Found your iPhone and Mac’s Wifi weren’t so bad over the last year? You are not by yourself, and Apple is finally repairing it, albeit gently.

WiFi issues were one of the largest criticisms about the Yosemite upgrade of Apple for Mac this past year, with a huge number of users taking to atmosphere frustration to Apple’s support forums.

There are a number of moving parts if you are wondering just what occurred. First, you must comprehend what the Domain Name System (DNS) does.

Each computer online has an IP address, which is like where it are available on a road. Domain names for sites, like thenextweb.com, have an attached IP address that finds these computers. Think of a domain name as a human-readable method to get to the correct IP address.

DNS servers, such as the ones Google or your internet provider offers, keep a web directory of their IP addresses as well as domain names.

Everything happens without your knowledge when it works.

Generally, it functioned flawlessly.

The replacement seemed to be related to the new Airdrop to iPhone attribute that was part of the upgrade, although we do not understand the precise reason for dropping it.

The issues with discover-yd have been unpredictable and vast. You have likely run into at least one: slow re connection, duplicate computer names, random crashes, slow page loading after slumber — the list goes on.

The criticisms continued to stream in, although Apple tried on three occasions to patch out the issues.

In the beginning, many wondered if it was an injury, but mDNSResponder had returned and has stuck around in the most recent beta builds.

After this year, when we get the upgrades, your apparatus’ Wifi should be much more dependable.

Meanwhile, OS X 10.10.4, which is now in beta, also drops discover-yd and should be available shortly for download.

Apple never formally commented on why it lost the brand new program (we have asked, again) , but the change is going to be a welcome one for anybody who uses its products.