Hmm, i just updated my iPhone 15 Pro Max to 17.0.3 and my phone turned into a white screen telling me that it’s “Attempting data recovery”. It took about 15 minutes to resolve. My iPad Pro updated just fine.
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Apple Releases iOS 17.0.3 With Fix for iPhone 15 Pro Overheating
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I've had this happened to my iPhone before. It's benign.
A request to the MacRumors folks: If there’s a security fix in an update, please mention that at the top of the article. The way this article reads, it seems like the update is only about the heat fix, unless one reads through to the very last paragraph where we learn that it fixes an already exploited vulnerability 😱
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Does anyone _really_ thinks that Apple will explicitly say that they will not throttle down the phone on Sunday, and then proceed to do the opposite a few days later, especially when it is _so_ easy for anyone to discover this?
Not to mention that the entire hypothesis that Apple designed a phone with a CPU that is too powerful is simply idiotic.
You are making it seem like you know for absolute fact that they would actually consider number 2.
My 15PM has had no heat/performance issues since it came out of the box almost 2 weeks ago and it's a 512gb version.. I'll wait a bit before updating to 17.0.3 to see if it introduces any new bugs. I'm in no hurry, my phone works perfectly on 17.0.2
Single Core Score on my 13 Pro Max is higher than yours with 2400. Something must be wrong.
As iPhone becomes more popular and dominant in the market, it becomes a more valuable target for attack. So hackers are constantly finding new ways to hack into iPhones. And the complexity of the OS has increased significantly over time, just look at how much processing goes into a single photo now. More complexity means more potential for features to break.
I remember back in 2015, it took them two whole weeks to fix iOS 9 when it had a huge flaw: the cellular data toggle stopped working. So people like me on limited data plans (which were more common back then) who disabled data for some apps in iOS 8, couldn't enable data for 2 weeks with iOS 9! 12 days is still kind of a lot for a big issue like heating, but at least 17.0.2 was available day-one for that transfer glitch.
That is similar to what mine gives on 17.0.2. suggests that there was no real performance impact.
single 2930
multi-core 7306
Something looks off with both the before and after numbers posted buy Aves, earlier.
Best to ask them after they have had the fix installed for a while.
There have been a lot of different reports of the things that will trigger heating. There have also been a lot of speculation about the nature of the bug and the fix or fixes that have been required. From our perspective it’s hard for us to know if this fix would be expect to resolve a particular issue or not but I imagine that Apple knows a lot more about the actual source of the problem.
No. But they prioritize that it’s ok to release bad code. They are free to prioritize more time for testing and lower release frequency
There may be no need for any throttling if the cause was a software bug or bugs. Throttling would only be needed if there were some really basic hardware design issues. I can tell you typing on my room temperature iphone 15 Pro that the hardware is not certain to overheat.
And yet, Gruber didn’t say that there was no issue and he didn’t call the heating “a nothing burger”. He acknowledged that there was some kind of software problem causing overheating. A that time, rumors pointed at Instagram and some others. Apple’s recent posts suggest that the problem was either a bug in iOS or at lest something that they could catch and handle with an OS patch. Gruber was arguing against Ming-Chi Kuo’s assertion (without backing) that the problem was due to the design of the iPhone hardware. Gruber wasn’t being a fanatic in this case.
Then why did he allow macOS Cheetah to be released which needed four revisions, followed up by Puma being released free of charge as an apology? And even then, it took until Jaguar for macOS 10 to be truly usable.
What about the fiasco of MobileMe? It was so bad that he publicly apologized for it when introducing iCloud.
All that happened under Steve.
Hopefully the overheating issue will be fixed with this update.
I like how iOS 17 is more polished in many ways. Check my reddit post.
For me negatives are only regarding thermal/battery performance particularly on Cellular (LTE). Or it's just that my phone is getting older...
Both the phones and iOS are a lot more complicated with a lot more hardware and software features to deal with. With each added hardware and software feature there are more potential issues for the iOS coding team to fix and deal with. At least, that would be my guess.