There’s additional VoiceOver accessibility support as well with travel destinations and AirPod battery levels now able to be read out.Īs for security, Apple’s official page lists fixes for vulnerabilities in Bluetooth, audio playback and WebKit (the core of Safari) and there are bug fixes for the Phone app (incomplete call lists), Mail (Exchange accounts missing on the lock screen), Messages (jumbled conversations) and CarPlay (freezing when jumping multiple tracks).ĭespite a few incremental improvements, there’s nothing essential in this release like the Spectre and Meltdown mitigations in iOS 11.2.2. This lists all playback sources individually rather than amalgamating them and, in my opinion, makes it easier to toggle between sources. Not mentioned in the release notes, but worth pointing out is iOS 11.2.5 brings a new UI for audio controls in the music widget. This uses Podcast news and you can choose from the likes of NPR, Fox News (please don’t), CNN and The Washington Post and can be fine-tuned if you ask about sports, business or music news. HomePod pre-orders begin January 26th with a release on February 9th so support was needed and Siri’s new reading is triggered if you ask about news of the day via a handsfree method like saying “Hey Siri”. This update also includes bug fixes and improvements.”īoth these features are fairly self-explanatory. “iOS 11.2.5 includes support for HomePod and introduces the ability for Siri to read the news (US, UK and Australia only). While iOS 11.2.5 contains little to make you rush out and upgrade (it isn’t essential like iOS 11.2.2 ), it breaks the mold for minor point releases by having more than just bug fixes. Inevitably the big battery life drops reported ever since iOS 11 first launched in September are showing little sign of abating either ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 etc).Īs always I will update this article if any of the problems mentioned above escalate. These include lockscreen issues, ringtone bugs, outright bricking of devices ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ), performance drops ( 1, 2, 3 ), Apple Watch pairing problems, degraded WiFi and CarPlay issues with Ford and Skoda.

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