Apologies if this has been mentioned, noticed my default browser selection was switched back to safari so switched it back. I had rebooted the phone. Read later on the Verge that this is indeed a bug happening on a reboot. Same thing happens with mail apps.
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iOS 14 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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Widgets on the Home Screen is a pretty big change. Some don’t care, but a lot of folks do. Depends on which camp you’re in I guess as to the relevance of this change.
If you change your wallpaper this will happen. It’s been a bug since beta 7. If you keep your wallpaper unchanged and restart it will be fine. Which unfortunately includes apples built in dark mode wallpapers, regular wallpapers with dark mode should be fine.
A silly bug that hopefully gets fixed. But everyone will soon be lighting up forums and such with this very soon im sure.
I'm mixed on this. I like that you can type it in now, but the other way was a little bigger.
Yes, that definitely fixes it. But it happens again randomly for no reason so it's not a long-term solution to be rebooting several times per day.
The widgets magically became unstuck about 15 minutes after I made my initial post, too.
I'm a bit disappointed with iOS 14. Not seen any real changes apart from Translate and App Library
There are the Home Screen widgets, better group messaging options, individual responses in messages, Apple Pay Cash for Families, etc. and a lot more.
I have this same problem. App folders, icons and widgets are all randomly different sizes. Restarting fixed it temporarily.
Found a bug. I sent a friend an animated gif from my camera roll via iMessage. In the iMessage window it’s animated, but when he opens it full-screen and when he saves it to his camera roll it’s not animated anymore. In my iMessage it’s animated in the chat AND when I press to open it full screen.
As a test I had him send one back and the same thing happens — on his side it’s animated everywhere, on my side it’s animated in the chat but not in fullscreen or when saved to the camera roll.
I thought maybe iMessage was compressing the gif and breaking the animation but neither of us have the low quality image mode enabled for iMessage.
As a test I had him send one back and the same thing happens — on his side it’s animated everywhere, on my side it’s animated in the chat but not in fullscreen or when saved to the camera roll.
I thought maybe iMessage was compressing the gif and breaking the animation but neither of us have the low quality image mode enabled for iMessage.
Thanks to another thread, I just realized this was because iMessage is converting the file to HEIC. But is this intentional behavior or a bug?
I’m having the same issues with widgets. I have a calendar and weather widget. They both will just randomly freeze and look low resolution. It’s weird. I click on them to go to the app and nothing. The only thing that fixes it is a reboot. I’ve rebooted several times today. I don’t want to have to reboot all the time.
Looking at what’s eating the battery Tapatalk seems to be using up far more than it should, both onscreen and in the background. Hopefully it’s just a case of some apps not bring optimized for 14 yet. I’ve temporarily uninstalled Tapatalk to see if it makes a difference. The app was also really laggy.
From the perspective of an XS updated from 12.4.1 to 14.0:
-It's genuinely surprising how snappy 14 is. I think it may even be faster than 12 in most UI actions. With past OS updates, you'd only hope to maintain the status quo of the version the device shipped with, and not have it get any slower, but to have the opposite happen is quite welcome.
-Widgets are a neat idea, but too rigid for my taste. I could find the Weather widget to be useful, but it jumps from compact square to rectangle, to massive. The square is nice for a quick glance, but that kind of info is easy to obtain. The medium rectangle would be fine, but it gives an hourly forecast instead of a daily forecast. To get a more useful five-day forecast requires the massive, space hogging widget, which crams everything in.
Why aren't there more choices? I certainly hope that it's not limited to three maximum. And why can't they appear on the lock screen, like on Android? Who cares if it's copying; nothing wrong with copying the good ideas.
-Similarly, the App Library not being configurable, even just to change the default to the list view over the category view limits its appeal to me. The categories offer nothing that folders didn't before, and worse, they're rigidly dictated by Apple's categories, and developers' sometime puzzling classification choices.
-Speaking of stealing good ideas from Android, the Back Tap actions are a great example. But it's buried in the Accessibility settings and not easily discoverable, and not made any easier by the gazillions of settings options that keeps growing. Going through them after each update is a chore, but given the random bit flipping that can occur, it's worth the effort.
-One of the reasons I avoided iOS 13 was the problematic native Mail app. Even one of the later 12.x updates slowed down Mail, and gave it all sorts of weird pauses, but it seems that 14 has made Mail responsive again, at least for me.
Battery life is a question mark, but 2.5hrs of active screen time since installation has consumed 20%. Standby consumption TBD.
So far, the only disappointment is that 14 seems to consume about 2-3GB more space than 12.4 did. Such growth is not unexpected with added features and such, but can be precious on a 64GB or smaller device.
-It's genuinely surprising how snappy 14 is. I think it may even be faster than 12 in most UI actions. With past OS updates, you'd only hope to maintain the status quo of the version the device shipped with, and not have it get any slower, but to have the opposite happen is quite welcome.
-Widgets are a neat idea, but too rigid for my taste. I could find the Weather widget to be useful, but it jumps from compact square to rectangle, to massive. The square is nice for a quick glance, but that kind of info is easy to obtain. The medium rectangle would be fine, but it gives an hourly forecast instead of a daily forecast. To get a more useful five-day forecast requires the massive, space hogging widget, which crams everything in.
Why aren't there more choices? I certainly hope that it's not limited to three maximum. And why can't they appear on the lock screen, like on Android? Who cares if it's copying; nothing wrong with copying the good ideas.
-Similarly, the App Library not being configurable, even just to change the default to the list view over the category view limits its appeal to me. The categories offer nothing that folders didn't before, and worse, they're rigidly dictated by Apple's categories, and developers' sometime puzzling classification choices.
-Speaking of stealing good ideas from Android, the Back Tap actions are a great example. But it's buried in the Accessibility settings and not easily discoverable, and not made any easier by the gazillions of settings options that keeps growing. Going through them after each update is a chore, but given the random bit flipping that can occur, it's worth the effort.
-One of the reasons I avoided iOS 13 was the problematic native Mail app. Even one of the later 12.x updates slowed down Mail, and gave it all sorts of weird pauses, but it seems that 14 has made Mail responsive again, at least for me.
Battery life is a question mark, but 2.5hrs of active screen time since installation has consumed 20%. Standby consumption TBD.
So far, the only disappointment is that 14 seems to consume about 2-3GB more space than 12.4 did. Such growth is not unexpected with added features and such, but can be precious on a 64GB or smaller device.
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Judging by the past few pages on here, I'm keeping my iPhone XS on iOS 13.6.1 for a little while longer - far too many bugs to widgets and icon shape sizes and battery issues to warrant updating (and the new app library just duplicates the apps I already have in my folders).....
