I love Apple. I really do. But I feel so disappointed in their quality control lately. I don't understand how this made it into release.
This is true love!
This one is super widespread. I don't believe I had anybody text it to me before it showed up for me. Over-the-air model update perhaps? Could have been a virus-spreading situation but it seems like something else.
[0] Believe me I wish it was. everyday.
1+2+3=24 if typed quickly into the calculator, even on the fastest hardware
They got rid of autoplay next episodes in podcasts, and make it take three taps to play next episode. That moron swerving during your commute Monday? That’d be one of millions of people trying to advance to the next episode.
They also eliminated “mark as [un]played” in podcasts.
Alerts show on the lock screen, but are missing from the alert list.
The keyboard in messaging is completely different than the keyboard in third party apps (and it doesn’t have feature parity with itself across third party apps either.
If I enable speech in maps, using my car bluetooth, it pauses audio and plays silence during the voice prompts. After bluetooth drops when I leave the car, it happily speaks directions into my pocket instead of realizing I arrived.
The battery meter and lifetime were FUBARed for a week after I upgraded.
Calendars randomly opens to a useless year overview screen, even though I only ever use the “today” screen.
(and so on...)
All of these issues are regressions introduced between 10 and 11, and I’m sure I’ll notice more issues over time.
(Also, performance is terrible on my old phone. Web pages and apps swap out constantly, which I never noticed before. It takes Siri so long to turn on the microphone that it’s better to open the app I want, and type the query. Maps take 15 seconds to open. Time to first picture is unacceptable, and I swear the quality of the pictures is lower too).
But even if the location is wrong, three-day-old data for the wrong location is even worse than fresh data for the wrong location.
Why bother with the stock apps at this point ? They have had 2 to 3 times better alternatives for years and years now, some even free with basically no barrier to switch.
I feel like beating on Apple apps is a bit like crying about Microsoft making IE shittier or Google making another chat app. Why not move on ?
There may be workarounds for every single issue, and as a techie I could do them, but I pay specifically not to have to spend time & energy on any of that.
There’s not really anywhere to “move on” to, since Android is still [edit: also] a tire fire, and I don’t trust google (or anything ad supported) with my data.
The small players like Win Phone have thrown in the towel, or have unproven track records (to put it politely).
edit: Also, if I move to third party everything (even Siri is useless now), then it will break the cross-integration that I’ve gotten used to, like finding calendar invites in emails, or having the lock screen tell me the right route home and eta during rush hour.
Seriously, why did they think this was a good idea??
> They also eliminated “mark as [un]played” in podcasts.
I totally forgot about that too.
What a terrible update Podcasts was.
It's one of the 'tock' releases where they focus on under-the-hood improvements rather than messing with the UI. Those are the good ones!
Snow Leopard was a superior OS in every way, from my perspective. The only reason I upgraded was the increasing number of apps that required newer versions for no good reason.
Same with 11.1 and the 10.