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iPhone Owners Irate After iOS Update Bricks Cellular Data (tomsguide.com)

Posted by msmash on from the beware dept.

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.

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  1. Thimk Different by PopeRatzo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Merry Xmas from all of us at Apple.

    --
    You are welcome on my lawn.
  2. "Bricks cellular data"?!?! WTF?!?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Oh, you mean "breaks".

    JHMFC.

  3. Root cause by ReneR · · Score: 5, Informative

    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?...

  4. Re:"Bricks cellular data"?!?! WTF?!?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.