iOS 17.1.1 Issues on iPhone

Apple engineers ruined my phone as well! All sounds are now gone from, texts, to VM to mail and various app alerts! I spent over an hour with a senior apple adviser yesterday and his solution was "to wipe the phone clean and install new software from itunes." Unfortunately, itunes on my pc keeps coming up with error messages and my wife's macbook pro now says the files it downloaded is corrupt! you got to hate apple these days, especially after they intetionally slowed down older model phones so we'd upgrade! What a terrible company!

Yes mcivera, I updated to 17.1.2 a few days ago. Immediatly after the update, the battery began draining at a rapid clip, approximately 1% every 5 or 6 minutes, which means a full charge on my iPhone 13 Pro now goes from 100% to zero in approximately 10 hours. This is 2.5 times faster drain than normal.

None of the other issues I was experiencing after the 17.1.1 update were resolved. (My issues mainly revolve around volume and notifications.) It's my understanding that the 17.1.2 update was not a fix for the 17.1.1 issues, but it was rather a security update for a vulnerability that had been discovered.

After 2 calls to “Senior Advisor's” the only suggestion they had was to restore my phone back to factory settings. Well I just spent an hour doing it and still no alerts or sounds. I called apple again and the senior advisor I spoke to this time said I had to bring the phone in for repair. After some insulting words by me, she offered to replace the phone, but forgot to mention the $30 charge! So not only did apple screw up my perfectly working phone, but now they want me to pay to get another working phone. This whole scenario reeks of apples last boondoggle of slowing down older model phones to force people into newer models!

The alarm sound is not what I had chosen. I have tried over and over again to shut off my phone to see if that would help. Have deleted all my alarms, and tried to reinstall them with the tones I want but no success.

I have been late to work twice since this update because my pre set alarms for certain days DONT WORK. They’ve been working fine for the last two years. Also when I go to check the time during the night I don’t need the bloody calander coming up or some GIANT clock that burns into my eyeballs for the next 5 minutes. Worst update ever. There were no “underlying” problems here either.

Agnesvontrapp wrote:

Also when I go to check the time during the night I don’t need the bloody calander coming up or some GIANT clock that burns into my eyeballs for the next 5 minutes.

You can turn Standby mode off if you don't like it. Settings>Standby>Standby>Off. If you want to keep it on but not have it so bright, go to Settings>Standby>Display>Night Mode and turn it own. The clock will shift to a dim red. I find this a nice compromise as the numbers are large enough to see clearly without glasses but not so bright as to be annoying.

Just adding to the general consensus here that there is something very wrong with iOS 17. I have a brand new iPhone 15 (actually, I am on my third one, specifically because I keep encountering issues that so far have not been resolved). My main complaint is that the audio quality on phone calls is terrible -- it's just totally distorting what the other person sounds like. My guess is that some "voice isolation" function is running not just once, but 2 or 5 or 10 times, resulting in the sound sounding like a "copy of a copy of a copy." Many others have noted this, but I just have to make the same point: why is Apple spending so much development and marketing effort on adding 10 more cameras and ability to shoot 3D video or whatever, and not making sure that the iPhone can function as a phone? I have reported this issue to Apple multiple times via their feedback/bug fix form, to no avail.

Another issue I've had: normally, when my alarm goes off in the morning, I tap it to snooze it for a bit, or swipe left to clear it and get up. Now, when I swipe left, the alarm just . . . snoozes for a bit and then goes off again. This is not a user-error/drowsiness issue; I've tested it while very much awake and specifically looking for this issue. This is tons of fun when I have swiped to clear the alarm and then it goes off while I am in the shower. Great work, everyone.

The os 17.1.2 update caused the ringer to function at half the normal volume. No setting corrects this. The phone is acting sluggish, unresponsive as well. Apple you need an update NOW, to correct the bugs that 17 created.

I just realized that it turned off all sounds and notifications for my Ring. What's the point of having Ring if Apple is going to disable the notifications? I updated 17.1.2 and still have that weird sad little blip sound for most notifications that I can't control, like Insta and other Socials.

After the mess created by 17.1.1, I turned off automatic updates on both phone and ipad. My phone is not plugged into power overnight, but my ipad is. This morning, the sound I’ve used for years for my timer had been reset to default on my ipad. I had to restart my ipad yesterday after it froze on a regularly used website, but that’s never changed settings in the past. Is this the new “normal” or is Apple accessing devices and making changes even if you’ve disabled auto updates?

My iphone 12 worked perfectly before the upgrade, no problems. Now I have issues w/ slow connectivity or sometimes none at all, dropped phone calls, inability to pair items, or they disconnect on their own. I can see if I had one issue, that it may not be 17.1.1's fault, but the fact that there are several that all started right after the upgrade is telling. I have tried all recommended fixes for the above issues to no avail.

I am having constant issues with this update. My WiFi needs toggled on and off to solve connectivity issues. I never had to do this before.

app permissions are broken. Google maps, Apple Maps, Apple News, etc all have trouble saving my permissions for location access to always. Widgets between my phone and watch break due to permission issues.

v17 has drastically reduced the functionality of my iPhone 13 Pro Max.

You hit the nail on the head by using the word “typically” in your first sentence. Obviously this update is not typical. It has caused a lot of frustration for a lot of iPhone users! We are all stuck waiting for someone to fix this. I’ll never use automatic updates ever again. That’s for sure.

This update is the worst for all my music listening needs. In all my cars now the music is so low that I almost have to max out the cars volumes and it sounds distorted, prior I had amazing sound and having a lot of music content on my phone THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE. My music in my cars are extremely important and I’m not a happy person. I am almost ready to leave apple for this reason, never thought I would say that being a loyal apple customer with many products, huge huge let down and ****** off as well

I’ve had Bluetooth connectivity issues since 17.1.1. My AirPods and Bluetooth speakers randomly disconnect or go in and out. It’s super annoying size I use my AirPods throughout the day.

I took my phone to the Apple Store, all they said the could do was reset my phone. And when I say reset, they wanted to delete all my apps and setting and start fresh. The only thing I could keep were my calls, messages, and photos. I have my phone super customized to my liking so starting over is not something I want to do.

I know it was the update that messed everything up. I was hoping 17.1.2 would help, but it didn’t.

Apple please fix it!!!!!