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iOS 15.7.1 Release Candidate Breaking Face ID for Some iPhone Users
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Nah, the iOS 15 updates will be security updates only, no new features. There could be a 15.8 eventually, only because they made it all the way to 15.7.9 with security patches. Also, I expect 15.7.1 to be the last version of iOS 15 available to devices that are eligible to upgrade to iOS 16. Security updates to iOS 15 will continue to trickle out as needed for the 6s and 7 series and the iPod Touch 7 over the next couple years though.
It's a bug in an updated complex piece of software interacting with hardware.
Life goes on. Though some will go on like it's a huge deal, it's nothing to get triggered about.
Life goes on. Though some will go on like it's a huge deal, it's nothing to get triggered about.
That’s why there’s 15.7.x.
iOS 16 means new code which means more chances for bugs.
You’re confusing new features with more security. And this is the reason any major version has the broadest attack surface compared to the subsequent minor releases where focus is less towards adding new code and more about fixing/refining.
Fake news! Apple cancelled iOS a couple of years ago due to "cancel culture."
Does this article refer to iPhoneOS 15.7 or iPadOS 15.7?
Does this article refer to iPhoneOS 15.7 or iPadOS 15.7?
You heard it here first — Face ID has gained an Ego Checker. Those that suffer from egomania no longer pass the verification checks. But don't worry, you can change your ways.
Users should take a good hard look at themselves and ask why they demand Apple keep adding new features year after year after year, but then expect 100% stability. Can't have both.
Apple need to be less blatant in telling people to buy new iphones. I mean come on, FaceID is an essential basic security feature. Why does it break in an x.7.1 release when it was fine in the previous versions?
I don't think people demanded Apple for new features. Nobody was mad on Snow Leopard nor iOS12 where Apple said the focus was for stability and performance. It was Apple themselves that insistent in releasing new OS version yearly with tent pole features for their marketing. It is within Apple's own control.
This is completely inexcusable, Apple.
Exactly right. There’s no excuse for this incompetence.
Damn we’re digging pretty deep in the conspirational theories. It is a software bug, no need to make something bigger than what it really is
You know your on the Macrumors forum don’t you? Where everything wrong with peoples lives is the fault of Tim Apple.
How many different (or similar) ways are you going to come up with to bash Apple and Tim? Why not make some useful proposals to help Apple instead of hysteria? Thanks.
Queue the Jeopardy Music 🎶
Jeopardy Host Question: The final version of software that gets sent out to the public for their devices.
Jeopardy Contestant Answer: What is a Release Candidate?
Jeopardy Host: Bzzzzz. Sorry that is incorrect.