iOS 14 suffers app preference amnesia: Rebooting an iThing resets browser, email client defaults back to Safari, Mail
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/09/18/ios_update_gets_app_amnesia/
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Released yesterday, version 14 of the mobile operating system has already [1]drawn the ire of developers, and now Apple loyalists are fuming, too.
As told by [2]9to5Mac , iOS 14 users found their default app settings overridden with Apple's built-in offerings after a reboot.
In short, if you restart your iOS 14 device, you are once again set to have Apple's own browser and client as the default, until you tell it otherwise. We'd say this was a cheeky move by Cupertino, though in the post-Jobs world of straight-edge Apple, we can't really say if it wasn't just a dumb accident.
It's not just isolated users who reported this issue, either. Engineers at Google are similarly upset that the Cupertino idiot-tax operation just happened to kill off everyone's preference for third-party browsers after promising to give folks a choice.
yup (you can imagine this morning’s chat room as we realized it) — Adrienne Porter Felt (@__apf__) [3]September 17, 2020
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[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/16/apple_ios_14_launch/
[2] https://9to5mac.com/2020/09/17/ios-14-default-app-settings/
[3] https://twitter.com/__apf__/status/1306630124360445952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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Re: I don't know why the complaints?
Don't rent - buy outright - including "refurbished" ones for the kids and shorter term SIM deals. It's the fact that they do support quite old kit for updates (inc Security updates) that's appealing.
But now IPadOS and iPhoneOS have diverged is not so good - new "App Library" and Home Screen Widgets (yes I know stolen) but NOT on iPad - WTF.
All hail the ghost of Jobs
Yup iproducts are only ever rented and expensive but I converted ten years ago and have only had 3 phones and 3 tablets in that time. All upgrades were for pleasure only and all six devices are still in use somewhere in the family.
Apple just works and keeps being updated for years, something that I have treasured over the last decade. I think they are a new class of shiny that makes you forget about it and just use the damn thing.
Still not an apple fanboi but definitely a continued user.
PS typing this on a five year old iPad before I upgrade it to ios14.
Hanlon's Razor
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Re: Hanlon's Razor
...but don't rule out malice.
Another summer intern problem
Apple really has to learn to not give important jobs to the summer intern. Last time it was with the time zone issue, where Apple became the only company in the world to forget that there is such a thing as a time zone. Now, Apple has forgotten to respect people's settings after a measly reboot.
Not even a system wipe and reinstall, which would be perfectly acceptable and nobody could complain, but just a reboot.
So Apple kit is no longer meant to be turned off. How green.
Well, Apple may not offer any explanation, but I'm betting there will be a patch coming real soon.
So iOS is now better than Windows 10
MS Windows only resets preferences after an upgrade, iOS does it after a reboot.
Do you think that MS will take this as a challenge and reduce the times that preferences stick ?
Re: So iOS is now better than Windows 10
No, my Windows 10 does it after every reboot as well. Sometimes it just does it randomly in case I'm taking too long between reboots...
Experience suggests...
Who wants to bet this iOS upgrade will also turn Bluetooth back on - despite me having disabled it?
Ha ha ha...
"Engineers at Google are similarly upset that the Cupertino idiot-tax operation just happened to kill off everyone's preference for third-party browsers"
Hi Google, there is black kettle over here.
Re: Ha ha ha...
Well given it's the first time we've had that option, I don't see how people can be that upset.
But then "new function in updated operating system has bug" isn't quite so compelling a headline...
Re: Ha ha ha...
Android explicitly asks you which app you'd like to use to open anything the first time you try, with "always" and "just once" options.
It's even better than Windows 10, because it defaults to "just this once".
Some phone vendors might make that initial choice for you, but it's easily changed and in my experience has always stuck.
Not just iOS
I've seen the same behaviour on macOS 10.15.6 and the dock.
Restarted the machine after an update and blarg, back to having a dock full of Apple apps that I don't want but can't remove.
I don't know why the complaints?
Cos surely the Ifaithful realise that you don't actually buy Iproducts, you just Irent them! And the fruity ones can always change the Isettings cos it's still their Iproduct after all!