Are you an app owner working on your app update currently? You are not alone. Many business owners and PMs are squeezing their mobile developers to get their apps back on track since past weeks’ iOS release. If your app’s usage frequency is not so high you might be all right granting a few weeks allowance to yourselves to polish your app to perfection.

But all other mobile app owners, specially the ones providing daily or minute-by-minute services as finance, health, news, education and IoT could run into troubles with iOS14’s surprise release. Developers are very vocal about the matter.

Are you an app owner working on your app update currently? You are not alone. Many business owners and PMs are squeezing their mobile developers to get their apps back on track since past weeks’ iOS release. If your app’s usage frequency is not so high you might be all right granting a few weeks allowance to yourselves to polish your app to perfection.

But all other mobile app owners, specially the ones providing daily or minute-by-minute services as finance, health, news, education and IoT could run into troubles with iOS14’s surprise release. Developers are very vocal about the matter.

WHY SO MANY BANKING APPLICATIONS STOPPED WORKING?

WHY SO MANY BANKING APPLICATIONS STOPPED WORKING?

Apple has proficient annual procedure for launching a new operating system. Developers can get acquainted to what is coming, can have a test drive of the features and functionalities for 3 months. During this period several beta versions are arriving, feedback can be provided to Apple. After having the beta period over, a final variant, a so-called Golden Master (GM) is issued. That production version operating system is made available to all iPhone and iPad to download.

The first beta of iOS14 was available for the developer community as early as beginning of July 2020. Does it mean that banks were not doing their homework in 3 months preparation time? Although this timeframe in banking terms is lightspeed, there is another reason.

Apple has proficient annual procedure for launching a new operating system. Developers can get acquainted to what is coming, can have a test drive of the features and functionalities for 3 months. During this period several beta versions are arriving, feedback can be provided to Apple. After having the beta period over, a final variant, a so-called Golden Master (GM) is issued. That production version operating system is made available to all iPhone and iPad to download.

The first beta of iOS14 was available for the developer community as early as beginning of July 2020. Does it mean that banks were not doing their homework in 3 months preparation time? Although this timeframe in banking terms is lightspeed, there is another reason.

Apple made the announcement, published the GM then on the very next day made iOS14 available. Developers were stunned. They were left without this one-week preparation period to iron out possible flaws, run test to minimize chances of any accidental crashes. This sequence of events was unusual this year.

Apple made the announcement, published the GM then on the very next day made iOS14 available. Developers were stunned. They were left without this one-week preparation period to iron out possible flaws, run test to minimize chances of any accidental crashes. This sequence of events was unusual this year.

One should not think that it is by the carelessness of those banks. Even on the contrary, internal processes, specially security and compliance concerns are the reason. Several end-to-end tests need to be carried out and it is more of a fortnight exercise as a single night one. However, it is better to grab more caffeine and make those shiny banking apps run again as we face higher adoption rate of iOS14 as any other previous ones.

One should not think that it is by the carelessness of those banks. Even on the contrary, internal processes, specially security and compliance concerns are the reason. Several end-to-end tests need to be carried out and it is more of a fortnight exercise as a single night one. However, it is better to grab more caffeine and make those shiny banking apps run again as we face higher adoption rate of iOS14 as any other previous ones.

We expect to have 25-30% of users having updated to the latest OS by the end of the first two weeks period.

We expect to have 25-30% of users having updated to the latest OS by the end of the first two weeks period.

Some mobile application owners still experiencing issues, need to get their act together since adaptation curve is steep. There is historically (max.) 4-5weeks time before the new OS penetration is going to reach 70%. If a bank does not want to cut itself off from 70% of its mobile application userbase needs to focus on key application features only and publish a crash-free app as soon as possible.

Some mobile application owners still experiencing issues, need to get their act together since adaptation curve is steep. There is historically (max.) 4-5weeks time before the new OS penetration is going to reach 70%. If a bank does not want to cut itself off from 70% of its mobile application userbase needs to focus on key application features only and publish a crash-free app as soon as possible.

If you are interested in Apple iOS version beta histories here is a brilliant graph:

http://www.thinkybits.com/blog/iOS-versions/

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