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Beta 5 as a daily driver?
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Are app switching animations choppy for you? Mine are a bit but not much. Its not smooth but works fine.
The app switcher itself is smooth for me, but if I have more than one or two open, tapping to enter one of them is a bit choppy.
So far it seems fine, a lot like beta 4. Nowhere long enough to even comment on the battery.
I get the skepticism, and am not one to suggest that everyone should run the betas on their daily driver... but there is a huge difference between public beta 2 and public beta 3. It's much more stable and the battery issues have pretty much been resolved. I think that I've seen 2 spring board crashes since installing it on my iPhone 6 Pluss on Wednesday, but no issues beyond that. It's smooth like buttah!
I am still not running the watchOS beta - because there's no way out of that without sending your watch back to Apple.
Agree. PB1 was very solid and battery-thrifty. PB2 had lots of crashes and burned through my battery. PB3 seems to be an improvement on PB1 and is drastically better than PB2.
Can someone confirm...when you try to change the SMS ringtone or mail ringtone, does the settings app crash and returns you back to home screen?
Not on either DB5 (iPhone 5) or PB3 (iPhone 6 Plus). It's all good again. That was a PB2 thing.
Side discussion - Apple Pay on Apple Watch relies on credit card setups on iOS. The current beta 5 has had issues adding some of my credit cards to the watch. It could be specific to Citibank only. Four cards synced over, but 2 can not. All is fine on phone but watch is missing two cards.
PB3 is definitely usable as a daily driver. HOWEVER, there are a few bugs that could be deal breakers depending on usage (on a 6 Plus at least).
There's a particularly nasty BT audio bug where when playing media in another non-native Music app app the play/pause button on the headphones will pause the media AND open music and play the last track you were listening to. Pushing play/pause again only pauses the Music app. That been insanely annoying this weekend while I was doing chores.
One that will crash the system is a rotation bug while playing media. Every once in a while it freezes and requires a reboot. Nothing too bad but annoying for sure.
Of course the system is slower than it would be if all the diagnostic software wasn't running in the background. That's expected in a beta though.
There's a particularly nasty BT audio bug where when playing media in another non-native Music app app the play/pause button on the headphones will pause the media AND open music and play the last track you were listening to. Pushing play/pause again only pauses the Music app. That been insanely annoying this weekend while I was doing chores.
One that will crash the system is a rotation bug while playing media. Every once in a while it freezes and requires a reboot. Nothing too bad but annoying for sure.
Of course the system is slower than it would be if all the diagnostic software wasn't running in the background. That's expected in a beta though.
It's definitely close to GM, I'd say at least one more beta and it be perfect though.
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Running PB3 as my daily driver on the 6Plus for a few days now, I have to say I'm impressed. Yes some transitions are a little slower, but generally the experience is great, I am getting better battery life than 8.4 thats for sure.