| ▲ | jdminhbg 6 hours ago |
| Old iPads are better than this in every way except for the way that matters most in a shared family device, then? I'd love for Apple to add multi-user support to iPadOS and think it's way past time they did, but it's not going to be a simple software update. This device has on-chip support for multiple FaceID accounts so it can distinguish them securely. |
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| ▲ | wlesieutre 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Apple has multi user support for iPads, but only if you’re a school. Normal users should accept that if they let their kid play Angry Birds they’re risking an accident with all their other apps getting mucked with, and if they don’t like it they can buy five iPads. https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/shared-ipad-overv... |
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| ▲ | derefr 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I believe the idiomatic solution for “handing your child an iDevice but only letting them touch one app” is Guided Access mode. It’s only when you want to let them jump in and out of multiple apps (e.g. pick what game they want to play on their own) that you start having a problem. (And the not-idiomatic-but-people-do-it-anyway solution for that, from what I’ve seen, is buying one extra iPad, and creating a special whole-family Apple account for it, to effectively serve as a game console for the kids.) | |
| ▲ | arthurcolle 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I think they also do this for prison iPads as well! | | | |
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| ▲ | quibono 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Is this sarcasm or are you one of _those_ Apple fans willing to rationalise every single issue their products have? | | |
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| ▲ | WorldMaker 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Multi-user "Handoff" seems interesting as well. The implications from a lot of the descriptions is that this HomeView is designed from the perspective that every user also has a primary iPhone or iPad and HomeView coordinates data sync across a number of apps from that primary device. (Several features mention that they only work with that user's iPhone or iPad on the same Wifi network.) |
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| ▲ | paul7986 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Agree this should just be a dock/charger for iPads. Though the sheer fact that in 2026 it's driven by Siri who is not a conversationalist AI, but still the same frustrating voice technology from 2011 is confusing they would even bother releasing this. Sooner or later their lack of innovating themselves and just copying is going to make them what the Blackberry was when iPhone was released. |
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| ▲ | kemayo an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | > Though the sheer fact that in 2026 it's driven by Siri who is not a conversationalist AI, but still the same frustrating voice technology from 2011 is confusing they would even bother releasing this. This is no longer the case. Siri as of iOS 27 is a gemini-based LLM system. It has a chatbot app and everything. | | |
| ▲ | paul7986 an hour ago | parent [-] | | Really? On my iPhone 15 Pro Max (older iphone) each time i want to have a complete conversation with it I have to constantly prompt it with Hey Siri then say next thing in conversation. Is that your experience? I use and have used chatGPT voice while driving for awhile ... here's a very silly example https://www.instagram.com/p/DecaL9Gx6li/ . Besides that silly example im in school now and give chatGPT all my notes to create interact multiple choice questions i take while driving. Overall love hearing how other people are using chatGPT voice and or any other AI voice conversationalist tech. |
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| ▲ | dd8601fn 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | That’s not true anymore. | | |
| ▲ | paul7986 an hour ago | parent [-] | | You can have a complete conversation with Siri back and forth like you can with chatGPT without having to constantly say Hey Siri? I use conversational voice AI while driving and with the new Siri i constantly have to use hey siri to keep the conversation going. |
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