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Possible Problems with MacOS and iOS 26.3.1

Mike

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I updated my MacBook Pro, my wife's iPad, and two iPhones to the latest MacOS and iOS 26.3.1 yesterday morning. I did not update my MacMini, which I am using now, and it is still using Tahoe 26.3. All of the updated devices experience random WiFi drops and cannot access certain websites.

The updated devices cannot access quite a few websites, such as TWH2 and the Festool Owners Group, but can access UKW and YouTube. Also, my default browser, DuckDuckGo, will not load on the devices with the latest update, but Google will load with no problems. I don't have any of these issues with the MacMini using the same WiFi connection.

It's possible that the problems are just with my devices, but I am curious if anyone else using the latest version is having unexpected problems.
 
Mike said:
I updated my MacBook Pro, my wife's iPad, and two iPhones to the latest MacOS and iOS 26.3.1 yesterday morning.
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You did what ? 🤔


I still have the scars. Just one please….just one..at a time. Not in one or even two days.
I have the scars
 
My MacMini is using the latest version and so far no issues accessing any forums (10of).Don't usually use ducky but just tried it and it works. iPhone is running 18.7.6(22H320) and it is fine. It updated yesterday I think.

Pete
 
The mystery is solved, and it was my Telekom router. I cycled the power on the router and now everything works as it should. I have no idea why the 26.3 version equipment worked and the 26.3.1 equipment didn't. I'll still hold off updating the MiniMac.
 
I allowed the "upgrade" on my wife's church's brand new iPad*, last Friday night:

Now, a long press of the on-off button will NOT offer the option to shutdown/reboot the device. I had to go way down into the mess that passes for a setup menu to find a "shutdown" option.

It's staggering incompetence and lack of regression testing, but that's only what we've recently (last 20 years or so) come to expect. Thankfully, Apple doesn't sell driverless vehicles (so far!).

My better half has also been complaining about issues with the clip-on keyboard for her own iPad, too (Apple approved, but 3rd-party). I can't diagnose that one yet, as she's out of the country presently, but I'm certain great joy awaits, as the timing is oddly consistent.

Watch this space, unless, of course you are using a recently "upgraded" iPad, in which case all bets are off.

E.

PS: By the way, I worked for a Fortune 50 tech company, for most of the 1990s, into the millennium. Our division made computer peripheral hardware, and was very profitable. If we had released firmware, repeatedly, with the buggy behaviour that one sees in iPhones, etc., I have no doubt our General Manager, and a chunk of R&D would have been sacked, on the grounds of long term customer dissatisfaction and reputational damage caused (irrespective of short term profit).

I have an iPhone, because the entire rest of the close family has them, and stupidly I thought it would make comms easier. It's been a dreadful experience, and I don't want another one, ever.

*it provides the display for their Roland digital audio mixer, and it's a technology lock-in - only an iPad will do! It was bought in early December last year.
 
I’ve been having a few WiFi problems recently and it got to the stage yesterday that I started investigating a new router (since perhaps one of the BT mesh units was having problems). I re-ran the setup on the unit in the workshed yesterday and maybe that’s fixed it. It got moved lower down right next to a magnet by person or persons unknown instead of staying in its original position hanging on the wall! I think I’ll hold off on any purchases and see if it stabilises.
 
I read that an Iranian drone attacked an Amazon Web Services unit the other day
Around the same time both the fire tablet and the fire tv stick went on the blink
Bit of a co coincidence?
 
Thanks for the heads up. Will proceed with caution as I am increasingly using the iPad rather than the Mini these days.
I also have an ISP provided router which I have long suspected is responsible for unreliable internet access .

As an aside I never upgrade anything when first advised of new OS versions. Will always wait at least a month with occasional visits to various support forums to ascertain what problems have been reported.
 
Eric the Viking said:
I allowed the "upgrade" on my wife's church's brand new iPad*, last Friday night:

Now, a long press of the on-off button will NOT offer the option to shutdown/reboot the device. I had to go way down into the mess that passes for a setup menu to find a "shutdown" option.
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My wife has the 13-inch iPad Air and there are two ways that I know of to shut it down. One is through the Settings > General menu option you mentioned. The other is to press and hold the top button and the volume down button simultaneously. The shut down slider will appear at the top of the screen for a normal shutdown.
 
I didn't try that, although I shall when I recover the tablet later today or tomorrow.

But I still don't understand why there has to be inconsistency, both between different generations of ipads and my iPhone. They all have three buttons, one of which is supposed to be on/off, and functions that way on the 'phone.

Apple seems to take perverse delight in breaking things that don't need fixing.
 
Eric the Viking said:
Apple seems to take perverse delight in breaking things that don't need fixing.
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That sums them up in a nutshell, donnit?

That, and rewriting "upgrades" to specifically exclude any iProud device older than 5 years, it seems.
My (glazed).P.C. is over 10 years old, seen off three (or four) of Gates's reinventions of essentially the same G.U.I., and only now with 11 is it finally lacking hardware to cope.
Mind you, I do hear there is a security bolt-on to suit. Apparently, to initialize, you have to strip naked,while holding down cntrl f7, and standing on one leg and chanting verse 35 of the Ancient Mariner....backwards.

Or, you pay a tenner to any teenager of your acquaintance, to fiddle it right in two minutes. "Workaround" apparently. Might do that. Don't trust cntrl f7.
 
Eric the Viking said:
Have to say, I've been a linux user for around fifteen years or so. I don't miss Windows at all.
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The thread topic and most of the responses have revolved around Apple products and systems. It happens to us now and then but we ain't no bunch of Windows users. 🤬 ;)

Pete
 
The first thing I do with any system is turn off auto updates and I wait for some time before allowing any and often that isn't until the next after that appears. It's surprising how often another "update" appears presumably to fix the bugs in the one they've just issued.

My IPhone has been shouting me for what seems weeks to download 26.3.1 and it can shout for a while longer.
 
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