reachability is dumb to begin with. With phones so big put a big clock or something this is where Apple really needs to copy Android and let us arrange our icons as we see fit and let us put a clock weather or stock ticker or something in the space we can't reach. It ain't rocket science.
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Apple Working on Fix for Reachability Bug in iOS 11
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You mean, one of your biggest annoyances of the Plus models. Reachability is just a software hack to partially compensate for a terrible ergonomic design.
Have you tried rebooting your iPhone? I've had the exact same issue when I installed iOS 11.1 beta 2 yesterday, and rebooting my device fixed the issue. As well as some other things that made it feel like it was iOS 11.0 beta 1.
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Thanks! Rebooting fixed it! So many problems over the years fixed with a reboot. I should have thought of trying that....
Not many issues here... some lock ups.... FB app kicking me out now and then but not sure if that's the iOS or FB app. I do find it frustrating that when I turn off wifi in the command center it pops back on.... If I wanted it on I'd turn it on.
They’ll call it a “get ready for iPhone X!” Feature.
I have the same problem. iOS 11 is crapware. But keep innovating, Apple!
No problem! Glad to be of your help.
If there's anything that I have learned as an IT professional, it's that rebooting solves basically 95% of the issues.
He probably gets a ton of emails a day because of how visible he is, not to mention internal happenings. After awhile you just want to be concise and move on. I do the same thing.
Why are numbers needed?
A nebulous question. But perhaps we can think about it logically.
Apple provides a direct feedback system to pipe in feedback, snapshot data of a situation, as well as context to a perceived bug to their developers. Compare that to an online forum, from a different company that typically contains only one of those items, the complaint, often lacking context and other helpful features.
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Sorry completely missed the context of the question. I don’t have direct numbers, but listening to podcasts, discussing issues with people on here, and working with friends, not many even know about the feedback system, or, think it takes too much time to use it.
Perhaps it is widely used, but I believe (again no facts) people chose to vent on forums, Twitter, or YouTube comments, more than using an actual feedback system.
Ah, so it is your opinion. Fair enough. But please don't make it sound like a fact and then go on to use that "fact" as the basis of a complaint.
I didn’t say it was a fact, it was your interpretation, but I can see how you thought that based on my wording.
More on topic, I wished their bug reporting system was more streamlined and acted like a commenting system. They can still include snapshot data behind the scenes, perhaps giving users a popup asking if it is okay to send the data to Apple, after they put in their comment.
It is nice that Apple is being a touch more transparent (or is it just Craig?), it feels like the only person that really responded to email (in the past) was Jobs, and sometimes Schiller.
Don’t kid yourself. I have personally had Android devices that had many more bugs/inconsistencies on their initial release. It doesn’t matter which company it is, there will always be problems.
It would be better for them to take into account the messages of the beta testers because some have put the problem back before the final release of iOS 11
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A friend, who knows a guy, who knows a guy that works at Apple. Don't get the iPhone X.
Even with the regular iPhones I loved the feature because I have small hands. I didn’t read the whole thing but reachability isn’t working at all on my phone. I miss it.