iOS 15 beta still hasn't fixed decade-old bug

Date:
Sun, 22 Aug 2021 18:00:04 +0000

Description:
The iOS 15 beta is great, but it still doesnt fix this decade-old bug that leaves me hanging in the worst way.

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Ive been really enjoying the iOS 15 public beta for weeks now, and the new features like Live Text and UX refinements like clustered notifications already make it a better experience than iOS 14. But week after week, new
beta update after new update, Ive made a nauseating discovery: iOS 15 isnt fixing a bug thats been in iOS for a decade.

Let me preface by saying this is not some experience-ruining glitch or phone-bricking calamity; this is an annoyance , a malformation so benign that its been kicked to the bottom of every priority list since it appeared, if
the iPhones devs noticed it at all.

What am I talking about? Okay, picture this: youre chatting away in the Messages app and you want to send a photo. You tap the action bar to open
your photos and tap the one you want to send, which then appears in your message draft window. You hit the send button, and the draft goes away. But the photo is not sent. You repeat the process open photo gallery, tap photo, hit send and still it isnt sent.

Has this happened to you? Perhaps, once? You cant remember?

That is the insidious genius of this bug, which Im convinced is sentient, to only wreak occasional havoc before going dormant. Its difficult to cause intentionally, and thus not reproducible. It remains off the radar.

But this glitch happens at the most inopportune times, leaving me embarrassingly on the hook: Ill smugly text friends You wont BELIEVE this!
and then gear up to send them a jaw-dropping photo or perfectly-timed meme, and then, I cant. The bug strikes! My friends laugh at my seeming ineptitude! I am undone! (Image credit: Future) Yes, okay, there's a fix. BUT.

Now, there is a fix of sorts just manually close the Messages app and open
it up again. Poof, the photos load and send as normal. But even that process can take precious seconds that eclipse the opportune window for sending a funny photo. I curse the bug, who has been clearly lying in wait, and lament all the laughs I failed to bring into this world.

Sometimes Ill go months without experiencing the bug, and Ill wonder did I imagine this whole thing? Have I ever actually not been able to send photos? Maybe Im misremembering to cover up for remembering too late that I had a perfect photo rebuttal in an argument, a visual lesprit descalier . Maybe my brain misfires and has invented a digital gremlin that has it out for me
every once in a great while.

But then it happens again, and I look like a doofus who cant figure out how
to send a simple photo. Again, this is far from a crippling flaw of iOS, and
I duly enjoy using it 99.99% of the time. I really dig iOS 15, and its new features are exciting.

Yet, I cant help but ask, humbly, for Apple to fix this one thing. It may be small, but Ive been seeing it seemingly since I got my iPhone 4 in 2010. As the saying goes, it isnt the mountain ahead that wears you out its the grain of sand in your shoe. Or the misfortune to have the perfect photo to send and no way to send it (for a few seconds). How to get iOS 15 public beta on your iPhone



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