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All Devices iOS 13.4 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

Isamilis said:
I am sorry, but it seems it more on your case specific rather common problem. 13.3.1 is the best in my case, however as I use iPad I still update to 13.4 for mouse and keyboard support. 13.4 feel slightly more battery consume than 13.3.1.
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Maybe people like you have a lot of luck and really don’t have problems. Or Apple users doesn’t have much expectations anymore how an OS should be. iOS is far from good at the moment. Not only my experience. And you don’t have much more to use. Windows Phone is dead and Android isn’t much better. But I don’t see a reason to buy very expensive Apple devices when they don’t even work how they should. My AirPods Pro suck too. Disconnections with Pro and the 1st Generation on all devices. In the last 12 months I’ve got a few newer devices and same problems there. Using the keyboard as a trackpad to switch to a word, mark them and more isn’t possible without problems anymore.

So what’s better? Paying a lot more than 1000€ for an iPhone with an crappy OS or paying a bit less to get an another crappy OS?
 
PinkyMacGodess said:
Thank Ford I haven't had many issues with Mail. Well, except it kept bringing up the last message read. I've had massive issues with Air Pods today. Autocorrect has gotten more brazen in correcting me, wrongly. I find it has slipped some corrections in when I wasn't looking. THe app updates on the iPhone has been bizarre. It used to update fairly consistently, and I didn't have to go to the App Store app to force updates. Well, now, I got a message on starting an app yesterday that I wasn't using the most recent version. Well, hmm. I went to the App Store app, and there were 6 apps needing updates. Not one was the app in question. Odd. closed App Store down,a nd restarted. Everything looked up to date. Hmm. So I pulled down on the App Store screen, and up popped over a dozen apps needing updates! HOW?!?!?! And that app was on the list, of course.

I had a Palm Treo 'Windows Phone' back in my earlier career as a crash test dummy for tone deaf tech companies, and had a string of failures of epic proportions. The phone itself deleted my address book at random with a crushing degree of regularity. And to top that off, once it deleted its own copy, and when I synced it, deleted the computer addressbook too!!! I couldn't get SMS to work, and Verizon gave up on it too, and email was in the same boat. Neither service ever worked. And the camera was a complete joke.

Now, lately, iOS has been slipping into the Windows Phone hell. Stuff that did work, doesn't. Core functions are failing. Mail, Bluetooth, etc...

Was Apple better in the past, or was I blind to the issues. I remember MobileMe, and not having any of the problems others complained about, and now I'm beset my the same issues, and more(?) than others are having. *sigh* It's premature to call the 'death of Apple', but things can, and have to get a lot better.
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It has gotten so bad for me I have told my wife I am never buying another apple device.
 
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From the best I can remember, there’s always been a small group of folks having major seemingly random issues, regardless of device and OS. It’s definitely messier this time around, though. FYIW most of my major issues have been resolved as best as they’ll be. The OS itself now seems to just take a quick screen grab of whatever state it’s in, whatever app you’re using, and then refreshes once you’re back to it. I’m sure there’s been plenty of testing to find that it’s faster, but it’s introducing so many bugs. I’m sure a lot more thought needs to be put into the core of the OS itself, and any improvements overall won’t be seen until iOS 14 comes out.

If an erase and setup as new on your device doesn’t resolve your issue, that’s the best it’s gonna get for you until iOS 14 comes out.
 
DblHelix said:
It has gotten so bad for me I have told my wife I am never buying another apple device.
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I would say her the same.
gank41 said:
If an erase and setup as new on your device doesn’t resolve your issue, that’s the best it’s gonna get for you until iOS 14 comes out.
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If iOS 14 will not be better my current apple devices will be the last ones. There is no reason for me to buy apple devices anymore.
 
Blue Hawk said:
There is no reason for me to buy apple devices anymore.
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I’ve used a handful of really nice Android Phones and can tell you that bugs are not specific to iOS alone. A buggy experience on iOS is still miles ahead of the current state of Android, IMO. At least when it comes to performance and ease of use. The fastest Android phones still have that lag.

I’ve been upgrading my iPhone year over year for a long time now, and this time I’m just going to hold on to my iPhone 11 Pro Max. Given how powerful this phone is, it’s gotta get better than this...
 
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gank41 said:
I’ve used a handful of really nice Android Phones and can tell you that bugs are not specific to iOS alone. A buggy experience on iOS is still miles ahead of the current state of Android, IMO. At least when it comes to performance and ease of use. The fastest Android phones still have that lag.

I’ve been upgrading my iPhone year over year for a long time now, and this time I’m just going to hold on to my iPhone 11 Pro Max. Given how powerful this phone is, it’s gotta get better than this...
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I try android flagships regularly and only reason I return them is overall no different than iOS. Some of these basic things like apps that will not log in seems to be limited to apple and on their stock apps even
 
My wife, son and I are having no real problems - yes the "old" email where notification show but have to get the email but that is it for us. I'm sure some of it is "luck" but it is also probably the apps we run vs. what others run.
 
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gank41 said:
From the best I can remember, there’s always been a small group of folks having major seemingly random issues, regardless of device and OS. It’s definitely messier this time around, though. FYIW most of my major issues have been resolved as best as they’ll be. The OS itself now seems to just take a quick screen grab of whatever state it’s in, whatever app you’re using, and then refreshes once you’re back to it. I’m sure there’s been plenty of testing to find that it’s faster, but it’s introducing so many bugs. I’m sure a lot more thought needs to be put into the core of the OS itself, and any improvements overall won’t be seen until iOS 14 comes out.

If an erase and setup as new on your device doesn’t resolve your issue, that’s the best it’s gonna get for you until iOS 14 comes out.
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The wife was complaining about her newer (2018) MacBook Pro. 'Damn this thing is HOT! It's burning my legs!' I touched it, and yeah it was. The fan was running like it wanted to take off, and the battery was draining in minutes she said. I've never heard a fan in a MacBook Pro run so fast. And I saw a microphone icon hovering over the desktop that had a vertical bar that showed that it was listening to everything being said. Odd... I started researching the heat issue, while it burned my legs! OUCH! Someone said 'turn dictation off'. It was off. I killed Siri too. (She didn't feel a thing) It kept running. She kept plaintively saying she 'didn't do anything'. Yeah, I've never heard that before. Sure...

Turns out 'Voice Control' was turned on. You are supposed to have to go into Sys Pref, Accessibility, and click a box to turn it on. She was mystified. Never saw that part of Sys Pref ever. Said the microphone showed up after the 10.15.4 update.

I don't have any reason to doubt her. But WTH would cause that to spontaneously enable. Hmm. Odd. Good grief. And such an odd feature too. I updated two MacBook Pro's, and didn't have anything like that happen. Almost spooky. And not it's back to some form of normalcy... Until the next update...
 
uniquexoxo said:
For some reason, I can’t send an iMessage if I am on Facetime. It only shows the message to be sent as text. Anyone else having this problem?
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I've had similar, when on a cellular data call on Verizon, messages will go as text not as iMessage--and I think that even happens when I am using wi-fi calling, so it's not a CDMA thing preventing data access during a call.
 
gank41 said:
I’ve used a handful of really nice Android Phones and can tell you that bugs are not specific to iOS alone. A buggy experience on iOS is still miles ahead of the current state of Android, IMO. At least when it comes to performance and ease of use. The fastest Android phones still have that lag.

I’ve been upgrading my iPhone year over year for a long time now, and this time I’m just going to hold on to my iPhone 11 Pro Max. Given how powerful this phone is, it’s gotta get better than this...
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I was golfing last year with a friend of a friend who saw my XS Max. 'Oh, is that an iPhone?' Yep. 'It's big. Awesome! I've been waiting for Apple to put out a big iPhone.' This is the second one I think that is 'big'. Plus, I thought you liked those 'droid phones. 'Oh Ford no. I hate the damn things. I only bought them for the size. I lose my address book every month or so, email won't work at times, the music sounds like crap, text messaging is unreliable. It's such a headache. I've been waiting to be able to dump this piece of **** for so long. I'd throw it in the water hazard right now if there was an Apple dealer nearby!' So, yeah, the Android OS isn't all that fantastic either apparently.

I love my XS Max. The camera could be better. He did say that the camera on the phone he had was better than the Apple camera, which I agreed. Concert shots were flawless (or close to it) on droid phones at that time, and before. *sigh* But I'll probably have this iPhone for a while, especially if the bottom drops out of the world. Yikes... At least it works pretty well, but the camera sucks. *hah*
 
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I updated my IPP 11 and Pro Max to 13.4.
Since that update I find I need to place my face closer to the device to get Face ID to recognize me. Now I have to be inside approx 15” for it to work.

I recently (after 13.4) rest my Pro Max and updated via IPSW / MB. Issue still exists. I find that approx 20” range (like sitting in my chair at my desk) and having it recognize me are a thing of the past.

Any suggestions?
 
On a side note, I am having no current issues with my Android.
Looked at the S20 Plus .... want to see what the Note 20 will be like ...

I like Apple hardware. Just wish they would get their cranial rectal inversion issue fixed.
 
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Rhonindk said:
I updated my IPP 11 and Pro Max to 13.4.
Since that update I find I need to place my face closer to the device to get Face ID to recognize me. Now I have to be inside approx 15” for it to work.

I recently (after 13.4) rest my Pro Max and updated via IPSW / MB. Issue still exists. I find that approx 20” range (like sitting in my chair at my desk) and having it recognize me are a thing of the past.

Any suggestions?
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Maybe set up a second face of yourself as an alternate face?
 
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Ran into another bug ... sigh ...

In both Safari and Pinterest, even though I have video muted, some ads are playing at volume.
These are not the crazy sleazy ads, more your everyday main stream products. I have to manually mute the device volume to get them to be silent.
See example below ... Note the volume shows muted yet it played anyway.
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tdar said:
Here's the problem with that. Everyone else is worse. Apple has slipped, that's a fact, but they are still the best of the bunch.
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Exactly. I have bad days with iOS but I've crossed that line so many times and always end up back with iPhone. I eventually learned my (expensive) lesson and know the grass isn't greener over there, no matter how vibrant it looks from this side.
 
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My FaceID stopped working immediately after switching to 13.4... it's an iPhoneX so not sure if coincidental because it's an older phone or the update... anyone else?
 
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