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iOS 14 Poised to Surpass iOS 13 Installations as Adoption Nears 50%
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In return you get a far better app experience than what you get on Android as apps take advantage of the bleeding edge features and only have to focus on one version to engineer their app for.
Troubleshooting is hardly an issue here with iOS. You'd be troubleshooting your Android apps far more as developers find it a headache to segregate their apps to cater towards the extreme fragmentation of Android versions.
Wish I could. IOS13 was such a cluster for me that I had to upgrade.
The update is better, email still behaving strangely though.
The other thing that annoys me, and isn't fixed is how when in some websites, you place a fullstop and then carriage return, the new sentence starts lower case. Very annoying in a first world kind of way.
It's the same every year. Wait for all the minor releases to come out if you're concerned about stability.
From what I've seen, Android tends to change less about the app runtime between versions, so it's not an apples to apples comparison. iOS still seems easier for devs to support.
not sure what you mean. i can tell you first hand it broke our app when Google introduced privacy controls at run time as opposed to at install time. we had to segregate the code path based on which version of Android you're using.
Android 10 broke a lot of apps with the gesture based navigation. swiping from the edge simulated a back button press but some apps implemented a custom back gesture. the only way for us to block it was to pop up an Alert dialog whenever you attempt to back swipe.
Wish I had. Everything in me said don't do it but I did on day 1. Regretted it until they worked out how to make their own internal apps work. They have finally fixed the health app but it took long enough. I won't make the same mistake again.
IMO, IOS 14 is a minor update to IOS 13, in the same way that IOS 13 was a minor update to IOS 12, and that was a minor update to IOS 11, etc.
To me, IOS 14 seems to be a major update:
iOS 14: Everything you need to know
iOS 14 is Apple's operating system for iPhones introduced in 2020. Provided to developers in at WWDC in June Released September 16, 2020.
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Guess we all view things differently.
This 100%. My wife upgraded her 11 and it’s been very very buggy — audio dropping out, blank screens, control center is basically unusable, etc.
I’m going to hold off for this one — I waited until January for iOS 13 and still regretted it (Mail still continues to glitch on me and not show new emails, and I work in a field where a missed email is a HUGE deal).
Hopefully Apple gets its act together soon.
My wife's XR has none of these issues on the latest ios 14 update. I guess YMMV is always true.
Default app changes not sticking.
I'll just wait until it actually works to upgrade. There's no compelling reason to jump from a version that's been working alright to a version with bugs in the features that Apple prominently highlighted as the reason to upgrade - presumably those were the most tested features, so who knows how many bugs there are in things they didn't advertise.
Yes, it is, but it's become more important to wait lately, as the quality of the releases seems to be less.
It feels as though there was a huge drop in quality after Avie Tevanian left the company and just a steady downward trend since then. The more Apple is worth, the less they care.
You don't get that now with ios 13. So don't use that feature in ios 14?
I'm enjoying some of the ios 14 features, such as PIP, which are not implemented in IOS 13. To me ios 14 is a solid upgrade from ios 13...as you noted YMMV.
Well, every year people also say there's been a recent drop in quality. The only time I was actually upset was iOS 10.
I’m still not getting mail to auto refresh. first an email arrives, I open mail and have to manually refresh to get the message. It’s crazy this has been reported over a year and no fix.
Same! Twice. No fixes. Now have to take it into the Genius Bar and hope they will replace.
Out of curiosity, are you on iOS 14?
It is insane that this has gone on so long. Sometimes I have to force quit mail in order to see a message; I’ve gone hours checking my mail frequently and still missed a critically time-sensitive message because of this. It’s madness.