iOS 12 is all about making your iPhone work better

[walterbell]

Can we have a VPN button in Control Center?

How about per-app VPNs with Apple Configurator, i.e. no MDM?

If Apple wants to support privacy, it should be possible to route one or more apps to a dedicated VPN where their traffic can be restricted and monitored closely.

[jjcm]

Doubtful as they'd get on the bad side of a lot of governments doing that. VPNs are something that the upper brass are aware about and will make a fuss about if they're added. It's a high profile security measure.

[tinus_hn]

Who knows? Try asking Apple directly.

[getsugablitz2]

Well I'd hope it wouldn't make it work worse.

[tmikaeld]

Have they added IMAP Idle support yet?

Not having imap mail push on iOS is annoying to say the least.

[rablo]

That would require keeping a connection open to the mail server 24/7 which is a bad idea.

[arrty88]

iOS 11 is still better than Android

[seba_dos1]

As a Maemo user that recently got both Android and iOS devices for software porting and testing: hardly. When it comes to reliability, glitches, etc. they're pretty comparable, with Android being slightly better.

However, I have only seen Replicant, AOSP and LineageOS. What you get packaged by your hardware vendor might be worse.

[noddingham]

You must mean better in that Apple is still locking you out of hardware you own (e.g. NFC).

[some_account]

This reads like an apple press release, with no critical thought whatsoever.

[nojvek]

Well a lot of journalism recently is like that.

Newspaper subscriptions are a dying breed. Online news makes money from ads. To sell more ads, you have to sell more views or get sponsored content (native advertising)

It is in the interest of news companies to tell us things that we want to hear, or what a large group will want to hear.

[ianthiel]

Unfortunately I’m finding this to be the case with much of TC’s content. A shame because there used to be genuinely interesting commentary all over the sure not long ago.

[thewileyone]

"Newer" iPhone because your older iPhone will be screwed.

[lowtolerance]

Aren’t they supporting iPhones all the way back to the 5s with iOS 12? That’s way better than any competitor can claim.

[skinnymuch]

For phones specifically, only a small portion of people are using iPhones older than 5 years. So basically the vast majority of active iPhones are supported by iOS 12.

There’s probably a decent number of active iPads that can’t run this iOS version but that’s probably for the better since the older ones would probably be too slow.

[aphextron]

Oh the irony. I updated to iOS 12 after reading this post, and now I cant paste quotes into the response box from reply view on HN from my iPhone SE. It's pretty obvious the smaller phones have been abandoned at this point.

[vondur]

This is a beta release, so I'd expect some bugs at this point.

[skinnymuch]

I thought Apple was still committed to the SE series. Just not updating it as often as the main line.

[walterbell]

iPhone SE has so many bugs with iOS11, compared to iOS10, I was hoping this would be fixed in iOS12.

SE is a good form factor. Do customers need to buy a 5S on eBay instead of SE from Apple Store, to get Apple support for a small phone with iOS12?