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Minor iOS 8.1.3 Update Likely Coming Next Week [Updated]
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Or you have allowed every app that wants it access to Location Services
I advise going through the list and checking ones granted this access, some are not even IOS8 apps which can be set to only when app is running, they always want it.
Also check those apps allowed to do background updates, turn off any you don't want doing this
Maybe they are purposefully keeping this subset of visitor numbers (Apple employees, or whoever they are) confidential, for some reason? Or they just like mystery...
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How about a fix for the voracious cellular data-eating bug: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6542316?start=0&tstart=0 11 pages there of people using various iDevices on various networks who apparently had no such issue with the very same hardware prior to iOS8 (myself included). It's not fun having to remember to turn on and off the cellular every time just to keep the data usage under control. My iDevice was in a solid wifi zone, closed & unused for a whole weekend and gobbled up almost 700MB of cellular (most of which was in Apple's Mail app though I don't get even close to enough mail over any 3 days to begin to rationalize that in any way... even if wifi had been turned off- which it wasn't).
I'm sure this is a "bug" that makes Apple's cellular partners happy though. Just think how many people pay to renew data instead of assume it's a bug, go hunting for others and post their own experience.
And let me guess: about 5 guys quote me to say how they've had no such problem (implying that I and all those people at the link can't be having a problem either). And 5 more guys post about tens of millions of phones sold vs. some tiny number of people with a problem, implying that it's not something to address. I know, I know- Apple is perfect and we Apple customers are just "holding it wrong."
I'm sure this is a "bug" that makes Apple's cellular partners happy though. Just think how many people pay to renew data instead of assume it's a bug, go hunting for others and post their own experience.
And let me guess: about 5 guys quote me to say how they've had no such problem (implying that I and all those people at the link can't be having a problem either). And 5 more guys post about tens of millions of phones sold vs. some tiny number of people with a problem, implying that it's not something to address. I know, I know- Apple is perfect and we Apple customers are just "holding it wrong."
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I see what you did...This! So much this. It literally, not the figurative literally but the literal literally, makes my eye twitch.
It's like reading a sentence that doesn't have
...there.
I think when you read complaints about battery life on the iPhone 6, they mean the smaller one, not the Plus. My iPhone 6 battery life is pathetic compared to my 5. There isn't a day that it's above 50% by early evening, and if I choose to use it before bed, the next morning it's around 20% or lower.
And, I'm a real low use person (emails, texts and a few calls, some music streaming, etc.). Same stuff I did on my 5 I do on my 6 and have to worry the battery will run out.
Other things I'd like addressed in an iOS update before either I die or the iPhone 7 comes out is the rotation bug in messaging, and my contacts list keeps setting itself to ALL GROUPS when I have only ONE GROUP chosen. Very random and not sure what causes it.
Oh, and have the friggin' phone use my BT headset when I answer a call with it on instead of switching to internal earpiece.
Small bug fixes?
Sounds awesome, since iOS 8 is FULL of small bugs! (3rd-party keyboard bugs being the ones I run up against the hardest.)
And at least one BIG bug I hope is fixed: flakiness and crashes if you have too many apps installed, which iOS 7 handled just fine. (My 6 Plus will not accept hundreds of apps the way my ancient iPhone 5 did. And I'm a gaming fan, so my app collection is only likely to keep growing. Faster than my music collection! I think of both collections about the same, and miss having all my games at my fingertips.)
Sounds awesome, since iOS 8 is FULL of small bugs! (3rd-party keyboard bugs being the ones I run up against the hardest.)
And at least one BIG bug I hope is fixed: flakiness and crashes if you have too many apps installed, which iOS 7 handled just fine. (My 6 Plus will not accept hundreds of apps the way my ancient iPhone 5 did. And I'm a gaming fan, so my app collection is only likely to keep growing. Faster than my music collection! I think of both collections about the same, and miss having all my games at my fingertips.)
That's true, good point. Limited battery life is annoying, I loved my 5S but the battery life was very poor near the end. The 6 Plus has been a revelation in this regard, but I totally understand that everyone doesn't want a massive phone.
We don't want to share exact numbers, primarily for competitive reasons. But the total number of hits from iOS 8.1.3 devices now numbers in the thousands...does that help?
It was a play on the "I don't install x.0 releases" that people howl about after each major release.
(Especially when every release is ".0" release, just by adding that to the end.)
This person must not be familiar with the decimal numeral system. Here, go have a quick read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal
We don't want to share exact numbers, primarily for competitive reasons. But the total number of hits from iOS 8.1.3 devices now numbers in the thousands...does that help?
Thank you for the explanation.
I am a heavy user and my Iphone 6 lasts me at least 16 full hours of usage time. If I'm out of bed by 7am then it'll usually be around 20% by 9pm, and that's with heavy gaming and gps use.
If your battery is not performing, you may want to consider letting it drain out completely (down to 0% so it turns off by itself). Let it sit with empty battery for half an hour and then charge it back to full power. This way you reset the battery life memory.
You probably want to also take a look at your location services and background app refresh usage as well as your brightness. Otherwise you probably should bring it to the apple store for a diagnostic, it might've been a defective battery.
The person that assigns Apple releases doesn't know about the decimal system, or me?
Apparently, the next release is 8.1.3, which has no bearing on the decimal system. Software numbering can be found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_versioning
It also explains why 8.1.10 is not the same as 8.1.1, as well as being 9 release versions after it.
Ok, so what OS are you running? iOS 3.1415926...
What you said makes little to no sense, mathematically speaking.
Version Pi? That would be irrational.
Sarcastically speaking, it makes total sense.
It's getting bad. With iOS itself checking for things, apps checking for things (even when you thought you've told them not to), and the increase of crap that downloads with web pages my "morning routine" on my iPad of surfing the headlines of 8-10 web pages has gone from about 10MB to 15MB over the last year. I am always turning the cel modem on and off to keep from chewing through my 1GB/mo plan...and you'll notice what piece of hardware is not in the Control Center.
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Well they clearly don't seem to know what is going on sometimes, so they come here to find out.
Never... ever. If it was good enough to boot the phone the first time, it's good enough forever.
(I'll repeat it, just to be sure - I know not everyone has a chance to read all of the posts - The original remark was a poke at those that say, "I never install a .0 release". Technically speaking, they are all ".0" releases - all you have to do is take the numbering scheme to the logical extreme.)
We don't want to share exact numbers, primarily for competitive reasons. But the total number of hits from iOS 8.1.3 devices now numbers in the thousands...does that help?
That makes sense. Thanks.
Have corrupt settings been known to cause battery draining issues? Honestly curious.
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