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Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut

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Re: Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut

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Post by n1000 »

mschuster91 wrote: post #37
hylaride wrote: post #17

There have been glaring bugs/issues lasting ages in both MacOS and iOS. For years apple mail on iOS would always show 1 unread message in "all mail" for gmail. On my iPhone 11 pro (and the 6S i had before it) the camera app will sometimes only show a black screen and a freaking reboot is needed to get it working again. I've missed out on many moments with my toddler because of that. Multi-monitor support was so good…

> Time machine's performance has slowly gotten worse and worse, leaving me having to cancel backups just so I can go home. I'm administrating TimeMachine for my employer. It sucks so incredibly hard on a lot of points: 1) it requires the aged AFP protocol instead of Samba 2) No user-/machine-defineable quota, only one across the whole server 3) Extremely poor behavior in higher-than-10ms-latency scenarios 4) no way o…

You can use (encrypted) sparsebundle images with a given size limit as backup destination on the server.

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Post by georgespencer »

saagarjha wrote: post #27
georgespencer wrote: post #19

Apple parrots their OS update metrics as a leading indicator of customer engagement / satisfaction with the platform & how sympathetic they are to the difficulty for developers of putting out software for new hardware every year. I'm interested to know the rationale for them putting out weekly releases vs. fortnightly or monthly. It seems like they could burn a lot of goodwill with casual users.

> I'm interested to know the rationale for them putting out weekly releases vs. fortnightly or monthly. Apple doesn't push out weekly releases to the public. Are you suggesting that they should?

In the last 11 days we have had two public releases of iOS.

That’s MORE than one per week.

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Post by redwall_hp »

technosmurf wrote: post #126
jrgaston wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Arghh, those floating Safari windows. How do you get rid of them?

When you already have Safari running (or any other app), pull up the dock from the bottom edge of the screen. Then press the Safari icon (or alternatively, press and hold on the Safari icon and choose "Show All Windows"). Now, all of those floating Safari windows are shown, and you can "toss them away" and close them. Yes, it's not a very intuitive discovery process :(

I definitely appreciate the need to have multiple windows of the same app on an iPad, but the way Apple went about it is...bizarre, clunky and not exactly intuitive.

Considering Exposé and its default gestures exist on MacOS, you'd think maybe they'd take cues from that?

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Post by n1000 »

hylaride wrote: post #17

There have been glaring bugs/issues lasting ages in both MacOS and iOS. For years apple mail on iOS would always show 1 unread message in "all mail" for gmail. On my iPhone 11 pro (and the 6S i had before it) the camera app will sometimes only show a black screen and a freaking reboot is needed to get it working again. I've missed out on many moments with my toddler because of that. Multi-monitor support was so good…

> Time machine's performance has slowly gotten worse and worse, leaving me having to cancel backups just so I can go home.

you could try to increase the backup service‘s priority with ‚sudo sysctl debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=0‘

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Post by dreweckert »

Razengan wrote: post #30

I'm one of the most staunch Apple supporters but even I must admit that since WWDC 2019, I have spent more time fighting Apple's bugs than actually using any of the new features...or the old features that used to work flawlessly (like iTunes/Music.) Not just on the user side, but the developer end as well. Perfectly valid code which used to work up till Xcode 11.1 throws errors inside the Swift runtime or toolchain o…

So did you staunchly support the suicide nets that Apple installed in their factories, or the working conditions that led to the suicides in the first place?

Seems like an odd corporation to express "staunch support" of.

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Post by dreweckert »

ReptileMan wrote: post #124
novaRom wrote: post #107

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and introduces some new. Seriously, why don't they open source it? There are so many so bad security issues in Apple software last years.

Open source piece of crap will smell just the same. If there are serious problems in Xcode open sourcing it will only amplify them since a lot of the stuff will be fix by people without deep knowledge of the codebase and probably introduce some new. Keep in mind - I am not pro or against open sourcing it - just I don't think it will help currently at all.

What reasoning do you have to say that open sourcing it would amplify problems because it allows it to be fixed by people without deep knowledge of the codebase?

So confused by how enabling someone to see the source code will somehow hurt the code that would still be maintained by apple. It would still be up to them on whether or not to include a fix that was proposed by someone that viewed their code and tried to fix it.

Also, I think that fresh eyes on a problem can be quite beneficial. I believe a tunnel vision can occur when one group of individuals are trying to fix the same problems for years.

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Post by toasterlovin »

pushpop wrote: post #51
TheRealWatson wrote: post #33

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> I've missed out on many moments with my toddler because of that You just missed taking pictures. You were still there to live them :)

So true. My parents didn’t miss out not having a camera phone and neither did my grandparents. It’s amazing how dependant we’ve become on capturing moments. Sometimes even to the detriment of actually experiencing them.

I get this sentiment. But whenever my wife and I swipe through old photos and videos of our kids, I am also overjoyed that I am a parent in the smartphone era.

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Post by quakeguy »

hylaride wrote: post #17

There have been glaring bugs/issues lasting ages in both MacOS and iOS. For years apple mail on iOS would always show 1 unread message in "all mail" for gmail. On my iPhone 11 pro (and the 6S i had before it) the camera app will sometimes only show a black screen and a freaking reboot is needed to get it working again. I've missed out on many moments with my toddler because of that. Multi-monitor support was so good…

Same with missed calls on an iPhone, the notification never wents away after checking. Only restarts helped me. Weirdly enough this issue seems to happen randomly, not all missed calls are being this persistent.

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Post by deergomoo »

hylaride wrote: post #17

There have been glaring bugs/issues lasting ages in both MacOS and iOS. For years apple mail on iOS would always show 1 unread message in "all mail" for gmail. On my iPhone 11 pro (and the 6S i had before it) the camera app will sometimes only show a black screen and a freaking reboot is needed to get it working again. I've missed out on many moments with my toddler because of that. Multi-monitor support was so good…

Interestingly, with a few exceptions (looking at you, Xcode), stuff barely ever crashes anymore in my experience.

Instead the issues are a lot more frustrating: failure states where no indication of failure is provided (other than what you’re trying to accomplish isn’t happening), no reason is given, and no means to try again is available.

It’s become even worse now that most things have some sort of web sync aspect. You’re just left turning things off and on in different combinations, in the vague hope that you can reset some piece of state somewhere.

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