my journey to IOS 18.0.1

The experience I’m about to share is only my own. I invite yours, and we’ll see how that goes.

On this past week’s TSB, we talked about the idea of upgrading software and why it was a good idea to do so.

I’m not saying for one minute in this blog post that upgrading is going to be a perfect experience, because with IOS 18’s initial release there were issues that even could have impacted the community I may serve.

So while I was posting the podcast yesterday, I told my phone to upgrade to 18.0.1 so that I may be as up to date as possible. Yes, i was running 17.7, but we know that 17.x could be not getting updates at any time at apple’s discretion.

While I was upgrading, I scheduled this blog post and also did a little bit of other stuff too.

When my phone was done, I noticed that it was stuttering quite a bit, and I figured a reboot was also needed. I did this even though the phone had already done it as part of the upgrade process.

Well, this didn’t fix it, as the voice I was using, (Siri 1) basicly turned in to a static machine which couldn’t be used.

My phone became hot, and it was unusable.

Figuring I should change voices, I selected a few, but nothing I’m really liking because of my slight hearing impairment in both ears.

While I use Eloquence on the PC with Jaws, the phone doesn’t really have the volume I may need. I tried other voices with little success.

Herbie Allen, someone I’ve known for many years finally responded to my message from the morning, and said I aught to remove the voice and put it back.

I did this, and it worked for a little while, then became its staticky self again. I sent this to Herbie while recoring a voice message and he will be looking in to this for me.

This was quite interesting because I never heard the voice do what this thing did, and while I can send the message to an email address, getting it converted is not something I think I can do.

My honest opinion was that I thought my phone was cooked, and I was going to have to get another one. It was working great till the upgrade, so why just quit? I had reservations of going to the apple store to have them downgrade the phone back to 17.7 but then the new passwords app would have trouble.

Now, at least, I have eloquence running and the phone seems to be behaving itself today.

Any oddities you’ve seen on upgrading to 18.x? Sound off in the comments, or call the comment line directly at 888-405-7524 or use the button below to call and either leave a message or talk to me depending on the time and my availability.

Thanks for leaving your feedback but I thought I’d share my opinion of what happened to me and say that this was the first I’ve had such issues like that one before.

See everyone soon!