Apple Preparing iOS 7.1.2 Update, Likely Addressing Email Encryption and iMessage Issues

[Tech198]

Bring it on

 

[dampfnudel]

Let's hope iOS 8 is a nice stable, well-tested OS with as few bugs as possible.

The Snow Leopard of iOS if you will

After my experience with 7.0, I hope you're right.

 

[Good User Name]

What's the Y-axis in that chart?

I'm just going to assume that the y-axis is dot height.

 

[dazzer21]

Bulk email delete!!!

Why the hell isn't there been a bulk delete option for the thousands of emails I have sitting on my iDevices? I'm not the only one who thinks that this should have been, if not there from the start, part of the 7.0.1 update. To have to individually choose and slide to delete is ridiculous!

 

[pedromcm.pm]

Peoples' experiences seem to vary with everyone OS X version. Mavericks has not been rock solid on my machines. I've had numerous complete OS freezes/crashes on two of my machines. And I didn't upgrade until a few weeks ago, thinking that by now things would be better (10.9.3 didn't help, might have made things worse). Mountain Lion was rock solid for me ever since it's initial release - it was Lion with bug fixes and some new apps for iCloud (the core OS was mostly unchanged). I'd consider a downgrade to ML, but we're close enough to another OS X version, and I'm hoping 10.10 will be to Mavericks what ML was to Lion.

Not that much has changed since Snow Leopard -- certainly no changes in "paradigm", as you seem to imply, it's still following the familiar desktop OS model we've had for decades now. I'm not sure how you can consider it "archaic". The only thing that makes it less useful is that most new versions of apps don't support it. That said, Snow Leopard wasn't all that stable when it first came out, and needed time (about a year) for all the bugs to be shaken out.

Should be ignore the whole cloud/share/sync paradigm?

 

[thekeyring]

Oh FFS why does everyone hold up Snow Leopard as this paragon of virtue.

Snow Leopard caused my single biggest data loss. Thankfully I keep backups, and Apple released a patch.

Ignorance on my part. I know it was really refined and everyone seems to hate on Lion and ML.

 

[jonnysods]

I agree except with Auxo 2. That thing is the most cluttered tweak ever.

I took off that mission control thing that had cause it was an overload for the eyes.

I like the virtual home button and dock switcher.

 

[Chomp81]

Really iOS8 ?!?!

Am i the only one that thinks that it's ridicule to have a new iOS, when there are such basic bugs in the latest one?

I would rather see an iOS 7.5, with basic improvements, and not a whole new platform that will have new bugs....

 

[LordQ]

Am i the only one that thinks that it's ridicule to have a new iOS, when there are such basic bugs in the latest one?

I would rather see an iOS 7.5, with basic improvements, and not a whole new platform that will have new bugs....

I agree with you seeming that Healtbook will be the "mayor" thing this year...

 

[C DM]

What does iOS 8 have to do with a potential iOS 7.1.2 update?

 

[warrickj]

Hangin Out

I am soooo looking forward to this OS. I hung off so long upgrading to 7 but given how stable it's been can't understand why I didn't do it earlier esp. if it brings as much change as the last!

 

[C DM]

I am soooo looking forward to this OS. I hung off so long upgrading to 7 but given how stable it's been can't understand why I didn't do it earlier esp. if it brings as much change as the last!

Don't expect 7.1.2 to being much noticeable change, mainly just some important fixes.

 

[nilk]

Should be ignore the whole cloud/share/sync paradigm?

Are you talking about iCloud? Applications being able to sync/store data to a server-side data store is certainly not new and I don't think what Apple has added (integration with their own services) constitutes a paradigm change. Third party apps can and do achieve the same effect without Apple's iCloud (and thus on Snow Leopard if they choose to support it), the only thing Apple's iCloud gives you is a vendor-specific framework for achieving it.

 

[SMIDG3T]

Today at 1800 BST? I hope so!

 

[jbachandouris]

Well, its 1:23 EST. Usually updates drop at 1PM. Oh well...

 

[C DM]

Today at 1800 BST? I hope so!

Practically any weekday around that time is a possibility for any iOS update.

 

[SMIDG3T]

Practically any weekday around that time is a possibility for any iOS update.

I know but surely either tomorrow or Thursday. They wouldn't release on a Friday, that's too close to WWDC.

 

[C DM]

I know but surely either tomorrow or Thursday. They wouldn't release on a Friday, that's too close to WWDC.

Well, realistically speaking, it doesn't have to be released before WWDC necessarily, it could be even next week, or the week after, or even beyond that, and that's assuming nothing changes and this information is correct and there will in fact be an update released.

 

[SMIDG3T]

Well, realistically speaking, it doesn't have to be released before WWDC necessarily, it could be even next week, or the week after, or even beyond that, and that's assuming nothing changes and this information is correct and there will in fact be an update released.

True, but these two major bugs (in my eyes there are major) need to be fixed ASAP.

 

[C DM]

True, but these two major bugs (in my eyes there are major) need to be fixed ASAP.

While I think everyone agrees that something like that is there, and while everything points to there being an update (and sometime soon), nothing is really a given for sure, at the very least the part about it necessarily coming out before the WWDC (although hopefully that's the case).