Didn’t install any of the 16.5 betas. I never even installed any versions of 16.3 or 16.4 so I’m pretty far behind. iTunes insists my software is up to date though.
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iOS 16.5 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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Didn’t install any of the 16.5 betas. I never even installed any versions of 16.3 or 16.4 so I’m pretty far behind. iTunes insists my software is up to date though.
So I decided to call “Apple Support” and an advisor told me he talked to a senior advisory and was told that ScreenTime settings don’t sync between devices as Apple hasn’t added that feature.
Really.
Apple Support are idiots.
Still not working correctly for me. My iPhone sees my iMac, but the iMac doesn't show my iPhone as a separate device even though it does with my iPad. But then it does show the cumulative data. It's just completely half-arsed as is Apple's style these days #
toApple
Still not working correctly for me. My iPhone sees my iMac, but the iMac doesn't show my iPhone as a separate device even though it does with my iPad. But then it does show the cumulative data. It's just completely half-arsed as is Apple's style these days #toApple
When I turned things off back in March, my phone could see my iPad but not vice-versa. Now it’s not syncing at all. I don’t even see my other devices listed under ScreenTime.
Worse now, the settings don’t sync. If I turn downtime on one device it doesn’t turn on anywhere else. That used to work a few months ago.
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Did the Iphone 14PM notification bug get fixed ? You know the one whereby notification tones are extremely loud when on a phone call using the phones earpiece.
Did not see this message. iPhone updated, though.
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You can always ignore what iTunes is telling you, and download the 16.5 IPSW itself. then you can tell what iTunes is telling you to get stuffed by holding down the Option key (Mac) or Shift key (Windows) while clicking on update, and selecting the IPSW file. I've been doing that since iOS 3.x and works every time.
BL.
When you download the IPSW file, you should hit Update, if you plan on keeping your phone in its current state and update the OS. If you want to restore to the new OS, you could do that by hitting restore The caveat here is that if you hit restore to restore to the new OS, to get your data back, you would need a backup of your phone to do that.
Short story: play it safe, and hit update in iTunes.
BL.
I’m still on 16.2, so definitely not the latest version!
Yeah, I figured a manual shift-update with the IPSW should do the trick just fine… my point is though that I shouldn’t have to resort to such tricks. Whatever happened to “It just works”?
It’s experiences like these that remind me the apple magic of yore is very much absent from whatever they’re offering customers in 2023
It's cool...but not as cool as Marquez.
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It does work; however, not every device needs to phone home immediately, unless we all want to DOS Apple's update servers. That's what happens when everyone jumps immediately to update, causing longer download speeds. Even with their servers being distributed, customers outnumber the servers, and all of us hitting them at once will cause longer updates due to slower transfer speeds.
So the more staggered, the faster.
BL.
I haven’t seen anything to suggest that Apple staggers the release of iOS updates up to this point. While it’s possible I missed something or this is a new policy, it seems more probable to me that this is just their software not functioning as it’s intended to. At the very least, even if this is intentional by design, stating that my phone is up to date or running the latest software is patently false, when there have been at least 3 public iOS releases since my previous update.
Yeah, I’m having issues with the Messages app, too. None of my received messages are showing up unless I swipe out of the convo and back in again.
Found a new bug in 16.5 - when viewing a video in the camera roll and you press the blue button at the bottom of the screen to unmute the sound, this resets when switching to a different video and the audio is muted again. This behavior is unlike previous versions of iOS 16 where it would remain un-muted from one video to the next. This makes browsing my spank bank significantly more inconvenient, I can’t imagine this was a deliberate change
16.5 contains important security fixes, I'd suggest updating.
No issues with that we’ve experienced, and as mentioned several important security updates. You really should update your devices.
And, look this article :
About the security content of iOS 16.5 and iPadOS 16.5
This document describes the security content of iOS 16.5 and iPadOS 16.5.
In addition to what other users mentioned about the security update, 16.5 has been the most stable iOS 16 release with the longest battery life for me so far. Obviously, ymmv though.