(Image Source: Cult of Mac)
BY SCOTT MALONE
ANCHOR MEGAN MURPHY
The world might be back to work after the holidays, but there’s a chance your iPhone is hitting the snooze button until next week. Here’s New England Cable News and WPMT with an explanation.
“Apple is admitting there’s a kind of a glitch that they’ve been struggling with in its do not disturb function, and guess what? They’re not going to fix it. Apparently the issue is with the date and the company says it will resolve itself.”
“The setting, which allows you to decide what calls come through, is not turning off when it’s supposed to. The tech giant says the scheduling function will return to normal on January 7th.”
Apple says the bug kicked in when the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve. (Via WMTW)
But before you get to calling this glitch the ghost of Y2K past, you can still use the feature—you just need to turn it on and off manually.
According to The Metro, it’s believed the glitch affecting the Do Not Disturb feature is down to a problem with how Apple’s iOS software defines dates.
And as a Cult of Mac blogger points out: this isn’t the first time Apple has had issues with dates in iOS. “It had daylight savings issues in 2010, 2011, and again in 2012, while a recent issue with the Calendar app causes it to crash if you make an all-day appointment on April 1, 2013.”
A writer for TUAW says he feels sorry for the Cupertino Company...
“Presumably this issue had gone completely unnoticed until January 1 … There’s no way it can get a patch written for iOS, run through internal testing … then released to the world before January 7. So all Apple can really do here is say ‘Sorry, but the problem will go away by itself.’”
But a writer for TIME disagrees, saying it’s somewhat annoying that Apple’s response hasn’t been more proactive.
“You have to imagine a lot of people who don’t keep tabs on tech news are left wondering why [Do Not Disturb] won’t shut off or being rudely signaled during their nocturnal hours as emails, texts and who-knows-what-else chug away.”
Apple says it will not release a software patch for the bug. So you have a few more days to hit that snooze button if you want to.
(Image Source: Cult of Mac)
BY SCOTT MALONE
ANCHOR MEGAN MURPHY
The world might be back to work after the holidays, but there’s a chance your iPhone is hitting the snooze button until next week. Here’s New England Cable News and WPMT with an explanation.
“Apple is admitting there’s a kind of a glitch that they’ve been struggling with in its do not disturb function, and guess what? They’re not going to fix it. Apparently the issue is with the date and the company says it will resolve itself.”
“The setting, which allows you to decide what calls come through, is not turning off when it’s supposed to. The tech giant says the scheduling function will return to normal on January 7th.”
Apple says the bug kicked in when the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve. (Via WMTW)
But before you get to calling this glitch the ghost of Y2K past, you can still use the feature—you just need to turn it on and off manually.
According to The Metro, it’s believed the glitch affecting the Do Not Disturb feature is down to a problem with how Apple’s iOS software defines dates.
And as a Cult of Mac blogger points out: this isn’t the first time Apple has had issues with dates in iOS. “It had daylight savings issues in 2010, 2011, and again in 2012, while a recent issue with the Calendar app causes it to crash if you make an all-day appointment on April 1, 2013.”
A writer for TUAW says he feels sorry for the Cupertino Company...
“Presumably this issue had gone completely unnoticed until January 1 … There’s no way it can get a patch written for iOS, run through internal testing … then released to the world before January 7. So all Apple can really do here is say ‘Sorry, but the problem will go away by itself.’”
But a writer for TIME disagrees, saying it’s somewhat annoying that Apple’s response hasn’t been more proactive.
“You have to imagine a lot of people who don’t keep tabs on tech news are left wondering why [Do Not Disturb] won’t shut off or being rudely signaled during their nocturnal hours as emails, texts and who-knows-what-else chug away.”
Apple says it will not release a software patch for the bug. So you have a few more days to hit that snooze button if you want to.
