They sacrificed their stability so the rest of us can upgrade to 15.1 (maybe 15.2) with confidence. God bless, 20%. Your photos will not have been deleted in vain.
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iOS 15 Suffering From Several Bugs as Adoption Rises to Nearly 20%
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Apple had MONTHS to prepare, and here we are with buggy release.
I’m beginning to wonder if developers even bothered to install the OS beta on everyday device to test the OS for bugs they might encounter. All this should’ve been discovered easily before final release.
While back, when I installed developer beta my device on my everyday device, I found MULTIPLE bugs that was not on release notes, and I would end up submitting endless bug reports to Apple, and yes, it bug happened to be with navigation function on maps, I would actually bring my Mac with me to my car, to log the data and submit to Apple.
I’m beginning to wonder if developers even bothered to install the OS beta on everyday device to test the OS for bugs they might encounter. All this should’ve been discovered easily before final release.
While back, when I installed developer beta my device on my everyday device, I found MULTIPLE bugs that was not on release notes, and I would end up submitting endless bug reports to Apple, and yes, it bug happened to be with navigation function on maps, I would actually bring my Mac with me to my car, to log the data and submit to Apple.
Gawd. I miss the days when Apple didn't release software until it was polished. They've become what MS was back in the 90's and 00's (the Naughties
).
Wise piece of advise an old computer Guru gave me decades ago: "No matter how great the software, never bet on a first release." Folks should wait for 15.3 before upgrading unless you're the adventurous type.
).Wise piece of advise an old computer Guru gave me decades ago: "No matter how great the software, never bet on a first release." Folks should wait for 15.3 before upgrading unless you're the adventurous type.
In my experience from updating to iOS 15 on my 12 pro max and having it on 13 pro max, it has been awful! A ton of bugs, just things not working right, just an absolute disaster. Kinda surprised apple has waited so long to fix some of these bugs.
What an absolute **** show. Every day there's something new. Ffs what the **** is Craig getting paid for if not to find these things?
I'm using my free 6 months of Apple Music to check it out and it's been bug-o-rama since I downloaded it.
I keep getting an error that says "The requested URL was not found on this server" and it will stop my music. I have googled and tried everything and nothing works. This has happened at random times the last few days.
Other times, my music will just stop halfway through for no reason. Just full stop. And I have to press play again.
Yesterday I was driving home listening in my car through bluetooth, and my music just stops playing. Nothing I did would get it to work again. It simply would not play after messing with it for 5 minutes or so. I even hard reset the phone and it wouldn't work. I thought it was my bluetooth but even after I got home and tried playing it at the house it would not play. It finally started to work again later that evening on its own.
Not a good first impression for someone that was trying it out to compare to Spotify.
edit: lmao, as soon as I submitted this post I got the dreaded " The requested URL was not found on this server" and it skipped to the next song. I'm done with Apple Music. Back to Spotify I go.
I keep getting an error that says "The requested URL was not found on this server" and it will stop my music. I have googled and tried everything and nothing works. This has happened at random times the last few days.
Other times, my music will just stop halfway through for no reason. Just full stop. And I have to press play again.
Yesterday I was driving home listening in my car through bluetooth, and my music just stops playing. Nothing I did would get it to work again. It simply would not play after messing with it for 5 minutes or so. I even hard reset the phone and it wouldn't work. I thought it was my bluetooth but even after I got home and tried playing it at the house it would not play. It finally started to work again later that evening on its own.
Not a good first impression for someone that was trying it out to compare to Spotify.
edit: lmao, as soon as I submitted this post I got the dreaded " The requested URL was not found on this server" and it skipped to the next song. I'm done with Apple Music. Back to Spotify I go.
Seriously IMO This may be the most buggy iOS they have ever rolled out. Plenty of new features that are pointless and kludges . Thankfully i only put in one one device for a trial.
iOS 16 will be like what they did with iOS 12... Less new features and more focus on stability...
If the device was on iOS 15/iPadOS 15 out of the box, you're right... Downgrading to iOS 14.8 is not an option...
I'm referring to devices introduced/released this year 2021...
I usually update to the latest iOS version fairly quickly. I've been burned a couple times because of that (namely with iOS 8 and 11). With the large number of bugs reported I'm hanging out on iOS 14 for the time being. Maybe I'll update when iOS 15.1 is released.
If I was in charge:
1) Stop having the WWDC keynote being feature lead. Make it for developers again.
Reason? I think that the requirement to fill the WWDC keynote with features means that Apple has to come up with X amount of stand out features each year which increases the difficulty of implementing them in time for the fall.
2) Launch each major x.00 release for the new fall phones only. The 00 release should only have just a few of the new shiny things in it plus the unique hardware features of the new phones. Enough for people to get that ‘new phone feel’.
3) Roll out a x.1 versions in October for all supported phones. This should be the same as x.0 with bug fixes.
4) Roll out the new shiny stuff in stages in the next 3 months or so. Yes, it means that Devs will have less incentive to code their apps for the new iOS version initially. But the way this is going, is that user upgrades to the new yearly releases will slow anyway - because people don’t trust Apple.
1) Stop having the WWDC keynote being feature lead. Make it for developers again.
Reason? I think that the requirement to fill the WWDC keynote with features means that Apple has to come up with X amount of stand out features each year which increases the difficulty of implementing them in time for the fall.
2) Launch each major x.00 release for the new fall phones only. The 00 release should only have just a few of the new shiny things in it plus the unique hardware features of the new phones. Enough for people to get that ‘new phone feel’.
3) Roll out a x.1 versions in October for all supported phones. This should be the same as x.0 with bug fixes.
4) Roll out the new shiny stuff in stages in the next 3 months or so. Yes, it means that Devs will have less incentive to code their apps for the new iOS version initially. But the way this is going, is that user upgrades to the new yearly releases will slow anyway - because people don’t trust Apple.
While iOS 15 has a number of noticeable bugs, none of them are as catastrophic as some of the infamous iOS releases. To me, iOS 9 takes the cake, followed by iOS 11, then 7.
He is just a figurehead for the CSAM stuff so he gets a pass there. The bugs yes - but who in their right mind wants to take over this portfolio now? So he’s probably safe.
Oh C’mon! Bugs–Yes, DISASTER? NO! Not even close.
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I know I did, and it wasn't bad. Then, all of a sudden, the RC came out at it was a totally different beast. Could very well be that code was pushed from one code base (iPhone 13 targeted) into the general RC (all others). It's just such a weird weird release - they obviously violated some general (common sense, you can say) rules on code updates or general quality control.
If I were allowed to reverse back to iPadOS 14 I would do it, and these statistic numbers would be even smaller. I really dislike the thumbnails left column when quick looking a pdf on the Files app on iPadOS 15.
P.S.: in my case it's not a bug, just a new "feature" that can't be disabled and I really dislike it.
P.S.: in my case it's not a bug, just a new "feature" that can't be disabled and I really dislike it.
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Disaster would be phones exploding (Samsung) or the software completely bricking itself. Disaster would be something that would cost millions in damages. This, for now, is just a hurt reputation and an inconvenience.
Think there are features of previous IOS releases that have come after the initial release. This isn't a new development.