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Apple releases iOS 6.0.1 with improvements and bug fixes

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Interesting, over-the-air updating really is broken on the iPhone 5. When you check for updates, it has you download an "iOS Update Enabler" app.

And it has a shockingly beautiful animation of the settings icon. Truly just surprised me.

"Shockingly beautiful"? I just updated, and that may be slightly overselling it.

He is mocking Apple's keynote style.

It's worth noting that the rotational speed of the wheels are different.

I'm willing to bet someone did their homework and those speeds are accurate. If you haven't seen it, check out the old school tape deck rotational speeds in the podcast app.

Where is this animation? I missed it.

The animation is in Settings on the Update page while the update is being downloaded.

Man, Scott Forstall really stopped paying attention to detail ;)

"Fixes a bug that prevents iPhone 5 from installing software updates wirelessly over the air"

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1606

Also, iOS 6.1 beta for developers: http://www.macrumors.com/2012/11/01/apple-seeds-first-ios-6-...

It's funny... Only (and only) MapKit has new APIs!

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/#releasen... (<- you must be a developer to open this link)

Meh. What they really need to fix is Maps. In my family-and-friends ecosystem at least, that is the single reason NO devices have been updated to iOS 6 and nobody is buying any iPhone 5's. My rough guess that that represents about at least 30, if not 50 devices.

Is there a website somewhere that is tracking Apple Maps quality vs. Google Maps?

I know tons of people that have put updates and new-device purchases on hold due to Maps. I have a friend who owns a delivery company. All the drivers have iPhones. No updates, hardware or software. Apple Maps would turn his business upside-down.

The unfortunate thing is people need to use maps in order for maps to get better. I can already see few locations being corrected. But for now, looks like Apple's got a chicken and egg problem.

Basically yes, I've reported as many issues as I know for my area. They all get put in place in about 1-2 weeks I've noticed.

I don't see why every ones bitching so badly, I have to do the same for google maps too every so often when its wrong. Maps is getting its data from a server, it doesn't really need to be tied to OS updates to improve its backend data.

Could you please elaborate on that? Not sure I follow.

If people use it, get wrong directions, how does it improve? Are users able to make corrections or?

Yes, that's what "Report a problem" is for.

Yes, users can submit corrections using the 'Report a Problem' option in Maps. Apple will also be able to correct certain types of data, such as roads, by collecting and aggregating info from iPhones.

Yes you as the user hit the report button when you see something wrong and it gets updated behind the scenes.

The "report a problem" for wrong directions isn't particularly good though. It just has you pick one of your recent routes and then you enter in a comment saying what was wrong from memory. Google's system is better: you can pick which step is wrong and then there are radio buttons for issues like "illegal turn" or "incorrect road name".

I don't doubt your anecdotes - I waited until last weekend to update my own - but my Google Analytics data for multiple sites shows iOS 6 with more traffic than all the other iOS versions combined for the entire month of October, and on an upward pace. Clearly a large number of people are not so hesitant.

Interesting. Other sources make it seem like the rate of upgrades has stalled. For instance, this chart has iOS 6 at low 60's percent for all of October: http://david-smith.org/iosversionstats/

I'd say iOS6 has one of the more buggy first releases that I can remember, so I'm hoping there's a fair bit of work been done.

Tend to agree with this. There's some great stuff they've added for developers, but even non-technical users like my parents have complained about some bugs — not to mention how awful an experience Game Center is.

General Fixes:

• Fixes a bug that prevents iPhone 5 from installing software updates wirelessly over the air

• Fixes a bug where horizontal lines may be displayed across the keyboard

• Fixes an issue that could cause camera flash to not go off • Improves reliability of iPhone 5 and iPod touch (5th generation) when connected to encrypted WPA2 Wi-Fi networks

• Resolves an issue that prevents iPhone from using the cellular network in some instances

• Consolidated the Use Cellular Data switch for iTunes Match

• Fixes a Passcode Lock bug which sometimes allowed access to Passbook pass details from lock screen

• Fixes a bug affecting Exchange meetings

Security Issues Fixed:

• Maliciously crafted or compromised iOS applications may be able to determine addresses in the kernel

• A person with physical access to the device may be able to access Passbook passes without entering a passcode

• Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

Maybe this will help fix the battery issues. My iphone 5 battery life is horrid, even with LTE disabled and all mail data being set to fetch instead of pull. Is there some known issue about this? I can't be the only one.

I'm having a similar problem - but only when LTE is enabled... and I have spotty LTE coverage. When I'm in "the city" - LTE coverage is great and I get amazing battery life. As soon as my phone starts switching between 4G and LTE... my battery drains super-fast.

Your issue is a known issue with LTE. In spotty areas the phone keeps switching from LTE to 4G, and then when in 4G searches for LTE. The searching process, which requires powering separate radios for each protocol, is expensive power-wise. If you keep bouncing in and out of LTE this is bound to happen.

Is there any long-term fix for this? Or do I just have to wait for improved LTE coverage (or keep LTE turned off in those areas)?

It doesn't seem like a software issue to me, so I'd guess no fix will come aside from LTE coverage improving in your area.

It's just the cold hard facts of where the state of cellular radio technology is today. It's pretty amazing as is that the iPhone 5 can be so much thinner, lighter, support a larger hi-res screen, be twice as fast, and support LTE. The spotty LTE issue is just one of those compromises that I don't think much can be done about.

My iphone 5 has actually been impressive in terms of battery, lasting several days at a time.

Where are you physically located? I wonder if bad coverage could be affecting your experience.

Expected behavior with the iPhone 5: ~10-15% better battery life.

You've ruled-out the known spotty LTE switching/searching issue, I'd perform these additional experiments:

1) Disable iCloud sync entirely for a day. In iOS5 there used to be a bunch of battery life problems caused by devices getting caught in an endless loop of pointless background syncing. Maybe you're still hitting something like that.

2) Turn of location services for a day. Maybe you've got something like Find My Friends taking up too much juice?

3) Turn of email "push" for a day. Maybe you've got too many email accounts?

Failing that, maybe you've got a dud? Take it to the Apple store and they can look at your device energy usage logs. They'll most likely tell you to do a fresh iOS install suspecting a software issue.. but in the end they might just switch you to a new device.

Backup, restore, restore phone from backup.

I had the same issue. My phone was also noticeably warmer. It was doing something. Now everything works great. Battery life even with LTE is quite good.

Maybe replace link with http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1606

The real list must be longer than this.

It's better than the average patch notes out of Apple, which often essentially read "fixes stuff".

I'm guessing that the maps app can be improved simply by updating their end of things and not exactly the actual application on the phone. Is this correct? I remember hearing that the dev team is updating and fixing issues, so is it just a covert type of thing that's going on in the background?

The complaints are almost universally about the quality of the data, which can definitely be fixed on the backend without requiring an update.

I was hoping this would fix the wifi problem I'm having (wifi is incredibly slow and the problem is not related to my network) but it doesn't seem to have fixed it. Probably going to have to get the phone swapped out now.

Is it known if this fixes the 'dead wifi' bug?

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/09/wi-fi-issues-plague-i...

That was fixed pretty quickly: http://erratasec.blogspot.be/2010/09/apples-secret-wispr-req...

That's not it. This is an entirely different bug, the wifi 'enable' slider is grayed out and stays grayed out. Several iPhones in my vicinity (all 4s) have the exact same problem and so far I haven't found a way to fix it.

Ouch, that can't be fun :/ I haven't heard any solutions to that one in particular, but I can't say I've looked. Hopefully, though.

Wait a little while with this update if you use the Facebook app. Since I installed 6.0.1, the Facebook app crashes immediately after starting.

EDIT: Hmm, after 10 crashes it started to work.

Odd. I just launched it on my device under iOS 6.0.1 and it ran just fine.

(Using an iPhone 5, maybe that's why?)

iPhone 5 here too. The app started to work after crashing many times in a row. Just weird.

Maybe all the hard work they did to disk cache the layouts of list items is not resilient to OS updates and changing metrics (only joking, I have no idea why it would crash and then work, though it could be because someone posted something new and uncached to the listview...).

Well, the update here just broke 3G and no cellular data is working. Iphone 4. Dunno if it's my network provider's fault or the update's.

Check your mobile data settings. They get wiped after every update for me.

Also, Xcode 4.5.2 has been released to go along with it:

https://developer.apple.com/downloads/

Does anyone else have an issue with "Message Send Failure" for almost every text message (not iMessage)? Wondering if this fixed that.

There've been at least two iMessage outages in the last week or so (widespread enough that iMessage trended on Twitter both times).

> text message (not iMessage)

I think he's talking about cell service.

Listening to a podcast. Unplug my headphones, podcast stops. Yay. Receive a call. Hang up call. Podcast starts playing again. Annoying.

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