iOS 12 Explained
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2019-05-06
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1,035 words · ~5 min read
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so you know how even some of the nicest smartphones on the market feel
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disposable in the sense that you'll inevitably end up feeling pressured by
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the newer sexier version a few short months later
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well strap yourselves in here guys because it
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actually seems like with their newest software update apple is trying to allow
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users to squeeze a little bit more life
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out of yesterday's hottest devices i mean of course you'll need more recent
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hardware to use all of its features but iOS 12 will support gadgets as old as
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the iphone 5s from 2013 and it may even
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get a little snappier apple is claiming up to 40 faster app launches as tested
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on an iphone 6s but performance improvements tend to be
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standard fare for mobile os upgrades so let's look at some features that are a
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little more unique although the augmented reality or ar
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space has been largely pretty stagnant
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one cool way it's being put to better use in iOS 12 is that your device will
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be able to measure the dimensions of a real world object simply by pointing the
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camera at it so this is a quick way to tell if say you'll be able to avoid paying those
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gouging level bag fees on your next flight and while we're talking about the
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camera the photos app is a little more powerful for the shutter bugs out there
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is you can now edit raw images right
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from your phone though you will have to import them from
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an external device the app will also introduce a facebook ask feature though
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that will suggest that you share photos with the people who are in them just in
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case apple didn't already have enough information about who you hang out with
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then if you'd like to hand them even more info siri has a new feature called
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shortcuts that can execute a number of user-defined tasks for you almost macro
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style with a single voice command at this year's wwdc apple showed this off
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simply by having an employee tell siri i'm heading home
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which prompted her device to ping her roommate activate appropriate smart home
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features and give an estimated time of arrival
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but if you don't want siri or anything else on your phone chirping at you iOS
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12 offers some more robust options to deal with that as well do not disturb
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can now auto cancel if it detects that
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you have left a certain location or if a calendar appointment has ended so you'll
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actually start getting messages again once your boss finishes droning on about
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social media analytics or whatever and you can change your per app settings
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directly from the lock screen now too so if an app keeps bugging you with
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irrelevant headlines you can tell it to stfu permanently quicker than ever
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making matters even better the notifications that you do want
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also got revamped and we are finally getting Android style group
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notifications that will sort things according to app and thread which is
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especially useful if your inbox is constantly getting slammed
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of course constant notifications might be a sign that you're glued to your
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phone a little too much so iOS offers activity summaries both for yourself and
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any offspring that you may have produced and you can restrict usage time per app
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though parents out there we would ask that you
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please don't do it for youtube because tech quickies it's an educational
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channel right as for memoji well you can limit those
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these are similar to animoji but they allow you to look like yourself instead
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of a lion or a piece of poo or whatever
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though you will need the iphone x depth sensor in order to use this particular
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new feature even if you are rocking older hardware though you can still enjoy the
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front-facing camera a little bit more now that you can facetime with 32 people
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at once whoever's talking automatically gets the bigger tile similar to skype
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group calls iOS 12 is also bringing student id integration to both iphone
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and apple watch to make it easier to get into your dorm or pay for overpriced
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textbooks if you're a student at alabama oklahoma or duke you'll be among the
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first to get this functionality in the fall but more schools will be added
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later on this year finally iOS 12 is trying to secure more than just access
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to the campus gym it now offers a secure password generator built-in similar to
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third-party password managers like lastpass and can even autofill those
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six-digit security codes that you get over sms putting us one step closer to
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the iphone no longer even requiring a user to operate it at all
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