I was a proud iPhone user. We did not have the latest features, or anything from the front lines of innovation, but…

What we had was the ease of use, stability, reliability, performance, long-term support, the ecosystem, and unified design across the OS and different hardware.

I always knew that I could count on my phone in every situation.

And all of that went to sh*t in the past 1-1.5 years.

I’m on the current latest IOS version and my camera app often crashes, then the Photos app can’t be opened for like 6 seconds. The whole phone just freezes up for 2 seconds sometimes randomly. It becomes hot for a bit for no reason, I have weird notification bugs, icons can freeze in landscape mode, airdrop file transfers are failing, etc…

My phone is a 12 mini, I bought it half a year after the release, but the phone is not old enough to expect any performance drops or any of these strange software issues.

Today I took my dog for a walk, she pooped a strange one and before picking it up I quickly took a picture in case I have to show it to the vet. And guess what? I didn’t check the result then because we were hurrying home. The camera crashed again, I don’t have the picture anymore.

At this point, these bugs and crashes affecting my life. The iPhone is not a reliable piece of tech that I could trust. It’s a buggy mess.

My girlfriend has the very same issues with the latest IOS on an iPhone Xs Max.

I was always laughing at people and my friends who were afraid of updating the OS to the latest. Well, that changes now… I’m waiting for a stable Major version and I only want the performance, stability, and security updates. If Apple can’t push out those features without compromising those core elements of the operating system then no thank you, I don’t want any of the new features.

How’s your phone doing if you upgraded to the latest version? I don’t think that this is an issue only for us.