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Apple Just Gave Millions Of Users A Reason To Quit Their iPhones

forbes.com

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Non-sensationalized title: "iPhones have a bug where 'Uninstalled apps' are using a significant amount of data"

https://www.payetteforward.com/uninstalled-apps-using-data-i...

> Uninstalled apps aren’t using data on your iPhone. “Uninstalled Apps” is the sum total amount of data that apps you’ve uninstalled from your iPhone have used since the last time you tapped Reset Statistics.

Clickbait title much?

The story is that an iOS bug is burning through data allowances, with no sign of a fix from Apple.

It's Forbes Tech Council crap. People pay Forbes an annual fee to become a contributing editor, and put up crap articles under the Forbes brand. All the resulting articles are click bait. Surprised this wasn't from Ewan Spencer.

This is FARK. There's a bug. It's fixable. No one is going to give up their phone over a bug that is easily fixable. Come onnnn.

Periodic reminder that most of Europe has unlimited, uncapped cellular data plans for absolute peanuts. Mine is £15 per month and £10 for another unlimited SIM in my iPad. Americans should be angry at their service providers about this.

Pretty worrying that the phone is sending "audio visual" data to unknown 3rd parties and not tracking who / where / why.

Or do modern clown-world inhabitants think this is great?

It's a small bug, Apple will fix it. That is not a reason for "millions of users to quit iphones", relax.

A small bug that downloads enormous amounts of data?

From the article:

> I checked iOS setting/cellular and saw an uninstalled app used 700-800MB. I closed the settings and reopened it and it was 900MB. The uninstalled app[s] used 1.2GB data in less than 5-6 minutes…

It sounds like a reporting bug rather than a data consumption bug. I guess I'd like to know if they saw those same #s from their cellular company?

From the article, yes:

> I spoke with Verizon about the usage. They said it's getting categorized as audio and video streaming, but only because it's using network ports normally associated with those types of services.

Thanks!

> I just noticed this issue on my iPhone XR. I got a notification from my carrier that I’ve used 90% of my 8GB of data and I have 11 days left in my billing cycle. My data usage is usually around 4GB per month, so this was pretty strange. I noticed that System Services and Uninstalled apps were taking up the majority of my data usage…. This seems to have started around the time I installed iOS 13.3.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/uninstalled-apps-using-...

Thanks!

Could have omitted 90% of the article and just had that quote plus one more paragraph, but it wouldn't get as many ad views

according to the article, it's been around for months.

What a terrible title. What happened to Forbes?

"Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own."

Forbes lets a bunch of "contributors" publish under the Forbes brand. They're coasting on the name having historically good connotations, but the contributor articles are similar to what you might find on Medium.

Forbes has been 'terrible' for many years now.

I once heard it called 'eye-candy for wannabee financiers'.

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