Taking a look back at another week of news from Cupertino, this week’s Apple Loop includes three leaks around the iPhone 7, Touch ID and alarm issues in iOS 9.1, three great new features on iOS 9.1, another successful software rollout from Apple, thoughts on Apple’s profit margins, Apple Watch’s lack of sales data, the iPad Pro in the enterprise marketplace, and five lessons Apple needs to learn from Android.
Apple Loop is here to remind you of a few of the very many discussions that have happened around Apple over the last seven days (and you can read the weekly digest of Android news here on Forbes).
Apple iPhone 6S (image: Ewan Spence)
Three Exciting iPhone Leaks
Ming-Chi Kuo, the KGI Securities analyst who correctly predicted the 12-inch MacBook, the dual-sized screen approach of the iPhone 6 family and the full features list of the iPhone 6S, has turned his attention to the iPhone 7. Forbes’ Gordon Kelly looks at his predictions for next year’s flagship smartphone from Apple:
How he breaks this down is the introduction of an entry level 4-inch iPhone 7 with metal chassis which sees it break away from the plastic ‘C series’. Next will come the 4.7-inch iPhone 7, but it will be more clearly repositioned as a step down from 5.5-inch iPhone 7 Plus with the latter having improved performance and 50% more RAM (3GB vs 2GB).
More thoughts and details on what’s coming up for the iPhone 7 here on Forbes.
iOS 9.1 Breaks TouchID
Apple continues to roll out updates to iOS 9 promising new features and improvements, but the speedy rate of updates appears to be introducing more flaws into the platform. The latest issue uncovered this week is around Touch ID, iOS 9.1 has reduced the accuracy of the security and authentication system.
Despite launching with a changelog that admitted 11 of its 13 features were bug fixes, iOS 9.1 is raising ire across Apple’s official Support Communities forum for breaking Touch ID across iPhones and iPads – both old and new (sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 – and many, many more).The complaints are similar: users running iOS 9.1 find Touch ID either refuses to recognise a user’s fingerprint, has become highly unreliable or doesn’t even register a fingerprint pressed against it. Users have tried hard resets (holding in the power and home button for 10 seconds) and complete factory resets without any success.
Normally as a user you would be looking to roll back to a previous version of the OS while the bugs are worked out, but as is typical with Apple and iOS 9, the previous version (9.0.2) will no longer install because Apple has revoked its certification.
Alarms Are Problematic As Well
Touch ID is not the only issue in iOS 9.1 with numerous reports coming in that alarms are not ringing after the update is installed. It is not a universal problem, but it seems to be more prevalent if you use the ‘install the OS update overnight’ option:
Perhaps as equally frustrating as this alarm bug is the sense of deja vu. Isolated reports of failing alarms were reported with iOS 9 and supposedly fixed in iOS 9.0.1, while a famous glitch with the iPhone 4 back in 2010 saw millions of alarms go off an hour late when calendars failed to adjust for Daylight savings time.
While those affected wait for another iOS update our recommendation would be to install another alarm app, such as Sleep Cycle.
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