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iOS 11.3.1 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

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Miserable experience. No issues until 11.3 update caused my iPhoneX to start experiencing unresponsive lock screen. This makes the phone completely useless. I have done everything from reboot, reset all settings, and restore from the computer. 11.3.1 did not fix the issue. The only thing that works is to take the iPhoneX out of my pocket and leave it on the table for several minutes. Then apparently the temperature difference between the phone case and screen stabilizes to allow the screen to work again. This is repeatable...and unacceptable.
 
jjsmith said:
Miserable experience. No issues until 11.3 update caused my iPhoneX to start experiencing unresponsive lock screen. This makes the phone completely useless. I have done everything from reboot, reset all settings, and restore from the computer. 11.3.1 did not fix the issue. The only thing that works is to take the iPhoneX out of my pocket and leave it on the table for several minutes. Then apparently the temperature difference between the phone case and screen stabilizes to allow the screen to work again. This is repeatable...and unacceptable.
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Might be time to contact Apple to see what they can do.
 
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jjsmith said:
Miserable experience. No issues until 11.3 update caused my iPhoneX to start experiencing unresponsive lock screen. This makes the phone completely useless. I have done everything from reboot, reset all settings, and restore from the computer. 11.3.1 did not fix the issue. The only thing that works is to take the iPhoneX out of my pocket and leave it on the table for several minutes. Then apparently the temperature difference between the phone case and screen stabilizes to allow the screen to work again. This is repeatable...and unacceptable.
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This sounds like a completely good case of a lemon product. This has nothing to do with your software but more to do with hardware so contact Apple support.
 
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Conspiracy: Apple purposefully stopped third-party displays from working to subtly implant the idea in everyone's heads that they are not as reliable as first party displays. Especially now that this has happened twice, even the general public is going to be more cautious of getting a third party display.This "issue" is going to cause a lot more people to avoid third party repairs, making Apple a lot more money.
 
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There automated Twitter accounts that post notifications of updates being released, which are usually the first. Sites like MR and some others usually might wait a moment or two for some more sources to confirm and/or to add some more relevant information as to what's in the update and some details relating to it in the articles they post.
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Seems like some security fix(es) as well. Can certainly be other smaller fixes/changes too that aren't really mentioned in the high level release announcement notes.
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I used to like it when MR had relevant info in the piece, such as build number, size, and tweaks, if any. Now it just seems to be a bot putting up info that hey something got released.
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Ryankontos said:
Conspiracy: Apple purposefully stopped third-party displays from working to subtly implant the idea in everyone's heads that they are not as reliable as first party displays. Especially now that this has happened twice, even the general public is going to be more cautious of getting a third party display.This "issue" is going to cause a lot more people to avoid third party repairs, making Apple a lot more money.
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And Apple making iPod was a conspiracy against Sony. The AAC format was a conspiracy against MP3. The iPhone was also a conspiracy against Nokia and Blackberry to drive them out of business, so that - you got it - Apple could make a lot more money than they were with Macs and iPods. Oh, the original Mac was a conspiracy against IBM, too. This whole company is just a bundle of conspiracies against all other companies. Hell, Steve Jobs was God's conspiracy against Bill Gates, mind you.

There. Cat's out of the bag.
 
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Is it possible to install this 11.3.1 directly over 11.4 beta 2? through itunes update process..
 
Banglazed, previous issues has been solved from 11.3?

  • Widgets and search bar overlap during a call (Since iOS 11.0)
  • Emoji keyboard has duplicate emojis in the Frequently Used tab after resetting the keyboard settings (Since iOS 11.0)
  • Unlocking a device causes the keyboard to disappear for a moment if the keyboard is left open before locking the device (Since iOS 11.0)
  • App opening splash screen becomes black if you close an app, then immediately after opening the same app (Since iOS 11.3 beta 3)
  • 3D Touch Quick Actions cannot be initiated immediately after unlocking the device, takes 2 seconds waiting (Since iOS 11.3 beta 3)
  • When using the keyboard as (two-finger) trackpad in Spotlight Search on iPad landscape mode, x,y axes movement are still incorrectly swapped (Since iOS 10.0, nearly two years.)
  • Lock screen music controls occasionally do not show when playing music.
  • Cannot turn off iCloud Keychain-turns itself back on (not sure when bug was introduced)
  • Camera can hang or be slow to load
  • Settings app hangs and then crashes when you check General > iPhone-Storage. (iPhone X, please verify other devices)
    • Works on my iPhone X, but is slow to load and scrolling through list lags [ @ErikGrim ]
  • Adding a new contact via the dialer in the phone app will save the contact but the contact name will not show up in the dailer.(Since iOS 11.2.6 - iPhone 7, please verify other devices)
  • App Store Update tab shows invalid statuses occasionally (#260)
  • TV app shows duplicate movies, tv shows and episodes (#177)
  • TV app shows seasons out-of-order (#177)
  • TV app shows wrong TV show title in multiple places (#177)
  • TV app doesn't show downloaded movies if you switch to the airplane mode (#270)
  • TV app: unable to stream some TV shows on cellular connection
  • Music app occasionally doesn't start to play a song when song title clicked (#150)
  • Music app: It's not possible to disable repeat song option once enabled while connected to car bluetooth
  • USB/Lightning Audio not working for 1 user. (5 reports of consistent USB success, 1 report of consistent failure on multiple devices, all in same car, tried with multiple cables, including at least 1 new apple cable. User reporting problems still has consistent success on devices using 11.2.6. Please report ALL USB audio experiences here, good or bad, thanks -- PeteLP)
 
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Big jump from Build Number 15E216 to 15E302 for a x.x.x release.
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Initially even I thought Of the same but then realised, which I had read too sometime back, that the new build number starts with a different series. 2xx for iOS 11.3 and 3xx for iOS 11.3.1. Because so many versions between them also don’t make sense.
 
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Ryankontos said:
Conspiracy: Apple purposefully stopped third-party displays from working
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Sounds like a nice conspiracy. Why limit to just iPhone 8 models with some specific third party display though?

Public reaction to these issues is nothing but negative. People who encounter these kind of issues are not happy and less likely to keep on buying expensive iPhones and other Apple products in the future.

Apple knows how to make money. A happy repeat customer who buys a new $1000 iPhone every two or three years is much, much more valuable than a customer who pays for a one time screen repair and then leaves the ecosystem.

So, the conspiracy theory doesn’t make any sense.

(I doubt that repair business is a meaningful source of income for Apple.)
 
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zorinlynx said:
The bug where you can't 3D-touch for a second or so after unlocking is still there. :(

I wonder if this isn't a bug, but rather a workaround to fix another bug. It seems like an obvious issue and it makes no sense, programming-wise, that it would happen accidentally.
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I had never encountered this since I’ve never used 3D Touch right after unlocking the phone. I just tried it now and it goes right to app delete. Very interesting. While not a terrible bug, it still shows how not ready for prime time iOS 11 was. I hope they really use iOS 12 to clean all of this stuff up instead of adding new features.
 
axari said:
  • Settings app hangs and then crashes when you check General > iPhone-Storage. (iPhone X, please verify other devices)
    • Works on my iPhone X, but is slow to load and scrolling through list lags [ @ErikGrim ]
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Still slow to load (~30 seconds), but scrolling seems to have been mostly fixed (initial scroll a bit jerky, but once scrolled through and all icons loaded works fine)
 
Anyone getting slower Bluetooth connection since the update? It takes a while before it connects and plays music. The phone part of the Bluetooth gets connected before the music does.
 
nikusak said:
Sounds like a nice conspiracy. Why limit to just iPhone 8 models with some specific third party display though?

Public reaction to these issues is nothing but negative. People who encounter these kind of issues are not happy and less likely to keep on buying expensive iPhones and other Apple products in the future.

Apple knows how to make money. A happy repeat customer who buys a new $1000 iPhone every two or three years is much, much more valuable than a customer who pays for a one time screen repair and then leaves the ecosystem.

So, the conspiracy theory doesn’t make any sense.

(I doubt that repair business is a meaningful source of income for Apple.)
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Yeah, I wasn't suggesting that I think this is actually the case. But it sounds like something that *could* make sense technically, or at least sounds like something someone would say.
 
Ryankontos said:
Yeah, I wasn't suggesting that I think this is actually the case. But it sounds like something that *could* make sense technically, or at least sounds like something someone would say.
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Sure, I saw some a shocking headline along the lines of “Yet another nasty trick from Apple - iOS 11.3 kills your display”.

As far as I know, the same news site has not bothered to mention that 11.3.1 fixes the issue...

But this is getting a bit off topic perhaps.

iOS 11.3.1 seems to still have the strange “Safari scrolling sometimes dies if entering text to a text field” bug. Not sure if I have seen it outside this and one other forum though which perhaps uses the same forum software.
 
Do you also have that "strange" signal information bar? When i start a app or going to the app switcher the signal bar shows for a short moment no signal / low signal. Its a "display" bug. Signal is fine all the time.

Since 11.3.1.... and iPhone X only. On my SE all seems fine
 
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