They’re too busy painting all those new MacBooks black.
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This is one of the things I’d hope they might have fixed in iOS17 - I love in a way it 'auto categorises" them for you, but the ability to manually edit would be super.
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Hard disagree on App Library.
The auto categorising is awful and I never know where something is going to be.
Defaulting to the alphabetical list would be such an improvement, but I just use Spotlight so… whatever!
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If I recall correctly the Podcast app has never been in Entertainment for me. It’s currently in Health and Fitness.
Literally do the same thing. I pin apps at the bottom I use and I use the first home screen but anything not there is searched. Far far faster.
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Same here - only looked at the App Library a couple of times since they introduced it.
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I do the same on both Windows and Mac, I never look for the icons on OSX other than the ones on the bottom taskbar that I use daily, every other app I hit command + space and search. W11 has a few pinned apps on the start menu and taskbar, the rest is windows key and type the app.
So so so much faster.
17.2 PB 1 was released on October 27th.
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Not for the point releases - usually the day after the dev beta.
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I think the public betas have been coming out within a few days for at least a couple of years now? And that includes the .0 releases
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17.1.1 released later yesterday evening. Also watchOS 10.1.1 and HomePodOS 17.1.1.
Supposed to fix battery issues with iPhone, iPad and watch and Siri responsiveness on the HomePod.
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17.2 Dev 2 released.
They’ve fixed journal (it worked but the suggestions didn’t) and made it smarter. It now picks up on things such as workouts, photos etc.
I’ve been really enjoying committing to writing each day. But the new feature also suggests memories and it was really nice for it to suggest a day that was special and group all the photos together.
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Ah finally this is what I was expecting it to do.
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It’s actually pretty good! A little random with what it chooses but I’m sure it’ll get better with time.
Also makes me realise how much of what I do my phone tracks 
I have never got this argument, you can stay in the walled garden and those who want to venture out can, it’s a win-win for everyone. You are going to see the news I got tricked into downloading app but it won’t affect you in anyway.
The identical argument for USB-C. Me personally I would consider an iPhone if sideloading works and 90hz + comes to the regular whenever that maybe having been android only for years.
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I used to like Android but then the simplicity of iOS and lack of “it’s open source do what you want lolz” mentality meant I soon switched.
If people want the ability to side load apps, have manufacturer skins etc fine. But the main and explicit reason I went with iOS is I just wanted a phone that worked, consistently.
The moment they start opening that up is where that experience might change, and get worse I think.
Personally I hope they don’t do this, or if they have to, allow users the option to disable this from the start.
In all the years of iOS it has consistently just worked, whereas when I’ve had Android work phones before BYOD the experience has been very up and down with things such as Bluetooth compatibility, camera quality.
Now if folks want all of that customisation fine, but just let them go and buy an Android!
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But how for you? Even if it was opened up for you nothing would change. Apps from app store only. By opening up the store how would it cause you to lose the problem free experience. I can’t see any negatives.
It wouldn’t remain that way. If anything you just have to look at how Epic does business on PC. They pay apps to not put their games on steam, they would do the same on iOS.
Then we would get the Facebook App Store so Facebook could ignore the Apple App Store privacy restrictions.
Privacy is a big part of why I like iOS. I know android users won’t get it as it’s Google and they really REALLY don’t do privacy but the App Store restrictions really help on iOS.
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