iOS 9.1

[+ Gar1eth]

So I just updated my iPhone from iOS 8.4 to the new 9.1. Anyone noticed any significant changes? I can tell that my virtual keyboard looks a bit different, you can't copy pictures from your picture roll quite as easily (formerly you could touch the picture in the camera roll without enlarging it and copy it. I don't seem to be able to do that now), and the iPhone search where you swipe down to bring up a search bar seems a bit different among other differences. Siri is supposed to be smarter now-but I notice that it's harder to get his (I have Siri speaking as an English male-it's less annoying than the American voice and reminds me of one of my favorite porn stars-Dean Monroe) attention with the Hey Siri feature.

 

Gman

[+ Charlie]

I just did the same with my iPad, and so far all I have noticed is the change in my keyboard (I find all the keys marked in lower case letters unsettling) and different graphics for some of my old app icons. However, I had recently had a problem with the NY Times online, and upgrading automatically fixed that.

[Brian Kevin]

Team Android. LOL sorry i had to.

[instudiocity]

So I just updated my iPhone from iOS 8.4 to the new 9.1. Anyone noticed any significant changes? I can tell that my virtual keyboard looks a bit different, you can't copy pictures from your picture roll quite as easily (formerly you could touch the picture in the camera roll without enlarging it and copy it. I don't seem to be able to do that now), and the iPhone search where you swipe down to bring up a search bar seems a bit different among other differences. Siri is supposed to be smarter now-but I notice that it's harder to get his (I have Siri speaking as an English male-it's less annoying than the American voice and reminds me of one of my favorite porn stars-Dean Monroe) attention with the Hey Siri feature.

 

Gman

Select the photo in Photos then tap the square with the up arrow in the bottom left corner. Copy is one of the options along with many others.

[+ Gar1eth]

I just did the same with my iPad, and so far all I have noticed is the change in my keyboard (I find all the keys marked in lower case letters unsettling) and different graphics for some of my old app icons. However, I had recently had a problem with the NY Times online, and upgrading automatically fixed that.

 

It's often difficult for me to remember exactly how things were previously before an update even if I can recognize that something has changed afterwards. But weren't the keys always in lower case? After all you have to hit the up arrow to make them capitals. I was thinking it was the font that was different.

 

Select the photo in Photos then tap the square with the up arrow in the bottom left corner. Copy is one of the options along with many others.

 

 

Thank-you, I appreciate the information. It's a bit more difficult now. Before the update you could press on the picture itself-and a copy option along with a few other options came up without the picture having to be enlarged and the options being listed below it.

 

Gman

[+ deej]

I just did the same with my iPad, and so far all I have noticed is the change in my keyboard (I find all the keys marked in lower case letters unsettling)

 

That's actually a big improvement (to me). Before, you never knew whether you were typing in upper or lower case (unless you could spot the difference in the shift button). Now, the whole keyboard shifts to uppercase when you've hit the shift button. In other words, the keyboard now shows you what you're typing.

[+ Charlie]

That's actually a big improvement (to me). Before, you never knew whether you were typing in upper or lower case (unless you could spot the difference in the shift button). Now, the whole keyboard shifts to uppercase when you've hit the shift button. In other words, the keyboard now shows you what you're typing.

I realize that is an improvement, but I have always been a hunt and peck typist rather than a touch typist (I can hunt and peck pretty fast), and the lower case l (L) on the new keyboard looks just like the upper case I (I) that I was used to seeing, which confuses my brain.

[+ deej]

Sounds like perhaps you need new glasses.

 

After many years of the Columbus system of typing (discover it and land on it), I have a generally good idea where the L and I live.

 

Even at that, the upper case I doesn't look like the upper case L, and the lower case i has that little dot thingie that the lower case l doesn't have. Again, it sounds like an eyeglasses issue.

 

(Don't EVEN get me started on the number 1 vs. the letter l. Really. Don't.)

[gallahadesquire]

I realize that is an improvement, but I have always been a hunt and peck typist rather than a touch typist (I can hunt and peck pretty fast), and the lower case l (L) on the new keyboard looks just like the upper case I (I) that I was used to seeing, which confuses my brain.

 

Sounds like perhaps you need new glasses.

 

After many years of the Columbus system of typing (discover it and land on it), I have a generally good idea where the L and I live.

 

Even at that, the upper case I doesn't look like the upper case L, and the lower case i has that little dot thingie that the lower case l doesn't have. Again, it sounds like an eyeglasses issue.

 

(Don't EVEN get me started on the number 1 vs. the letter l. Really. Don't.)

 

I'm so glad that they mandated touch-typing on manual machines in 7th grade. Touch typing in that they would tape a piece of paper over your fingers so you couldn't see where your fingers are landing.

THey did not, however, teach us numbers and symbols on the top row. Sigh.

 

Mind you, this is when Johnson had taken over from Kennedy as president, so it is a bit ago.

[instudiocity]

(Don't EVEN get me started on the number 1 vs. the letter l. Really. Don't.)

Just another case of SIZE MATTERS.

[instudiocity]

I'm so glad that they mandated touch-typing on manual machines in 7th grade. Touch typing in that they would tape a piece of paper over your fingers so you couldn't see where your fingers are landing.

THey did not, however, teach us numbers and symbols on the top row. Sigh.

 

Mind you, this is when Johnson had taken over from Kennedy as president, so it is a bit ago.

OMG! Did you got to the same school I did?

[+ Charlie]

the upper case I doesn't look like the upper case L, and the lower case i has that little dot thingie that the lower case l doesn't have. Again, it sounds like an eyeglasses issue.

 

(Don't EVEN get me started on the number 1 vs. the letter l. Really. Don't.)

But the lower case l on my new keyboard looks identical to the upper case I on the old keyboard (more similar than they look in this font), which is what throws me.

[+ Charlie]

I'm so glad that they mandated touch-typing on manual machines in 7th grade.

Only girls took typing when I was in school. Boys were expected to write by hand, and give their written pieces to their secretaries to type when they entered the working world, unless they were journalists working under a deadline, or struggling novelists. Although I did have a portable manual typewriter when I was in college, I still paid a young woman to type my most important papers. Even when I was applying for jobs after graduate school, I still sent hand-written letters to employers, and no one seemed to think it strange (the last time I hired someone whose application documents were entirely hand-written was in 1977).

[+ Gar1eth]

Only girls took typing when I was in school. Boys were expected to write by hand, and give their written pieces to their secretaries to type when they entered the working world, unless they were journalists working under a deadline, or struggling novelists. Although I did have a portable manual typewriter when I was in college, I still paid a young woman to type my most important papers. Even when I was applying for jobs after graduate school, I still sent hand-written letters to employers, and no one seemed to think it strange (the last time I hired someone whose application documents were entirely hand-written was in 1977).

 

I took typing in summer school through the local school system right after I graduated high school. It was the regular albeit shorter class that I could never schedule during the school year. Technically I probably shouldn't have been able to enroll and pay for the class as I had finished school due to graduation. But the class through the school system was much much cheaper by a factor of 10 than taking it through the local business colleges-plus I knew I was going to have to leave during the middle of the class as my parents were taking me to Hawaii for my graduation present. So I took another two weeks of class, took off to Hawaii for the week, and couldn't make myself go back to class once we returned.

 

Due to my early withdrawal from class, I never really learned to type-although I did learn how to center a title on a page. I might still be able to do it if you gave me a typewriter, some typing paper, and a few hours to think about it. I know it had something to do worth marking the center of the paper and back spacing once for every two letters (or spaces) in the title.

 

But due to my poor typing skills, the few papers I had to get typed in college were mostly done by my Mom.

 

Gman