Annoying iOS 16.3 Bugs

[wa2be]

I’ve been pretty happy with iOS 16 on my 2nd gen SE up to this point, but 16.3 introduced 2 annoying bugs:

1. Radar no longer works in the Weather App. You have to zoom all the way out until you can see the entire country before it shows any precipitation. Shows nothing at the local level.

2. When using either Bluetooth or CarPlay to listen to audio in my car, everything works great when the audio file is first started. But if I shut it off, like when arriving at my destination, then get back into the car the audio will not restart. It gives me a grayed-out play button that does nothing. I have to exit out of the app and restart the audio manually on the phone to make it play again. Prior to 16.3 it would just automatically resume when I started the car back up.

On the plus side, my battery life is better on 16.3 than any previous version of 16. But seriously Apple, why release these updates if they aren’t ready to go?

 

[usagora]

Apple, why release these updates if they aren’t ready to go?

Pretty much every OS release for any platform has at least some bugs that (hopefully) get fixed in future updates. Software consists of very complex code, so it's no surprise that it's never perfect.

 

[kvozel]

Pretty much every OS release for any platform has at least some bugs that (hopefully) get fixed in future updates. Software consists of very complex code, so it's no surprise that it's never perfect.

This is so true, but I maintain unacceptable. There is so little attention spent on quality anymore in the tech industry. They even announce and are so proud of bugs they fix... the bugs shouldn't be there to begin with. When I developed online banking software in the 80's, there would never be bugs like we have today.

Off my soap box now.

 

[usagora]

This is so true, but I maintain unacceptable.

Well, I'd have to say you have unreasonable expectations if you're expecting 100% perfect software releases ever, let alone every time. Software has become a lot more complex than in the 80's.

 

[wa2be]

I understand that there will be bugs in something as complex as an operating system, but I also feel that it’s not asking too much that the latest release doesn’t break things that were working fine on previous releases.

 

[JuicyGoomba]

I think the main issue is that as the most valuable tech company in the world, Apple have a disproportionately large amount of severe to critical bugs in their operating systems.

Sure there are bugs in android, windows 11, etc. From using these systems daily most are limited to visual issues with the GUI.

Bugs in iOS seem to go beyond purely aesthetics. For instance the issue with notifications being completely blank in iOS 16.2. It's not just visual like the ugly square corners but actually blocks you from seeing notification content.

A lot of apple apologists on here seem to think it's okay to just say "oh it's cause most of the team are working on RealityOS". It's far from being okay. They have more than enough resources to hire an entire new team to work on the reality headset, but chose to sacrifice the stability of every other device instead for the sake of saving $$$$$$$.