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Apple’s long notification nightmare is over (video)

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By Steven M. Peters Updated Published

For 18 hours, Apple punished 1.5 million iOS 12 public beta users for their participation.

 

For those who missed it, Apple’s iOS update face-plant was memorialized by song-a-day musician Jonathan Mann:

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K22a_1RBU4I&w=840&h=503]

My take: Mark Gurman had the best tweet. The Verge has the best write-up. Developer Guilherme Rambo spotted the cause (a date-calculation bug). The iOS update released Friday morning put an end to it, without (so far) a peep from Apple.

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