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Apple Has Delayed Some Planned iOS 12 Features Until Next Year to Focus on Performance and Quality

Craig Federighi must really be out of touch with reality, because according to many on this forum, all of the bugs and issues we've been experiencing with iOS 11 are simply a basic part of software, issues being overblown, overstated, the work of trolls, or drama queens.
 
kiranmk2 said:
Better idea is when announcing features at WWDC, make it clear that they will not all come at once in September. 3 of the big additions: Apple Pay Cash, AirPlay 2 and iMessage in the Cloud didn't make it into the 11.0 release and given 2 of these won't make it out of beta until 6 months after the iOS 11 launch looks pretty shabby. They've done it before when the pre-announced the Photos app 6 months before it debuted.

The focus should be on getting a stable release with a few new features out in September and then fix a last few bugs and add features with each subsequent point release.
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Really agree.

Apple have kept with the relatively old fashioned ‘big bang’ software release (presumably for marketing reasons) and it’s come back to bite them.

As you say, it’s way better if they announce the year’s roadmap and a by quarter incremental release plan per feature.

And as many people on this thread have said, iOS (and the accompanying cloud services) are due a big user experience pass.

There’s loads of inconsistent UX approaches in iOS with apps that have barely been touched in ages.

Not to mention inconsistent UX gestures on iPad and iPhone X (swipe up from the bottom of the screen).

Finally, I’d really value a stability and user experience release where it feels like the foundations are being laid for iOS for the next 5 years or so.
 
One has to wonder: How did Apple manage to create dependable software prior to the days of online updates and public betas? Sure, maybe today's operating systems are more complex, but you'd think decades of expertise and custom-made chips would make Apple's job easier.
 
pika2000 said:
Well that's good news. iOS11 still left a bitter taste, even though I skipped the GM release. I mean really, if basic features like reachability was absent, there's some mis-prioritization somewhere.
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Agreed. I still regret updating from iOS 10 which was getting really stable towards the end of its current cycle & I still wish I could downgrade.
 
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apolloa said:
This is the second time Apple have been said to focus on bugs like this.... under Cooks watch iOS has had more bugs then ever before!

http://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/02/report-ios-9-will-focus-mainly-on-stability-and-performance/%3famp=1


http://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/9to5mac.com/2015/02/09/apples-ios-9-to-have-huge-stability-and-optimization-focus-after-years-of-feature-additions/amp/

Is Cook and co’s idea of iOS releases now one buggy and messy with new features followed by one with no new features but fixes the bugs of the previous release and so on?
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You know as systems grow and get more complex they are more prone to bugs...
 
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Seems to me that they are addressing the issues that might cause power spikes and shutdowns. Since they will be releasing the ability to disable the feature that slows down the CPU on power spikes with phones that have battery degradation.
 
apolloa said:
This is the second time Apple have been said to focus on bugs like this.... under Cooks watch iOS has had more bugs then ever before!

http://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/02/report-ios-9-will-focus-mainly-on-stability-and-performance/%3famp=1


http://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/9to5mac.com/2015/02/09/apples-ios-9-to-have-huge-stability-and-optimization-focus-after-years-of-feature-additions/amp/

Is Cook and co’s idea of iOS releases now one buggy and messy with new features followed by one with no new features but fixes the bugs of the previous release and so on?
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Jobs was secretive about fixing bugs, Cook is more open.
 
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iOS 11 has been pretty rough... Im glad to finally have Messages in the cloud in beta. iOS could use a feature lock and just making what we have now work well! REALLY WELL! Had a lot of high hopes for iOS11 just seems like the time table was to aggressive. 11.3 looks like what IOS should have been from the start. I can't really think of any missing features out side of multi user FaceTime.

High Sierra was supposed to be the be clean up and polish release and its been far from it. Lots of silly security mistakes.
Its gotta be embarrassing.
 
I guess a small start-up like Apple with the little money they have cannot allocate enough resources to a quality control team, and new development team at the same time....
 
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I agree with this decision - the "features" are becoming trivial and unnecessary, while the bugs are becoming more prominent and obstructive, and OS itself is becoming bloated and inefficient. It took 11.2.5 to make iPad Air 2 run decently with iOS 11, and it's obvious that it wasn't for want of CPU power or RAM.

Efficiency should always trump frivolous "features".
 
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b-dogg said:
I agree. I really wish they’d do the same with OSX. I few there’s no need for yearly update. Anyone remember Snow Leopard?! Desktop should be rock solid. There’s way too many bells and whistles being added at the expense of stability.
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This annual update cycle is the biggest problem in my opinion. There is absolutely no need to pressure the engineers to meet arbitrary deadlines.

While Google is releasing a major new version of Android every year, few users actually get those annual updates so it's a non-issue competitively speaking. Microsoft isn't releasing a major new version of Windows every year. So there shouldn't really be any competitive pressure.

What reason is there for Apple to so strictly stick to this silly annual cycle at the expense of user experience, missed expectations, and buggy releases?
 
I don't know why people get so down on Tim Cook. Sure, there are a few bugs here and there, but the man gave us the ability to make poo talk! What else could a person want in a mobile computing device???!!!

/s
 
GermanSuplex said:
iCloud Messages is long overdue. Using iMessages on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch is a pain, especially deleting messages on the watch.

For those who manually manage their music library, it’s been hugely buggy ever since iTunes Match rolled out, and hasn’t gotten better with Apple Music. If you turn on auto-download on all devices, listen to a song with your phone and then sync to your Mac or PC, the playcount doesn’t update. You have to turn off auto-download, then sync the song from the phone to iTunes, or vice versa. Playlists sometimes get duplicated when edited in iTunes, iBooks syncing is always removing books, asking for updates to books that have been updated numerous times... iBooks worked better when integrated with iTunes.

Lots of nagging little things like this that never seem to get ironed out.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one that's annoyed by the messed up play count. I've had my iTunes library since 2002, and while I know it's pointless, I enjoy being able to look and see that I've listened to Have a Cigar 405 times in the past 16 years. It's the main thing that's kept me from switching almost entirely to Spotify.
 
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FINALLY
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abi12a said:
Vague, a lot of new features in 11.3, so they are ditching those?
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Of course there will be new features in iOS 12. The big ones are just being shelved till next year. Has no bearing on iOS 11. And everyone should be perfectly fine with that. iOS 11 brought so many stupid little bugs its embarrassing. Clearly Apple realized this, thankfully.
 
"Fixing" crap in iOS 12 means NOTHING for MILLIONS of devices if they abandon those devices on a broken iOS 11 with no way to downgrade.


Every version of iOS is the same story:

Known issues and bugs in iOS 3? Just upgrade to iOS 4! Your device doesn't support iOS 4? TOO BAD!
Known issues and bugs in iOS 4? Just upgrade to iOS 5! Your device doesn't support iOS 5? TOO BAD!
Known issues and bugs in iOS 5? Just upgrade to iOS 6! Your device doesn't support iOS 6? TOO BAD!
Known issues and bugs in iOS 6? Just upgrade to iOS 7! Your device doesn't support iOS 7? TOO BAD!
Known issues and bugs in iOS 7? Just upgrade to iOS 8! Your device doesn't support iOS 8? TOO BAD!

iOS 8 so far as been the ONLY exception. Every device running iOS 8 got iOS 9.

...but then, it continued:

Known issues and bugs in iOS 9? Just upgrade to iOS 10! Your device doesn't support iOS 10? TOO BAD!
Known issues and bugs in iOS 10? Just upgrade to iOS 11! Your device doesn't support iOS 11? TOO BAD!

Every release is ABANDONED with known problems and bugs. It doesn't matter how many people have reported the bugs, if Apple doesn't put any priority on them, the fixes get put on hold until the next iOS release, which cannot be installed by many of the very people that report the bug.

Will people praise Apple for fixing stuff in iOS 12? Maybe. But what good will it do for all the people stuck on iOS 11?
 
deuxani said:
Refresh of the home screen? I wonder what that's all about.
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Probably a more "widget" centric home screen. YEs similar to android. Most of us use a handful of key features on our phones, or use siri, or pull down for most used apps. The idea of the icon grid is very stale now. I've been saying for year they should let people have a choice of the home screen either being the static icon grid or the Widget screen (which is way more useful for at a glance info).
 
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