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iOS 11 Bug: Typing 1+2+3 Quickly in the Calculator App Won't Get You 6

Recently used the Calc app for some maths at work, couldn't understand why our inventory numbers were so off. Must've recounted things three times, wasting a couple of hours. Now I have to go redo all those calculations to find out what the correct numbers should've been. $800 computer in my pocket and I can't trust it to do simple math.
 
Not this flaw in particular, but all iOS11, Apple’s practice to slow down previous models, and their new emoji first oriented model instead of quality made me go for Android, I think is less garbage than Apple.
[doublepost=1508886343][/doublepost]That is not a bug, if you have iOS11 you are no longer able to type anything quick. Problem solved.
 
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I have lost my job because of this calculator! Try adding subtracting etc you get wrong results. Looks like lot of innovation went into emoji!
 
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Is apple still better than anyone else, probably, is apple still as great as it used be,absolutely not! I am wondering how much margin tim still has left to let him think, or let him let everyone else think that he is doing great for apple. I hope one day the board will realize that apple under steve jobs was not just being cool, but also being GREAT; And tim is a wrong person to be there holding that free pass steve jobs gave him, instead of going forward, he is going backward.
 
mi7chy said:
It glitches when going slow too. Not a big deal since people buy it to run Geekbench and get inflated results rather than do any real work.

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If it glitches, then people are tapping too fast. If you type slow enough, it won't glitch. You posted a video of someone who was still typing too fast.

This is not an excuse for the bug. Your definition of "slow" means nothing as there is a certain amount of time that the phone will not register a separate tap. Shorter than that duration and it's 1 tap. Longer than that duration and it's 2 taps. The video shows a guy typing at a very reasonable (but still too fast for the phone to register two taps) speed.
 
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Throughout the beta testing process, the animation lag was not addressed, nor has it been fixed in any of the iOS 11 updates released so far. It's also still present in iOS 11.1.
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I don’t know what’s worse - that Apple’s iOS development was bad enough to create such an extreme (for the app) and obvious flaw, or that they’ve demonstrated zero capacity or interest to fix it in the months since.

There are serious issues at Apple if they can somehow manage to screw up a basic calculator app and release it in such a state. It’s not just embarrassing but concerning to me as an iPhone owner how they’re managing to simultaneously screw up both my device and their reputation.

iOS 11 is the worst release I can remember, and I’ve been using iOS since the iPhone 3G with iPhone OS 2. It’s inconceivable to me how or why they’ve managed to screw it up so badly. I’ve invested a lot in this (7 Plus 256) and previous iPhones and in the iOS platform over the years but now Apple seems to be abusing that loyalty and taking customers for granted.

I’d like to see MR cover these seemingly endemic quality problems at Apple lately in more depth as public shaming seems to be the only thing that gets Apple to fix anything.
 
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simonmet said:
I’d like to see MR cover these seemingly endemic quality problems at Apple lately in more depth as public shaming seems to be the only thing that gets Apple to fix anything nowadays.
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wonder if we see another 11.1 beta this week that magically fixes the calculator now that this is more publicized
 
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PickUrPoison said:
You not calling it a calculation glitch doesn’t change reality.

You seem to have trouble with such a basic concept, but let’s do a test: it’s definitely a calculator glitch, correct? As in a glitch in the calculator app...
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Well you're the one that had the trouble with the basic concept as you said it was a "calculation" glitch in your first response. I do agree that it's a CALCULATOR app glitch where pressing the "+" sign isn't being picked up and not a CALCULATION glitch. In fact it's calculating just fine since 1+23 does equal 24. As for the app there is a glitch in it where it can't sense the "+" sign being pressed quickly.
 
Ooh man. People complained enough that they made a whole article on it! Reddit has been blowing it up for a while.

Apple really seems to just be ignoring this issue.
 
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I add up the all the flights we've had at the airport each night to submit the total count to the FAA. I never knew why i would expect to see 400 or 500 and get some weird number like 197,000. This is exactly why! I would punch in each hours total pretty quickly and it would do this!
 
If you on the other hand type it [U said:
faster that the app can recognize[/U] the taps, then it produces another result which is understandable.
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You obviously don't have a clue how programming works
 
As an Apple and iOS fan, this is sad.... it explains bugs with iTunes Match (will never use iCloud Music Library after dealing with that headache in 2011) and bugs that have persisted since iOS 7. Skeuomorphism aside, iOS 6 was incredibly stable.
 
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This is the calculator Apple will use to track how many iPhone 8 and iPhone X sold this year. Not bad at all!
 
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