A 15-year mystery solved: The 20 bytes of code that fixed Antennagate<div class="feat-image">
</div><p>Ah, 2010. The year when Apple launched the iPad, but the limelight was stolen by something else entirely: <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/guides/antennagate/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Antennagate[/url]. Soon after the launch of the <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/guides/iphone-4/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">iPhone 4[/url], users discovered that when they held the phone in a typical grip for a phone call, the number of bars shown for signal strength immediately dropped dramatically.</p>
<p>Apple responded in a number of ways, including Steve Jobs famously suggesting that users were holding the phone wrong, but the issue was resolved by changing just 20 bytes of code …</p>
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A 15-year mystery solved: The 20 bytes of code that fixed Antennagate
