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Some iOS 16 Users Complain About Slow Spotlight Search and Battery Drain
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I would think battery life and heating up are caused by apps like Facebook not updated to new version. My wife and I have the same iPhone 13 pros and hers is burning up but mine is fine. I do not use Facebook. I’ve told her for years to delete that invasive piece of crap.
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Sure, let’s just ignore bugs because sone zealots want to pretend apple is perfect 🤣
It shouldn’t matter. It’s a bug either way and apple should fix it.
I'm experiencing the slow spotlight results. I have loads of spotlight features turned off as I use it mainly as an app launcher but even that takes multiple seconds. I'm on an iPhone 11 Pro and this was so fast it seemed instant on iOS 15.
The only other issue I have with iOS 16 is I can't turn off battery percentage. The toggle will move but the percentage is always displayed.
Otherwise battery life seems normal, everything else is fine.
The only other issue I have with iOS 16 is I can't turn off battery percentage. The toggle will move but the percentage is always displayed.
Otherwise battery life seems normal, everything else is fine.
I guess either everyone at Apple also turns these off, so they never see the issue. OR if you're testing on Apple's corporate network then everything runs faster and you don't see the issue?
I've often had battery drain issues on past iOS versions, especially during the beta stage, but even the 16 betas have been solid on my 13 Pro Max.
Spotlight search has been spotty. There have been cases where it can't find the app I'm searching for even though it's clearly on the phone and something I use regularly.
Spotlight search has been spotty. There have been cases where it can't find the app I'm searching for even though it's clearly on the phone and something I use regularly.
iOS 16 has been near perfect for me on my iPhone 12 Pro Max compared to iOS 15 when it was first launched.
I haven’t felt the need to update any of my Apple devices in the last 3-4 years. None of these OSes have included any “must have features” that have inspired me. With the exception of Apple Silicon, I feel Apple might have hit annother innovation slump offering only incremental updates and improvements.
“Problem happens every new version, therefore it’s not a problem.” Apple’s own customers making it easier for them to do nothing to make their software better…
I have all my music and iTunes data features disabled on my iPhone SE3, yet iOS still downloads from my iTunes account as soon as my Mazda 3 tells it to play music, because the car’s garbage software suddenly decided to ignore the iPhone 4 I use as an iPod.
All software sucks.
That would be a welcome change for me, since gestures all over iOS are generally conflicting with each other anymore.
That’s the status quo of the tech industry: normalize piss-poor software. It’s been an incredibly successful social engineering effort, and it’s been going on for decades, well before iPhones came along.
For a brief time, in Apple’s last golden era (during the first few years of iOS and Mac OS Snow Leopard), Apple’s better-than-the-lazy-tech-industry design and detail-oriented-yet-discoverable user experience forced the industry to get off its lazy effing ass. For a rare moment, meaningful competition existed, and it did the thing capitalists claim capitalism always does: improved things for everyone.
By 2013’s product releases, Apple had flopped back into the pool of complacent and arrogant laziness, their products turned merely “less bad” than the rest of the tech industry, and everything else has continued to get worse along with them.
Because the industry is allowed to continuously do this every year, as people excuse it as “normal for a first public release”.
