Compass icon on lock screen?

[Patty Winter]

The other day I woke up my iPhone 5s and noticed that there was
a little compass icon in the lower-left corner of the lock screen.
It went away when I logged in to the phone. I don't know whether
it was something to do with the compass in the phone, or with
Safari, or what. Anyone know?


Patty

[nospam]

In article <o9sp48$ss9$1...@dont-email.me>, Patty Winter

that's handoff. it's safari, and if you slide it up, safari will launch
and load whatever web page you were looking at on your computer. you
can also go the other direction (iphone->mac).

[Jolly Roger]

I love that part of Continuity. I use Handoff many times every day. I
particularly love how I can see all tabs in all browser windows I have open
on whatever device I happen to be using. Features like that really boost
your productivity.

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[Patty Winter]

In article <eiecl0...@mid.individual.net>,
Jolly Roger <jolly...@pobox.com> wrote:

>nospam <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> that's handoff. it's safari, and if you slide it up, safari will launch
>> and load whatever web page you were looking at on your computer. you
>> can also go the other direction (iphone->mac).
>
>I love that part of Continuity. I use Handoff many times every day. I
>particularly love how I can see all tabs in all browser windows I have open
>on whatever device I happen to be using. Features like that really boost
>your productivity.

Oh, okay. What would have triggered it this one time? I have two Macs
running every day.


Patty

[nospam]

In article <o9t9qu$tlv$4...@dont-email.me>, Patty Winter

<pat...@wintertime.com> wrote:

> >> that's handoff. it's safari, and if you slide it up, safari will launch
> >> and load whatever web page you were looking at on your computer. you
> >> can also go the other direction (iphone->mac).
> >
> >I love that part of Continuity. I use Handoff many times every day. I
> >particularly love how I can see all tabs in all browser windows I have open
> >on whatever device I happen to be using. Features like that really boost
> >your productivity.
>
> Oh, okay. What would have triggered it this one time? I have two Macs
> running every day.

safari was open to some page and the phone was nearby.

[Patty Winter]

In article <090320172339428350%nos...@nospam.invalid>,

I just launched Safari on my MB, then woke up my iPhone, and there was no
compass icon.


Patty

[nospam]

In article <o9tidv$hvh$1...@dont-email.me>, Patty Winter

<pat...@wintertime.com> wrote:

> >> Oh, okay. What would have triggered it this one time? I have two Macs
> >> running every day.
> >
> >safari was open to some page and the phone was nearby.
>
> I just launched Safari on my MB, then woke up my iPhone, and there was no
> compass icon.

how old is the macbook?

<https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204689>
Handoff works with these devices and operating systems:
€ MacBook (Early 2015 or newer)
€ MacBook Pro (2012 or newer)
€ MacBook Air (2012 or newer)
€ Mac mini (2012 or newer)
€ iMac (2012 or newer)
€ Mac Pro (Late 2013)

[Jolly Roger]

What triggers the little icon to appear? Open a compatible app one on
device, and a few seconds later any compatible devices within Bluetooth
range detect that it's running and offer to pick up the activity, if
they have the same app. But what I was talking about was a bit
different. If you have some browser windows/tabs open on your Mac and
you go to another device (whether it be another Mac or an iOS device)
you can see a list of all of those windows/tabs, and view them on that
device too. I'm constantly switching devices as I go through my day.
Sometimes I'll be sitting at my Mac Pro in the office, other times I'm
using an iPad in some other part of the house, and sometimes I'm out
running errands. Wherever I am, I can pick right up where I left off
with access to all web browser windows/tabs I have open. Here's how that
feature works:

<https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202530>

[Patty Winter]

In article <o9tidv$hvh$1...@dont-email.me>,

Okay, I finally zeroed in on what was happening. Once I knew the name of
what feature had put the compass on my iPhone's lock screen, I found this
page about Handoff on Apple's website:

https://support.apple.com/kb/ph18754?locale=en_US

First, it said that both devices had to be signed in to iCloud, so I
did that on my MacBook. No luck, so then I checked System Preferences,
and Handoff wasn't enabled. I then checked my iMac, and the option
didn't even appear there; there must be some sort of hardware that's
needed for it.

Running out of devices, I checked my iPad, and that had Handoff enabled.
I guess it's enabled automatically on iOS devices. I opened Safari, and
when I turned on my iPhone, there was a Safari icon on the lock screen.
I tried a few other apps, but only the WashPo app worked. I rarely have
my iPad and iPhone near each other, so that would explain why I'd never
noticed this behavior before even though I've had the iPhone for a few
months.


Patty

[Patty Winter]

In article <eiftnt...@mid.individual.net>,

Jolly Roger <jolly...@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> If you have some browser windows/tabs open on your Mac and
>you go to another device (whether it be another Mac or an iOS device)
>you can see a list of all of those windows/tabs, and view them on that
>device too. I'm constantly switching devices as I go through my day.
>

><https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202530>

Okay, thanks. I don't often use Safari on my Macs but will keep this
in mind in case I want to replicate my browser tabs between devices.


Patty

[Jolly Roger]

On 2017-03-10, Patty Winter <pat...@wintertime.com> wrote:
>

Welcome. I use Safari 99% of the time and don't see any need for
switching to another browser except on the very rare occasion a web site
doesn't work correctly.

[Lewis]

In message <eig16v...@mid.individual.net> Jolly Roger <jolly...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On 2017-03-10, Patty Winter <pat...@wintertime.com> wrote:
>>
>> In article <eiftnt...@mid.individual.net>,
>> Jolly Roger <jolly...@pobox.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> If you have some browser windows/tabs open on your Mac and
>>>you go to another device (whether it be another Mac or an iOS device)
>>>you can see a list of all of those windows/tabs, and view them on that
>>>device too. I'm constantly switching devices as I go through my day.
>>>
>>><https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202530>
>>
>> Okay, thanks. I don't often use Safari on my Macs but will keep this
>> in mind in case I want to replicate my browser tabs between devices.

> Welcome. I use Safari 99% of the time and don't see any need for
> switching to another browser except on the very rare occasion a web site
> doesn't work correctly.

Reasons I switch from phone to computer:

1. Content is a lot longer than I thought
2. Content is a lot more complicated than I thought
3. Content is something I want to use/follow on my computer
4. Content text will not scale to a readable size.
5. Content is tiny grey text on blazing white background.

--
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myself. Leia: That doesn't sound too hard.

[David Empson]

Patty Winter <pat...@wintertime.com> wrote:

> In article <o9tidv$hvh$1...@dont-email.me>,
> Patty Winter <pat...@wintertime.com> wrote:
> >
> >In article <090320172339428350%nos...@nospam.invalid>,
> >nospam <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> >>
> >>safari was open to some page and the phone was nearby.
> >
> >I just launched Safari on my MB, then woke up my iPhone, and there was no
> >compass icon.
>
> Okay, I finally zeroed in on what was happening. Once I knew the name of
> what feature had put the compass on my iPhone's lock screen, I found this
> page about Handoff on Apple's website:
>
> https://support.apple.com/kb/ph18754?locale=en_US
>
> First, it said that both devices had to be signed in to iCloud, so I
> did that on my MacBook. No luck, so then I checked System Preferences,
> and Handoff wasn't enabled. I then checked my iMac, and the option
> didn't even appear there; there must be some sort of hardware that's
> needed for it.

Hardware and software.

Here's the full list of system requirements for Continuity:

https://support.apple.com/HT204689

(except it doesn't mention AirDrop.)

Explanations:

Software:

OS X 10.10 Yosemite introduced the original set of Continuity features:
Handoff, AirDrop (to/from iOS), Instant Hotspot, iPhone Cellular Calls
and SMS/MMS Forwarding.

macOS 10.12 Sierra (or later) added Universal Clipboard, Auto Unlock
with Apple Watch.

On the iOS side, AirDrop was in iOS 7; Handoff in iOS 8; Instant
Hotspot, iPhone Cellular Calls, SMS/MMS forwarding in iOS 8.1; Universal
Clipboard in iOS 10. (watchOS 3 for Auto Unlock.)

Hardware:

Handoff, AirDrop (to/from iOS), Instant Hotspot and Universal Clipboard
require the Mac to be a 2012 or later model, because they need Bluetooth
4.0. iOS hardware also needs to be mid 2012 or later: minimums are
iPhone 5, iPad 4th gen, iPad mini, iPad Pro, iPod Touch 5th gen.

Auto Unlock with an Apple Watch requires a 2013 or later Mac model,
because it needs a special feature of the 802.11ac Wi-Fi hardware (to
determine the physical distance to the Apple Watch via a high resolution
measurement of the round trip time for a Wi-Fi signal).

iPhone Cellular Calls and SMS/MMS Forwarding have no special hardware
requirements, because they use Wi-Fi or Internet respectively, no
Bluetooth involved. For example, these will work as far back as an
iPhone 4s (running iOS 8.1 or later) and any Mac (running Yosemite or
later).


Note that the Mac had another variant of AirDrop introduced in Mac OS X
10.7 Lion. It is supported on all Late 2010 or newer models, plus some
models as far back as Late 2008. The Mac-only and iOS-compatible methods
are quite different: the Mac-only version uses peer-to-peer Wi-Fi, while
the iOS-compatible one uses both Bluetooth 4.0 and peer-to-peer Wi-Fi.
Yosemite and later default to the iOS-compatible version, with a "Search
for an Older Mac" button to switch to the older Mac-only version.

https://support.apple.com/HT203106

> Running out of devices, I checked my iPad, and that had Handoff enabled.
> I guess it's enabled automatically on iOS devices. I opened Safari, and
> when I turned on my iPhone, there was a Safari icon on the lock screen.
> I tried a few other apps, but only the WashPo app worked. I rarely have
> my iPad and iPhone near each other, so that would explain why I'd never
> noticed this behavior before even though I've had the iPhone for a few
> months.

Mystery solved, good.

--
David Empson
dem...@actrix.gen.nz

[Patty Winter]

In article <1n2qzan.aim8wq9h29l0N%dem...@actrix.gen.nz>,
David Empson <dem...@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:

>Patty Winter <pat...@wintertime.com> wrote:
>
>> First, it said that both devices had to be signed in to iCloud, so I
>> did that on my MacBook. No luck, so then I checked System Preferences,
>> and Handoff wasn't enabled. I then checked my iMac, and the option
>> didn't even appear there; there must be some sort of hardware that's
>> needed for it.
>
>Hardware and software.

Sure, but I knew that I had supported software, because I just upgraded
that iMac to El Capitan.

>Handoff, AirDrop (to/from iOS), Instant Hotspot and Universal Clipboard
>require the Mac to be a 2012 or later model, because they need Bluetooth
>4.0.

I knew about the 2012 start date, but Apple's website didn't say why,
which is why I was vague about "some sort of hardware." Thanks for the
info about BT 4.0.


Patty