The Game Center app on iOS is history. Starting with iOS 10, Game Center no longer exists as a standalone app that can be accessed from the Home screen. This does not mean that Game Center functionality has been removed. The service still exists, as many popular applications such as Fruit Ninja, Letterpress and Tall Chess all rely on it. In addition, to work with iOS you need whole line multiplayer applications that require Game Center. If you installed Game Center on your iPhone before upgrading to iOS 10, you won't need to sign in again. If you're setting up your iPhone as a new device, or if you want to quit Game Center in iOS 10, you'll lose it as the app itself will disappear. In iOS 10, you need to go into the Settings app to sign in to and from Game Center.
Entrance to the game center
Open the Settings app and scroll down to Game Center. It should appear at the end of Music, Photos & Camera, iBooks, and Podcasts. Click it. If you're not signed in to Game Center, you'll see a Sign In option on the Game Center screen.
Click it and sign in with your Apple ID.
Exit the game center
Open the Settings app and tap Game Center. On the Game Center screen, you will see the Apple ID you used to sign in to Game Center. Click it and a menu will appear with a “Sign Out” option.
It's fair to warn you that your gaming experience on some apps may be affected. For apps that insist you sign in to Game Center, such as King of Thieves, you'll be asked to sign in to Game Center every time you launch the app. Other games may be less intrusive, but multiplayer games like Letterpress and Tall Chess simply can't work with you when you leave Game Center.
The new version of iOS seems pretty damn similar to the previous one, except for a few hidden features: the new OS has a lot of new apps, Siri has learned to predict your actions, and the latest iPads have dual-screen multitasking. But along with new functionality, all new platforms have their own problems, and iOS 9 is no exception. In this article we have collected the most typical problems iOS 9, which users have already encountered, and decided to offer you options for solving them.
Error: Device stuck on "Slide to update" message
Many iOS 9 users were horrified to find their device stuck on the “Slide to Update” message and unresponsive to their actions. Fortunately, Apple is already aware of this problem and company representatives advise doing the following:
Solution one (if you have already updated to iOS 9):
- You need to connect your device to your computer and open iTunes.
- With your device connected, press and hold the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons until you see "Connect to iTunes."
- When prompted, select Update.
- After the recovery is complete, follow step by step instructions on the device screen.
Solution two (if you have already tried the first option):
- Update your device to iOS 9.0.1.
- Go to Settings > General > Reset >
- Set up your device from scratch.
- When prompted to restore from backup copy, select iCloud or iTunes and follow the step-by-step instructions.
Problem: Wi-Fi won't connect, keeps disconnecting, or is very slow
Reports of problems with Wi-Fi networks appear along with all new platforms. If you find that your iOS 9 device refuses to connect to the router, constantly disconnects, or is simply slow, then you have several options to solve the problem.
Possible solutions:
- Start with a force reboot. Press and hold the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons for about 10 seconds until you see the Apple logo on the device screen. Also, if possible, you should reboot the router. In most cases this will solve the problem.
- Go to Settings > Wi-Fi, click on the name of the problematic network, select “Forget network” and confirm the action. Returning to this menu item again, you will have the opportunity to select your network and configure it again.
- Try resetting your network settings in Settings > General >
- Some users managed to solve the problem by disabling services Wi-Fi networks. This can be done in Settings > Privacy > System Services.
- The problem may be caused by the Wi-Fi Assist feature: it switches you to mobile transmission data when Wi-Fi is slow. Go to Settings > Cellular, scroll down the screen, and turn off Wi-Fi Assist.
- If your router has MAC address filtering enabled, you should disable it. You can, of course, try adding the MAC address of your device, but due to Apple’s characteristic randomization of MAC addresses, there is a chance that next time it will change and will not connect again. Disabling MAC address filtering is the simplest solution.
- The problem may be due to your DNS settings. You can change them in the Settings > Wi-Fi menu by clicking on the “i” icon next to the name of your network and scrolling down the screen to the DNS settings. Click on the numbers and replace them with 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.8.4 if you want to use Google servers, and 208.67.222.222 or 208.67.222.220 if you want to use OpenDNS.
- If you use a VPN, make sure you are registered and have the required iOS 9 updates. You may have to uninstall it and reinstall it.
- Make sure your router has the latest software. You may need to contact your Internet service provider or device manufacturer.
Problem: Touch display does not respond to touch
Some users of the new operating system reported that the touch screen is their iPhone devices and the iPad freezes and does not respond to presses and other movements. Don't worry if you find the same problem. It's easy enough to fix (at least temporarily).
Possible solutions:
- Double-click the Home button if you were using an application while frozen; then slide the window with that application up to close it. After restarting everything should work as usual.
- You can also press and hold the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons for 10 seconds to restart your device.
- If you notice that the problem constantly occurs when using the same application, make sure that you have all the updates. If the application is updated, then you should try deleting it and installing it again.
Problem: Game Center doesn't work
Some iOS 9 users have encountered problems using Game Center. After the update, Game Center freezes on a blank page and will not launch. For some it loads periodically, for others it crashes. When I try to get to the Settings > Game Center menu, the device freezes and crashes again. Users tried resetting their settings, logging out and logging back into their account, returning to iOS 8.4, logging out of their account, updating and logging back into their account... All without success. Unfortunately, in this case, you have only 2 options, and neither of them is encouraging with its prospects.
Possible solutions:
- Restore to a clean iOS 9, but do not download the backup. The problem may be caused by a conflict between the recovery data and the operating system. The company will most likely find a solution to the problem, the only question is how long it will take.
- Restore to iOS 8.4 and do not update until an update is released that fixes the bug.
Error: Unable to enable cellular data for some apps
Since the release of the new OS, there have already been a lot of complaints about this problem. People have noticed that the switches in Settings > Cellular - where you typically choose which apps will use cellular data - aren't working. You can turn them on, but when you exit the menu, the settings are reset and cellular data is not connected. It seems like apps that had cellular data turned off before the update are now stuck that way. Before moving on to specific solutions, it is worth noting that people have different results, and most people suffering from this problem have never been able to overcome it.
Possible solutions:
- First of all, you should reboot your device. Hold down the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons at the same time for about 10 seconds.
- Try turning airplane mode on and then off again (located in the control center)
- Try resetting your network settings in Settings > General > Reset Network Settings. After this, you will need to re-enter your passwords.
- Try going to Settings > General > Reset > Reset all settings. After this, you will have to re-enter some parameters and settings.
- You can also try uninstalling and reinstalling the problematic applications.
- Some users report that completely resetting their phone and setting it up from scratch helped them. If you have already accumulated several problems, then it’s worth a try. If you decide to do a hard reset and wipe, make sure you don't restore apps from a backup, otherwise the problem may return. You need to install them manually. After that, go to Settings > General > Reset > Erase content and settings to clean your device.
- Well last option- roll back the OS to version 8.4.
Problem: Bluetooth connection is not established or keeps dropping out
Several users have already encountered this problem in iOS 9. As in the case of Wi-Fi, problems with bluetooth occur every time after exiting new version operating system. Your device probably refuses to connect, or connects, but for unknown reasons the connection keeps dropping.
Possible solutions:
- Make sure you are establishing the Bluetooth connection correctly. To detect some devices you may need to press a special button.
- First of all, you should reboot your device. Hold the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons simultaneously for 10 seconds.
- Go to Settings > Bluetooth, find your device and select Forget. Now disable and then re-enable Bluetooth and set up the connection from scratch.
- One of the accessories may have reached its connection limit. Try removing old connections (if possible).
- Make sure the software on all devices is up to date.
- Try resetting your network settings in Settings > General > Reset Network Settings. After this, you will need to re-enter your passwords.
- And in the worst case scenario, you may need to do a factory reset. Here's how to do it on iPhone.
Problem: iMessage and FaceTime activation doesn't work
After updating to iOS 9, some users encountered problems activating iMessage and FaceTime. Any attempt to connect ends with a pop-up error message. If error messages appear while you are connected to a Wi-Fi network, then you have several options to solve the problem.
Possible solutions:
- Go to Settings > Messages and turn off iMessage. If you also have problems with FaceTime, then go to Settings > FaceTime and turn it off as well. Hold down the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons at the same time for about 10 seconds. When the device reboots, go to the settings menu and turn both functions back on.
- Go to Settings > General > Date & Time and make sure the correct information is entered there.
- Try going to Settings > General > Reset > Reset all settings. After this, you will need to configure some settings from scratch, but this has worked for many users. If this does not happen to you, then at the end, do a forced reboot by holding the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons for 10 seconds.
- If the problem persists, contact service center or to the seller. You may need a new SIM card.
Problem: notification sound and Siri voice are missing
Some users report that notification sounds from incoming messages occasionally disappear, and some messaging apps have no sound at all. Sometimes they work as usual, and sometimes messages arrive without any signal. If you have a problem with Siri, then skip directly to the next step.
Possible solutions:
- Start with the most basic: increase the sound volume; make sure you have silent mode turned off; Check the settings in Settings > Do Not Disturb.
- Take a look at the Settings > Notifications menu, try switching them to different positions, then reboot your device and set the sliders to the desired position again.
- You can try going to Settings > General > Reset > Reset all settings, but this will result in you having to re-enter many of the settings and settings.
- If you don't have Siri sound, go to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Speech > Default Dialect and select the one you need. After this everything should work. Also make sure you have silent mode turned off.
Problem: Short battery life.
After before updating to iOS 9 time battery life your device should increase. If the opposite happens, then you should try the following.
Possible solutions:
- Hold the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons for 10 seconds to restart your device.
- Look in the Settings > Battery > Battery Usage menu and make sure that the problem is not in a separate application that is eating up all the charge. If you find such an application, make sure you have it installed latest version. If this is all right, then you might want to think about deleting this application or looking for a replacement.
- You can also try new mode power saving feature, which can be enabled in Settings > Battery. To improve battery life, this app limits your device's performance and background activity.
- Go to Settings > iCloud > Keychain, turn off Keychain, then restart your device. When the device boots up again, go to the same menu and turn on Keychain again.
- There is a possibility that the problem is caused by your settings. Try going to Settings > General > Reset > Reset all settings. But keep in mind that after this you will have to re-enter many of the parameters and settings.
- Check out our tips on how to extend the battery life of your iOS device.
Problem: Spotlight search results do not include contacts.
Many iOS 9 users have found that Spotlight does not search necessary information in contacts, even if a specific name is specified in the search phrase, and this contact is definitely in the phone book.
Possible solutions:
- Go to Settings > General > Spotlight Search and make sure Contacts is turned on.
- Go to Contacts > Groups, click on “Hide all contacts”, then on “Show all contacts”.
- If the search problem persists, go to Settings > General > Spotlight Search and disable all applications. After that, hold down the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons for 10 seconds to restart your device. After the reboot, return to the Settings > General > Spotlight Search menu and re-enable everything you see fit, including Contacts.
There are a lot of innovations in the first beta version of iOS 10, released last night, but there is one that was not mentioned at the opening remarks at the WWDC conference. Apple removed the Game Center application, although it was built into several previous versions iOS. What is this connected with and will Game Center return to iOS 10? Let's try to figure it out.
Game Center is a kind of gaming social network for iPhone and iPad users. It first appeared on iOS in 2010 and was a port of a similar application for Mac. It was difficult to call this application convenient or useful, and many users dreamed that Apple would allow it to be removed. For the first time, the ability to delete pre-installed stock applications appeared only with the release of the beta version of iOS 10 for developers, but the unpopular Game Center was not included in it anyway.
The fact is that yesterday Apple introduced several new tools for developers, with which they will be able to integrate their applications and games with some native functions and applications from iOS (Siri, iMessage, App Store etc.) One such tool is GameKit, with which developers will be able to link games to the Apple gaming platform. It looks like Game Center has disappeared forever, and this will make life a little more difficult for developers - now they will have to independently recreate the interface of this application in their games.
The GameKit framework contains the following changes and improvements:
- The Game Center application has been removed. If your game uses GameKit features, it must also implement the interface needed to work with those features. For example, if your game supports player ratings, the game should read data directly from Game Center and display it.
On the contrary, it will be easier for users - Game Center will essentially remain, but will become essentially ephemeral. It will not take up space on your device, but will still continue to work on all games compatible with it. The best interface is the one that is invisible.
However, Apple may still release Game Center as a separate application, but will no longer impose it on all users - in this case, it will be possible to download it through the App Store. Currently available in the store Mail applications, Maps and Music, which were previously built into iOS.
Apple's decision to rid users of Game Center is welcome. There were quite a few problems with this app. For example, after the release of iOS 9, users encountered critical error V work Game Center. When I tried to launch the game or access its settings, it was simply blocked. As a result, it was impossible to launch games that connect to Game Center. Rebooting did not solve this problem; a complete reset of the device was required, without restoring data from a backup copy. The GameKit platform will likely be more stable and won't have these issues.
After WWDC 2016 it became known that in 2016 the path of the gaming social network will end Apple Game Center. In an early build the client application is simply missing. Many took this gesture as a cessation of development of the gaming component mobile platform, because in Game Center All achievements and statistics of players were taken into account; hopes were placed on this service to online unite the most active fans of portable entertainment. So, since the launch of the first version of the application Game Center in 2010 at iOS 4 to the release of the beta build iOS 10 More than 405 million users have registered with the service.
Here's how Apple itself commented on the situation for developers:
We have removed the Game Center app. You can now use the GameKit toolkit, which also has an interface with new features available to the user.
That is, game sessions are now recorded in GameKit. Getting rid of Game Center(which, in general, almost no one has opened yet) is simply following trends, an attempt by a mobile platform to match the way we play games today. Over the past six years, the experience of players interacting with each other has changed significantly. Once upon a time in iOS 7 Turn-based game modes were introduced in the form of asynchronous multiplayer. IN we met the first attempts at streaming through Mac And QuickTime. To the company Apple added tools ReplayKit, capable of reproducing the last level or match, which fit perfectly into the concept of streaming on Twitch or YouTube.
Now in iOS 10 we'll get "Sessions" with multiplayer via iCloud. Up to a hundred players can simultaneously complete individual levels, trade with each other and communicate. The presented API is very flexible for developers. With the help of new features, each user is able to invite friends to play together via email, social networks or even SMS. For example, the owners PlayStation 4 there is no way to call someone via tweet. And in iOS 10 you can do this with just a couple of taps. True, implementing all this will require effort from application developers.
The only serious drawback of the closure Game Center- this is the closure of common leaderboards. From now on, each game will have its own statistics and achievements. These lists are managed directly from the application. This means you have to check each game yourself to see how far you've come and when it's your turn to challenge your opponents. Maybe, Apple will someday organize a separate website with general game stats the way they did for Xbox Live.
The iOS 10 update became the largest platform update in history, surpassing even the “seven” in the number of innovations, which brought the “apple” operating system absolutely new look. However, the top ten prevailed in terms of innovations not so much visual as functional.
iOS 10 brought a ton of new options, but it also killed off some old ones. One of the victims was Game Center. We'll tell you why and where this application went in this article.
Firstly, it’s worth clarifying right away - Game Center has not disappeared from iOS 10, it’s just hidden. Well, to be even more precise - from a full-fledged application, it was decided to turn it into one of the functions in the “Settings” menu. This decision, however, was quite expected, end soon The program was promised long before the release of iOS 10.
Game Center appeared in iOS in 2010, and its appearance was dictated by high user demand for games. At that time, games became the main “product” in the App Store. So it was decided to create a special application, which, in essence, became a kind of social network for gamers, in which they could share their progress, find friends, join competitions, etc.
However, the demand for games quickly subsided and the application was abandoned. For most users, it now only got in the way, because pre-installed Apple programs could not be deleted. And then iOS 10 came out - the Game Center disappeared, but at the same time, the ability to delete pre-installed applications also finally appeared.
The situation turned out strange. Yes, the program was unpopular, but it still had an audience. And since it became possible to delete unnecessary things, including pre-installed ones, it was possible to allow users to decide for themselves whether they needed Game Center or not.
However, the situation became clear quite quickly. It turns out that the games center didn’t disappear completely, but hid in the “Settings” menu.
For the benefit of users
The system of interaction with him also changed. Now the user only needs to go to “Settings” and log in to Game Center by indicating their Apple ID and selecting a login, and the game developers will do the rest. That is, the entire interface, previously implemented through the game center, should now be provided in their games by the developers themselves through special tools GameKit.
These and a number of other new toolkits for developers to integrate their apps with native iOS features , was also presented by Apple at the iOS 10 presentation.
Thus, it is planned that the Game Center option will be implemented in the games themselves. That is, if the game assumes tournament tables for player ratings, they should be displayed directly in the game. Previously, the user had to go into the application to get acquainted with the ratings. That is, as you understand, everything has become simpler for users, but for developers it has become more complicated.