Chad Williams put together a nice list of lesser known features from iOS 6. Sometimes the coolest things aren’t always the most talked about.
iOS 6 features you may not know about
Chad Williams put together a nice list of lesser known features from iOS 6. Sometimes the coolest things aren’t always the most talked about.
There’s a very important feature that somehow missed this list:
You can now drag down Mail to refresh it.
One thing I didn’t see on Chad’s list that may warrant being on there, newly downloaded apps come with a “New” banner on them until you open it.
The accelerometer effect on the silver slider buttons doesn’t appear to work on my iPad 2… ??
Good call! I wondered where the refresh button went!
Ya, I don’t think it works with iPads. It doesn’t do it on my iPad 3 either.
I didn’t include it because I thought it was widely known. Gruber talked about it at length on his podcast.
Wasn’t it also demonstrated on stage at one point during the WWDC keynote? As soon as I saw that you were only including things that hadn’t been mentioned elsewhere, it seemed like an omission that made complete sense to me.
Ah. Having not listened to Gruber’s podcast or watched the whole Keynote, I completely missed it. Discovered it by accident yesterday.
“Notification Center now syncs with iCloud. If you clear something out in Notification Center on one device, it magically disappears on the others. ”
That’s awesome. I was just thinking the other day I wish my Android devices had this and didn’t realize my iOS devices now have it. That’s a great addition!
I don’t know if this is new to iOS 6, or just labelled more prominently: you can create your own vibration patterns to go along with alert or ring tones. This will come in very handy for distinguishing between different types of notifications and callers- time to brush up on Morse Code…
“Notification Center now syncs with iCloud. If you clear something out in Notification Center on one device, it magically disappears on the others. ”
Can’t get this to work, anyone else?
It works with a couple Apple apps, like Reminders. I think that it might be something that devs need to enable and haven’t yet.
Bluetooth is now at the top level of settings. No need to dig into general to find it.
I took that out of the post. I heard from many people, and saw for myself, that it was not working as I had thought. I originally heard about the feature in iMore’s “The big list of iOS 6 features” article. They said: “Cleared notifications sync across devices.”
Unfortunately it does not work as everyone had hoped. Sorry about that.
My comment got flagged for review because I included a link. I just said that I did not include that in my post because I thought it was something widely known. Apple demonstrated it on stage, people talked about it on podcasts, and the iOS 6 page of Apple’s website mentions it: “And to refresh your mailboxes, all you have to do is swipe down.”
This was part of iOS5.
Well, that sucks. I only use my iPad seriously (iPhone is dev device) so not a big issue for me but the feature def’ has promise for two device users.