Those of you diligently planning for the weekend ahead: Rest easy, your iPhone will no longer be incapacitated by its new iOS. Apple has released yet another fix to iOS 8 that should have everything purring along in working order.
After Apple’s big product launch the other week — Apple Watches! New iPhones! — the company released an update to the new iOS in order to rectify a few bugs. That update, iOS 8.0.1, caused more problems than it solved, however, according to Mashable. For some users, the fix killed cell signals and disabled the Touch ID feature. Sure, no one really calls anyone anymore (under the age of 30), but the glitch was definitely an egregious one.
Thursday evening, however, Apple released another update, iOS 8.0.2, that seems to have fixed these problems. I, myself, had only downloaded iOS 8, but when I installed the update my phone began working more smoothly immediately — most notably, notifications had been rather erratic with the new iOS, but now they appear to be in working order.
This isn’t the only hurdle Apple has to overcome, however. There’s also “Bendgate,” which basically constitutes some iPhone 6 Plus owners discovering that their phones will bend if kept in their pockets — you know, when said users sit down. Directly on the phone. Still, 10 million people purchased the new devices during the first weekend alone, according to Forbes, so the impact of this latest hiccup probably won’t carry too far.
Now pick up the phone and make some calls, folks — like in the olden days!
Brenna Ehrlich
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