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Apple Pulls iPadOS 18 for M4 iPad Pro After Bricking Complaints [Updated]
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Been using Beta for a bit now. Zero issues.
Curious why release has this issue, but not earlier Beta copies.
Curious why release has this issue, but not earlier Beta copies.
Perform a clean OS install on the devices you own then comeback and tell us your experience.
Only affects a small number of users™
One wonders if Apple tested the 17.6.1 -> 17.7 -> 18 update path, or if they just tested 17.6.1 -> 18.
Gotta pay attention to the dialog box when a new iOS / iPadOS is available -- too many people accidentally updating to 17.7, it sounds like.
Gotta pay attention to the dialog box when a new iOS / iPadOS is available -- too many people accidentally updating to 17.7, it sounds like.
Apple's unique hardware and software integration that ensures mutual destruction.
Yep since 17.7 is big on main page and 18 just small at bottom. Very easy to happen.
Makes me even happier I returned mine due to the terrible quality control on the grainy screens. $1000+ devices being bricked left and right because Apple doesnt test anything. Every year a random device gets bricked with these updates
I am using an SE 2020 and 2022 both since Dev. Beta 1 and now 18.1 Dev. Beta 1 and never had any problems. It's also nothing slower than on iOS 17.
This is why I am NOT installing iOS 18.0 on my iPhone 12. I'll wait until Apple posts the first bug-fix release, which they tend to do very quickly now, before attempting an iOS 18 update. Last year, I waited until iOS 17.0.1 to finally get iOS 17 on my iPhone 12.
I’m not that surprised by this. Luxury and flagship products don’t have high sales volumes. People who have money buy them because they can. At the same time, they’re the testers. We call them early birds in business. These people have money and are open to new technology and trying out new things, even if they don’t work. Once they have tested the waters, a stable, scaled mass product with much higher volume potential is released.
"We CAN'T WAIT for you to try it out!"
In this case, people should wait.
In this case, people should wait.
Safari was snappier, but you couldn't see it.
I didn't see any issues upgrading to 18.
I didn't see any issues upgrading to 18.
Are you sure? iOS 17.7 and 18 were launched at the same time. There had to have been a lot more testing going from 17.6.1 to 18 then they were able to do from 17.7 to 18.
All QA will be done by artificial intelligence one day. And it will be bloody awful.
Interesting I saw that Update iOS 17.7 and skipped that one and went stray to iOS 18, so far everything is fine with my iPad M4.