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Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator

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Re: Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator

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Post by sogen »

As the thread says, I can confirm this bug, the answer: 24

:(

iOS 11 must be the buggiest piece of s I've ever tried. Stuck animations, apps that take ages to load, widgets not working, more stuck animations, text overlapping everywhere.

Related: Flat design was supposed to make things leaner...

EDIT: Worst of all, every single operation is wrong: 7+8+9 = 96 4+5+6 = 60

Re: Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator

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Post by 11thEarlOfMar »

As soon as I upgraded my 6s to 11, I saw performance seriously degrade. It takes -seconds- to bring up the iMessage editor.

My immediate thought was that Apple had liberally sprinkled wait() into the iOS 11 code base so that I'd feel like my ole A9 CPU just wasn't cutting it any more and I'd realize, as they do, it's time to upgrade.

Or... maybe they are running every key stroke through the new Azure-enabled Cray computers to better predict what I am going to type so that overall, my typing is more efficient and I'm actually spending less time typing...

Yeah. Yeah, that's it!

Re: Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator

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Post by veidr » 

    "Jony wants you to take time
     and appreciate the simplicity 
     of the slowly dimming animations.

     Or we’re just using it wrong."
Apple has lots of issues like this, in iOS and macOS, where they choose visual appeal over functionality, or where animation impedes usability.

This is a pretty sad bug, though.

My (very expensive, "high-end") Japanese induction stove has a similar issue. Its capacitive touch controls take just an extra beat to register, so you have to turn on the stove, pause 700ms, turn on the burner, pause another 500ms or so, then turn the burner up to max to boil your kettle.

I'm totally used to it by now, and never get it wrong any more, but it still bugs me every single fucking morning.

Re: Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator

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Post by Larrikin »

This is the first version of iOS I have actually held off on installing on day one, simply because of all the problems Apple has had on macOS and previous versions of iOS. The last update my iPad 3 got basically killed it.

Doesn't seem to be getting any better and I plan on holding off on updating for as long as I possibly can.

Re: Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator

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Post by deckarep »

sogen wrote: post #2

As the thread says, I can confirm this bug, the answer: 24 :( iOS 11 must be the buggiest piece of s I've ever tried. Stuck animations, apps that take ages to load, widgets not working, more stuck animations, text overlapping everywhere. Related: Flat design was supposed to make things leaner... EDIT: Worst of all, every single operation is wrong: 7+8+9 = 96 4+5+6 = 60

Ugh, can also confirm this happens on my phone. This feels like more of UI event/timing issue than a logic issue.

Also, if this turns out to be a performance based bug that will be pretty frustrating considering Apple is always bragging about how they build the hardware, the software, have grand-central dispatch, have Metal and have multi-core custom built CPUs...yada, yada.

It’s not just that number sequence...it’s any rapid fire typing of numbers that cause these gross miscalculations.

Rollback the calculator app, if that doesn’t fix it...rollback the OS.

Yes I’m frustrated.

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