yeah, but have to get to that OS first...
This is a work phone and have specific OS needs... 😓
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The point is, why force that one down when the new one is coming the very next day...
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Apple Releases iOS and iPadOS 13.6.1 With Fix for Storage Issue and Green Tinted Displays
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This is a work phone and have specific OS needs... 😓
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Bugs are bugs and are weird. Just because it's related to thermal management doesn't necessarily mean anything thermal _actually_ happened, just that the thermal manager was being triggered. The bug could very possibly be triggered under these circumstances causing some branch in the thermal management code to execute when it shouldn't.
THIS SAVED ME
My "Other" storage had reached 15GB of my 32GB phone. It kept growing and I was out of space. I couldn't take any pictures, almost all my apps and photos were offloaded, no apps would stay open. I was this close to backing up and restoring.
Now after the update, "Other" is down almost immediately to 5GB and I have plenty of breathing room.
My "Other" storage had reached 15GB of my 32GB phone. It kept growing and I was out of space. I couldn't take any pictures, almost all my apps and photos were offloaded, no apps would stay open. I was this close to backing up and restoring.
Now after the update, "Other" is down almost immediately to 5GB and I have plenty of breathing room.
All my Apple devices are acting up now! Sometimes, the press to move cursor freezes up or camera does not function. YouTube freezes in input of comments. Not good. Have to re-boot the iOS every time too! Apple needs to fix these major problems ASAP
Interesting.
Did you do the OTA update or use the Finder/iTunes to download the full iOS update file? Going all the way back to the early versions of iOS, it seems that the full iOS updates do a more thorough job at clearing out the caches and cleaning up the system files than the OTA delta files do. Subjectively, it also seemed that the devices were more responsive when doing the full iOS system installation after several successive OTA updates.
I thought that Apple had cleaned up the oversized "other" space on the more recent iOS versions. I used to do restore to new/restore from backup just as periodic maintenance to clean out the storage space. With the older iOS versions, that was the only way to clear out botched app and song downloads, misbehaving app caches, and leftover junk from large data transfers. I haven't had to do that lately, because it seems that the newer iOS versions are better at freeing up storage with just a simple restart.
To the storage bug, this is what you get when you conceal file system access to end users. On Windows, users at least can play around file system and remove files that are generated by rouge programs or something. In iOS, there is literally NO WAY to do so and we have to trust Apple getting everything right. If there is something like Zip bomb exist in iOS, good luck removing it without erasing all data and settings.
Microsoft at least has pathway for business customers to manage Windows Update internally. Apple offers no such option until maybe that iOS 13.6, which seems better than nothing but the effect remains to be seen.
The frustration is, just like Windows 10 update, Apple forcing the update onto someone’s device regardless of software environment, special software needs or any other possible reason. iOS is one of those major OS that I am not aware of any sort of tools to pause or even disable automatic update. Even iPhone used for POS in Apple Store cannot escape the fate of being forced to update.
Microsoft at least has pathway for business customers to manage Windows Update internally. Apple offers no such option until maybe that iOS 13.6, which seems better than nothing but the effect remains to be seen.
yeah, but have to get to that OS first...
This is a work phone and have specific OS needs... 😓
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The point is, why force that one down when the new one is coming the very next day...
The only change that iOS 13.6 makes is the option to download the update file without automatically installing it. The ability to switch off the automatic update has been there as long as iOS has had OTA updates. And I go all the way back to iPhone OS 2, which required a connection to iTunes.
The iOS 13.6 update became available nearly a month ago. Apple will stagger the push updates in order to prevent their servers from getting overwhelmed. Your device just happened to get the push notification the day before the new point update became available. And presumably, this 13.6.1 point update will also get pushed on a staggered basis until probably right before iOS 14 comes out.
Every version of iOS I've ever used since the advent of OTA updates has had the ability to switch off the automatic OS updates. I know this because I've always left the automatic updates turned off for every iOS device in our home.
I mostly use iTunes to do iOS updates (personal preference to do the full iOS system installation, rather than just an OTA patch, when updating iOS) and never left it to chance that my device would perform the update on its own. For example, in order to maintain compatibility with an old iMac and retain the ability to sideload my apps, I purposely left my previous iPhone at iOS 9.3.5 for 3 years. Only when iOS 12 went EOL did I finally update my phone to the newer version.
The only change with iOS 13.6 is allowing the user to download the update first and install it later.
iOS 13.6 gives the control over whether or not the update could be downloaded automatically. Prior to it there was only the option to control whether a downloaded update can be installed automatically, but now there's an option to control whether or not it even can be download automatically (separately from the automatic installation).
It's an idea on the "todo" list. However, my MacBook Pro doesn't seem to like the USB 3.0 to USB-C cable and it doesn't recognise it. Apple claim (annoyingly), I have to buy an authorised USB-C to USB 3 cable to make this work, but I pointed out there is no MFi program for USB-C cables, and they got funny with me saying they wouldn't help any further unless I used a genuine Apple cable. (There is nothing wrong with my current cable as I use it all the time with other devices and my laptop).
The perils of old hardware and USB-C.
It seems you have problems in comprehension. Just because you don't have the bug doesn't mean there is none. I provided a screenshot as proof.
I don’t care. Not going to lie. Apple adds as much to slow down each update as they do to add features. All thanks to their mantra of five years then built-in obsolescence kicks in.
How many non-Apple phones get software updates after year 2, never mind year 5.
Ha! The force is with me. 😉
Last night I thought, man I don't want to update to a x.x.0 version, but it is about one month now since 13.6. This x.x.0 version should probably ok. So I hit the Settings button with the annoying ➊ (red 1 notification badge) and startet the update on my iPhone.
In the meantime I used my iPad which I wanted tu update later. There I saw the ➊ (red 1 notification badge) disappear from the Settings icon in front of my eyes. 👀
Everything was updated to 13.6.1 😃
Last night I thought, man I don't want to update to a x.x.0 version, but it is about one month now since 13.6. This x.x.0 version should probably ok. So I hit the Settings button with the annoying ➊ (red 1 notification badge) and startet the update on my iPhone.
In the meantime I used my iPad which I wanted tu update later. There I saw the ➊ (red 1 notification badge) disappear from the Settings icon in front of my eyes. 👀
Everything was updated to 13.6.1 😃
Apple had a way to automatically download it but not install it (unless that option was enabled). As of iOS 13.6 there's an option to control the automatic download part of it too.
The issue is, as soon as the update is downloaded, the pop up of notifying users to install it will keep popping up. Users need to be very vigilant and tap the right button to stop it or knows to regularly remove downloaded package before it is too late.
In macOS I can permanently enable DND and basically stop seeing that system update notification. This is NOT a thing on iOS as software install notification cannot be blocked by DND.
iOS 13.6 change seems promising but only time can tell.
I knew something was wrong with that last update. I kept getting the storage full error message and spent days trying to fix it by deleting a lot of my apps, pictures, and videos. The error message kept appearing after all that and noticed the system data folder kept getting bigger even when I have deleted much of my data. I ended up doing a complete restore of my iPhone and that fixed it. Now I have 18GB free space and system data is no longer eating up space.
It's not a forced update, because users have always had control over whether to actually update the device. If it was a forced update, then I would not have been able to keep running my iPhone 5s on iOS 9.3.5 for 3 years.
If the device is plugged in and on wi-fi then iOS will download the delta file and give the notification. But, if the automatic update is disabled, then it won't install. I routinely deleted the installation files because whenever I wanted to update iOS I would opt for the full system reinstallation (via iTunes/Finder) instead of the OTA delta update.
Again, it requires the user to be vigilant and on top of this auto update thing to keep the device at whatever version it wants to keep, which is also what Windows 10 user is trying to do. If it’s not a forced update, apple better gives user an option to DISABLE auto update like Windows 7 and write scary words about it, so no downloads, no pop ups, no prompts under any circumstances.
Me too, I got my iPhone 11 Pro the Monday following the Friday release day. I refuse to go to the Apple Store the day of the release, it's a nut house. No green tint with mine.
Will this update do anything to keep my iPad battery from going to zero in a week - without being used?