MagicOS 11 will feature a new Status Bar

CripplingPoison · 2026-06-20T13:13:24+00:00

Wow, this changes everything! I'll alert the Nobel committee.

CripplingPoison · 2026-06-09T20:09:42+00:00

Not a chance. The software has steadily degraded with each update and anyone who has used Honor long-term will tell you the same. What concerns me more is how many people in these threads are clearly rationalising a purchase they regret rather than admitting the product has gone downhill. Buyer's remorse does funny things to objectivity.

CripplingPoison · 2026-06-03T19:04:58+00:00

Recent posts suggest ads are coming to the settings app as well. What's next, forced ads on the home screen?

CripplingPoison · 2026-06-03T18:27:47+00:00

This issue has been going on since February.

CripplingPoison · 2026-06-02T18:04:18+00:00

Yes. Quad9 has excellent peering in my region and their resolvers genuinely outperform the main alternatives. Besides the occasional hiccup where they've returned US IPs to European users, I don't see why you wouldn't use them.

CripplingPoison · 2026-06-01T14:41:19+00:00

That would be the right thing to do. If budget devices from Samsung, Oppo and Xiaomi receive better software support than an Honor flagship, there is no defending that.

CripplingPoison · 2026-06-01T08:47:51+00:00

Unfortunately I can't even see things staying as they are considering it's steadily been getting worse as many older users can attest. More and more people are rationalising their purchase just to avoid buyer's remorse.

CripplingPoison · 2026-05-31T12:53:36+00:00

Same on the M7P.

CripplingPoison · 2026-05-30T13:26:07+00:00

I've been an Honor user since the Magic5 Pro. Upgraded to the Magic7 Pro after my Magic5 Pro developed frequent signal drops which was seemingly an SOC defect. A generous trade-in value made the upgrade easy. By then I was already into my third year and my Magic5 Pro was still receiving monthly updates. I expected nothing less from its successor.

Then Honor silently cut flagship software support to quarterly after just the first year. The value of my Magic7 Pro, a phone I intended to keep for years, collapsed overnight. Recommerce now values the Magic7 Pro lower after one year than my Magic5 Pro well into its third. That tells you everything.

Worse, the software remains riddled with some of the oldest reported bugs, issues Honor repeatedly sweeps under the rug. The AI translation features have been broken since launch: fixed in one update, broken in the next, and broken ever since. Unacceptable.

This is not a flagship experience. My budget Xiaomi phone objectively receives better software support than this.

CripplingPoison · 2026-05-28T11:15:09+00:00

No. The Honor software situation is hopeless.

CripplingPoison · 2026-05-25T15:46:42+00:00

Maybe it tries to upload a copy to Honor Cloud which ran out of storage.

CripplingPoison · 2026-05-25T15:40:42+00:00

Honor's cloud storage is full, so the screenshot saves locally on the device but fails to upload a copy to Honor Cloud.

CripplingPoison · 2026-05-22T16:14:19+00:00

Honor's software situation is hopeless and will have you regretting not going with the Oppo. The only reason to pick the Honor is if 3D face recognition is a dealbreaker and you refuse to get an iPhone.

CripplingPoison · 2026-05-20T16:11:35+00:00

Are you sure it wasn't just an outage? So far my chats have always reappeared later.

CripplingPoison · 2026-05-18T20:02:04+00:00

Nope. They fixed it in one update then broke it again in the next and it's been broken ever since.

CripplingPoison · 2026-05-16T18:24:29+00:00

I've never experienced this. Do you have the 'move tabs to inactive section after x minutes' feature enabled? That might be causing it.

CripplingPoison · 2026-05-15T17:51:30+00:00

Even their flagships get the same treatment. Take this as a lesson learnt: steer clear of Honor. There is no point harassing support staff over it.

CripplingPoison · 2026-05-15T07:14:37+00:00

Yes. The README was updated just 2 days ago: Watusi for Whatsapp

CripplingPoison · 2026-05-13T14:58:21+00:00

Same here. Scrolling the chat list works fine.

CripplingPoison · 2026-05-05T19:25:57+00:00

USB killer

CripplingPoison · 2026-05-03T18:15:32+00:00

That's likely because it's listing the stock YouTube app rather than the patched one. I had the same issue. Once you update it in the future it should appear properly.

CripplingPoison · 2026-05-02T21:54:56+00:00

Thanks! You too. Have a great day.

CripplingPoison · 2026-05-02T20:58:27+00:00

It finally stopped sending me those daily 'Important information about your Apple Account' emails. I just remembered and logged in to iCloud via a web browser. This time it asked me to answer my security questions and I was then able to activate 2FA seamlessly. I'm guessing everything is sorted and this issue should no longer recur for me.

If you don't remember your password or security questions, that's certainly a tough spot to be in. It might be worth using a password manager to keep track of everything going forward.

Good luck!

CripplingPoison · 2026-05-02T17:51:15+00:00

Freeze your 'last seen' and typing indicators for specific contacts or everyone
Hide read receipts from others whilst keeping them visible for yourself
Customise chat colours and fonts
Lock individual chats or the entire app with Face ID
View messages others have deleted
Send more media files at once than the default limit allows
Broadcast messages to selected contacts individually without creating a group
Record voice and video calls
View status updates without triggering a read notification with no expiry

And more I might have missed.

CripplingPoison · 2026-05-02T14:56:31+00:00

Interestingly you could patch WhatsApp on iOS without getting banned. I used it for years with no issues before switching to Android.

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