iPhone Has iOS 13 prevented you to buy a new iPhone?

[Vlad Soare]

That's correct.
That being said, I find iOS 13 noticeably snappier than 12. And I have encountered none of the bugs mentioned above. My Music app is working perfectly (and I do use it daily), my Safari works exactly as it did in iOS 12 - I never had to restart it, Keychain seems to work fine as far as I can see...
I'm sure all of these bugs are real, but they don't seem to affect everyone. I suspect that most of them are triggered by specific configurations, or by third party apps which happen to be or not to be running, etc.
I do experience one annoying bug, namely the Messages app not defaulting to SMS when an iMessage can't be sent. This is real, 100% reproducible. I've tested it on three different iPhones. But it's not enough to make me regret having upgraded.

 

[johannnn]

Why should it prevent you from buying a new phone? We're already at 13.1.3 and many many bugs are already fixed.

You should never update to .0 on day one, regardless if it's your phone or your tablet or your Mac.

 

[gigatoaster]

Hello there

Is it wise to buy it, now or should I wait for iOS 13.3? I might buy it next week.

 

[C DM]

Hello there

Is it wise to buy it, now or should I wait for iOS 13.3? I might buy it next week.

There are people who have issues, and others who have some minor oddities, and yet others who aren't experiencing something that's negative. No way to really tell what someone else's experience would be like.

 

[Vlad Soare]

What difference would it make? If you know you want it, and you're going to buy it anyway, then why not buy it now and get it over with? It will be the same phone and will cost exactly the same then as it does now. And you can upgrade to 13.3 when the time comes.

 

[gigatoaster]

Ok great. Thanks for your messages. My EPP discount (ridiculous 2%) is available so I’ll buy it for sure next week, when I’m back from my holidays in Tasmania. What a country.

 

[Puppuccino]

iOS 13.2.x is a pretty good release. Admittedly iOS 13 was a bit of a mess and 13.1 was a bit shaky but I don't think it's anything to worry about now. Besides, iOS 12 may be great but lacks some of the great features that iOS 13 introduced.

I'd just go for it, it's honestly not that bad. I was part of the iOS 13 public beta and used it on my everyday device and persevered. It's fine.

 

[gigatoaster]

I bought it yesterday. First impression: it is super fast! FaceID is amazing it took me 10 minutes to not miss TouchID & the Home button anymore.

We’ll see how it goes in a few days but I’m happy I waited now to upgrade from 6S.
Things I don’t like: animations (look like they are stuttering, I deactivated them), the typing is weird (hard to do copy/paste) and it is a bit heavy. Might take a few days to get use to that.