TRANSCRIPT FOR EPISODE 339
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 Ghost with my iphone 4s using the GarageBand app. For free downloads and more music follow me @jeffj6 on twitter.
Regards,
Jeff J
SONG_Ghost.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 ANTHONY for sending in the Artwork for today's show. ANTHONY wrote
Hi Rob,
This is a shot on Valentine's Day of Chinese New Year in China Town Sydney Australia
I used the stock video camera to film ( iPhone 5 )
Removed a still with
" AutoSampler "
This is my go to app to pull funky stills from video
Small app very powerful
Put text on with
" Laminar Pro "
Took only about 2 minutes to create.
Regards,
Anthony M
Well ANTHONY Thanks again for sending in this artwork and folks you can see ANTHONY'S artwork in the FREE Tii App via the BONUS button for ep 338 - or if you subscribe via iTunes on your computer as the album artwork and also as a stand alone post in the VIP section and at Facebook.com/todayinios.
Folks 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.
02:20
In this segment of how wrong were they we have the following quote quote With Apple’s next smartphone still months away, fans have been gobbling up iPhone 6 rumors faster than Pac-Man on a power pill bender. However, even the hottest rumor mill in tech can’t turn this device into a winner. Based on everything we know now, the next iPhone will be a year late and a bitcoin short of the competition, doing nothing to slow Apple’s descent from smartphone pioneer to high tech has-been.
Avram Piltch, LAPTOP Online Editorial Director, 14 March 2014
Oh Avran - I see what you did there - instead of a day late and a Dollar short you were so witty as to replace it with a Year late and a Bitcoin short. Brilliant - but sadly the rest of your comments we Doooohhhh worthy - Just Sayin
03:18
For Promo codes - On Ep 338 we offered up chances to win promo codes for THE APPS - PITCHMAN and POCKET YOGA - we will be giving those out early this week - for more info on these apps go back and listen to the beginning of Ep 338.
This week we have promo codes for a few Apps - the first one is the App - DINO TALES two words - here is the review from the dev -
PLAY PROMO FOR DINO TALES
Well thanks to Dev for their review of their App - DINO TALES and for sending in the promo codes to give away. Folks if you would like a chance for a promo code for this App - send an email to todayinos at gmail dot com and put DINO in the subject line.
The Second item we have promo code for is the App - MYTUNER AUDIO NEWS - Here is the WRITTEN review from the dev -
MyTuner Audio news allows you to listen to the breaking news from 200 of the most reliable news sources from more than 50 countries. Stay up-to-date on what is going on in your country and in the world. The newscasts/podcasts are hourly updated, so that you won’t miss any important breaking news. myTuner Audio News was designed so that it can be easily used when commuting and it plays any newscast you wish at any time at startup!
Thanks to the Dev for sending in THEIR WRITTEN review of their APP MYTUNER AUDIO NEWS and for sending in the promo codes to give away. Folks if you would like a chance for a promo code for this APP - send an email to todayinos at gmail dot com and put MYTUNER one word - in the subject line.
The third item we have promo code for is the App - CUBEST - Here is the WRITTEN review from the dev -
Hi Rob,
I’m the dev for the app CuBest. It’s a simple game but very addictive and hard to be good at.
When the game starts just swipe from the top of the cube down to get it rolling. The faster you swipe the faster the cube rolls. Every full rotation gives you a point. You have 30 seconds to get as many rotations as possible.
Cubest is available on the app store for 99 cents.
This is just the beginning. I’ll be adding new features to make the game even more addictive and interesting.
Please watch out for sore hands
Regards,
Mika
Thanks to the Dev for sending in his WRITTEN review of their APP CUBEST and for sending in the promo codes to give away. Folks if you would like a chance for a promo code for this APP - send an email to todayinos at gmail dot com and put CUBEST - c u b e s t - 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. That means you send JUST ONE EMAIL OVERALL FOR THIS WEEK AND YOU ONLY PICK ONE APP. THAT DOES NOT MEAN THREE EMAILS FROM YOU ONE FOR EACH 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 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.
08:09
I have an audio clip I want to play - It is from DEMO in San Fran recently - Where Steve Wozniac is talking to Leonard Nimoy - Listen carefully to what Leonard Nimoy had for a Phone.
Audio - Demo_host_leonard_nimoy
Mr Nimoy - Thanks for all your did and for the great memories - in my heart you will #LLAP.
09:29
http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-sends-invite-
out-for-march-9-apple-watch-countdown-starts/
Now into the news Ok - missed it by a couple of days on the invite for the next Apple Event. If you remember I said it would like go out on Feb 24th - And not that the event would be on feb 24th as was a rumor. I did however miss the date of the event saying it would likely be during Mobile World Congress on March 3rd or 4th but the next Apple event will actually be the week after on Monday March 9th.
Apple however still achieved their primary goal - get everyone at Mobile World Congress talking about Apple instead of those competitors and their products that are at Mobile World Congress.
Apple will tell you the timing had nothing to do with Mobile World Congress - and if this was not a G-Rated show I could really express my thoughts on that. But instead I will just say Horse Puckey.
So what did we learn from the invites that were sent out - well the caption is Spring Forward - and why Apple did not just caption it - Apple Watch event with some other stuff - the world may never know.
I also wonder why Apple choose Spring Forward for a tag line - given its history of Calendar bugs after switching to or from Daylight savings time - not exactly the best choice. Just Sayin.
Of course some like to over read into these things and are speculating that the Spring Forward tag line really means Apple is ahead of their production schedule and rather than wait to April to launch the Apple watch as was expected - they are going to announce it will launch now in March. There are the Glass is half empty folks, the Galls is half full folks and then the Hey I that glass is made of Crystal folks.
Obviously this events main star is the Apple watch. Per the other stuff - guesses abound - but most think Apple may finally announce the iPad Lunch tray Sorry - the iPad Pro or a new Mac Book Air. I have to throw in my prediction of a new Apple TV - it is required I say that before any new Apple Event.
Now it is possible for two hours we will just hear about the Apple watch and Apple will bring out dev after dev to show off some of their killer new apps for the Apple Watch. I hope that is not the case - as it would be kind of a sad trombone moment if on the episode I release that night All I have to mention is the Apple Watch.
This event will be live streamed from the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on March 9th at 10:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM CT. You can find the stream at apple.com slash live
http://appleiph0ne.com/apple-will-live-stream-march-9th-spring-forward-event-here-s-how-you-can-watch-it
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-hold-special-event-march-171807953.html
http://www.mercurynews.com/60-second-business-
break/ci_27605373/biz-break-apple-watch-likely-
star-but-will
12:46
http://appleiph0ne.com/siri-learns-to-speak-new-
languages-in-ios-8-3-beta-2
Apple released iOS 8.3 Beta 2 this past week. The biggest additions noted for Beta 2 is Siri can now speak Russian, Danish, Dutch, Portuguese, Thai, Swedish and Turkish. Obviously huge news to you if one of those are your native language.
Also with beta 2 is a bunch of new Emoji’s including some that hyper sensitive folks or just those looking for attention took issue with and said they were racist. See now on the Emoji’s you can pick your skin color and they vary from white to dark brown - but before White there is also Yellow - you know the same Yellow used for years for the happy face emoji - and for some reason some people think Apple was being racist with the Yellow color - Of course I am sure Samsung had nothing to do with this blow back on Apple. In any case don’t be surprised to see in Beta 3 of 8.3 the yellow changed to Green. Of course at that time expect all those suffering from Hypochromic Anemia to get upset about Apple being insensitive to them. Folks all I have to say on this one is get a life - Apple has a full range of skin colors that come from an international standard - and then outside of that range was the Yellow color - again matching the Yellow Happy face emoji that started you know the whole emoji thing way back when. Again some people just like to complain about anything. If you are one of those - feel free to call in 206-666-6364 - that’s 206-moon-dog and tell me how you really feel.
Beyond new features - one thing that iOS 8.3 beta 2 also provides is improved speed and performance for those with an iPhone 4S or 5 running iOS 8.1.3 Speed tests were run for the 4S and 5 running 8.1.3 vs the 8.3 Beta 2 - and they found a good amount of improvement in speed - especially when compared to the beta 1 as well. So this is very good news for my Son who is using a 4S.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2967241/
Asians-angered-Apple-s-racist-yellow-emoji-Firm-
comes-fire-use-characters-six-different-skin-tones.html
http://www.redmondpie.com/ios-8.3-beta-2-
runs-faster-on-older-devices-video/
15:12
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17:00
VOICEMAIL - Ron_also_had_issues_siri_forgetting_names
Hi Rob,
Regarding episode 0338 and SIRI "forgetting" names in address book: in ios7 on my iPhone 5, SIRI would occasionally and without reason would forget my home address making those "how do I get home from here" requests a pain. The info would be gone from Settings/Mail, Contacts and Calendars/My Info. This seems to have been fixed in ios8 and/or my iPhone 6 and I've not had this issue since.
Regards,
Sean
Dublin, OH
Hello Rob!
I was thinking about the updates to iOS 8 and it dawned on me: there will need to be an update to passbook for iPhone 5, 5C, and 5S users that purchase an Apple Watch. As of right now, you can not add credit cards, but if you are going to be able to use Apple Pay on your Apple Watch, I am assuming you will need that interface on your phone to add and organize. I wonder if this will be in the .2 update or .3? Just some food for thought.
Regards,
Brenton N
Yup - and it will be part of the 8.2 update for sure.
VOICEMAIL - Cmnts_siri_senior_moments_fdbk
20:16
https://plus.google.com/communities/
105412562215997292912?cfem=1
We are now over 2,000 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 out was from Missy Prather who asked
Quote
I need help and thought I'd ask the community. I have an iPhone 6 plus and I've been having issues with Siri and the microphone. I can only use dictation and Siri when my Bluetooth headphones or earbuds are connected. I've been working with Apple about this, and they want to replace my phone but want me to send my phone in "as-is" so their engineers can use it to figure out what is going on. I am very uncomfortable sending my phone with all my personal apps, photos, etc, on it. Does this seem like a normal thing for Apple to do? They will send me a brand new phone, and then I would send my phone not wiped to be looked at. Help please!
Unquote
And My Recommendation to Missy was this - Do a back up of your Phone - then clear out all of your personal info - anything and everything you would not want anyone else seeing - then see if your still have the issue. If you do still have the issue - then your personal info did not matter and you can send it in as is - because well the issue is still there and that is what Apple wanted. If you don’t have the issue anymore - then start adding back the items you deleted one at a time constantly checking to see when the issue comes back. Then you will know what did cause the issue and you can call Apple back and let them know. But yeah - don’t send in an iPhone or iOS device to Apple with Personal info if you don’t want it getting out to the world. While it is very very unlikely that info would get out - very very unlikely is different than definitely not getting out.
And since the last episode there were also dozens and dozens of other new posts 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 2000+ of you already in the community and contributing.
22:45
http://www.cultofmac.com/313676/apple-launches-
web-icloud-apps-everyone/
Thanks to Chris in London for the heads up on this next one.
And that is Apple has launched Web-only iCloud Apps for Everyone. That is right - web only and everyone - as in anyone with a mac or pc - does not mater - can access Pages, Numbers and Keynote for free. Well as long as you are using Firefox, Chrome, IE or Safari for your browser that is.
To get started go to iCloud dot com - sign in with your Apple ID and you can start creating docs, presentations and spreadsheets right from your browser.
Don’t have an Apple ID or just looking to create a new one to share with a team - you can sign up there as well.
You get 1GB of storage as part of the free offering. If you have an iOS device - you get 5 GB of storage.
Should be interesting to see what this does in the comp for MS Office vs Google Docs.
23:42
http://www.imore.com/secret-headphone-shortcuts-
twelve-clicks-better-control-your-iphone-ipad-and-mac
Thanks again to Chris In london for the heads up on this next article from Rene Ritchie at iMore - and it is a list of the 12 shortcuts - tricks you can do with your EarBud headphones.
Obviously there is Single click the middle for Play / pause
Double click the middle for skip forward to the next track or episode.
Triple click to skip back.
Double Click and hold on the second click to fast forward through audio
Triple click and hold on the 3rd click to rewind through audio
You can also Reject a call with a single click and holding down - yeah - be careful on that one - if you don’t hold long enough you will answer when you meant to reject the call.
You can also take pictures with your headphone controls - just open the camera app and a single click on the volume up button will take a picture.
Link in the show notes for all the tips.
24:55
http://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/15/02/25/rumor-
tim-cook-reveals-waterproofing-on-apple-watch-has-
improved-since-unveiling-can-be-worn-in-shower
Thanks to Dr. John for this next one which is about a feature for the Apple Watch. Which is not really a rumor about the Apple Watch - it is more about something Tim Cook said. Which was that he wears his Apple Watch Everywhere - even in the Shower. And that would be a change from when the initial specs went up when the Apple watch specs indicated it was not rated high enough for use in the shower. Of course it could just be that Tim does not actually charge up Apple Watches and he just throws them out once the charge is gone and replaces with a new one - so he does not care about it getting wet. But I am guessing on March 9th we will get a little more info about what you can and can not do with said Apple watch.
Per the Apple Pay and availability in Europe Mr Cook also is alleged to have told employees that Apple Pay will arrive in Europe before the end of the Year.
26:01
http://betanews.com/2015/02/26/google-cheapens-
android-play-store-sells-top-app-search-
spots-to-highest-bidder/
One thing I like about iTunes is that everything you see featured in there is done not by pay for placement - but because the folks at Apple decided to feature something - or said item is popular with users and it moves up the ranks. There is NO pay for placement in iTunes - there never has been and I am told by the folks at Apple there never will be. This is good - because it keeps slimy companies with more money than morals from pushing up to the top of iTunes features. And after All you as the user are truly Apples customers.
Now lets flip things over 180 degrees and talk about Google and the Goole Play store - and well Guess what that same level of integrity is missing in their App store. Google is now placing ads into Play store Search results - Brilliant.
Oh and they are not being shy about this Quote Offering unquote
Michael Siliski - Produc Management Director of Google Play said the following Quote Search ads on Google Play will enable developers to drive more awareness of their apps and provide consumers new ways to discover apps that they otherwise might have missed. in the coming weeks, a limited set of users will begin to see ads from a pilot group of advertisers who are already running Google search ads for their apps. We’ll have more to share in the coming months about the expansion of this program. We believe search ads will be a useful addition to Google Play for users and developers alike, and we hope this will bring even more success to our developer community.
Unquote
So lets get this right - You type in the App you are looking for and the first result is some paid ad for something that might not be relevant - but they paid for that placement. Sweet. I can almost hear the hum of the Razor as Google Sheers even more of its users. Thanks Google for helping drive Android users to the iOS platform - and welcome new Tii Listeners - as you will learn - Apple treats you as a user with dare I say - Respect. I know kinda a foreign concept for those of you coming from Android. Just Sayin
Oh and if you are an indie dev this really really sucks - because now you have an app that is starting to do well - and the bigger App companies see that - and buy up search results around your app title for their rip off version of your app they through together in a couple of days with low cost devs from 3rd world countries. And bam - your app sales start to tank. Yeah - Good news all around Google.
29:04
http://www.gfi.com/blog/most-vulnerable-operating-
systems-and-applications-in-2014/
In the how much did Google pay for this article category comes the following. Thanks to Giuseppe M for this one.
The post title is Most Vulnerable Operating Systems and application in 2014.
So they compared all Mac OS Ten versions combined vs All iOS versions combined vs All Linux Kernels combined vs Each break out of MS Windows - be it server 2008, Win 7, win 8, 8.1, vista and RT - again all of those broken out - everyone else combined - and then did not even bring in Android at all. because you know I guess their spread sheet does not count that high.
Any way this Apples to Crankshaft comparison was pretty bad. But the comments at the bottom of the article were classic - I don’t think anyone was happy with this article and lack there of any journalistic integrity - not the linux folks and not the Mac folks and not the iOS folks - and not even the Windows folks.
This was definitely the worst blog post I read in the past month - Thanks Cristian Florian - now I want those 10 minutes of my life back.
30:21
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/billions-
of-android-apps-vulnerable-to-hackers-
2015-02-27?siteid=yhoof2
Speaking of an OS with vulnerabilities - we need to look no further than Android. There was a report on Market watch this past week that talks about More than five Billion downloaded Android apps being vulnerable to hacks. Sweet. Also sweet is that the number of apps designed to steal financial info from Android users has skyrockets - this according to a report release on Friday from Security company FireEye.
According to them the number of Malware laden apps designed to steal financial data rose 500% in the second half of 2013.
And a vast majority of Mobile Malware is targeted to Android - with 96% of the Malware being for Android. And on the iOS side - Quote Almost all of the iOS malware observed by FireEye works only against jailbroken devices unquote.
31:25
VOICEMAIL - Ron_ohio_issue_zoom_813_accessibility
Hi Rob,
I wanted to share a “fix” I found. I have a 2015 Fusion with MyFordSync and stream via Bluetooth from my iPhone 6 Plus while driving to and from work. I would get drops randomly where it would go silent for a few seconds, then disconnect (switching the audio to another source), then reconnecting. This causes me to have to reselect Bluetooth as the source. Gets very frustrating, especially, when it does it several times in a few minutes. I found the problem is likely my Pebble. I turned it off and left it at home for the past couple of weeks and have had no drops at all. So if anyone has issues with momentary Bluetooth dropouts, it may be from your Pebble (if you have one, obviously). Unfortunately, I don’t know WHY it’s doing it, but if I learn any more on the issue, I’ll keep you posted.
Regards,
Lou V
33:39
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/
pebble-time-awesome-smartwatch-no-compromises
Gee - which Kickstarter Project will I start with today - Hmmmmm tough decision. For those that did not hear Pebble turned to Kickstarter once again for their new Color e-paper smart watch with up to 7 days of Battery life. This one is called the Pebble Time - and it has a new timeline Interface to highlight what is important in your day.
Other features are it is fully compatible with all 6,500+ existing Pebble Apps and Watchfaces - so yes the Tii Watchface will still work for you.
There is also a microphone on the Pebble time to let you send voice replies to incoming notifications - but for now on iOS that is just for Gmail notifications.
They also say it is water resistant and that you can swim or surf with it on - but they do not recommend taking it underwater.
They will begin shipping in May - but not to you if you have not already order yours - because all that is left is June shipments now for Single orders. Pricing is $179 now. Unless you want to order two - then it is $338 for two and a two pack ships in May for now - but they are almost out of that level.
You have until March 27th at 9:00 PM CT if you want to get in on this.
They are well over $11 Million in sales which is a wee bit above their $500,000 goal - and I had folks emailing in “Wow" and “amazing”
and this is on fire with regards to sales.
But lets put the numbers into perspective. For that $11+ Mil in sales they have sold over 62,500 Pebble Times. They did that in the first 5 days. Again lets put that in perspective. The Apple Watch will by all Analysts estimates sell well over 1 Million units that first weekend and will sell between 10 Mil and 30 Mil in 2015.
That is significantly greater then was Pebble just did and will do.
Still the numbers are good - and I am happy for Pebble - and I do like my black and white pebble. And at $179 it is significantly cheaper than the Apple Watch and with 7 days of Battery life - it will give significantly better battery life. It was nice to go on a biz trip this past week where I charged up my Pebble on Sunday - and then did not have to charge it up again until Friday night.
Also the Pebble Time is 20% thinner than the original Pebble - so that is nice as well.
Again search for Pebble Time in Kickstarter if you want to get one at $179 - Retail price will be $199 later on.
36:58
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/maumau/hi-
tech-sunglasses-headphones-no-more-earphones-or
Ok - we have another Kickstarter project this week - it is the Buhel Tech Sunglasses plus headphones - with Buhel spelled B U H E L
This one had a goal of $80k and has now raised over $330k - and you will have until March 14th at 10:08 AM CT to fund this one.
So what is it that pushed this one north of $300k in pledges - well the Buhel SG05 Bluetooth Bone Conduction glasses communicate with iOS devices and others to bring the audio direct to the center of your head with nothing needed in your ear holes.
With this one you can make and receive phone calls via bluetooth. Listen to Podcasts or music, and Activate Siri.
I actually pledged on this one and I am supposed to be in the early -Pre-Productin basic package group with delivery of that in April.
We will see how it goes - the other bone Conduction headphones I ordered two years ago are still not here.
Right now the $165 option is the cheapest one available with a delivery date of June 2015.
The $165 option gets you the following:
One Black Buhel Soundless, 1 Clear set of lenses, 1 red / gold Lenses, 1 smoke grey flash mirror lense, + the add on Accessory for Prescription Lenses.
If you are looking for a way to get Audio to your head - and don’t want to have the Cords in the way and don’t want something stuck in your ear hole - this is something you will want to check out - Search for B U H E L - and I will of course talk about this one once it comes - which right now they are saying will be late April.
39:04
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/
1990698791/smart-rope
And we have one more Kickstarter project this week - it is the Smart Rope - and for long time listeners of my Podcasts you may have heard me mention I am pretty good with a jump rope. I am the person at the gym that is showing off all the cross over and double jumps. So this one is near and dear to my heart - and Yes this is one I funded as well. Man I need to stop covering Kickstarter projects - it is getting expensive.
Ok so what is the Smartrope - it is quote the evolution of a classic - smart rope is an LED embedded jump rope that connects to your smartphone. unquote.
But it is actually more the LED’s in the middle that when you jump it shows you the number of jumps and data. Of course it also syncs data to your smartphone to track your work outs.
It comes in 3 sizes - So you can pick the one that is best for your height.
It is expected to Ship in September.
I picked the $70 level - which if you are in the US is really $75 as they add $5 for shipping to the US. The $70 level gets you the smart rope plus the Silicon Handles - which I would recommend if you do more than a basic jump - if you are crossing over or double jumping or more - then yeah you don’t want this flying out of your hands.
If you have a significant other that likes to jump rope they have a $100 version which comes in a custom gift box.
I will not just talk about this one when I get it I will also shoot a video of me using it and put it as an extra in the Tii App. I look forward to getting this.
If you like to jump rope check out Smart Rope at Kickstarter dot com or in the show notes for Ep 339 - you have until April 6th at 9:00 AM to fund this one. Currently they are at $45k towards a goal of $60k - so they are 75% of the way there - and should hit their goal before April 6th.
41:27
http://www.cultofmac.com/312711/old-flip-
phones-iphones-newest-rival-japan/
Thanks to Tash and others on this next one - which is a story about how in Japan Old Flip-Phones are the iPhones newest Rival. Seems in Japan the Flip phones are making a comeback.
But folks let put this in perspective this is also the same country that right now is on track by 2020 to sell more Adult Diapers than those for babies - and I think really that is all you need to know about this story of Flip phones rivaling iPhones in Japan - just sayin
42:00
http://appleiph0ne.com/southwest-airlines-app-for-
iphone-finally-adds-passbook-support-download-link
I was traveling this past week and that means I am able to report first hand on this next story - which is the Southwest App finally adds Passbook support. With Finally being the keyword - it is about time Southwest. One thing however I could not get to work was to get it in my lock screen - it said it was set to be available in the lock screen - but I could never get it to work.
To get the boarding pass into Passbook - was easy enough - after you check in - via the Southwest app for your boarding pass there is a button at the bottom that says Add to Passbook - tap that and you are done. Again except for the part about getting it on the lock screen - which would have been cool. Again at least in my settings under Notifications for Passbook it shows it as turned on for “Show on Lock Screen”
If anyone has been able to get their boarding pass to show on their lock screen - let me know what you needed to do - kind of frustrating.
206-666-6364 - 206-moon-dog or send an email to today in iOS at gmail dot com
43:33
VOICEMAIL - Kevin_correcting_my_mispronuc
Here is a question I saw
Quote
There is probably a very simple solution to this, but I just purchased a 6 Plus and none of the stock apps nor my home screen will go into landscape orientation, except safari. I have the rotation lock off and have just switched from android so I'm still getting the hang of this.
Regards,
Izzy
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This was mentioned a while ago when the iPhone 6+ came out - but I will mention it again because I forgot where to find the setting on this for a few minutes. The problem here is he has the screen set in zoomed mode - this is a screen setting not a accessibility setting for Zoom. Yes - confusing. See if you have the screen set to zoomed mode - it will not allow the native apps on the iPhone 6+ to get split screened. To change this - go to Settings - then to Display & Brightness - Then to View - And select “Standard” if Zoomed is selected again it will not allow split screen.
Hi Rob,
Regarding iTunes Match: I used to have iTunes Match on my old iPhone but let the subscription expire. If I re-subscribe will all my old music which was on my iPhone 4 be available on my iPhone 6? FYI I still have the same iTunes account.
Regards,
Charles H
Hi Rob,
Love your today in iOS Podcast. I have been listening for many years since I first got my iphone 3.
I am currently on an iphone 5s on iOS 8.1.2 and was looking into jail breaking again. I did not see any current tutorials on the todayinios web site, just mentions of TAIG, but many people don't seem to fully trust this jail break. If Isearch in Google + I see all kinds of mentions of Evasi0n Jail break. Just wondering what you recommend and which tutorial to follow.
Regards,
Arnie in San Diego
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Hi Rob,
This is a weird problem.
I listen to audiobooks a lot. I have found that whenever my iPhone goes to sleep or I press the power button to put the phone to sleep, the Apple music app skips to the next chapter or next song.
This is really annoying.
I have an iphone 6 plus and the latest version of ios.
Any ideas.
Regards,
Bob B
Well Thanks to Tash for the link to an article that has some suggestions on this. They start with recommending you use compressed air and blowing out the headphone jack and making sure you are pushing in the headphones all the way - i.e. no metal showing from the plug. Kind of common sense there on those.
The other thing to look for is if you have damaged the head phones - if you are putting the iPhone in your front pocket with the Headphones plugged in and you are standing and sitting a lot - you could have damaged the headphones - where the cord is shorting out - and this will cause siri to come on randomly - or when listening to podcasts or music or audiobooks for them to start over or skip ahead.
This also happens with some cheaply made 3rd party headphones right out of the box.
Here is the thing - if you have an iPhone that Siri is randomly coming on - first - make sure you have the option for hey siri turned off - sorry for that that just had siri respond. and then make sure you blow out your head phone port and you don’t have headphones plugged in. If you have the Hey - You know what feature turned off and no head phones are in and you are still getting siri turning on randomly - then take your iPhone to your apple store.
But in most cases people I have talked to on this - it was bad headphones.
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File this next one under you are watching it wrong. This is a post from Prismatic - and it is talking about the movie 50 shades of grey - The title of the post is quote There is a glaring Technology error in the 50 shades of Grey Film unquote
What is said glaring error - well in the movie there is a part where the leads are texting and Steele is not on an iPhone and Grey is on an iPhone - but on Grey’s iPhone it is showing the text’s from Steele as Blue - which would only be the case if Both were on iPhones.
Ok - so this guy goes to a movie about a 27 year old Billionaire and his college graduate Partner and their BDS&M relationship and what he takes away from the movie is a Glaring Error that her text bubbles were the wrong color and this really bugged him. Yeah - I am thinking he did not get into the spirit of this movie - just sayin.
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Hi Rob,
I broke down and bought a 6 after having a 4s with iOS and a lot of apps were crashing. Tried everything to a full restore no luck
My question is when I get my 6 should I set it up a a new phone and start from scratch or restore from lastet back up? Thanks and can't wait!!!
Regards,
Phil
My recommendation is to set up your new iPhone 6 or 6+ as a brand new device - break the chains from legacy upgrades and backups and start fresh - then just install apps as you need them. I did this with my iPhone 6+ and I have been very happy with the results - and the number of Apps I have is less than 1/10th of where I was with the 5S - as I have only installed when I needed them.
Hi Rob,
Once again the Rob method of installing updates worked like a charm. I usually wait for two weeks after any small update but I've been sick so it got delayed.
I saved your update directions in Apple Pages app so i can reference them on any device. So far 8.1.3 running no problems on iPhone 5s.
Regards,
John D
Thanks John for the feedback - and folks remember in the Tii App - go to the episode list - tap on PDF’s and then scroll down to “Recommended Update Procedure” and look that over before you update to iOS 8.2 - which might be released on or around the March 9th event. As always even better advice from me is to wait a week before doing any update to iOS.
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