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Apple Just Gave Millions Of Users A Reason To Quit Their iPhones
- dev1n 7y agoNon-sensationalized title: "iPhones have a bug where 'Uninstalled apps' are using a significant amount of data"
- jbob2000 7y agoIt's a small bug, Apple will fix it. That is not a reason for "millions of users to quit iphones", relax.
- MockObject 7y agoA small bug that downloads enormous amounts of data?
- mcphage 7y agoFrom the article: > I checked iOS setting/cellular and saw an uninstalled app used 700-800MB. I closed the settings and reopened it and it was 900MB. The uninstalled app[s] used 1.2GB data in less than 5-6 minutes… It sounds like a reporting bug rather than a data consumption bug. I guess I'd like to know if they saw those same #s from their cellular company?
- 0zymandiass 7y agoFrom the article, yes: > I spoke with Verizon about the usage. They said it's getting categorized as audio and video streaming, but only because it's using network ports normally associated with those types of services.
- mcphage 7y agoThanks!
- wlesieutre 7y ago> I just noticed this issue on my iPhone XR. I got a notification from my carrier that I’ve used 90% of my 8GB of data and I have 11 days left in my billing cycle. My data usage is usually around 4GB per month, so this was pretty strange. I noticed that System Services and Uninstalled apps were taking up the majority of my data usage…. This seems to have started around the time I installed iOS 13.3. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/uninstalled-apps-using-cellular-data.2195879/post-28177409 https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/uninstalled-apps-using-...
- mcphage 7y agoThanks!
- wlesieutre 7y agoCould have omitted 90% of the article and just had that quote plus one more paragraph, but it wouldn't get as many ad views
- nikofeyn 7y agoaccording to the article, it's been around for months.
- wlesieutre 7y agoClickbait title much? The story is that an iOS bug is burning through data allowances, with no sign of a fix from Apple.
- teilo 7y agoIt's Forbes Tech Council crap. People pay Forbes an annual fee to become a contributing editor, and put up crap articles under the Forbes brand. All the resulting articles are click bait. Surprised this wasn't from Ewan Spencer.
- _red 7y agoPretty worrying that the phone is sending "audio visual" data to unknown 3rd parties and not tracking who / where / why. Or do modern clown-world inhabitants think this is great?
- tpmx 7y agohttps://www.payetteforward.com/uninstalled-apps-using-data-iphone-no-theyre-not/ https://www.payetteforward.com/uninstalled-apps-using-data-i... > Uninstalled apps aren’t using data on your iPhone. “Uninstalled Apps” is the sum total amount of data that apps you’ve uninstalled from your iPhone have used since the last time you tapped Reset Statistics.
- treve 7y agoWhat a terrible title. What happened to Forbes?
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- wlesieutre 7y ago"Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own." Forbes lets a bunch of "contributors" publish under the Forbes brand. They're coasting on the name having historically good connotations, but the contributor articles are similar to what you might find on Medium.
- simonblack 7y agoForbes has been 'terrible' for many years now. I once heard it called 'eye-candy for wannabee financiers'.
- Simulacra 7y agoThis is FARK. There's a bug. It's fixable. No one is going to give up their phone over a bug that is easily fixable. Come onnnn.
- drcongo 7y agoPeriodic reminder that most of Europe has unlimited, uncapped cellular data plans for absolute peanuts. Mine is £15 per month and £10 for another unlimited SIM in my iPad. Americans should be angry at their service providers about this.