When using SkySafari Pro 6.6.2.4 on my iPad mini using iPadOS 13.3 I did a search and then centre to an object below the horizon and it crashed the whole iPad so I had to power on again. The 6..6 release for iOS/iPadOS seems to be a bit of a disaster.
Owen
We're looking into it. There will be a 6.6.3 update in the next few days to address a few issues as a result of localizing our app into different languages. Thank you for your patience!
Owen,
Is this repeatable? What object are you searching for? Does it happen for any object? The latest release includes a lot of changes for Localization (into other languages), but not a lot more. Are you running it in English?
What else leads you to consider this entire release a "disaster?" Are there other problems you're seeing?
- Dave
Hi Dave. This would have been under the English default localization. I was searching for NGC 2563 in Cancer which was below my horizon at the time. The horizon was set to be translucent. I have tried several times to reproduce this and so far I have not managed so it may have been simply a memory glitch. No other apps were running at the time and the system is a 64GB iPad Mini 4 with about half the space used. Well we still have the issues with angular measurement and other issues reported. It seems a shame as the iOS version used to be the most stable and I understand from other forums that the Android version appears to be the more stable now.
Also I guess the issue for me with 6.6.2.3 where the program when launched had a blank screen so I thought it was not working and killed it also did not make me feel very confident with this release.. It is true that if I left it long enough it did start.
Owen,
Just to clarify, the only bug you're now seeing (and/or are able to reproduce) is the one with the missing string in the angular measurement? (This is already fixed btw, we'll push out a release, likely tomorrow.)
Why do you have this impression that the iOS app is somehow less stable than Android? I understand you had a crash, but this is the only report we've had. If it truly was a kernel panic (ie, your entire iPad rebooted) it likely had nothing to do with SkySafari.
Are you still seeing a blank screen on startup?
- Dave
The blank screen issue went away when I installed 6.6.2.4 but was consistent before that.. Yes the whole iPad crashed and I had to restart it from the power button. I must admit I have not been using SkySafari a lot over the last few weeks because of the impressions I have had with it and the lack of clear skies here. I will get back to running it a bit more to see if I can reproduce the issues I have been having.