There's really no particular set schedule for releases. What you are describing is some general takes on how it has happened in some recent years, but certainly not always by far--there used to be versions where things wouldn't even get past x.1 release basically.
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Apple Releases iOS and iPadOS 13.2.2 With Fix for Background Refresh Bug
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Microsoft has an OS for desktops, servers, and cloud and office suite with far more moving parts that interfaces with tens of thousands of pieces of third-party hardware and drivers. Microsoft maintains compatibility with programs written 30 years ago.
Apple has a handful of first-party phones that can't run software more than 4 years old.
The value proposition from Apple was to put up with more expensive hardware and breaking old programs for an overall better user experience. Was.
Thank god. From now on I'll keep my devices on the last summer update until the next major release has been out for at least a couple of months and most major issues have been ironed out.
This is exactly that. Before iOS 5 we had to download the entire OS each time a new version came out which nowadays is in the gigabytes range. Today were downloading a “piece” of the OS which in this case comes out to just about 100MB and we’re able to do this on the device wirelessly rather than plugging the device into a Windows or Mac machine to download and install the update as we used to before iOS 5.
Looks promising. Tried several safari tabs, youtube, instagram, took some pictures, returned to safari and YouTube, everything stayed in memory. Left phone idle for 10 mins. Reopened everything and still in memory.
Hopefully it’ll stay that way.
Hopefully it’ll stay that way.
you can always give the update a few weeks to see how it is going before participating, no one forces you to rush (as you are aware by putting off the watch OS update). Personally, I am on Public Beta and have been for a long time, doesn't bother me at all. I also mysteriously am not impacted by all these "bugs" people report. I clearly am not using it the same way others are I guess. But I would sure be glad to get any bug fixed quickly.
Oh, and the full iOS download is about 5 gb I think, so anything much smaller than that is an incremental download, yah?
Theorizing is fun and all, but simpler realistic information still ends up applying: the main reason for beta releases has been for developers to test their apps against them. Things were expanded to the public later on to get more logs and information from a larger variety of devices, configurations, and usage patterns.
that's exactly the same way my iPhone was before the update, must be something else that triggered the issue
The number of people who might jump on at the same time on an iOS update is quite a bit different than some app update.
To all those saying it was a feature, not a bug - lol!
Even Apple isn't that ridonculous!
How does that relate to them doing monthly updates vs. other companies pushing out updates as they have them and feel they need to be released?
maybe it was something in the Amazon app that triggered the issue, or did you do an amazon search through a browser? This same scenario through Safari, did not cause me problems
Personal Hotspot has worked well for me, but the problem you've been having could be related to the memory management bugs, and not specifically with the hotspot feature. Install and let us know.
Your devices would update at nighttime (while you sleep) if you have automatic updates turned on, the devices are charging, and connected to WiFi. there's no waiting for you. No pity either. 🤣
Nothing. You're putting words in my mouth, probably because you didn't follow the thread. It has to do with Microsoft releasing stable software and minimizing update disruption, not Apple's constant panic to get software out before new hardware is put on sale, and then releasing tens of tiny updates to fix things that broke in the rush.
Has it been pulled? I’m on 61% battery and even with the charger connected my ‘Install Now’ button is greyed out...
Gonna have to get me an eBay burner just to test the Apple updates.
The question is, if this is going to fix the bad memory management... background app refresh is just a symptom of the problem... => You can have only Safari open and it will unload tabs much quicker than it does on iOS 12. Nothing to do with background refresh. However, when running out of memory, iOS will first kill background apps of course.
That said, much like on Windows and macOS, I would prefer a lot to put memory management into the hand of the user. I.e. have active in the taskbar. Suspend them by swiping down (greying out their preview) and swiping up to kill them (like now). iOS should only be allowed to suspend apps after x minutes of inactivity and kill apps after y minutes of inactivity. x and y to be user-set. Auto-Suspend (like now) should be user selectable. I'd much appreciate if it would just auto-kill them after like 60 minutes...
While on it: 6-8GB of RAM would be nice to keep some apps alive. There's no logic reason against it...
That said, much like on Windows and macOS, I would prefer a lot to put memory management into the hand of the user. I.e. have active in the taskbar. Suspend them by swiping down (greying out their preview) and swiping up to kill them (like now). iOS should only be allowed to suspend apps after x minutes of inactivity and kill apps after y minutes of inactivity. x and y to be user-set. Auto-Suspend (like now) should be user selectable. I'd much appreciate if it would just auto-kill them after like 60 minutes...
While on it: 6-8GB of RAM would be nice to keep some apps alive. There's no logic reason against it...
In a lot of software, the first number denotes a major version, the second a minor version, and the third a patch (e.g. bug fixes or addendums). Sometimes you might see additional flags to denote alphas or betas. Apple tweak this approach and often hold larger features for minor versions that others might consider worthy of a major version.
So the beta is to test a new minor version, but this is a patch.
If you want to get really in the weeds on software versioning, semver.org is a good resource.
If it means anything, I was getting frequent jetsam (low memory warnings for apps) events when using my phone (several an hour) on iOS 13.2 and now on .2 I haven't had a single one since the update almost an hour ago.
And of course an update when I'm out of wifi range...I'm in a basement office so no service at all. 