Apple Releases iOS 11.4.1 With Bug Fixes, USB Restricted Mode

[dkh587]

Hopefully this will fix the missing badges on iMessage on my iPad.

I hope so too. My mom has been dealing with this with her brand new iPad 6th gen. We’ve been round and round with Apple. Its ridiculous...

 

[sbailey4]

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?

It doesn't and no. The charging circuit still works only data gets disabled.

 

[CTHarrryH]

Anytime you do an update you need to wait 24 hours until battery life and performance is "real" The phones do all sorts of things - indexing etc in the first few hours.

 

[benji888]

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?

If you are connecting only to a charger there will be no change from what you do now. (Wireless charging is not affected.)

USB restricted mode is only when connecting via lightning cable to a USB device, not just charging, but a device that accesses your iOS device for playing music or other data access.

 

[Bryan Bowler]

What the heck Apple? Now it takes about two seconds to open an app on my iPhone!

 

[Pismo]

Just updated. Audio is still skipping on my iPhone SE

Updated my iPad Air 2 that had horrible battery life (Put down at 75% last night, woke up and it was 18% with only the Kindle app open). Will test over the next few days to see if battery issue is resolved.

 

[macfacts]

I know the thread well! Fingers crossed that the random battery drain issue goes away for me. Last night my phone dropped from 100% to 15%, and battery report had no app usage at all.

Try leaving your iPhone in airplane mode overnight.

 

[laszlo182]

For me on iOS 12 this restricted mode was cutting off my power bank after an hour so I had to disable it

 

[jpn]

I sincerely ope this fixes the screen timeout bug when iMessage voice recording.

My screen timeout is set to 30seconds (like my 5S, 6, 6S, and 7 before my current SE). Say within 25 seconds of reading an iMessage I then begin to press and hold the voice recording option to send a message to my beautiful lady; the message was about 10-12 seconds long and very heart felt impromptu message. Guess what? The screen auto locked (while I’m holding the message)! I use Touch ID to unlock and nothing I was recording was saved. No option to add to that recording.

Very frustrated.

a bummer. a very Ellen Feiss kind of moment to be sure.

 

[apolloa]

It's hard to believe nobody explained this to you yet, but the first decimal place is for feature additions.

Wow, really? No I never knew that. What a revelation..

And it’s still buggy rubbish. But better then Android, just...

 

[newellj]

Hopefully this fixes some of the issues that certain users were having with battery life on 11.4.

Same. 11.4 really changed the battery use on my iPhone 7.
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15 updates in less then a year and I bet Apples buggiest software ever will still be full of bugs...

It doesn’t seem to mention anything about battery life?.. oh well maybe in iOS 12..

Things being what they are in the tech industry, they might not mention fixing a bug like that.

 

[apolloa]

Same. 11.4 really changed the battery use on my iPhone 7.
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Things being what they are in the tech industry, they might not mention fixing a bug like that.

Haha that is true..

 

[nt5672]

Everything is opening MUCH slower after this update. Much, much slower.

I’ve performed 2 reboots. Still slow. Big lag.

In order to make up for the undersized battery, they had to add a bunch of software waits. They had a method of fixing this by reducing the processor CPU clock speed significantly, but a few users and media caught on. Fortunately, there is more than one way to reduce performance and meet the thinness goal imposed by Ive.

 

[newellj]

Haha that is true..

...especially with three class action lawsuits on battery issues in process...

 

[archvile]

For me on iOS 12 this restricted mode was cutting off my power bank after an hour so I had to disable it

This is interesting because it was stated (by people on iOS 12 beta) that charging should not be affected, only devices that access data on the phone. So maybe it is a bug with the 11.4.1 implementation.

Also odd that it wasn’t mentioned in the release notes, and that they would even include such a feature in a X.X.1 update to begin with.

 

[jonnysods]

Love the USB connector option. Thanks Apple!

 

[Act3]

Give it some time. My phone was slow at first too but now it's back to normal.

mine is fine too, hard to believe after so many betas of a minor release that there would be issues... I will say though that second beta of 12 is faster and smoother than what is probably the final version of 11

 

[newellj]

Everything is opening MUCH slower after this update. Much, much slower.

I’ve performed 2 reboots. Still slow. Big lag.

No speed issues on my iPhone 7.

 

[timmywa]

I notice that when I hook the phone up to my carplay, it gives me the message to unlock before it will work. I guess that means I need to at least look at my phone before I get into the car in the morning... Although, I use my phone as my alarm and I wake up less than an hour before I leave in the morning... But if I never actually unlock it, it would be blocked. Interesting...

 

[newellj]

Does it fix the batter drainage issue?

Can you tell after an hour or so?

 

[MrGuder]

This is a very small and minor update. It only addresses 2 issues and of course security of your iPhone (don’t they all) there is no mention this update fixes any battery issue you may be experiencing. People think every update Apple releases is about battery fixes but it’s just not the case.

 

[GIZBUG]

This is a very small and minor update. It only addresses 2 issues and of course security of your iPhone (don’t they all) there is no mention this update fixes any battery issue you may be experiencing. People think every update Apple releases is about battery fixes but it’s just not the case.

Lol.
Addresses A Lot more than 2 issues!

 

[Oz.]

15 updates in less then a year and I bet Apples buggiest software ever will still be full of bugs...

)))))

No problems here, always running smooth...

There must be a problem with some users at personal level I guess...

 

[akash.nu]

Everything is opening MUCH slower after this update. Much, much slower.

I’ve performed 2 reboots. Still slow. Big lag.

Just normal indexing time. It’ll get better in the morning tomorrow.

 

[bchreng]

Installed it on my iPhone 7+ and it works as well as did with 11.4.