Half a year has passed since the release of iOS 16 and I am fed up with this fuss and graphics errors. It's a shame that there are such mistakes on the phone for so much money!!!
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Apple Now Testing iOS 16.5 Internally as One of Final Updates Before iOS 17
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If iOS 17 comes with the ability to set multiple timers, that would be a game changer. We will see it featured on Apple's homepage, as one of the key points of the new OS.
Anything else on your wishlist? Let's dream!
Anything else on your wishlist? Let's dream!
iOS 17 will throw a lot of older devices under the bus. 
What's the point of releasing iOS 17? Oh, right.. need something new to sell with the new iPhone model later this fall.
Apple needs to stop and concentrate on quality control on the existing iOS 16.x.x but instead focuses on selling the newer iPhone and iOS to keep its high profit margins.
Apple needs to stop and concentrate on quality control on the existing iOS 16.x.x but instead focuses on selling the newer iPhone and iOS to keep its high profit margins.
If you have to get up to x.5 release 6 months after the release of x.0, then you need a new programming chief and a large ship load of smarter programmers.
Well if iOS/IPadOS 16.4 is released late March or sometime in April, its a given you have a iOS/IPadOS 16.5 before WWDC in June.
Well last years iOS/IpadOS ended up with 15.7 for Sept 2022. So Apple could easily repeat the same for iOS/IpadOS during the time just before WWDC 2023 thru Sept. We know iOS/IpadOS 16.5 is in the works before WWDC.
The one that cracks me up is I asked Siri to change a timer. She said I had one time and do I want to change it. There can only be ONE!! And then asked what I wanted to change it to even though I told her in the initial request.
Possibly because you can have multiple timers... on the Apple Watch.
Maybe with iOS 18 (it’s double 9) or 19. I think they are too busy with XR this year.
Who spends a lot of time shipping operating systems and software without some bugs these days? Software is way more complex than years ago, just impossible to avoid every little bug without extensive testing in all forms of usage with thousands of configurations.
Never going to happen. Apple keeps that functionality for Apple Watch so it can sell more. It’s funny that my Series 3 can set at least 5 timers simultaneously (I haven’t tried more) while my iPhone 12 can only set one😂
Whatever, Apple should at least give the impression they are trying, but they don't even care about that.
Who spends a lot of time shipping operating systems and software without some bugs these days? Software is way more complex than years ago, just impossible to avoid every little bug without extensive testing in all forms of usage with thousands of configurations.
I am. Sounds like iOS 17 will really be iOS
If it means Apple are taking their time to really test and refine this release properly, instead of rushing out a bunch of half-baked new features to tick boxes defined by marketing? Then that’s a great thing.
Possibly always thought one. I will have to try to purposely set two on Homepod tonight.
Seems like Apple is doing a good job of keeping things under wraps this year. Nothing says doubling down on security like people being not hyped about the release.