Thanks for the fix, Apple!

I few weeks ago I wrote about issues I was having with Bluetooth 4.0 interfering with standard Bluetooth, specifically my heart rate monitor was causing clicks on my Bluetooth headset while running. I filed an Apple Radar issue that was promptly closed as being a duplicate and the other one was closed as well, but Apple wouldn’t provide me any information about when it would be fixed. Typically when I report bugs to Apple it either takes years from them to get fixed or they never get fixed (I still have a number of open bugs).

When Apple released iOS 6.1, I checked the update information and nothing about this issue was mentioned. However, Apple never documents all the fixes which is a bit annoying for a tech person like me, but understandable as it could show what security holes were patched or could get customers saying “that was my bug, but you didn’t fix it”. Knowing that there were likely lots of little issues fixed, I went ahead and tried my previous experiment of running with my heart rate monitor and Bluetooth headset. So far on three runs, I haven’t noticed a problem! Was the issue fixed? I think it is still too early to tell, but so far it looks pretty good. Now if Apple had only told me in my bug report the OS version it was fixed in (since I’m a member of the developer program, they will tell me to test it in an unreleased OS version sometimes), I wouldn’t be wondering.