Apple adjusts operating system testing process due to bugs in iOS 13

Apple is adjusting the testing process of new versions of its operating systems because of the many bugs in the release version of iOS 13, claims financial news agency Bloomberg. Experimental features are disabled by default for testers and can be turned on via Flags.

As a result, testers must have builds of new operating systems that function at least reasonably in day-to-day use, so that they encounter bugs more quickly, Bloomberg reports. That was not the case with the development of iOS 13. In addition, developers added features that were enabled by default in daily builds. As a result, testers were left with phones that could sometimes not be used as a daily smartphone for days, so they did not encounter many bugs.

With the new method, the new features in daily builds are disabled by default and users can enable them via Flags in a separate area of ​​the operating system. The change to the method applies to all Apple operating systems, although the bugs were mainly in iOS 13. Apple has released eight updates to iOS 13 in recent months and is now working on 13.3. In addition, according to Bloomberg, a new major release will follow in the spring. Apple has not responded to Bloomberg’s story.