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iOS 15.4 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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I’ll see how long I can put up with it, hopefully it gets fixed in a future update, can’t be bothered restoring my phone.
I wish 🤣 it’s using a Broadcom chip.
It’s the bees knees apparently. 🤔
Second day using it, noticed a increase in battery life, so have others down here that are using it.
We’re talking about 2 different things 🤣 the other convo I was having, was about my home internet modem.
Group chat one of them keeps using that melting face emoji, told him how I felt about it lol.
When you Haptic Touch a message, you can reply to that person directly in the group chat, that’s why you’re seeing that line.
Reply to specific messages on your iPhone and iPad - Apple Support
With iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 and later, you can reply directly to a specific message and use mentions to call attention to certain messages and people.
This is a good video to help anyone maybe get better battery life. I use it and I definitely used just now after completing a clean install and setup as new device.
Let us know how you go with these settings, I’ll watch the video tomorrow, time for my beauty sleep. 😁
This not good enough? 🤔 28% 🔋 left.
I’m not sure the video game thing is the phone’s fault. Video of video usually leads to out of phase frames which is what the stuttering is.
Nope.
That video is what I use as a reference, I have used it previously with very good results.
The one thing I noticed after doing the clean install and setup as a new device, my 13 Pro Max wakes up more quickly when I pickup the phone. Before it would do that. Finding all sort of benefits to doing a clean install and setup as a new device. Very interesting. I must have had some corrupted files.
If you turn off cellular network, you also turn off 5G. Is that what you intend?
Maybe try turning off WiFi assist, as that will use your cellular data on cases where WiFi is poor.
About Wi-Fi Assist - Apple Support
With iOS 9 and later, you can use Wi-Fi Assist to automatically switch to cellular when you have a poor Wi-Fi connection.
Hello everyone, iPhone 13 Pro user here. I bought this phone one month ago, replacing an iPhone 7, and I’ve surely been satisfied with its speed and power.
However, iOS 15.4 is not as good as iOS 15.3.1: my main concern is that suspended apps get killed far more often, whereas in 15.3.1 they stayed suspended for several hours. Please note that phone usage hasn’t varied after upgrading iOS: I’m doing the same things as before, but apps get killed far more quickly. I’ll give you an example: before going to sleep, I open Pokémon GO and play a bit, then just go to the phone’s home menu, lock it, and go to sleep; when I wake up in the morning, Pokémon GO restarts from loading screen instead of going straight back where I left it. Back on iOS 15.3.1 I’d find it suspended every morning. During the last month, there’s been days when it would never get killed and just stay suspended for 24+ hours long; now it’s quitting several times a day. Please note that Settings --> Battery doesn't show any app running over night, so it's not a matter of other apps eating into RAM (which could be the case during the day, although, as I said before, I'm using the phone in the exact same way as I did on 15.3.1).
Well, what to say now? I surely wasn’t expecting a 15.x update to bring a RAM issue on a freakin’ current gen iPhone model, let alone a Pro model. I’ve had only iPhones since 2009 and I’ve never experienced such a loss of performance in the first year of updates. Granted, it still performs really good and fast, but this issue is really annoying me.
Is there any hope a hypothetical iOS 15.4.1 can fix it? Is anyone else experiencing the same issue?
Oh, and speaking of new issues, audio playback from online radios suffers from occasional lagging, whereas on 15.3.1 it never happened. This is another 15.4-related problem I found.
However, iOS 15.4 is not as good as iOS 15.3.1: my main concern is that suspended apps get killed far more often, whereas in 15.3.1 they stayed suspended for several hours. Please note that phone usage hasn’t varied after upgrading iOS: I’m doing the same things as before, but apps get killed far more quickly. I’ll give you an example: before going to sleep, I open Pokémon GO and play a bit, then just go to the phone’s home menu, lock it, and go to sleep; when I wake up in the morning, Pokémon GO restarts from loading screen instead of going straight back where I left it. Back on iOS 15.3.1 I’d find it suspended every morning. During the last month, there’s been days when it would never get killed and just stay suspended for 24+ hours long; now it’s quitting several times a day. Please note that Settings --> Battery doesn't show any app running over night, so it's not a matter of other apps eating into RAM (which could be the case during the day, although, as I said before, I'm using the phone in the exact same way as I did on 15.3.1).
Well, what to say now? I surely wasn’t expecting a 15.x update to bring a RAM issue on a freakin’ current gen iPhone model, let alone a Pro model. I’ve had only iPhones since 2009 and I’ve never experienced such a loss of performance in the first year of updates. Granted, it still performs really good and fast, but this issue is really annoying me.
Is there any hope a hypothetical iOS 15.4.1 can fix it? Is anyone else experiencing the same issue?
Oh, and speaking of new issues, audio playback from online radios suffers from occasional lagging, whereas on 15.3.1 it never happened. This is another 15.4-related problem I found.
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But I tried watching the same stream on my Iphone X and it’s smooth. I hope fb app fix this issue on their next update.
First impressions of iOS 15 coming from 14.8.1 on an iPhone 7…
Everything is just a touch slower. Loading up all apps takes a second like literally a second or two longer sitting on the splash screen when loading up apps for the first time. Otherwise once in the apps it feels solid and the same.
And also why is my phone very warm almost hot after taking it off the charger overnight? Usually it’s ice cold. Is it scanning my photo library or something? It does get cold after taking it off the charger eventually but as soon as I plug it back it it starts heating up? Is this normal? Anyone else get this after a major upgrade?
Everything is just a touch slower. Loading up all apps takes a second like literally a second or two longer sitting on the splash screen when loading up apps for the first time. Otherwise once in the apps it feels solid and the same.
And also why is my phone very warm almost hot after taking it off the charger overnight? Usually it’s ice cold. Is it scanning my photo library or something? It does get cold after taking it off the charger eventually but as soon as I plug it back it it starts heating up? Is this normal? Anyone else get this after a major upgrade?
The last issue I have is the touch registration issue. This is where I would touch an object/link on the screen and I can see it highlighted to indicate that my touch was registered but no action occurred. Or I touch and/link and I have to touch the object a second time to get it to show and act. The last part of this is a ghost touch, placing your finger such that you get close enough to the screen, without actually touching the display, and the display will react as if you have physically touched the display.
This has been happening for me since maybe iOS 15.2. Just to make sure this is not related to that screen protector I have on the display, I remove it. Starting using the phone without the screen protector and within 5 minutes the issue occurred. Time to give Apple a call.
EDIT: Was able to reproduce the touch registration issue to a senior advisor. Ran a hardware diagnostic which came back negative. The advisor sent it up to engineering.
I did find another issue when I was on the phone with the advisor. Earlier I starting offloading apps that I was not using. One of those apps is the News app. When I swiped right to go to the widget page the News widget was black and blank. It was this big black box. I guess that one got missed during testing.
Software testing is an art into itself. When I was leading a software development team, we developed new test procedures. It covered correct operations, invalid operations, stress testing, destructive testing and 24/7 testing. By the time we finished developing the test procedures, the software had the lowest instance of software bugs in the fried. And when the bugs reported was plotted as a history, it formed a perfect bell curve. The destructive testing was the most fun. We brainstormed what inputs could be used to break the software and see how it reacted when it crashed. One of the goals of our software, it has to be able to recover in a such a way that it did to cause the system to freeze up.
Anyway, testing complex systems is not so easy and obvious.
Back in went the screen protector. Used the steam up method. Went on without a hitch, no dust or air bubbles. After I finished installing the screen protector and open the opened the door to the bathroom, within a few seconds I could dust accumulating on the surface of the display. Such a simple trick that saves a lot time and hassle.
This has been happening for me since maybe iOS 15.2. Just to make sure this is not related to that screen protector I have on the display, I remove it. Starting using the phone without the screen protector and within 5 minutes the issue occurred. Time to give Apple a call.
EDIT: Was able to reproduce the touch registration issue to a senior advisor. Ran a hardware diagnostic which came back negative. The advisor sent it up to engineering.
I did find another issue when I was on the phone with the advisor. Earlier I starting offloading apps that I was not using. One of those apps is the News app. When I swiped right to go to the widget page the News widget was black and blank. It was this big black box. I guess that one got missed during testing.
Software testing is an art into itself. When I was leading a software development team, we developed new test procedures. It covered correct operations, invalid operations, stress testing, destructive testing and 24/7 testing. By the time we finished developing the test procedures, the software had the lowest instance of software bugs in the fried. And when the bugs reported was plotted as a history, it formed a perfect bell curve. The destructive testing was the most fun. We brainstormed what inputs could be used to break the software and see how it reacted when it crashed. One of the goals of our software, it has to be able to recover in a such a way that it did to cause the system to freeze up.
Anyway, testing complex systems is not so easy and obvious.
Back in went the screen protector. Used the steam up method. Went on without a hitch, no dust or air bubbles. After I finished installing the screen protector and open the opened the door to the bathroom, within a few seconds I could dust accumulating on the surface of the display. Such a simple trick that saves a lot time and hassle.
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I’ve only wanted to say that they want us to turn on the optimized battery charging feature but turning off other things which are necessary for it to work.If you turn off cellular network, you also turn off 5G. Is that what you intend?
Maybe try turning off WiFi assist, as that will use your cellular data on cases where WiFi is poor.
About Wi-Fi Assist - Apple Support
With iOS 9 and later, you can use Wi-Fi Assist to automatically switch to cellular when you have a poor Wi-Fi connection.support.apple.com
Battery life is looking pretty good after doing the clean install of 15.4 and not restoring from backup.
