iOS 11 - who's upgrading?

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gpb1

572 posts

143 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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Luke. said:
Battery life on my 7 is now terrible. Brilliant. Thanks Apple.
It's always the same after an iOS upgrade. The phone has to re-index itself and depending how much stuff you have on it it can take a while and hammer your battery for the first day or so.

fido

16,752 posts

254 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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It keeps turning off my mobile data after the phone has locked. Why Apple?

TheGuru

744 posts

100 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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Upgraded my iPhone 7 without any issues, battery life seems similar after the initial reindexing. Overall an excellent update, the phone seems a bit snappier and smoother, plus some of the new features are nice.

jmorgan

36,010 posts

283 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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Just tried one of those AR kits measuring thingamabob apps. Seems to be very accurate. Point the camera at the start, move to the finish and there you have it.

Some may claim it under measures.

Durzel

12,232 posts

167 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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No issues here, but I don't use a load of shonky old Chinese apps on my phone.

To be fair to Apple - developers have had notice of this since 2015. If they haven't done anything about it by now......

And Microsoft gets flak for cruft in their OS from supporting ancient applications...

AshBurrows

2,552 posts

161 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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GCH said:
I am definitely skipping this update for a while.
Even something that I do every single day - which is flick the wifi off as soon as I am out and about - is now made more complicated than it is right now!

Have to wonder WTF apple are playing at right now in so many regards...
How is it? It's exactly the same on mine. Swipe up and one click?

Durzel

12,232 posts

167 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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AshBurrows said:
How is it? It's exactly the same on mine. Swipe up and one click?
+1

Unless you've customised the dock it's in exactly the same place as it was before, with the same gesture, etc.

anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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OldGermanHeaps said:
Half my phone is borked, without warning. fk you apple.



The oneupside is hopefully this will force some of my more tight fisted customers to replace their ste old dvrs when the can’t view them after the ios update.
I saw that an iPhone? Looks like some dodgy device bought from a chinese website.

My phone and iPad work perfectly with iOS11 the whole process was very easy.

anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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Durzel said:
No issues here, but I don't use a load of shonky old Chinese apps on my phone.

To be fair to Apple - developers have had notice of this since 2015. If they haven't done anything about it by now......

And Microsoft gets flak for cruft in their OS from supporting ancient applications...
Quite right.

If your device is full of dodgy unsupported apps, they might not work on iOS11. They’ll certainly stop working at some point. hehe

OldGermanHeaps

3,801 posts

177 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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Well a bit of warning would have prevented me installing the update. The shonky chinese apps are to interface with hardware installed at customers sites that i need to support. My iphone is a business tool that i rely on to earn a living and now without any option to rollback it is useless.

TameRacingDriver

18,048 posts

271 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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Just to balance out all of the negativity. I would swear that my 2017 feels faster now on ios11 than it did before, that's even after using it for a couple of days. I'm sure I'm not imagining it either...

Durzel

12,232 posts

167 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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OldGermanHeaps said:
Well a bit of warning would have prevented me installing the update. The shonky chinese apps are to interface with hardware installed at customers sites that i need to support. My iphone is a business tool that i rely on to earn a living and now without any option to rollback it is useless.
Do you have a backup from iOS 10? Presumably you do either on iCloud and/or iTunes. You could restore to that?

Bikerjon

2,202 posts

160 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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OldGermanHeaps said:
Well a bit of warning would have prevented me installing the update. The shonky chinese apps are to interface with hardware installed at customers sites that i need to support. My iphone is a business tool that i rely on to earn a living and now without any option to rollback it is useless.
Agree about the rollback but iOS updates have always been a one-way trip haven't they? For a business tool I would really urge a bit more caution with major updates. I also rely on mine for business, but I wont consider updating to iOS 11 for 3 - 6 months.

civicduty

1,857 posts

202 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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Durzel said:
AshBurrows said:
How is it? It's exactly the same on mine. Swipe up and one click?
+1

Unless you've customised the dock it's in exactly the same place as it was before, with the same gesture, etc.
I think you will find that only disconnects you from your current Wi-Fi connection.

You know have to dig into settings to fully turn Wi-Fi off. The message I see in the Wi-Fi settings page with the control centre button selected to off is

'New Wi-Fi network connections have been turned off from Control Centre'

So definitely not the same as before.

Durzel

12,232 posts

167 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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civicduty said:
I think you will find that only disconnects you from your current Wi-Fi connection.

You know have to dig into settings to fully turn Wi-Fi off. The message I see in the Wi-Fi settings page with the control centre button selected to off is

'New Wi-Fi network connections have been turned off from Control Centre'

So definitely not the same as before.
Oh right, that I didn't know. Though to be honest I can't think of a situation where disconnecting from one wifi would automatically connect me to another one? (I don't connect to public networks automatically though)

Durzel

12,232 posts

167 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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Bikerjon said:
Agree about the rollback but iOS updates have always been a one-way trip haven't they? For a business tool I would really urge a bit more caution with major updates. I also rely on mine for business, but I wont consider updating to iOS 11 for 3 - 6 months.
Indeed.

Also if it's a business tool I presume you must have several manual backups of it? On that basis you could just restore to one of those? Problem solved.

Though I do agree that there probably ought to have been some kind of message saying that updating would "invalidate several apps currently installed on your iPhone"

AshBurrows

2,552 posts

161 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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civicduty said:
I think you will find that only disconnects you from your current Wi-Fi connection.

You know have to dig into settings to fully turn Wi-Fi off. The message I see in the Wi-Fi settings page with the control centre button selected to off is

'New Wi-Fi network connections have been turned off from Control Centre'

So definitely not the same as before.
oh I didn't notice as only use one network at a time like my house/workplace.

Craikeybaby

10,369 posts

224 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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I actually like the new control centre wifi behaviour. On a couple of occasions I have switched off wifi and forgotten to switch it back on. With the new system it connects again when you move from your location, or at 5am the next morning. It means that wifi etc is then available for continuity/Apple Watch etc.

steveatesh

4,893 posts

163 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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Successful install on the 9.7 and 12.9 iPad pro's last night, no problem, all apps working as they should. Finding the new Dock very good and a real improvement, took me a little while to get used to the so called multi-tasking side but so far no complaints.

Zod

35,295 posts

257 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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El stovey said:
OldGermanHeaps said:
Half my phone is borked, without warning. fk you apple.

The oneupside is hopefully this will force some of my more tight fisted customers to replace their ste old dvrs when the can’t view them after the ios update.
I saw that an iPhone? Looks like some dodgy device bought from a chinese website.

My phone and iPad work perfectly with iOS11 the whole process was very easy.
Apple gave app developers more than a year's warning of this. Blame them, not Apple. All they had to do was recompile their apps as 64 bit apps.