I use the iPhone 6s. It was responsive, and battery would last at least half the day just fine. Right after the upgrade, batter would last for maybe 1 hour, tops, 30 minutes on average. No minor upgrade fixed the problem, and apparently its a widespread one too. I am getting either the 8+ or the X, but I still think this is ridiculous at best.
Ask HN: Why is iOS 11 such a mess?
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#22Another for the list - the new Podcasts app is terrible Edit: it's as if they tried to make the interface less efficient than before - it makes it much more difficult to find subscribed to podcasts you haven't listened to in a while
Funny, I thought the same thing, but I thought "Gotta just be me, maybe I forgot how it used to work" it's like everything I used to do is gone and/or buried. The default behaviors are all totally opposite of what I want.
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#23Another for the list - the new Podcasts app is terrible Edit: it's as if they tried to make the interface less efficient than before - it makes it much more difficult to find subscribed to podcasts you haven't listened to in a while
The UX for it is pretty puzzling. I'll give it a couple of months to get used to it, but so far it's non-trivially confusing.
I'm on a phone - maybe the 'double the size of everything' changes work better on an iPad?
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#24For the iPhone 8, the screen does not dim or turn off at all when any app is open. This has been reported on Apple's support forums and one of the solutions that worked for several devices, including my spouse's device, is - restart the phone.
My first thought was that "iOS is the new Windows where the primary recommended solution to a problem is to restart the device."
Re: Ask HN: Why is iOS 11 such a mess?
#25Another for the list - the new Podcasts app is terrible Edit: it's as if they tried to make the interface less efficient than before - it makes it much more difficult to find subscribed to podcasts you haven't listened to in a while
Unfortunately it has the same download bugs. Often when you press the download button, a podcast is marked again as not downloaded after downloading has completed.
Overcast, on the other hand, works fine.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Time to treat Apple releases like we used to treat Microsoft releases? (Always wait for the first service pack).
If iOS 11.1 can be considered "the first service pack", then even that sounds iffy. Or at least, what I'm reading suggests that even with that update, my battery life would still be crap should I decide to upgrade. Though this gets to another problem with Apple's maintenance of iOS: If you don't upgrade to iOS 11, you don't get their fix for krack attacks. Microsoft, on the other hand, did have the common decency to…
This. When Apple devices reach two generations old, they need to be forcibly removed from your environment, or they will quickly become gaping security holes. For a company that prides itself on its image of protecting users' privacy, it sure is behind the curve on software maintenance.
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#27I would have expected someone working at Apple who should be getting paid a high salary and writing software that is used by millions of people to have huge pride in their work. This means testing what they deliver in isolation and on integrated builds. So either apple staff are under too much pressure that quality control has gone out the window or they have the wrong kind of people. For instance are they missing the type of people who are obsessive about detail.
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#28My guess would be iOS11 overall 64bit application switch and deprecation of 32bit processors on older devices is making it slow overall.
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#29I use the iPhone 6s. It was responsive, and battery would last at least half the day just fine. Right after the upgrade, batter would last for maybe 1 hour, tops, 30 minutes on average. No minor upgrade fixed the problem, and apparently its a widespread one too. I am getting either the 8+ or the X, but I still think this is ridiculous at best.
Same here with an iPhone 7. I am permanently in low power mode and even then I barely make it through the day - and I am hardly using the phone. It is ridiculous.
Re: Ask HN: Why is iOS 11 such a mess?
#30> Hitting airplane mode now drops connected bluetooth devices Huh, doesn't happen to me
Wait, hasn't this always been the case?
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