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Is iOS15 a disaster?
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Try turning off private relay to see if it resolved the issue. I know that during the public beta, it was the main reason why many of my apps had problems connecting to the internet at times, though private relay has not given me any issues as of the official iOS 15 release.
What type of iPhone? I have the 12. Perhaps it does not work as well on older phones.
Well, first off, 15 is a whole lot better than 13 or 11, which was bug wise by far the worst version of iOS ever. Period. That said, I despise 15 as it should be so much better. 11 was somewhat understandable, so was 13, but here we are with the same bs, the same garbage bug testing and quality control, the same form over function trash, the same stubbornness and dozens of really frustrating and obvious bugs. The best thing is, there are still bugs present introduced with iOS 11 and the iPhone X… as if the devs don’t even use iOS
I loved it as a beta, but when it came out as release it trashed my Apple Watch battery life literally to ½ to ¼ of its normal runtime, and has stupid glitches like the sleep focus shortcuts constantly disappearing… I literally have to say edit the shortcut list and simply bail out of that and they show back up. Even if I restore the watch and add no apps to it, it can run through the whole battery in 8 hours.
Y-e-a-h… This reality is rampant through almost the entire software industry. I know vast testing is difficult, although, believe the arbitrary hard release dates are the biggest cause. Some developers are indeed lazy, but most are not allowed enough time and are afraid to step on toes.
Anyway...
I have decided to wait until the .2 or .3 release. If it goes well, I will make it the routine.
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I lost my Bluetooth on my Magic Mouse 2 and my Magic Keyboard. I had to buy a $12 mouse at best Buy and wire up my keyboard to get things to work. Come on Apple! I've tried everything I know to fix this. Update these Bluetooth issues on Monterey and the iPhone too.
I agree. However, widgets in combination with icons/apps… is my only gripe with it. I decided to just do away with icons all together and keep widgets on my HomeScreen.
Safari… along with the new Window Shelf feature is what I gravitate towards the most. I‘m in the group of liking the compact tabs over separate tabs, but I do wish Apple would do away with the standalone share button icon (or remove the menu in the address bar).
Same. It’s all widgets on my iPad homescreen, together with two sets of siri shortcut widgets, which do a fairly good job of surfacing the apps I want to use.
My constant annoyance with iOS 15 is that I never know if my Bluetooth is going to automatically connect to the Car stereo or not: sometimes it connects like normal and some days it has to wait for me to select it from the iPhone Bluetooth menu. (Same for Alexa speaker some days)
So, for the most part, yeah, iOS 15 is good…. But I don’t know remember this many issues (there’s others that popped up, but are not constant enough to be memorable) since iOS 8. iOS 8 was the absolute worst since iOS 7: daily apps failing back to Home Screen after pressing something in an app (even apple apps)
*oh that reminds me of occasional issue with iOS 15: some apple apps freeze up and won’t respond to taps, or when selecting something in app in consistently fails back to Home Screen. A RESTART always takes care of it though. It’s like broken code highway that leads to a cliff drop, and a restart rebuilds the bridge.
Oh sometimes hey Siri doesn’t work either.
** photos is the biggest culprit. That stupid apple app crashes ALL the time for me. I just went to confirm people, and it crashed multiple times after I hit “yes, these images are of that person”
So, for the most part, yeah, iOS 15 is good…. But I don’t know remember this many issues (there’s others that popped up, but are not constant enough to be memorable) since iOS 8. iOS 8 was the absolute worst since iOS 7: daily apps failing back to Home Screen after pressing something in an app (even apple apps)
*oh that reminds me of occasional issue with iOS 15: some apple apps freeze up and won’t respond to taps, or when selecting something in app in consistently fails back to Home Screen. A RESTART always takes care of it though. It’s like broken code highway that leads to a cliff drop, and a restart rebuilds the bridge.
Oh sometimes hey Siri doesn’t work either.
** photos is the biggest culprit. That stupid apple app crashes ALL the time for me. I just went to confirm people, and it crashed multiple times after I hit “yes, these images are of that person”
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I get OK performance out of iOS 15 on my XR - as long as I do a hard restart every 5 days or so (i.e. volume up, volume down and hold on sleep/siri side button until the Apple logo appears).
Else it starts to lag and slow down; most noticeably in Safari and when accepting keyboard text input (any app).
I like its features but I do wish I had held my nerve and stayed on 14.8. 15 has a feeling of 'this isn't quite ready yet' all the way through it.
Else it starts to lag and slow down; most noticeably in Safari and when accepting keyboard text input (any app).
I like its features but I do wish I had held my nerve and stayed on 14.8. 15 has a feeling of 'this isn't quite ready yet' all the way through it.
I'm running 15 on both my phone and my wife's phone (both 2020 SE's). No serious issues to complain about. I've noticed a couple little bugs but that's been true on past versions of iOS as well. What really sold me on 15 was the new Focus modes. They've been a game changer for me in terms of improving my productivity and helping me to "unplug" from work at the end of the day. Having custom-made home screens for different scenarios that automatically turn on is probably one of my all time favorite iOS features.
For my iPad I decided to stay on 14 due to the mess they made of the home screen layout. I don't like the way it looks at all.
For my iPad I decided to stay on 14 due to the mess they made of the home screen layout. I don't like the way it looks at all.