when you reboot your device you don’t have to re-enter your itunes password when making purchases - you can just use touch ID. AS IT SHOULD HAVE ALWAYS BEEN. I said it is either a feature or a bug - as I would not be shocked to see it removed. But hopefully it is a feature a long long over due feature. If you have the Smart Battery Case - if you are that person - the new beta should now allow it to work properly with your iPhone 6 or 6S - this according to the release notes. Previously some devices would crash when running the older beta’s and the Smart Battery Case. The new Widget panel which you can get to by swiping to the right now displays the date on all devices. One other great thing about it being beta 5 - is that I am now putting it on my iPhone. I traditionally have waited for the 5th beta. So now I will start getting this on all my iOS devices to really see how it works. To start with I did the full download and then updated from iTunes. http://www.macrumors.com/2016/08/09/ios-10-beta-5-tidbits/ 14:13 http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/3/12371006/app- store-50-billion-paid-to-developers-apple Tim cook went to twitter last week and tweeted out this message quote @appstore developers have now earned over $50 billion congratulations on your success and such inspired creativity. unquote That is one heck of an industry. If you look at most of that coming in the past few years - on a yearly basis for the last year - that would make the iOS app market place a greater than $15 Billion a year industry. That is larger than NCAA basketball including march Madness. It is larger than the Frozen Yogurt industry - No Fro Yo for you. It is even larger than the Porn Industry regardless of what numbers you read from a low of $1 Billion a year to a very often discredited high of $14 billion a year. Kudos to Apple and team for creating such a robust global industry. 15:09 Long time listeners know that in my past life I used to travel a lot for business - I had one of those jobs where I was traveling 4 out of 5 weeks. Doing 175k in the air in my craziest year. Which is why I was happy to bring on this new advertiser for the show - Away. They make a great luggage. They sent me their Carry on bag. It is great - it has a built in 10,000 MAH battery pack built in. That will charge an iPhone 6 Five times. I was traveling with it - and on the very first flight I am going down the isle and a women points to her significant other and says look at that - what a great idea. She asked me about it - and naturally I said - Go to away travel dot com / tii and use promo code tii to save $20 off the suitcase. She looked at me confused. Yes - Yes I did say that to her. Have you ever gone to your gate and the first thing you did was look for a place to plug in your cell phone. Peeking around those round columns looking for a power outlet. No more. You actually can be charging it as you are walking through the airport and waiting on line and as I mentioned going down the isle. But beyond the battery pack it is a great bag and meets my requirements - wheels under all 4 corners and swivels 360 - making it easy to get down the isle and smooth flow in the airport. And it is double wheels under each corner. Something I really like. It is lightweight and very durable and even has a lifetime warranty - if anything breaks they will fix or replace it for you for LIFE. Sweet. And there is a 100 day trial. If it is not for you then just return it for a full refund no questions asked. It comes with a charging cord and comes in a really nice Laundry bag. And on the inside there is a bag for your shoes as well. They really looked at all the details in making the best Carry on bag I have ever owned or seen. Even the shipping box has nice Away Travel artwork on the inside. Very very apple-ish. In addition to the carry on they also have mid size and large check in bags. But only the carry on has the battery pack. To save $20 go to away travel dot com slash tii and use promo code tii . Again away travel dot com slash tii and use promo code tii to save $20. 17:57 VOICEMAIL - Justin_iOS10_beta_fdbk Hi Rob. Well Iv'e seen the so call iPhone 7 from this guy YouTube channel (Everything Apple Pro). And then I think 9to5 Mac showed the new EarPods. I know everyone wants to see what the new iPhone will look like and youtubers have a job to do. But it's no more exciting anymore. Are is it just me reading the news and watching the videos. Regards, Sharde 21:58 https://plus.google.com/communities/ 105412562215997292912?cfem=1 We are now over 3,000 members in our Google+ community and growing. Thanks to everyone that has joined and thanks for the great posts. One new post in the G+ community that went up since the last episode that had lots of comments came from MARK HENRY ON AUGUST 2ND who posted the following quote Does anyone know of a quality photo editor app/program for Mac/iPhone that would help me "touch up" images of my home. I am attempting to circumvent having to hire a home photographer to help sell my home. Any help would be greatly appreciated! unquote And again There were a bunch of replies to this. Lawrence McFarland and Daniel Evans both recommended Snapseed Robert Spivack replied quote Pixelmator - available for iOS and MacOS. Hands down the closet thing to the power of Photoshop at a fraction of the price and much easier to use. unquote Latin Kapoor suggest Adobe lightroom. Ben Neilsen recommend Affinity Photo as the best non-adobe photo editor on the mac. All thanks for your replies. Since the last episode there were also dozens and dozens of other new posts and comments in the Tii Google+ community - which is an Android fan bois free zone and spammer free zone. Yup it is the most civil Google+ community covering iOS. Folks Go to today in iOS dot com slash community to join in. And thanks to all 3,000+ of you already in the community and contributing. 23:30 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/apple-tv-remote/ id1096834193?mt=8 From Karthik M in Google+ Apple has renamed the existing Remote app to iTunes Remote and has created a new Apple TV Remote. It is featured in the App Store today. 23:53 http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/01/technology/apple- pistol-emoji/index.html Looking for the Gun icon in iOS 10 - well apple replace the lead projectile launching icon with a water launching one. Yes - Apple replaced the 38 snub nose gun emoji for an emoji of a green water gun. There are other changes to emoji’s apple made - but the gun one is the only one people really are reporting about. but honestly if you are going to replace it with a water gun - the green one is so not what I would have chosen - if you want to go retro go with the ugly transparent yellow ones that were so popular in the 70’s. Or better yet - put in the super soaker. 24:33 http://www.gsmarena.com/apple_iphone_7-8064.php We are getting closer and close to the Apple event in September - so that means more and more posts titled everything we know about the iphone 7 or something very similar. Really only thing different from last week - is multiple reports of a blue version of the iPhone 2016 Also it is looking more and more like the headphone jack is going off to live on that same farm in the country that Apple sent the 30 pin dock connector to live at. People are complaining more and more about the lack of the head phone jack - but the more leaked photos or prototypes that are released - the more it looks like the headphone jack is no more. http://www.cnet.com/products/apple-iphone-7/ https://plus.google.com/u/0/+NaveedAsghardr/ posts/VEDx6Lvt6wT?cfem=1 http://www.dippyfeed.com/iphone-7-plus-video-jack/ 25:27 https://www.thrillist.com/tech/nation/new-iphone-7- release-features-specs-we-want-to-see Rob, I came across this article and thought you might be interested in it. Thanks for all you do! Jeanine T Chicago The Article is titled - Dear Apple - these are our demands for the next iPhone 1. Do not ditch the iPhone headphone jack. Again this may be crying over spilled milk. 2. Give us better battery life. As said before - Photography and battery life - are two key things apple looks at. Sadly this author is clueless - as they also ask for a detachable battery. ummm no. 3. Stop insulting us with comical limits storage options. Most rumors do point to 32 barely enough GB as the new low end. Personally I would not recommend anything less than 64 bare min GB. the 128 now we are talking GB is really what I recommend - the 256 I have a new child / puppy GB version is great for those of you that well have a new child or new puppy. 4 - Make it shatter and waterproof. Agree on the waterproof - but shatter proof - Apple tried and the results were a bankrupt GTAT for their efforts. 5. Go wireless - not yet. 6. Make an even better camera - This is one area - clearly apple is trying to make a difference and they do increase specs each time - so no sure why it needs to be in the list. based on the rumors you are hearing lately - what are the features that you want for the next iPhone that are not being leaked at this point? Give us a call - 206-666-6364 - 206-moon-dog. Or shoot us an email. 27:34 http://www.forbes.com/sites/aarontilley/2016/08/04/apple-is- developing-wireless-earbuds-with-custom-low-power- bluetooth-chip/#598556911b54 The other rumor de jur - since the last episode had to do with the ear buds. as in wireless apple ear buds coming our way. According to quote a source with knowledge of the project unquote - which by now you know means - the reporter is just guessing and hoping to be right. The source claims apple is working on a special bluetooth ultra low power chip for the earbuds. Said lower power chip comes from tech developed by Passif Semiconductor - as start up Apple purchased in 2013. However - then the author goes into cover all the bases mode - saying the source said they did not know when it would launch and it is hitting technical issues. And if it does not work 100% it will be scrapped. Well done sir - you created a perfectly easy list of reasons why your sources info did not pan out. But if he does get lucky and hit any marks - then he can point to it as validation. Reality is if the headphone jack is gone - as it seems to be - then apple must release a wireless ear bud set - so do expect to see something in that category in September unless you know they run into issues then all bets are off. http://www.macrumors.com/2016/08/04/apple-wireless-earbuds-custom-bluetooth-chip/ 28:54 http://www.computerworld.com/article/3103000/apple-ios/ apple-may-sell-6-million-apple-watch-2-units-in-weeks.html Jonny Evans at Computer world had an article about how Apple may sell as many as 6 Million new Apple Watch 2nd gen units quote within the first few weeks of release unquote this based on results from a next worth survey. According to that survey - half of current apple watch owners say they will upgrade to the next gen device. and 22% of non-smartwatch owners plan to buy one this year. And he also pointed out a recent Wristly survey that found an amazing 94% of Existing Apple watch customers are still satisfied with their devices. One Analists figures put Apple Watch sales to day at around 13.6 million units. Going back to NextWorth date - 50% means 6.8 Mil Apple Watch 2nd gen sales to just existing Apple Watch owners. Potential Apple Watch buyers were asked what would make them use their devices more - and the respondents top 5 responses were. 57% said longer battery life No duh. 37% said easier / faster to charge. Huh? It really is very easy to charge. Guess this is per those that are not already an Apple watch owner. 36% said more stylish design. Ok - I can see that. 31% said wi-fi enabled. Again - this is for those not apple watch owners. 30% said useful fitness Apps And same here - not currently apple watch owners. So really 3 out of the top 5 items - the Apple watch has covered. Too many understate the Apple watch - but I personally really love mine and wear it all the time - I had someone this past weekend ask me if I really do wear it all the time - I took it off showed him the tan lines were it was and he was like - ohhhh - because it is really clear I do wear it all the time when I took it off. 31:00 http://www.applemust.com/youll-probably-get-hooked-on- planet-of-the-apps-get-used-to-it/ Johnny Evans had another article on the Planet of the Apps TV show - with TV in quotes - as it may really be an Apple TV show. It looks like the show will have Gwyneth Paltrow and Gary Vaynerchuk and Will.i.am as featured members of the show - and then of course all the devs Apple is out currently combing through trying to find the most interesting and made for Reality TV types they can get. At least one person listening to this show - has advanced in the selection process - hopefully a few more of you will as well. 31:53 VOICEMAIL - Karl_brooks_answr_family_share_kids Hi Rob, I have some added suggestions for a router to use in a hotel – The Apple AirPort Express may not be the best choice at it is relatively expensive, bulky, and lacking in features. The one feature that is really necessary for converting a wired hotel Ethernet jack into a wireless network, is the ability to handle the hotel login/authorization page. Unlike a home network, many hotels or other public networks will display a special login webpage. Until you login at that page, you can’t actually reach the Internet itself. At a minimum, the login requires confirming the terms and conditions of public use. In a hotel and hotspot locations, you may need to login with an account, your room number, or even pay for a “pass” with a credit card. The Apple AirPort express is not able to handle these special login pages. I recommend using a “travel router” that among their many features, have explicit support for public hotspot/hotel login pages. Two good choices are the TP-Link TL-WR702N ($15.28 at Amazon), or the HooToo TripMate Wireless N Portable Travel Router ($49.49 at Amazon). Both of these have several modes of operation – bridge, router, access point, client mode, etc. The TP-Link is incredibly small – it will fit easily in the palm of your hand and so can be stashed in your pocket if necessary. The HooToo is nice because it also has a built-in battery that can be used to re-charge your iPhone. Since you might be carrying this kind of device all the time but only need to use it occasionally if the hotel/public hot spot does not have Wifi, the extra features are useful. The HooToo can also work as a mini “network attached storage” – just plug in a USB stick or external USB drive and the files can be shared over the WiFi – great for streaming movies from a large flash drive for kids when on vacation, etc. I’ve even used them on an airline to “share” the slow and expensive WiFi with my family while only paying for one pass. Works fine for email and basic web, but not much else. Regards, Robert Spivack 39:39 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/slowlabs/peek- screen-redefine-privacy-and-protection-for-yo?ref=discovery\ This week for a Kickstarter project I found one called Peek Screen - two words. It had a goal of $11k and has raised over $14k - so it is funded - and if you want this one you have until Sept 4th at 6:59 AM CT to fund it. So what is Peek Screen - it is a screen protector for both the screen itself and the content on it. The most likely way someone is going to get sensitive info off your device is by looking at your screen while you are using it - this screen protector helps by narrowing the field of view in which people can see what is happening on the screen. Quote Peek Screen - a highly transparent tempered glass protective cover that brings strength, durability, and privacy to your mobile device. unquote Right now it is just for the iPhone 4, 5, 6 and SE series - or in other words not for the 6+ series. Pricing is $22 and delivery is set for Jan 2017. Their claim for specs are 1. Privacy 2. Anti-Scratch 3. Anti-smudge 4. real glass 5. 0.3 mm thin 6 87% clarity So if you use your iOS device a lot in public - say on the subway or other public places that are crowded and you still want to watch porn - umm - I mean access sensitive data and not have others see what you have on your screen - you may want to search for Peek Screen - two words at kickstarter dot com 41:30 Hi Rob thanks for all the great IOS info you provide in your podcast and the free app stuff!! Can you please ask your listeners if they have found any durable, cheap (non-Apple) iPhone/iPad charging cords? The kids in my family break the cords frequently - I can't afford to keep buying the expensive Apple versions - which also break or stop working as well. I've been buying cheap cords from websites (mobstub for example) but they stop working within days. Any advice is appreciated. Regards, Laura in LA. The MOS Spring Lightning Cable comes in 1-foot, 3-foot, 6-foot and 10-foot lengths, with prices starting at $19.95. Hi Rob, Something has been bothering me for a while in iOS 9 on iPhone 6. When I use the search from home screen sometimes it works fast, sometimes ok, and most of the time it's excruciatingly slow. I haven't been able to pinpoint the reason for it. Any advice? Keep making the best podcast! Regards, Alex from Walnut creek, CA. 44:17 http://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/08/04/ we-dont-wear-suits/ Funny - cute - or predictable story from iDownloadBlog titled - “We’re Apple. We don’t wear suits. We don’t even own suits.” Seems some people that are disgruntled network execs are going to the press to complain about Apples hard-nosed negotiation tactics - and unreasonable demands - which probably means Apple is asking for a good deal for consumers. But the person complaining that for their meeting with Apple Eddy Cue quote arrived 10 minutes late wearing jeans, tennis shoes with no socks and a hawaiian shirt while all the other executives were wearing suits unquote. Seems a few years ago - AT&T also complained about Apples wardrobe choices - where someone at AT&T suggested that Steve Jobs should wear a suit to meet with AT&T board of directors - he was told - quote we’re apple we don’t wear suits we don’t even own suits unquote. Reminds me of the first time I went to a meeting with Qualcom in San diego. I was the one in the suit with others from the company I worked with - we go into the meeting - and the folks from qualcom are all in shorts, sandals and hawaiian shirts or t-shirts. Needless to say we felt a little uncomfortable. We dressed more casual for the next meeting. But not that casual. 46:04 Hi Rob, As we get close to the next iPhone launch, there will be a lot of anal-yst speculation on how many people will, or will not, upgrade and how that affects Apple sales and revenue. Since you do a good job of following this on the podcast, I wanted to add my opinion about something that is not marketed well by Apple or highlighted by most analysts – A lot of the attention seems to be on whether the next iphone will have enough “wow” features to cause current iPhone owners to upgrade. But this overlooks the large majority of iphone owners that have skipped one more generations so the upgrade decision is actually much better. For example, my wife and I still have iPhone 6 Plus – we skipped upgrading to the Iphone 6S series ( because we bought unlocked full price phones and want to maximize the value by slowing our upgrade cycles). So upgrading to the next iPhone means we get all the “new” features of the IPhone 6S (better camera, 3d touch, faster touch id) along with whatever else is new in the next iPhone. For me, having skipped a generation, I have already decided that we will upgrade NO MATTER WHAT, since we have waited two years and want the 6S features alone so everything else beyond that is just a nice bonus. I have some non-tech friends that still have iPhone 5 and even a few iPhone 4S. For them, the jump ahead is even greater. I think Apple, and maybe even you on the podcast, should talk about upgrades listing ALL the features you get when you change from one model to another. For example, if you upgrade from an iPhone 4S to iPhone 7 (or whatever it is called), you get all these features you’ve missed (long list), PLUS these new features (not yet known). If you upgrade from an iPhone 5 to iPhone 7 you get all these features (shorter list) Plus these new features (not yet known) If you upgrade from an iPhone 6 to iPhone 7 you get all these features (still shorter list) plus these new features (not yet known) You get the idea – when you look at the real-world upgrade choices, even an incremental improvement in the iPhone 6s to the iPhone 7 features is really a huge upgrade for many people that are on older iPhone versions and ready to upgrade. I’ve been talking mainly hardware, but with iOS 10 I think the cut-off shifts to only supporting iPhone 5 so anyone with iPhone 4s also loses out on all the iOS 10 software changes too. Regards, Robert Spivack I mentioned earlier that later in the episode I would talk about the Artwork - that is a photo I took at the EliteMan Conference this past weekend in Plymouth Mass. I ran into Tim Cook —— S doppelgänger at the conference and he was nice enough to take a photo for me. I used the Over App to add the Tii and ep 401 to his shirt. 50:47 Ep 401 - Ask Siri - What is infinity times infinity 51:03 Thanks again to Away for sponsoring this episode for $20 off your order please visit away travel dot com slash Tii and use promo code Tii when you check out. Thanks Away for supporting this show. And Before we go today I want to remind you to send in your feedback to the show - 206-666-6364 - that 206-moon-dog - or record your feedback and email it to the show at today in iOS at gmail dot com - The feedback can be a question or comment per something someone said on this episode or it can be a question or rant you have about something else. An App or product review - good or bad - as long as it is iOS related - it is welcomed. I am always looking for new Artwork to feature that you created on an iOS device - just put some Tii branding on it and send it in. And of course we are always looking for more music created on an iOS device to play on the show. This is your show and your feedback is greatly desired. Also don't forget to check out our Moderated Google Plus community by going to todayinios dot com slash community. Finally check out the newly updated Tii App which is Free to you. Search for Tii in the iTunes App Store - it is the best way to consume the show and to get push notifications each time a new episode of Tii is released. It is fully Voiceover friendly of course. Please go right now and download the Tii App. And that folks is going to do it for us today - until the next time I am your host Rob reminding you to phone different OUTRO OUTRO MUSIC
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Checking with inside sources - code names - PC, FC and TC - I was able to confirm that Apples fall event to announce the next Gen iPhones will be Wednesday Sept 7th at 10:00 AM PT. Two new versions of the iPhone (4.7" and 5.5") will be announced along with other updated products. The new iPhones will be available for pre-order at 12:01 AM PT on Saturday the 10th. And iPhones will start being delivered (put in customers hands) on Friday the 16th. Sep 7th - Fall event Sep 10th - Pre-orders Sep 16th - Next Gen iPhones in customers Hands. The Sept 7th date makes a lot of sense - as it is also the first day of CTIA Super Mobility 2016. This goes along with past Apple events timed perfectly to take the wind from the rest of the industries sails. Much more info on this on Ep 400 of Today in iOS - going live later today.
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TRANSCRIPT FOR EPISODE 400 Welcome to the show I am your host Rob and this is the Today in iOS podcast - First up I want to thank BRIAN for sending in the music you hear in the background. BRIAN wrote: Hi Rob, Here is a song called - 2014.88 - Song of the day. On iOS I used the apps: nanoStudio iMaschine Notion GarageBand Most of the song started on the iPhone (iPad) then brought to the mac for finishing. On the mac I used the apps Studio One Logic Notion You can find more of my music at reverbnation.com/timfate Regards, ‘Brian Song_2014.88 Thanks BRIAN for the music and folks I will put the full song at the end of the episode. I also want to thank MYRON for sending in the Artwork for today's show. MYRON wrote the following: Hi Rob, Here is a simple artwork I created from a photo I took with my iPhone 6s at White Sands National Monument. I added the text and clip using the app Over on my iPad. Regards, Myron Uecker Thanks MYRON, for sending in this artwork and folks you can see MYRON'S artwork in the FREE Tii App via the BONUS button for ep 400 - or at instagram.com/todayinios and also as a stand alone post in the VIP section and at Facebook.com/todayinios. If you have some artwork and or music you have created on your iOS device that you would like to share with the audience please email it to me at today in iOS at gmail dot com and please make sure to include which app or apps you used to create said artwork and or music. AND I am down to just two songs in my queue - so if you have some music created on an iOS device - please please please send it in. 02:08 In this segment of how wrong were they we have the following quote quote Microsoft workers celebrated the release to manufacturing of Windows Phone 7 last week by parading through their Redmond campus with iPhone hearses. Microsoft Employees, Microsoft, 10 September 2010 I think that is where the phrase don’t put your hearse before your cart comes from. Just Sayin. 02:31 For Promo codes - On Ep 399 we offered up chances to win promo codes for The App - CALL OF COMMANDER - ZOMBIE ISLAND If you are interested in this app or want more info go back and listen to the beginning of Ep 399 This week - No soup for you - sadly no good marketing minded devs that were looking to spread the precious word about their app in exchange for giving up 5 not so precious promo codes. Bad App dev marketer are you - if you have not sent in your promo codes or even just 60 sec or less review of your free app. A QUICK REMINDER if you are an App developer or an iBook Author email me if you want your app or iBook featured in the promo give away segment FOR FREE We Just need the 5 promo codes or more to give away. simply email me at today in ios @ gmail.com and please include a 60 sec or less audio review of your app or iBook - indicating you are the dev or author. Also when you send in the promo codes - please make sure to let me know when they expire. 03:25 http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2016/07/ 26Apple-Reports-Third-Quarter-Results.html For the Conference Call - nothing shocking was expected and nothing shocking was revealed. Tim Cook did start off the call saying revenue was on the high side of the guidance range - but in the guidance range. What was revealed - was not at all shocking - and basically in line with what was expected. iPhone sales for Calendar Q2 2016 were - 40.4 Mil vs 47.5 mil a year ago — or a 15% decline. If you remember last episode - we said the Average guess by anal-ists was 40 Mil - for a 15.6% decline - so just slightly better than the average guess. Closest to the pin for iPhone sales was Jim Suva of Citi - with a guess of 40.3 Mil units sold. Way to Go Jim. As I said last week - maybe it is best to compare last quarter with the two year ago quarter as the iPhone seems to be on a two year upgrade cycle - and if you did that - then it was a solid increase of 24.3% when compared to 2 years ago quarter. Apple did say they expect better numbers next quarter and the iPhone SE was doing much better than expected. And they said iPhones sales to Switchers was the highest % ever. iPad sales for last quarter were 10 Mil units. vs 10.9 Mil the year ago quarter. But the Anal-ists were guessing with an average of 8.9 Mil units sold - that is a good solid beat of the Anal-ists expectations. Closest to the pin was Lee Storch of the Braeburn group - with a guess of 10 Mil units - and he was not just dead on - he was also the highest guess. Outside of Lee - everyone else was expecting lower and in most cases much lower iPad units sold. Especially Greg Boyd - who pessimistically guessed there would be just 7.5 Mil units sold. Overall - Revenue dropped 15% year over year. Again most of that is due to iPhone drops year over year. Turning to Cash - Apple has a boat load of it — no make that an armada load of it and it seems all that crazy money Apple throws at their spaceship campus actually affected that cash standing or maybe it was the 1 Billion they invested in Didi - as the cash on hand decreased slightly - that said their mountain of cash is now a staggering - $231.5 Billion dollars. Maybe better to say it is their mountain range of cash. Apple last quarter had 10.6 Billion cash flow generated from sales. And they did return 13 Billion to investors via dividends and stock buybacks. So yeah there was that too that caused a slight 1.4 Billion decrease last quarter. FYI - 93% of the $231.5 Billion is outside the US. ASP’s last quarter were $595 - which is very low for iPhone ASP’s the last 6 quarters it has been between $650 and $700 - but way way above smartphones not called the iPhone ASP’s - then you are looking at ASP’s less than $250. Yes iPhones ASP’s are way over double the rest of the industry even in a down quarter. Again - numbers were lower all around vs the year ago quarter. Same as last quarter and likely the same for next quarter. But Tim seemed very optimistic about the future - and you know what - so did Wallstreet - because the stock jumped up a bunch on Wednesday and finished the week up. So go figure - the times you think Apple will go up after a call - it goes down - and this time when it looked like it would go down - it went up. Actually it was the best day for Apple’s stock in 2 years. So yeah it really did well or as others pointed out - Apple has been beaten down so much lately - it really was just a matter of not being able to keep a fundamentally incredible company down for ever. I should point out I own Apple stock - and it makes up the majority of my investment portfolio - with quotes around portfolio. I am clearly long on Apple for full and fair disclosure. But it is funny I always know when to by Apple stock - because there is one listener that emails me when Apple stock is getting beat up - and the more emails - the better the opportunity to buy. That was recently - and now - if you believe what some articles are saying - Apple should be at least 30% higher than where it is today. We shall see. What I can say is Apple is a cash machine still - and with the iPhone SE - it now has a product to get them intro’d in the Mid-Tier of Smartphones - while having the high end all but locked up. On the Call Tim Cook said multiple times they were surprised by the demand for the SE - but if Tim had listened to this show - he would not have been - there are a lot of people that love the 4 inchers. And if nothing else - Tuesday’s conference call at a min assured those 4 incher lovers like my wife - that there will be future updates of the form factor. http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/27/investing/ apple-stock-soars-earnings/index.html http://seekingalpha.com/article/3991811- apple-aapl-timothy-donald-cook-q3-2016- results-earnings-call-transcript http://www.forbes.com/sites/bryanrich/2016 /07/27/why-apple-shares-should-be-30-40-higher/ 09:05 http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/26/ technology/billion-iphone-sales/index.html There was one thing I thought Tim Cook would announce in the conference call - that I did not hear - and was surprised was that Apple had sold their 1 Billionth iPhone. I thought for sure Tim would tout that fact. But he did not on the call and that worried me on how the iPhone was doing - because the math surely indicated they would be there. But alas - my fears were put to rest the next day when Tim announced during an Apple employee meeting that Had indeed sold their 1 billionth iphone the week before. So just a little over 9 years to get to 1 Billion iPhones sold. CLIP - I LIKE IT I LIKE IT ALOT Tim said quote "We never set out to make the most, but we've always set out to make the best products that make a difference," unquote Per iOS devices - if you add in the 330 Million iPads and at least another 100 Million iPod Touches - we are getting close to the 1.5 Billion Mark for iOS devices. Maybe when Tim gets on Stage in September He will mention the 1.5 Billion Mark for iOS devices. Which is a number Apple will hit either this quarter or next. http://www.cnet.com/news/its-official-apple- has-sold-more-than-1-billion-iphones/ 10:42 VOICEMAIL - Emma_Pitt_KS_move_app_voiceover Hi Rob, Normally I would wait 2 weeks before updating but I heard this is really more critical than others. What do you think? Thanks for your hard work and podcasts Regards Jim K VOICEMAIL - John_OH_10b3_fdbk 14:17 https://plus.google.com/communities/ 105412562215997292912?cfem=1 We are now over 3,000 members in our Google+ community and growing. Thanks to everyone that has joined and thanks for the great posts. One new post in the G+ community that went up since the last episode came from LAWRENCE McFARLAND ON JULY 28TH who posted the following quote I was planning on updating from iOS 9.3.2 to 9.3.3 on my iPhone 6S this weekend, but some research has indicated a plethora of problems, including increased battery drain & WiFi connection trouble. How has it gone for you guys & gals? Has anyone here, after following Rob's updating procedures, regretted installing the new operating system? Should I just wait until the iOS 10 Gold Master? unquote There were a bunch of replies to this. Craig B replied quote I updated a few iPhones and iPads on the first day with No problems. unquote Stan Bently replied quote Can't speak for the 6S, but I've seen no additional problems with my 5S. unquote Timothy Arnold, Ken Ostrander, David Willoughby, Jim H, Blair Jones and Gautam also all replied where they said they had no issues. Greg Beltz and Ken Ostrander both replied about the issue in iOS 9.3.2 and earlier where a malicious gif or video could take over your device. So there definitely is a security reason to upgrade to 9.3.3 And Danielle Saul and Chris Searly both replied about seeing better battery life with 9.3.3 - and who does not like better battery life - well other than the folks at Mophie that is. Since the last episode there were also dozens and dozens of other new posts and comments in the Tii Google+ community - which is an Android fan bois free zone and spammer free zone. Yup it is the most civil Google+ community covering iOS. Folks Go to today in iOS dot com slash community to join in. And thanks to all 3,000+ of you already in the community and contributing. Also from the Google Plus community were these comments per the last episode - which I always pin the last episode at the top. From Maria Reyes quote unquote 16:15 Into the email bag: Hi Rob, Thanks for the show. I always learn something new. Usually my wife buys my razor blades. On a recent vacation I bought a 4 pack of replacement blades for the razor I've been using for years. I thought package had been mis priced. The cost of razors are crazy. I have heard you talk about Harrys before and I decided it was time to check out their web site. I just went to Harrys.com and placed an order. I bought the Truman set and applied the TII coupon code. Ten bucks! Wow. I almost feel like I stole something. The price alone is worth looking into. I'm looking forward to my Truman set arriving. Thanks for the tip. Regards Richard Ermi Fairbanks Alaska And then here was Richard’s email after getting the Harrys product. Hi Rob I am so impressed with these guys I am highly recommending their razors and shave gel. I have not had such a good shave before. I received the starter kit from Harrys for $10 after my "TII" $5 dollar off coupon code. I thought shaving was about the same regardless of the brand. I was wrong. I'm not sure what is in the shave gel but my skin feels amazing and the razors are like no others I have used before. It is one pass on the face not two or three as before. I kept feeling my face after my first couple of shaves, it is that different. The cost is at least half of cost of the big three replacement blades. I like sharing with folks when I get great service or a superior product. This is one of them. Regards Rich Ermi Fairbanks Alaska Richard - thanks for the great emails and feedback. Folks - I have said it before and I will say it again - I am a harrys customer - and I love my harrys razors they are by far the best razors I have ever used - yes the price is low - but the quality is very high - this is not a shave that feels like it cost a buck - this is a great shave - from a 5 blade german blade. And as Rich said - go to harrys dot com and use promo code Tii to save $5 off your first order. again go to harrys dot com and use promo code tii - to save $5 off the best razor blades and shaving cream - and after shave lotion. with the later two being made from natural materials - no chemicals - you will feel good and smell good and have money left over to buy something good. Thanks Harrys for sponsoring this show. 18:38 https://www.planetoftheapps.com Earlier this year we talked about apple getting into creating original content. And then mentioned that it looked like Will.i.am and Ben Silverman would be producing that project. And recently Apple confirmed it and the new show will be called Planet of the Apps. Cute. Quote - A groundbreaking new series about apps and their creators unquote This is currently an open casting call - where they are looking for app devs that can have their app - iOS, macOS, tvOS or WatchOS app in beta or a functional state by October 21st - and if you think that is something you can do - then you have until Friday August 26th to submit to be on the show. Sounds like filming will be in LA in Late 2016 / early 2017 - so you will need to be free to travel to LA for filming. I have a link in the show notes with more info and how to apply. If you apply let me know. So far I have talked to one person that has submitted. They are having some meet and greets as well. August 1st there is one in New York city. August 4th will be in Austin TX. If this sounds like American Idol for App devs - yes - yes it is. Good luck to all that apply and hopefully we will have a few Tii listeners that make the cut. 20:10 http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/22/news/ companies/apple-watch-smartwatch-sales- report/index.html A report from IDC - indicates that Apple Watch sales have quote plummeted. unquote - well actually what they said to put it in context is quote The Apple watch debuted to a backlog of orders and 3.6 million units were shipped in its first three months on the market. But sales plummeted to just 1.6 million in the latest quarter unquote So lets understand what IDC is saying - that in Q2 2016 the amount of Apple Watches sold - were lower than those sold in Q2 2015 - the quarter when you know the Apple watch was launched. SHOCKER. Or I mean wow - guys - great insight. quote "Consumers have held off on smartwatch purchases since early 2016 in anticipation of a hardware refresh,” said IDC - YOU THINK. If you look at the Apple Conference Call details - you will see the segment - Other Products - which is where the Apple Watch, Apple TV, iPod and accessories are grouped together. Well other Products dropped 16% year over year. And most if not all of that drop was because of the Apple Watch. 21:39 http://technosamigos.com/apple- watch-s-details/ And speaking of Apple Watch - rumors are the Apple Watch 2 will be introduced this fall - because well the same ones that said it would be released in the Spring and then WWDC need to say something - right. Oh wait - they start the rumor out with quote First planned for March 21 release - the Apple Watch 2 has been pushed back to maybe a fall 2016 event or even later unquote - oh way to really commit guys. Let me start by saying this - 2nd Generation Apple watch is coming - 100% guaranteed. And when is it coming - in the future - which I also 100% guarantee. Or should I say - as told to me by unnamed sources in a position to know. Per the rumors - they basically look like a rehash of the spring rumors - you know 40% thinner - But hey wait - that rumor on thinness is also attributed back to Digitimes. So we can nix that rumor - The 2nd Gen Apple Watch - will NOT be 40% thinner - and likely will be within 10% of the current thickness. There is that whole - getting through the day on a single charge thing to worry about. Also per the rumors - is that Apple will partially make it thinner by going with a thinner display - that I do believe - and hence my 10% thinner prediction. I think Apple will make it thinner where it can with out changing the battery size much if at all. They also say it will not actually be the Apple watch 2 - per the name - but the Apple Watch S - that per Ming-Chi Kuo. Again one thing we do know after talking to sources in the supply chain is that a 2nd generation Apple watch is coming in the future. 23:34 http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/07/23/ apple-rumored-to-launch-iphone-7- on-week-of-sept-12 You know what also happens this time of year - People start looking at calendars from the last couple of years - look at when Apple announced the last few versions of the iPhone and then calculate when it will be this year - and then announce that they heard from sources that Apple will be introducing the next iPhone on X date. And yup - we are there again. Evan Blass was the first to pull out the calendar and guess on the announce date - ummm I mean talk to inside sources about this. Oh who am I kidding - you know he is just guessing. And he is guessing that the next gen iPhones will be in delivered to customers Friday Sept 16th. Hey we can play this game too. First lets look back the past few years. 2015 - Apple announced iPhone 6S and 6S+ and other products at the Wednesday Sept 9th event - with pre-orders starting on Sat Sept 12th and Delivery of devices starting on Friday Sept 25th 2015. Fiscal year ended on the 26th. with 2 days of new iPhones sales. In 2014 - Apple announced the iPhone 6 and 6+ at the Tuesday Sept 9th event. With pre-orders on Friday Sept 12th and delivery on Friday Sept 19th. Fiscal year ended on the 27th - with 8 days of new iPhone sales. In 2013 - Apple announced the iPhone 5S and 5C at the Tuesday Sept 10th event. With pre-orders for the 5C starting on Friday Sep 13th and Delivery starting on Friday the 20th for both the 5C and 5S. No pre-orders that year for 5s. Fiscal year ended on the 28th with 8 days of new iPhone sales. Now lets look at some numbers - Last quarter they were 15% below the year ago quarter for revenue. The quarter before they were 13% lower. If we went with a range of 13 to 15% lower than the year ago for this quarter - that would mean revenue in the range of 43.8 to 44.5 Billion dollars. That assuming we go with a launch date of Sept 24th to give two days of iPhone next gen revenue like last your. HOWEVER - Apple is projecting 45.5 Billion to 47.5 Billion in Revenue. I believe the only way they would predict that level of revenue is if they were planning on a week plus of next gen iPhone sales - like in 2014 and 2013. So backing into 8 days of iPhone sales - means - next Gen iPhone would go on sale - and in customers hands on Friday September 16th - with Pre-Orders going live on Saturday Sept 10th - and with the Apple event Wednesday Sept 7th. And hey guess what - Sept 7th - just purely coincidentally is the first day of CTIA Super Mobility 2016 conference in Las Vegas. Not that apple has ever done a media event at the beginning of a mobile conference before. So Yes - Talking to my inside sources - Apple will have their Fall event at 10:00 AM PT on Wednesday September 7th, Pre-orders to start at 12:01 AM PT on Saturday the 10th - and next gen iPhones will be available to customers on Friday Sept 16th. Thanks to all my inside sources - who I will just call for now Past Calendar, future Calendar, and Tim Cook. Or as I put in my Post earlier today on Tii - Sources - PC, FC and TC. Just Sayin. FYI - Evan bass came back and said pre-orders on Sept 9th. No mention from him on Event date. Will be interesting to see who had better sources - Evan or Tii. http://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/07/28/ iphone-7-preorders-september-9/ 28:07 http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2016/07/28/ leak-may-have-just-confirmed-secret-apple- had-up-its-sleeve-for-iphone-7.html Per rumors on the iPhone 7 - A new one comes from Macotakara - and that is the home button on the next gen iPhones will sit flush with the screen and not move when pressed. But rather there will be some hepatic feedback when pressed - and will make it seem like it was pressed. Of course that means they will also add 3D touch to the home button as well. And the rumors go on that Apple will introduce a Space Black Model bringing to 5 the colors available. Gold, Rose Gold, Space Grey, Silver and now Space Black. 28:36 http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/ 2016/07/25/iphone-7-problems-make-sense/ One more latest rumor about the iPhone 7 - is well that it will not be called the iPhone 7 after all - but rather - iPhone 6SE and then the iPhone 6SE + This from the German blog - Apfelpage - and they claim Chinese supply chain sources which have seen final retail packaging have given them this info. It is possible - but then the line up would be - iPhone SE, iPhone 6SE and iPhone 6SE+ ugggghhh - what a mess. 29:12 VOICEMAIL - Feedbk_Hey_siri_iOS10beta3 From Patrick McCann on google+ community quote: For those on the beta, my wife and I have been testing out the notes sharing and editing feature. LOOOOOOOOOVE IT! We have been making and editing our list for a trip. This is exactly what I have been waiting for from Apple or a 3rd party app. Simple but effective The edits we make to each other's list don't have a lag from one device to the other (both using 6s Plus). unquote Hi Rob, I am running the latest iOS 10 beta. A few bugs with freezing. One new feature I found in my yahoo mail, when I want to move an e- mail to a folder, the folder name automatically comes up & I don't have have to scroll down to find it! A tid bit of info, did you know over half of the iPad screens are made by Samsung? Great work, Roy Sabo VOICEMAIL - Levi_CA_fireflies_earbuds_music_only 34:22 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elwn/ perfect-fitting-wireless-earbuds- with-endless-batt Hi Rob, Here’s a story idea I thought you might like on the "most customizable and first truly wireless earbuds” that launched on Kickstarter. ELWN FIT earbuds solve the two biggest problems that smartphone users face when using Bluetooth earbuds – fit and battery life. They come with the infinity wearable charger – so users can wear them non-stop and charge while still in use. Every pair also comes with an industry leading 48 fitting accessories for an endless supply of ear size combinations to ensure a perfectly secure fit for everyone. Please let me know if this is interest and I can put you in touch w/ the founders and send along high-res images. Here’s their launch press release with more details. Thanks, Scott And Scott is with the PR company which represents this kickstarter project. This project had a goal of $50k - and has raised $180k so far and you have until August 11th at 10:53 AM CT to fund it. So if the Fireflies were not for you and you need that built in microphone then maybe the E L W N earbuds are - search for E L W N in kickstarter. Yes - Confirmed - the ELWN DOES have a built in mic for hands free calling. Pricing on this is $119 and that comes with the infinity band and 48 fit accessories. Delivery is expected in October 2016. 36:47 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ thanotech/diskus-the-first-portable- mfi-apple-watch-charger Thanks to Dr. John for the heads up on this next one. And this is a kickstarter project for Apple Watch. And it has to do with the charging disc - if you have one you know it is a pain when you want to take it with you - you have to pull the cord out from where ever you stashed it - as the cord does not come out of the charging disc. Wouldn’t it be nice if the disc itself could be removed from the charging cord. Which obviously leads us to this Kickstarter project - called - Diskus - spelled - D I S K U S . And this is as we set up - a charging disc only - where you can plug a cord into and out of it - making easy to remove from where you have it and take with you. This one has a goal of $55,000 and has raised 48k so far - so almost there. And you have until August 29th at 1:00 PM CT to fund this one. So yeah it will hit its goal no problem. Early birds on this are $30 and they will be shipping in October. It does have the Apple MFI certification as well. This one is pretty cool - and if you have an apple watch and have not purchased a second charging disc - then this is for you. Search for D I S K U S at kickstarter dot com. 38:30 http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/26/ 12286964/noble-bts-bluetooth-receiver- headphone-jack Thanks to Chris in London for this next one. This is one I reached out to the makers of to see if I could get samples - no reply yet. It is called the NOBEL BTS - and it is a blue tooth device you plug your wired headphones into - and then it connects to your iPhone. No need for headphone jack - or maybe you are just tired of breaking your wired headphones plugs when in your front left pocket of your skinny jeans and you sit down. Again - I reached out to them to see about getting a unit to test - this has a price of $99 - so definitely not cheap. If anyone else has tested this device - please call in a review to 206-666-6364 - that is 206-moon dog. 39:13 https://infinity.disney.com/closing One of the favorite apps on Apple TV by many is Disney’s infinity 3.0. And soon we will talk about it in the past sense as Disney has said they will be putting it out to the VR Pasture. As of Today you can no longer make in app purchases on Apple TV. As of Sept 30th 2016 - - Apple TV versions of Disney Infinity will be removed from the AppStore
However quote if you are playing on any console, Apple TV or Windows 8/10 versions of the game, you can continue to download your favorite Toy Boxes from the Community Content section until March 3, 2017 unquote As of March 3rd 2017 quote - Apple TV and Windows 8/10 versions will no longer be available, supported or playable
- All Disney Infinity online services and community features for all versions will be discontinued
unquote So again - we will be talking about Infinity from Disney in the past tense very soon. 40:14 VOICEMAIL - Coach_randy_CA_iPhone_restrictions Dear Rob, I have run into an aggravating occurrence in the way that my iPhone 6s handles notifications and I am wondering if there is a way around this. I hope you or someone in the Today in iOS community knows a solution. What I am experiencing is when I get a notification and then tap it, it goes away. There is a couple apps that sends push information to the notification that is important, but is available no where else in the app. So, if I missed exactly what the notification said, I cannot go back and look at it. Is there a way to go back and see the full list of past notifications? I can't believe that they are just wiped from the log once they have been viewed. Regards, Tim in Atlanta 43:58 http://9to5mac.com/2016/07/30/pangu- jailbreak-potential-hack/ iOS 9.3.3 jailbreak is now available. That said - there are reports that the jailbreak may be broken. There are some reports that jailbreakers that used the new Pangu Tool report unauthorized access to credit and debit and pay pal and social security account - according to a report from 9 to 5 mac. Pangu has replied saying via twitter: quote Neither we nor 25pp would be so stupid to make money by hacking users paypal account via jailbreak tool. We hope to find out the truth asap. unquote and then on Reddit said the following quote Hello everyone, this is the 4th jailbreak tool released by our team which means we should have some reputation even though we come from China(And we know most western users don’t trust Chinese software normally). So if any user thinks we are hacking your accounts that makes us feel sad deeply. Also we have not received any report of account breach from Chinese users. So may I ask those who have account breach issues, which version did u use, the CN or EN version? And we noticed that my space and tumblr account data are leaked this year, have u checked that if u are using same account? We want to find the root cause of this asap. We spent so much time to read the posts here and some users also have account breach issue by using the EN version? We of course talked with 25pp and they totally have no clue about this. We are also checking if their PC tool has some security flaws which may enable hackers to attack from network sniff. But as far as now, we don’t find anything suspicious. unquote So what do we know - well that some people that jailbroke with the latest tools have had some of their accounts compromised - and that alone should give everyone pause when thinking of jailbreaking iOS 9.3.3 If you are already jailbroken on an older version - stay there. If you were getting ready to jailbreak iOS 9.3.3 - stop - hold off until this mess is sorted out. And if you just did the 9.3.3 jailbreak - you have two options - 1. Run around like the annoying kid from home alone screaming with your arms in the air. Or 2. Just uninstall the jailbreak and bring your phone back to factory settings And once you do that - maybe look at going to the public beta of iOS 10. More on this in future episodes — but for now - something is not right - and I just can not recommend the 9.3.3 jailbreak from Pangu - I personally don’t think it was them that introduced the issue - but someone did - and it needs to be vetted fully. http://iosjailbreak.org/cydia- download-ios-9-3-3/ 47:20 VOICEMAIL - Chris_CA_quest_tech_router Hi, Rob, Add me to the list of iPhone users who have had music disappear from their phones. I'm not an Apple Music customer or an iCloud user. All the music I listen to is resident on my iPhone and synced with my laptop. I'm running IOS 9.3.2 on an un-jail-broken iPhone 6s. My grandson and I listened to music on the way home from a trip. I charged the phone that night and checked mail the next day. When we got back in the car that morning, there was no music and, obviously, no playlists. Apple sent me an entirely unhelpful 'solution' involving re-downloading all purchased music but telling me to sync the phone if there were songs which I hadn't downloaded from them. I thought, given the very plain circumstances of this failure, they would be more interested. Maybe they already have enough pertinent information. Fortunately I had a recent back-up and the music (and playlists) were easily recovered. It would be nice to know they had fixed this problem--or had at least acknowledged it. Regards, Larry 50:10 Ask Siri - What are you wearing 50:43 Thanks again to Harry's for sponsoring this episode and please go to Harrys.com now and save $5 off when you enter the code - t i i with your first purchase. That is h a r r y s dot com and enter the coupon code T I I at check out to save $5 and start shaving better today or well at least as soon as your new shave kit arrives right to your door step. And Before we go today I want to remind you to send in your feedback to the show - 206-666-6364 - that 206-moon-dog - or record your feedback and email it to the show at today in iOS at gmail dot com - The feedback can be a question or comment per something someone said on this episode or it can be a question or rant you have about something else. An App or product review - good or bad - as long as it is iOS related - it is welcomed. I am always looking for new Artwork to feature that you created on an iOS device - just put some Tii branding on it and send it in. And of course we are always looking for more music created on an iOS device to play on the show. This is your show and your feedback is greatly desired. Also don't forget to check out our Moderated Google Plus community by going to todayinios dot com slash community. Finally check out the newly updated Tii App which is Free to you. Search for Tii in the iTunes App Store - it is the best way to consume the show and to get push notifications each time a new episode of Tii is released. It is fully Voiceover friendly of course. Please go right now and download the Tii App. And that folks is going to do it for us today - until the next time I am your host Rob reminding you to phone different OUTRO OUTRO MUSIC
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TRANSCRIPT FOR EPISODE 399 Welcome to the show I am your host Rob and this is the Today in iOS podcast - First up I want to thank BRIAN for sending in the music you hear in the background. BRIAN wrote: Hi Rob, Here is a song called - Mallorca On iOS I used the apps: nanoStudio iMaschine Notion GarageBand Most of the song started on the iPhone (iPad) then brought to the mac for finishing. On the mac I used the apps Studio One Logic Notion You can find more of my music at reverbnation.com/timfate Regards, ‘Brian Song_Mallorca Thanks BRIAN for the music and folks I will put the full song at the end of the episode. I also want to thank MIKE for sending in the Artwork for today's show. MIKE wrote the following: Hi Rob, While visiting the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. I saw this poster and immediately thought of you! Added text with the Typic App. Regards, Mike S Thanks MIKE, for sending in this artwork and folks you can see MIKE'S artwork in the FREE Tii App via the BONUS button for ep 399 - or at instagram.com/todayinios and also as a stand alone post in the VIP section and at Facebook.com/todayinios. If you have some artwork and or music you have created on your iOS device that you would like to share with the audience please email it to me at today in iOS at gmail dot com and please make sure to include which app or apps you used to create said artwork and or music. AND I am down to just two songs in my queue - so if you have some music created on an iOS device - please please please send it in. 02:20 In this segment of how wrong were they we have the following quote quote “It looks like the iPhone 4 might be their Vista, and I’m okay with that” Kevin Turner, Chief Operating Officer, Microsoft, 14 July 2010 Well MS did sell over 200 Million copies of Vista - so really that is not too bad. The iPhone 4 actually sold a less than that all time. But the ASP’s are much higher - so over all the Revenue for Apple was much greater - but if we are talking just unit sales - Then Mr Turner was a little too optimistic - but we like his spirit. 02:55 For Promo codes - On Ep 398 we offered up chances to win promo codes for The App - DUNGEONBALLS - ONE WORD If you are interested in this app or want more info go back and listen to the beginning of Ep 398 This week we have promo codes for The App - CALL OF COMMANDER - ZOMBIE ISLAND - Here is the written review from the dev. Quote Call Of Commander meets a Zombie! Magic Cube's first zombie game since Infect Them All in 2013! Sometimes human greed brings a terrible disaster. A beautiful remote island, Sunshade. There is the Nano Creature Tech corporation's medical research facility that researches extending human life. One morning, Laura, a researcher, runs into a guard on the way to her lab. She says hello to the guard, but he ignores her greeting and bites her hand. Five hours later, Nano Creature Tech realizes that they've lost contact with the facility. unquote Well thanks to the devs for their review of their App - CALL OF COMMANDER - ZOMBIE ISLAND - and for sending in the promo codes to their App to give away. Folks if you would like a chance for a promo code for this app - please send an email to todayinios at gmail dot com and put ZOMBIE in the subject line. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/magical- alphabet-letters-phonics/id1040130713?mt=8 A QUICK REMINDER if you are an App developer or an iBook Author email me if you want your app or iBook featured in the promo give away segment FOR FREE We Just need the 5 promo codes or more to give away. simply email me at today in ios @ gmail.com and please include a 60 sec or less audio review of your app or iBook - indicating you are the dev or author. Also when you send in the promo codes - please make sure to let me know when they expire. 04:29 http://www.informationweek.com/software/ ios-10-beta-3-fixes-bugs-adds-new- functions-/a/d-id/1326314 iOS 10 beta 3 was released on Monday - actually Apple released the updated betas for pretty much everything on Monday. But lets talk about iOS 10 beta 3 - As there are some new features. 1. First is touch ID - previously in Beta 1 and 2 you needed to press the home screen button to activate touch ID - but now just resting your finger on it is good enough - assuming you have rest finger to open turned on under accessibility 2. The Lock Screen sounds have changed a little - and there is haptic feedback when the device locks. 3. Keyboard sounds that were removed in beta 2 - were brought back from the dead in beta 3. 4. Users can add downloads from Safari, Photos and Mail to iCloud drive. 5. For the Home App - there is now a section in Settings App - that shows your hubs - which lets you disconnect from one and join another on the go. 6. In messages app - photos are no longer auto cropped to a square in the image picker - let you see the entire photo before picking it. 7. In the Apple Music App - Playlists now show as quote subscribed to unquote instead of quote Added to your library unquote. Same functionality - just semantics is more accurate. 8. In the Lock screen - on the Widgets view - the clock now moves up to the status bar when you scroll down and push the clock off the screen. 9. In the settings app - there is a new siri support section to show which apps use siri and may access your data. Of course right now that list if empty - but Apple will eventually be allowing Apps to access Siri with iOS 10. So they are ready to go there. 10. All app icons now support 3D touch whether or not the developer enabled the quick actions feature. A 3D touch on any icon will allow you to share a link to the app with your peeps. Of course there are bug squashing and system optimization changes in beta 3. So if you had issues with with Music, Notes, Phone apps or Siri - some of them issues have been put to pasture. And speaking of bugs - AR Mode for Pokemon Go is fixed. Now I will say this - I am not ignoring Pokemon Go - I just am not going out of my way to report on it. If you are a pokemon go addict - and want to send in feedback about the app or tips or tricks - feel free to do so - just record those words so you know I don’t actually have to read them myself - just sayin. call into to 1-206-666-6364 - that is 206 - moon - dog 07:38 http://9to5mac.com/2016/07/21/ios-10- lightning-socket-water-warning/ Thanks to Chris in London for the heads up on this next one. It is one more thing found in iOS 10 beta 3 - and that is the iOS device now warns you if it detects liquid in the lightening socket. Of course you are thinking you know what is even better about warning when water is detected - is to not have it even matter - and that is one of the biggest rumors around the iPhone 7 and 7+ - that they will be more water resistant than past iPhones. And well that and there will be no headphone jack to allow water in the device. http://www.cultofmac.com/438564/all- the-ios-10-beta-3-changes-that-make- iphone-even-better/ http://9to5mac.com/2016/07/18/ios- 10-beta-3/ 08:16 http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/ 2016/07/19/apple-ios-9-3-3-has-a- great-secret-feature/ But this week was not just about new betas for next gen OS’s - it was also about Gold Master releases too - and iOS 9.3.3 was finally released. This is the double dot update with 5 different beta’s - so yeah it was about time. So what is new that we did not already cover when talking about one of the many past beta’s - well - it seems performance is the big thing - with many reporting their iOS device running faster and smoother and betterer since updating to 9.3.3 It also bring at least 26 security patches - we say at least 26 because that are all the ones Apple lists - but there could be more. Is 9.3.3 perfect - nope - there are a few scattered reports of issues - but there seems to be less reports of issues this time - either because 5 betas actually squashed most of the bugs - or that those that update first and complain the loudest - already moved on to iOS 10 betas - and 9.3.3 is a distant memory for them. The small number of complaints I saw came around wifi connection issues - that are still there, iPhones that keep restarting and some battery drain issues. But again a very small number of reports of issues. If you are running 9.3.2 - then it is time to go ahead and update to 9.3.3 - but as always - first back up - and then force quit all apps - then reset network settings - then upgrade. There are some videos out there already showing iPhones with 9.3.2 vs 9.3.3 for performance tests and what they found was - the boot up was a little very little faster on 9.3.2 - but launching apps - they were about the same. the only place 9.3.3 seemed to beat 9.3.2 was when going back to the home screen. So those 5 betas - yeah - code optimization does not seem to be the big focus or any focus. 10:31 http://www.macrumors.com/2016/07/18/ apple-releases-tvos-9-2-2-update-for-apple-tv/ In addition to 9.3.3 for iOS - there was 9.2.2 for Apple TV that was released. Again as with any double dot update - it is all about squashing them bugs man - and well performance improvements. And really in this case that is 100% true - as I did not see any reports of even a single new feature. just bugs squashing and code optimization. http://9to5mac.com/2016/07/18/tvos-9-2- 2-apple-tv-now-available/ http://wccftech.com/download-tvos-922- fourthgeneration-apple-tv/ 10:58 http://www.macrumors.com/2016/07/18/ apple-releases-watchos-2-2-2-for-apple-watch/ But iOS 9.3.3 and tv OS 9.2.2 were not the only double dot updates this week there was also watch OS 2.2.2. And shocker - this double dot update seems to be all about - you guessed it - squashing bugs and optimizing code. To download the update - go to the Apple watch app on your iPhone - then in the App to General and software update - and tap on install - type in your passcode - accept the terms - and if your Apple watch has over a 50% charge and is on the charging disk - it will start the update process. Probably a good idea to update your apple watch - as performance enhancements - tend to improve battery life - in general - that is. http://9to5mac.com/2016/07/18/apple- releases-watchos-2-2-2-for-apple-watch- with-various-bug-fixes/ 11:46 VOICEMAIL - Luis_iOS10_beta_feedback Rob, just noticed a sponsored app in the App Store for the first time. Ugh. Knew it was coming but still, it's sad to see. Here's a screenshot from my iPad Pro 9.7”: regards, Aric B Hi Rob, Love the show. I am an early adopter of CarPlay via the Pioneer AVH-4000NEX DVD player. I ordered the unit the day it was announced. Unfortunately, I had to wait another half year for Apple to turn that feature on. Frankly, I'd given up hope it would ever be turned on. Pioneer's own AppRadio interface is designed by lawyers because anytime you switch between "apps" you have to read and approve a disclaimer. The Pioneer software is like crap. So I mostly used the unit for its satellite radio, HD radio and Bluetooth music. It does a nice job with its own native phone app. A microphone is mounted to your visor. When CarPlay was finally released for 3rd party radios, the kind you can retrofit into your own car, the Pioneer finally became useful. With each update of iOS CarPlay became more and more useable. The first version was an exciting release because finally, I could use that dreamy interface and apps mostly worked. The home button worked like the iPhone home button except there was no feedback that you'd pressed the button. That all changed with the next release of iOS. Pressing the home button produced a halo-like white ring around it. You knew you pressed it! The Pioneer AVH-4000NEX connects to the iPhone via Bluetooth, HDMI, 30 pin, USB, and the Lightning port. The head unit is detachable. It plays DVDs, CDs, and memory cards. One person connects an Apple TV, via the HDMI port, and an iPhone hotspot. It has a 7" screen. It plays XM/Sirius radio with a $50 adapter, HD Radio, and Pandora. Pioneer called it their audio flagship. It doesn't have navigation built-in but CarPlay steps in and does a beautiful job of that. Pioneer did a solid job with its hardware and CarPlay makes it safe and useable. iOS 9 gives CarPlay a wonderful memory for resuming podcasts, audio books, and music from where they left off when the car engine is shut down. iOS 8 gave CarPlay wireless connection to car receivers that support that function. The AVH-4100NEX includes Android Auto. The AVH-4200NEX includes wireless connections. That's a feature I wish I had as my lightning plug cable has been replaced twice. It frays with all the attaching/detaching that goes on. Yes, I would buy the Pioneer again. I paid $699 at Crutchfields because they included installation instructions for my KIA Optima and had the proper installation tools and harnesses. In the end though, Best Buy did the installation for $110.00. Love, love your show. Frequent Harry's user. Eric from Woodbridge, Virginia 19:42 VOICEMAIL - RING - Scott_DC_question_RING_Apple_TV_APP Since the last time I talked about Ring on the show - I was in Chicago and DC and It really is nice to see who is at your door and even hear them - and then decide if you want to say anything or just watch and make sure they leave. This as the Dad of the house makes you feel better about your family when you are out traveling for work - or in the case in Chicago when my wife was with me - and the kids were home with Grandma - feel even better knowing I knew exactly who was at the door at 9:00 PM at night. But it is not just at night it makes you feel better - The folks from RING point out that there is a home burglary ever 13 seconds and most happen in the broad daylight - where a burglar first rings your doorbell to see if you are home. By allowing you to speak to someone you are not sure who they are - it will scare off those with bad thoughts and intentions. If you go to Ring dot com slash T i i - you will get for a limited Time $50 off the Ring of Security kit - which includes a video doorbell, Stick up Cam, solar Panel and indoor chime. For the Video Door bell it quickly - and easily connects to your wired door bell wires. The main unit is not something you have to worry about charging if you wire it up. It took me all of twenty minutes if that to remove the old door bell and replace it with the Video Doorbell from Ring. And you can also share access to it with others in your house. My Wife and son also get access to the door bell and video. If I can’t answer or even if I do - they can answer as well. The RING doorbell has quickly become one of those accessories you can’t see yourself living with out ever again. Beyond the front door - The Stick up Cam can be used to watch other parts of your house and also installs in minutes. Go to ring dot com slash t i i - to save $50 off either Ring Security Kits. Thanks Ring for sponsoring this episode. 24:00 https://plus.google.com/communities/ 105412562215997292912?cfem=1 We are now over 3,000 members in our Google+ community and growing. Thanks to everyone that has joined and thanks for the great posts. One new post in the G+ community that went up since the last episode came from Francisco Tapia ON JULY 20TH who posted the following quote Seriously. If I wanted a refurbished iPhone I would have bought a refurbished iPhone. unquote And this was in response to an article about Apple facing a class action lawsuit for offering refurbished replacements units under AppleCare+. To which - Myron Uecker replied quote It is common practice for a company to replace a used device with a used, but reconditioned device through the warranty process. I don't see what the complaint here is, although I do have to admit that I haven't read the terms and conditions of AppleCare+. This is another lawsuit that should be immediately dismissed by a competent judge. unquote AND THEN Keith Yarbrough REPLIED with my thoughts: QUOTE If refurnished means a new case, screen, home button, and battery, then I'm ok with it. UNQUOTE And there were other comments about no one can tell - or the refurbed unit is usually newer and well this is how most companies do it - but you know lets pick on Apple - the one with the best customer service or is it the one with the deepest pockets - hmmmmmmm Since the last episode there were also dozens and dozens of other new posts and comments in the Tii Google+ community - which is an Android fan bois free zone and spammer free zone. Yup it is the most civil Google+ community covering iOS. Folks Go to today in iOS dot com slash community to join in. And thanks to all 3,000+ of you already in the community and contributing. 25:56 http://ped30.com/2016/07/18/apple- iphone-q3-2016/ Each quarter the anal-ists come out and predict Apple will sell this many of this widget - and that many of that do-hickey - and this is a quarter and so they are doing it again. And thankfully the wonderful Philip Elmer-Dewit - now at PED30.com - his own site - aggregates all those guesses - ummm - I mean deep analytics and shares it with the world. This time the guesses range from a low of 38 million iphone sold last quarter to a high of 43 million sold - to put that in perspective - in the year ago quarter - Apple sold - 47.5 mil - and the year before that 32.5 Mil. With an average guess of 40 Mil - that is a decline year over year of 15.6% if you are a glass half empty kind of person. But if you are glass half full person - then it is an increase of 23% from two years ago for that quarter. Given that iPhones and smartphones in general are on a 2 year refresh cycle - maybe looking 2 years ago for the same quarter is a better way to look at things. Just sayin. http://ped30.com/2016/07/21/apple- ipad-q3-2016/ 27:12 http://www.macrumors.com/2016/07/19/ apple-pay-now-available-in-france/ Apple Pay expanded a little this past week - France now has access to the easy and secure payment system from Apple. MasterCard and Visa Cards issues from Banque Popular, Ticket Restaurant, Carrefour Banque, and Caisse d’epargne can now be added to Apple Pay in France. Both Boon and Orange were a little late getting on the train - but are reported to be on that next train to clarksville. Per where Apple Pay is accepted by the merchants - that includes - and excuse me while I totally mutilate these names - Bocage, Le Bon Marche, Cojean, Dior, Louis Vuitton, Fnac, Jean Luc, Sephora, Flunch, Parkeon, Pret and more. France now joins - the United States, the UK, China, Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Singapore with Apple Pay support - with Hong Kong and Spain come some time later in 2016. 29:23 http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-pay- says-bonjour-to-france/ And guess what - it is later in 2016 - so that means Hong Kong has been added. Hey - Apple is not messing around here. In Hong Kong - Apple pay works with American Express, Visa and MasterCard cards from Banks - HSBC, Bank of China, Hang Seng, DBS, Ferengi Central Reserve and Standard Chartered. The Bank of East Asia and HKT will be on the next train to clarksville. Per merchants in Hong Kong that are accepting Apple Pay - that would be more than 3 dozen at launch - including 7-11, Mannings, Wellcome, Jasons Food & Living, Sa Sa and Pizza Hut. 29:08 http://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/ 2016/07/20/iphone-vs-android- application-revenue/ App Annie put out a little report that showed how revenue per app looks on iOS vs Android - and the general conclusion is it looks twice as good on iOS than it does on Android. So Apps on iOS generate 2X the revenue - even though Android apps get 2x the downloads. So on a per download basis - iOS apps really generate 4X the revenue. And then if you realize there are a lot less devices on iOS variation wise - there is less time in testing and QA on the iOS side - so that increased your ROI even more. And guess what the revenue gap is growing not shrinking. Because of all of this - when App devs decide they are only developing for one of the two platforms - it is of little surprise it is iOS they choose most often to be the only platform for their app. Or put in the masterful words of a classic thespian - Show me the money. 30:20 https://www.thrillist.com/cars/nation/why- apple-might-buy-formula-one-rumors-theories Thanks to all that sent in this next one that goes into the rumor - big rumor section - and it is that Apple may be looking to buy Formula One. Now in the US we look at this rumor and either yawn or scratch our head. But outside the US - Formula 1 is really really popular - and if Apple is looking for great content - F1 racing brings that on a global scale - and of course Great content on the Apple TV apple owns - would be key - others look at this rumor and say - gee what else could apple be building that is automotive related - like maybe an electric car?? Apple is probably pumping more money into Project titan than they would F1 to buy it outright. Is this true - who knows - but it sure does make for fun speculation - and if other rumors about Apples next big thing are true - then it does make a bunch of sense. 31:26 http://www.the247tech.com/news/corning- gorilla-glass-5-debut-new-iphone-7/ Remember all those Sapphire furnaces that were for sale - I have a theory on who purchased them at the fire sale pricing - Corning - but not to use them - just to keep others from disrupting their Gorilla Glass empire - and an empire that if rumors are correct may be getting quite a bit stronger. The iphone 7 is rumored to be launched with Gorillas Glass 5 - which is newer and tougher and stronger - and betterer all around. Supposedly a phone with GG5 - dropped from 1.6 meters has an 80% survival probability. Vs - well that was not given - but it is assume to be much worse than 80%. The best I could find is that previously with GG4 it was dropped at 1 meter. Obviously any improvement is an improvement - but how it would compare to say a sapphire screen originally dreamed up by GTAT - before their technical shortcomings doomed that company - we shall never know - because I really do think Corning purchased up all those sapphire furnaces - and they now are in a warehouse in upstate NY collecting dust. http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/20/ 12236642/corning-announces-new-gorilla- glass-5-smartphone-drops-cracked-screen 32:41 Hi Rob, Too funny! I always knew the iPhone was the best piece of kit for high speed/low drag operators! http://9to5mac.com/2016/07/18/us-army- switching-from-android-to-iphone-6s/ Sincerely, Mark And thanks to Mark and many others that sent in this one. Which is about the US Army Special Operations Command - switching from Android phones to iPhones. From Military dot com Quote When trying to run a split screen showing the route and UAS feed, the Android smart phone will freeze up and fail to refresh properly and often have to be restarted, a process that wastes valuable minutes, the source said. “It’s seamless on the iPhone,” according to the source. “The graphics are clear, unbelievable.” unquote Now many of the articles I read on this did gloss over that the Android devices they are switching over from at Galaxy Notes from 2010 - so yeah - no doubt the iPhone 6S is leaps and bounds ahead of it. Almost like it was you know 5 years ahead of it. 33:42 VOICEMAIL - Dusty_MI_beta_feedback Hi Rob, I know you don’t discuss beta problems much but many people are experiencing audio playback pausing when listening to audio playback. It seems that Siri is too sensitive and listening for "Hey Siri" command too well! When people speaking in podcasts use SSS sounds (S syllabus) the playback pauses and Siri waits for commands. Turning of toggle for “Hey Siri” fixes this for now. Go to Settings/Siri/ and find this toggle. Regards, Fraser Hey Rob, Just wanted to give you my thoughts on a couple of things. I wanted to start off by talking about Dev beta 2, however over the past week, I have gotten my iPad Pro 9.7 128gig wifi only model - Silver. I purchased a brand new iPad Pro on Thursday, July 7th. The verdict? I love it. My son loves his iPad 2, 3, iPad Air 1 and Air 2 as well as my iPad 4th gen, so we got a pretty good idea as to how the vast majority of iPad generations preform. The iPad Air 2 was s big step up from the 1st Air so we didn't expect another big jump to the iPad Pro 9.7, however we were pleasantly surprised by how "Beefy" this edition was. It doesn't know the meaning of Lag and doesn't get all that hot. The Colour is beautiful and does a great job at reproducing skin tones. In fact, both cameras blew me away. They take amazing night and low light pictures bursting with Colour and fine details. The Colour reproduction was so accurate that you could easily distinguish between different temperatures of white light. I found that it takes fantastic pics in florescent lighting without ending up making the pics look all greenish or purplish. For me, the camera is important and I am happy to say that the iPad.Pro 9.7 delivered a better than expected result. iOS 10.0 Developer Bets 2 I installed this edition on the new iPad Pro 9.7 and it worked great for except for one issue but it was a big one for me. That was audio and video playback would just stop for no reason. Especially when I would be checking out your podcast. I couldn't stand for that so I downgraded to 9.3.2? Provlem solved! iOS 10.0 Developer Beta 3 Dev Beta 3 improved on iOS Dev Beta 2 by delivering an even smoother performance. Compared to the length of time between Dev 1 and 2 betas, Dev 3 Beta came out only a week after 2 did. Anyway, that's it from me. I may try Dev Beta 3 on the new iPad. And finally, what is the deal with no flashlight shortcut on the iPad Pro 9.7? Have a great day! Shane 40:35 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ capturecase/capture-case-a-super-powered- xenon-flash-for-iphon?ref=nav_search This week for a kickstarter project is the Capture Case - two words - spelled normally. Quote Enjoy beautifully exposed images, and try high speed photography, all with the world’s fastest and most powerful flash for iPhone. unquote This is a case for your iPhone that pumps up the flash beyond 10 and 11 to something like 35. It gives your iPhone 6 or 6S - a Xenon Flash. Sorry this case is not for the 6+ to 6S+ - but they do say they will have an iPhone 7 version. This project has until August 18th to be funded and they are about 30% of the way there - having raised 9.4k towards their goal of $32k. Pricing on this is 85 Pounds. And they say they will be shipping them out in November 2016. If you are interested in this special and powerful flash case for your iPhone 6 / 6S - go to kickstarter dot com and search for Capture Case - two words. 41:46 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/canva- graphic-design-photo/id897446215?mt=8 For all you Canva fans out there - and I know there are a bunch - canva just launched their own iOS app. It is free - just search for Canva - and please send me in some artwork for the show with Tii branding you created in Canva. Send that artwork to Today in iOS at gmail dot com. I am looking forward to trying out this app as I am a big fan of their web service already. 42:13 Hi Rob. I wanted to share a unique experience I just had with an iPad 2nd gen running iOS 9.3. A coworker gave it to me a few months ago asking me to help him with it. His (now deceased) neighbor gave him a 2nd gen iPad before he died. He never logged off, causing the Activation Lock to kick in. I spoke with Apple a couple times asking for help, explaining the previous owner is now deceased. I wasn't expecting them to help because of obvious security reasons, but I wanted to show my coworker it wasn't possible to bypass the Activation Lock. He then gave it to me saying he no longer had a use for it, and if I ever got it to work, I could keep it. I shut it off and left it in my closet for a few months. I was cleaning out my closet today and came across the iPad. I thought, "What the heck.. I'll turn it on." Much to my surprise, the Activation Lock was gone! Is there something with the A5 chip that flushes all memory after being powered off for so long? I was quite baffled. Thanks, love the show! Oshkosh Josh Dear Rob, Don’t know where to start but El Capitan 10.11.6 and iOS 9.3.2 and 9.3.3 are hitting me left and right with so many bugs I need to call an exterminator, ASAP. Most of this has to do with garden variety syncing of iPhones and iPads today. 1. Three times today, while syncing an iDevice, my iMac shut down and rebooted with its famous chord, returning to the screen I was working on, not the usual login window. 2. None of my iDevices can make a successful App Store update. I’ll hit the update button, it will turn into the round spinning icon, then after a few moments return to the update button again. 3. Even though I have the updated apps in my iTunes app section, when I sync the iDevices, the apps are not updated. 4. All syncing activity on iTunes seems to hang up around the Photos stage. Many times today, I had to unplug and reboot the iDevices, shut down iTunes, and try to sync again. Very unusual behavior. And because it is across multiple devices, and because the problems happen when the iDevices are plugged into the computer, on LTE, and on WiFi, the problem has to be with Apple’s servers. Even so, my iMac and every iDevice are acting uncharacteristically weird. Days like this I wish Steve Jobs were still around to kick some butts. Jeff in Burbank Hi Rob, When it comes to App updates and fixing bugs - Look at the long cute explanation from Amazon's "explanation". It still doesn't say what was actually fixed. Uber & left are doing the same thing. Why do devs assume customers don't wanna know the science and technicals?! So vague: Regards, Michael. Hi Michael - I think it has to looking towards the future and not dwelling on the past - why bring up those specific old bugs - just know that bugs were squashed - or at least I am guessing is their thought process - it could also be embarrassment about what those bugs were. Per the Amazon explanation they had this part: quote each bug fixed makes for a better app on your phone and better apps mean happier people and happier people equals a better world. So I guess you could say that while you’re going about your day today - we have developers working hard to make the world a better place - one bug at a time unquote I mean I guess that is the half full way to look at it or you can spin it a different way such as quote our developers are helping clean up the mess they created in this world that caused lots of sadness - one bug at a time. unquote Because - well each bug causes sadness and their devs were responsible for each bug - right? 47:16 http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/18/media/ star-trek-netflix-international-cbs/index.html You know that CBS is going to launch a new Star Trek series - right. Well it seems CBS and Netflix just signed a deal to bring the new Star Trek series to Netflix right away - sorta - kinda - because that deal does not include the US or Canada. The new series will be out in early 2017. The deal also secures all 727 episodes of the past star trek series with netflix - and yes - yes I have seen every episode of every series - even voyager and the cartoon series. Did I mention I have a new dog - he is a french bull dog - we got him on Monday - and yes of course he is called spock. As if 48:02 Hello Rob, I wanted to ask your opinion on iOS 10 Beta 2. I wanted to learn how to code using swift playground but am a little hesitant to install a beta on my iPad Pro 12.9 256GB model. Do you think it is worth it to do the upgrade? Please let me know what you think! Regards, Jonah Hi Jonah, If you want to learn to code - absolutely. And today 10.0 beta 3 came out - so it is one more step closer to the Gold master. I have not installed it yet - but again if you want to learn to code - absolutely you need to update to 10.0 beta 3 ASAP - and start playing with Swift Playgrounds. Rob W Hi Rob In my email inbox, it says I have one new email to read, but there aren't any unread emails when I access the inbox itself. Have you come across this and if so, how did you fix? Regards Steve Brisbane Dear Rob, I am a voiceover user and was recently trying to move apps to folders on my small i-pad pro, something i have done for many years with a smart keyboard. In order to do this, I use a voiceover keyboard command option, control, shift an m to mark the app I wish to move. I go to the designated folder where I want the app to go and press the same combination of key strokes. I am using a smart keyboard but have used the key strokes for a long time with great success. But recently the key strokes worked intermitently and I went to my Apple store for help. We learned this keyboard problem was a known bug not fixed in the current operating system but perhaps it is fixed in the public beta. Do you know if this is true or do any of your listeners know. Thanks for all of your great podcasts. i wouldn't miss a show. Jan BrownSent from my iPhone 51:16 Ep 399 - Ask Siri - Beam me up 51:40 Thanks again to RING for sponsoring this episode - Folks right now and for a limited time only go to RING dot com slash t i i - to save $50 off the Ring of Security kit - Thanks Ring for sponsoring this show. And Before we go today I want to remind you to send in your feedback to the show - 206-666-6364 - that 206-moon-dog - or record your feedback and email it to the show at today in iOS at gmail dot com - The feedback can be a question or comment per something someone said on this episode or it can be a question or rant you have about something else. An App or product review - good or bad - as long as it is iOS related - it is welcomed. I am always looking for new Artwork to feature that you created on an iOS device - just put some Tii branding on it and send it in. And of course we are always looking for more music created on an iOS device to play on the show. This is your show and your feedback is greatly desired. Also don't forget to check out our Moderated Google Plus community by going to todayinios dot com slash community. Finally check out the newly updated Tii App which is Free to you. Search for Tii in the iTunes App Store - it is the best way to consume the show and to get push notifications each time a new episode of Tii is released. It is fully Voiceover friendly of course. Please go right now and download the Tii App. And that folks is going to do it for us today - until the next time I am your host Rob reminding you to phone different OUTRO OUTRO MUSIC
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TRANSCRIPT FOR EPISODE 398 Welcome to the show I am your host Rob and this is the Today in iOS podcast - First up I want to thank BRIAN for sending in the music you hear in the background. BRIAN wrote: Hi Rob, Here is a song called - The Ride On iOS I used the apps: nanoStudio iMaschine Notion GarageBand Most of the song started on the iPhone (iPad) then brought to the mac for finishing. On the mac I used the apps Studio One Logic Notion You can find more of my music at reverbnation.com/timfate Regards, ‘Brian Song_THE_RIDE Thanks BRIAN for the music and folks I will put the full song at the end of the episode. I also want to thank COLIN for sending in the Artwork for today's show. COLIN wrote the following: Hi Rob, This art was painted using Procreate on my iPad, with Tii branding added using Pixelmator. Regards Colin from Sydney Australia Thanks COLIN, for sending in this artwork and folks you can see COLIN'S artwork in the FREE Tii App via the BONUS button for ep 398 - or at instagram.com/todayinios and also as a stand alone post in the VIP section and at Facebook.com/todayinios. If you have some artwork and or music you have created on your iOS device that you would like to share with the audience please email it to me at today in iOS at gmail dot com and please make sure to include which app or apps you used to create said artwork and or music. AND I am down to just two songs in my queue - so if you have some music created on an iOS device - please please please send it in. 02:15 In this segment of how wrong were they we have the following quote quote “The iconic Apple iPhone will either not exist or occupy a very small niche satisfying the needs of committed Mac fans around five years from now.” Eugene Kaspersky, Kaspersky Lab, 27 April 2010 Oh missed it by that much - It is safe to say in most industrial markets - the iPhone is a lot more than a niche and this is over 6 years from when Eugene mis read those tea leaves - Just Sayin. 02:49 For Promo codes - On Ep 397 we offered up chances to win promo codes for The App - MAGICAL ALPHABET If you are interested in this app or want more info go back and listen to the beginning of Ep 397 This week we have promo codes for The App - DUNGEONBALLS - ONE WORD - Here is the written review from the dev. Quote "Introducing "DungeonBalls", a Totally Different Pinball Puzzle-Solving Game An independent game development team from Taiwan, Raysol Games, has finished developing "DungeonBalls", a truly unique game that blends pinball and puzzle-solving! Player-controlled heroes will transform into pinballs, fighting battles and solving puzzles on a unique "dungeon pinball platform". "DungeonBalls" includes the following three main elements: Numerous dungeons, unique traps, and heroes with various special skills. Each dungeon room is the pinball platform where you launch hero pinballs to bounce around and strike monsters, break out of traps, and collect treasures; the game also combines switches and traps in creative ways to become a puzzle-solving game. Search for DungeonBalls on iTunes today to have a unique adventure. unquote Well thanks to the devs for their review of their App - DUNGEONBALLS - and for sending in the promo codes to their App to give away. Folks if you would like a chance for a promo code for this app - please send an email to todayinios at gmail dot com and put DUNGEONBALLS - ONE WORD in the subject line. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/magical- alphabet-letters-phonics/ id1040130713?mt=8 A QUICK REMINDER if you are an App developer or an iBook Author email me if you want your app or iBook featured in the promo give away segment FOR FREE We Just need the 5 promo codes or more to give away. simply email me at today in ios @ gmail.com and please include a 60 sec or less audio review of your app or iBook - indicating you are the dev or author. Also when you send in the promo codes - please make sure to let me know when they expire. 04:41 http://appadvice.com/post/a-look-at-whats- new-in-apples-ios-10-beta-2/717528 Well last week Apple released iOS 10 Beta 2 to Devs and also released it to the public beta testers - which it calls Public beta 1 - but to keep things simple - we will only use the Dev version name - which is iOS 10 beta 2. With the beta being now available to the public that means more and more of you out there testing this out. I am right now - just testing it on my iPad Pro - and so far so good for me. Per what actually changed / was added from Beta 1. Well first there is of course bug fixes and optimization tweaks. They released the App store for iMessage - where you can get sticker packs. Right now it just looks to be sticker packs from Apple - but when the beta is gone and it is Gold Master in Later September - then there will be options available from 3rd parties. — Another item added - is the encouraging of organ donation. Apple actually had a press release on this point on July 5th - where they talked about teaming up with Donate Life America - where iPhone users quote will be able to sign up to be an organ, eye and tissue donor right from the Health app with the release of iOS 10. Through a simple sign up process, iPhone users can learn more and take action with just a few taps. All registrations submitted from iPhone are sent directly to the National Donate Life Registry managed by Donate Life America. The ability to quickly and easily become a nationally-registered donor enables people to carry their decision with them wherever they go. unquote. If you are not registered as an organ donor - you should be - make sure you go through the process when you upgrade to iOS 10. And in the mean time - sign that spot on your drivers license. —— Some additional tweaks / minor changes in beta 2 include 3D Touch for the flashlight now gives 3 different options - Bright light, medium light and low light. Previously they were labeled as Bright Intensity, medium intensity and low intensity. That engineer has been reprimanded. In the Messages section of settings there is a new feature to allow you to send images in a lower quality mode. —— Also found in Beta 2 - is that the live Broadcast feature mentioned at WWDC is now turned on. And with Swift Playgrounds - being the first apps to support that feature. There is an extended menu in Swift playgrounds Apps that offers a broadcast live option selecting that option lets you pick apps that allow broadcasting - like Twitch or Youtube Gaming. HOWEVER this feature of live broadcasting only appears to be available for iOS devices with the 64 Bit processor - i.e. iPhone 5S and newer. ==== Autolock is now under display and brightness settings. There are new wallpapers at the bottom of the list in Wallpaper settings. You can access widgets from notification center on Home screen. Airdrop in control center now displays “Receiving Off” The Apple News App can now be hidden. App store split view now actually works on the iPad. AirPlay slash bluetooth headphones and speakers available in now playing for the Apple Music app. There is the handwriting keyboard button on the iPad in the Messages app. There is a new Bedtime wake up Sounds in the Clock App. open the clock app - go to the Bedtime tab - and click options in the upper left - and you will see - Wake up Sound. —— One of the bigger updates for those running iOS 10 beta 2 on an iPhone is voice mail transcriptions. Nothing special to turn on - just if you have visual voicemail - which you most likely do - then transcriptions will start showing for you for new voicemail messages. If the bots had a hard time transcribing your message - they will flag the transcription with quote - Low confidence unquote right above the transcription. This is a feature rolling its way out to users - so some users may not see it yet - but really most should be seeing it now. If you have an iPhone and are running iOS 10 beta 2 and received one of these transcriptions - how good was it? Was it close or hilariously wrong? give us a call - 206-666-6364 - that is 206-moon-dog and let us know. And there are many many other tweaks and slight updates from Beta 1 to beta 2. Let me also now of you favorite or least favorite change from beta 1. http://www.valuewalk.com/2016/07/live- broadcasting-support-ios-10-beta/ http://9to5mac.com/2016/07/07/hands-on- new-ios-10-beta-2-bedtime-wake- up-sounds-video/ http://9to5mac.com/2016/07/06/hands- on-voicemail-transcription-ios-10- beta-2-video/ 10:48 http://www.macworld.com/article/3089486/ ios/5-hidden-ios-10-features-that-are- instant-game-changers.html As I mentioned previously there are a lot of articles going over that authors favorite new features in iOS 10. This time we will look at an article in Mac world from Oscar Raymundo. He had 5 favorite new features. 1. Maps - Find my car - this is where Siri automatically flags where you car is when you get out of it. Or as I like to call it - The My Wife has a feature created just for her feature. 2. Control Center - Change flashlight intensity. This is for 3D touch iPhones right now - and we mentioned before - intensity is now replace by the word light when picking the brightness level. 3. Music keeps playing when Camera opens - this is for those with Live Photos. Previously if you had live photos enabled - when you opened the Photo app - it killed any audio you had playing. 4. Mail - Easy unsubscribe. Now when you get an email from a subscriber list - likely one you had no idea how you got on in the first place - the unsubscribe link is no longer buried at the bottom of the email - but place at the top. Where it is easy - much easier to tap and get out of. 5. Music now has optimize storage - which is really needed for all those poor souls that purchased a 16 what was I thinking GB iPhone. This feature looks at your available storage level and looks at your music usage and based on songs you have not listened to recently starts removing said music to free up space. 12:22 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-thinks- black-market-1-143000265.html There has been in the past a lot made about how much the FBI paid to get that iPhone 5C unlocked. Most put it north of $1 Million dollars. So how do Apple feel about this - well surprisingly - they seem to like that high dollar amount. This is what Ivan Krstic Head of Security engineering and architecture for Appel said about the $1 Million dollar plus price tag paid. quote As probably most of you know, there is a black market for software vulnerabilities, and once in a while some of the prices on the black market become known, Usually these prices are tens of thousands of dollars, sometimes $100,000. Those are prices for software like Microsoft Windows or Google's Android — but the prices for iPhone hacks are much, much higher. Take that with a grain of salt, but it's a fascinating number to think about," What you're seeing now is the result of a decade of our best work in protecting our users.” unquote 13:33 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205321 Some Apple TV 4th gen news. Apple has added Comedy Central, MTV and VH1 to the universal search feature. In the US - that brings 35 different apps / services that universal search can search through. If you are in Australia, Canada, France, Germany and the UK - you can search through 2 - iTunes for Movies and Music and Netflix. So a little bit of a gap there. 14:03 I want to Thank Boll and Branch for sponsoring this episode. The sheets from Boll and Branch are made from 100% organic cotton - because organic cotton is incredibly soft. And the sheets get softer each time you wash them. With Boll and Branch You’ll get the nicest sheets you’ve ever owned for about half the price of what stores and boutiques would be charging for sheets of far lower quality. 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Go online to Boll – that’s B-O-L-L and Branch Dot Com. and use promo code t i i for 20% off your entire order: sheets, towels, blankets, duvet covers.. everything. Plus free shipping! And all their products come beautifully packaged in their signature boxes. Go to Boll and Branch Dot Com today for 20% off your entire order. And use promo code TII. 16:03 VOICEMAIL - Colby_CO_found_something_in_iOS10_storage Hey Rob, finally got iOS 10 installed thanks. Not a whole lot of feedback yet, definitely looking forward to playing around with The Playgrounds app with my seven-year-old son though. One bit of feedback I have so far though, the keyboard is totally buggy. If I switch to numbers it switches back to letters, if I switch to caps it cap locks, if I try to go back to lowercase it shifts. It is almost to the point where it's unusable. I'm recording this via Siri right now. I know with betas come bugs so I'm not complaining, just giving you the heads up on my experience. Love the show. Regards, Aric Boyles Hi Rob, Quick note to you hoping I can get my review of iOS 10.0 Dev beta 2 to you before episode 398. I myself can only vouch for my iPhone 6+ 64Gig. However, Peyton who by the way was not named after a certain football player but for the term Petabyte (long story) our 9 year old son reports a pleasant experience so far on his iPad Air 2. FYI, he would of given me a more detailed review of 10.0 beta 2 but is obsessed on getting Happy Chick working so he can play NES games that were out 20+ years before he was born. Anyway, back to my review. iOS 10.0 developer beta 2 absolutely rocks. So far it is running Velvety smooth. I have been using the update for the past 8 hours at writing this email and the experience has been flawless. No freeze ups, no what look like reboots or any of that stuff. Just a nice smooth uniformed performance. That is it for me. If anything else comes up that may be worth bringing to the TII community's attention, I'll check back with you. To sum up my email? Bring on the public beta! Have a great week! Shane Cashin Hi Rob, Tonight I updated my iPad Air2 to the iOS 10 Public Beta everything's working great. Regards J Hi Rob, I updated to iOS 10 beta and I was hoping that we can set default email apps without having to use the stock mail app. So I once I deleted the stock app, I went onto safari and clicked on an email link and received a pop up message that told me to re download (or restore) the stock mail app. Apple's walled garden is kind of frustrating. Regards, Alberto J VOICEMAIL - LA_PA_why_not_using_wifi_calling 23:08 https://plus.google.com/communities/ 105412562215997292912?cfem=1 We are now over 3,000 members in our Google+ community and growing. Thanks to everyone that has joined and thanks for the great posts. One new post in the G+ community that went up since the last episode came from MYRON UECKER ON JULY 9TH who posted the following quote One nice feature of the iOS 10 music player is the downloads section that show only music on your device. Finally a way to play only what I downloaded and not my entire library! unquote To which - DAVE T replied quote Don't I already see that on my iOS 9 phone? unquote AND THEN MYRON UECKER REPLIED: QUOTE There is the ability to only show music on this device in iOS 9. It has never worked properly for me. On my iPhone it simply grays out the music not on my phone and cycles through it anyway on random mode. I was never able to figure out how to randomly play only music on my device. In iOS 10 there really is a way to see only what is on your device and random mode works as expected. UNQUOTE Since the last episode there were also dozens and dozens of other new posts and comments in the Tii Google+ community - which is an Android fan bois free zone and spammer free zone. Yup it is the most civil Google+ community covering iOS. Folks Go to today in iOS dot com slash community to join in. And thanks to all 3,000+ of you already in the community and contributing. 24:47 http://investor.apple.com/ Apples quarterly Conference call covering last quarter will be Tuesday July 26th at 4:00 PM CT. I will do a blog post later than night - I am traveling that afternoon - so no episode that night or coverage right after. I will talk more next week on speculation on iPhone and iPad sales. But really this is not a very meaningful quarter - it is the next one that is where things might get interesting. 25:31 http://www.macworld.com/article/3089481/ apple-phone/apple-lowers-iphone-trade-up- credit-abandons-interest-free-financing.html Hi Rob, FYI. Dr. John M Seems Apple is lowering their iPhone trade up credit and also getting rid of the interest free financing. Originally users could get up to $300 credit from their older smartphones - now it is reduced to $250 max credit. Currently on the Apple site the estimated trade in value varies from $50 for an iPhone 4S to $225 for an iPhone 6 and $250 for an iPhone 6Plus. They are not at this time accepting iPhone 6S or 6S plus for trade in because you know - there is nothing to trade up to at this time. Well at least not for the 6S Plus. And previously Apple was offering interest free financing via Citizens bank - now apple is reverting that back to the Carriers to manage the finances - because you know nothing bad could ever come out letting the carriers manage it. Long of the short - is if you thought you knew how apples trade in programmed worked - well kudos for being that person. But now things have changed. 26:53 http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/ 36683517/spotify-accuses-apple-of-blocking- app-and-using-store-as-weapon- to-harm-competitors Spotify got all in a lather over Apple rejecting their most recent updates to the Spotify app - and they accused apple of doing this for anti-competitive reasons. Spotify general Counsel said Quote The move is causing grave harm, We cannot stand by as Apple uses the App Store approval process as a weapon to harm competitors. This latest episode raises serious concerns under both US and EU competition law. It continues a troubling pattern of behaviour by Apple to exclude and diminish the competitiveness of Spotify on iOS and as a rival to Apple Music, particularly when seen against the backdrop of Apple's previous anticompetitive conduct aimed at Spotify unquote That was said in a letter they sent to Apples Lawyers - which Spotify legal counsel also you know accidentally - on purpose leaked to the press. Well them is fighting words and actions - said Apple’s Lawyers - well maybe that’s not exactly what they said. Actually What Bruce Sewell - Apple general Counsel said to Spotify was quote We find it troubling that you are asking for exemptions to the rules we apply to all developers and are publicly resorting to rumors and half-truths about our service. We did not alter our behaviour or our rules when we introduced our own music streaming service or when Spotify became a competitor, Ironically, it is now Spotify that wants things to be different by asking for preferential treatment from Apple. I would be happy to facilitate an expeditious review and approval of your app as soon as you provide us with something that is compliant with the App Store's rules” unquote Oh snap - so there take that. http://www.macworld.com/article/3090219/ ios/spotify-lawyers-up-against-apple-for- rejecting-its-updated-ios-app.html 28:46 http://www.macrumors.com/2016/07/13/ iphone-7-1960-mah-battery/ Rumor time - and back to the iPhone 7 - and it seems one of the reports is it will have a bigger battery. The rumor / leak is the iPhone 7 battery would be 1,960 mAh battery vs the current 1,715 mAh battery in the iPhone 6S. The A10 is also supposed to improve battery life - so to see a 20% increase in battery life or more for the iPhone 7 vs the iPhone 6S is not really a stretch. Expect more and more of these part leak rumors to pop up over the next two months. 29:23 http://www.webposterz.com/2016/07/15/ apple-launch-iphone-7-256gb-storage- capacity-fast-charging/ more rumors around the iPhone 7 and 7 plus revolve around the name and Apple possibly going to iphone and iPhone Pro for the 4.7 and 5.5 inch version respectively. There are also rumors of faster charging for the next gen iPhones. 29:45 http://appadvice.com/post/apples- abandonment-of-the-audio-jack-is-long- long-overdue/717355 And of course there is the on again / off again - but mostly on again rumor that the HeadPhone jack is going the way of Floppy disks and fire wire ports. There is an article in 9 to 5 mac that talks about the average length of time Apple supports a type of port - and that average is 15 years. Currently the headphone jack has been supported as is by Apple for 32 years. So maybe the on again rumor camp - that is the group saying yes Apple will kill the headphone jack - maybe the on again rumor camp is right after all. 30:18 http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/30/ technology/apple-patent-stop-phone- recording/index.html One of the things Apple does - and does a lot of is file patents - and they file patents on things they never plan to use or roll out - but just in case and because they can - they file patents - and some times people look at those patents and say well if Apple was granted the patent they are going to do this. And this is one of those cases and one I say some strong negative tones around. Apple was granted a patent where they could put in technology to disable a phones photo and video recording capabilities using an infrared signal. The theory is that in theaters or concerts the people running the event could kill of the camera. That is the theory. Here is why Apple will not implement that tech. Human Rights violations. The Smartphone does a great job of recording these. And if Any one that ran a movie theater could get their hands on the tech to kill your camera - then clearly any repressive regime could get their hands on that tech to kill off cameras where ever their soldiers or thugs went. Especially at quote peaceful rallies unquote IF you think Tim Cook did not think about that possibility you are greatly mistaken. There is no way Apple rolls out that tech - no way. 31:48 http://www.techtimes.com/articles/168437/ 20160705/us-senate-rings-blackberry- death-knell-says-hello-to-apple-iphone- and-samsung-smartphones.htm Hi Rob, Someone stick a fork in Blackberry already. Dr. John M And he sent over an article that basically said that the US Government - one of the biggest if not the biggest customer of Blackberry is no longer going to be issuing new Blackberrys to new Senators and staff. Per sticking a fork in Blackberry - they are well past that stage. 32:14 VOICEMAIL - Dev_review_Dog_training_app Hi Rob, As the iPod Touch 5th gen is excluded from the forthcoming iOS update, will I still be able to purchase music and update the music app? The Scribble feature on the new watchOS looks great, probably faster than conventional texting. Do you think this should be an option on iOS? Thanks for all the hard work. Best wishes, Alf, Sheffield, England. Hey Rob, Last week a listener mentioned their headphone jack wasn't working on their iPad Pro 9.7" after installing iOS 10. He thought it might have something to do with the rumored replacement of the 3.5mm jack by the lightning port. The same thing happened to me on my iPad Pro 9.7" so I went looking for a solution. Most forum posts said to do a full reset, but I found one comment that said just to turn hey Siri off - and sure enough that worked for me. So it seems like the non-working headphone jack in iOS 10 is really just a bug, not necessarily a sign of things to come. Thanks again for the great show. Aric Boyles Hi Rob, I'm hearing lots about maybe there will maybe there won't be a jack on new iPhone 7 for headphones. If so could you or the listeners recommend a good Bluetooth in ear set. Music is my main priority as opposed to calling. I currently use the Jabra sport coach in ear headphones and they are just ok. Thanks for all you do. Regards, Gerry in Glasgow, Scotland VOICEMAIL - quest_my_thoughts_no_headPhone_jack 36:54 Hi Rob, I was in NYC recently and as usual I went to Harry's for my razor blades and the staff were saying they're working on being able to send blades to uk. Great news on the best blades on the market. Love the show. Regards Gerry. from Glasgow. Scotland and folks if you go to harrys dot com - that is h a r r y s dot com and use the promo code t i i - you will save $5 on your first order. As I said before the blades are incredible - there are 5 of them - not 3 or 4 - but 5. No cuts - no burn - and the best shave I have ever had and at a really great price. Why Pay $32 for an 8 pack of blades when you can get them 1/2 that price at Harrys.com And yes I do buy them - they don’t just send me samples all the time. I actually now have enough blades to get me through not just 2016 but also likely most if not all of 2017 as well. To get the best blades - Harry's went and found a German blade factory that was almost 100 years old and purchased it. Harry’s owns the most important part of the razor - the blade and by cutting out the middle men on both sides means they can keep the price low to you. Also absolutely the best shaving gel. No Phosphates not toxic chemicals - just good stuff for your skin. Harrys cares more about you then putting cheap chemicals in their products to save a couple of penny’s a can. Kudos Harrys. Plus Harrys as an organization helps those looking for jobs - by donating 1% of their sales and 1% of their time to help prepare people for professional success. Yes a shave that feels great from a company you can feel great about. Once again go to Harrys.com now and save $5 off when you enter the code - t i i with your first purchase. That is h a r r y s dot com and enter the coupon code T I I at check out to save $5 on your first purchase and start shaving better. 38:56 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ 876321144/1627814500 Hi Rob, I was recently given your contact information as someone who might be able to point me in the right direction. We are launching an exciting new product called FireFlies. FireFlies are completely wire-free earbuds similar to Earin, Bragi Dash, and others that have recently been announced… except unlike these other products, Fireflies do not cost $300. FireFlies are the first affordable wire-free earbuds and will be available for just $79 on Tuesday, July 5th. We have worked very hard for the last two years so that the average person can afford this awesome new technology! Here is a brief product overview: www.firefliesaudio.com We need help spreading the word. I am hoping to discuss this product with the right writer at Today in iOS for audio electronics/gadgets. Please let me know if you can direct me to the right contact. Thanks! KC Corbett www.firefliesaudio.com Hi KC, Thanks for the heads up - I will feature this in our next episode - Ep 398 - which should be out this week. Best of luck with the campaign. What is the expected battery life from a full charge? All it says that I could find is: " two tiny ear buds that can play stereo Bluetooth audio for hours” Is that 1.1 hours or 2 hours or 4 hours or Thanks Rob W Thanks for your support Rob! The battery life of the earbuds is 3 hours. So, after listening to 3 hours of stereo audio, you can put the earbuds their carrying case and get 3 additional full charges on the go via the carrying case. Once you have listened for 12 hours total, you can recharge the carrying case. Please let me know if there is any other info I can provide you with and thanks again! Best, KC Thanks to KC for his reply. The project again is called - FireFlies - one word with flies - spelled - F L I E S Luck it seems KC did not need - the project had a modest goal of $20,000 - it has raised over $270,000 - Way to Go KC. The early bird special of $79 are all gone - the pricing is now $99 - and likely those will be gone soon - and then it will be $119. What you get for $99 or $119 - is a set of the FireFlies ear buds, The Charging Pod - which is really nice. extra silicone tips and locking wings - plus a micro-USB cable for the Charging Pod. You do not plug into the earbuds - you plug into the charging pod - and that recharges the earbuds. That is a better way to do it then trying to get the connectors on the earbuds. I guess the best thing to say - is don’t wait for apple to remove the head phone jack - get out in front of them and show you don’t need it anyway. Search for FireFlies in the show notes for Ep 398. 42:43 VOICEMAIL - Jeff_ark_appleTV_app_Review Hi Rob, I have been thinking about getting into app development for awhile and there is so many companies offering different packages and bundles. Can you give me some direction as to where is the better place to get some schooling? Thanks! Regards, Jeremy R An Apple Watch Beta Tip from Robert Spivack in out Google+ community. Quote WatchOS 3 beta tip - make a backup first If you are installing WatchOS beta software (or will install later this month when the public betas start appearing), here's a quick tip: Make a backup of your Apple Watch software/configuration first. Apple only provides an indirect way to backup your watch which many people many not be aware of. Run the Watch configuration app on your iPhone, select your Apple Watch, unpair the watch, and then setup up the watch again restoring from backup (don't select "setup as new watch"). Unpairing your Apple watch generates a backup of the watch and configuration at that moment. Please note that unpairing is a slow process and setting it up again by restoring from a backup is even slower, so allocate a lot of time (1 to 2 hours) to do this. Leave both your Apple watch and your iPhone plugged-in and charging to avoid any power-related problems. unquote 46:31 VOICEMAIL - Ron_wifi_calling_Response VOICEMAIL - Ron_wifi_calling_response_part2 Podcast411 - ep 231 is live - it is an interview with Lou Mongello from WDW Radio. Please check it out - and check out the new blog posts on Podcast411 - including my thoughts on Podcast Movement and the Podcaster Hall of Fame awards. 52:12 Ep 398 - Ask Siri - What’s your Problem - multiple times 52:42 Thanks again to Boll & Branch for sponsoring this episode - Folks go right now to Boll and branch dot com with boll spelled b o l l - and use promo code t i i - to save 20% off the nicest sheets and cotton products you have ever owned with free shipping to boot. And Before we go today I want to remind you to send in your feedback to the show - 206-666-6364 - that 206-moon-dog - or record your feedback and email it to the show at today in iOS at gmail dot com - The feedback can be a question or comment per something someone said on this episode or it can be a question or rant you have about something else. An App or product review - good or bad - as long as it is iOS related - it is welcomed. I am always looking for new Artwork to feature that you created on an iOS device - just put some Tii branding on it and send it in. And of course we are always looking for more music created on an iOS device to play on the show. This is your show and your feedback is greatly desired. Also don't forget to check out our Moderated Google Plus community by going to todayinios dot com slash community. 53:44 Thanks again to Harry's for sponsoring this episode and please go to Harrys.com now and save $5 off when you enter the code - t i i with your first purchase. That is h a r r y s dot com and enter the coupon code T I I at check out to save $5 and start shaving better today or well at least as soon as your new shave kit arrives right to your door step. Finally check out the newly updated Tii App which is Free to you. Search for Tii in the iTunes App Store - it is the best way to consume the show and to get push notifications each time a new episode of Tii is released. It is fully Voiceover friendly of course. Please go right now and download the Tii App. And that folks is going to do it for us today - until the next time I am your host Rob reminding you to phone different OUTRO OUTRO MUSIC
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TRANSCRIPT FOR EPISODE 397 Welcome to the show I am your host Rob and this is the Today in iOS podcast - First up I want to thank BRIAN for sending in the music you hear in the background. BRIAN wrote: Hi Rob, Here is a song called - GET OUT On iOS I used the apps: nanoStudio iMaschine Notion GarageBand Most of the song started on the iPhone (iPad) then brought to the mac for finishing. On the mac I used the apps Studio One Logic Notion You can find more of my music at reverbnation.com/timfate Regards, ‘Brian Song_GET_OUT Thanks BRIAN for the music and folks I will put the full song at the end of the episode. I also want to thank BEN for sending in the Artwork for today's show. BEN wrote the following: Hi Rob, I made this artwork using the apps, Photoshop Touch and Inkpad. The text, gradient, and box effect were created in Photoshop touch, and the shine on the text was created in Inkpad. Regards, Ben M Thanks BEN, for sending in this artwork and folks you can see BEN'S artwork in the FREE Tii App via the BONUS button for ep 397 - or at instagram.com/todayinios and also as a stand alone post in the VIP section and at Facebook.com/todayinios. If you have some artwork and or music you have created on your iOS device that you would like to share with the audience please email it to me at today in iOS at gmail dot com and please make sure to include which app or apps you used to create said artwork and or music. AND I am down to just two songs in my queue - so if you have some music created on an iOS device - please please please send it in. 02:16 In this segment of how wrong were they we have the following quote quote “With yesterday’s announcement of the new Windows Phone 7 I believe we are seeing the rise of Windows Phone 7 as the iPhone killer. Forget Android, this is the one you need to pay attention to.” Jamie Riddell, CEO of Digital Tomorrow Today, 16 March 2010 With all these iPhone killers out there - it kind of makes the iPhone the John Snow of Smartphones - Just Sayin. 02:45 This week we have promo codes for The App - MAGICAL ALPHABET - Here is the written review from the dev. Quote "I am one of the Co-Developers of Magical Alphabet, a fun educational app for preschoolers and toddlers, in which they learn letters, phonics and spellings through hilarious 3d Magic shows videos and puzzle games. Some of the Features of this app are : 26 funny story based 3D Magic show movies which will help kids learn 26 letters and 52 words in a most entertaining way. 52 Spelling puzzles where kids drag letters in place to spell the words while listening to their names and phonic sounds along with delightful animations. An interactive alphabet table to help kids learn their ABC and phonics along with the images of the words. Magical Alphabet is available exclusively on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch for just $1.99 but you can definitely try a free or a lite version before purchasing a full paid version. Your kids are surely gonna have an awesome experience with Magical Alphabet. Thanks a lot and have a great day.” unquote Well thanks to the devs for their review of their App - MAGICAL ALPHABET - and for sending in the promo codes to their App to give away. Folks if you would like a chance for a promo code for this app - please send an email to todayinios at gmail dot com and put MAGICAL in the subject line. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/magical-alphabet-letters- phonics/id1040130713?mt=8 A QUICK REMINDER if you are an App developer or an iBook Author email me if you want your app or iBook featured in the promo give away segment FOR FREE We Just need the 5 promo codes or more to give away. simply email me at today in ios @ gmail.com and please include a 60 sec or less audio review of your app or iBook - indicating you are the dev or author. Also when you send in the promo codes - please make sure to let me know when they expire. 04:33 On ep 396 - I went over some of the changes in the Settings app - I stopped at the new Home Kit settings. Next up is Music - and there are some changes. There is a new “downloads” subsection. With Downloaded Music option showing how many bytes of downloaded music you have on your iOS device. And the option Automatic Downloads toggle. When toggled on - when adding music to your library - it also will download to that iOS device and downloaded songs are available for playback when offline. There is now an Optimize Storage toggle - that when turned on - if your iOS device is low on Space - it will automatically remove music from that iOS device that you have played in a while. When turned on - it also gives you options for a min amount of storage you can allocate to Apple Music from None to, 8, 16, 32 or 64 GB’s of min storage space allocated just of Apple music. Under the Library sub-cat - they added in Sort Songs by Title or Artist. Previously it was just sorting Albums by Artist and Title. Settings for Video also added a couple small features - One is use cellular data toggle. And then for a new sub-cat - playback quality - you have the option of Wifi with either Best Available or Good. And of you turned on Use Cellular data - you also can adjust the playback quality as well - also with the choice of Best Available or Good. For Settings for the Photo App - the only difference I can see is the addition of the control toggle for Show Holiday events. Nothing new to announce - for iBooks settings, or Podcasts App settings, or iTunes U settings or GameCenter - same ole - same ole. Beyond the changes in the settings app for apps - there was actually you know - changes to the actual apps. For instance - With Calendar in iOS 10 - here is some of what is new. 1. Found events - You get calendar suggestions for events found in Mail and messages. So you can add them easily. Wonder how many young’s are going to wind up with Netflix and Chill for Friday and Saturday nights. 2. Time to Leave - this is where Calendar uses Apple Maps to look up locations, traffic conditions, and transit options to tell you when to get off your back side and get going to your event. 3. Location Suggestions are added to Calendars. The Calendar will suggest the location for a new event based on your past events and frequent locations The clock app gets a whole new look and a new major category - with bedtime joining - World Clock, Alarm, Stopwatch and Timer. Bedtime - allows you to create a wake alarm - based on a questions the App asks you - seems they think going to bed and waking up the same time every day is key to good health. Clearly not an app written by a podcaster. In the Notes app - as mentioned at WWDC - there is now the collaboration option - where you can pick a note and then invite people via mail, twitter and Facebook to join a meeting where everyone invited can make changes to the Note. Just like google docs. 08:41 I mentioned on the last episode that Swift Playgrounds was live now at least the first lesson. My older son has been going through that. I have to say this - I am very very impressed with Swift Playgrounds. It is teach a good deal of fundamentals for programing that a 10 year can understand and be inspired to spend multiple hours a day on. How it starts out is you have this character byte and you have to move him around and do things for the different challenges. Turn on or off a tile - grab a gem. Note on the gem grabbing - it does seem there is an intermittent bug - where he goes to grab a gem and it does not grab the gem - near as I can tell - it is just a bug - and definitely does not repeat all the time. And we have found other bugs where when you enter the code - it does not perform perfect. Even if you put in exactly the code they show for answer and the code that should be the answer. So yes - there are bugs in the software to teach you how to code. As I told my Son - this is just Apples way of introducing you to the concept of what a Bug is. Sure they can talk about it - but it is much more memorable if they give you examples in their own software. Just Sayin. And that said let me go over Swift Playgrounds Learn to Code 1 - Fundamentals of Swift. The first section goes over Commands - very simple commands. How to issue commands, even some bug squashing. Next section goes over functions - what they are - creating them and more. Then they go into loops - followed by Conditional codes - If - and else ifs They also have sections on Logical Operators, While Loops, Algorithms, Variables, Types, Initialization, Parameters, and finally end with a section called World Building. That is all in their Intro to Code 1 s | |
