Thanks mark for this informative article. Margaret
Sent from my iPhone > On 23 Sep 2015, at 12:25 pm, M. Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > In my opinion, the following MacWorld article is a must-read. I have edited > the piece, removing URL and links to exterior photos. Please forgive any > oversight, on my part. > > The link to the original article is located at the end of the text. > > Good Luck and Enjoy, > > Mark > > Settings in iOS 9: Every notable change you need to know > Once you upgrade to iOS 9, take some time to peruse the Settings app to > tweak it just to your liking. > > The Settings app is like the bedroom on every episode of Cribs: It's where > the magic happens. Whenever you update iOS on your iPhone or iPad, it pays > to peruse the settings to find, enable, and configure any new features just > to your liking. > > iOS 9 doesn't have quite as many settings changes as iOS 8 did, and the best > addition by far is a Search box at the top of the main Settings menu, so if > you can't remember, say, where to enable Personal Hotspot (spoiler: > Cellular) or how to turn off shake-to-undo (Accessibility), all you have to > do is start typing in that Search box to pinpoint exactly where your desired > setting lives. Such a time-saver. > > Here's a rundown of the major changes in Settings in iOS 9, as well as some > key settings that didn't change, but you still might want to revisit. If > you've got any questions, hit us up in the comments. > > Cellular > Not much is new in the Cellular settings, with the exception of SIM PIN, > which used to be in the Phone settings, and now is here in Cellular. This > lets you put a separate PIN code on your SIM card, so if someone had your > stolen or misplaced phone, they couldn't use your SIM card in another > device. Your iPhone or iPad will prompt you to enter the SIM pin whenever > you swap out the SIM (which you probably won't do much, if ever) or when you > reboot the device. > > SIM PIN is off by default, so if you want to use it, first you'll turn it > on. Your SIM has a default PIN on it already: For AT&T and Verizon, it's > 1111. For Sprint and T-Mobile, it's 1234. (Great PINs, y'all.) Once you > enter that-and you have to get it right within three tries or your SIM will > be locked, but I believe in you-you can tap Change PIN and change it to > something good. You can stick with four digits, or use more, up to eight > digits total, all numbers. Again, pick something memorable because if you > enter the wrong PIN too many times, your SIM will be permanently locked and > you'll have to ask your carrier for a new one. > > The other addition to this screen is Wi-Fi Assist, located down below the > huge list of apps with toggles to allow them to use cellular data. That's on > by default, and it'll use some of your cellular data to boost a poor Wi-Fi > signal. If your Wi-Fi network barely reaches every corner of your abode, you > might want to leave this on. If you use up your monthly data allotment every > single month, you might want to turn this off. > > Notifications > Notifications settings didn't change a lot, but there is a new sort order: > Recent. When you select that, you'll see the notifications in reverse > chronological order, meaning the newest one is always on top. That's great > for when you notice a banner just as it's going away, or when you hear your > phone beep from across the room. > > In Recent mode, you also get a switch for Group By App, which means each > app's notifications will appear together, newest on top. When a newer > notification comes in, all the notifications for that app will jump to the > top of the list. If you don't group the notifications by app, they'll be > grouped by day, letting you dismiss an entire day's worth of notifications > at once. > > If you always want a certain app's notifications on top, change Recent to > Manual, and then you get a list of every app that sends you notifications, > and you can slide them to your preferred order. Manual mode removes the > Group By App switch, since Manual grouping always groups your notifications > by app. > > Below, is the list of your apps that have requested notifications, in > alphabetical order. That makes it easy to find the app whose notifications > you want to tweak, but the controls themselves haven't changed since iOS 8. > You can still decide if notifications can appear in Notification Center, on > the Lock Screen, or both, and if you want to be notified in the form of > vanishing banners, must-be-dismissed alerts, a badged home screen icon, or a > sound. Even without much change in the Notifications settings, it's a good > idea to "audit" your notifications from time to time, since they lose their > impact if you have so many coming in that you start ignoring them > altogether. > > General > A few small changes can be found in the General section of the Settings app: > > > Siri > You can change Siri's accent without having to change her language. The > language settings in both iOS 8 and iOS 9 include English localizations for > Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Singapore, the UK, and the US. > > In iOS 8, you could change Siri's voice from female to male, but in iOS 9, > you can choose both Siri's gender and accent: American, Australian, or > British. (Yes, Siri can sound British even though your language is still set > to United States English. Jolly good.) > > Spotlight Search > The top toggle on this screen is Siri Suggestions. Turn that on, and the > Spotlight page will come pre-populated with suggestions before you even > search for anything. This is a great new feature of iOS 9, so you should > definitely try it out, but if you ever find it annoying, you can turn it off > here. > > Below, there's a list of everything that can come up in the search results, > since Spotlight can now search inside of apps as well as content like your > email, contacts, and calendars-well, once developers update their apps to > take advantage of the new Spotlight Search API. > > Note that one of your choices is Settings. iOS 9 lets you search the > Settings app now, both from Spotlight and with a search bar right inside the > app, which is a godsend when you can't remember where a particular setting > lives. > > Handoff & Suggested Apps > Handoff lets you pass a task from one device to another, for example > starting an email on your iPad and finishing on your Mac. You can turn off > this behavior here, and the setting hasn't changed since iOS 8. > > Suggested apps are shown on the bottom-left corner of your lock screen and > in the app switcher, based on your location or usage patterns. For example, > when you are near a Target or a Starbucks, those apps' icons will appear on > your lock screen, assuming you have the apps installed and have given them > permission to access your location. > > In iOS 9, this gets one switch, labelled "Installed Apps." That means only > apps you have installed will show up here. Aside from location, iOS 9 can > suggest apps based on your patterns-when you plug in your headphones at the > end of a workday, your phone could suggest the podcast app you usually > listen to on your commute home. > > iOS 8 had two switches here: One for My Apps, and another for App Store, > which would allow your phone to suggest apps you don't even have. That > option is gone in iOS 9. > > CarPlay > iOS 9, like iOS 8.3 before it, supports wireless CarPlay connections, > there's a CarPlay setting here to let you set up pairing between your car > and your iPhone. Keep in mind that CarPlay is iPhone only-no iPads or iPod > touches allowed. You have to have an iPhone 5 or later, running at least iOS > 7.1, and wireless connections require iOS 9. > > Accessibility > Quite a few small tweaks were made in General > Accessibility. This isn't a > comprehensive list, just the biggest changes. > > Touch Accommodations: This all-new menu in iOS 9 lets you tweak behaviors > like how long you have to touch the screen to register a tap-and-hold, the > duration in which multiple touches should only register as a single touch, > and so on. If your normal touches and swipes don't always result in the > intended action, some experimenting with these controls could really help. > > The new Keyboard setting "Show Lowercase Keys" means that your software > keyboard will toggle between lower-case and upper-case letters so you can > always tell what kind of letter you're about to type. Turn this switch off > to keep the old always-capital keyboard from iOS 8. > > Shake to Undo: You can finally turn off the shake-to-undo feature here. > > Vibration: This master switch lets you turn off all vibration on your > device, including those for emergency alerts. > > Storage & iCloud Usage > This is a better-named version of "Usage" in iOS 8. (In iOS 8, this is where > you'd see your battery usage, but that's moved to Settings > Battery in iOS > 9.) This is where you'll manage the storage on your device, as well as the > files and device backups you keep in iCloud. > > Restrictions > This is where you can restrict certain things: Say, if you were giving this > device to a kid and didn't want them to have Safari or be able to install > new apps or make in-app purchases. Two notable options here include switches > to disable Apple Music Connect and the new News app. (Hey Apple, when can I > ditch other built-in apps like Stocks?) And if you hate apps asking you if > they can connect to Facebook, go to Restrictions > Facebook, and tap Don't > Allow Changes. > > Touch ID & Passcode > This Settings menu in iOS 9 contains a couple of new switches to allow > access to the Wallet app (formerly Passbook) and to Reply With Message from > the lock screen. > > Battery > The all-new Battery menu lets you manually enable Low Power Mode. (Your > device will also offer to go into Low Power Mode when you reach 20 percent > battery remaining, and again at 10 percent. > > You can also see which apps have been gobbling up the most of your battery > life, by percentage. iOS 9 has a new little clock icon; tap it and you'll > also see how much time each app has been running, both on your screen and in > the background. I had no idea Facebook ran in the background so much. > > iCloud > The iCloud settings have a new switch to sync the data in the News app > between multiple iOS devices over iCloud. Note that News isn't currently > available for Macs, but perhaps it will be someday. > > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Scroll down to the Contacts section of this menu for a new switch: "Contacts > Found in Mail." This is on by default, and it lets your iPhone scan your > email (on the device, not sending it up to the cloud) looking for contact > information like phone numbers and email addresses. That way, it can suggest > auto-complete addresses in Mail, or make an educated guess on the > incoming-call screen as to who's calling you, if that name and number aren't > in your Contacts list yet but are stashed in your email. If you don't want > this to happen, turn this switch off. > > Down in the Calendars section, the "Events Found in Mail" switch is also on > by default. This lets the Mail app sniff out events mentioned in your email > and offer to add them to your calendar for you. > > Notes > New Notes settings let you specify which account Siri will use when you > dictate a note to her, as well as which field you want to start new notes > with by default: Title, Heading, or Body. > > HomeKit > iOS 9 has HomeKit settings to allow remote access to any HomeKit-enabled > devices you add to your home network, as well as to invite other people with > iCloud accounts to securely connect to and control those devices. > > Podcasts > It's a small thing, but there's a switch in the Podcasts settings to use > Custom Colors in the app, based on the artwork for each podcast. If you like > how the Music app (and iTunes on the desktop) change colors based on what > you're listening to, keep this enabled. > > Original URL: > http://www.macworld.com/article/2985017/ios/settings-in-ios-9-every-notable- > change-you-need-to-know.html > > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your VIPhone list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. 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