For the first time since Apple is releasing public betas of its operating systems, I’m going all in with iOS 14, iPadOS 14 and watchOS 7. This year’s round of betas are exceptionally exciting and stable for their first incarnation. This sentiment is also echoed by M.G. Siegler on 500ish. This year, there is nothing... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/UxapcquSZxs Benjamin Mayo demonstration of iOS 13 text selection compared to iOS 12 Benjamin Mayo, a well-known writer for 9to5Mac, published a very enlighting YouTube video on iOS 13 text selection problems. This video shows a few simple tasks involving text selection in iOS 13 compared to iOS 12. From this video, we can conclude... Continue Reading →
iOS 13 Logo - I love it! I rarely quote Bloomberg stuff (because of the "Big Hack" story that was purely a fake report), but this story about iOS 13 messy development is interesting. "Inside Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut" reveals many interesting tidbits. Last year, Apple delayed several iOS 12... Continue Reading →
Multitasking experience has become awful since iOS 13, particularly with iOS 13.2. It seems iOS has trouble keeping apps in memory, even on high-end devices with a lot of system RAM like on my iPhone 11 Pro. According to a summary post by MacRumors, I'm not alone complaining. On top of that, when I do... Continue Reading →
For a few days now, I'm receiving calls from all around the world. The vast majority of them coming from Africa and some from Central America. The only time I answered, nobody was talking. I know of many people, including me, get phone calls with recorded message in Chinese. These calls are different. I don't... Continue Reading →
There are many mysteries surrounding RAW image handling on iOS. This weekend I experienced a few of them. Here are a few tidbits of information that you might like to know. Capturing Fall Colors This weekend I went out to capture fall colors in a small regional mountain park in Mont Saint-Hilaire, near Montreal, Canada.... Continue Reading →
Big week for Apple. Today was the official day for iOS 13.0 and watchOS 6.0 releases. And if that wasn't enough, Apple Arcade, which received praise since its limited rollout, is now available to everybody using iOS 13. It is so fascinating and impressive to see Apple operates like this every year. The scale of... Continue Reading →
Apple’s Mail.app is known to be very buggy in iOS 13 beta cycle. Even at version 13.1 beta 1, things are not looking good yet. But there is another problem that is making this version of Mail.app very frustrating to use. Consider the following two screenshots. On the left, this is what we get while... Continue Reading →
Apple surprised many yesterday when they released the first beta iOS 13.1. In the past, a dot one release (iOS 12.1 for example) comes right after the release of the iPhone in mid-Septembre. Not this time. Why? What could be the explanation to this? Well, first, let's face it, even after eight developer betas, iOS... Continue Reading →
Photo by Dayne Topkin on Unsplash Of all the new features that iOS 13 will bring, there this one that I can't wait to use: Sign in with Apple. Here is why. MacStories published an interesting article about the upcoming Sign In with Apple feature. iOS 13 will let developers to integrate the ability to use you Apple... Continue Reading →
