omg the world is ending. such a small issue. i didnt even know dnd existed. if i dont want to be disturbed i cut my phone off
That's the spirit.
omg the world is ending. such a small issue. i didnt even know dnd existed. if i dont want to be disturbed i cut my phone off
Are you really too lazy to turn it on and off?
Sloppy on Apple's part - doesn't anybody there do any debugging anymore? Heads should roll. Oh wait....
As a programmer, I'd be interested to learn why it will resolve itself on January 7th. Is it because it's the first Monday of the year? That would line up with last year's bug fixing itself on January 2nd.
It is not... And this is not the most important thing.
Look from the other side.
What if you weren't woke up to job because such a mistake of Apple? The problem is not about flicking it.
1) User-set alarms still sound while DND is activated, so set an alarm to wake you up.
2) If you're relying on a phone call to wake you up for work, maybe you shouldn't turn on a feature which could make you miss it if the person calls a bit early.
Whilst I didn't have this issue, I did find that the "more than one call in three minutes" rule was ignored, leading to a very unhappy partner left outside the house in the early hours!
Is this related or a different issue?
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To some extent we all rely on technology to get us up and about every day.
If you had an alarm clock, put fresh batteries in it and they went dead overnight and you missed your alarm, I doubt you would be happy if the response you got from the battery company was "well you shouldn't RELY on this" etc.
You're talking about a bug where a feature designed to *prevent* your phone from making unwanted noises fails to turn off. If you absolutely *rely* on being able to hear the noises affected by that feature in order to make it to your job, you shouldn't have turned that feature on in the first place.
This is it actually. The NSDate(Components) can be faultily implemented and not take respect of the "nil-week" of each year.
I once ran into those problems and solved it using UNIX-time, which is much more reliable but far less flexible.
I am sure that Apple can easily address this issue, especially because I am more into GNU/Linux and not as skilled as their engineers in this proprietary API.
omg the world is ending. such a small issue. i didnt even know dnd existed. if i dont want to be disturbed i cut my phone off
So what happens next year?
And what about other issues? Should we turn our phone off for several days?
Unacceptable Apple!
You're talking about a bug where a feature designed to *prevent* your phone from making unwanted noises fails to turn off. If you absolutely *rely* on being able to hear the noises affected by that feature in order to make it to your job, you shouldn't have turned that feature on in the first place.
It not so much that but more the fact that Apple tends to give responses like this quite often and has been having massive problems with alarms and anything schedule all the time. This is not the first time the New Year issue hit them. They have DST issues quite often and multiple times in a row. It sad that Apple is still having these massive embarrassing issues. Where I work we had one of these issue hit us this year and I can promise you that it will be the first and last time it hits us because it got added into require test casing before a release to make damn sure it does not happen again. We also shoved out a patch the day we found out about it with an extermely getto rigged patch just to buy us time to find and fix it correctly which yes we did do.
You don't even have to turn it *on*. Leave it scheduled, but turn it off when it's supposed to turn off.
Why can't we rely on this this feature? Is it inevitably crap? What bits of our iPhone CAN we rely on? What bits of OSX can we rely on?
That's not what they said. You can manually turn it on or off. My guess is that by the time they got a patch out, it would already be 1/7/13. I noticed the issue on mine yesterday, but after manually turning it off yesterday, it seems to have resumed normal functions (meaning it turns on and off as normally). The risk in rushing out a patch is that they inadvertently screw up something else. This isn't affecting everyone who uses DND.
Christ, can't they just fix the dam BUG in a mini update?
Didn't Apple already fire the slimy dude responsible for IOS?
It's not a matter of testing (testing, not debugging, is what you meant. ....
In the time it would take to fix the bug it will have fixed itself!
EDIT: beaten to it I see.
Every year it conveniently resolves itself, only to come back next January 1st. So it never gets fixed.
Oh really? So how was DND on iOS 5? Was it a hidden feature or did you jailbreak to get it?
The only bug remotely similar to this was alarms needing to be reset after the switch from daylight savings time, not 'this exact bug'!
It's a bloody silent switch, a minor bug that will resolve itself in 4 days time. It's not a fundamental flaw, it's not a fundamental feature. Yes it's slightly irritating, but is it really so hard to open the settings app to flick it on and off manually for a few days?
The second year in a row where "this exact" bug occurred? Wasn't DND new with iOS 6, released (much) less than a year ago? Or are you confusing "this exact" bug with a similar (but different) one which occurred in Jan 2011? You do also realize that user-set alarms still function normally even with DND activated, right? DND just stops things like email alerts and the like from making noise.
Of last year, this is the second time in a row a crucial time based feature over New Years has failed on iOS (last year alarms became mysteriously disengaged/hindered after the new year).