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Apple Pulls iOS 12 Beta 7 Update Due To Performance Issues (macrumors.com)
Apple has quietly pulled iOS 12 Beta 7 software, aimed at developers and enthusiasts, less than a day after rolling it out. Even as the company has not offered an explanation -- or an acknowledgement -- according to users, performance issues might be the reason. MacRumors: On the MacRumors forums, there are multiple reports of problems when tapping on an icon, which can result in a very noticeable pause before the app launches. As MacRumors reader OldSchoolMacGuy explains: "I'm seeing apps take 10 seconds or more to launch on my X. Restarted and still seeing the same issue." Some users have said that the pausing issue disappeared for them after five or 10 minutes of using the iPhone, while others appear to be having continual problems. Prior to when Apple pulled the update, several MacRumors readers had warned other users against installing the update on their iPhones.
All I want, the one goddamn thing, is to be able to face time with 31 other apple users. Also I need to be able to superimpose animoji over my face so no one can see it. The only two goddamn things I want are 32 person facetime chat and animoji over my face. Also I need it to mask my voice.
Since a couple iOS back, the UI deteriorates each time a little more. Unlocking the phone (fingerprint) while looking at the timer makes the iPhone go to several states before showing a stable screen. Sometimes, the icons get redrawn (like some older Windows). The other day, after using Music a while, playing a song and switching quickly to another one made the interface stay on the previous title. Not mentioning the various bugs that are never fixed, every year the UI is losing something.
This doesn't look good, because those are not bugs that seem easy to fix. That sounds more like deep bugs, maybe some race conditions also, that show the Apple team has lost it, either because they're not motivated, or because the most competent ones abandoned the ship.
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It's a beta. Bugs happen in beta. The whole reason why they have a beta is to find bugs. You should be glad that they were willing to pull a late-stage beta for bugfixing because it means their system works. It found a bug that they presumably couldn't catch with their more limited internal tests. How? I don't know. But it doesn't matter.
I'm running PB5 and most things are good. I'm still filing bugs because software is never perfect, but this is barely news. Let me know when they pull an official release of iOS 12 (or worse, DON'T pull an official release of iOS 12) because a major bug like this is found.
Apart from this version: I'm running the iOS 12 public beta on my old iPad mini 3 and it runs considerably faster than iOS 11.
Newer iOS versions aren't about fixing issues from previous versions. They're about more emoji's, tighter integration with their music services, and trashing the performance on older devices.
The reality is, Apple doesn't give a flying fuck about what's broken and anyone who hasn't bought the latest iThingy. Their solution to everything is forcing people to buy a newer iThingy so they can throw more horsepower at it (after shitting on their battery life) rather than actually address the underlying performance issues.
It's true that it's a beta but it's pretty rare they pull a beta after release, I think it's only happened a handful of times... something really bad must have slipped in. But better than final release!
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The fact that they pulled a beta for performance issues seems to counter your argument that Apple doesn't care. If they didn't care, they would have kept the beta out there.
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I remember Tim Cook saying (after iOS 11 release, one of the buggy disaster since Apple Maps), roughly, "you want all these bugs fixed... we heard you! the next iOS will focus on that mainly, less on new features". This is not a good start...
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Well they pulled a new feature, so I guess that's a step in the right direction!
Your reality obviously is not the reality iOS 12 runs in. If you try the public betas on older hardware you will find that it runs much faster than iOS 11. This at least is my experience. On which device(s) do you run iOS 12?
apple just could not think of a good enough spin to blame their users on the issues.
Well they pulled a new feature, so I guess that's a step in the right direction!
Not sure about that. That sounds more like a desperate move to remove a feature that will never be ready for the September "event". Not really reassuring, the guys made plans to integrate the feature, and a month before public release they give up the whole thing. Looks like nobody seriously controls the developments anymore [and yes the Jobs effect is completely fading away].
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It's a beta. How would they blame that on the users? One of fhe few times that a software company can release buggy software is with alpha and beta releases.
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iOS 12 loads apps about twice as fast on a five year old iPhone 5s, completely breathing new life into this device. This is measurable and independently documented online.
It just about works!
Seriously, does nobody test their shit before releasing it these days?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Introducing regressions is, unfortunately, something that happens in software. It's easier than you think, and harder to catch than you'd expect. Sometimes it's the confluence of several things that didn't interact in a way that was expected.
It's very likely that it passed all of Apple's internal tests for performance, but once it went out into the wild and ran into apps that haven't been updated for iOS 12 (which is nearly 100% of them, on a developer device, and literally 100% of non-Apple apps on a public beta device) there were some unexpected issues.
Again, the whole reason why Apple has a public beta is because the number of phone setups in the wild is significantly larger than anything they could reasonably test in-house. This is the process working as intended: a release was made, there were issues when it was installed on developer devices, the updates were pulled down and someone (probably several someones) is trying to get to the bottom of it.
Once projects get this big and complicated, all you can do is your best and then rely on the process to catch your mistakes and let you correct them.
Situation Normal.
Seems like this is what Beta Software is for.
To work out the kinks.
But it's beta 7. It is getting close to the final release to the public. Unless Apple wants to delay its release date.
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