Apple Confirms iOS 16 Bug Impacting New Device Activation as iPhone 14 Orders Begin to Arrive

[Sydnxt]

did the option to update come before the phone actually activated? I think last year there was an update I had to do when setting up but I can’t remember at what step it was

No, I had troubles activating, used my Mac to activate, restored through iCloud then updated the phone.

 

[Sydnxt]

Did it let you update the phone before trying to load your backup?

Unfortunately not

 

[alexandr]

Um, iTunes?.. That's not even a thing anymore. This takes me back to 2007...

 

[Sydnxt]

Um, iTunes?.. That's not even a thing anymore. This takes me back to 2007...

It’s a thing and still updated on Windows!

 

[jashworth03]

too bad you need wifi to activate cellular service on the esim rofl.

Actually not true. Apple struck a deal with carriers to allow small data sessions to import esim while not on WiFi. You won’t see it connect to a carrier during the session and it will encourage you to connect to WiFi, but not required.

 

[FelixDerKater]

Beta in a Box.

 

[mxrider88]

I hope someone realises how bad the software department became.

Obviously we are all human and mistakes can happen, but the quality control is absolutely zero. Zero. I really hope it serves as a wake up call for the management.

 

[menist]

Why are we beta testers while every other country got the better iPhone 14's with the sim card slot.

 

[senttoschool]

Do tell how is testing activation (that in real life, is done by customers around the world in their own homes) have to be done inside the space ship office. Testing this outside with outside internet connectivity instead of internal would actually be a better testing ground.

1. Harder for employees to access iPhone 14 prototypes to test features while working from home. In office, anyone can probably just walk up to a station and start testing their team's features immediately. Work from home means they must be mailed updated iPhone 14 prototypes contstantly to test. Knowing Apple's extreme secrecy, they might limit shipping iPhone prototypes in the mail just in case they got lost. So the guy who was suppose to test this feature might have not even received a prototype.

2. Lack of good communication for work from home means something like this could have been missed

3. Employees slacking off at home instead of working

4. Employees are less engaged while working from home, leading to carelessness like this

5. Employees are too busy playing with their cats, distracted by their kids, distracted by people in a coffee shop if they are working there, distracted by a video game they have opened on the other screen, etc.

6. The guy who was supposed to write an automated integration test for this was too drunk on his margarita while "working" from the beach.

Probably dozens more reasons.

These obvious and silly mistakes are becoming far more common. It is as if work from home employees do the bare minimum.

None of us here have data on Apple employee productivity, creativity, and engagement level. Only high-level Apple executives do have this data.

But we do have two pieces of evidence that working from home isn't working for Apple:

1. Tim Took and the rest of the exec team are adamant that employees must return to office
2. Poor product and software quality and a lot of delays

And please, don't tell me that Tim Cook wants employees back in the office because he wants to fill his billion dollar spaceship office. He doesn't give a damn about the spaceship office if his employees are actually more productivitive. Clearly, they aren't more productive.

 

[sorgo †]

1. Harder for employees to access iPhone 14 prototypes to test features while working from home. In office, anyone can probably just walk up to a station and start testing their team's features immediately. Work from home means they must be mailed updated iPhone 14 prototypes contstantly to test.

2. Lack of good communication for work from home means something like this could have been missed

3. Employees slacking off at home instead of working

4. Employees are less engaged while working from home, leading to carelessness like this

5. Employees are too busy playing with their cats, distracted by their kids, distracted by people in a coffee shop if they are working there, distracted by a video game they have opened on the other screen, etc.

Probably dozens more reasons.

These obvious and silly mistakes are becoming far more common. It is as if work from home employees do the bare minimum.

Trust in Tim Cook. If he wants employees back, it's because he knows work from home isn't working.

B-but, sleeping in and wearing my jammies to ‘work’ is so much better!!1

 

[Mr. Dee]

Oh my, now you will have to resort to one of the other 20 Internet devices you likely already have in our position. What must we do???

 

[dweb619_2]

"open" wi-fi networks seem to be the keyword. Maybe let's not complain about apple and iOS until, say, I don't know, more people get the phones and go through the setup.

 

[magicschoolbus]

Man this is gonna be one sweet iPod touch

 

[senttoschool]

B-but, sleeping in and wearing my jammies to ‘work’ is so much better!!1

For employees, getting paid while not working is even better! Let's just do that. Why can't we have that? Work-life balance will be awesome without any work.

 

[soapropos]

No, I had troubles activating, used my Mac to activate, restored through iCloud then updated the phone.

ok. Did you have to transfer your eSIM via restore/Bluetooth? I’m guessing since activation got messed up that didn’t transfer over…

 

[Shirasaki]

Isn't iOS 16.0.1 out of the box correcting this?

The iOS software is loaded months in advance of beta period, so clearly no iOS 16.0.1 in the box for initial release.

 

[ian87w]

Not a biggie in my opinion but the Google heads are gonna try and mock Apple.

Considering that Android has been PC free from day 1, in this case, rightfully so. But we can always take turns and make fun of Google pushing Android 12 to Pixel users that thought they were updating to Android 13 (yeah, that actually happened as well).

I mean seriously, Apple's solution is to connect to a computer, which something that they themselves had done away with in iOS5. That's just embarassing. Plus, it's an activation bug, a process during first time set up that a customer does after opening the box. Apple put so much attention even into the friction of their box top so it slides "just right," yet they missed this? It's embarassing for sure.

Maybe it's time to have iOS have its own recovery mode, so it can update itself before booting into the OS, just like Macs have recovery mode where it can download the latest supported macOS prior to the OS itself booting.

 

[ian87w]

From a 20000000 trillion dollar company folks. And they’re looking to make cars…

Can't wait for the Apple car that requires iTunes to activate.

 

[incoherent_1]

iOS releases are getting worse every year, and that's saying something

 

[dms_91]

The iOS software is loaded months in advance of beta period, so clearly no iOS 16.0.1 in the box for initial release.

Apple already stated that they are launching the 16.0.1 update..

 

[UltimateSyn]

Isn't iOS 16.0.1 correcting this?

Sure, but can you even install a new iOS update before activation?

 

[ian87w]

Im predicting a total meltdown with the carriers and esim activations tomorrow. Good luck y’all.

I'm all set with my popcorn. 🍿

 

[dms_91]

Sure, but can you even install a new iOS update before activation?

Yes, via a mac or pc upon restoring

 

[ian87w]

Why are we beta testers while every other country got the better iPhone 14's with the sim card slot.

Because Tim knows you would still buy their stuff anyway.

 

[jvchappy]

Is there a way to update before you begin activation?