All the problems and bugs of the new iPhone 14 in Russia and around the world

I found a couple of users who complained that the iPhone stopped charging after switching to iOS 16. You need to restart the smartphone several times for the charging to go.

This is probably an isolated case, but one user complained that they simply couldn’t set up a new iPhone. The screen didn’t respond, reboots didn’t help, I had to go to the Apple Store to change it. It’s good that the Apple Store is close at hand, right? However, there is a more general problem. Users cannot transfer their data from an old smartphone. Apple has acknowledged that such a flaw exists and they promise to fix it. Meanwhile, users spend 8-10 hours waiting for their data to be copied to a new smartphone.

Apparently, switching to a new user interface, which includes the so-called Dynamic Island, is not an easy task. There are a lot of problems for users here. But, frankly, I can’t turn the tongues with Apple. Dynamic Island is literally translated as “dynamic island”. Dynamics is movement, so it’s not even clear why users are outraged that the island jumps around the screen, changes size, doesn’t close, and doesn’t open. In my opinion, one should be indignant if “the island” did nothing of the kind and were static.

But the island is stuck on the music player.

And another example of island dynamics. Because a small island is boring!

For some, the island freezes after Face ID works. However, this is still normal. For others, Face ID simply stops working and the smartphone doesn’t allow you to enter a password for manual entry.

Some users have problems with something as simple as a calling app. It blocks and does not allow you to dial the number. This, perhaps, is what can be called epic fail. Another bug: the iPhone randomly displays recent calls, even showing numbers and contacts that the user did not call. Also, some users complain that they have started to lose calls. That is, the smartphone is silent and then at some point it signals that the user has missed many calls at the same time.

Speaking of calling, we can add that FaceTime and iMessage have stopped working for many. That is, the calls do not go through and the messages are not delivered.

Quite often there is a problem with widgets disappearing. Found more than one complaint on this topic.

Another basic problem: the iPhone has forgotten how to flip images depending on their position in space.

More information on the interface: layering elements. Regular restart helps. If it had happened 5 years ago, he would say: “Welcome to the world of Android!”

Another iPhone user regularly changes the font color on the home screen from white to black. Apparently the iPhone can’t decide which color reads best.

And here’s another basic bug well known to Android users. The keyboard comes out on the wrong side and runs away from the user. There are also many bugs when the keyboard doesn’t appear at all or doesn’t want to change the input language.

A very funny bug happened to one of the users in the maps. For some reason, Apple’s maps on its iPhone regularly trace routes where there is no way. Here Apple Maps somehow reminds me of Yandex maps. These too have recently led me along such a path that I thought I’d sit on my stomach and have to call a tow truck.

However, this is nonsense. For another user, the iPhone is generally lost in space, and on maps it does not indicate the current position, but a point 200-300 kilometers away. The Apple Store did not help, so apparently they will replace this iPhone 14 Pro Max. Although perhaps it is not Apple’s fault, but the machinations of the Chinese.

Funny bug – or maybe it’s a feature? When you switch to Reachability mode, your smartphone is simply locked. I think it is a feature. The smartphone understands that it is now inconvenient for the user to work with two hands, which means it is not safe around. Perhaps the user is driving or in a crowd where it is easy to drop the smartphone. Therefore, it is blocked.

Problems and Siri affected. The assistant stopped finding installed applications. Reboots help. Siri can also search for something in the settings for a long time. This problem is also known to Samsung users. If you have a Samsung, try to open “Settings” and write something. For example, the brightness. The smartphone will take a few seconds to find it.

And here, for comparison, how it works on Xiaomi. I only managed to enter the first two letters and the smartphone found everything.

With iOS 16, not all apps still work properly. So, for example, in Snapchat, users are faced with camera shakes and pops.

Another fairly common camera problem is that the iPhone can’t decide which lens to shoot with. People complain that the photos come out in disgusting quality.

A number of non-US users have complained that their iPhone with two physical SIM cards has bugs: smartphone gets confused with which SIM card to use, resets settings, ignores user’s choice when making calls, decides by yourself which SIM card to call from.

Of course, these are only the most obvious problems. Users along the way encounter various problems in the shell: iPhone does not work as a remote control for Apple TV, applications often crash or reset.

I also ran into huge complaints that Apple Pay has stopped working for residents of a certain country and users are forced to put bank cards under the case.

Additionally, there has recently been a growing number of complaints that even through Beeline, the Apple account can no longer be replenished and iCloud remains unpaid. For this reason, it is also impossible to pay for applications and subscriptions.

Another complaint, also typical of Russia, is the absence of a series of banking applications and the social network VKontakte in the App Store. Strange inconvenience. From time to time, applications appear, but then quickly disappear from the store. But this is probably not a bug, but a feature, since Apple claims it is doing everything right.

Finally, there is another problem characteristic of Russia (but what’s wrong with this country ?!). On all iPhone 14, Beeline and MTS do not have VoLTE and VoWiFi. As Beeline support responded, VoWiFi requires not only operator technology, but also device manufacturer support and Apple’s closed access. On the 13th generation, apparently, it still works. Also, MTS users complain that FaceTime and iMessage don’t work for them.

Conclusion

There are surprisingly many problems. They are chaotic and varied like never before. It looks like Apple screwed it up. In all honesty, we have to admit that the company is actively working. And it’s already launching iOS 16.0.3, promising along the way that by 16.1 everything will be perfect.

In this situation, the most interesting thing is: what went wrong? Let’s be honest, the iPhone 13 to iPhone 14 upgrade is minor overall. And in iOS 16, there’s nothing radically new. Here Apple follows the path of Android (or vice versa?) And offers several options for customizing the interface, in other words leads to a marathon.

That is, we have, in fact, old iPhones, no global innovation in the new version of iOS, and there are so many jambs that, in my opinion, even Windows 11 programmers could envy.

From the latest news, we can recall that in August Apple fired a hundred recruiters who had remained inactive and worked with the company on a contractual basis (i.e., in fact, they did not fire, but simply did not renew their contracts). It can be assumed that such recruiters were responsible for taking low-profile positions as an army of testers. And these are the consequences of such a decision.

The only thing they like is that it seems that all the problems with new iPhones lie solely in the software plan. So, sooner or later they will be healed. And you can be glad that there are no problems either in the hardware or in the production part: all the screens are well glued, the screens seem to be no longer scratched immediately, and the connection reception works with confidence, no matter how you take a smartphone.

And if the situation with the iPhone in the world improves, for Russia the iPhone, it seems, is completely dead.

Judge for yourself: there is no Apple Pay, problems with account replenishment, the absence of a number of important applications (there are not many banking applications, and VK is the leading social network in Russia, which everyone needs from time to time), VoWiFi and VoLTE don’t work on new devices, and FaceTime and iMessage no longer work for some users on new iPhones.

Unfortunately, the iPhone turns into a very expensive calculator and a good camera. So iPhone users can be advised to get an Android smartphone as well.