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1. app switcher puts app icon on top rather than bottom, otherwise no change.
2. i can now make my iphone force me to remember people’s actual phone numbers and email addresses?
3. faster scrolling through pictures does seem nice. i still miss seeing all of my places on the map though.
4. since the messages app only allows one person’s texts on screen at a time, and their name is at the top, what’s the point?
5. how is sorting notifications by “recent” any different than by time? and more importantly, when will apple restore the single-screen notifications that included calendar events, or at least give us the option to restore this feature? and when will apple allow us to see events further than 6 hours away? and will they finally kill the stupid “you have an appointment tomorrow, but i’m not telling you what or where”?
6. that looks like a useful feature for spotlight search.
7. no! don’t launch and play music when i plug in my headset to talk!
8. is making icloud its own app like making facetime its own app? i.e., separate app but no new functionality, and you’ll never use it anyway b/c you’ll only access it through the primary app (like phone for facetime).
9. i can see the value in split screening. pity it requires new hardware though.
10. my spotlight search on my iphone 6 with ios 8 does not find any contacts at all, so this sounds like a huge improvement over opening my contacts app and scrolling the list
11. b/c apple pay was so hard to use before. uh huh.
12. um, lack of transit or “what’s nearby” weren’t the reasons that nobody uses apple’s native maps app.
13. a power save mode that disables your phone’s functionality. i can only hope they got rid of the low battery warnings that freeze your phone while still allowing the app that’s causing the drain to continue to burn juice.
14. that list of albums doesn’t show videos. i tremble when apple adds dubious functionality, but removes meaningful functionality.
15. ooh fonts! like demanding i update to add smilies. there’s another 1 gb of space on my phone gone. there’s a reason i never “up”graded to 8.3.
16. the shift key is great! i hate having to guess.
17. the back button is nice, yes. next up is a setting that prevents hijacking (like certain ads on safari pages that force launch the app store).
18. i know, sharing notes is a game-changer. b/c before this, the iphone had no means to send texts or emails. oh wait…
19. doesn’t interacting with (tapping) siri defeat its purpose?
20. searchable settings is definitely an improvement.
21. again, lack of transit ain’t the reason no one uses apple maps.
22. because there’s nothing i love more than big images that slow my downloads and make me wait forever to read an article.
23. stopped reading at apple watch.
24. selecting text is really needed for the iphone, where the screen is small and it can be hard to find the text you need to select.
25. the real question will be what apps, and the functionality of those apps, you can run while picture-in-picture is playing a video.
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