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

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Post by Udik »

JSONwebtoken wrote: post #154
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

1+ 23 = 24 7 + 89 = 96 4 + 56 = 60 The second "+" isn't registering because the animation tied to the operator buttons for some reason only blocks other non-numerical inputs for the duration of the animation. I don't even own an iPhone or have experienced the bug, just guessing at the cause.

Or is it blocking the animated button? What about 1 + 1 + 1 ?

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Post by ak39 »

prawn wrote: post #141
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

I'm with you. Updated my 6+ and everything is tragically slow. 4-5 seconds just to get the Settings or Messages apps to open. Typing anything is unbearable - every time, the first word capitalises and then botches everything from then on. Basic functions within apps or opening the camera take so long as to render them near-useless. I have switched off any animations and performance tweaks that I thought might help, b…

iPhone 6 Plus here. Can confirm exact same issues.

I ended up backing up everything and reinstalling from fresh. It's only just bearable now. Still noticeable 2s+ delays to open iMessage & and to get into Settings. Using the device for me has become completely joyless. In fact I have incipient resentment just looking at this p.o.s. It was once a great device. It's now hamstrung with bloat. I have stopped using it much now - I haven't yet installed Twitter & GMail or any of the many apps I had again. An entire 25 GB cache of Music library has yet to be re-installed. The phone sits almost the entire day unused. Battery life at end at night for a recharge? 80%!

If Apple doesn't fix these issues quickly and restore confidence in the already dwindling user base, they will suffer greatly at the hands of the Huawei's of the market. You don't need a fascist type of Jobs to get these types of issues fixed.

Come on Apple!

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

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Post by Udik »

teej wrote: post #55
veidr wrote: post #6

"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…

I hate to be this guy but Steve Jobs would have fucking eviscerated the team that produced this. The first time he used the calculator and got 24 instead of 6, he would’ve walked straight to whoever wrote the software and gotten it fixed. There’s no one at Apple who can do that anymore.

I happened to find an iPod nano (3d gen) lost by someone in a street, and always hated it. It looks so cute, but the wheel interface is scarcely usable, event the physical lock button is hard to reach without taking the damn thing out of your pocket, and what's this story about needing a special application to load songs into it? And it replaces the file names with GUIDs, even! If Microsoft did anything like that...

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

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Post by NovaS1X »

planetjones wrote: post #65

Maybe the iPhone X will have enough power to add three numbers together without lag. Seriously what are Apple doing. The fundamentals are gone. I literally don’t know what day it is anymore in iOS 11. I use google calendar which is stuck on 31 because apple don’t let third party devs have updatable icons. I used to swipe left to find the date, but that no longer works. Now I have to pull down from the top, which I fi…

>the latest pixel phones

>It’s getting tempting to jump ship.

Well it looks like the new Pixel has much worse issues, so don't jump just yet. Phones in general, from all companies, are in a weird spot right now.

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

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Post by ak39 »

lzecon wrote: post #134
AVTizzle wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just googled, found this... "Some reddit users claim that resetting their settings (Settings --> General ---> Reset --> Reset All Settings) fixed all of the app issues, while others have restored their devices and set it up as new to solve the problem. Others have backed up and restored and had better results." https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/25/ios-11-app-slowdowns-pe...

I did a backup and complete restore. It went from completely unusable to annoyingly usable. Still considering downgrading to 10.3

I can confirm. Tried the same - wipe and reinstall. Phone is slightly better but still lags for Camera, forwarding images to WhatsApp and to open iMessage.

And this when I have yet to restore from iCloud or restore an entire 25GB Music cache!

What's happening, Apple?

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Post by tvmalsv »

hedora wrote: post #166
11thEarlOfMar wrote: post #3

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 com…

It takes 14 sec to open maps and load a screen of tiles, 4 sec to open messenger on a my 6 plus. I’d love to see timings for this on the newer models. Also, I swear the rear-facing camera has lower color saturation and higher sensoe noise after the upgrade. I’d love to see A-B camera tests for iOS 10 and 11 on old hardware.

5s for maps, 11s for messenger (3s for messages). But, this is on a plain 5, no "S" or any of that fancy stuff new stuff.

My latest annoyance is when I'm using the keyboard and it just visually freezes for several seconds. It appears locked-up, but it's really not. It's silently recording every button you press in anger, and finishes with the throwing of the entire buffer contents at you all at once, which, to add insult to injury, you now have to also delete.

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Post by saaaaaam »

hasenj wrote: post #208
michaelmrose wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do we even have sales figures for the apple watch. All I see is made up numbers and guesses.

I never noticed anyone anywhere wearing an apple watch. Not that I spend any time looking at people's wrists, but you'd think if it was a massive success everyone would notice.

Interesting. Where do you live? Here in London they are really commonplace - you see them on people on the tube all the time and I notice them being used fairly regularly by all ages and sexes for contactless payments, running, etc. In fact they seem so widely adopted that it’s not uncommon to see even people with them who you would not necessarily expect to be wearing them.

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Post by United857 »

I've not worked at Apple before, but it wouldn't surprise me that a lot of these quality issues come from their supposed culture of secrecy and compartmentalization where no one knows what anyone else is doing for the most part. This makes it hard to test things end-to-end as an integrated whole before things get released.

At my employer, our culture is almost the polar opposite -- everything is open unless there's a need not to. Every employee dogfoods the latest builds of our apps/website/hardware before it goes out to the public, and culturally, internal feedback is encouraged. This is invaluable QA signal (in addition to automated testing and traditional manual testing) and a key part of why we can release as fast as we can.

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Post by cm2187 »

11thEarlOfMar wrote: post #3

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 com…

More annoying than performance is the ever increasing nagging for apple paid services, apple pay, apple icloud, etc. The platform is literally becoming a junk adware platform. It feels like an infected PC that pop ups ads randomly.

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

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Post by realityking »

0x32 wrote: post #203
kemayo wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, it'd have to be a proper OS update, because it's one of the core apps. But, also conveniently, iOS 11.1 is in beta at the moment. They just released beta 5 today, so it's not like they couldn't slip a fix for this in before the final release if they wanted to. Whether they will or not, well...

Since iOS 10 the system apps have been on the App Store, and as far as I know, they can now be updated that way, too.

They‘re listed on the App Store but they‘re fake listings. Removing a core app from the home screen does not remove it from the device. Installing it from the App Store restores that link.

That means updates still need to be a part of a system update.

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