iOS 11 - Developer, public beta and official release

peteeeed

11.1 Public beta 4 is out

Oafley Jones

This really is a buggy mess on my 7 plus. Siri has really gone to hell, not that it was much use to begin with. App suggestions constantly break. Screen rotation is sluggish. Random weirdness. Really ugly design ..that passcode screen :eek: I'm also not sure if control centre is buggy or design choice where some of the icons should be 90% on screen. I regret giving up my Monkey Island games for this.

evad_lhorg

Mr.S wrote: »

Anyone on a 6S / 6S+ with an after-market screen repair?

The 'bug' which causes the screen to become unresponsive is still happening for me, they specifically referenced the bug as being fixed in the last update, but it still happens to me.

Really annoying as it requires a shutdown / restart to fix.

Is it possible to downgrade back to iOS 10? Annoyed that Apple can break non-Apple fixes so easily

The only fix i've read about that actually work is to restore with a genuine screen (eg the broken one you replaced) installed, and then switch back to the after market display. Yikes.

I've never had my phone 6S repaired or screen replaced and it's still freezing constantly. Losing the rag with the phone constantly now. Have to restart about 3-4 times a day.

The music issue is pissing me off too. Can't control spotify etc with the head phones without restarting and then it just ends up going back to the same after a while.

Blazer

Mr.S wrote: »

Anyone on a 6S / 6S+ with an after-market screen repair?

The 'bug' which causes the screen to become unresponsive is still happening for me, they specifically referenced the bug as being fixed in the last update, but it still happens to me.

Really annoying as it requires a shutdown / restart to fix.

Is it possible to downgrade back to iOS 10? Annoyed that Apple can break non-Apple fixes so easily

The only fix i've read about that actually work is to restore with a genuine screen (eg the broken one you replaced) installed, and then switch back to the after market display. Yikes.

aftermarket repairs suck for iphones as they cannot calibrate it correctly.
You're better off sending it to apple and sucking up the cost as it will annoy you otherwise for as long as you have it.

peteeeed

11.1 public Beta 5 is out

awec

Was travelling at the weekend and it really highlighted just how garbage ios11 is. Battery life is a joke, I doubt I'm even getting 50% of what I got in iOS10.

Can literally open a browser and watch as your battery goes down. Put the phone in the pocket at 79% battery, take it out 5 mins later and it's 44%.

Sad Professor

awec wrote: »

Was travelling at the weekend and it really highlighted just how garbage ios11 is. Battery life is a joke, I doubt I'm even getting 50% of what I got in iOS10.

Can literally open a browser and watch as your battery goes down. Put the phone in the pocket at 79% battery, take it out 5 mins later and it's 44%.

This isn’t normal even for iOS 11. Probably a rogue background process. VoIP, email, Facebook or location tracking apps are the usual culprits.

awec

Sad Professor wrote: »

This isn’t normal even for iOS 11. Probably a rogue background process. VoIP, email, Facebook or location tracking apps are the usual culprits.

The dropping 30% in 5 minutes isn't normal obviously.

But it seems completely normal in iOS11 to have to charge your phone in the middle of the day.

It is pretty frustrating that a phone that was flawless battery wise has gone to pieces in iOS11. Used to be going to bed with 60 or 70% battery, now it's 20 if I'm lucky and haven't used it too much.

keith_d99

FYI .... The "carrier may charge" pop-up issue ...

Eir have acknowledged that it is an issue at their end
The only way I have successfully stopped it happening is to turn off wifi calling

nihicib2

Since I have updated my battery life has crashed, today it went from 43% to 12% in under five minutes, and I wasn't even using the phone, Im having other issues as well, its slow to open the camera, and other apps, just being generally glitchy. I contacted Apple support and the did a diagnostics test and told me that my battery was 'consumed'. In other words, buggered and that it had reached the end of its cycle, I told them I had no issues with the battery up until the update but they said it was a coincidence. Im seriously annoyed.

murpho999

keith_d99 wrote: »

FYI .... The "carrier may charge" pop-up issue ...

Eir have acknowledged that it is an issue at their end
The only way I have successfully stopped it happening is to turn off wifi calling

I had this issue for a good while and was not helped at all by switching off wifi calling.

I contacted Apple and they got me to sign out my appleid, restart phone and sign back in again. This caused the Appleid settings to be updated, which you should get flagged for and I updated and have not had the problem since.

keith_d99

murpho999 wrote: »

I had this issue for a good while and was not helped at all by switching off wifi calling.

I contacted Apple and they got me to sign out my appleid, restart phone and sign back in again. This caused the Appleid settings to be updated, which you should get flagged for and I updated and have not had the problem since.

Tried all that ... wiped phone and restored.
Even set up as a new phone ... no bloody luck!

Tenshot

I upgraded my iPhone 6 from 10.3 to 11.03 a week ago. I'm still overall unhappy, but things aren't as bad as they were for the first two days. I discovered a few things, which might help others in the same boat:

• Apparently Spotlight re-indexes everything in the background after an OS update. This takes its toll on battery life and performance. You just need to wait it out, and ideally run on the charger for 12+ hours after initially upgrading. It will settle down after a while.
  
• iOS 11 enables background refresh for applications without asking - doh! Turn it off under Settings -> General -> Background App Refresh and it will help a lot.
  
• iOS 11 blocks old 32-bit apps, but apparently checks (very) regularly to see if an updated version is available, again draining battery life and performance. Identify and then delete them unless you're sure an update is imminent. They're listed under Settings -> General -> About -> Applications (if you can't get into the Applications sub-menu, it's because there are no more incompatible applications installed on your system).
  
• It seems under iOS 11, the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi options on the slide-up control panel no longer physically disable the radios associated with Bluetooth and Wifi; they just disconnect the current service. Turning them off here doesn't give you the battery savings you'd expect. Turn them off permanently in Settings, or switch to Airplane mode, if you want to extend your battery life.
  
• Turning on Reduce Motion under Settings -> General -> Accessibility settles down the animations and reduces CPU usage, improving battery life.

Some of the minor things that continue to annoy me on a daily basis:

• My lock screen is now in landscape mode 90% of the time when my phone wakes up; looks terrible!
• I hate the way my lock wallpaper fades in from black; with my wallpaper choice, it's really offputting. No way to disable this
• I miss the icon labels on the docked icons at the bottom of the home screen
• The new slide-up controls layout looks far too cluttered; keeping the basic controls and music controls separate worked much better for me.
• My carefully organised home screens were completely messed up after the upgrade; I had to spend a lot of time putting things back where they belonged
• I had the signal strength hack (displayed RSSI in dB instead of antenna bars in upper left corner) on iOS 10; completely gone in iOS 11, nobody's figured out how to enable it. I work in Telecoms, so this was handy on a daily basis when I was checking coverage.

Some things I like, for balance:

• Keypad on the phone dialer screen is more solid and easier to read
• Multi-select of app icons on the home screen when re-arranging them (finally!)
• Font choices throughout the UI have been improved, and most things are a bit easier to read

A week later, and my battery life seems to be mostly as it was. If I'm not watching video during the day, I'll usually end up with 30%+ by the end of the day.

Overall, I've found nothing compelling to justify the upgrade, but I can at least live with it now.

PaulT21

Battery Woes continue despite updates according to http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/10/25/users-continue-to-experience-sluggishness-battery-life-problems-in-ios-11-after-multiple-updates

murpho999

Tenshot wrote: »

I upgraded my iPhone 6 from 10.3 to 11.03 a week ago. I'm still overall unhappy, but things aren't as bad as they were for the first two days. I discovered a few things, which might help others in the same boat:

• Apparently Spotlight re-indexes everything in the background after an OS update. This takes its toll on battery life and performance. You just need to wait it out, and ideally run on the charger for 12+ hours after initially upgrading. It will settle down after a while.
  
• iOS 11 enables background refresh for applications without asking - doh! Turn it off under Settings -> General -> Background App Refresh and it will help a lot.
  
• iOS 11 blocks old 32-bit apps, but apparently checks (very) regularly to see if an updated version is available, again draining battery life and performance. Identify and then delete them unless you're sure an update is imminent. They're listed under Settings -> General -> About -> Applications (if you can't get into the Applications sub-menu, it's because there are no more incompatible applications installed on your system).
  
• It seems under iOS 11, the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi options on the slide-up control panel no longer physically disable the radios associated with Bluetooth and Wifi; they just disconnect the current service. Turning them off here doesn't give you the battery savings you'd expect. Turn them off permanently in Settings, or switch to Airplane mode, if you want to extend your battery life.
  
• Turning on Reduce Motion under Settings -> General -> Accessibility settles down the animations and reduces CPU usage, improving battery life.

Some of the minor things that continue to annoy me on a daily basis:

• My lock screen is now in landscape mode 90% of the time when my phone wakes up; looks terrible!
• I hate the way my lock wallpaper fades in from black; with my wallpaper choice, it's really offputting. No way to disable this
• I miss the icon labels on the docked icons at the bottom of the home screen
• The new slide-up controls layout looks far too cluttered; keeping the basic controls and music controls separate worked much better for me.
• My carefully organised home screens were completely messed up after the upgrade; I had to spend a lot of time putting things back where they belonged
• I had the signal strength hack (displayed RSSI in dB instead of antenna bars in upper left corner) on iOS 10; completely gone in iOS 11, nobody's figured out how to enable it. I work in Telecoms, so this was handy on a daily basis when I was checking coverage.

Some things I like, for balance:

• Keypad on the phone dialer screen is more solid and easier to read
• Multi-select of app icons on the home screen when re-arranging them (finally!)
• Font choices throughout the UI have been improved, and most things are a bit easier to read

A week later, and my battery life seems to be mostly as it was. If I'm not watching video during the day, I'll usually end up with 30%+ by the end of the day.

Overall, I've found nothing compelling to justify the upgrade, but I can at least live with it now.

I really think the impact of background app refresh is minimal and I like having apps up to date when I go in.

Also, wifi and bluetooth really only use power when in use rather than when just on.

I personally prefer having all of the control centre on one page and it's pretty customisable. I do wish you could move stuff around though such as the pallets etc.

I've had iOS 11 since June and really like it. Just wish Apple would make their updates slicker, less lag and more polished.

Last few years have seen buggy iOS updates done each year which is not the way it used to be.

My iPhone 6 is constantly crashing with the new update. Its a total nightmare almost making the phone unusable. Is there any way to roll back the update? Any other suggestions?

server down

Tenshot wrote: »

I upgraded my iPhone 6 from 10.3 to 11.03 a week ago. I'm still overall unhappy, but things aren't as bad as they were for the first two days. I discovered a few things, which might help others in the same boat:

• Apparently Spotlight re-indexes everything in the background after an OS update. This takes its toll on battery life and performance. You just need to wait it out, and ideally run on the charger for 12+ hours after initially upgrading. It will settle down after a while.
  
• iOS 11 enables background refresh for applications without asking - doh! Turn it off under Settings -> General -> Background App Refresh and it will help a lot.
  
• iOS 11 blocks old 32-bit apps, but apparently checks (very) regularly to see if an updated version is available, again draining battery life and performance. Identify and then delete them unless you're sure an update is imminent. They're listed under Settings -> General -> About -> Applications (if you can't get into the Applications sub-menu, it's because there are no more incompatible applications installed on your system).
  
• It seems under iOS 11, the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi options on the slide-up control panel no longer physically disable the radios associated with Bluetooth and Wifi; they just disconnect the current service. Turning them off here doesn't give you the battery savings you'd expect. Turn them off permanently in Settings, or switch to Airplane mode, if you want to extend your battery life.
  
• Turning on Reduce Motion under Settings -> General -> Accessibility settles down the animations and reduces CPU usage, improving battery life.

Some of the minor things that continue to annoy me on a daily basis:

• My lock screen is now in landscape mode 90% of the time when my phone wakes up; looks terrible!
• I hate the way my lock wallpaper fades in from black; with my wallpaper choice, it's really offputting. No way to disable this
• I miss the icon labels on the docked icons at the bottom of the home screen
• The new slide-up controls layout looks far too cluttered; keeping the basic controls and music controls separate worked much better for me.
• My carefully organised home screens were completely messed up after the upgrade; I had to spend a lot of time putting things back where they belonged
• I had the signal strength hack (displayed RSSI in dB instead of antenna bars in upper left corner) on iOS 10; completely gone in iOS 11, nobody's figured out how to enable it. I work in Telecoms, so this was handy on a daily basis when I was checking coverage.

Some things I like, for balance:

• Keypad on the phone dialer screen is more solid and easier to read
• Multi-select of app icons on the home screen when re-arranging them (finally!)
• Font choices throughout the UI have been improved, and most things are a bit easier to read

A week later, and my battery life seems to be mostly as it was. If I'm not watching video during the day, I'll usually end up with 30%+ by the end of the day.

Overall, I've found nothing compelling to justify the upgrade, but I can at least live with it now.

The mac has the same issue with Spotlight, a new mac I bought seemed slow for a few days. That said I dont see the need to re-index on a software update.

server down

murpho999 wrote: »

I really think the impact of background app refresh is minimal and I like having apps up to date when I go in.

Also, wifi and bluetooth really only use power when in use rather than when just on.

I personally prefer having all of the control centre on one page and it's pretty customisable. I do wish you could move stuff around though such as the pallets etc.

I've had iOS 11 since June and really like it. Just wish Apple would make their updates slicker, less lag and more polished.

Last few years have seen buggy iOS updates done each year which is not the way it used to be.

if they continue to release software to a hardware release schedule, thats inevitable.

embraer170

My 6S+ has improved massively since doing a full update and re-store (iTunes backup, install a raw iPSW downloaded online, restore).

The phone has gone from basically unusable to buttery smooth. The only real issue left is that the camera is quite slow to open. It was all a pain to do but well worth it.

peteeeed

11.1 officially out

peteeeed

11.1 officially out

faceman

No mention of battery improvements in release notes.

Sad Professor

I've been running it for a week. It's a lot smoother. Animations are much improved. Battery life is probably a bit better too.

quarryman

embraer170 wrote: »

My 6S+ has improved massively since doing a full update and re-store (iTunes backup, install a raw iPSW downloaded online, restore).

The phone has gone from basically unusable to buttery smooth. The only real issue left is that the camera is quite slow to open. It was all a pain to do but well worth it.

This is what I did. Factory restore and then install everything again, most of my data is in the cloud anyway.

I thought the days were one where a clean install was required but it really helped me to get ios11 running perfect for me.

peteeeed

11.2 public beta is out

The Black Oil

Query re Mail.

Have a 5s as a work phone. Mail stopped working some months ago, but nothing to do with iOS or the app itself - purely the mail server in work not co-operating. Not fixable. We're now moving to Google and I'm hoping to have email on my phone again.

The concern I have is about losing contacts (i.e. phone numbers - email addresses are easier to retrieve). If I delete the current mail settings I lose almost everything, albeit temporarily, they come back if I store the profile. I'm not sure what to do when Gmail is up and running. I don't want the old account as it doesn't work. And don't want two mail accounts on the go as the old one doesn't work anyway, keen to avoid possible conflict. Once we migrate to our new work email, should I, on a desktop, create new contacts in Gmail, then sync these to the iPhone to ensure numbers are carried over when I sort out the new mail settings? Trying to read email through browser was utterly hopeless, can't wait to get away from that.

notahappycamper

Any battery improvements showing in 11.2 beta? I’m on a 7 Plus whose battery life has halved since iOS 11. I used to get a day and a half on standby with about 7-8 hours usage without using low power mode.

Davy

notahappycamper wrote: »

Any battery improvements showing in 11.2 beta? I’m on a 7 Plus whose battery life has halved since iOS 11. I used to get a day and a half on standby with about 7-8 hours usage without using low power mode.

Its to early to say for sure yet, but so far I would say marginally better than 11.1

Cherrycola

I haven’t updated to 11.1 yet, the previous updates wrecked my battery life on 6s, dropped from 75% to dead after 10mins using snapchat this morning! Anyway, a suggestion on twitter was to do a Reset, Settings- General-Reset-Reset all settings, and that seems to have helped somewhat.

embraer170

11.1 is causing my battery to behave very strangely (6S+).

Blazer

man battery life sucks on ios11. On a 7+ and video streaming hammers it.

Oafley Jones

Blazer wrote: »

man battery life sucks on ios11. On a 7+ and video streaming hammers it.

I'd usually have about 20% when plugging my 7plus going to bed, now I'm getting low power warnings about 4 hours before that. I'm not even using the phone that much since iOS11.

awec

Blazer wrote: »

man battery life sucks on ios11. On a 7+ and video streaming hammers it.

+1

Battery life is terrible, pretty shoddy work from Apple. I expect a degradation with every new iOS as they add new features but iOS11 is just a disaster in this regard.

notahappycamper

Same here. I used to have great battery life on my 7 Plus, not anymore.

Armonline

awec wrote: »

+1

Battery life is terrible, pretty shoddy work from Apple. I expect a degradation with every new iOS as they add new features but iOS11 is just a disaster in this regard.

Did some impact on battery in the early betas on my 7+ but has been fine since full versions were released for me. Once I did a few hard resets all was good battery wise. I’m on 11.1 at moment

whiterebel

Strange, no difference on my 7. Still excellent battery life.

deadanonymau5

My 7 Plus battery life is shi7e now too!

Blazer

I reckon background refresh is not working correctly. I have it turned off but my battery level can easily drop 40% in an hour which I've never seen before.

PhilipsR

Can you go back to ios10?!

Two bugs still not fixed for me:

1. If phone is on silent, bedtime app doesn't make noise each morning.
2. When listening to Spotify/Podcasts with earphones, and I press the button on the earphones to pause, it opens the Apple Music App and begins to play music there instead (). I went on to the Apple community for this issue and it's down as 'solved', with the solution being to turn your phone on and off again. Worked for a while and then goes back to ****ness.

omb0wyn5ehpij9

I've had a nightmare with updating my iPhone 6 to iOS 11.1. I had a few issues installing iOS 11.0, as iTunes wouldn't update the phone. It was the day it was released, so thought it might have been a dodgy download so gave up and tried the following day and all was fine. I always manage my music manually. I have about 100 GB of music on iTunes (all imported from CDs and MP3s) and I would have about 30 GB of that on my phone.

I went to update on Saturday morning. I hadn't updated to any of the 11.0.X updates so was going straight from 11.0 to 11.1. I backed up the phone to my laptop as usual, iTunes downloaded the update and went to start installing it, and this is where it all went wrong. iTunes stopped recognising my phone and the phone then went into restore mode. I couldn't update the phone or restore as it wouldn't find the phone. I tried a different cable, it made no difference. I restarted my laptop, it made no difference. I restarted my phone, it made no difference. I then reset my phone, and iTunes recognised it again. It obviously had to be restored so it was set up as a new phone. Once this was complete I tried restoring from the backup I had done that morning. Then I couldn't remember my password for my backup (and for those who aren't aware, there is no way of resetting this password). Eventually I remembered it and the iPhone restored my back up.

But it left me with a few issues....virtually all the apps had to be downloaded and installed again. This wasn't too bad as the phone did it automatically, but it took a while. I had to go through all the phone settings again. The biggest issue is that I have to manually select and add all my music back to my phone at some point this week . This is the first time I've had a big issue with an iOS update, and it was a waste of 3 hours on Saturday :mad:

callaway92

BDJW wrote: »

I've had a nightmare with updating my iPhone 6 to iOS 11.1. I had a few issues installing iOS 11.0, as iTunes wouldn't update the phone. It was the day it was released, so thought it might have been a dodgy download so gave up and tried the following day and all was fine. I always manage my music manually. I have about 100 GB of music on iTunes (all imported from CDs and MP3s) and I would have about 30 GB of that on my phone.

I went to update on Saturday morning. I hadn't updated to any of the 11.0.X updates so was going straight from 11.0 to 11.1. I backed up the phone to my laptop as usual, iTunes downloaded the update and went to start installing it, and this is where it all went wrong. iTunes stopped recognising my phone and the phone then went into restore mode. I couldn't update the phone or restore as it wouldn't find the phone. I tried a different cable, it made no difference. I restarted my laptop, it made no difference. I restarted my phone, it made no difference. I then reset my phone, and iTunes recognised it again. It obviously had to be restored so it was set up as a new phone. Once this was complete I tried restoring from the backup I had done that morning. Then I couldn't remember my password for my backup (and for those who aren't aware, there is no way of resetting this password). Eventually I remembered it and the iPhone restored my back up.

But it left me with a few issues....virtually all the apps had to be downloaded and installed again. This wasn't too bad as the phone did it automatically, but it took a while. I had to go through all the phone settings again. The biggest issue is that I have to manually select and add all my music back to my phone at some point this week . This is the first time I've had a big issue with an iOS update, and it was a waste of 3 hours on Saturday :mad:

My biggest issue with the update was that all of my music from iTunes that I have on the phone offline were all perfect quality and since the update it must have compressed them automatically because anything with bass now is ruined. I know it's not the headphones because youtube etc are fine.

Any chance of fixing this?

MillField

Is anyone having issues with Mail on iOS 11.1 GM? I have a Yahoo/Gmail unified inbox and it keeps getting stuck loading mail.

Quintis

The Twitter bug where clearing one notification clears all notifications is back since the last release, very annoying

peteeeed

11.2 beta 2 is out

Simply Red

Having an issue all of a sudden where I will not get notifications while the phone is locked, I will only notice something new has arrived after unlocking and seeing the red badge on an app icon. 8 Plus running 11.1

Edit: Never mind I messed with something in do not disturb :rolleyes:

shanec1928

MillField wrote: »

Is anyone having issues with Mail on iOS 11.1 GM? I have a Yahoo/Gmail unified inbox and it keeps getting stuck loading mail.

Yup nothing loading for me

shanec1928

shanec1928 wrote: »

Yup nothing loading for me

restarting the phone seems to have sorted it. getting mails in now.

The Black Oil

Is there a handy way of deleting messages in Mail without reading them? In Messages for texts you can either hide alerts or delete. But, in Mail, it's either More, Flag or Archive. Subcategory of More does provide more options such as reply, etc, but no delete. You've to move to Trash by selecting it which is a little awkward. I've lots of subfolders to scroll through.

Gmail based work account.

brophs

The Black Oil wrote: »

Is there a handy way of deleting messages in Mail without reading them? In Messages for texts you can either hide alerts or delete. But, in Mail, it's either More, Flag or Archive. Subcategory of More does provide more options such as reply, etc, but no delete. You've to move to Trash by selecting it which is a little awkward. I've lots of subfolders to scroll through.

Gmail based work account.

I may be understanding the issue but a long/full swipe to the left on the email itself should delete it, no?

The Black Oil

D'oh.