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nice, quick fix out. now fire the inept engineers who manage to miss it in the first place.
It's usually a management issue — PMs overcommitting and creating a mad rush to deliver iOS 17 in time for the hardware launch. The number of features they were forced to defer to iOS 17.1 is telling.
 
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How many people are running Geekbench loops all day versus plugging their phone in to charge which causes even an idle phone to get hot to the touch?

It's more to simulate heavy loading with gaming, 4K recording, or video editing.
 
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I haven't had any problems with my phone getting hot or screen dimming. I'm going to probably just hold off until 7.1 unless there's some major security update released before then.
 
FWIW, the battery drain on my 13 Pro seems to be back to what it was with 16. Ever since I installed the 17 early betas battery has been crap. Small sample size I know but it seems real.
 
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Maybe some of you guys who've been here for years can chime in but... it sure seems like there's way too many updates these days compared to ten years ago. Seems like every few days, there is a reported issue, then I have to sit through another update. And another, and another, and another and... it's just out of control.
You don't HAVE to update lol that's life. Freedom of choice. To answer your complaint. Yes quality is still going down and for the first time ever a Chinese phone has better quality than Apple. Competition is very good right now you shouldn't be afraid to try new products. Might even save 1000$ for a similar or better experience
 
I hope that poster's bosses are as lenient with the poster's mistakes as the poster wants Apple to be with theirs.
What mistakes. Read my post, as my iPhone 15 Pro Max had 0 issues. Some people just complain about everything and think something is always wrong even when there is not. Really would hate to have their life. 🤣
 
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You don't HAVE to update lol that's life. Freedom of choice. To answer your complaint. Yes quality is still going down and for the first time ever a chinese phone has better quality than Apple. Competition is very good right now you shouldn't be afraid to try new products. Might even save 1000$ for a similar or better experience
Which chinese phone are you talking about? The chinese phones kinda don't have class you know:) And I seriously doubt that a chinese phone can have better quality than an iPhone.
 
If people got fired every time a software release had bugs in it, nobody would be employed.

Exactly. The management in charge of QA, however

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I do think that Apple’s minimal communication doesn’t do it any favours. I‘m not asking for code details but for instance with the recent kernel privilege escalation vulnerability that was fixed recently Apple did say in the release notes that the underlying cause was a buffer overflow. At least some conceptual description of the issue (buffer overrun? race condition corruption? some inadvertent busy-wait rather than a blocking call?) would be reassuring to those with technical background and give credibility to reporting of the issue by genuinely technical journalists translating any Apple-disclosed details for a wider non-technical audience. I would hope that even this modest extra level of detail would defuse some of the less informed comments such as “how can a hardware problem possibly be fixed by software?” (that comment taken from a comment on a popular press article not from a post here).
 
I haven't had any problems with my phone getting hot or screen dimming. I'm going to probably just hold off until 7.1 unless there's some major security update released before then.
Remote vulns don't count, of course.
 
I have had no issues since moving to the 15 Pro but I fully understand that folks can and will have warm batteries depending on what apps were running along with the software issue.

Someone earlier stated that gaslighting others because we reported no issues. I just reported and understood that others have the reported problem. I have maintained that I just had given my current status with my particular phone.
 
Maybe some of you guys who've been here for years can chime in but... it sure seems like there's way too many updates these days compared to ten years ago. Seems like every few days, there is a reported issue, then I have to sit through another update. And another, and another, and another and... it's just out of control.

Some people are also talking about how slick BeOS was twenty years ago and asking why current operating systems are not like that, without realizing that the gap in functionality and support for advanced hardware and security features (for example) is huge. Every year we can do more and more with our phones and apps but all that functionality comes with bugs and a maintenance burden, because developers are human.

It's not really an issue, you can switch off automatic updates if it causes you stress, but be aware of security implications. Also you don't have to sit through an update, let it install overnight or while you do something else...
 
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Some people are also talking about how slick BeOS was twenty years ago and asking why current operating systems are not like that, without realizing that the gap in functionality and support for advanced hardware and security features (for example) is huge. Every year we can do more and more with our phones and apps but all that functionality comes with bugs and a maintenance burden, because developers are human.

It's not really an issue, you can switch off automatic updates if it causes you stress, but be aware of security implications. Also you don't have to sit through an update, let it install overnight or while you do something else...
Androids only have updates every 2 months while Apple has like 5 per month, agreed that it is very annoying
 
This update introduces location services bugs. It does not store the state of your location services settings specifically when enabling or disabling the global option. This is a pain in the ass for people who turn it on and off for only traveling, one of the options that gets default enabled is diagnostics.

Ridiculous.

I poked around a bit more and it seems like sometimes different options will turn on when you toggle the global location services. Just …what?

It does not enable location services if you had them off, but I had diagnostics and product improvement etc. turned off and they were on once I updated. This is Microsoft level update settings reset trash. I’ll file a feedback tomorrow if this doesn’t make the news by then.
 
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