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iOS 11.3 Beta 5 Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

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cbreze said:
Didn't see this mentioned in the notes or in this thread but I thought there was going to be some sort of method to disable any potential cpu throttling due to battery weakness. I see the battery health beta and shows I have 94% maximum capacity on my iPhone 7 and says it is supporting normal peak performance. Sounds good. Does some magic on/off switch appear when it drops to throttle territory? Curious is all as that was a big deal when it first hit the fan and Apple had to back peddle a bit and throw us a bone. I like the battery health thingie tho
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Mine previously showed that it was at peak performance. It changed a few days ago.
 

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ras113 said:
Why do apple push out new betas when there still is remaning issues from other betas left?

I really hope 11.3 will be out soon, but rather wait one more month to fix everything.

When 11.3 comes out, will imessage really work fine with icloud syncing? Its beta 5 and still problems?
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How else do you propose that they test a fix for said issues? That's the entire point of betas, to test things in order to fix them for final, mass consumer, release.
 
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HackDaBox said:
OK its just Apple would monitor all syncing if you had installed it on both iOS and Mac to understand where the problem is or was but it sounds like its working much better for you now !
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It’s much better but I’m not satisfied yet, there are still some issues with messages to iCloud that needs to be addressed. See the wiki!
 
BlankStar said:
Tested it and settings.app hangs and crashes after a while. It says it's calculation the categories.

*edit* I edited the wiki-post.
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Great it’s not just me lol.

Thought it might be because I only have about 6ish gigs left on my 64gb X. Probably still could be lol.
 
simba4 said:
Yes there is, just receive a message and there is no message :)
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I had this issue in beta 4 where either some text messages were missing even recently receive message or not in order but force closing the message app fixed it temporary and pops up after couple of days but no issue with iMessage though. I assume probably related to WiFi Calling since I’ve been getting 2-3 of the same texts. I haven't experience it yet in this beta though.
 
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jhall8 said:
Mine previously showed that it was at peak performance. It changed a few days ago.
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Yikes! At only 93%. I feel that poor iOS coding can be responsible for some unexpected shutdowns, even with a healthy battery. I’m guessing that’s what’s going on here, but the throttling trigger doesn't know the difference, so it just toggles on.

I would definitely send feedback to Apple regarding what you are seeing though. Do you happen to know the actual charge cycles on your computer phone’s battery?

edit: “computer phone”...haha, no clue where that came from.
 
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Chazzle said:
Yikes! At only 93%. I feel that poor iOS coding can be responsible for some unexpected shutdowns, even with a healthy battery. I’m guessing that’s what’s going on here, but the throttling trigger doesn't know the difference, so it just toggles on.

I would definitely send feedback to Apple regarding what you are seeing though. Do you happen to know the actual charge cycles on your computer phone’s battery?
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Good info—thanks. I don’t know the actual charge cycles. I entered feedback.
 
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Major issue on 6s: lock screen goes crazy (see screenshot below) occasionally and forces me to restart the phone.

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btw. How do I edit the original post to add issues I observed? I can't find an option for that.
 
I'm not sure if this was discussed with Beta 4, but with Beta 5 there still is no battery health beta for the 5s. It shows on my 6+, but not on the 5s. So apple made a conscious choice to exclude the 5s from this, I wonder if it will still be excluded from the official 11.3 release.

Seems weird, why would they make it show on all 64 bit phones, but leave out the 5s...
 
My system storage amount has gone up to about 22gb in this beta.. not sure why it's so high. Anyone else see this on their phone? Someone said a way to fix is to enable and quickly disable "optimize photos," but no luck here.
 
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JT2002TJ said:
I'm not sure if this was discussed with Beta 4, but with Beta 5 there still is no battery health beta for the 5s. It shows on my 6+, but not on the 5s. So apple made a conscious choice to exclude the 5s from this, I wonder if it will still be excluded from the official 11.3 release.

Seems weird, why would they make it show on all 64 bit phones, but leave out the 5s...
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I believe they only introduced the throttling with the 6, so your 5s doesn’t have the capability.
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Here’s an excerpt from Apple’s website-

“For iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, and iPhone 7 Plus, iOS dynamically manages performance peaks to prevent the device from unexpectedly shutting down so that the iPhone can still be used. This performance management feature is specific to iPhone and does not apply to any other Apple products.”
 
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Chazzle said:
I believe they only introduced the throttling with the 6, so your 5s doesn’t have the capability.
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Here’s an excerpt from Apple’s website-

“For iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, and iPhone 7 Plus, iOS dynamically manages performance peaks to prevent the device from unexpectedly shutting down so that the iPhone can still be used. This performance management feature is specific to iPhone and does not apply to any other Apple products.”
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1. I'm not sure I believe they didn't throttle the 5s as well, but I'll take their word for it.
2. Since they already introduced a battery health (meter), why not just implement it for all phones on that version of iOS? They would have had to go out of their way to make it not show up on the 5s...

But I guess this isn't what this tread is about. I really was just pointing it out, in case others wanted to know. I was hoping it would have shown up in beta 5, even though it wasn't in beta 4.
 
jhall8 said:
Mine previously showed that it was at peak performance. It changed a few days ago.
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So at 93% battery capacity you had a shutdown? Is this the new normal? Seems harsh and premature. I thought it was more like the lower 80%'s range when this would occur.
 
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In the first 48 hours since installing beta 5, battery life seems to be much improved over beta 4. My X was getting ~6 hours on beta 4 and is getting 9 or 10 on beta 5 so far, which is similar to my experience under 11.2.6.
 
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