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Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut

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Post by corey_moncure »

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…

I stopped using MacOS years ago but there are a few on iOS that really grind my gears.

You have a setting to whitelist a Group from your Contacts from Do Not Disturb mode so that they can always ring through. But there's no way to manage your Groups from iOS. It doesn't exist. You must have a Mac with iTunes, or whatever is used to administer the iFoo stuff these days to do simple CRUD stuff with contact groups. This is total nonsense.

The Bluetooth toggle button in the quick menu on iOS now doesn't switch Bluetooth off, it just switches it off for one day. NO!!! I want it OFF when I want it OFF, and I can be trusted to turn it ON when I want it ON! Make UI design that respects my choices!

Whenever I plug my phone into my car, it starts playing the same song from my library every time. It doesn't care if something else is playing in SoundCloud, or FB2K or some other app. It will stop my music that's playing, so it can go and load up this other song and play it. Why?

My five and two year old daughters always say "awww, the annoying song again??" Even a two year old can see that this is hogwash!

Everyone makes mistakes, but when things like this appear and persist, it's a signal that the brain has separated from the body, long ago...

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Post by clairity »

wlesieutre wrote: post #80
criddell wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

iOS 12 and Mojave are fine. Just stay there, fix bugs, and add support for new hardware.

iOS 12 is fine for phones maybe, but iOS 13 (or iPadOS if you prefer) is a pretty big change for iPads in terms of power-user features. USB storage support, network drive support, multiple instances of apps, multiple apps switchable in slide-over, major improvements to Safari. I've run into some bugs, but I wouldn't switch back to 12. EDIT - Forgot to mention the contextual menus, which are new to iPads this year as…

yup, of the 3 (mbp, iphone, ipad), my ipad pro is the only the only one i've updated with the latest OS, mainly for the improvements to multi-tasking windows and having the "today view" on the home screen. i've had no major (additional) bugs pop up yet.

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Post by corobo »

gonational wrote: post #128

Dear Apple, 1. Return text selection back to 12.x functionality - it is now literally impossible to e.g., select a single word from a link’s anchor text without first selecting some random portion of text (half the page at times), and then walking back the blue knobs for 45 minutes. The ideal UX is to offer to select a word if I click next to it, and if I press down and hold, give me a movable cursor every single tim…

Anyone else have it where the keyboard animates up in super slowmo?

I occasionally have it happen when pulling down to do a search and aside from it bring completely uncanny valley creepy it never quite finishes it’s animation so I can’t use the keyboard to type anything

Unfortunately I’ve not found any rhyme or reason to it to report the bug aside from what I’ve typed above “sometimes iOS is weird” would probably not get a response

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Post by irq »

gonational wrote: post #128

Dear Apple, 1. Return text selection back to 12.x functionality - it is now literally impossible to e.g., select a single word from a link’s anchor text without first selecting some random portion of text (half the page at times), and then walking back the blue knobs for 45 minutes. The ideal UX is to offer to select a word if I click next to it, and if I press down and hold, give me a movable cursor every single tim…

I’ve experienced every single one of these bugs, and some of them have existed for multiple releases, which means they are extremely unlikely to ever be fixed. [0]

0: https://tidbits.com/2019/10/21/six-reasons-why-ios-13-and-ca...

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Post by look_lookatme »

TheRealWatson wrote: post #33
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…

> 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 :)

You don't know this person, you don't know what their experience was. Your comment borders on smarm.

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Post by Sendotsh »

nvrspyx wrote: post #199
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…

I’ve always chosen Apple because there’s always been very little friction, thus very little frustration. However, the past year or two has been very frustrating. Taps on my iPhone 11 Pro sometimes don’t register because it’s in the middle of an animation or it’s just unresponsive. Moving apps around has become the biggest pain. Apps are killed in the background after about 5 minutes. Typing has become a huge pain to…

I moved to Android a couple of years ago as I was so frustrated with all the issues I was having (after being an iPhone user since the first iPhone) only to realise Android is the same mess of bugs and issues. It made me come to the conclusion that tech in general has just lost its path now, and the constant push for higher specs and more features has led to devices that suck at their basic use cases (but look at those pixel-level photo comparison!1one!).

I ended up switching back to an iPhone 8 this year, as it’s the last iPhone I found to actually “just work”.

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Post by jackall »

My iPhone's battery has been discharging like crazy after I updated to iOS 13.2.2. Without any active usage of the phone the entire battery discharges in about 4 - 5 hours, due to apps' background activity. I'm having to charge the phone 2 - 3 times a day.

According to https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2019/11/19/apple-io..., the battery discharge issue has apparently not been fixed, so I'm not planning to update my phone yet. Hopefully it gets fixed in the next iOS release.

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Post by pertymcpert »

georgespencer wrote: post #133
saagarjha wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

That's due to necessity, not due to choice.

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Post by ksec »

I am wondering it this is because of Swift.

And after 5 years I am also wondering if Swift was the wrong bet.

Especially on the Mac, no one buy a new machine every year, and hence the Mac as a platform are more for new comers and replacement cycle. So as long as the hardware were kept up to date, they will come. Why not just stop making new features on macOS and start fixing bugs and paying down those technical debt, all the way down from the Kernel to application layers.

I cant even name 5 features that were must have in the last few macOS release.

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