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Apple Now Testing iOS 16.5 Internally as One of Final Updates Before iOS 17
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The last few iOS point versions always destroy the phone models (dramatic slowing, memory usage, and battery kill) that will be discontinued in the next cycle. The trick is to stop updating a few months before the next full version, if you suspect the phone will be discontinued. Right now I'm guessing 7, 7+, 8, 8+, X and SE2 are slated for destruction. Possibly 11 but unlikely. Would NOT update any of those ever again until apple announces which will get next iOS version, and if discontinued, definitely NEVER update to last point version, regardless of whatever security BS they make up.
Still Siri reguests broken on my homepods when calling scenes. "This is taking too long here..." geez. They've been slacking lately.
Apple, I’m one of your biggest fans but you need to take a year off and have your work from home engineers focus on stability! I have AirPods Pro 2 paired with my iPhone 14 Pro running iOS 16.3. Does this happen to anyone else? I'll be sitting at my desk and I have an incoming phone call. I pop both AirPods in my ears, hear the "bong" and then swipe to answer the call. The phone shows that it is using the first speaker option which is the speaker that you hold to your ear vs. being set to AirPods. If I tap on the AirPods option, the majority of the time, the call hangs up. It otherwise takes a good 5 seconds for me to hear the caller on my AirPods. It never used to be this way - used to be near instant. Is anyone else having this problem??? After I answer a call, it's 5 seconds of "Hello, you there? Can you hear me? Helloooo? Oh, there you are..." every.single.time. It's extremely frustrating for me and my clients. Another huge annoyance is that once I'm talking to someone on the phone with my APP2, about 1-3 minutes into the call, the call switches from the APP2 back to the internal iPhone speaker (not speakerphone). Do Apple engineers/employees actually use their own products? Do they care? Also, I'm about to throw my two paired HomePod OGs out the window!!! I get the "Who's speaking?" question many times per week and I’m the only male in the house and have a deep voice if you were wondering…FFS Apple!
Vulnerabilities can’t wait that long to be patched.
I have 4 Apple TVs, 5 HomePods, 3 iPhones, an iPad, Apple Watch, and a MacBook and easily manage to keep up. But if it’s too difficult for you, nobody is forcing you to do it.
16.5 will be a minor update. Waiting to see Apple music classical.
Which is a good thing, considering how buggy iOS 15 and 16 were at GM. I mean there’s no harm in pushing an OS that focus on bug fixes.
Apple doesn’t have thousands of configurations. They make the OS only for their own hardware, and iDevices are closed system devices. Add on Tim Cook always bragging about their hardware and software integration at the beginning of every keynote. Really no excuses for a trillion dollar company.
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 missed that. It's so commonplace now I can't keep up. Maybe Apple should just start putting 1 year auto-destruct in all their hardwwre. They could make so much more money!
I really hate it when some writer says something “will be one of the last” something or other. That says nothing. There could be any number before the last comes out. Why bother to even say that?
But look how beautiful the iPhone 14 Pro shape is ... just so prestine and clean.
I was discussing software variations that users have installed, not comparing it to numerous hardware variations that for example windows PC’s hardware present with the wide array of drivers also. Just looking at iPhones there is a ton of iPhone apps out there that are loaded on people iPhones.
Even then, iOS apps run in a sandboxed environment, with APIs tightly controlled by Apple.
In short, Apple has a much more controlled environment than other platforms. If Apple, a trillion dollar company, cannot even have a good grasp of its own software and platform, then confidence of future Apple products that require even more stringent QC like cars should be questioned.
Nothing exciting. IOS is stable for sure but not that modern for the way people want to use their phone. FB Messenger cannot have chat head. The keyboards are limited and stuck in the past!!! If you've used SWIFTKEY on Android you will understand. Even the iPad keyboard is better (wonder who did that?)
iOS 16 is truly a low water mark for Apple software, particularly on iPhone 14 Pro. It’s horrendous. I won’t be sad to see it go.
yup, thanks for the link. Just did. Doubt it will help. I don't think they are very attuned to their customers any longer...
Most FAANGS or whatever they’re now tend to hire in the same method: value quick working (and unmaintainable) code over something someone more tenured would write.
