iOS 8.3 bluetooth bug...ugh!!!

firemediclex wrote:

...this is an Apple error. Apple has also confirmed this.

Where was that confirmation?

By the way, my BT is working just fine with 8.3.

That's still not a direct confirmation from Apple.

BTW, downgrading isn't possible.

-Ethan

Don't you wish you had followed this advice? But I'm guessing you will in the future.

LOL, always a good idea on any upgradeable device if you are using a vertical app that doesn't have a high percentage of users to use caution before upgrading. Best idea is to contact your GPS manufacturer when an update is released and ask them.

And I thought Apple was better than MS at this sort of thing. Very disappointed and now regret having relatively recently come over to Apple. Two iPads and two iPhones and now I find Apple is prepared for me to sit on the ground and not fly while they wonder why their testing process is rubbish. Not good enough by a long way. I fly with two iPads and an iPhone and the Dual XGPS160. The Dual GPS is super accurate picking up both GPS and GLONASS. Buy for the iphone, I could have been in real trouble.

and why can't Apple communicate the issue to their customers, apologise for ithe inconvenience and give us a timeframe for rectification?

wish I'd never come over to the dark side.

How many pilots do you think they have that are using iPhones and iPads with GPS devices. Perhaps you should send feedback to Apple and volunteer to do the testing.

There is absolutely nothing stopping you from going back to Microsoft and getting a Windows phone and a Surface. Bye.

True, nothing except the thousands of dollars wasted on two iPhones and two iPads.

Users of aviation software on iOS would not rank in the millions playing mindless games on their iOS equipment but it would be in at least the tens of thousands and their use has more to do with stayin' alive than killing some eVillain. I would love to send some feedback to Apple but they have demonstrated already how little they care about their customers so I might as well be sending it to Bill Gates. All I can do now is express my regret for having gone back to Apple and hope that others look a bit harder at the reality of Apple as opposed to the mythology that may have been alive when Jobs was still with us.

but thanks for the politeinvitation to bugger off.

Would be interesting to know the sales numbers for bad elf and the others. As far as pilots I doubt that it is in the tens of thousands more like thousands. And how many of those pilots have the WiFi+Cellular model and don't use an external GPS?

Do you really think Apple intended to do this? How did they "demonstrate" how little they care for their customers? How many times with Apple devices has this happened to you now? How many times with MS?

Bill Gates is retired and Apple does pay attention to their feedback. Go here: https://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html Volunteer. I'm actually surprised that Bad Elf and the others aren't developers with Apple and had access to the Beta's of 8.3. They would have discovered this before 8.3 was released. I have one app that was affected but they upgraded the same time as the release of 8.3 so the "outage" was short lived.

Actually, not only is downgrading possible, it's not all that hard. Read my post from 18 April on how to do it in this thread.

I have the WiFi+Cellular iPad Air, but use the external GPS (a XGPS170 with ADS-B In) because the internal GPS coverage is spotty in the cockpit, whereas the external GPS sits on the glare shield and has a great view of the sky.

I downgraded my iPad to 8.2 yesterday but I haven't tried my external GPS yet since it's in my boat. Will try it this weekend. Downgrading was easy but the iPad didn't worked perfect so I did a complete reset and after that it feels great.