Not at all. One of the worst releases ever. So many features removed and things changed for no reason.
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iPhone Are you happy with iOS 13
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I'm ok with the actual interface itself, but iOS13 seems to have done very very bad things for battery life on my iphone 7+. Quite unhappy with that.
What reason do they have for making the home screen way harder to edit, removing basically all functionality and usability of selecting text, nerfing 3D Touch to the point that it's no longer useful, removing upcoming songs in Music or removing the ability to double tap and zoom fit a paragraph in safari?
The Apple apologists will say you should just enjoy your phone and not even bother with such silly questions.
I’m not making the decisions so I don’t know
the reasons and I don’t want to speculate things here without inside knowledge. But generally in any project things don’t just randomly happen. There’s always reasons.A sweeping statement like that doesn’t change the fact that software development is a calculated industry based on various requirements based on different metrics.
I’m finding that selecting text is actually easier. In the past, you had to long-press on a word, wait for the blue selection color to appear, lift your finger and then grab one of the tiny blue dots at either end of the selected word and drag the blue dot. So, it was long-press, wait, lift, tap a dot, drag.
Now, all you have to do is long-press a word, wait for the blue selection color to appear and then drag your finger to select the desired text. You no longer have to lift your finger and try to grab one of those tiny blue dots. Now it is long-press, wait, drag. It seems to be much less effort now.
Sometimes adding new features requires the user to make changes in their habits and workflow. Change comes much easier when we focus on what we have to gain instead of what we have to give up.
I haven’t noticed the Notes sync bug until now. I created a new note on my iPhone XR, waited a minute and opened the Notes app on my iPad Air 3. The new note created on my iPhone XR wasn’t there on my iPad Air 3. I killed the Notes app on my iPad Air 3 and reopened it, then the Notes app sync’d and now I have the new note on both devices.
Yes, it is an annoyance that the devices aren’t syncing correctly, and that may be a problem with iCloud itself rather than iOS on our devices - I am not an engineer with access to all of the code so I can’t determine where the error is. The good news is that I was able to mitigate this bug by relaunching the Notes app on another device. So, I’m not actually losing data, I just need to perform a couple more gestures to make it work. Do I mind having to perform a couple extra gestures? No.. I’d rather find a workaround than not being able to move on at all.
Yes, it is an annoyance that the devices aren’t syncing correctly, and that may be a problem with iCloud itself rather than iOS on our devices - I am not an engineer with access to all of the code so I can’t determine where the error is. The good news is that I was able to mitigate this bug by relaunching the Notes app on another device. So, I’m not actually losing data, I just need to perform a couple more gestures to make it work. Do I mind having to perform a couple extra gestures? No.. I’d rather find a workaround than not being able to move on at all.
This works on my iPad mini but my chances on my iPhone don’t propagate so I have to copy stuff I do on my iPhone manually to macOS.
-still sick of missing keyboard feedback
-still sick of some apps' location seevices setting reverting to ask, no matter what
-still sick of some apps' location seevices setting reverting to ask, no matter what
I skipped 11 after hearing all of the issue reports, stayed on 10.4 on my 6s Plus and 7 Plus and iPad Pro and iPad Airs.
12 has been smooth as butter. I'd like to have dark mode on ios Gmail, but I got a Pixel 3 XL last year on the Black Friday/Cyber Monday travel gift card deal, sold those and the Pixel is net $100.
Its been smooth and very similar to ios and has dark mode
So my 7 Plus will stay on 12. Maybe 2020 iPhone will have it worked out with ios 14.
12 has been smooth as butter. I'd like to have dark mode on ios Gmail, but I got a Pixel 3 XL last year on the Black Friday/Cyber Monday travel gift card deal, sold those and the Pixel is net $100.
Its been smooth and very similar to ios and has dark mode
So my 7 Plus will stay on 12. Maybe 2020 iPhone will have it worked out with ios 14.
Nope. I’m bummed for upgrading. It’s terrible. I used to be able to tap the trash can quickly to delete tons of work spam alert emails in quick succession. I can no longer do that. Why did they break this?
The half page of purple unicorns are terrible to see when I want to add emoji. God. Why.
Text selection has totally changed. It’s funky and doesn’t work the same. Don’t tell me about the space bar thing. That’s a total joke.
Mail client is a step down. Beta joke buggy.
iOS 13 is a buggy mess. Fanboys can say all they want. It stinks and everyone knows it.
The half page of purple unicorns are terrible to see when I want to add emoji. God. Why.
Text selection has totally changed. It’s funky and doesn’t work the same. Don’t tell me about the space bar thing. That’s a total joke.
Mail client is a step down. Beta joke buggy.
iOS 13 is a buggy mess. Fanboys can say all they want. It stinks and everyone knows it.
Three things:
Notes still don’t sync consistently
Email requires a pull to display already loaded emails
Battery life isn’t as good as earlier 13 and 12 releases
You seem confused. On iOS 12 all you had to do was hard press on a keyboard to adjust a cursor, then press harder to select a text under the cursor and drag. Much simpler than your stupid tiny blue things you have to use now
I don't know much about hard-press.. I never used it and it doesn't seem to be working anymore.
Some things yes, some things no. It is mostly stable for me, but I am having issues with HomeKit still which has been bothering me. That could very well be the 13.3 beta though so I am waiting till the final to see if that resolves things.