As I write this the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Professional have each been round for somewhat greater than every week now. They have been largely well-reviewed by nearly everybody who’s been in a position to get their palms on one. However that is not to say that the lifetime of an iPhone 15 or iPhone 15 Professional proprietor has been all sunshine and unicorns. Removed from it.
We, after all, have the overheating state of affairs. That is an issue the place homeowners of Apple’s greatest iPhones really feel that their handsets are getting too scorching, making them uncomfortable to carry. Most assumed that was the fault of the super-fast new A17 Professional chip contained in the iPhone 15 Professional and iPhone 15 Professional Max however, it appears, that is extensive of the mark. We’ll come again to that later.
Now, we’re listening to about one other difficulty. This time homeowners of the brand new iPhones cannot get CarPlay to work. It is perhaps right down to cables, or it is perhaps right down to VPNs of all issues. No person can actually agree on what is going on on proper now, however there’s one factor we will certainly all agree on — being an early adopter generally is a nightmare.
Apple’s no stranger to launch issues
It appears that evidently each time Apple launches a brand new iPhone now we have issues like this. A few of them are critical, some not-so-serious. However irrespective of which finish of the spectrum these issues are, they run the chance of defining a whole mannequin. Is that going to occur once more?
There are two examples that instantly spring to thoughts.
The primary? The iPhone 4 and what everybody affectionately termed “antennagate.” It was a problem that brought on the iPhone to drop telephone calls when individuals unintentionally touched sure components of its antenna. It was a multitude, and Apple wound up giving everybody a free bumper case to cease their fleshy palms from inflicting chaos. In the long term, it was high-quality, however the iPhone 4 will ceaselessly be generally known as the iPhone that could not make telephone calls.
Subsequent up is the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, two telephones that have been so skinny you can actually bend them within the center. Folks discovered that simply placing the iPhone 6 into their again pocket and going about their day was sufficient to make it bend. Not nice, admittedly. And it additionally had a “gate” of its personal. “Bendgate,” after all.
There have been extra, after all. The iPhone 7 made a hissing sound. The iPhone XS did bizarre issues to individuals’s faces while you took their photographs. New iPhones and issues are nothing new.
The iPhone 15’s flip
With that in thoughts, it should not shock that many individuals that the iPhone 15 has an issue or two.
There’s the iPhone 15 Professional’s overheating difficulty which Apple now says is all down to a couple software program bugs — iOS 17 is doing issues it should not, one thing that’s little doubt compounded by a declare that some third-party apps are misbehaving as nicely. There’s speak of overloading the system, which sounds dangerous. Nevertheless it’ll get mounted in future software program updates and Instagram, one of many culprits, already has a brand new replace out that may assist.
The newest difficulty is CarPlay. Some iPhone 15 homeowners say that they’re struggling to search out new USB-A to USB-C cables that work correctly after they plug their new telephones into their automobiles. They cost high-quality, however MacRumors studies that really getting CarPlay to work is proving problematic. Anecdotally, I pulled a random USB-C to USB-A cable out of my drawer on iPhone launch day and it has been working high-quality since. Your mileage might range, car-related pun however.
Amazingly, a minimum of one individual says that the problem is said to their VPN. “If a VPN is activated when the automobile begins, the automobile won’t choose up CarPlay in any respect. If the VPN is disabled, CarPlay begins, then if I flip the VPN again on CarPlay crashes,” they are saying. All very doubtless true whereas additionally confirming the purpose that it is taken me virtually 700 phrases to get to — being an early adopter can suck.
It will all be alright. Ultimately.
To be clear, I do not see something with the iPhone 15 or iPhone 15 Professional that will not be mounted and forgotten in a couple of weeks. The CarPlay factor will both transform individuals utilizing cables that may’t deal with knowledge or some bizarre iOS 17 bug that will likely be mounted in a future launch. The iPhone 15 Professional overheating difficulty appears to be nicely on its technique to being mounted as nicely, regardless of the panic surrounding the assumption that Apple’s A17 Professional was the issue and would must be throttled.
All of those points may be mounted with software program and are a way wanting the {hardware} and design issues of the iPhone 4 and iPhone 6. And if all of us purchased our new iPhones in a couple of weeks as an alternative of on launch day, we would most likely by no means come throughout any of them. However we did not.
Why? As a result of regardless that being an early adopter may be arduous, and regardless that it means hitting the bugs earlier than Apple can repair them, we would not have it every other manner.
Roll on iPhone 16. I’m wondering what’ll be damaged come September 2024.