iOS 11.2 Beta Fixes Calculator Bug Causing Incorrect Calculations when Numbers Are Rapidly Entered

[MacRumors]

The new iOS 11.2 beta, released to developers this morning, addresses a Calculator animation issue that's been present since iOS 11 was released to the public in September and throughout the iOS 11 beta testing process.

In all versions of iOS 11 prior to iOS 11.2, a calculator animation causes some symbols to be ignored when entered in rapid succession. As an example, if you tap 1+2+3 and then hit the equals sign quickly, animation lag is likely to case the result to be 24 instead of 6.

With the iOS 11.2 beta, Apple has removed the animations from the calculator app, so calculations can be conducted rapidly with no need to pause between entering numbers to obtain the correct result.

Though the Calculator bug was present throughout the iOS 11 beta testing process, it gained significant attention last week, likely prompting the fix in today's beta. An Apple engineer said dozens of people had filed bug reports about the problem, and hundreds of complaints were lodged on reddit and the MacRumors forums.

iPhone users who regularly use the Calculator app should find it to be much more accurate with the slow animations removed.

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[canadianreader]

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[Andres Cantu]

And this whole time I thought Apple was reinventing Mathematics

 

[kazmac]

That's good. Now about that update with the KRACK WiFi fix...

 

[Meandmunch]

It is hard not to see a bit of humor in the fact the calculator is buggy. The most basic and simple of Apple apps that has been with the OS and iOS since, forever.

 

[kevmclane]

That's good. Now about that update with the KRACK WiFi fix...

I thought Apple made an official statement saying it was already fixed in their latest betas.

 

[MrGimper]

It is hard not to see a bit of humor in the fact the calculator is buggy. The most basic and simple of Apple apps that has been with the OS and iOS since, forever.

Probably did this deliberately to see how many people use it.

 

[HopefulHumanist]

That's good. Now about that update with the KRACK WiFi fix...

That’s already in iOS 11.1

 

[kazmac]

I thought Apple made an official statement saying it was already fixed in their latest betas.

Talking about Official releases not Betas.

@HopefulHumanist yep, but is 11.1 out yet?

 

[vvs14]

They got the calculator app right. Hurray!

 

[tipoo]

"Rapidly" = more like casual human pace which it couldn't keep up with, but I'm glad this will be fixed. I usually just use spotlight as a calculator though.

 

[jerry16]

It is hard not to see a bit of humor in the fact the calculator is buggy. The most basic and simple of Apple apps that has been with the OS and iOS since, forever.

and it can't even manage to find it's way over to the iPad after all. these. years.

 

[hetrigger]

And this whole time I thought Apple was reinventing Mathematics

That new math puzzles me!

 

[fede777]

But will it be on 11.1.1, cause 11.2 public might be a few weeks away.

 

[MRrainer]

The real question is: will it be released before Christmas?
11.1 isn't even out, yet.

 

[RyanInBinary]

Whoa, they fixed the calculator bug and it's only a .N release? Should have been iOS 12

 

[TrenttonY]

Really?? They couldn’t add this to iOS 11.1? We have to to wait another whole month (at least) for this? Imagine if Steve was still here... he would make them work day and night to fix this ASAP. Most likely would’ve never existed in the first place...

 

[convergent]

Is it just me or has Apples quality control gone out the window??? The calculator app doesn't work now?

 

[GIZBUG]

We know who is jumping up and down today with this news............

 

[GuilleA]

Still can't understand why they can't (or won't) update individual apps through the App Store. This should've been a quick fix just for calculator app, but now we have to wait for 4-5 more betas before release.

 

[mariusignorello]

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[C DM]

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Quite likely this was addressed before all of that given that this beta was already something that was going through internal testing and getting ready to be released to developers (and public beta testers) for at least a little while now.

It is hard not to see a bit of humor in the fact the calculator is buggy. The most basic and simple of Apple apps that has been with the OS and iOS since, forever.

The issue it seems wasn't with the basic math and math functionality itself but with UI animation interaction which might very well be part of some more centralized library/framework somewhere that had a bug that surfaced when it was used in some fashion that the calculator ended up using it.

Really?? They couldn’t add this to iOS 11.1? We have to to wait another whole month (at least) for this? Imagine if Steve was still here... he would make them work day and night to fix this ASAP. Most likely would’ve never existed in the first place...

Much worse things existed even under Steve Jobs, so that part of it all is rather moot. As adding it to 11.1 or getting it done faster, without really knowing what was involved in the fix (yes, sometimes simple UI interactions are actually much deeper and more involved in changing as they could have effects on other things that might use them as well, for example), and how that could have delayed 11.1 (which would have resulted in more complaining about 11.1 with various other more important fixes/changes not coming out sooner).

 

[jonnysods]

Gratz Apple. You got the calculator working!

 

[Howl's Castle]

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This was reported on Reddit way before MacRumours found out lol