{"id":113986,"date":"2020-06-10T22:55:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T22:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/20\/06\/10\/ios-136-remembers-where-you-left-off-in-an-apple-news-article"},"modified":"2020-06-10T22:55:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T22:55:04","slug":"ios-13-6-remembers-where-you-left-off-in-apple-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/10\/ios-13-6-remembers-where-you-left-off-in-apple-news-articles\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 13.6 remembers where you left off in Apple News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>\n

Details continue to emerge from the iOS 13.6 beta released this week, with a report on Wednesday noting the upcoming operating system automatically saves reading progress in Apple News articles.\n<\/p>\n

\n

Currently, the Apple News app returns to the top of an article when a user exits the page, even if they were midway through the story. The behavior is particularly vexing for users reading long form content from magazines offered through Apple News+. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

As discovered by a MacRumors<\/em> forum member, iOS 13.6 creates<\/a> an ephemeral bookmark within previously opened articles, allowing users to pick up where where they left off after navigating away from a story or closing the Apple News app. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

It appears an intentional delay of approximately 30 seconds is instituted before a a user’s reading position is recorded, according to early testing. While the mechanism is not detailed in Apple’s release notes, the delay could be an effort to lower system memory overhead. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

In addition to new convenience features, Apple is also working on audio versions<\/a> of Apple News articles. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

Graphical assets discovered in an initial beta release of the company’s upcoming iOS update, then labeled iOS 13.5.5, show affordances for “Apple News+ Audio” and related features. The iconography, text and user interface elements were found shortly after a report in May claimed Apple was working with publishers<\/a> on a deal that would allow the company to convert popular written word articles into short audio snippets. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

Apple’s latest iOS 13.6 beta release was issued to developers on Tuesday<\/a>. The evaluation version includes a handful of new features<\/a> like an option to automatically download future iOS updates and a new symptoms section in the Health app.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Details continue to emerge from the iOS 13.6 beta released this week, with a report on Wednesday noting the upcoming operating system automatically saves reading progress in Apple News articles. Currently, the Apple News app returns to the top of an article when a user exits the page, even if they were midway through the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-insider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}