How are we feeling about iOS 26?

Has anyone tried “Hold Assist” yet?

I noticed it this morning after I had already held for a while. Was in too deep to try it and have it drop the call.

So if you have, how well does it work?
 
Herdfan said:
Has anyone tried “Hold Assist” yet?

I noticed it this morning after I had already held for a while. Was in too deep to try it and have it drop the call.

So if you have, how well does it work?
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I tried it once, decided I didn’t trust it after waiting for about 20 minutes, and haven’t used it since.
 
I like it. It has some issues here and there, but I find it to be more useable overall.

Though Apple still has yet to address my one biggest complaint with iOS: the dock needs to act like a dock. As is, it’s a glorified application launcher. I want to see dots under open apps, and unpinned applications along the right side when open. Is this too much to ask?
 
Cmaier said:
I tried it once, decided I didn’t trust it after waiting for about 20 minutes, and haven’t used it since.
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Same here. I wasn’t going to risk having to hold all over again if it didn’t work.

I’ll try it sometime it’s not important.
 
Renzatic said:
I like it. It has some issues here and there, but I find it to be more useable overall.

Though Apple still has yet to address my one biggest complaint with iOS: the dock needs to act like a dock. As is, it’s a glorified application launcher. I want to see dots under open apps, and unpinned applications along the right side when open. Is this too much to ask?
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I've been wondering if they'll move to this multitasking model myself. iPads (with M-series chips anyway) now have swap and higher RAM ceilings so there's really nothing stopping them from moving iPadOS to the Mac's multitasking model more fully instead of remaining with iOS'. Maybe iOS 27.
 
thenewperson said:
I've been wondering if they'll move to this multitasking model myself. iPads (with M-series chips anyway) now have swap and higher RAM ceilings so there's really nothing stopping them from moving iPadOS to the Mac's multitasking model more fully instead of remaining with iOS'. Maybe iOS 27.
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It's 85% there already. Really, making the iOS dock function as it does in MacOS is more about user friendliness than efficiency at this point.
 
Is anyone else noticing a longer time for mail to load.

Seems to be showing it is downloading, but is taking much longer than on 17.
 
Well now.

I was cleaning up the home screen of an old iPad. Having difficulty with the dancing icons (trying to get one into the last folder-thingy which kept jumping down to the next row because the it thought I wanted to put the icon into that position), I dragged one of the other icons down out of the way. Way down in the middle, expecting it to jump into the last position. After getting the icon into where I wanted it, I noticed the other icon sitting by itself on the bottom row, with nothing on either side of it.

It appears that Apple has finally decided to give us freedom from the tight-packed array. We can, I guess, put icons in open space on a screen. I am not sure what the limitations are on this, I will have to find out. And it does not really impact my use much, because I limit my app accretion and keep everything on one screen, mostly in folders. Maybe in iOS27 they will loosen it up even more.
 
Yoused said:
Well now.

I was cleaning up the home screen of an old iPad. Having difficulty with the dancing icons (trying to get one into the last folder-thingy which kept jumping down to the next row because the it thought I wanted to put the icon into that position), I dragged one of the other icons down out of the way. Way down in the middle, expecting it to jump into the last position. After getting the icon into where I wanted it, I noticed the other icon sitting by itself on the bottom row, with nothing on either side of it.

It appears that Apple has finally decided to give us freedom from the tight-packed array. We can, I guess, put icons in open space on a screen. I am not sure what the limitations are on this, I will have to find out. And it does not really impact my use much, because I limit my app accretion and keep everything on one screen, mostly in folders. Maybe in iOS27 they will loosen it up even more.
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Arranging icons and folders in iOS can be quite frustrating, especially when the target folder is elusive, as you describe. But it’s a piece of cake compared to visionOS. I recently had to erase and reinstall all my AVP apps, and getting them where I wanted took more than an hour.
 
Roller said:
Arranging icons and folders in iOS can be quite frustrating
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More and more, modern software is being designed for not me. So many times have yearned for the Stop Helping Me button. "Apple Intelligence" (along with all the other alternatives) sounds terrifying.
 
Cmaier said:
I tried it once, decided I didn’t trust it after waiting for about 20 minutes, and haven’t used it since.
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Called into an insurance company to cancel and it said my hold time was less than 5 minutes. So I gave it a try.

I have to say it worked just like it was supposed to work. After like 3 minutes my phone rang and the person was there.
 
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