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All Devices iOS 13.3 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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Well, can we say iPad OS 13.3 has brought back iPad OS 13.1 RAM management performance, and retaining apps in background? I was testing iPad OS 13.3 yesterday on a store, and Safari didn’t reloaded any tab after opening several apps. Also, I’m noticing on 13.1 that sometimes Safari tabs just have to reload, occasionally, so I guess iPad OS 13.3 won’t be worse in that regard, don’t you think?
By the way, it seems like grammar correction on 13.3 is back to normal, at least regarding the bug where you deleted part of the word and retype it.
So is it safe to update my iPad Pro from iPad OS 13.1.3 to 13.3?
Battery wise, is it safe to update my iPhone 8 from iOS 12 to iOS 13.3? Ive read iOS 13.3 is pretty good at preserving battery life.
By the way, it seems like grammar correction on 13.3 is back to normal, at least regarding the bug where you deleted part of the word and retype it.
So is it safe to update my iPad Pro from iPad OS 13.1.3 to 13.3?
Battery wise, is it safe to update my iPhone 8 from iOS 12 to iOS 13.3? Ive read iOS 13.3 is pretty good at preserving battery life.
I wouldn’t update your fone at all. My XS Max is still on 12.4.1 and I intend to keep it there. 13.3 seems to be running okay on my Mini5-just upgraded this morning when I got the notification badge for updates. Seems okay so far-battery drain normal, memory management normal.
Not saying there aren't a lot of bugs (i've had the mail ones) but it you went back to early threads on every IOS release you'd find similar ones. What I do find it that many that have been reported on MacRumors haven't been fixed in the several months and several releases
Re: Resets
Both Home and Control Center are messed up on my 11PM in 13.3. (They were fine in 13.2.x.). I will live with a daily reset or two since there isn't much choice.
Is anyone else experiencing non-responsiveness in Home or CC in 13.3?
Both Home and Control Center are messed up on my 11PM in 13.3. (They were fine in 13.2.x.). I will live with a daily reset or two since there isn't much choice.
Is anyone else experiencing non-responsiveness in Home or CC in 13.3?
In early versions of iOS 13 I was experiencing very slow CC updates in my lights, but 13.3 has actually improved things on my end...
Hotspotting between IPhone 11PM and 2 x IPad Air 3, almost unusable. Am on IOS 13.3. Since 13 came out have never been able to reliably hotspot them together. Was OK previously on IPhone 10 and IPad Air 2 and IOS12
Have tried everything, reset IPads and phone many times but no improvement.
Has anyone got a solution? Was hoping 13.3 fixed it but no luck.
Have tried everything, reset IPads and phone many times but no improvement.
Has anyone got a solution? Was hoping 13.3 fixed it but no luck.
I have the same phone but I'm not seeing anything like that.. everything is running good for me but battery isn't that great
Different apps with background processing, different time since last reboot etc. That’s about 99 percent of the cause to different user experience.
Same here. Before 13.3, iPad Air 2 was occasionally slow, but ran pretty well for its age. 13.3 slowed it down considerably. I wonder why...?
I ended up doing a restore and restore from backup. A few days after that, it still has bouts of slowness or where apps take a long time to load or crash on load, but most of the time it’s okay now.
So far I have updated 3 phones and two iPads iOS 13.3:
Disclaimer: These are my personal observations/experience...
iPhone SE (no service/sim card/wifi only) -- no issues. Mostly used for music and podcasts. Last charge to 100% 12/10/19 15:11. Currently at 17%. Battery health 86% on the original battery.
iPhone 7 (AT&T) -- no issues that I can see (none with: apps updating, crashing, mail). Feel snappier than 13.2.3. Battery seems ok (similar to ios 12). The battery was replaced in Oct by Apple. So, Battery health is 100%.
iPhone 11 Pro (AT&T) -- updated last night. So far, no obvious issues (none with: apps updating, crashing, mail,etc).
iPad Pro 10.5 (Wifi only) -- seems ok. No obvious issues.
iPad Mini 4 (Wifi+Cellular) -- Seems snappier than 13.2.3. Surprisingly running as well as when it was on iOS 12!
I have an iPad 5 (2017) still running iOS 13.1.1. I'm going to wait a bit longer on this one.
I would love to tell you about my wife's XS on iOS 13.3. But, she doesn't want me to updated. It's working great on iOS 12.4.1!
Disclaimer: These are my personal observations/experience...
iPhone SE (no service/sim card/wifi only) -- no issues. Mostly used for music and podcasts. Last charge to 100% 12/10/19 15:11. Currently at 17%. Battery health 86% on the original battery.
iPhone 7 (AT&T) -- no issues that I can see (none with: apps updating, crashing, mail). Feel snappier than 13.2.3. Battery seems ok (similar to ios 12). The battery was replaced in Oct by Apple. So, Battery health is 100%.
iPhone 11 Pro (AT&T) -- updated last night. So far, no obvious issues (none with: apps updating, crashing, mail,etc).
iPad Pro 10.5 (Wifi only) -- seems ok. No obvious issues.
iPad Mini 4 (Wifi+Cellular) -- Seems snappier than 13.2.3. Surprisingly running as well as when it was on iOS 12!
I have an iPad 5 (2017) still running iOS 13.1.1. I'm going to wait a bit longer on this one.
I would love to tell you about my wife's XS on iOS 13.3. But, she doesn't want me to updated. It's working great on iOS 12.4.1!
My standby battery drain issues continued after a DFU restore and then restore from backup on my 11” iPad Pro, so I have now DFU restored and NOT restored anything from backup. Everything is manually installed from scratch. So far so good, but it’s early.
Thank you @newbe175, regarding the time when you unplugged the SE and being at 17% now, it would be easier to tell us how many hours have you been using it, or at least what is your timezone or what time is it now in your country.
Thank you for all the data, especially when you tell us it is snappier than before. If battery life and performance are at iOS 12 levels, then I guess it is a good time to update.
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Thank you for all the data, especially when you tell us it is snappier than before. If battery life and performance are at iOS 12 levels, then I guess it is a good time to update.
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Also, this. Lol
Since updating to IOS 13.3, sometimes when I'm on the Apple News App it crashes while scrolling or reading a article, it crashes randomly, but never had this issue prior to IOS 13.3 on my iPhone 11 Pro
After DFU restore to fresh 13.3 this morning and not restoring from any backups afterwards, I’m back to about 1% an hour of battery drain in standby on my 11” Pro. I know people are going to say i have a faulty battery or wait for it to finish indexing or whatever, but I don’t think either of those things are the problem. I think the last couple of versions of iPadOS just aren’t efficient with battery usage with this model iPad. If it’s a specific app causing it, I have no way of knowing because nothing shows up as running in the background. I guess this is just going to be how it is now.
1% per hour? That is 4 solid days on standby. I don’t think that’s an issue, really.
It’s possible that I just have out of date expectations. iPads didn’t chew through battery this fast back in the day, but they also didn’t do nearly as much.
Yep, I haven't had any issues with apps quitting during normal use and switching between apps.
However I HAVE noticed one particular activity that tends to kill background apps on my iPhone 11 Pro Max: Using the camera.
If I open the camera and take pictures, most background apps have been killed when I go back to them. My guess is the camera requires a lot of memory so the OS makes room for it to work, but I'm surprised even the most recently used app (Zagster bike share app in this case) was killed too after taking a photo, making me lose my place in the annoying signup process it has.
The least iOS could do is kill apps I haven't touched in a while, and not the VERY LAST APP I USED before opening the camera!
Thank you @zorinlynx I’m pretty decided to update all my devices to 13.3. The only bugs I’m worried about are affecting the iPhone: permanent location icon bug, and the lose of LTE signal. Those -people say- affect more the XS and 11, but I have an iPhone 8 on iOS 12 so I’m not sure how it can affect me.
But overall it seems a great version Apple has released in time for Christmas.
But overall it seems a great version Apple has released in time for Christmas.
Unless battery is degraded, that's a pretty short standby time for an iPad. I used to get 3-4 weeks standby time on the iPad 4 on iOS 6.
Of course, iPads are much lighter (smaller battery) and more powerful now. I think 1% per hour is on the high side, though. I've been getting higher than expected battery drain as well. Disabled Screen Time and Background App Refresh (don't want or need those features anyway) and it seems to be behaving better (7-10 days standby).
*sigh* One of the reasons I like having iPads with non-X chips.
It (the iPhone SE - just to be clear) was disconnected from the charger at 1511 PST (USA) or 2311Z on Tuesday Dec 10th.
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Interesting. I just tried it on my 11 Pro. With 4 apps in the background, I launched the camera app and took a photo. Thankfully, all apps (now 5) are still there.
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