Let's share any positive or useful changes or updates you have found in iOS26 (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by Reverendender@sh.itjust.works to c/saltycaramelapple@sh.itjust.works

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Because as far as I can tell, it’s a gimmicky dumpster fire, and I’m pretty sure everything is worse. And my battery life is awful. I looked into rolling the OS back, and apparently it’s not feasible. I may switch back to my iPhone 13 as my daily driver.

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[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Sure. Car is the most important use case. Use a shortcut to connect to car Bluetooth.

For a decade, I would then talk up into the car microphone and shout voice commands at it. When music played over the car speakers, the microphone had a difficult time hearing voice commands.

Now, finally, in iOS 26, I made the iPhone microphone the default. Even with music playing over car speakers, the excellent phone microphone is often able to hear me without an issue.

And if I want to focus on an important phone call wearing AirPods, the other party can benefit from higher quality audio if I speak directly into the bottom of the phone, while I keep their responses to me private in my ears. (AirPods Pro 2 are superb for listening and disappointing for microphone quality.)

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