iOS 4.2 - got problems or bugs?
So Apple has released iOS 4.2 for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Apple TV and that means old problems and bugs get fixed and new problems and bugs emerge. Hey there's no such thing as perfect code.
We here at TiPb are going to be doing our best to track any iOS 4.2 bugs we come across and offer whatever solutions and workaround we find so if you've installed the latest software from Apple and come across anything we should know about drop it in a comment below or head on over to our forums and start troubleshooting with us!
Note:
- You need an AirPlay compatible device like AppleTV or Airport Extreme to get the AirPlay icon to show up
- The new SMS Text Tones are only on iPhone 4. If you have iPhone 3GS or earlier, no text tones for you.
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yea i got a problem! the find text feature is not working on my ipod touch.
No problems yet, just wishing the "Find My iPhone" feature worked with the 3GS! Anxious to try AirPrint when I get home...
I installed the iOS 4.2.1 GM a few days ago. For some reason, the auto brightness feature wouldn't work. I usually read on my iPhone at night and noticed that the screen was blinding me (which never happened on iOS 4.1). I reset all phone settings and that seemed to fix it.
I have heard that the new SMS tones are bot available on the 3GS. Is this true. Does the 3GS still get custom SMS tones for contacts? I am at work and haven't updated yet. Keeping my fingers crossed.
I also found that the iPod application said I had no music after updating, even though the "About" screen said I had 100's of songs. I just had to do a sync to fix it.
For some reason my sent SMS messages are making noise, even though I do not want them to. Come on Steve. This is not party-type stuff.
My ex girlfriend still calls my phone. We need an update.
@Joshua, you can block her with a JB app
I've got one.
The new text-only ringtones aren't there. I've re-synced, rebooted, and verified in several ways that the new update is otherwise installed. Baffling.
Ehm correction: Free Find My Phone DOES work on 3GS, I am using it right now!
@Sean: I have a 3GS. Maybe that's the problem.
My iPod app said it had no contact although iTunes on my PC showed it was fully synced. I had to sync again for them to appear.
@Farbod - I'm on the fence about jailbreaking the 4. I worry about it slowing it down like it did my 3rd gens. Yeah, I'd love to get the blacklist again. It was a handy little app
This is awesome. I love the new OS. I also found this on the app store: http://bit.ly/czhoY7
@Art: you have to sign up on an iPad, iPhone 4, or iPod Touch (4th gen) and then you can activate it on anyone of your other 4.2 devices.
Yea, terrible problem! I'm trying to update my iPad and it puts it into recovery mode only to be unable to update. Now, I can't get it out of Recovery Mode and it won't restore. What do I do?
Can we get an airprint walkthrough? I just can't figure out how to get it working. Windows specifically.
After the update the iPod app reckoned I had "No Content", but when i checked the settings, it clearly said that i still had music on the device. I had to plug it back in and do a sync to fix it. Must have messed with the library database. (and no, I dont seem to have the new ringtone / txt tones on my 3Gs, even thought some people seem to have them on the same model)
@Nick - You mean you wrote that app and you're comment spamming to advertise it. Weaksauce.
My problem was mentioned somewhere above in that opening iPod tells me no content on my iPhone yet usage stats show nearly 2000 songs! Weird. Will try a sync as suggested.
I've had 2 issues so far. 1. Said I didn't have any music until I synced again. Fixed. 2. I've gone through the email verification for mobileme/find my iphone and it has verified but the mobileme account on my phone won't realize that it's verified. I've deleted the account and added a number of times but nothing.
I tried to updated my Apple TV2, after if finish and reboot I saw iTunes icon and USB cable in the tv screen. Now the Apple tv is just blinking ( white light). I'm still waiting for apple to call me.
I downloaded iOS 4.2 and iTunes indicated all was synced. iPad indicates I have OS 4.2, but NOTHING IS DIFFERENT. The screens are identical to OS 3.2. I have nothing to indicate any of the new features. What's UP? Is there a trick to this? I have shut down and restarted twice, but there is nothing new on my iPad, except for a game center icon. iTunes says I have the newest system.
@Brent - it took me several times for it to go through on mine. I kinda figured it was a server capacity thing? Who knows. But after about 6 times it worked
@Leo, do you have a microUSB cable? If you do, just connect to computer and iTunes. If not, you need to take it to Apple Store.
@Mike, you have to upgrade (or shift+restore), not sync.
Does the current version of the iMac count as an Airplay device? I'm not quite sure if it has Airplay.
I installed on my iPod 4 and I do not have the AirPrint icon. Any idea?
no more visual voicemail for me...i hear im not alone...anyone else?
@Mike, this may be way off, but make sure you have iTunes 10.1.
I am having problems with smart playlists. They appear as empty on the iPad but iTunes shows them correctly. These playlists were working before I updated to 4.2.
Any ideas on how to fix these playlists? I already tried deleting and creating them again.
@Farbod, sorry forgot about that. Hope it works Mike.
i dont have visual voicemail and problems with mobileme
Same problem as Lewis. No solution yet.
Quick question.. Is it not possible to view video you've recorded from your iPhone (4) on your Apple TV? I can view pictures but no option for airplay on video.. Is this correct or am I missing something?
After installing iOS 4.2.1 on both my iPhone 4 and iPad, my photos which I synch with iphoto are no longer in alphabetical order, so the album names are all jumbled up!
For the people who have been thrown into Recovery Mode. Delete firmware from itunes library, and restart computer. Then try restoring device. Let me know if that works.
Just upgraded my wife's 3G, had 2 problems others are experiencing, no content in iPod, and no visual voicemail. Syncing with iTunes again fixed the missing music, and trying to go into visual voicemail a few times finally prompted me to enter the passcode, so both are working now.
Seems just as fast as 3.1.3 if not faster - I had downgraded back from 4.0 because it was SO STINKIN SLOW. Waiting to upgrade my 4 until jailbreak is available.
@mardin how do you get free mobileme to work on 3Gs without a 4 device?
@joshua I'm running 4.1 jailbroken on my iphone 4, only thing i'm running is LockInfo, and doesn't appear to be slow. It does however chew up a bit more battery. YMMV, good luck...
There is no 4.2.1 update for my iPad. Is this US only for today or what?
Does the upgrade change the baseband on iphone 4?? Or it remains the same
A F*****G disgrace This update is useless to anyone having a 3gs Why could we not at least have the new text alerts. This is disgusting i will never buy another iphone again Shame on you Apple
Still unbearably slow on 3G. Calendar still takes a ridiculously long time to display. Oh, and none of the new features work, not even the simple ones like find in a web page... Very disappointing.
I didn't have Visual Vm either just hit the icon let the message play and then exit. Then give it a minute and it will ask for your VM password and type it in then hit the voicemail icon again and it will show up
on iPad WiFi - the lock/unlock sounds are gone
There's something up with iBooks. Maybe it's not ios 4.2, but it was one of the 6 or 7 flag poles or tent spikes or whatever. It's now sluggish in the iphone 4 and ipad. On the iphone 4 it takes about 4 or 5 seconds to just change orientation. Changing orientation on the ipad is also slow, but not as slow- this with lesser hardware.
@sfditty iBooks is working fine on my iPhone 4 running 4.2.1
Did anyone notice after updating? Under Notifications "Carrier" option was there and then Disappeared?
I updated my iPad and it doesn't seem to have spell check anymore auto correct still works but it seems whenever in safari the spell check isn't on. I looked in settings but haven't seen any where to turn it on or off. Does anyone know what's up with that?
@Farbod thanks, I don't have one, but going to borrow one from my brother.
I finally got the update to work, but now all of my apps are gone and so is all application data. How can I fix this? My backups seem to be too recent.
Bricked both of our 4G iPod Touches... lost all of our music.
Lack of safari video airplay to apple tv is a huge disappointment for me. Nice to include audio but feels like half a feature.
For iPad and my iPhone 3GS (none jailbroken), music, videos, etc., are missing. There's a solution out there though: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/22/ios-42-bug/
Find my iphone is not working on my ipad (wi-fi) or iPod Touch (4th gen). The help section states that for both of my devices they must be connected to a wifi network, which they absolutely are, and that they must not be asleep, which they absolutely are not. When I try to locate them within the app, it says it cannot locate my devices. Any ideas??
Really like the folders and multitasking. Multitasking slows things down a little on the iPad. I noticed the mute switch (which I like since I don't have to readjust the volume level after muting) doesn't mute Pandora or the iPod app. I discovered the problem with iPod app after the mute didn't work on Pandora. I synced again and got rid of the message "cancelling sync" in the iPod app. Biggest disappointment is the Airprint doesn't work with my Brother wifi printer. I sure hope they fix that soon.
after update all music is gone in ipod app but all need to do is play a song on your iTunes with your device plugged in. happened on my iphone 3G,3Gs and some ipods
Just installed the new update 4.2.1 and haven't had no issues so far.
I just updated to iOS4.2 on my 3rd generation iPod and I have discovered a couple issues. 1. As posted above many times, all my music was gone until I resync'd the device. 2. I can not access the Mail, Contacts, Calendars section in Settings. I click it and it just sits there like its frozen and will not enter into the settings.
Sometimes... It's just not worth updating!
What a waste of electrons. Thanks for nothing, Apple.
Signed,
An increasingly-disgruntled 3Gs owner
I also found when trying to air play tv shows to the apple tv I don't get any audio although movies work just fine, I've tried turning both off and it still doesn't fix it
I saw that the update was to include the "Facetime" option while in an SMS.. mine doesn't have that option. Has anyone else had this problem?
Works like a charm.
After updating my iPhone 4 to 4.2 the iPod app showed that I didn't have any music. I tried syncing iTunes again, but no luck. Had to do a reset of the phone for my music/videos to show up. Also noticed that the message sound for Facebook has a different sound. Not sure if it's 4.2 related but I noticed it was different. Speaking of sounds, I can't stand the new text tones that Apple has put in 4.2. The only one I found useful besides the "electronic" sound I used to use is "telegraph." All of the other ones are way to long to even be considered a text tone. Now if Apple makes these new tones ringtone-eligible, then I might be sold.
When using airplay and I turn on the microwave, it completely cuts out.
I dont have compatible printer for Airprint to work, even though it is a new HP wireless printer. Other than that, what else did the update do?
Don't get all the problems? I updated my phone and, first thing I did was check my music and that was fine and then just random things. Everything seems fine but I did notice when I went to take airplane mode off (I turn it on so nothing interferes with update) and I noticed under notifications a Carrier option was there but then disappeared? I'll be messing around with my iPhone 4 more and comment if I find anything but my HP ENVY 14 Beats Edition has just came in, so I might not be messing around with phone very much tonight.
My 3G still wants iOS 3.x back, cause 4.2 velocity doesn't bring any improvement as Apple publish....
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Videos will not airplay from photo album. So you will have transfer the video to your video folder then back to your iPhone for sync. I tried what tipb said by double clicking the home button and accessing the airplay icon. I see my apple tv but will not switch to it. U can only play videos from your iPod application.
What a dissapointment apple !!!! That was the main reason I bought apple tv. So I could record my daughter and instantly stream it on tv. Now I have to sinc to iTunes first.
The manual for release 4.2.1 page 121. Does not say anything about video playback from photo album. You would need a cable. No thanks.
I'm not happy with this result.
I didn't realize that my Epson printer had to be AirPrint compatible. Hopefully Epson realeases a new driver for this soon. Update worked with no problems.
Mute switch doesn't work -the icon flashes up on screen to say the speaker is muted but sound still heard! Doesn't work at all.
Podcast broken, I have downloaded a few podcast and they never show up in my iPod. This is very annoying.
So can we print to a printer that's on the same network as my iPhone? Or does it need to be the HP compatible printer?
Some bugs that were reported in the comments of a German blog: - Photo events aren't sorted according to the iTunes setting anymore, but completely mixed up. - In the German keyboard layout, there are no more special characters when pressing and holding the "E" button anymore (like é). The special characters on the other keys ("O" for example) are still there as usual. - Some people STILL (!) have proximity sensor issues. - AirPlay can only stream to one single speaker at a time. - And of course the "Find my iPhone" feature only being offered on 2010 devices is widely considered a bug
Tried to upgrade iPad but it bricked. Forced to do a restore of 3.2 but when it cam back up, no apps, music etc. Upgrading first of 2 iPhone 4.1's now...almost 2 hours into process and bar is to halfway point on apple logo. Took over 2 hours for iPad to come back in a shadow of its former self. Afraid iPhones will do the same. Anyone else taking HOURS to complete?
I cannot update. Weirdly, when I click Update, it just tells me that iTunes is up to date. Itunes does recognize that an ios update is available, but the Update button no funciona.
3GS, 4.1, iTunes 9.2.1, OS X 10.4 Tiger.
Not broken up about this at the moment.
Phones is working great with update, Sorry you guys/gals are having problems. I would be heated if I bricked one of my devices by just updating. That stinks
but the good thing is that the train horn Choo Choo is pretty cool for text message. I forgot I put it on and wasn't paying attention and got a text and nearly had a heart attack, lol. Its awesome! Thank You TiPB for the guide to get locate me phone. How awesome is that. Just set it up on phone and then login to mobileme.com and BAM! Finds your phone in a second and then you can have a message pop up or lock it and even clear out the whole phone, Kudos!!!! I'm Pretty sure the Voice Memo icon has changed as well?
BEWARE !! Users complaining music data not visible after the upgrade. but fix is there. http://techshrimp.com/2010/11/23/ios-4-2-upgrade-made-your-valuable-music-gone-you-can-fix-it/
Just downloaded 4.2 for my 3GS but no text tunes y where r they ??
@Anthony, hate to be the one to tell you but...... they did use guys (3G/3GS) wrong. Text tones are only for the iPhone 4. Sorry man
Photos in portrait format streamed via AirPlay to an AppleTV2 are displayed rotated when streamed from a 3GS. Works fine from an iPhone 4.
ONLY 5 HP PRINTERS ARE COMPATIABLE WITH AirPrint!!!'
Voice Memo icon has changed as well. Free Find My Phone is free and awesome. TiPb Guide to setting it up. http://www.tipb.com/2010/11/22/set-free-find-iphone-account/
@Farbod - I already had upgraded, but ended up doing a full restore and now 4.2 works. @Glenn - Yes, I already had iTunes 10.1, so I don't know what happened All works now except AirPrint. Can't seem to find two different printers on the WiFi network. Not sure how to make that happen.
nothing works at all.. iphone 4 wont even update been trying since 12 oclock. ipad is updated but find my iphone wont work it says cannot use this apple id. airplay and airprint is a complete chaos i don't even want to talk about that.
The update bricked my iPad. I'm now going through the grueling process of a restore. It's already tried twice and about 15 mins into it, I get a error message! I'm sure I'm in for an all-nighter reloading music, books, etc.!
hello. in order to have a fully functional idevice (iphone, ipad or itouch) do a restore, not an update. to clarify things a little bit: when you see in itunes that you have a new software update for your device, press the ''download only'' button. after the download is complete, use de shift+restore button and find the downloaded update. or you can download from some mirrors posted on different websites. and that will assure you that you will have a fully functional updated idevice. also it is better if, after the update/restore is complete, to set your device as new, and not to back it up from an older backup and especially not if the backup was made on an older software version because can appear some problems, as some of you have reported. i've done my updates using the shift+restore and set as new iphone (or ipad or itouch) and all the thing went well. nu problems, no bugs, no headaches. trust me, the device will be as new - faster and with no problems. it is true that is much simpler to hit update button and than restore from an old backup, but is safer with shift+restore. peace
oh, and i've forgot something VERY important. do not do the updates using a usb switch or something like that. plug the usb cable directly to your usb port of your pc. it will do faster backup, faster os installation and faster sync.
Album Art gets all screwed up when buying music from iTunes.
Seriously who tests all these Betas & GMs for Apple b/c they really suck at picking up new bugs & issues with the OS. Just saying.
Sounds like apple yet again screwed things up. But of course the steve job worshipers will find some excuse for all the issues. Like magical improvements in the next version.
What the heck happened to the voicemail???
My 3GS didn't show a music play list until I selected "fill up free space with songs" and did a re-sync. The songs were there the whole time but didn't show up until the re-sync.
@darwinfin: Try "re-doing" it again. Had the same situation too. I tried to verify it again & again. But I learned to go back to the beginning of everything where it asks for your Apple ID & password, then it will give you the option to turn on your Fin my iPhone or not.
@Ann.... My First PROBLEM! NoOoOoOoOo!!!!! WHY, oh lord? WhaaaNnNn!!!! My voice mail is back to the old way. NoOoOoOo, I want my easy and conveit voice mail back. Oh.... wait? Nope, just ask me for my password and back to normal. Ugh, lord answered back fast on that
U should do this..... I don't know if it matters or not but when I plug my phone into my computer. No matter if its for a update or if i'm just plugging it in. I turn it on airplane mode so that a text/call/email doesn't interrupted it. Just saying.
No issues with the upgrade, which went without a hitch. But I should probably call it an "upgrade", because for a 3G owner, the sum total of the "improvements" seems to be that I can finally get rid of Marker Felt. Big whoop. No AirPlay, no AirPrint (!!!), no text tones, no find text in Safari (!!!!), really not much of anything. Not sure what the 3GS people are getting, but if you're on the 3G and running 4.1 already, there's hardly any point in getting this update.
Why would you release airprint if it only works with 11 printers (HP)? A post from PC Magazine notes that six more HP models, including Officejets, will be available after Dec. 27, and that Apple will support other manufacturers "down the road." Apple did not immediately respond to questions about which manufacturers would be supported, or when. Things that make you go hmmm.
Have an older HD TV (no HDMI input) and have used HDMI:DVI cable to connect my ATV2. Unfortunately, after the ATV2 software upgrade the it will only display at 480 resolution. It worked just fine and displayed at 720 perfectly prior to the upgrade, now it does not. Have seen forums where people have had the same issue both with an HDMI:HDMI connection and my own situation with an HDMI:DVI connection. Seriously want to downgrade back to 4.0 until this is resolved.
Installed update to iPad and Touch 4 with incident. US Bank mobile wallet nor Mobile Banking will start on either device.