Should I Update To Ios 11.0.1

Warning: Latest iOS 11 Update Making Life Hell For Some

I thought my iPhone 6 Plus — running iOS 11.0.i — had reached the end of its life equally it began to lose functionality during a train ride home this past weekend. Apps wouldn't open up, the app switcher but didn't work and I couldn't even swipe between the pages of apps on my dwelling house screen. Turns out, I wasn't the just one.

A Reddit thread on r/Apple, which currently has 2,317 up-votes and 804 comments, has been a dumping ground for other users whose devices accept been rendered less-usable past this update. User metricrules has experienced nearly every flaw ane could imagine, including freezing and rebooting, cleaved volume controls, muted alarms, loss of remote functionality on Apple headphones and even an inability to make telephone calls.

Another user asks "anybodys phone start freezing x+ times a twenty-four hours and then restarting? Since iOS 11 my phone has been freezing a lot and with iOS eleven.0.ane information technology'southward doing it even more... so frustrating."

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Comments too show battery life issues with the new update, as one user claims they "Went to bed with xviii%," and "woke upwardly to a dead [redacted] phone."

Reports of these bugs are based on a variety of iPhones, including the 7. And then, if you had thought — as I did — that your aging iPhone just wasn't fast enough for iOS 11 and that you were going to need to buy a new model, it seems the issues might be more virtually the update itself than the shelf-life of your telephone.

I managed to make my iPhone more usable by draining its battery at the finish of that night. Once I brought it back to life from a dead screen, its worst issues went abroad and merely stayed slightly sluggish, which is even so frustrating me to a point where I'm wondering if I'll demand to upgrade (even though I claimed I wouldn't).

Apple will likely release a fix to this, every bit the visitor already pushed a public beta version of iOS 11.1 out for testing. We've reached out to Apple tree for comment, and will update this story if and when we find out more than.

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