Hi Dane and all, Dane, re iOS and app switcher --
1. You can easily close all apps at once. To do so on any iOS device, press and hold the power button as though you want to close down the phone. When the 'power off' screen appears asking you to 'slide to power off', instead press and hold the home button for about 3 seconds. It will return you to the home screen. If you open the app switcher again, you will see all apps still appear there that were open before, but if you 'run' an app from there, it will totally refresh itself because the process was previously killed. And as it also returned you to the home screen automatically, it kills two of your gripes with one stone. Hee hee. By the way, for anyone's interest, closing of apps hasn't been necessary since the days of iOS 6 or 7. When you don't have an app open in front of you, it isn't chewing up RAM or battery being open. Therefore, it doesn't matter if you have one app open or 40. The phone will perform the same. There is a setting somewhere that allows you to determine if apps can refresh in the background or not, but whether they do or not is not determined by whether the app is running. Example: Facebook. If the app is not running, by default (with background app refresh turned on), it will still poll Facebook's servers intermittenly looking for the presence of new notifications so that it can tell you how many 'new/unread' items you have to look at. So other than using the app switcher to...well, switch from one open app to another conveniently, it needn't be used to manually close apps in some effort to free up memory or speed up the device, or save battery. I believe Android is not the same in this regard however, which is why there may be a tendency to want to close apps? Sorry for the long-winded reply. Hope it's useful. Cheers! Ted ----- Original message ----- From: Dane Trethowan <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Techno-Chat]: Apple Announces! Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 10:26:01 +1000 Okay well according to the article I'm reading right now the HomePod won't be available until 1 December world wide so that gives you plenty of time to save for one <smile>. The price is competitive no doubt about that though I wonder how good it will actually sound when it arrives? Plenty of time to think about that. There's no doubt that Apple iPads are still the best tablets going around, I've not seen anything in the Android world that comes close as far as build and quality go, I won't say anything about performance as I'm sure there are some very good performing and fast Android tablets out there but my questio nstill is, why can't Samsung or anyone else build a Tablet as well as they build a phone? So IOS has more features? Well I don't know what I think about that to be honest. I'm running the latest IOS on my iPhone 6 and some of the functionality just bemuses me. For example take the "Apps Switcher" function, a damn nuisance to get in and out of in my opinion, press the "Home" key twice? Well that's easy enough but what then. Okay, you close each App one by one, no way of closing all Apps with a gesture or anything like that. So having searched around and - hopefully - finding all the Apps - and closed them - you still have to get out of the "App Switcher" to get to the home scren, no inteligence there to automatically take you out of the switchers given there are no Apps open. Then why does the phone automatically wake up and start speaking when you move it? A pain in rear for sure an iPhone doing that. Yep, my ignorance I'm sure, I've not kept up with what the iPhone and IOS has been doing though - from what I've described thus far - I don't think I'm missing much. On 6/06/2017 5:33 AM, Gordon Smith wrote: > Hello everybody > > Well, what a lot of news from Apple’s WWDC. First, the new iOS11. Loads and > loads of new features. Then, the new iPad Pro 10.5 and 13 inch models. > Equipped with the new A11 processor, it’s now up to 13 times faster than the > original iPad. > > My most exciting announcement was the new Apple equivalent to Amazon Eco, > plus the most intelligent smart speaker of them all. It’s called the > “HomePod” It has 6 tweeters, and 1 four-inch woofer. 6 Microphones, and > intelligent space calculations to configure the way the speaker sounds. Even > the demo on WWDC has told me that “I want one”! 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