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Apple Releases iOS 16.1.1 and iPadOS 16.1.1 With Bug Fixes

While I haven't experienced any issue with wireless connectivity on my iPhone and iPad, I am regularly experiencing my Apple Watch dropping out of the wireless network. This has been happening since the latter versions of watchOS 8 and it's really annoying because it messes up with the alarms on my iPhone/Watch.

tl;dr: Apple can you please fix the same issue on the Apple Watch?
 
For all the ornery commenters, it appears that Apple has added details to the release notes:

Apple security releases - Apple Support

This document lists security updates and Rapid Security Responses for Apple software.
support.apple.com support.apple.com

Click through to the iOS 16.1.1 details page here and you can see that it’s patching 2 vulnerabilities in libxml2:

CVE-2022-40303 - integer overflows with XML_PARSE_HUGE

CVE-2022-40304 - dict corruption caused by entity reference cycles

They list the same “Impact” statement for both:

Impact: A remote user may be able to cause unexpected app termination or arbitrary code execution


So, it’s just some standard run-of-the-mill security updates. This time they updated libxml2.
 
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BSoares said:
I never had Wifi issues but cell data has been terrible. When I'm not on wifi, only iMessage and Facebook work, the rest all say no internet access. Not sure what's up with that. My wife updated her phone and has the same behavior. My co-worker as well. Not sure why I'm not seeing more complaining about this. We all have T-Mobile.

I hope this update addresses that issue because as of now, when I'm not on wifi, my phone is basically useless for data. Already tried reset network settings, it fixes the issues temporarily and then it comes right back. A reboot may or may not fix it for a little while as well. No carrier updates waiting to be installed.
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B, try calling TMobile and have them verify that their set up is correct for your iphone model. This can be frustrating, we're having issues with voicemail with ATT the past 12 months as well. They escalated my call to tech support.
 
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Does anyone else have issues on iOS 16.1 not being able to clear notifications? I can swipe them and it brings up the clear option, but I have not once been able to clear the notifications. It just stays there on the clear section. These are basic functions that are no longer working. It appeared first on 16, 16.1 still has it. Hoping 16.1.1 fixes.

PS: on a 12 Pro fwiw...
 
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macdaddy43 said:
Does anyone else have issues on iOS 16.1 not being able to clear notifications? I can swipe them and it brings up the clear option, but I have not once been able to clear the notifications. It just stays there on the clear section. These are basic functions that are no longer working. It appeared first on 16, 16.1 still has it. Hoping 16.1.1 fixes.

PS: on a 12 Pro fwiw...
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Glad im not alone. Im using vinegar to watch youtube in safari, and while the preview lock screen media controls are present for the video, I cannot clear out of any notifications until I manually stop the video.
 
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Webster's Mac said:
Getting sick of seeing "Bug Fixes and performance improvements". List out what changed!
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Yes! It's bad enough that this is the standard "release note" for the weekly updates of 3/4 of the apps on my phone, but it's even more annoying when it's coming from Apple. How the hell hard is it to tell us what was fixed/changed? We get it, Apple- you want your computers to be thought of as magic black boxes that "just work," but those of us that know how they actually work would like to know what's new!
 
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Webster's Mac said:
Getting sick of seeing "Bug Fixes and performance improvements". List out what changed!
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More detail would be nice, but I see the point in not divulging it immediately given the nature of the security updates. This gives people time to update to avoid active exploitation by disclosing it immediately. Full disclosure after a few days or weeks would be most useful though.
 
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Just had the first WiFi disconnect on my M1 iPad Pro upgraded to 16.1.1, so I guess the WiFi bug is not fixed!! WiFi connectivity was solid on 15.X for me.

Bugs are a fact of life but Apple has indulged in far too many lately and that WiFi bug is such a severe regression that it should be absolute #1 priority to fix.

As an aside, for the 1st time ever, I’ve been considering a MacBook of sorts to replace my Linux laptop (Apple ecosystem integration and some major letdowns on the Ubuntu side being primary drivers). I’m definitely having second thoughts now…
 
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Since upgrading to 16.1, both my iPhone 13 Pro and my wife's same model had a serious battery draining problem, which unfortunately was not fixed in 16.1.1. After a lot of searching I realised that the iPhone was constantly trying to synchronise its Contacts with iCloud, both while in WiFi and 5G/4G, and this constant network traffic was draining the battery and of course was consuming a lot of data. I confirmed that by disabling mobile data usage for Contacts app and it worked (but it still continued when on WiFi). The temporary solution that I followed was to disable iCloud Contacts and move all the contacts to Gmail (and sync with it). This useless traffic stopped, and the battery is back to normal. Unfortunately I haven't found anybody reporting this issue or any battery solution. BTW in the meantime I had to reset both iPhones and set them up as new, but the problem reappeared after a while. Let's hope that 16.2 will fix this problem.
 
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I can confirm the lag when closing apps has been fixed. I know it fixed itself for a few hours after every update prior but it’s now been many many hours (the following morning) and hundreds of apps closed with ZERO lag!! Thank god because that was bothering me so much.

Also battery drain seems to be better, I only lost 1% overnight on a full charge. Prior to that I was losing 4-8 % overnight.
 
BSoares said:
I never had Wifi issues but cell data has been terrible. When I'm not on wifi, only iMessage and Facebook work, the rest all say no internet access. Not sure what's up with that. My wife updated her phone and has the same behavior. My co-worker as well. Not sure why I'm not seeing more complaining about this. We all have T-Mobile.

I hope this update addresses that issue because as of now, when I'm not on wifi, my phone is basically useless for data. Already tried reset network settings, it fixes the issues temporarily and then it comes right back. A reboot may or may not fix it for a little while as well. No carrier updates waiting to be installed.
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You have T-Mobile… random bad network connections is a free feature. 😎
 
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