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Apple releases iOS 10.3
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Re: Apple releases iOS 10.3
#32My iPad Pro only sees beta 7. I removed the device from the beta program a month ago, but it still sees the betas. Rebooted several times. My iPhone 7s, and two older iPhones upgraded to 10.3, as well as another iPad. Why is the iPad Pro different?
When you remove the device from the beta program, you have to re-install from scratch by restoring from a non-beta version.
If you had stayed on the beta program, you would now be upgraded to 10.3 automatically.
Re: Apple releases iOS 10.3
#33Changing filesystem for billions of phones in a point release? That doesn't sound fun.
Initially, I was thinking the same thing. Given how fast the average Apple consumer updates to major iOS releases, I imagine that rolling it out over a point release is actually part of the plan. Presumably, if something does go wrong on the individual level, the support burden on the genius bars will be lower (since major iOS releases have traditionally come alongside hardware releases), and if a major bug is found,…
> It stills feels wrong on a gut level, and semver folks might not be happy with it, but it seems to make some real sense.
If you maintain the public API, it's perfectly valid to radically change the implementation details in a point release.
If you're not going to respect the encapsulation of that kind of working knowledge behind an API, then you might as well just demand the very release of everything should be a Major version release.
Re: Apple releases iOS 10.3
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Initially, I was thinking the same thing. Given how fast the average Apple consumer updates to major iOS releases, I imagine that rolling it out over a point release is actually part of the plan. Presumably, if something does go wrong on the individual level, the support burden on the genius bars will be lower (since major iOS releases have traditionally come alongside hardware releases), and if a major bug is found,…
Rolling it out first on iOS at all doesn't seem like the right approach. If I were somehow in charge of it, I imagine I'd want to do it like: 1) ship it as officially supported on the Mac, but off by default. 2) a year or two later, ship it as officially supported on the Mac, on by default, but still allow HFS+ as an option. 3) A year or two after that, if all has gone well, then introduce it into iOS (where presumab…
>If I were somehow in charge of it, I imagine I'd want to do it like: 1) ship it as officially supported on the Mac, but off by default. 2) a year or two later, ship it as officially supported on the Mac, on by default, but still allow HFS+ as an option. 3) A year or two after that, if all has gone well, then introduce it into iOS (where presumably it's not reasonable to make it optional
The plan doesn't make much sense. For one, the Mac has way more edge cases than iOS (in that people do more, and in more low- and -high level ways) with the filesystem, including running all kinds of unix userlands, exchanging files with other filesystems, etc. In iOS all fs APIs and access are tightly controlled, and there's no mounting of disks, no touching outside the sandbox, no disk management apps, etc.
So iOS is a much better target for first launch than OS X.
Second, with this plan it would take 3-5 years to ever arrive. Why so late? Apple has been developing it for a while, and probably have thousands of tests it has to pass. And they have been running it on 1 million or more devs on the 10.3 beta program on actual devices for feedback for 2 months.
Re: Apple releases iOS 10.3
#35Cricket scores in Siri! But only Indian Premier league. I want international games too.
Re: Apple releases iOS 10.3
#36My iPad Pro only sees beta 7. I removed the device from the beta program a month ago, but it still sees the betas. Rebooted several times. My iPhone 7s, and two older iPhones upgraded to 10.3, as well as another iPad. Why is the iPad Pro different?
When you remove the device from the beta program, you have to re-install from scratch by restoring from a non-beta version. If you had stayed on the beta program, you would now be upgraded to 10.3 automatically. https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/restore#ios
That's untrue. You can upgrade to a newer release version if there is one. (source: just did this today with 10.3)
You only need to restore if you want to downgrade to a release version when you are on a later beta.
Re: Apple releases iOS 10.3
#37I just updated and was greeted with an Analytics screen asking to send usage and other telemetry data back to Apple. The first option to opt in was in large text while the second option to opt out was in very small text. Is this new? I don't recall seeing this screen before.
Re: Apple releases iOS 10.3
#38I've been running the beta for a few weeks now. The thing that stands out the most? They changed the filesystem, and I haven't noticed a thing - the upgrade time wasn't even significantly longer. If anything, the beta has been more stable than 10.2 releases. The fact they've pulled it off so seamlessly is pretty impressive. Heck, the majority of users won't have a clue that their filesystem has changed, and that's th…
As a counterpoint, my springboard has been sporadically crashing since I installed 10.3, and I have no idea why, but the FS change seems like an obvious culprit. Doubtful it will go away with the official release.
Re: Apple releases iOS 10.3
#39I'm excited about exposing to app developers a way to ask for ratings. Specifically, the ability to opt out of them. I think this doesn't address the real problem though, which is that ratings reset after every app update. This means that app developers have to constantly ask for reviews, which is exhausting as a user.
Apps can constantly ask but the API prevents their requests from appearing. It’s limited to something like 3 requests per year.
Re: Apple releases iOS 10.3
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
When you remove the device from the beta program, you have to re-install from scratch by restoring from a non-beta version. If you had stayed on the beta program, you would now be upgraded to 10.3 automatically. https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/restore#ios
That's untrue. You can upgrade to a newer release version if there is one. (source: just did this today with 10.3) You only need to restore if you want to downgrade to a release version when you are on a later beta.
I have a device that I unregistered from the beta's and it never picked up a newer version, I had to manually restore it.