New Problems Reported By iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Pro Buyers - Forbes

10/11 Update below. This station was primitively published connected October 8

The database of issues for iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro buyers keeps getting longer. Following iMessage and FaceTime activation errors, CarPlay and information migration bugs and random reboots, owners are present reporting an array of caller problems.

They came to airy aft fashionable YouTuber Marques Brownlee asked iPhone 14 owners astir their experiences with the caller range. Of the circa 5,000 responses, the overwhelming bulk complained astir bugs — and three, successful particular, stood out.

First, the fastener screen. While determination are many bugs successful iOS 16 which impact each iPhone models, iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro buyers look to person been disproportionately impacted by bugs with the caller fastener screen. These see glitching data, and an auto-rotate bug erstwhile customising the fastener screen.

Second, the Dynamic Island. Arguably the item of the iPhone 14 launch, the Dynamic Island appears to beryllium precise buggy astatine motorboat with a wide array of graphical glitches. These see the bundle bubble moving to the incorrect place, sticking mid-animation and refusing to close. Some of which tin person a important interaction connected usability.

Third, artillery drain. I person already written astir the battery drain problems successful iOS 16, but iPhone 14 owners are besides acold from immune. Brownlee notes an “alarming fig of people” suffering from it. Interestingly, Brownlee whitethorn person recovered 1 culprit connected iPhone 14 Pro models:

“I person noticed that I’ve gotten amended artillery beingness connected the iPhone 14 Pros aft disabling the always-on display... I’ve had a mates of weeks present to bash it, and it does marque a difference.”

Apple’s long-awaited implementation of an always-on show has proved controversial, with complaints that it is excessively agleam and colorful compared to rivals. Aside from the artillery concerns this causes, it creates the content that the telephone is unlocked. The enactment of a dimmer oregon adjacent monochrome lockscreen would spell a agelong mode to addressing this.

Replies to Brownlee’s tweet see plentifulness of different problems, specified arsenic Control Centre glitches and autofocus issues, but they look much isolated. Brownlee besides said helium has been suffering from the CarPlay issues antecedently reported.

Apple is expected to merchandise iOS 16.0.3 shortly, its 3rd dedicated bug hole successful little than a month. iOS 16.1, a bigger update that besides adds caller features, should get by the extremity of the month.

10/10 Update: owners of Apple’s iPhone 14 scope are reporting further problems, this clip with Apple’s caller ‘Crash Detection’ feature, which is exclusive to the caller models.

The Wall Street Journal reports that immoderate iPhone 14 models are triggering Crash Detection mode and automatically calling exigency services erstwhile utilized connected roller coasters. The study claims that astatine slightest six incidents person present been recorded of iPhone 14 models raising mendacious alarms connected the rides.

Crash Detection uses a operation of velocity, pressure, G-Force, GPS and measurement measurements to bounds errors, and Apple claims it tested the diagnostic with implicit a cardinal hours of car clang information and real-world driving analysis. Despite this, consequent tests person recovered the diagnostic to person varying levels of accuracy — thing Apple has defended.

Apple besides responded to the WSJ’s finding, telling the work that “the exertion provides bid of mind, and Apple volition proceed to amended it implicit time.” In the meantime, immoderate rollercoaster owners are already warning users to crook connected Airplane Mode connected their phones and smartwatches earlier rides.

Apple’s pledge to amended Crash Detection is invited and urgent. As much and much iPhone 14 models are sold, this occupation volition lone increase.

10/11 Update: 2 important updates for iPhone 14 owners person occurred successful the past 24 hours. First, Apple executives person spoken to TechCrunch astir Crash Detection.

"There's nary metallic bullet, successful presumption of activating clang detection," admitted Ron Huang. VP of Sensing and Connectivity. “It's hard to accidental however galore of these things person to trigger, due to the fact that it's not a consecutive equation. Depending however accelerated the traveling velocity was earlier, determines what signals we person to spot aboriginal on, arsenic well. Your velocity change, combined with the interaction force, combined with the unit change, combined with the dependable level, it's each a beauteous dynamic algorithm.”

Huang explained that Apple tested Crash Detection by placing iPhones “in galore antithetic places passim the car — connected the dummies and the car itself” portion collecting earthy information from cameras and unit sensors. He said the institution besides worked with the Department of Transportation and NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) to recognize which types of crashes are the starring causes of injury.

Interestingly, Drance revealed that Crash Detection had not activated for her during a insignificant fender bender due to the fact that “we don't privation to beryllium doing a batch of mendacious calls to 9-1-1 erstwhile they're not necessary."

This is an absorbing insight, fixed the existent problems with Crash Detection connected rollercoasters, and leads maine to judge that we’ll spot importantly less mendacious positives arsenic Apple improves the algorithm.

Second, Apple has released iOS 16.0.3, which predominantly features fixes for iPhone 14 models. Problems addressed included delayed telephone and app notifications, debased microphone measurement during CarPlay calls and sluggish camera performance.

These are conscionable a fraction of the issues buyers of iPhone 14 models person reported truthful far, but the absorption connected its newest phones again successful iOS 16.0.3 does amusement Apple is alert of their buggy nature. Two of the 3 iOS 16 updates truthful acold person focused connected the iPhone 14 range, and this is unprecedented successful my experience.

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