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Apple iOS 12.1.2 Has A Serious Problem

Downgrading to 12.1 beta 2 seems to be the only option for right now. But doing a restore from 12.1.2 won’t be possible.
 
BugeyeSTI said:
Ok, the hundreds(Forbes own words) that have been effected is hardly considered serious. If a few hundred caught the flu and the rest of the population wasn’t effected would you consider it a serious outbreak?
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The article says the problem (for those affected) is “serious,” not the size of the outbreak.
 
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C DM said:
Unfortunately the more appropriate title for it all would be "Forbes has a serious problem" when it comes to actual meaningful/useful reporting about Apple updates.
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Yep Forbes is the worse for “the boy crying wolf syndrome”. They really seem to have a issue with Apple iPhones and products I usually ignore their fear mongering. I am having no issues with 12.1.2 and cell or WIFi I might add works fine on my Xs
 
mpavilion said:
Loss of cellular data is a “serious problem” for those affected. There’s no way to know how widespread the issue is — as the Forbes piece acknowledges — but the article includes quotes / links to numerous tweets from the U.S. & India to support its claims of widespread Twitter complaints.

The writer’s language may be somewhat hyperbolic in spots (users “blindly upgrade”; reports are “flooding in,” etc.); and the advice not to upgrade may (or may not) be extreme... but, well, that’s the Internet in 2018. Perhaps if/when MacRumors publishes an article on the issue, they will use the more measured language that you prefer!
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I agree, but I have a slight caveat: That users "blindly update" is no hyperbole. It's mostly reality.
 
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apple has worked long and hard to gain a reputation; that all of their new designs are malicious and will catch fire in the users back pocket.
once apple got the reputation its difficult to shake
too bad.
 
Why do people always use Twitter to try and prove how much of a problem something is? Millions and millions of people have these devices. 10 people whinge about it on Twitter, you can guarantee a percentage of them don’t have the problem and are jumping on the bandwagon, another few probably did something with their phone and are blaming Apple, and those that do have it are shouting the loudest because they’re annoyed. No one is going to log into to Twitter and write “My phone is receiving mobile data correctly!”.
 
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It seems that it wasn't Spence that was the problem. There are many writers, all having the same sentiment about Apple. No matter who writes the article, if it is about Apple, it has to be grim and dark.


When MR is not complaining about something en masse, that means issue is trivial, IMO.
 
This happened before, during an ios 10 or 11 version, can't remember which one, but just like now, when it happens and I lose all connectivity or service, I have to turn airplane mode on for a few seconds, and then back off. I'm on an iPh 8 now, back then I was on a 6s.
 
RootBeerMan said:
Forbes tech writer is reporting that iOS 12.1.2 is killing cellular data on many phones. Haven't noticed it on mine, as yet. Apparently. Twitter is blowing up with reports of the bug. Haven't seen anything from Apple on it yet, either.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordon...-mobile-data-cellular-4g-cannot-load-internet
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Don’t know if it’s been mentioned already, but this is not a big and is the side effect of Apple rushing through changes to allow their phones to bypass the Qualcomm sales block. And as we know Apple refuses to pay for tech it’s devices use and makes them billions in profit... not very good and I noticed today my XR lost all signal, my sisters 6S was fine.. not a good sign going forward.
 
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bleak7 said:
This happened before, during an ios 10 or 11 version, can't remember which one, but just like now, when it happens and I lose all connectivity or service, I have to turn airplane mode on for a few seconds, and then back off. I'm on an iPh 8 now, back then I was on a 6s.
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Same, has happened to me before, last time before ios 12.1.2 was released i believe, only restarting the phone gave me the services back on iphone 6s.
 
skillwill said:
Why do people always use Twitter to try and prove how much of a problem something is? Millions and millions of people have these devices. 10 people whinge about it on Twitter, you can guarantee a percentage of them don’t have the problem and are jumping on the bandwagon, another few probably did something with their phone and are blaming Apple, and those that do have it are shouting the loudest because they’re annoyed. No one is going to log into to Twitter and write “My phone is receiving mobile data correctly!”.
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You have an interesting concept of contacting @Applesupport (“whinging / shouting / blaming” etc.).

How else would you propose tracking issues being raised to Apple Support, if not via a public channel like Twitter? Hack Apple’s phone lines?
 
I'd be curious to know what carrier setting version people with problems are using. I'm on AT&T 35.0 carrier update (as was before I received 12.1.2), but 12.1.2 came with 34.5.2 according to the release thread here. That version is really old.

I'm thinking the info in the 12.1.2 thread may just be wrong though because the 12.1.1 thread says it came with the AT&T 35.0 carrier update. 12.1 came with 34.0, so the only way someone could get 34.5.2 would be to have skipped the 12.1.1 update which seems unlikely.
 
Just as another data point. My wife has iPhone X on 12.1.1, she'd had no data/cell issues. However, I'm on iPhone XS (12.1.2, now 12.1.3 beta), and encountering many data connectivity issues.
 
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