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iOS 27 features we didn't see onstage

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"Users can now set separate volume levels for alarms, timers, alerts, and system sounds. Users will need to navigate to Settings > Sounds & Haptics, turn off the “Match Ringtone Volume” toggle, and adjust sliders manually."

The biggest new feature if you ask me!!! I'm gonna tell my wife, she's gonna be so happy with a new feature for once!

Also this: "The emoji keyboard has a small scroll bar at the bottom."

For some reason sometimes suddenly I find myself somewhere in the middle of all emoji's and scrolling back just takes for ever, so I close and re-open. But this sounds like it will be faster. Ideally though, the emoji keyboard just always open at the start of the gallery, but oh well.

"The Wallet app now lets users create their own custom pass."

This is also going to be super helpful to prevent some tracking features of supermarket apps, just copy in an anonymous physical card.

I’ve been asking for the volume feature since I switched from a blackberry in like 2009!

One of the features I personally do not like. That was/is one of the nicest things on iOS IMHO - set volume more silent and it means more silent, not "only in these 3 out of 27 cases".

It would of course be very easy to add 1 slider to rule them all.

But in general it is very annoying that your ears will bleed when your morning alarm goes off (and then I mean on) if you want to hear your texts come in during the day. That is, if you don’t use the “health based” alarm. You know, the one you can’t set for 6;00 (am) anymore after 0:00 (is that 12 am? I mean midnight, Boy what a language you have ;)

Would be nice to customize tones for things.

Like the tone when it goes on the charger, etc.

Waiting for the day when I can set my own Search Engine in Safari, set Wifi hotspot as default (it defaults to USB / bluetooth), and use iPhone hotspot to update my iPad (iPad refuses to download updates when connected to iPhone hotspot even when Low-Data mode is disabled).

> set Wifi hotspot as default (it defaults to USB / bluetooth)

Wdym? I have hotspot enabled on my iPhone, and it's always shows up on my laptop as wifi to connect to whenever I'm away from home/work/coffeeshop wifi that I've previously connected to.

It requires you to always keep your Wifi radios on. What I meant was that the hotspot option should toggle Wifi radios when needed (and not always). This is possible through Shortcuts but is a bit finnicky.

"You can hide your location in Find My from a specific person for a set amount of time without letting them know."

wow. wonder who will use that, and why?

You wonder?!

Disappointing. I really hope we eventually get a no-new-features Snow Leopard product.

Features are fun but agree. seriously fix all the bugs and optimize performance

But that’s not what gets promotions or where money is allocated.

We’ll have to see how it shakes out in reality, but this was actually highlighted in their keynote. In one of their slides they had a massive list of small tweaks, performance improvements, etc. So I’m hoping that they’ve actually taken the time to do it right.

I can only hope the Ai they are using fixes more bugs than it creates

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