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Apple Betas 2017 |OT| Half Baked
- Thread starter Majine
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Just keep swiping to the end and don't stop midway-through; it will go away if that's what you were wondering about
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? It is. One swipe left all the way across instantly clears it
Swipe right opens it in one swipe. Small swipes bring up the options
Zeyphersan
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Im still getting used to all the drag and drop stuff on my iPad, but theres some cool things. In Safari you can drag a link all the way to the side and open in split view, or drag it onto the + button to instantly make it a new tab
Edit: the one thing I cannot get used to is the floating window app. Lets say I place safari there because I want to check something real quick, then swipe it away. No problem, thats great. But then I want to open the real, full safari. I swipe up my dock where it is, press safari, and the little window slides back over. From what I can tell the only way to now get safari full screen is to either go back to springboard and launch it from there, place a new app as the floating window and then launch safari (but then I have the same problem with that new app), or swipe down on the window to lock it and then close it. All of those add a bunch of steps that should not be necessary
Edit: the one thing I cannot get used to is the floating window app. Lets say I place safari there because I want to check something real quick, then swipe it away. No problem, thats great. But then I want to open the real, full safari. I swipe up my dock where it is, press safari, and the little window slides back over. From what I can tell the only way to now get safari full screen is to either go back to springboard and launch it from there, place a new app as the floating window and then launch safari (but then I have the same problem with that new app), or swipe down on the window to lock it and then close it. All of those add a bunch of steps that should not be necessary
It's not that hard to figure out. The place you put your finger could have the fingerprint symbol encircled by the Touch ID ring. But given the current prompt doesn't even animate to indicate status, who knows what they're doing.
Yeah, the floating SlideOver pisses me off. I think there's a kind of lack of consensus right now on how things should function and everything's all over the place. Hopefully it gels by the time the GM is released.
Might just be that way for regular Touch ID devices.
The Real Abed
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I wish Apple would make up their minds whether they want a landscape lock screen on the iPhone Plus or not. For the last two betas Ive had a bug where the phone randomly goes into landscape because the sensor is too sensitive and occasionally it causes the lock screen to be landscape. While in beta 2 it was messed up, in beta 3 now its actually properly laid out with the clock on the left and the notifications on the right.
I say just put it in as a feature.
Speaking of which, anyone know why they got rid of the controls on the left and right side of the landscape keyboard? Were they too easy to hit? If theyre gonna get rid of them I wish theyd at least add a split keyboard to the Plus landscape mode.
Ironically I find myself not even using landscape much since switching to a Plus even though it was one of the bullet point features I bought it for. I guess portrait is good enough for me I dont need it except for videos. I wish you could set orientation lock to whitelist video apps. Its like the only time I use landscape.
I say just put it in as a feature.
Speaking of which, anyone know why they got rid of the controls on the left and right side of the landscape keyboard? Were they too easy to hit? If theyre gonna get rid of them I wish theyd at least add a split keyboard to the Plus landscape mode.
Ironically I find myself not even using landscape much since switching to a Plus even though it was one of the bullet point features I bought it for. I guess portrait is good enough for me I dont need it except for videos. I wish you could set orientation lock to whitelist video apps. Its like the only time I use landscape.
Zeyphersan
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Basically. I keep my phone is portrait lock 99.99% of the time. I only take it out for a video in Safari. Apple really has to copy the YouTube app here and let full screen video go widescreen, even in portrait lock. Its really annoying to turn it off just for the duration of that video
I doon't know how the landscape keyboard works now since I don't have the beta on my iPhone, but even though it sounded like a good idea those extra controls and the change in layout on the iPhone's landscape keyboard was pretty bad in practice.
It always threw me off and made me press the wrong keys to the point where I actively avoid typing landscape on iPhone. So this is probably a move for the better.
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Totally agree with this post. That keyboards inconsistency made it hard to switch back and forth to.
Michael F. Assbender
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Same here.
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Ooh I caught a glimpse of the landscape 7 Plus lock screen and liked it
Yeah it does animate on my 7 Plus as well
The new one that appears when you want to open a notification from the lock screen? I didn't animate for me on the iPad so I assumed it doesn't. That's interesting to know.
Anyone using Google Backup And Sync to upload their photos to the web?
I told it to upload my Apple Photos library to the web but it is taking forever... I have a 100gb photos library with 200k photos in it and it has been syncing for a few days now and it still has 150K photos to upload.
... I have a FIOS internet so unless google is being throttled or throttling themselves then I have not explanation for the slowness of the upload.
I can download or upload 100gb pretty quickly otherwise.
I told it to upload my Apple Photos library to the web but it is taking forever... I have a 100gb photos library with 200k photos in it and it has been syncing for a few days now and it still has 150K photos to upload.
... I have a FIOS internet so unless google is being throttled or throttling themselves then I have not explanation for the slowness of the upload.
I can download or upload 100gb pretty quickly otherwise.
Zeyphersan
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Whats happening with it?
Seems to work fine for me. I opened it, switched to a couple other apps, switched back and its still functional
Just comes up with that.
Zeyphersan
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Mine did that on the first beta as well, I called it, entered my voicemail password and it started working after that
You may also have to call your carrier and have them re-enable visual voicemail on your line if somehow that got messed with
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I had to have AT&T reset my voicemail password by googling how to do it. Then I entered the password after hitting Call Voicemail in the phone app and it started working again
Mine was weird. Beta 3 of dev did that, Beta 4 worked fine after that.
metsallica
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Pardon the quick interruption, but this seems to be the most active Apple thread. A coworker is selling his iPad Mini 2 for $100. I'd been wanting an iOS device to mess around with betas on, but this is just barely above the iOS 11 cutoff. Am I heading for a miserable experience? Is the price OK?
Eh. It depends on your tolerance for what a 'miserable experience' is. My girlfriend has an iPad mini 2 that she leaves around the house and doesn't use much anymore. I put iOS 11 beta on it and while it runs, it isn't all that fast, animations aren't very smooth, etc. etc.
Zeyphersan
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The price is good, Im trying to offload a Mini 2 right now with some cases and such for $200. iOS11 will likely be the last release it gets, so it might do relatively poorly... I already has some loading slowness on mine on iOS10, but nothing dealbreaking. A mini 2 is essentially just an iPad Air which I think a couple people here (Guess Who?) are running on the beta, well see if they chime in. Same if anyone is running it on a 5S
Did anyone run into battery/charging issues with PB2 for the iPad? Im running a 12.9 Pro that I keep plugged into a 29W USBC adapter for the entire work day. I usually run split screen apps and most of the time my battery % would be in the high 90s, sometimes dipping down but quickly going back up. I noticed the past few days that my battery would go all the way down into the 60s at times and I even made an Apple appointment this weekend to have the iPad/charger checked out, but now Im thinking it could just be the beta.
I downloaded PB3 and will see how that goes the next few days, but did anyone else deal w/ weird battery/charging issues the past PB update?
I downloaded PB3 and will see how that goes the next few days, but did anyone else deal w/ weird battery/charging issues the past PB update?
Michael F. Assbender
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PB2 was DB3, which was shit on my iPad Air 2 and iPhone 7 Plus batteries.
DB4 is much better.
Zeyphersan
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I think you have that backwards, were currently on PB3/DB4. Theres always more DB than PB.
PB3 has been a godsend to my battery, on my iPad but especially on my iPhone. Its a crazy difference.
I was running it on a mini 4, which probably fares better than the mini 2, and the first few betas were super rough though it has gotten notably better with each beta. Given how much it's been improving it's hard to say what the final release will look like at this point.
Michael F. Assbender
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Lol yeah youre right. Thats what I get for trying to multitask.
metsallica
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I can deal with some stuttering and performance issues so if that's as bad as it gets, but I'd classify most of my iPhone 6 Plus usage in year 2 (Sept 2015-2016) as a miserable experience (if you'd like to set a tolerance bar for me). I have an android tablet I use daily (Nvidia Shield first gen) which still works great but I'm far deeper into the iOS ecosystem (and I prefer it greatly). Since you guys are saying the price isn't bad, I'm left with whether I want to pay $100 to tinker with a beta for a couple months, since it won't be getting any future iOS versions. I live with a Macbook Air with 2GB of RAM, only picked that up because of a really great price, so not sure I want to do the same again. All that said... wasn't in the market for an iPad AT ALL; this just fell into my lap.
Great, thank you, the battery seems much better.
Question for the beta and iPhone texts: anyone having trouble with them going through? My mom is only person I text who doesnt have iMessage and it seems like my texts wont go through to her and it keeps saying message send failure, this an issue thats come up/has a fix?
ARKit-CoreLocation framework is up on github https://github.com/ProjectDent/ARKit-CoreLocation
(This was used to make the AR navigation to Starbucks and AR pins of sightseeing buildings possible, I think the gifs/tweets were posted here as well, cool stuff: https://twitter.com/AndrewProjDent)
E: Fairly accurate even on my WiFi iPad. I'll have to throw it on my brothers 6S later to see if it's better on the phone (it should be, obviously).
(This was used to make the AR navigation to Starbucks and AR pins of sightseeing buildings possible, I think the gifs/tweets were posted here as well, cool stuff: https://twitter.com/AndrewProjDent)
E: Fairly accurate even on my WiFi iPad. I'll have to throw it on my brothers 6S later to see if it's better on the phone (it should be, obviously).
Zeyphersan
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Hm? From the side?
Michael F. Assbender
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Its a bug. Its been happening to me occasionally on my 7 Plus since DB3.
Opening an app causes the app screen to slide in from the right rather than appearing to zoom in from the app icon.
Zeyphersan
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I thought so. Shit I think I saw that in an iOS10 beta
Got the Shakes
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Is this good enough yet to put on my daily driver iPhone 7 Plus? I have the beta on my iPad Pro and it seems quite solid, curious how people using it on an iPhone 7 or 7 Plus feel about it though.
The last one was basically unusable for me.
This beta has been ok. Still some random freezes/odd behaviors.
But it is definitely in a usable state (im on a 7 plus)
Bruce Springsteen
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PB3 is quite stable on the iPad, I'm tempted to add PB4 on my iPhone when it comes out
Is photo stream / iCloud photo sync spotty for anyone else? I just noticed my iPhone pics haven't synced to the iPad since Tuesday 😳
That in general is a thing Apple has to work on, I regularly see these white photos which seem to be iCloud sync errors or sth and don't really go away until whatever happens.
That in general is a thing Apple has to work on, I regularly see these white photos which seem to be iCloud sync errors or sth and don't really go away until whatever happens.
The Real Abed
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Okay. Ive officially decided the blue app is actively using your location bar is extremely annoying, distracting and needs to go. Just make the icon glow when its active. No one really needs to know this that badly. Theres no reason for it to be so in your face. Especially since it causes the app content to shrink and expand and takes away your ability to tap the status bar to get to the top when its active which can be jarring if it happens to pop up just as you are about to touch there.
Please Apple. Dump it. Make it an option. Anything. Just not this.
Please Apple. Dump it. Make it an option. Anything. Just not this.
Zeyphersan
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What app is bugging you?
wolfwolfwolf
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Anybody managed to fix an app not opening? PB3 broke the Bandcamp app and a reinstall hasn't fixed it. App pops up but then immediately just goes back to the home screen.