As expected, iOS 14.1 has begun to roll out to iPhones over the past 24 hours, paving the way for the iPhone 12 release.
But does it fix the bugs that are plaguing users?
Must read: Parallels brings Windows to Chromebooks
The official release notes mention a lot of bugs, some really weird (like that Calculator bug).
There's also a new feature added that's essentially support for an iPhone 12 feature:
But that leaves a lot of bugs totally untouched. Battery bugs. Connectivity bugs. User interface lags and such.
My initial testing -- with the pre-release version and even pushing a few iPhones through a few recharge cycles over the past 24 hours -- suggest that battery life is, sadly, still an issue on this release.
iOS 14 quickly revealed itself as Apple's worse release to date. It's weirdly buggy, and I'm still coming across new and odd bugs (for example, the other day I noticed that the Camera app sometimes just wants to display a black screen).
There's also that annoying bug related to the Apple Watch and missing data and battery drain that requires users wipe their iPhones to fix. Sure, Apple's released information on how to do this, but any time you need to get users to wipe a device, and risk losing data, it's a massive fail.
Now that the iPhone 12 and iOS 14.1 release are out of the pipe, it's likely that Apple will go start swatting more bugs.
Want to install iOS 14.1? Head over to Settings > General > Software Update and kick the process off from there. It's quite a big update -- anywhere up to 500MB -- so make sure you have time on your hands to download and install it.