Apple iOS 14 - just a warning

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

There are a few outsider phones (Not running IOS or Android) but all seem to hit a huge wall and then the project stops or comes to a slow crawl.

Plasma, PureOS/Librem, ubuntu touch, lineageOS, graphene.....but all still in the deep Beta stages even after years and years of development. They just dont have the money and experience behind them and with IOS/Android being pretty good, most people dont even bother to look elsewhere unless you are very privacy centric. Then you find out they barely work, so back to IOS/Android.

They work great IF you dont need SMS/MMS or Cell Provided calling. Apps that use just Data or data for messaging, are fine. But most in the US are still on SMS/MMS.

I REALLY want hard switches to become more common like in a few rare models. A hard switch for the MIC, GPS, Camera and radios would be awesome.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

This shows how bad mine is.... just having the Battery settings open. Look at the time stamps and percentage.

Last time I proved this to Apple I used the stopwatch to count the seconds between the battery % drop. Yeah, the clock was too slow and had to use something that illustrated seconds. It was averaging 1% drop every 6-7 seconds.

Did that in the store while they watched.

 

[HYPERformance]

Go to settings and look up exposure notifications that will drain the battery down with location services

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Go to settings and look up exposure notifications that will drain the battery down with location services

Exposure is turned off. Location services is disabled for almost every app. Background App Refresh master is disabled (so off for all apps).

 

[HYPERformance]

Exposure is turned off. Location services is disabled for almost every app. Background App Refresh master is disabled (so off for all apps).

Weird I have iPhone 11 and iPad Pro and haven’t noticed much of a difference, I’ve been running iOS 14 since it was announced, on the beta program.

 

[bikrboy128]

Weird. After the last update my phone's battery and performance got significantly better. But I have a pixel so

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

Omg. Seems like something is really wrong with your phone

Standard apple repair protocol applies: do all the obvious stuff (which you've already done), then when none of it works do a factory reset and watch it magically start working as it should lol

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Same, was on Beta for a good month, didn't really have any battery related issues. Had issues with the mail.app and messages.app. Such as message from someone that wasn't already listed in my message history wouldn't show up in the list. Could only access the new message via the notification, or via Messages on my Macbook.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Weird. After the last update my phone's battery and performance got significantly better. But I have a pixel so

I got my dad a Pixel 3a, he's really liking it. Might get my mom a 4a.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Omg. Seems like something is really wrong with your phone

Standard apple repair protocol applies: do all the obvious stuff (which you've already done), then when none of it works do a factory reset and watch it magically start working as it should lol

Not doing another factory reset. Not about to sit through that ordeal. I have the phone backed up locally, so don't have to rely on pulling from iCloud, but all the rest of the shit you have to do... no way, not again.

 

[Stink Star]

My iPhone X with “severely degraded battery health” but 90% capacity actually got better on ios14

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

How long will it sit at 1% without battery saver running?

 

[Stink Star]

I mean you are talking about a 6 year old phone. How long do you expect it to run perfectly on the latest software?

 

[ChrisRac]

This shows how bad mine is.... just having the Battery settings open. Look at the time stamps and percentage.

Last time I proved this to Apple I used the stopwatch to count the seconds between the battery % drop. Yeah, the clock was too slow and had to use something that illustrated seconds. It was averaging 1% drop every 6-7 seconds.

Did that in the store while they watched.
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I'd be giving the phone back and getting a Pixel or something. That's wild.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

I mean you are talking about a 6 year old phone. How long do you expect it to run perfectly on the latest software?

Manufacture date on this phone is August 2019. Fourth character of serial number is “Z”.

 

[HYPERformance]

It’s just funny, beta the software for three or so months to have bugs worked out and the actual release comes out even worse than the betas. Typical apple

 

[Stink Star]

Manufacture date on this phone is August 2019. Fourth character of serial number is “Z”.

but it’s a 6s... just because they made it recently doesn’t mean they upgraded the internals to the latest tech.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

but it’s a 6s... just because they made it recently doesn’t mean they upgraded the internals to the latest tech.

They made 14 compatible back to this model, they need to support it.

 

[Stink Star]

They made 14 compatible back to this model, they need to support it.

Buy a 6 year old android or a new one. You’ll never have to worry about getting another software update ever again

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

they are getting better with updates, especially the big brands

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

What Apple should have done, and I wouldn’t fault them for it, was to restrict 14 to newer devices. Like they did with iOS 13. If you had a regular 6 it wouldn’t go past 12.4. But the 6s was eligible for upgrade.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

What Apple should have done, and I wouldn’t fault them for it, was to restrict 14 to newer devices. Like they did with iOS 13. If you had a regular 6 it wouldn’t go past 12.4. But the 6s was eligible for upgrade.

but then how else would they be able to phase them out with bad software updates??????

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

And I’ve been sitting at 1% for fifteen minutes while using the phone... me thinks their battery scale is a bit dorked.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

And I’ve been sitting at 1% for fifteen minutes while using the phone... me thinks their battery scale is a bit dorked.

I bet its just backwards. 1% is now 100%

you have a fully charged phone!

 

[HYPERformance]

And I’ve been sitting at 1% for fifteen minutes while using the phone... me thinks their battery scale is a bit dorked.

Wouldn’t be the first time the scale was way off