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iOS 14.3 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

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It seems that 5g/lte are the main contributors to the drain. I have stayed just on wifi for the whole day, and im getting close to 25% drain for over 2 hours 15 mins of usage total usage, 1 hour and 50 mins maybe for screen on time.

For an iphone 12 mini, that comes out to 8+ ish hours of usage for a full charge, which would be pretty good.
 
im getting so many call drops it says call fallure, never had this with 14.2
 
I have run into a very strange problem . I tried reset all settings after updating to iOS 14.3 , now my phone is stuck on the main screen with the apple logo and the status bar . I tried to do a force start , recovery mode , DFU - but nothing works. I am still getting my WhatsApp messages on my Apple Watch and I can hear message sounds but am unable to use the phone. Tried connecting to my Mac to restore but that does not work either . Once I click on restore - nothing happens. My phone is essentially bricked. Its been like this for nearly 12 hours. I thought the charge would run out but it is not running out .
 
@zosokm : sounds similar to the bricking problem I had on my iPhone 8.
Although I honestly cannot judge what you mean by "main screen with the apple logo and the status bar" - this could describe many, many different things, maybe you could post a photo of the screen?
On my iPhone 8, I had to enter DFU by following he steps described here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201412
Afterwards, macOS suggested to update the software without data loss, but this was not successful - seems the firmware was kind of completely devastated.
Only thing that helped was a factory reset.
 
As far as stuttering/dropping frames goes, iOS14 has been the worst of the iOS12-13-14 trio. I feel like as updates progress the issue becomes more visible. iOS14 is not bad, I don't have major issues, but it has not been in any way smoother or better than iOS13. It seemed it would be at first, but that was because I had expected the OS to become better with updates because you always expect the .0 version to have bugs.
 
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vojo77 said:
They just want us to buy new phones. 11 pro max awful battery on LTE on ios14. Last update that was good was 13.4. On wifi it is absolutely great!
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You can look at youtube reviewers for battery life, showing how 13.x was much better for the 11 series, now on 14.x the battery is much worse.

Disappointing to see by Apple.
 
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Because they keep releasing new versions on a tight schedule for new features and products, the os is not ironed out.
Got an xs on iOS 13 working perfectly and an iPhone se 2 on iOS 14, had bugs here and there, the worst problem is battery life.
 
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@zosokm : sounds similar to the bricking problem I had on my iPhone 8.
Although I honestly cannot judge what you mean by "main screen with the apple logo and the status bar" - this could describe many, many different things, maybe you could post a photo of the screen?
On my iPhone 8, I had to enter DFU by following he steps described here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201412
Afterwards, macOS suggested to update the software without data loss, but this was not successful - seems the firmware was kind of completely devastated.
Only thing that helped was a factory reset.
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The problem was it would not allow me to do a DFU restore. When I connected my phone to my Mac , it did not allow me to do an update . Even the usual screen on finder looked different
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I downloaded the ipsw file for 14.3 but when I clicked on restore file and selected the ipsw file nothing happened.
The only way out was to let the battery drain out completely and after which when I connected it to power the phone started working normally again . However even now when I connect my phone to finder it does not show the usual screen with update, contacts , media, apps etc
 
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The problem was it would not allow me to do a DFU restore. When I connected my phone to my Mac , it did not allow me to do an update . Even the usual screen on finder looked different
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I downloaded the ipsw file for 14.3 but when I clicked on restore file and selected the ipsw file nothing happened.
The only way out was to let the battery drain out completely and after which when I connected it to power the phone started working normally again . However even now when I connect my phone to finder it does not show the usual screen with update, contacts , media, apps etc
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Try an iCloud backup then dfu restore, and then restore the backup.
You should be able to dfu unless your hardware is broken, the setup for button clicking is complicated so many people fail, also you need to be connected to the computer while you do it.
You’re risking it if the os is kept half broken like this.
 
Facing battery drain with 14.3 on my XR , I restored the phone through itunes as well but the overall battery life is horrible , i gave it 3 days to finish indexing as I'm on 64gb but no difference at all . Cant even last a day anymore and noticing the same issue with my AW4 post the watchOS update.

Wish I could go back to 14.2 & Watch OS 7.1 without losing data 😭
 
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andymuzik said:
Facing battery drain with 14.3 on my XR , I restored the phone through itunes as well but the overall battery life is horrible , i gave it 3 days to finish indexing as I'm on 64gb but no difference at all . Cant even last a day anymore and noticing the same issue with my AW4 post the watchOS update.

Wish I could go back to 14.2 & Watch OS 7.1 without losing data 😭
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When did you do your last fresh system setup without restoring?
How often have you restored backups between devices / between iOS main releases with iTunes?

Restoring with an iTunes Backup when you have issues can help, but most likely it will not.
An iTunes backup is like a 1:1 copy of the whole filesystem, so if there's something corrupt, you most likely copy this issue to a freshly restored phone.
Better is an iCloud backup, in this case only the most important settings and the contents are saved. Not the whole filesystem.
So if you do a restore then, you have a better chance, that the issue gets solved.
The best solution, with my experience, see below:

My experience is, that it's generally a bad idea to transfer a backup between iOS main releases, and I don't like full iCloud backups either.
Every fully fresh install of a device system is a new start, which can solve the weirdest issues with phones nowadays.

My routine, on every iOS main release is the following:
1. Backup all main data manually (Photos, videos over USB, ...), some stuff with iCloud Drive (Health, Messages, Contacts) -----> No device iCloud Backup
2. Wipe and restore the whole system with an ipsw file from Apple through iTunes.
3. Let the system get it's data back from iCloud Drive (again, no whole system backup)
4. Restore the main stuff manually

With this routine for the major releases, I haven't had any issues in the last years for all following OTA minor releases Apple ever did until the next big iOS release a year later.
With this, the battery life on my 11 pro max is the best I've ever had.
After a full day with normal use, it has usually 50-55% left at 6pm, when I left home with about 80% in the morning at 5am (full day wiht LTE).

Every year with an new released iOS, I find that when I completely reset the system, even a device that is one or two years old runs as quickly and reliably as at its beginning.
 
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I’ve noticed something annoying in the new iOS 14.3 update. When watching something on the Apple TV (e.g., Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc.) and then pausing the media with my phone using the play/pause function on the lock screen (or in Control Center) it reverts to Apple Music and doesn’t work for whatever app I’m using on the TV. It happens when using the Now Playing app on the Apple Watch as well. If I use the remote app from Control Center it will work properly with the TV media, but for some reason the Now Playing always reverts to Apple Music on pause. I don’t even have Apple Music running in the background or open in the background, it just shows a random suggested song.
 
v3rtex said:
When did you do your last fresh system setup without restoring?
How often have you restored backups between devices / between iOS main releases with iTunes?

Restoring with an iTunes Backup when you have issues can help, but most likely it will not.
An iTunes backup is like a 1:1 copy of the whole filesystem, so if there's something corrupt, you most likely copy this issue to a freshly restored phone.
Better is an iCloud backup, in this case only the most important settings and the contents are saved. Not the whole filesystem.
So if you do a restore then, you have a better chance, that the issue gets solved.
The best solution, with my experience, see below:

My experience is, that it's generally a bad idea to transfer a backup between iOS main releases, and I don't like full iCloud backups either.
Every fully fresh install of a device system is a new start, which can solve the weirdest issues with phones nowadays.

My routine, on every iOS main release is the following:
1. Backup all main data manually (Photos, videos over USB, ...), some stuff with iCloud Drive (Health, Messages, Contacts) -----> No device iCloud Backup
2. Wipe and restore the whole system with an ipsw file from Apple through iTunes.
3. Let the system get it's data back from iCloud Drive (again, no whole system backup)
4. Restore the main stuff manually

With this routine for the major releases, I haven't had any issues in the last years for all following OTA minor releases Apple ever did until the next big iOS release a year later.
With this, the battery life on my 11 pro max is the best I've ever had.
After a full day with normal use, it has usually 50-55% left at 6pm, when I left home with about 80% in the morning at 5am (full day wiht LTE).

Every year with an new released iOS, I find that when I completely reset the system, even a device that is one or two years old runs as quickly and reliably as at its beginning.
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I generally do a fresh restore using an ipsw file and that’s what was done with iOS 14.3 as well . However after this restore my Mac is not allowing me to update the iPhone . I don’t see see the traditional option to restore from back up and don’t see the data on the phone which you normally see when connecting your iPhone to the Mac . I downgraded to catalina on my Mac from big sur because it ran really slow on my 27 inch iMac ( early 2020)
So far my phone is working . I am not scared to try a fresh reset settings in case it goes into that frozen Home Screen again in which case the only option is to wait for the battery drain ( I have done DFU restore many times but this time it just did not work)
 
Is anyone experiencing Apple music issues where it plays but nothing comes out of the speakers? (Bluetooth)?

this is typically remedied by disabling bluetooth and reactivating.

I get this sometimes when switching songs manually.

Also I don’t get issue when switching stations in Sirius xm app

Edit: I noticed i can get it to play but pausing the music and unpausing...very weird
 
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Banglazed said:
This release also addresses the following issues:
  • Some MMS messages may not be received
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This wasn't fixed. I'm in a group chat with another iOS user and an android user and many of the texts the android user sends never make it to my phone. Weird thing is, I've seen the other iOS user's phone and the android texts always show up for them. They're on iOS 13 though.
 
Hmm. I usually try to update to the newest version of iOS around Christmas time but looks like I’ll be waiting longer to jump off of 13.7! Maybe by 14.4 things will be cleaned up!
 
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