iOS 13, especially the first couple of versions, quickly gained a reputation
for being riddled with bugs and issues.
Bloomberg reports
<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-21/apple-ios-14-features-ch
anges-testing-after-ios-13-bugs> that Apple is changing the way it develops
internal builds of operating systems in an attempt to stop history from
repeating itself, with work on iOS 14 already using the new approach.
Bloomberg explains that up to now, Apple engineers would 'cram' features
into daily builds of iOS versions before they were fully tested. This meant
that using test devices on these internal versions became a nightmare, with
the system running so many different branches of components at different
levels of stability.
The publication explains that this made it nigh-impossible for Apple to
understand the actual state of its software.
With iOS 14, the plan is that all work-in-progress features for OS builds
are disabled by default and have to be enabled using a special configuration
menu. This should let Apple management keep tabs on the progress of their
new operating system releases and make the software more flexibly adaptable;
features that are not ready to ship can be more easily removed.
The new approach will also apply to iPadOS, watchOS, macOS, and tvOS
development. Apple expects iOS 14 to be a feature-packed release but is
apparently ready to delay some features until iOS 15 if it needs to.
Bloomberg says that Apple engineers started to realize iOS 13 was not up to
scratch ahead of the June WWDC conference. The report also says that
engineers effectively gave up on perfecting iOS 13.0 and instead focused
efforts on iOS 13.1.
By August, realizing that the initial iOS 13.0 set to ship with new iPhones
a few weeks later wouldn't hit quality standards, Apple engineers decided to
mostly abandon that work and focus on improving iOS 13.1, the first update.
Apple privately considered iOS 13.1 the "actual public release" with a
quality level matching iOS 12. The company expected only die-hard Apple fans
to load iOS 13.0 onto their phones.
Read the full report
<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-21/apple-ios-14-features-ch
anges-testing-after-ios-13-bugs> over at Bloomberg.
By Benjamin Mayo at:
www.9to5mac.com
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