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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.
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"
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.
This is the best way to get rid of robocalls.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
The deadline was probably 'get this done before holiday vacation', and this is the result.
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
Hi Donny,
do you believe in Father Christmas?
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.
Thier networking stack has always sucked. I'm surprised people can wifi on this shit. I forgot, thier users can't and that's why they have that feature that lets anyone within radio-shot of your wifi network "share" the damn wifi password. What the serious fuck?
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 !
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 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?
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.
Bricking a feature means the same as bricking a device. That it is completely non-functional and not user repairable or user revertable.
but then what would i complain about?
Like what?
-- Cheers!