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It's really hard to fathom how Apple fucked up iOS 11 so badly. I feel exactly the same as this guy, but I have an iPhone 6s. It's slow, the battery drains, th

It's really hard to fathom how Apple fucked up iOS 11 so badly. I feel exactly the same as this guy, but I have an iPhone 6s. It's slow, the battery drains, the text is big and ugly (Messages, Inbox, Chats), the goddamn Calculator app is broken. And somehow the usual retort to this is "Have you tried disabling blah blah blah or doing so so so". I don't _want_ to dick around with my phone. It worked fine, now it's broke. Literally the only reason for me to upgrade would be so I can have a phone that's exactly the same as this one, except it's missing a headphone jack and costs more. That's hardly a value proposition. Jesus, Apple. WTF?

vizzah 9y ago
Yeah, I saw the update and especially enlarged and ugly fonts stand out. Damn, what are they thinking. What a mad presumption that every update needs to do UI design change or otherwise it would feel stale to someone(?). I chosen Apple only due to design and attention to detail and it's incredibly sad to see it shatter.
mercer 9y ago
The one regression I've been experiencing is the wifi. I have pretty much unlimited 4G, but a very bad wifi connection in my bedroom. Because of Apple's silly disabled-but-not-really wifi and bluetooth, my wifi keeps switching to on, seemingly randomly, but probably whenever it loses and then reacquires my home wifi. As a result I have to keep turning wifi off in settings, which is a bit too rigorous, or I have to keep remembering to turn off wifi in the bedroom. I can't help but feel there's a use-case myopia at Apple that, for whatever reason, is starting to become problematic. For me, at least, and I think I'm pretty much their ideal customer (aside from not having a wife and kids).
- skygazer 9y ago
  I use a iOS VPN app called Speedify, that simultaneously bonds wifi/cellular channels into a single channel, ostensibly for speed sake. It seems to handle situations where either wifi or cellular is flakey, and even has a redundant mode, where all traffic is sent via both channels simultaneously. Redundant mode is not fast, but it is rock solid reliable. I use it if I want to make sure I don't drop a VOIP call.
skygazer 9y ago
My iPhone 6s suffered similarly on iOS 11.0, but is back to normal iOS 10 level performance with 11.1 Beta 5. I would try the beta if you're impatient, or just wait for iOS 11.1 to come out, which will probably be released within the next 1 to 3 weeks. You can sign up for the public beta at beta.apple.com, which involves installing a beta profile on your phone, rebooting, and visiting Settings/General/SoftwareUpdate and starting the install. You can later unenroll your phone from the beta train by deleting the beta profile in Settings/General/Profiles. Generally, early iOS betas, even public betas, are awful. I wait until at least beta 3 or 4, as showstoppers and most minor bugs will have been fixed. If you still have your 6s next year, I'd skip 12.0, and wait until 12.1.

vizzah 9y ago

Yeah, I saw the update and especially enlarged and ugly fonts stand out. Damn, what are they thinking. What a mad presumption that every update needs to do UI design change or otherwise it would feel stale to someone(?). I chosen Apple only due to design and attention to detail and it's incredibly sad to see it shatter.

mercer 9y ago

The one regression I've been experiencing is the wifi. I have pretty much unlimited 4G, but a very bad wifi connection in my bedroom. Because of Apple's silly disabled-but-not-really wifi and bluetooth, my wifi keeps switching to on, seemingly randomly, but probably whenever it loses and then reacquires my home wifi. As a result I have to keep turning wifi off in settings, which is a bit too rigorous, or I have to keep remembering to turn off wifi in the bedroom. I can't help but feel there's a use-case myopia at Apple that, for whatever reason, is starting to become problematic. For me, at least, and I think I'm pretty much their ideal customer (aside from not having a wife and kids).

skygazer 9y ago
I use a iOS VPN app called Speedify, that simultaneously bonds wifi/cellular channels into a single channel, ostensibly for speed sake. It seems to handle situations where either wifi or cellular is flakey, and even has a redundant mode, where all traffic is sent via both channels simultaneously. Redundant mode is not fast, but it is rock solid reliable. I use it if I want to make sure I don't drop a VOIP call.

skygazer 9y ago

My iPhone 6s suffered similarly on iOS 11.0, but is back to normal iOS 10 level performance with 11.1 Beta 5. I would try the beta if you're impatient, or just wait for iOS 11.1 to come out, which will probably be released within the next 1 to 3 weeks. You can sign up for the public beta at beta.apple.com, which involves installing a beta profile on your phone, rebooting, and visiting Settings/General/SoftwareUpdate and starting the install. You can later unenroll your phone from the beta train by deleting the beta profile in Settings/General/Profiles. Generally, early iOS betas, even public betas, are awful. I wait until at least beta 3 or 4, as showstoppers and most minor bugs will have been fixed. If you still have your 6s next year, I'd skip 12.0, and wait until 12.1.