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Multiple ios issues

Steve Adams

Steve Adams

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I come back to this again. My iPhone 11 has multiple issues and problems. I get intermittent call disruptions for 5 seconds every couple of mins, I do not get notifications, my face Id with watch does not work, I lose lte signal constantly throughout the day. Contacted apple and they did the hardware diagnostics and everything came back fine which leads me to believe that ios is a buggy mess. Any other ideas on how to fix this garbage?
 
BR4DOKYBrazil said:
I have an iPhone since the iPhone 7 Plus, as far as I remember, it would have been since iOS 10. In particular, I think we have never had an iOS so full of bugs, I even put this terrible iOS 11 on this list. I have the impression that Apple no longer has the care with the operating system that it had in the past.
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I agree. The days of apple having a rock solid operating system are long gone. Android is better, as is windows now.
 
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iOS/iPadOS 14.6 on ipx, ipxs, ipp 12.9 gens 2 and 3.
safari crashes. In the last 4 days airplay is not engaging, or cutting out after the first track of an album when using home pods. Will not connect to airport express.
 
Steve Adams said:
I come back to this again. My iPhone 11 has multiple issues and problems. I get intermittent call disruptions for 5 seconds every couple of mins, I do not get notifications, my face Id with watch does not work, I lose lte signal constantly throughout the day. Contacted apple and they did the hardware diagnostics and everything came back fine which leads me to believe that ios is a buggy mess. Any other ideas on how to fix this garbage?
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Whilst you’ve given us nothing to go on with regard to trying to help you unfortunately, I do completely agree that Apple’s software is nothing short of appalling these days.

In my experience, not one part of Apple’s services are anywhere near resembling reliable these days. Siri, HomeKit, screen time: they just don’t work reliably for me. We all know that Siri is an abortion, that should be scrapped and started from scratch. HomeKit doesn’t know what the words reliable or efficient mean. Screen time synchronisation between devices just does not work.

Actually, whilst typing this, thinking about it, iMessage is very reliable in all fairness. And certainly one of their main selling points for me. If iMessage existed on Android I would have swapped over by now to at least see what it’s like. I may have ended up coming back to Apple, but I will never know.

It’s a lot of very simple small things that really piss me off with Apple. For example, I ask Siri to close my bedroom curtains to 50% and I get a notification saying the curtains have opened. I should clarify that I have notifications set up for opening and closing of all of my curtains but probably only three or 4 out of 10 notifications will actually come through. I may then find if I restart my iPhone (for the 50th time in the same day!) that some of those notifications will come through.

There is an issue with dictation when set to UK English that it will occasionally add the word “paragraph” after saying the word “full stop“. I’ve worked with Apple for months over this and they just say wait for a fix. We all know it will never get fixed.

There is a slew of other stupid little issues that I could go through but I’m so sick of repeating myself knowing that they will never get sorted. I’ve got well over a dozen raised with Apple but I’ve now given up reporting them.

I fully understand and accept that the more features an operating system has, the more likely bugs are to exist. But with Apple’s genuinely limitless resources they should have the most reliable software on the planet. I mean, for God’s sake they control both the hardware and the software.

I really need to stop replying to these kind of posts because I’m going to start getting a very well deserved reputation for being a miserable old bastard. And don’t get me wrong, I am, but I don’t need it exacerbated

Edit: another issue now: ask my HomePod if any doors are open and it says “all contact sensors are closed. Dining room door it’s not responding”. Ask same question to my phone and it says all contact sensors are closed. Specifically ask my phone if the dining room door is closed and it says it is. It is stuff like this makes Apple software the biggest piece of **** ever. I had to restart the HomePod which is currently managing the home. Completely unacceptable.
 
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What kind of info do you need. I would love to have my phone work as it should.
StumpyBloke said:
Whilst you’ve given us nothing to go on with regard to trying to help you unfortunately, I do completely agree that Apple’s software is nothing short of appalling these days.

In my experience, not one part of Apple’s services are anywhere near resembling reliable these days. Siri, HomeKit, screen time: they just don’t work reliably for me. We all know that Siri is an abortion, that should be scrapped and started from scratch. HomeKit doesn’t know what the words reliable or efficient mean. Screen time synchronisation between devices just does not work.

Actually, whilst typing this, thinking about it, iMessage is very reliable in all fairness. And certainly one of their main selling points for me. If iMessage existed on Android I would have swapped over by now to at least see what it’s like. I may have ended up coming back to Apple, but I will never know.

It’s a lot of very simple small things that really piss me off with Apple. For example, I ask Siri to close my bedroom curtains to 50% and I get a notification saying the curtains have opened. I should clarify that I have notifications set up for opening and closing of all of my curtains but probably only three or 4 out of 10 notifications will actually come through. I may then find if I restart my iPhone (for the 50th time in the same day!) that some of those notifications will come through.

There is an issue with dictation when set to UK English that it will occasionally add the word “paragraph” after saying the word “full stop“. I’ve worked with Apple for months over this and they just say wait for a fix. We all know it will never get fixed.

There is a slew of other stupid little issues that I could go through but I’m so sick of repeating myself knowing that they will never get sorted. I’ve got well over a dozen raised with Apple but I’ve now given up reporting them.

I fully understand and accept that the more features an operating system has, the more likely bugs are to exist. But with Apple’s genuinely limitless resources they should have the most reliable software on the planet. I mean, for God’s sake they control both the hardware and the software.

I really need to stop replying to these kind of posts because I’m going to start getting a very well deserved reputation for being a miserable old bastard. And don’t get me wrong, I am, but I don’t need it exacerbated
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I have to agree with @Apple_Robert. You need to start with a new setup. I have no issues with any of the 4 iPhone's in our household. It could also be your carrier depending on where you live if you are having connection issues.
 
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I have been with the same carrier for 15 years. I have no issue with my son's iphone 6s, or my samsung tablet. Just our two 11's. I will try the start new setup and try it out for a few days.
 
As far as this being the worst - we must remember that these systems are much, much more complex than the IOS of a few years ago. Yes, it should work better but much harder to do.
I don't have any of these issues so I guess I'm "lucky"
 
I am using icloud to back up, After I do the DFU will I restore my phone using that? Also, thanks for providing actual help instead of the typical Nothing is ever wrong with apple rhetoric.
 
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I am using icloud to back up, After I do the DFU will I restore my phone using that? Also, thanks for providing actual help instead of the typical Nothing is ever wrong with apple rhetoric.
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After DFU is done, do not restore from iCloud. Setup as new. Restoring from backup will probably reintroduce corrupt or buggy files from prior app installs and updates.
 
Apple_Robert said:
Hopefully, you will have better results.

If you have an Apple Watch, you will have to re-pair as well. Your phone battery will probably not be good for 12 - 24hrs after the clean install. Same with the watch.
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I may wipe my watch as well. Yeah, I know the battery life is wonky for a day or two after any update etc while the system is sorting everything out.
 
iOS and macOS are a huge mess and very unpleasant to use in the last 5 years.

how about the fact that iMessage can’t handle a voice message?
you start recording, if the screen goes on standby while you are talking, the recording is deleted. How dumb is that?
 
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