Serious New iOS 16.1 Problem Angers iPhone Owners - Forbes

11/02 Update below. This station was primitively published connected October 31

iOS 16 continues to origin problems for iPhone owners, contempt receiving 4 updates successful conscionable six weeks of release. And present the latest update has introduced different important issue.

Users are reporting that iOS 16.1, released past week, is causing iPhones to disconnect often from WiFi, and vexation levels are reaching boiling point.

First spotted by MacRumors, iPhone owners are taking to Reddit, Twitter, and the Apple Support assemblage forums to kick astir the problem, which tin origin iPhones to disconnect from WiFi arsenic often arsenic every few seconds.

“It’s driving maine crazy,” tweets 1 user, with disapproval of Apple and iOS 16 consistently being among the highest-ranked comments. Others are losing patience implicit the ongoing instability of iOS 16. Especially fixed the perchance significant information charges that being forced onto cellular tin cause.

Other than updating to iOS 16.1, determination appears to beryllium nary evident trigger for the problem. Affected users study WiFi disconnecting erstwhile their iPhones are successful usage and others erstwhile their phones are successful standby oregon charging overnight.

There is besides nary accordant fix. One idiosyncratic says that switching disconnected Location Services for Networking & Wireless solved the occupation (Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services). Still, it has not worked for others, and adjacent a implicit reset of web settings appears to marque nary difference.

11/02 Update: a further occupation with iOS 16 has surfaced successful Apple’s Accessibility service. Uncovered by AppleVis, immoderate users are reporting a bug successful VoiceOver which results successful calls to random contacts being called from the user’s interaction list.

“Opening the telephone app, and going into caller calls, I utilized to flick, hunt for the idiosyncratic who called me, and treble pat to telephone them back,” explains poster Ambro. “Starting from iOS 16 VoiceOver calls a random person, alternatively of the idiosyncratic I person chosen... I recognize that this occupation occurs randomly, but I inquire you to delight analyse due to the fact that it is superior and embarrassing.”

Ambro follows up to accidental Apple confirmed that it is investigating the issue. In the meantime, aggregate users study the aforesaid issue, immoderate having suffered from it since iOS 15. At this stage, it is unclear however wide it is oregon erstwhile it archetypal appeared, but comments notation that this has happened aggregate times since upgrading to iOS 16.1.

A impermanent workaround has been suggested by poster tripolice: “Tap and hold, oregon triple tap, the idiosyncratic you privation to telephone from the Recent Call list. There you whitethorn varify whether the close introduction is connected the surface and initiate the telephone from there.”

At this stage, it remains unclear however wide the contented is, but determination is capable enactment crossed societal media and Apple’s forum to suggest a hole is needed ASAP. Adding to the problem, iOS 16.1 is simply a feature-packed merchandise with implicit 20 information patches, making it a compelling update.

That said, for anyone inactive moving iOS 15, the newly released iOS 15.7.1 contains the aforesaid captious patches and is importantly much stable. I person contacted Apple astir these discoveries and volition update this nonfiction if/when I person a response.

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