To be honest? Yes. The only thing I’ve noticed is I depleted my battery in a single day now, where I never did that before. In return you get a liquid smooth UI and faster face ID recognition.
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iOS 11.3 Beta 1 Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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I now believe it was the throttling of my old 6 Plus with a low battery design capacity had more to do with it. A lot of weird crashes disappeared when I got on the 11.3 beta. CarPlay is no longer a slug and works as expected. I knew it wasn't my head unit anyway because my wife's 8 never crashed it and worked quickly.
And the mute switch does not vibrate when switch in silent mode, also system haptick doesn‘t work
I would re-read the original post. He’s not having any issues with iTunes recognizing and syncing with his device, and he has a Windows PC, not a Mac.
I read it, and understood it. Drivers are needed for the phone to talk to the PC. These drivers would be installed with iTunes. I only mentioned my personal experience with my MacBook because it’s obvious that there were significant changes made, and to bring attention to this fact, so the OP is mindful of it.
I had this problem, too. But after enabling JavaScript in the Safari setting it’s gone!
This has absolutely nothing to do with iTunes, iCloud, or a macOS beta.
Battery was good for me on 11.2.5 on X but it's definitely better for me on 11.3b1.
My new messages are syncing between my phone and laptop, but old messages aren't. For example, if a new iMessage comes in and I get it on both devices (as always), deleting it from one now deletes it from the other as well. Perfect. However, my phone only has messages going back 6 months (when I set it up as new for some reason) whereas on my laptop the messages go back a couple of years. These historical messages aren't being sent to my phone.
Not sure if that's a bug or intended behaviour, so I've not reported it. As lots of others have said already, it's a shame we can't see things that use iCloud to sync (e.g. iMessages and text shortcuts) actually on icloud.com.
Not having any of these problems on my X. Pretty much everything works fine except attention awareness when a phone call comes in.
Updated to 11.3 on my iPhone 8, and so far the biggest issue for me is that many of my books in the Books app are all disorganized. I keep them all in different categories and a bunch of them are kicked back into the main Books category, and can’t be moved from where they are. When I try to move them to a new category or even just manually move them within the Books category they snap back to where they came from. Definitely not a catastrophic bug by any means, just a big annoying!
Likely app specific but this has been a pretty annoying bug. Pops up every time I open the app.
Sometimes when I go to watch a video on YouTube, facebook, or even play music, the volume will have turned itself all the way up and be maxed out. Afraid my phone’s speakers are going to blow. Out of all the iOS betas I’ve done, this is the most frustrating and potentially harmful bug I’ve seen.
Improvement in performance but also decreased battery (at least on my 6s with 300 cycles battery).