Apple is a really critical firm filled with very critical individuals, and with a trillion-dollar valuation (and the remainder), that is no shock.
Nonetheless, we hardly ever get a glimpse into issues behind the scenes that humanize the corporate a little bit, and that is precisely what AirTag customers received this week.
Apple rolls out its firmware updates for AirTags, its transportable trackers, in phases. This avoids the pressure of each single certainly one of them requesting the obtain on the similar time, which may have a knock-on impact for different Apple companies if the pressure will get an excessive amount of.
That is the plan, anyway, however it seems this time round issues did not fairly go to plan as all AirTags received the most recent firmware on the similar time. And, as noticed by the X (previously Twitter) account iSWUpdates, it is the sort of factor that may occur to anybody.
Seems to be like Apple by chance set the deployment dates for the two.0.73 AirTag firmware to “m/d/24” as a substitute of “m/d/2024” that has utilized in earlier variations and which the AirTag replace system makes use of as date format. In consequence, AirTags assume the deployment dates are within the 12 months 24… pic.twitter.com/dH5s0FrgTyMarch 21, 2024
“Seems to be like Apple by chance set the deployment dates for the two.0.73 AirTag firmware to “m/d/24” as a substitute of “m/d/2024″ that has utilized in earlier variations and which the AirTag replace system makes use of as date format,” the account defined.
“In consequence, AirTags assume the deployment dates are within the 12 months 24 they usually simply skip to the 100% rollout batch.”
In layman’s phrases, Apple rolled out its replace to the 12 months 24, not 2024, and as somebody nonetheless placing 2023 on my correspondence, that is one thing I can respect.
Does it matter?
In all honesty, no – your AirTags aren’t more likely to take up a lot of your consideration whether or not they’re updating or not, and your replace could have been a little bit slower on account of the sheer quantity of requests. If nothing else, it is a reminder there are people working at Apple and all of us make errors.
As for which new options are included within the firmware, there is a good likelihood it is a sequence of compatibility fixes, however we cannot know till Apple updates its AirTags help web page for the brand new model, 2.0.73.
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