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Apple Releases iOS 11.4.1 With Bug Fixes, USB Restricted Mode
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Given that even my parents know that 11.4 has given people battery drain issues, I expect that there’s a lot of people out there updating ASAP!
It always amazes me how much the media is willing to swallow everything without question.
Don't install iOS 11.4.1. It's slow as ****. I see how they plan on making iOS 12 "faster".
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Don't install iOS 11.4.1. It's slow as ****. I see how they plan on making iOS 12 "faster".
Oh, by the way, MacRumors, I have a bridge I think you'd be very interested in. Only $6 million, for a limited time. (Half off.) Also, it's 50% faster.
Updated fast on my IPP via OTA.
Now however, there is a very noticeable lag between doing and having it execute.
Reboot and hope at the moment. Hoping I don't have to go through the iTunes reinstall process again....
Now however, there is a very noticeable lag between doing and having it execute.
Reboot and hope at the moment. Hoping I don't have to go through the iTunes reinstall process again....
Everything is opening MUCH slower after this update. Much, much slower.
I’ve performed 2 reboots. Still slow. Big lag.
I’ve performed 2 reboots. Still slow. Big lag.
I'm taking that as a MBP keyboard rant. I got mine replaced--it had been useless for 15 months, store kept saying there was nothing wrong with it, so it sat on a shelf for 15 months while i used my old MBA (that I COULD type on). The new keyboard's fantastic. As in, it works perfectly, as a keyboard should have from the beginning. Anyway, I wasted 15 months on a $3k+ machine, but having it working is like getting a new toy. Downside: they failed to connect the sensor cable to the TB. So it's back in for that repair. In the spirit of half full/half empty, I'm taking the position when I get it back with the TB working TOO, it'll seem like an even better new toy.
It downloaded via WiFi and installed fast on iPhone 7. No way to say what good it will do this soon though, for those asking if it helped battery life. It takes more than 15 minutes to test that out.
ETA: BTW, after first installing it every app seemed to take forever to open. It was very slow. However, I double-pressed the button and flipped all the open apps off (so to speak) and then all was fine and the apps opened quickly thereafter.
ETA: BTW, after first installing it every app seemed to take forever to open. It was very slow. However, I double-pressed the button and flipped all the open apps off (so to speak
) and then all was fine and the apps opened quickly thereafter.This update adds USB restricted mode. Check it out in the Touch/Face ID in settings.app
It always amazes me how much the media is willing to swallow everything without question.
Don't install iOS 11.4.1. It's slow as ****. I see how they plan on making iOS 12 "faster".
Oh, by the way, MacRumors, I have a bridge I think you'd be very interested in. Only $6 million, for a limited time. (Half off.) Also, it's 50% faster.
11.4.1 is so much faster and my battery has only gone down 5% in 4 hours, limited use.
It's hard to believe nobody explained this to you yet, but the first decimal place is for feature additions.
It downloaded via WiFi and installed fast on iPhone 7. No way to say what good it will do this soon though, for those asking if it helped battery life. It takes more than 15 minutes to test that out.
ETA: BTW, after first installing it every app seemed to take forever to open. It was very slow. However, I double-pressed the button and flipped all the open apps off (so to speak
Sadly, 15 minutes might be all it takes considering the last two nights my phone has gone from 100% to 20% over the course of 8 idle hours while I’m sleeping.
iOS 11.4.1 also includes USB Restricted Mode, which was first introduced in the iOS 12 beta. USB Restricted Mode is designed to make your iPhone and iPad immune to certain hacking techniques used by law enforcement or other potentially malicious entities to gain access to an iOS device.
There are some iPhone access methods that use a USB connection, downloading data from your iPhone (or iPad) through the Lightning connector to crack the passcode. iOS 12 prevents this by disabling data access to the Lightning port if it's been more than an hour since your iOS device was last unlocked.
How does this impact charging? Do you have to unlock the phone every hour or just once right before charging? Any difference with wireless or smart connector charging or is it the same as lightning port charging?
There are some iPhone access methods that use a USB connection, downloading data from your iPhone (or iPad) through the Lightning connector to crack the passcode. iOS 12 prevents this by disabling data access to the Lightning port if it's been more than an hour since your iOS device was last unlocked.
How does this impact charging? Do you have to unlock the phone every hour or just once right before charging? Any difference with wireless or smart connector charging or is it the same as lightning port charging?
Give it some time. My phone was slow at first too but now it's back to normal.
I'm not sure what's going on with the battery because I'm running 11.3.1 on my iPhoneX and have noticed severely less battery life lately (last month or so). Used to be I'd never get below about 40% at the end of the day. Now I'm frequently having to plug my phone in in the evenings to make it to bedtime. I've turned off background refresh for almost everything.
Maybe I've got some other issue but in my case, 11.4 is not the culprit because I never installed it.
Maybe I've got some other issue but in my case, 11.4 is not the culprit because I never installed it.
The problem is the Quality Control discipline of Computer Science. It's still entrenched in quality control mindset that was conceived in the 'Industrial Wave' or era. That needs to change soon before catastrophe strikes, because software QC needs a completely different approach.
Here is a good read - https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/saving-the-world-from-code/540393/
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It downloaded via WiFi and installed fast on iPhone 7. No way to say what good it will do this soon though, for those asking if it helped battery life. It takes more than 15 minutes to test that out.
ETA: BTW, after first installing it every app seemed to take forever to open. It was very slow. However, I double-pressed the button and flipped all the open apps off (so to speak
Tried that. Thanks for the info. Unfortunately it didn't work for my IPP