Today, Apple quietly released iOS 13.1 and iPadOS 13.1, its implicit apologies for the buggy initial release of iOS 13. The firm originally scheduled the fixes for September 30, but bumped up the release to meet the ship date for the new 10.2-inch iPad. I’m sure that kind of thing has never bit anyone in the butt.
Apple’s iOS 13.1 introduces numerous bug and stability fixes, of course, but it also brings new features, including audio sharing over AirPods, ETA sharing in Apple Maps, improvements to Shortcuts, and a new enterprise feature called User Enrollment for BYOD users that partitions a device’s storage to separate personal and corporate data.
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Meanwhile, iPadOS 13.1 is the first public release of this “new” platform, so it appears that iPad users have escaped the quality issues that dogged iPhone upgraders this month. Basically, iPadOS is iOS with a desktop-class version of the Safari app and a minor change to the home screen that lets you display widgets next to icons. I’m sure the next version will be more impressive.
Feeling lucky? You can get the updates now over the air.
Thom77
<p>Xbox controller support is the only thing I'm even remotely excited about in IpadOS.</p><p><br></p><p>and by excited, I mean slightly interested.</p><p><br></p><p>NBA 2K20 and GRID might actually be playable now, although I've read that GRIDs gamepad controls are even way worse then the touch screen one.</p><p><br></p><p>But iPad needs more console, full games like Witcher 3, Skyrim, Pro Evolution Soccer, Full fledge Madden, etc</p><p><br></p><p>If they got these games ported, I would buy a iPad Pro tomorrow, maybe even the 12 inch one.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Oh … and still no real file system.</p>
wocowboy
Premium Member<p>It is a bit of a stretch to say that Apple needed to apologize for bugs in an OS release that was announced the same day as the original release came out. This is a FAR different situation than if some show-stopping bugs had been found in a software release and then Apple had to work overtime to come up with fixes it had no idea about. This is what happens when criticizing something is a requirement of your job and praise for putting out a software update while simultaneously telling customers that a more fully fleshed-out and bug-free release would be coming out 5 days later is simply not an option. I suppose the proper thing for Apple to have done is to not release iOS 13 at all and just wait till 13.1 was ready, but I would be any amount of money that there would have been criticism for Apple taking SO LONG to come out with 13.1 and being "late to the game". </p>
dontbeevil
<p>we're reaching a new low, now also comments that report security issues, are deleted, let's try again: </p><p>www.neowin.net/news/ios-13-is-apparently-revealing-credit-card-information-to-random-strangers</p>
dontbeevil
<p>one more news that probably will not see here, or maybe will be labeled as feature:</p><p><br></p><p>gizmodo.com/major-ios-exploit-could-pave-the-way-to-a-new-age-of-ja-1838530652</p>