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

Septembersrain said:
My 7 Plus on iOS 11.1 beta 5, I have to input it very slowly. Like absurdly slow, for it to be accurate.
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But basically it sounds like the issue is there in iOS 10, just the speed involved that might make a difference.
 
C DM said:
But basically it sounds like the issue is there in iOS 10, just the speed involved that might make a difference.
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is it an issue in ios 10 if it is not ever noticed ? I don't recall any stink about the calculator app in ios 10 or any ios version, prior to 11, for that matter.

Share me a link with complaints about calculator app, at this magnitude, before iOS 11.
 
DavidMercier said:
Of course, people at Apple are getting old.
Speed is not tested anymore.
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I think testers are using scripts to test functionality:

"Tap 1. Display should show 1. Tap +. Display should animate the plus button and show 1. Tap 2. Display should show 2. Tap +. Display should animate the plus button and show 3. Tap 3. Display should show 3. Tap =. Display should animate the equals button and show 6".

If you follow that script, item by item, it all works fine because of the pauses that you make reading each item.
 
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.
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I wholeheartedly agree. A few years ago, Apple started “battery shaming” apps. I think MR and other popular Apple news sites should start “bug shaming” Apple. To have this calculator bug still present after no fewer than 15 beta releases (between 11.0 and 11.1) is disgraceful.
 
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charlieroberts said:
It bothers me that people are making this a "thing".
If you type 1+2+3 it will give you 6. EVERY SINGLE TIME.
If you on the other hand type it faster that the app can recognize the taps, then it produces another result which is understandable. Come on people, hardly a bug, more like a usability flaw, which im sure Apple will fix.

When people complain about such stupid things it takes away from actual worthwhile complaints.
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Actually, I have to contradict you here vehemently. The user taps all the right buttons, the user should get the right answer. One of the worst things is a UI that has to be used slowly. Not a "lagging" UI, that's bad enough, but one where the user has to slow themselves down. So things take longer than they have to, AND the user cannot trust the result. That's bad. And annoying things like this destroy the user interface.

jm001 said:
Why is this even "news"? It's not a calculation glitch, but rather as the article mentions a lag where the "+" after the 2 isn't acknowledged when typed quickly so instead of getting "2+3" the "+" gets omitted and you get "23" which when added to the "1" gives you "24". Typing in normal speed will allow for the lag to "catch up" and you'll get 1+2+3 = 6. I can even seen "23" on the screen before I press "=" so I know something isn't right and I can correct it.
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Why is this use? Because it is absolutely pathetic. Try adding up 100 numbers. It either takes three times longer than it should, or you are guaranteed to get the wrong result.

Apple blogger said:
It's not a bug. I have tried it. It just takes a way longer time to refresh after the 1+2, so the next plus doesn't get tapped, and you end up with 1+ 23
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It's a bug with a very annoying workaround. It's pathetic. You are tapping 1 + 2 + 3 = and you don't get 6. In which alternate universe is this not a bug?


If you use MacOS and display the clock in the menubar with seconds: For years, they used a font where the "1" was narrower than the other digits. With the result that when the last digit of the seconds switched from 0 to 1 and from 1 to 2, the whole display moved by a pixel. A bug like that is just pathetic.
 
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Where have you been? I think the calculator has been broke since iOS 7.
I've always had to use a third party calculator because I type so fast the iOS calculator misses the plus operator all the time and just thinks your typing one long number.

Currently the best calculator is an app called " Calculator for iOS 7 " except that is 32 bit and not compatible with iOS 11 but is a really fast calculator with audible feedback one of the reasons I won't switch to iOS 11. My secondary calculator is called " Xmart Calc " which comes in a close second.
 
Act3 said:
is it an issue in ios 10 if it is not ever noticed ? I don't recall any stink about the calculator app in ios 10 or any ios version, prior to 11, for that matter.

Share me a link with complaints about calculator app, at this magnitude, before iOS 11.
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Are we really going down the path of is it an issue if different people aren't noticing it? After all the discussions about that kind of thing as it relates to animation glitches, frame drops, fraction of a second delays somewhere, etc.? Really?
 
charlieroberts said:
It bothers me that people are making this a "thing".
If you type 1+2+3 it will give you 6. EVERY SINGLE TIME.
If you on the other hand type it faster that the app can recognize the taps, then it produces another result which is understandable. Come on people, hardly a bug, more like a usability flaw, which im sure Apple will fix.

When people complain about such stupid things it takes away from actual worthwhile complaints.
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That’s because it is a “thing”. It’s actually a bug manifesting itself not just in iOS11 but also in earlier versions. The bigger take-away is that prioritizing animations over user taps can lead to erroneous results (which would never plague a real calculator). It could also be a contributing factor to lag introduced when upgrading the iOS on older hardware (with the answer being to enable “Reduce Motion”). Sad.

Considering that the bug was mentioned during the beta phase and not fixed probably speaks volumes to how entrenched this "animation" problem is (possibly going back several generations of iOS).
 
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Lumpydog said:
I've seen more bugs in 11 than any other release. Egregious and repeatable.
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To be fair, various others have said similar things about iOS 10, 9, 8, etc. in the early days of those versions.
 
jm001 said:
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.
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No, it’s not calculating just fine because I pressed 1+2+3 and it came up with 24—clearly a wrong calculation. I didn’t enter 1+23, did I? If it were calculating just fine, the calculation wouldn’t have been wrong.

If you don’t want to call a wrong calculation a calculation glitch, feel free. But the fact remains, it’s a calculation glitch. Note I didn’t say there’s any problem with the calculation algorithm. I didn’t say that it wasn’t possible to go so slowly that it would calculate correctly.

Don’t engage in user blame and try to fault me for the calculation glitch; 24 is not right when I press 1+2+3 and it’s not the behavior Apple intends.

If you told me “1+2+3 equals 24” I would tell you you’ve got a calculation glitch.

Free your mind from it’s semantic rigidity—a “calculation glitch” precisely describes 1+2+3=24. If I’d entered 1+23 and gotten 24, that would have been the correct answer, and we wouldn’t be talking about a calculation glitch at all.
 
C DM said:
To be fair, various others have said similar things about iOS 10, 9, 8, etc. in the early days of those versions.
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I get the sentiment. May be true. My experience has been - elevated number of problems that I easily trip over. Noticeable and differentiated from the past. I get that it's subjective and your reply is indeed fair.
 
C DM said:
Are we really going down the path of is it an issue if different people aren't noticing it? After all the discussions about that kind of thing as it relates to animation glitches, frame drops, fraction of a second delays somewhere, etc.? Really?
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Yes really. Spin it as you like , but simple calculator function is a bit different than dropped frames. You say you are not defending apple, really what is your agenda ? Have you’ve ever critiqued anything Apple has done on here?

Still waiting on you to provide link to a thread showing people on MR complaining about calculator issues on previous iOS versions. You do seem all knowledgeable about past forum discussions. Show me where it was an issue in the past. :rolleyes:
 
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Even this **** was more reliable:
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Bravo, Apple! Your calculator gives me totally predictable unpredictable results.
 
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