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iPhone Owners Irate After iOS Update Bricks Cellular Data (tomsguide.com)
According to several reports, iPhone users around the world who have upgraded to the latest version of iOS are finding that it cuts off mobile data services. From a report: One Twitter user @kevbruh says that "Apple update 12.1.1, I had no cellular data. I tried inserting my SIM card again, hard resetting my device, and tried resetting the network settings. Nothing happened and the problem persists." In addition to North America, similar issues are being reported in South America, Europe and Asia. Other iPhone owners are reporting that they can't make or receive calls and others are saying that they can't text or receive texts. [...] Many more iPhone users have come forward on Twitter claiming that they are having connectivity issues related to iOS 12.1.2. Apple is advising some to try to update their carrier settings using this guide.
Merry Xmas from all of us at Apple.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Oh, you mean "breaks".
JHMFC.
Came here to post this.
Did you know that msmash is a brick dancer? It's quite a sight to behold.
your update quality control seems to be approaching Microsoft levels.
If Jobs was still around, there would be no Christmas for any employees until this was fixed, and there would probably be some people thrown out of windows as part of their separation package.
now they removed "cellular data"
That's how people write when they're thick as a brick.
Courtesy translation for cement heads:
"That its how people right when there thicc as an break."
Some of my games also self-updated since the 23rd. Are companies just trying to find reasons to keep their employees at work over the holidays now?
Cook's "leadership" has resulted in Apple being the source of increasingly mediocre products and software. The quality of this stuff is so bad that smart people are looking for alternatives in a very earnest manner, and I am in that group myself.
Seriously, how long are stockholders and the Apple Board going to allow this to go on ?
Apple is heading toward the abyss which is MUCH harder to get out of than it is to sink into. That abyss will taint the company so badly that the company will be lucky to survive, despite its vast cash reserves, which were earned before the influence of the truly incompetent Tim Cook had its full effect.
We have AI now, so this kind of thing isn't possible because computers are intelligent. Must be user error.
Users were told that the problem was not related to their iOS version rather odd traffic on certain networks. Users may need to temporarily or permanently upgrade to 12.1.2 or 12.1.1 but may voluntarily downgrade back to 12.1.1 or even 12.1.0 if that meets their needs.
This is the best way to get rid of robocalls.
This just goes to show the lack of technical knowledge of reporters/bloggers. To clarify, you can't "brick" a feature... Bricking is when the device becomes nothing more than a literal brick because it's completely unusable. Apple didn't brick anything but it is funny that they broke their networking.
was so that you controlled what hardware went into them, so shit like this didn't happen?
You know, one of my friends was recently complaining to me about their latest Apple experience. Apparently they'd bought one of the newer MacBook Pro units (which wasn't cheap- it was well over $3500 CAD) and the unit came with a yellow tinted display. Since the unit was going into graphics design, this was unacceptable and it got sent back and replaced with another.
That unit suffered from some pretty bad backlight bleed, but the colors seemed OK. It too got sent back for a third laptop, which had a slightly blueish tint instead. Finally, the fourth laptop they got seemed to be pretty good- until the WLAN started dropping less than a week later and one of the shift keys started flaking out.
They landed up outright returning the unit and buying a Lenovo instead- which, from what I heard, was perfect OOTB the first time and just worked.
Anyways, what I found most interesting about this was that the display had observably different visual issues each time. Apparently the one with the backlight bleed also suffered from some slight display ghosting and the one with the blue tint had a problem with noticeable burn-in after less than 10 minutes showing the same thing on-screen... all of which suggests that Apple is using different panels for the same computer with the exact same model number.
If this is true, it would also explain how some people are affected by iOS update issues while others aren't. Despite the same model of phones, the internal hardware is different (either due to supply issues or penny pinching). For such premium devices, you'd think this wouldn't be an issue. If a Apple can't guarantee the hardware you're getting and whether or not that device will continue to function properly in the future, then it he prices they're charging for this stuff are outright absurd- the only thing more absurd than that is that people apparently keep buying this stuff.
Don't hold it wrong while you update.
is companies like Apple locking things down, to hinder third party repairs, users installing their own software, or even worse people porting Linux to their iDevices, and making sure nobody can make revenue out of the controlled wallet garden. So instead of amazing new features, they spend so much efforts on lock down and pseudo security, that they more often than not start to randomly break fragile things for normal users. On the MacBooks they even lock the iGPU away from Other OS, not to mention the T2 chip hiding the SSD, ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Best performance is attained by gripping it tightly betweenst your butt-cheeks, good fellow.
This is a great excuse for not being on call today!
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
Since the update, my cell data in the US has been arriving V E R Y S L O W L Y. Apps that normally respond in seconds are taking minutes to load even the basic screens. When my wife's driving and I'm handling navigation, this can become a problem, and not a small one, either.
Ihave an iPhone 6 and it works fast, has long battery life, and works good -- I also never install these damaging updates -- current OS vendors have shown for years that they don't believe in safety and reliability
If only iPhone owners had a way to revert to an older version of iOS. But Apple in their infinite wisdom decided the extra security (and lower maintenance) of forcing everyone onto the same version was more important than having a safety net in case of a screwed up update. (I'd throw in a barb at Microsoft and Windows 10's automatic Updates here, but at least they still allow you to uninstall select updates that cause problems.)
again...
Oh hell that is a lot of writing for a holiday. Are you in an institution too? I get my meds soon, how about you? And then they will be coming to take me away ha ha.
Apple: It just works
Even worse, he'll never correct it.
Despite the infuriating nag reminders, I rarely update my iphone for this reason. When the stuff I use doesn't work right, new functionality I want gets added, or there's a newsworthy security update will I go through with it. And it's not just Apple that has these issues. Nearly all manufacturers do. At least with the iphone, I can control when updates occur. Other devices update automatically no matter what my wishes are.
apple should be building in the usa where they have more control and there less 3rd party manufacturing penny pinching
Welcome to my world.
Idiots... fucking idiots use apple.
What I'm surprised is how long this story took to get on Slashdot. I know Slashdot is famous for this but not usually with Apple stories. I wanted to post it when I saw it 5 days ago but I haven't bothered logging in since 2001.
This was a pretty important story and the problems reported on Apple forums are quite a bit more serious than is even reported here. We are talking people abroad that can't load their flight tickets and stuff because their cellular data and wifi stopped working after the update so they are missing flights. The problems on this particular story were quite long and from at least a thousand people.
The police are offering to help out for the holidays, so just go ahead and bring that totally not stolen iPhone that stopped working in to your friendly neighborhood police station and theyâ(TM)ll get right on it.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
FTFY
Jony Ive is a suppurating cancer on the face of every product / artwork he's ever touched at Apple.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Hi Donny,
do you believe in Father Christmas?
Basically every iPhone update breaks cellular for people somewhere on earth and the fix is always the same: update carrier settings. This is barely even newsworthy and probably only happened because some carriers dropped the ball due to holiday season.
A large number of stupid people will not understand the connotation of "turns it into a brick," and think that "bricks" is just a trendy way of saying "breaks," and will use it like that all the time.
And....it will become correct.
I hate this about the English language. It is democratic. And the majority are idiots.
My sense of irony inclines me to figure out how to incorporate into this post phrases like "this begs the question," "I could care less," "i should of," "for all intensive purposes," "the proof is in the pudding," etc...
but I just can't make myself do it. Too many people will read it and not know it is wrong, and I will be reinforcing the problem.
The only reason to have a Apple Product is to show that you have enought cash to throw it out of the windows to buy an over-priced under powered with 2-3 years retarded features compared to alternative products!
Ceci n'est pas une Signature !
With all the rushed releases because apple tried to steal Qualcomms patents and all the fragment in ios. apple is bad enough with software this only adds to the mess
Looks like Apple found a software workaround for the Qualcomm patents.
Here here!
That's what "it just works" always meant; it just works, or it doesn't, there is nothing you can do to help.
The phrase is more of a code about not being able to service it yourself than it is an actual claim about features or uptime.
If you want a quality computer, and you're ready to pay for it, buy a business computer, not a computer whose marketing targets your sense of Virtue as an Art'ist.
I don't understand that SOB's fixation on thinner. But going to the flat icon UI still disgusts me.
The whole industry spent decade after decade trying every trick in software and hardware to improve graphics, to enable our interfaces to depict objects and icons with as much rich detail and realism as possible... and those idiot pricks decide "hey, let's throw it all out the fucking window and make everything flat, tee hee!". God I hate those fuckers.
Mr. Ive needs to be dispatched by pressing with stones -- that way he can be thinner.
I have been reading /. for a very long time -- longer than I can remember. Over the last four years, the quality of the posts on this forum have become increasingly poor. It used to be that we would make fun of MS back when Bill Gates was depicted as a borg and we laughed like self-righteous fools. The target has turned to Apple and Google.
Often the posts about Apple or Google are pretty thin such as this one. The article in question is from Tom's Guide who quotes Forbes (why not just take it from the Forbes article -- the Tom's Guide article adds zero). Forbes has been doing some pretty shady tech reporting lately and this is no exception. Exactly how broad a problem is this? I, myself, have never heard of it. A quick check of my own iPhone reveals that I'm running 12.1.2. Hmm.... No problems here. Let's check the other four iPhones in the house... nope.
There is no news in this article. It's just a drive-by shooting and I'm starting to think that it isn't random.
On another note, /. has provided me almost no news or entertainment in a couple of years. The reporting is terrible and completely lopsided. After years of enjoyment, it now completely sucks.
remember several years ago when Websters added 'figurative' as part of a definition for 'literal' because too many people were misusing it?
So I really, really find iOS to be a terrible OS. I've come to the conclusion after talking to various iPhone owners that their phone is more jewelry than a useful device. They consistently seem surprised at the things my Pixel 3 can do. I'm consistently surprised by how primitive iPhones are yet people think they are somehow the best phone.
Come on, you think you're being funny? Gimme a brick.
*ow!*
thanks.
You need a monitor color calibrator, like Color Munki. It is common for any monitor to have color issues. Many things affect color on a monitor, like room lighting, temperature, past calibrations... So for graphics-based work, you calibrate the monitor. Unless the monitor colors could not be adjusted, you do not need to send them back.
Small or not, it obvious still worked. You need a better insult to qualify on /.
I can't send pictures in text messages anymore. Spent an hour on the phone with AT&T Monday and they had me try everything they could think of. They told me to go to the AT&T store and get a new SIM. Looks like it's not just my phone after all.
but then what would i complain about?
iTODDLERS SEETHING
"Bricks" is right there in the Fucking Article Headline. More proof that nobody RTFA anymore on Slashdot. And that the posted articles become shittier.
>I hate this about the English language
??
That the whole f*cking point of english! it's freestyle all the way!
Your 'english' is just a snapshot in time, place and culture. Other languages change too but it's what english is based on and why it's so awesome and so hard to learn for those that didn't grow up speaking it.
Use a real phone instead.
Think Different, Think Real.
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