Apple Releases iOS and iPadOS 13.3 With Communication Limits for Screen Time, Safari Physical Security Key Support, and More

[Fried egg on toast]

If making an emergency calls unblocks normal phone restrictions placed by their parents, you can pretty much be sure that there'll be a rise of 'accidental' emergency number calls by kids.....

 

[Seanm87]

What about car wrecks? Have you ever had one? It'd be nice if I didn't have to worry about them any more.

Please tell me you're not comparing downloading an update to having a car accident? Not even remotely comparable 😂

 

[posguy99]

Did they put back the release calendar for upcoming preorders? Since they broke up itunes, I don't see the preorder calendar.

Pre-orders of what? You mention iTunes, that sounds like audio/video pre-orders. Don't know why a calendar being published would be related to an OS update, sounds like you need to subscribe again to whatever it was.

 

[Razeus]

If preparing is taking forever, then there's a lot more to this than Apple will admit to.

 

[posguy99]

What about car wrecks? Have you ever had one? It'd be nice if I didn't have to worry about them any more.

Which is an impossibility, same as the car wreck. But the chances are and will always be small.

 

[NMBob]

Please tell me you're not comparing downloading an update to having a car accident? Not even remotely comparable 😂

They're both human-related/caused.

 

[latts]

Let's see how buggy this version is...

Very, real lag on everything. Watching a video in News and press up/down on the volume keys has 2-3 second lag

OK update, originally it was but had to close the apps and now it seems to be OK. Not sure what just happened but after the restart the phone was very unresponsive for 5 minutes

 

[NMBob]

I'm getting kinda tired of hitting the 'download & install' button and having to go in again and tell it to install. Why don't they split up the two functions into 'download' and 'download & install' or just do what they asked to do? How many people have they hired from Microsoft?

 

[triangletechie]

Pre-orders of what? You mention iTunes, that sounds like audio/video pre-orders. Don't know why a calendar being published would be related to an OS update, sounds like you need to subscribe again to whatever it was.

yes, movie preorders. On the old itunes, if you scrolled down the bottom of the main movies page, they had a button called "Pre-Order Movies, View by Release Date". That seems to have been removed in the split up Movies app.

 

[Stromos]

Very, real lag on everything. Watching a video in News and press up/down on the volume keys has 2-3 second lag

OK update, originally it was but had to close the apps and now it seems to be OK. Not sure what just happened but after the restart the phone was very unresponsive for 5 minutes

Always need to give it 24 hours or so to bake. iOS likes to reindex the filesystem after an update depending on how much you have installed....

 

[Kieren Trew]

All of my up next has vanished and all  tv+ content doesn’t show watched (happening on apple tv too) grrrrrrrrrrr

 

[NMBob]

Very, real lag on everything. Watching a video in News and press up/down on the volume keys has 2-3 second lag

OK update, originally it was but had to close the apps and now it seems to be OK. Not sure what just happened but after the restart the phone was very unresponsive for 5 minutes

It might be rebuilding caches and re-Spotlighting stuff like macOS does after an update. Maybe.

 

[DinkThifferent]

I'm getting kinda tired of hitting the 'download & install' button and having to go in again and tell it to install. Why don't they split up the two functions into 'download' and 'download & install' or just do what they asked to do? How many people have they hired from Microsoft?

3Dtouch the button

 

[purpleparrotuk]

All of my up next has vanished and all  tv+ content doesn’t show watched (happening on apple tv too) grrrrrrrrrrr

It’s been like it for a while. Server must be down

 

[Kieren Trew]

It’s been like it for a while. Server must be down

Aaaaah ok cool cheers. I’ll check later 👍🏻

 

[DeanCorp]

Praying that this fixes my system wide search issues whereby I cannot even type mai and it shows a suggestion to launch mail app. I’ve shown Apple support countless times and have gotten no where

 

[konqerror]

I'm getting kinda tired of hitting the 'download & install' button and having to go in again and tell it to install. Why don't they split up the two functions into 'download' and 'download & install' or just do what they asked to do? How many people have they hired from Microsoft?

Zero because the Microsoft way is to restart the moment you lock the computer after 5 PM, resulting in interrupted tasks, loss of any unsaved work, wasted battery on a laptop, and having to twiddle your thumbs for 15 minutes while it updates.

The Windows 10 experience is exactly why Apple makes you explicitly ask for a install.

 

[zorinlynx]

Ive never had a device brick ever.

iOS devices can't really be bricked because you can always DFU them.

Even with over the air updates, bricking is practically impossible now with APFS.

The way the updates work is:

- The OS partition is cloned. (copy on write, this doesn't take extra space)
- The update is applied to the cloned partition. (Preparing update)
- The partition is verified; every file in it gets an md5 check to make sure the update has no errors. This is why that damn progress bar takes so long.
- The system is rebooted from the clone.
- Only after the system comes up correctly and various checks pass (the second progress bar) is the previous OS partition deleted.

This sequence of events makes it practically impossible for an over the air update to brick the device anymore. If something interrupts the update, the device will just boot from the unmodified original OS version and you can try again.

 

[ghanwani]

I wonder if it fixes this problem:
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...mail-app.2203668/?post=27990742#post-27990742

 

[gilbertmc]

iOS devices can't really be bricked because you can always DFU them.

Even with over the air updates, bricking is practically impossible now with APFS.

The way the updates work is:

- The OS partition is cloned. (copy on write, this doesn't take extra space)
- The update is applied to the cloned partition. (Preparing update)
- The partition is verified; every file in it gets an md5 check to make sure the update has no errors. This is why that damn progress bar takes so long.
- The system is rebooted from the clone.
- Only after the system comes up correctly and various checks pass (the second progress bar) is the previous OS partition deleted.

This sequence of events makes it practically impossible for an over the air update to brick the device anymore. If something interrupts the update, the device will just boot from the unmodified original OS version and you can try again.

where did you get that info from?

 

[GregJohn]

For dark mode: I took a screenshot of the settings before the update (for build number and so on) and with the official release the settings on iPadOS turned back to black instead of grey
not sure what happened

 

[Ramrod82]

Well mail still stinks! Wonderful! I love getting deleted messages from the days past!

 

[konqerror]

If making an emergency calls unblocks normal phone restrictions placed by their parents, you can pretty much be sure that there'll be a rise of 'accidental' emergency number calls by kids.....

Doing so would send a notification to the emergency contacts (parents), so I'd think they would catch on pretty quick.

 

[NMBob]

3Dtouch the button

Ooo. I'll try that next time. Thanks!

 

[DinkThifferent]

After updating to iOS 13.3, watchOS 6.1.1 and the latest Mojave update I can unlock my iMac with my watch again! Was broken after updating to 6.1