The issue is so common that there are literally hundreds (if not thousands) of pages dedicated to helping users replace or repair their damaged home buttons.

Apple could prevent these problems—and eliminate another moving part—by replacing the home button with a flat, touch-sensitive area that performed the same action.

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Facebook is rolling out a patch to fix a rare bug in its API that had apparently been leaking users’ phone numbers to app developers.

The glitch, which was first reported back in June 2012, was affecting the email field in some mobile apps accessing Facebook’s API (application programming interface).

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Amazon has updated its Kindle app for iOS devices, but if you’re yet to snaffle the latest version, then hold your horses: there’s a bug that’ll delete your entire ebook library. That wasn’t listed as one of the features.

Amazon has put a warning on the iTunes page about the bug, TUAW reports, though only on the US page, not the UK. But the flaw seems to be affecting UK users too, with plenty sounding off in the comments.

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A bug in Apple’s iOS 6.1 operating system allows the passcode lock to by bypassed on the iPhone. Using a simple series of taps and button presses, a user can gain access to your handset’s Phone app, which then lets them view your contacts, check your voicemail, and see your photos. Check out the video below.

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Apple kicked off 2013 in a similar fashion as the way they rolled out iOS 6, controversial. A bug in the “Do Not Disturb” feature caused several iOS 6 users to miss Happy New Year messages after Midnight on January 1st. The bug was ignoring the end time for the do not disturb period that users set so that incoming texts, emails, and other alerts did not arrive when they were sent. As you can imagine, many users were upset and confused.

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When the first iPhone was released on AT&T’s network, it was widely criticized for being a lousy phone despite its powerful capabilities as a tiny touch-screen computer. Now it might gain a reputation for being a subpar clock.

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Apple sold 5 million iPhone 5 units in the first three days after release. Considering most of these buyers never saw, held or played with an iPhone 5 in person, that’s a big leap of faith. While we haven’t seen any flubs the scale of “Antennagate” this time around, there have been plenty of complaints about the new smartphone.

Read more www.digitaltrends.com

Users of iOS devices who haven’t upgraded from iOS 6.0 to the latest version have another good reason to do so: a bug that was causing previously-unidentified data overages and other issues has been identified, in which an iOS device on iOS 6.0 may re-download media streams over and over, perhaps even while on 3G or LTE connections.

Read more www.ipodnn.com

The iPhone 5 is pretty good, and for most folks, its Wi-Fi is actually very good. It was in our tests. But a lot of people have been reporting in that the Wi-Fi is actually awful, and can’t hold a signal at all. This should fix that right up for you.

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The latest version of Apple’s new operating system for iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touch, iOS 6.0.1, is still giving some Apple device users Wi-Fi fits. One Apple iOS update later, some iPhone, iPad, and iPod users are still having Wi-FI troubles. You’d think by now, seven weeks after Apple released iOS 6, the technology giant would have fixed all this major mobile operating system’s Wi-Fi networking problems. Wrong.

Read more www.zdnet.com

In response to numerous reports that the iPhone 5 users experience screen flickers when using the on-screen keyboard in the App Store, Apple’s iOS boss Scott Forstall sent an email to a customer saying a software fix is on the way.

Read more www.businessinsider.com

In a growing thread on the Apple Support Communities website, users have been tracking the issue since the iPhone 5 first went on sale in late September. Users have also posted videos on YouTube demonstrating the issue. AppleInsider was also able to replicate the flickering glitch, though not with regularity. The issue appears to arise when users invoke the numbers and symbols keyboard by pressing the “.?123” button in the bottom left corner of the device in portrait mode.

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A number of iPhone 5 owners, especially those on U.S. network Verizon, are complaining of an issue where the incorrect day and time is displayed, sometimes jumping weeks ahead or behind the actual date. According to multiple posts on Apple’s Support Communities forum, a number of iPhone 5 users are experiencing what appears to be a problem with the handset’s automatic date and time setting feature.

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iPhone users who have upgraded to Apple’s new iOS 6 software have been complaining that their mobile bills have rocketed after data usage has shot up – possibly due to a bug in how the OS switches between 3G and Wi-Fi connections. Some have used gigabytes of data in just a few days, after previously using only a small percentage of that amount when running iOS 5.

Read more www.guardian.co.uk

The latest version of the Apple iPhone has been with us for the best part of a month now as millions of consumers around the world clamber to get their hands on the device, but since the company released the iPhone 5 and the new operating system that goes with it there have been a growing number of problems.

Read more www.phonesreview.co.uk

Looks like some users are experiencing iPhone 5 issues with cellular data connectivity in Canada and beyond. We have heard from numerous users over the past week or so about issues connecting to 3G and LTE. The problem lies in switching between both 3G and LTE networks.

Read more www.iphoneincanada.ca

Several users in Apple’s support forums are reporting that the iPhone 5 screen flickers when the keyboard pops up.
In fact, it happened to our own iPhone 5 screen last night. The bug appears to be a software glitch, as it only happens when the keyboard launches

Read more www.businessinsider.com

After initially denying it, Apple has acknowledged the iPhone 5’s purple flare camera problem in an email to a Gizmodo reader. Their solution: “Angle the camera away from the bright light source when taking pictures.”

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The latest iPhone 5 defect claim to emerge from the mists is the issue of purple flares appearing in camera images where lighting is particularly bright. The issue was first pointed out in the AnandTech forums, and apparently Apple has acknowledged the issue.

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Three years ago, Igor Pusenjak and his brother Marko unveiled Doodle Jump, an addictive game that quickly became one of the biggest hits at Apple’s App Store. It turned them into millionaires.

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