Apple is a really critical firm filled with very critical folks, and with a trillion-dollar valuation (and the remainder), that is no shock.
Nonetheless, we not often get a glimpse into issues behind the scenes that humanize the corporate just a little, and that is precisely what AirTag customers received this week.
Apple rolls out its firmware updates for AirTags, its moveable trackers, in phases. This avoids the pressure of each single one in every of them requesting the obtain on the similar time, which might 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 newest 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.
Appears like Apple by chance set the deployment dates for the two.0.73 AirTag firmware to “m/d/24” as an alternative of “m/d/2024” that has utilized in earlier variations and which the AirTag replace system makes use of as date format. Consequently, AirTags assume the deployment dates are within the yr 24… pic.twitter.com/dH5s0FrgTyMarch 21, 2024
“Appears like Apple by chance set the deployment dates for the two.0.73 AirTag firmware to “m/d/24” as an alternative 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.
“Consequently, AirTags assume the deployment dates are within the yr 24 and so they simply skip to the 100% rollout batch.”
In layman’s phrases, Apple rolled out its replace to the yr 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 just a little slower because 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 can’t know till Apple updates its AirTags assist web page for the brand new model, 2.0.73.
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