The Real Abed
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I always look forward to EverythingApplePro showing off what he finds. Both small and large changes.
https://www.youtube.com/user/EverythingApplePro
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Apple Betas 2017 |OT| Half Baked
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Zeyphersan
Banned
Yeah, in iOS10 they changed the inertia is safari but nowhere else. I submitted a bug/feedback report about it a year ago and it didnt get changed so I assumed it was intentional (it was). Google AMP pages scrolled how it used to and they brought it up to Apple who changed it back
wolfwolfwolf
Member
PB4 has fixed my Music widget problems and Bandcamp is working again, everything seems a lot smoother as well. Now to wait for PB5 to break everything again.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
So is High Sierra stable enough to install again? I haven't touched it since I tried the first PB and it was so bad. (And was able to revert back easily and painlessly because of my backup.) But I still think it's because I used APFS which broke a bunch of apps. I bet if I just install the beta and don't use APFS until release after all the apps have been updated, it is probably fine.
No one talks about it though. I guess it's such an insignificant update that's just speed improvements and bug fixes. Really the only two things it has are APFS and Messages syncing, which has been delayed anyway.
No one talks about it though. I guess it's such an insignificant update that's just speed improvements and bug fixes. Really the only two things it has are APFS and Messages syncing, which has been delayed anyway.
If you mean crashing while opening, it still does that.
I have a 10.5 iPad Pro and ever since the first PB discord crashes (freezes) when waking from sleep sometimes. I can force quit and restart it and it works fine. It seems to happen less now in the last PB but it still happens. I haven't checked yet on the new PB.
The Real Abed
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The latest iOS PB has broken my touch screen. I can't touch it anymore. I can't do anything. And I can't reboot because it won't shut down for some reason and Siri can't shut it down for me for some stupid reason. I'm stuck with an unusable iPhone I can't even reboot.
It was working fine when I installed it last night. And it was working fine when I woke up and browsed my notifications. Then it stopped working when I charged it. Now it's just a glowing rectangle I can't use.
It was working fine when I installed it last night. And it was working fine when I woke up and browsed my notifications. Then it stopped working when I charged it. Now it's just a glowing rectangle I can't use.
Can everyone PLEASE make the following requests:
1. Allow Smart Playlist sharing in Apple Music
2. Allow the Music app to open by tapping the damn widget in Control Center without having to force touch.
I don't have the beta on my iPhone 6, can you "expand" the widget by just long touching?
1. Allow Smart Playlist sharing in Apple Music
2. Allow the Music app to open by tapping the damn widget in Control Center without having to force touch.
I don't have the beta on my iPhone 6, can you "expand" the widget by just long touching?
It's always been stable for me. Only issue was OneDrive breaking, which has been fixed. I'm using APFS as well.
Zeyphersan
Banned
badcrumble
Member
apple pls just allow grouping notifications by app ;_;
The Real Abed
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Not working. Like literally. That was the first thing I tried. I can hold it down for an hour and it wont shut off. And I cant shut down because it requires touch screen interaction.
After a bit more experimenting Ive determined that its the system itself that is acting weird. I first discovered it when I asked Siri to launch Tiny Tower so I could let it wear the battery down. I accidentally touched the screen and it worked. So I determined that apps work almost normally. However any scrolling is broken. I can scroll in some apps but not in others. And anything thats system backend related, i.e. Home Screen, notifications, NC and CC, the shut down dialog and I assume the phone answering screen if I ever get a call, all dont let me touch them. Something seems to be frozen or something. As soon as I discovered I could use apps I opened settings and set it to never sleep the screen.
If I try to force reboot it wont do anything. Except accidentally take a screenshot sometimes. (I now have 4 shots of my home screen) if I press Power it does nothing. If I hold it it opens the shutdown screen but I cant use it. Asking Siri to shut down gives me a mesage saying she cant do that and giving me instructions I cant use.
Im running Tiny Tower right now. Down to 48%. If I can get it to 0% maybe I can force a system reboot. Hopefully its a bug that wont happen much. At worst Ill restore it from iTunes when I get home. Thatll surely shut it off.
I can't believe they haven't implemented this
Zeyphersan
Banned
If youre taking screenshots youre doing the wrong combination. Its not power and home, its power and volume down on the 7s because the home button isnt a real button
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Oh geeze. Youre right. Thing is Im pretty sure Ive always been able to do it with power and home before on my Plus. I never thought volume would work because it always lowered the volume even if the power was held so I assumed it wouldnt.
I got it rebooted and now my screen works again. Im so relieved. But damn now Im down to 26%. Haha
Anyway what a weird bug.
On iPad Mini 2: Family sharing of apps is working again for me. System animations seem not as choppy as PB3. Drag & drop of homescreen icons isn't quite as glitchy as before (but still more finicky than iOS 10).
badcrumble
Member
Especially with the differentiation between 'new' and 'old' notifications they've got a good framework for grouping the old ones by app but keeping the new ones in the order they were received. If anything it feels like the best possible *reason* to differentiate between new and old.
badcrumble
Member
Yeah. I think that app extensions and widgets are great as ways to essentially have an app perform actions without taking over the main screen, and ideally the 3D Touch menus on apps will also do this (right now they're basically fancy URL schemes that still require the app to be opened up).
Notifications are gradually getting the capability to do this more and more often (although sometimes only being able to quick reply easily when a notification first arrives is annoying, but the problem goes beyond making notifications easily actionable windows into an app - they're also something we want to *triage*. Understanding notifications as a combination of an inbox (to be cleared) and a feed (which should display the most relevant things first) is crucial to making Notification Center as effective as possible, and I'm not certain Apple quite gets how to do that. Solving that problem is an experience that'll also help them with improving News.app and Mail.app, honestly.
Good triage doesn't just mean making them more and more actionable, it means being able to jump to a given app's notification settings (or being able to mute an app right from NC), it means (and Android doesn't do this yet either and I think it should) being able to natively 'snooze' any given notification, and it definitely means intelligent notification grouping and ordering. And fast controls for clearing them out.
I've taken a lot of time to customize my notifications on iOS to make sure that only relevant ones make their way through, but it shouldn't have taken that much work to do so.
badcrumble
Member
There are like no sexy features for High Sierra at all outside of faster Safari. If you're not a developer, don't beta test it, honestly.
The Real Abed
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I don't know where you're getting a faster Safari. For me Safari is shit at handling all major sites. YouTube is slow as molasses, Twitter slows down really badly. FaceBook. The Technology Preview on Sierra was faster (Until the most recent version which broke everything completely. Horrible corruption bug that destroys your browser until you erase all its settings and Library folders to start over again, at which point it just corrupts again.)
In fact I installed High Sierra because I figured the regular High Sierra Safari would be better than the Sierra Tech Preview. I've been using the Tech Preview exclusively on Sierra for months because Safari was shit. And it's still shit. And I don't know why.
I feel like I'm the only one with this problem. Surely it couldn't be going on forever. It was like this in the first PB too before I reverted back.
installed the tvOS PB last night.. a cool feature I came across was, after the first tap to bring up the timeline, tap a second time and the timeline changes to an ETA. So if I had -23:00 remaining from the time of this post, tapping it would change the timeline to say 12:28pm. Pretty nice
Also you can double tap the pad now to zoom in on content that isn't 16:9. I'll never use it, but I know we just had a thread here in OT about people bitching about letterboxing.
Also you can double tap the pad now to zoom in on content that isn't 16:9. I'll never use it, but I know we just had a thread here in OT about people bitching about letterboxing.
BUNTING1243
Banned
"System" is taking up like half my storage space on iPad Pro running PB4, anyone else having this issue?
infiniteloop
Member
Ugly new App Store icon.
New maps too, Apple Park!
The Real Abed
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App Store icon is bad but I really don't like the iTunes Store one either. I'm gonna miss the App Store icon. It was... iconic. Because it's basically the same icon Apple's used for applications for 20+ years.
minor effort
Banned
I had the issue on my 6S+ on PB3. System kept growing until it consumed all available storage.
I did an iCloud restore and the issue hasn't resurfaced yet. It's been about two weeks or so.
DOWN
Banned
Agreed. Current icon looks like some generic art editor software cliche
badcrumble
Member
if anything it incorrectly made people think the app store is full of creativity and productivity software instead of f2p games. good on apple for heading off a potential false advertising class action suit tbh
Technosteve
Banned
Maps icon is apple home space ship
Yes. I did a restore the other day and its grown to 22 GB with almost nothing installed.
badcrumble
Member
I wonder if this has something to do with mirroring your iCloud Drive storage of your desktop/documents folders. Seems like a possible culprit to me.
ILoveMcChickens
Member
Hope this one is better than the last one, which ruined my battery life. I went out for 45 minutes for lunch and it dropped from 80% down to 50%.
BUNTING1243
Banned
yeah I can literally watch it tick up on the storage settings screen.
super annoying because I've had no issues of PB otherwise
Michael F. Assbender
Banned
Yeah that new App Store icon is poop. It looks like breadsticks.
Paint brush, pencil, and ruler.
The old App Store icon is from the days when Macs were mostly known for desktop publishing and the creative arts.
The new icon isn't amazing, but it's a good evolution that shares the same familiar shape, is more balanced, works better at smaller sizes, and loses the old elements that no longer communicated what the App Store is.
The new Maps icon is a heck of a lot more visually balanced.
345triangle
Member
they pretty much did for iOS 8. that was a good year, then 3D touch happened