You forget that along with security fixes new updates don't only change things and, as is true, sometimes introduce new bugs, they also introduce new features. One I particular like in iOS 14 is the ability to give photos a descriptive caption. I only just upgraded so I'm sure I'll find more things I like along with the bugs, but just as with Windows, Jaws and any other operating system or software, upgrading ultimately becomes inevitable and I personally prefer to learn as I go, to potentially know about work-arounds rather than having to make a huge jump if I'm forced to learn a new iOS which might be 2 or 3 versions ahead of what I had because maybe my old phone gave up the ghost or was stolen and I had to get a new one which came with the latest version of iOS. The same goes for Windows, on some of the lists I am on there seriously are people who just upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 10 because their 15-year old computer finally quit and now they are entirely helpless and face a much larger learning curve than if they had already switched to Windows 7 and to Windows 10 earlier. It's of course everybody's choice, but to rant about a few new bugs in a new iOS release does not add to the solution, upgrading and reporting said bugs does that. And yes, I know also that many say they have done so many times and why if bugs were reported throughout the beta cycle are they still there in the public release, I don't know the answer to that and it's frustrating, but maybe it's simply because Apple software engineers didn't get around to fixing them yet by the time the release date came and it's of course just as useless to say that then the release date should have been postponed, such dates are set well in advance and they are the reason why updates come out throughout the year, there never will be a software release without bugs.
-----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of deidre muccio Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2020 5:43 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Quiet rant of the morning Hello all, I’m never one eager to update. I know that some here feel that the security patches are very important and so they always make sure that they update. However these little bugs that people continue to report, and the things that never get repaired, that were not broken before, totally cause me to be discouraged about where the heads are at around the programmers and the beta testers that do this work on all our behalf. Minor structural changes happen over the years, Things like they give the tabs different names, and then they put the positioning of things such as delete versus remove in different places or substitute them, or cause you to have to use different gestures to remove a particular mail from a list of threaded emailsWhen it was so easy to do before, at least with voiceover. Who do these minor changes benefit when other things could be corrected, such as things in the rotor… what about the inability to select text using the line feature? for those of us using dictation, and not always a Bluetooth keyboard, the speech recognition capacity in my estimation has greatly deteriorated since iOS 12. I find Siri is more and more cumbersome and requires very specific syntax, which I’ve known all along was the case, but siri truly seems to have gotten less and less able to make sense out of the simplest requests. I find this totally baffling. And I’m not always mumbling either. And does it bother anyone else that if auto correct and auto predictive text areturned off does the program still insist on putting parts of words phrases and pronouns in there that are absolutely never correct and require A lot of extra time to edit them out? There may indeed have been useful features in iOS 13, and now 14, but I was happy with 12. From what I’ve been reading here in the last week or so, I have no intention of updating to 14. I don’t have much patience with work arounds that people have to do. Learning curve., I can cope with, but things that get broken and things that do not get fixed that could save me a gesture or two thatI’m all for, I find troublesome. There’s more I could say about the new SE 20, but I will refrain. It’s fortunate that I still love having an iphone, and I use it daily, in fact I use it every hour of every single day just about aside from when I happen to be sleeping… So there are still many pluses. 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