There are already a lot of activity trackers these days: Jawbone Up, Nike FuelBand and others. All of them can record your steps, keep track of activity during training, and have other useful features. Perhaps their main drawback is the price (outside of America). Not everyone is ready to shell out such an amount for a bracelet, but it would be interesting to follow their actions during the day. In case you do not dare to invest in a new gadget, you can use the free Rove app.
Of course, it should be understood that the program is much less functional than a wearable bracelet, and Rove itself was created for slightly different purposes. For what exactly and to whom it can be useful? Let's see.
If you often go on business trips or just like to travel, you probably noticed that the last trip is not so well remembered after a couple of weeks or a month. And what was interesting during the trip? How was your every day? These are the questions Rove can help answer.
Run the application, fill in information about yourself, and that's it, you can forget about it. Throughout the day, Rove will monitor where you walk, drive, and what you photograph. Location data will be applied to Apple's standard maps, your photos from the Photos app, and check-in information from Foursquare, respectively. All this will be recorded in “Lifelog” as a list of events.
Left the house, went to the store, checked in, got in the car, drove to work, checked in to Foursquare again, went to lunch at a cafe, drove home - all this information will be displayed in a scrolling feed with location, photos and applied on the route map. And so day after day.
Now, when you decide to nostalgic for an interesting trip that was six months ago, you can open Rove, choose any day and remember which routes you went, what you filmed and what places you visited. In addition, you can separately save your “memories” about a particular day in your life. Your note will be saved as a card with the date on which the itinerary for the day will be printed with your comments. At any time you can have access to the most interesting and memorable days.
The application interface complies with all iOS 7 standards and looks quite nice, except that there is no Russian localization, but this is not so scary, since no special knowledge of the language is required. Of the few settings, only the tracking mode can be distinguished: Saver or Precision. The first one is not so accurate, but does not “eat” the battery charge once again, while the second one, on the contrary, follows your movement more accurately, which affects battery consumption.
Of the minuses, one can note the not always correct display of the movement scheme (on the embankments it can show that he crossed the water by swimming :)) and the background operation of the application. Even in iOS 7, which allows background work of applications, Rove requires to be running, albeit in multitasking mode. As soon as you try to throw it out of there, it will send a notification that it has been stopped, and in order to continue monitoring it needs to be started again. It is rather strange to see such conditions, especially after using the aforementioned IFTTT, which does a great job with various tasks based on geolocation.
Nevertheless, the application will definitely find its user - a lover of travel and nostalgia for them. Try it, you might like it too.
What trackers do you use? Cronos? moves? Why are they better? Share in the comments!
Exploring and polishing old photos and videos with the Photos app on an iOS device was next to impossible before iOS 10. You can narrow your selection of images by date or by album if you have time to manually sort your gallery. In truth, Google Photos is far superior to Apple's Photos app.
New albums.
The first time you open the albums tab in the Photos app, you'll find a new kind of tile to display thumbnails of each album. Additionally, you will also see that you now have two new albums: People and Places.Each album contains photos and videos organized by the faces or location information contained in each item. With the People album open, you can do some pretty interesting things.
When you first open the People album, you'll see a grid of people's faces commonly found in your photos. You can drag people to the favorites section at the top, and add, hide, or merge photos that include the same person.
Click on the picture to see more photos of this person, add a name (at the top of the screen), and approve or reject other possible matches. Or you can play a video from photos containing that person, a fun new feature in the app that will definitely get better with time and lead to the discovery of some old memories you might have forgotten about.
Right now, the People section seems to be out of sync across iOS devices because the characters I took a photo of and added on my iPhone 6S were still syncing to my iPad Pro. Hopefully, this is something that will be added even before the official launch of iOS 10 this fall.
The Places album contains a map of your photos that you can zoom in or out to see exactly where you recorded a video or took a picture on your last trip.
Search.
Previously, you could do basic searches based on date or location in the Photos app. In iOS 10, you can now search for specific items in a photo. Each photo goes through 11 billion calculations to reveal just what it contains, Apple says.For example, you remember that you won a prize at your company's holiday party and you want to see a photo of it, but you have no idea what kind of party it was or when exactly it happened. Click on the search icon and enter "prize" (it's better to write in English, in this case I entered "trophy") and wait while the photo is searched. (This is a real example and I didn't think there would be photos, but it happened and it was amazing.)
You can search other items such as mountains, dogs, cats, beach, park. Thousands of different elements are indexed on photos. Give it a try after installing iOS 10 - it's fun to find out what photos you can find in your library.
Memories.
A new tab along the bottom of the Photos app called "Memories" is part of the slideshow generator.Selecting the "Memories" tab will show you several different memories generated. Each one is built around a specific time period or location.
You'll probably find a memory of a family vacation last summer, or another "On This Day" event a few years ago (if your library is that old).
Opening a memory will allow you to play a video automatically created on your behalf. You can also view photos and videos in the Photos app based on this memory.
After viewing the memories, you can customize it to your liking. You can change the length, add or remove photos and videos, change the music, customize the title, and so on.
Minor changes.
There are some small design tweaks throughout the Photos app in iOS 10. The Edit button is gone, replaced with a multi-slider icon. Clicking on the "More Info" button while viewing a photo will now show a map of where the photo was taken, the memories associated with it, and the option to view all the photos from that particular day.
Smartphones have given us not only the ability to make calls, but also many other significant options, such as taking pictures. Now most often photos are taken with the help of a phone, rather than cameras, because a smartphone is always with you, and in terms of its parameters, cameras in phones are not much inferior to cameras. The iPhone has a lot of options for working with photos, and one of them is Memories.
She appeared in iOS 10, and immediately won the hearts of many users of Apple products. The Photos program automatically scans and analyzes all the pictures in your smartphone and creates a collection of them with musical accompaniment. All this is possible thanks to the "Memories" mode, which appeared with the release of the iOS 10 operating system.
As a rule, your smartphone automatically detects the events at which the photos were taken, for example, birthday, New Year. He can also select photos by type, for example, selfies, with marks on the map, choose the best for the year, for the week, select only portraits, and so on. In general, the automatic system manages to pick up almost all the photos perfectly, but sometimes there are small “jambs”.
Many users know about this feature, but do not understand how it works, how to view the created clips and whether they can be edited, copied to a PC and transferred via USB to other users. In this article, we will talk about all the features of this mode and show how to make memories on an iPhone and what needs to be done for this.
From the article you will learn
Where to find Memories on iPhone
If you want to view ready-made slideshows you've created, follow these steps:
- Go to the "Photos" application;
- Click on the "Memories" tab at the bottom of the screen;
- Select any created material and click on it to view it.
We have described how to view slide shows created by the device itself. But not many users know that you can make them yourself by adding music, choosing certain photos and highlights from life. And here's how to do it:
Create your own Memories on iPhone
- Open the Photos app and click on the Select tab;
- Check all the photos you want to add to the "Memories" mode;
- Once the list is formed, click the "Add to" tab;
- Specify a new album and assign a name to it;
- Go to the albums directory and find the one you created;
- Click on the arrow to the right;
- The phone will automatically create memories from this album and add background music.
How to edit "Memories"
Slideshows created earlier automatically or by you manually can be edited, for example, change music or set other styles for titles, change captions. You can do this by doing the following:
- Open the Photos app and click on the Memories tab
- Select any slideshow you want to edit and click on Play to start playing it;
- Now click in the middle of the screen to bring up the editor.
There are several options for editing here:
- Choice of mood. Changes the title and background music. There are such options as, for example: cheerful, cheerful, epic and others;
- Choice of duration. There are only 3 options: short, medium and long;
- Additional settings. Click the "Edit" tab in the upper right corner. Here you can change the title, title image, assign completely different music, choosing, for example, from your media library. In the same menu, you can change photos and change the duration;
- Once all edits have been made, simply click "Done" and the changes will be saved.
How to Transfer Memories from iPhone
- Go to the Photos app and select the Memories tab;
- Play any of them and click on the send icon in the lower left corner;
- Choose exactly where you want to send the created material and confirm the operation;
This completes the export process. The recipient will receive the material in the form of a video with music accompaniment. As a rule, high-resolution videos are created on Apple devices, so the sent slideshow can be viewed both from the phone and from the computer.
The cameras on the new iPhones are amazing, and as usual, Apple is pushing the boundaries with its system software. Starting from the portrait mode and ending with the automatic creation of Memories. iOS 11 also brings many updates to the Photos app.
Below we'll show you how to use them.
1. EditingLive Photos
You can finally edit Live Photos. It works just like video editing. Now you can cut them and remove the sound from them. In addition, you can choose a cover.
Step 1: Open Photos and find the live photo you want to edit. In the Albums section there will be a separate folder with live photos.
Step 2: Select a photo and press Change at the top of the screen.
The editor screen opens.
A. Silence: To turn off background sound, tap the speaker icon in the top left corner of the screen on iPhone or bottom right on iPad.
B. Trim: The familiar frame bar will appear at the bottom of the screen. It shows a preview of the photo. Click on the strip and you will see two yellow arrows on the sides. Hold any of them and you can move it. These are the start and end points of a live photo. Move them as you like, and then click Done to crop your photo.
B. Choose a cover: On the same ribbon, you can click on any frame and select Set Photo as Main to put it on the cover of your Live Photo.
Please note that if you change the cover, the quality of the photo will become worse (at least in terms of the number of megapixels). To save memory, iOS does not capture all the frames in the best quality.
G. Live: If you want to remove the "live" part of the photo, click on the yellow sign with "Live" at the top of the screen on the iPhone or at the bottom on the iPad.
E. Standard Editing: Standard editing options are available for Live Photos as well. In the editor, you just need to click on the menu and select More.
2. Adding effects tolive Photos
You can add three new effects. Once you open Live Photo, swipe up on it for more options. Here you will find the section effects.
You will be offered three effects. Click on any of them to apply it to the photo.
loop: The Loop effect turns your Live Photo into a GIF. With it, the animation repeats endlessly, and you do not need to pinch the screen.
bounce: Bounce effect is similar to Boomerang on Instagram. At the end, the animation will start playing backwards. With this effect, the videos are very funny.
Long exposure: Long Exposure freezes the elements of a photo and blurs them. This effect is great for live photographs of waves. It turns a Live Photo into a regular photo.
If none of the effects are to your liking, you can revert back to the original photo by swiping up and clicking "undo".
3. Creation of new memories
In iOS 11, face and shape recognition technology has also been updated. Now the system can detect a large set of events, people and even animals. According to Apple, the new categories recognize birthdays, weddings, children, pets, outdoor activities, performances, sporting events, and more.
4. View memories in any orientation
In addition, Memories can now be viewed in both portrait and landscape mode. Just turn your phone over and the video will automatically re-arrange.
5. Shutdown blur on the portrait photographs
In iOS 11, Apple treats Depth Effect photos as Live Photos. Now at the top of such photos you will see the Depth Effect tag. And every time you take a portrait photo, two photos will not appear.
The user will see only one photo. But this does not mean that now it is impossible to access the original.
Step 1: Select a portrait photo and press Edit.
Step 2: Then press the yellow button Depth up. This will disable the background blur effect.
6. Savegif-files to Photo
Now you don't need third-party apps to save GIFs to your phone. Now they can be saved directly in Photos.
And this is done very easily. Just hold down the GIF in Safari and choose "save image". After that, you will find it in Photos.
7. New album with animations
An entire album dedicated to animations was also added. It will include Live Photos with Loop and Bounce effects, as well as your GIFs. With this album, you can always quickly find saved gifs.
Simple, clear, understandable.
The testing period for the updated iOS 10 will last until September. But the new operating system has already been studied today.
If we discard all the "decorations" and cosmetic changes, we can clearly identify the 10 major innovations in iOS 10, shown at WWDC 2016. And to make it clearer and clearer, the thematic resource Gizmodo decided to show them in the form of short GIF animations.
Improved lock screen
iPhone 6s/6s Plus owners, rejoice. Simply pick up your smartphone to turn on the screen. From the familiar gesture that Apple has dubbed Raise to Wake, the display is activated by itself, and you just have to enter the password ...
Or rather, touch the Home key if your device is equipped with Touch ID.
Now, to unlock, just touch the TouchID sensor. Instead of the usual Slide to Unlock ( translation. "slide to unlock”) we are met by Press to Unlock ( translation. "click to unlock»).
From the same lock screen, it became much easier to interact with instant messengers and applications.
In iOS 10, you can not only view notifications, dismiss or acknowledge them, but also bring up an additional dialog box to respond, without having to unlock the device. Support is strictly required for these interactive notifications to work.
And for quick access to widgets, it is now enough to swipe from left to right.
Widgets have become much more informative, and each widget is now presented as a miniature die that can be expanded.
The functionality of this menu item is really on top. Firstly, calling the screen with widgets has become easier, and secondly, information has become better perceived.
Redesign
The interface of iOS 10 has undergone a lot of dramatic changes. Appendix Music became much more convenient and easier.
Above the news aggregator News the developers also did a good job, making it more optimized for the mobile platform.
In a corporate application Cards special attention was paid to the construction of routes and animation. Do not forget to increase the font and modify the interface.
Searching for objects on the map has become more convenient, and using maps while driving is comfortable.
With the release of iOS 10, the company introduced an updated application A photo. The editor learned to recognize faces and understand in what area the photo was taken. All this is implemented for the purpose of cataloging images.
The function deserves special attention. Memories.
With iOS 10, making a short film about a vacation, vacation, or just a day in your life is very easy. Choose photos and videos that you plan to include in the picture and click Create a Memory. Animations, transitions, voice acting - Memories will do everything for you.
And further
At the last WWDC 2016, the Messages app became the real pride of Apple. They love emoticons, animations and all kinds of effects in the company that brighten up ordinary correspondence.
As a result, after switching to iOS 10, you will be able to draw animated pictures (a similar function is already implemented on the Apple Watch), change the background of dialogs, add stickers, share links and music.
The company got to the engine HomeKit facilitating interaction with the "smart home". For comfortable handling of smart devices, she introduced the application Home.
For iPhone owners with 3D Touch, the function of self-adding items to the menu, which appears when you strongly press the application icon, has become available.
Finally, 9 years after the release of the first iPhone, users can independently .
In a word, Apple did a great job. It remains only to wait for the final release to appreciate all the features of iOS 10.
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