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iOS 9.3 'Most Stable New Release in Years', Says Analytics Firm

Comparing a month of data to about a week of new update...assuming users have already upgraded. Too early to jump to conclusions? Also, interesting to note what would have caused the spike in crashes across all versions on the 23rd?
 
And yet, my overall impression of iOS has been in steady decline since 7.

  • The devices(s) randomly stop responding to any touch input, neededing to be locked/unlocked a few times to return to functioning.
  • Spotlight search is maddening at times. When it even decides to show the keyboard.
  • iMessage wants to send random voice messages just because I decided to put my phone down.
  • Control center often REFUSES to be dragged up from the bottom of the screen.
  • My ipad's wifi networking will randomly just stop working. Disable wifi, wait 2 mins, re-enable, and all's good. ?!
  • Airdrop works when it wants to, even when trying to drop to the same macbook it previously worked with.
  • orientation lock randomly enables
And that's not to mention the removed/ignored items like "skip when shuffling" and "remember playback position" no longer functioning.
 
A stable release? This would have never happened if Steve J. was still around. Apple is doomed, soon people will have perfect devices with perfect software. I remember the days when Apple Maps would direct you to drive into oceans, onto runways etc., back then Apple was just on top form....
Strangely enough, under Tim Cook Apple is doing pretty well. I like the more stable releases.
 
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Gasu E. said:
How do you equate number of people looking at a thread to number of people actually having a problem? If you are familiar at all with this "Internets" thingy, you will know that number of clicks correlates to social media noise, not reality.
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Um, you're right. Mainly because he will argue anything on a problem that you don't even have
 
Sounds like one of those researches funded by Apple to say whatever Apple wants because 9.3 was pulled for issues and 9.3.1 just got released today so there's insufficient data to determine anything.
 
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name99 said:
If it truly is "randomly" freezing, it's most likely a hardware error. OSX is still (unacceptably so, IMHO) extremely fragile to IO errors. Most likely your boot hard drive is slowly going bad; it's also possible, especially if you have a 5 year or older USB drive attached that the problem is in that drive (though generating OS crashes with a broken USB drive is a lot rarer than with a broken internal drive).

You could try using Disk Utility to check out the SMART status, but IMHO Disk Utility is kinda useless fro looking at SMART. I'd recommend DriveDX (costs, but has a one week free mode), and IMHO is worth the cost in terms of telling you exactly how your drive is dying.

If the drive IS dying, your options vary depending on the mac type and how old it is. If it's an older MacBook, you can easily swap out the drive. If it's a stationary mac you can buy an external drive (I'd REALLY recommend an SSD, but that's up to you), plug it in, then
- boot from the recovery partition
- install the OS onto the new drive, including restoring from Time Machine
- set your system to boot from the new (external) drive
- completely wipe the internal drive and mark it as an unused partition. (If you don't do this, the OS may still occasionally try to read from that drive, and you're back to the problem of random crashes.)
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it is a early 2015 rMBP 13"

i forget to indicate that even though the system freeze including the force trackpad, my music still continue to play via safari.

I found people reporting similar issue on the el capitan forum.
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...11-4-system-wide-safari-freeze.1963711/page-2
 
I can't get iCloud Drive to email documents, etc via the share sheet option at all. They'll send but they simply never show up to their intended recipient.
 
nooaah said:
Yeah, it's almost like an OS that had less features and was on less models with less complications, less sensors, less users, available in less countries and less carriers, etc would have less possibilities for bugs to pop up.
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I agree, less bugs, more stable.
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C DM said:
It sounds like it might very well be, but without a similar comparison of similar data it would be hard to say for sure.
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Greetings from iOS6. I have the data, its in my pocket every day. It did not crash like my friend's iOS9s
 
oliversl said:
I agree, less bugs, more stable.
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Greetings from iOS6. I have the data, its in my pocket every day. It did not crash like my friend's iOS9s
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Right, a very small anecdotal sample. Just as many people with iOS 9 haven't had crashes. Basically my comments about similar data being available would still apply.
 
Michael Goff said:
Stable means fewer crashes. Sure, you have to fix bugs to get that, but the but they fixed with .1 wasn't crash related. ;)
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I see your point. But mine is...if a software release is buggy...regardless of if they can or will be fixed makes it less stable. If the bugs affect user experience then it is not stable. If a release crashes once never to crash again...I would deem it more stable than a buggy release.
 
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jamezr said:
I see your point. But mine is...if a software release is buggy...regardless of if they can or will be fixed makes it less stable. If the bugs affect user experience then it is not stable. If a release crashes once never to crash again...I would deem it more stable than a buggy release.
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Stability as far as it applies to software and all that (rather than a generic philosophical application) isn't the same as some visual inconsistency or some bug that doesn't produce the correct result somewhere or something else of that nature.
 
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C DM said:
Right, a very small anecdotal sample. Just as many people with iOS 9 haven't had crashes. Basically my comments about similar data being available would still apply.
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Agree, we need more data. But only Apple has them
 
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