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iOS 6 |OT| New Maps? googy pls

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badcrumble

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Google Now means that the Google Search app constantly polls your location in the background, though, which is a huge battery life killer. I'm kinda bummed out about it, to be honest, because Google Now really kicks ass but my battery life matters more to me.
 
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Ken Masters

Banned
badcrumble said:
Google Now means that the Google Search app constantly polls your location in the background, though, which is a huge battery life killer. I'm kinda bummed out about it, to be honest, because Google Now really kicks ass but my battery life matters more to me.
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You can turn that off, location tracking
 
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Ken Masters

Banned
badcrumble said:
You can only turn it completely on or completely off. There's no way to selectively turn off background location tracking but allow the app to track your location when it's open.
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I see, I also notice the GPS sign doesn't go away. Looks like I won't use it, which is a damn shame because it's amazing
 
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Blackhead

Redarse
badcrumble said:
You can only turn it completely on or completely off. There's no way to selectively turn off background location tracking but allow the app to track your location when it's open.
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Yeah you can. Allow background location tracking but turn off the GPS when not in app. You'll be asked to turn it on when you launch the app.
 
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Blackhead

Redarse
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mrkgoo

Member
Tunesmith said:
Could be normal. Trickle charging starts at 80% and if it reaches 100% while still being plugged it the battery discharges down to 90% while keeping the indicator at 100%.
It discharges to keep the battery from being overcharged and damaged, pretty much all lithium ion powered devices does this, laptops etc.

Keeping the indicator fixed at 100% during this is deliberate by Apple as to not cause alarm and confusion as to why battery levels keep jumping around when plugged in. Sometimes this discharge isn't as seamless as it can be thus you notice it, and this is also why you sometimes see a rapid drop in level after unplugging at 100% (it wasn't actually at 100% during the charge at that moment).
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Also this. I notice this on my phone. Sometimes I charge to 100% and within minutes it drops few percentage points. Other times it takes longer (lol, my record us listening to audio without the screen on for nearly one hour before dropping one percent).

Also, I can have my iPhone plugged in to my computer, and it say its charging when my iPhone says it's not. I knew about trickle charging and the like on apple stuff (macs will actually show percent dropping while plugged in), but didn't kind about the hiding if it on iPhones. That's interesting, but makes a lot of sense.
 
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Anno

Member
Also what's up with Google apps largely being better on iOS than Android?

Doesn't seem to be leeching too much battery yet. Ill leave it on a day or two and see what the damage is.
 
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Dany

Banned
While the look of the updated system may be surprising to some, iOS 7 is reportedly not more difficult to use than earlier versions of software platform. There is apparently no new learning curve in the same way there was no learning curve when the iPods went color. While iOS 7 does look different, its core apps and system fundamentals (like the Lock and Home screens) mostly operate in a similar fashion to how they do today.

iOS 7 is codenamed “Innsbruck,” according to three people familiar with the OS. The interface changes include an all-new icon set for Apple’s native apps in addition to newly designed tool bars, tab bars, and other fundamental interface features across the system.
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http://www.macrumors.com/2013/04/29/details-on-jony-ives-very-very-flat-design-for-ios-7/

Jon Ivy on iOS 7 changes, it sounds great! Worth a new thread?
 
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Ken Masters

Banned
for those wanting to use Google Now without having to destroy your battery


in the app > go into settings (top right corner) > click privacy > location reporting OFF
 
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KtSlime

Member
JCreasy said:
So the new design was inspired by this resort?
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Maybe? Or by the revitalization and modernization of architecture of the various parts in Innsbruck. Not specifically the resort, but I couldn't locate Austria's official town page so went with Google's top hit. Shall I switch the link it to Wikipedia? Done
 
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BocoDragon

or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
badcrumble said:
Google Now means that the Google Search app constantly polls your location in the background, though, which is a huge battery life killer. I'm kinda bummed out about it, to be honest, because Google Now really kicks ass but my battery life matters more to me.
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You know what? I'm using it today and the battery drain really isn't bad at all.
 
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Got the Shakes

Member
Valkyr Junkie said:
So far the additional battery usage of Google Now on my 5 has been negligible. Seems more noticeable on my iPad however.
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BocoDragon said:
You know what? I'm using it today and the battery drain really isn't bad at all.
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There is a disclaimer in the app that says they poll location data as infrequently as necessary and that running the app should have little effect on battery life. I'm glad to hear that these claims seem to be true.
 
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PotatoeMasher

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iOS handles the location stuff at a system level, so I think people are overstating the effect that an additional app will have on battery life when they probably have other stuff accessing location like geofencing/passbook/dark sky/find friends.

Apple is pretty aggressive in the review process of trying to limit you to what you actually need too, so I suspect for such a high profile app they scrutinized the location usage.
 
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Enco

Member
Just tested it and it works with US English but not GB English.

US English it is!

edit: this shits on Siri. If only it could give me directions and send messages!
 
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Quick

Banned
New icon set for the default apps are welcome.

One of the things that bother me about icons is having the calendar app icon live update the days of the month, but the weather app doesn't update the current temperature. It has sunny at 23 degrees on it.
 
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PotatoeMasher

Member
brotkasten said:
Actually, I read his post wrong. The 3GS has 256 MB RAM and still got iOS 6.
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Yep, the 256 wasn't so bad on the phone. When I went from 3GS to 4 it felt like effective speed was roughly the same, just with that amazing Retina display.

The phones sell so many more units than the original iPad that it was easy for them to drop.

The iPad was underpowered the day it shipped. They clearly wanted to hit a price point and battery life and made the sacrifice on RAM. Safari needed to constantly reload tabs even with iOS 3.2.
 
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Majine

Banned
Quick said:
New icon set for the default apps are welcome.

One of the things that bother me about icons is having the calendar app icon live update the days of the month, but the weather app doesn't update the current temperature. It has sunny at 23 degrees on it.
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There are other icons that could use some of that. Clock, stocks, the compass (!), Maps (Although its icon is the least of its problems) etc.
 
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Guess Who

Banned
Dave Meltzer said:
The whole point of Siri is interaction. Now is pretty different.
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Yep. Google Now is all about prediction - using your Gmail, Google Calendar, search history, etc. to figure out what you want before you even ask. Siri is about asking. Google's fundamentally more able to do the former than Apple because Google does a hell of a lot more datamining.
 
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SuicideUZI

Member
Google Now is pretty nice but is there a way to make it so it only turns your location service on when the app is open? maybe its a bug, but for me its running the location service 24/7 even when the app is completely closed which will kill battery life. I turned it off manually for that app in settings but then the cards no longer work


edit: just found a temporary fix in the privacy settings inside the app itself turn off location reporting, the cards will still work but once the app is closed the location service no longer stays running
 
edgefusion

edgefusion

Member
Is there any way to force the Podcast app to update album art? It hasn't updated the Bombcast artwork for millennia and the Interview Dumptruck has none at all.
 
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Lord Error

Insane For Sony
Can someone help me make the best of Google Now? I'm especially curious if it's possible to somehow make it aware of my work calendar, which is MS Exchange. I have calendar synced with Apple's Calendar app on the iphone, but Google now doesn't seem aware of anything that I have in that calendar, and only of what I have in Google Calendar (which is nothing, right now, but I guess I could put personal appointments there)
 
lionelhutz

lionelhutz

Member
Is there an easy way to sync contacts in iCloud to Gmail? Or, maybe a better question, is there a way to have the iOS Gmail app use iCloud contacts?
 
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