Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator

Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by deckarep on Monday October 23, 2017 @11:28PM (#15538975)

Ugh, can also confirm this happens on my phone. This feels like more of UI event/timing issue than a logic issue.

Also, if this turns out to be a performance based bug that will be pretty frustrating considering Apple is always bragging about how they build the hardware, the software, have grand-central dispatch, have Metal and have multi-core custom built CPUs...yada, yada.

It’s not just that number sequence...it’s any rapid fire typing of numbers that cause these gross miscalculations.

Rollback the calculator app, if that doesn’t fix it...rollback the OS.

Yes I’m frustrated.

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by sogen on Monday October 23, 2017 @11:35PM (#15539005)

btw, has anyone has tried deleting a note in Reminders?

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by bowmessage on Monday October 23, 2017 @11:47PM (#15539058)

yes it's so broken and if you delete a selected event the app crashes.

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by nurettin on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @12:27AM (#15539219)

This (and more) happens on Windows 10 sticky notes. I wonder if they collaborated.

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by sogen on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @01:07AM (#15539358)

They must use the same GitHub repo...

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by OoooooooO on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @04:17AM (#15540020)

My W10 sticky notes never crashed and I edit them daily and create/delete new ones weekly.

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by prawn on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @01:04AM (#15539347)

I'm with you. Updated my 6+ and everything is tragically slow. 4-5 seconds just to get the Settings or Messages apps to open. Typing anything is unbearable - every time, the first word capitalises and then botches everything from then on. Basic functions within apps or opening the camera take so long as to render them near-useless.

I have switched off any animations and performance tweaks that I thought might help, but no luck.

If you have a 6, I'd recommend avoiding iOS 11 as much as you can.

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by ak39 on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @02:45AM (#15539706)

iPhone 6 Plus here. Can confirm exact same issues.

I ended up backing up everything and reinstalling from fresh. It's only just bearable now. Still noticeable 2s+ delays to open iMessage & and to get into Settings. Using the device for me has become completely joyless. In fact I have incipient resentment just looking at this p.o.s. It was once a great device. It's now hamstrung with bloat. I have stopped using it much now - I haven't yet installed Twitter & GMail or any of the many apps I had again. An entire 25 GB cache of Music library has yet to be re-installed. The phone sits almost the entire day unused. Battery life at end at night for a recharge? 80%!

If Apple doesn't fix these issues quickly and restore confidence in the already dwindling user base, they will suffer greatly at the hands of the Huawei's of the market. You don't need a fascist type of Jobs to get these types of issues fixed.

Come on Apple!

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by MaxBarraclough on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @06:58AM (#15540679)

Vageuly related: Menuet ships with a perfectly functional calculator

https://youtu.be/fpEwOXzYBi8?t=5m34s

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by sah2ed on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @01:43AM (#15539494)

I did some research and avoiding iOS 11 is exactly what I've done as there are too many unpleasant changes for me to want to upgrade yet. Besides, there are several apps I use that haven't put out updates to work with iOS 11.

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by skyisblue on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @03:17AM (#15539797)

Yes! Especially the new ios 11 podcast app. I use it regularly and the lag is getting extremely frustrating!

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by hedora on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @01:33AM (#15539459)

YEp. Thought it was me.

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by JSONwebtoken on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @01:10AM (#15539375)

1+ 23 = 24

7 + 89 = 96

4 + 56 = 60

The second "+" isn't registering because the animation tied to the operator buttons for some reason only blocks other non-numerical inputs for the duration of the animation.

I don't even own an iPhone or have experienced the bug, just guessing at the cause.

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by Udik on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @02:42AM (#15539696)

Or is it blocking the animated button? What about 1 + 1 + 1 ?

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by sogen on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @03:07AM (#15539768)

wow this one is even worse

I get 1+1+1=111

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by s_kilk on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @03:32AM (#15539861)

Its the end folks, Apple is officially dead.

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by tedunangst on Monday October 23, 2017 @11:42PM (#15539036)

The plus animation always takes the same amount of time to complete, so it shouldn't be surprising that every number sequence is affected.

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by sah2ed on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @02:00AM (#15539551)

I'm able to reproduce the bug on iOS 10.3.3 on an iPhone 6 so it appears the bug has existed before iOS 11.

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by kagamine on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @03:08AM (#15539772)

Just tried this on my iPhone 4 (yes 4!, iOS 7.?) and I get 4 when adding 1+2+3 quickly, and sometimes 10 or 11(!?).

Looks like this is a feature, not a bug, or else it would have been fixed sometime in the last 8 years! /s

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by ship_it on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @04:01AM (#15539958)

Is 4 your daily? I miss my 4S and I'd replace current 6S with it but if I could bring performances. Beautiful phone.

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by kagamine on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @07:59AM (#15540913)

I have a newer iPhone through work, so my 4 is only used for calls, sms and music. I'm keeping it until it dies and then moving away from Apple. What I really want is a true GNU/Linux phone.

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by grzm on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @01:59PM (#15543672)

Another datapoint: iPhone 4, iOS 9.3.5 does not exhibit the bug.

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by pilif on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @03:12AM (#15539781)

> iOS 11 must be the buggiest piece of s I've ever tried.

that might be true in general, but this calculator bug exists since iOS9 and only surfaced now.

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by aidos on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @04:07AM (#15539981)

I'm unable to reproduce it on my 6s on 10.3.3. It's so fast that I can run into the issue, but I'm almost certainly hitting the keys in the wrong sequence.

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by eric-hu on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @05:09AM (#15540248)

I'm on iOS 10.3 on an iPhone 6s. Calculator works fine for me. 1+2+3=6

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by likelynew on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @03:23AM (#15539820)

Source?

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by colejohnson66 on Monday October 23, 2017 @11:33PM (#15538992)

I got 24 sometimes and 6 the other times. Possibly a race condition?

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by heifer2822 on Monday October 23, 2017 @11:42PM (#15539033)

I think button touches aren't triggered until animations finish so if you do 1 + 2 + 3 real fast, the second "+" won't register.

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by deckarep on Monday October 23, 2017 @11:39PM (#15539020)

Hmmm it could be but who knows? Almost there entire eco-system is closed off so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I guess we’re at the mercy of an update so we can get back to calculating things with at least a few order of magnitudes of accuracy...

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by tedunangst on Monday October 23, 2017 @11:43PM (#15539043)

It's not hard to know what it is. Watch the screen. You can see the animation.

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by deckarep on Monday October 23, 2017 @11:47PM (#15539056)

The animation doesn’t mean anything. You should be able to have many animations happening in parallel and their completions should not block keyboard events from being handled...

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by systoll on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @12:41AM (#15539264)

keyboard events are fine — with a Bluetooth keyboard, you get the right answer no matter how fast you type.

The animation shouldn’t prevent the + button from being pressed again, but it does. That’s the bug.

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by TrickyRick on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @12:41AM (#15539267)

Or try typing it slower and you'll see that the result is correct

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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by Chyzwar on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @05:20PM (#15545334)

You type it the wrong way. Do not worry, Cook will explain how to type correctly.

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