Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by RileyJames on Monday November 23, 2020 @08:12PM
(#25194075)
>>> The stock iOS keyboard has a dictation key I always hit accidentally. I can disable it when I'm Jailbroken
General > Keyboard > Enable Dictation and then disable dictation.
The microphone on the keyboard disappears.
I agree, there are a few little things that are annoying. And I wish iOS was more like Linux, in that you could just change anything if you actually cared to. But personally I rarely run into these edge cases on iOS these days. In the early days jailbreak was mandatory.
huh i have dictation off and its still there and i hit it often. i tried toggling on and off with no luck
Same here, it's off (been off for a while), and I still get the button on the keyboard. Tried toggling it on and off as well, but no luck.
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by drunkpotato on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @08:13AM
(#25198118)
Dictation is still there, or voice recording? I turned off dictation, but can still record voice memos or texts.
Aside: I find the concept of a voice "text" amusing and somewhat redundant with voicemail, though I can see an argument that the use cases are slightly different.
the microphone icon on bottom right. pressing it asks to enable dictation. on bottom left is emoji picker. huge spacing on both, what a stupid waste of precious vertical space
Thank you! That has been bugging me for a long time!
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by ASalazarMX on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @12:36PM
(#25200750)
That doesn't hide the keyboard's microphone. While technically dictation is disabled, hitting the microphone asks you if you want to "enable it", or "not now". I need a "never ask me again" option.
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by hyperdimension on Monday November 23, 2020 @11:03PM
(#25195165)
I don't have an iDevice so I can't check, but you have to enter a menu entitled 'Enable Dictation' in order to remove the speech-to-text button from the keyboard?
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by mcpherrinm on Monday November 23, 2020 @11:09PM
(#25195188)
It is an on/off toggle in a list of settings, so it reads like "Enable Dictation: false"
No, you have to go to a menu labelled ‘keyboards’ and switch off the switch labelled ‘Enable Dictation’
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by gcblkjaidfj on Monday November 23, 2020 @06:33PM
(#25193237)
0. ssh/d so i can transfer files like a human being, not an animal.
Starting with 0 and transferring files via ssh means you are a special kind of animal.
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday November 23, 2020 @08:20PM
(#25194134)
I mean, we're literally on Hacker News.
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by chokeartist on Monday November 23, 2020 @09:50PM
(#25194756)
Circle is not complete until I see a suggestion on how you can replace iCloud with mashup scripting of sftp/rsync and cronjobs.
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by pessimizer on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @12:26AM
(#25195572)
No, the circle is not complete until an article is posted about how a 15 year old cobbled together a website/app combo that did it automatically and grew to a few million users overnight; Apple hired the kid, killed the app, and wrote a new layer of signed security into iOS that would prevent anything like that from working again; and that layer was responsible for the last iCloud outage because somebody at Apple accidentally let a certificate expire.
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by fartcannon on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @12:02AM
(#25195429)
Those can't replace iCloud because they are free. Write the sftp/rsync script and then throw money in the garbage to accurately replace iCloud.
s/iCloud/Dropbox/g
Here on HN, mentioning Dropbox makes the circle complete.
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by anderspitman on Monday November 23, 2020 @10:57PM
(#25195133)
What sorts of files are you transferring? For things like PDFs or videos I normally use something like https://file.pizza.
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by angry_octet on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @03:07AM
(#25196333)
Is there some trick to make file.pizza work? I'm leaving the tab open and trying on various different devices, but it just stays at Peers: 0 and nothing downloads.
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by anderspitman on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @09:38PM
(#25205422)
I would guess your network is blocking WebRTC. Are you at work?
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by angry_octet on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @03:38AM
(#25207137)
While I do have WebRTC blocking on this computer, I tried sharing from other devices and networks too, chrome and firefox and mobile versions. According to [1]&[2] WebRTC UDP and TCP are enabled, relay/reflexive/host connectivity.
[1] https://www.expressvpn.com/webrtc-leak-test [2] https://test.webrtc.org/
That's an awesome thanks for mentioning it.
Does that compete at all speed-wise with just plugging it into your computer via USB? I guess your local network should be fairly fast, but I would think that USB would still be faster (not to mention that you wouldn't need to find the right file from the terminal).
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by angry_octet on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @02:53AM
(#25196258)
Copying files over USB is ludicrously slow and requires cross-device trust and exposure to dirty USB.
Let's not deceive ourselves: Apple deliberately cripples standardised data exchange mechanisms to push iCloud and aht Apple ecosystem.
> plugging it into your computer via USB
wires
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by gcblkjaidfj on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @03:21PM
(#25202595)
>wires
and dongles. It's IOS device after all.
The files app on ios works with smb. . . it's not sftp but it works.
Even with SMB, it is very painful to use - you can't create bookmarks and if a connectivity test fails to the server - it gets removed from the list and you have to add it back again.
Not sure but I think moving files within the same share also takes a round-trip to the iPhone.
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by rorykoehler on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @01:23AM
(#25195863)
I'm still not sure why we didn't get a normal file browser from the start. It is a solved problem and everything rolled out for ios has been a regression.
You might like the Shellfish app
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by daniellarusso on Monday November 23, 2020 @10:56PM
(#25195131)
How do you browse smb shares?
ssh is fine, but you could also use syncthing which is about 500% more user friendly
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @09:35AM
(#25198746)
Not on iOS you can’t. :(
I have like 80 desktop Firefox extensions on for various privacy measures and helpful utilities. The fact that you can't even install Firefox let alone all these useful extensions is a big reason why I'm now on Android instead.
80!? My god, I hope you check often for Malware and whatnot? I try to run as little as possible because I'm paranoid and want better performance.
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by ASalazarMX on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @12:38PM
(#25200782)
Death by a thousand privacies.
Do you have a list of them somewhere? I like having options when it comes to privacy.
That's it, it's not so much the "killer apps" anymore but the little things that you can fix up.
The one downside to jailbreaking which I never found a working solution for was numerous apps that had jailbreak detection which caused the app to stop working, like Pokemon Go.
Theres an app you can install that fakes the data to the apps and they will all run. Including banking apps. The other app thats great to use with that are gps spoofing apps.
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by gcblkjaidfj on Monday November 23, 2020 @06:32PM
(#25193226)
> 1. Google search results lead to AMP pages. When Jailbroken, I can load a userscript that turns this off.
change your search engine?
(my setup on all devices: ddg, and when results suck, i try google by adding "!g" to the search. It open my eyes when i see both suck for a few terms, but when using google i don't question the engine)
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by Wowfunhappy on Monday November 23, 2020 @06:33PM
(#25193234)
Google still has the best search results by far IMO. I've tried DDG.
On desktop I use Startpage but, hey, that's another thing I can't set on stock iOS!
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by colejohnson66 on Monday November 23, 2020 @06:46PM
(#25193357)
If you want Google’s results, but on DDG, the GP mentioned that you should prepend your query with “!g”
This just redirects you to google.com with the search term entered. No different than searching on Google.
doesn't this take you to google instead of ddg(bing)? am I missing something?
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by Wowfunhappy on Monday November 23, 2020 @06:53PM
(#25193433)
Thanks, but then I'd have to prepend all my queries with that. And sure, maybe not all queries need it, but I don't want to have to search two times either. I just want good results on the first try.
I appreciate everyone who uses DDG, and perhaps that's the route I would go if I couldn't use my userscript. But I greatly prefer my setup.
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by spicybright on Monday November 23, 2020 @08:02PM
(#25193991)
DDG as a search engine really does suck, but as a ui for other engines it's excellent. I like it on my phone in particular because I can pull things up faster and save data by not going to multiple pages for specific searches. Examples:
!s - start page, a google proxy !yt - youtube search !w - wikipedia etc.
Almost all I use I just figured out because it's obvious. !az = amazon, !ebay = ebay, etc. Usually just guessing gets me there 90% of the time, and then I can learn to use it again.
But again, that's just my workflow, not for everyone if you don't care if you use google for 99% of your searches.
You don’t, only for free text type searches. A majority of my searches are other !foo searches, like !w Napoleon to find wiki info on the topic, same for YouTube, Python docs, different dictionaries and thesauruses. You learn to use these, just like you learn to use any other tool.
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by colejohnson66 on Monday November 23, 2020 @07:02PM
(#25193521)
Hey, whatever works for you :) Google is better, but that’s partly because of all the tracking they do.
It depends on how you use it. Whenever Google gets my search wrong I usually end up clicking a bunch of results anyway, cause even though they're not what I was looking for there's a good chance they still look interesting. But then when I try to fix my search to get to what I'm actually looking for Google just spams me with more results related to the links I clicked :(
Google was very good (arguably better) in the era before they acquired Doubleclick.
Its not a solution for Safari, but if you use Firefox (which you can now finally set as your default browser) you can add new search engines like Startpage and use them as the default.
> Stock iOS has two separate low-battery alerts, the first of which occurs when there's still a fifth of my battery left!
Recharging after the first 20% alert might significantly prolong the useful lifetime of your battery. Li-Po cell can provide a couple thousand 80%-20% cycles, but only less than a thousand 100%-0% cycles because working at the ends of the capacity range degrades the battery faster.
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by Wowfunhappy on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @11:19AM
(#25210806)
It's a fair point. But for me on my iPhone 6S, I've found that last 20% to be the difference between a phone that gets me through the day, and one that does not.
I get my battery replaced yearly. I would upgrade to a newer phone instead, but I value my headphone jack too much.
> The stock iOS keyboard has a dictation key I always hit accidentally. I can disable it when I'm Jailbroken.
Install SwiftKey and never look back
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by liminalsunset on Monday November 23, 2020 @06:47PM
(#25193363)
Unintuitively, you can disable the key on the stock keyboard.
You go to Settings and turn Dictation on. (Yes, I know, bear with me.) THEN, you turn it off.
And that should cause the button to disappear. It's really unintuitive, I know.
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by ASalazarMX on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @12:44PM
(#25200826)
Well, I'll be damn, it worked. Two years an iPhone user and never managed to hide the damn icon until now, maybe it was too intuitive for me.
You guys don’t use dictation? Huh.
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by Wowfunhappy on Monday November 23, 2020 @07:04PM
(#25193540)
I would use it if Apple's transcription was more accurate. It just ends up frustrating me more often that not.
Apple's dictation is so accurate 80% of the time I send replies to messages on my Apple Watch (unless they are long or detailed) and 90% of that time I never, ever have to make a correction. It's something that sold me on the watch.
In other words it is wrong 10% of times, for short and simple messages.
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by londons_explore on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @02:56AM
(#25196274)
Google is miles ahead with accuracy. Shame you can't switch providers...
Re:A new jailbreak for a new era
by Wowfunhappy on Monday November 23, 2020 @06:44PM
(#25193332)
This is another problem I have with stock iOS—third party keyboards randomly revert back to the Apple keyboard on password entry screens!
I 100% understand why Apple does this, but a keyboard that randomly changes to a different keyboard under some circumstances is completely unusable to me. My brain needs consistency.
• Google search results lead to AMP pages. When Jailbroken, I can load a userscript that turns this off.
• Random apps have stupid names on my homescreen. Either the name is in all caps, or it's too long and Apple puts a big ellipses in the middle. I can't rename them unless I'm Jailbroken.
• Stock iOS has two separate low-battery alerts, the first of which occurs when there's still a fifth of my battery left! I'm well aware of the red icon at the top of my screen.
• The stock iOS keyboard has a dictation key I always hit accidentally. I can disable it when I'm Jailbroken.
There are many, many, many more examples, these are just off the top of my head. It's been long enough since I set up my Jailbreak that I don't actually remember most of them, but I use a ton of let's-call-them annoyance fixers, and I don't think I could live without them.