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iOS 11 Beta 1: Changes, Bug Fixes, Enhancements, etc.

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Thank you Chrissuth! I was just tapping and holding the second icon, waiting for it to do something. I wasn't tapping and releasing or double tapping. Any suggestions for the drag and drop? Or is that just a bug where it's working for some, but not others? For example, I cannot drag a picture from a iMessage to anything else.
 
kmichalec said:
Thank you Chrissuth! I was just tapping and holding the second icon, waiting for it to do something. I wasn't tapping and releasing or double tapping. Any suggestions for the drag and drop? Or is that just a bug where it's working for some, but not others? For example, I cannot drag a picture from a iMessage to anything else.
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Sorry mate. I'm not running iOS 11 yet. But I saw 9to5 mac said about the multi drag for apps. Glad it's sorted for you now.
 
idrisinan said:
Hello , in iOS 11 beta on iPhone 6, how about messages or what ever , notifications on lock screen? Can you reply messages with 3D Touch effect or swipe left ? Can you post screen shot or screen recordings about that ? Thanks.
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On lock screen, you can force touch for quick reply on message and reply with dark keyboard. For app notifications, you will need to force touch and tap on it again to redirect you to app. Swiping on notification does nothing on iOS 11
 
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iGeneo said:
Here's a summary:

HomeKit triggers will now support:
  • conditional triggers (if I arrive home and it is after dark, run Scene X)
  • absolute date and time events (ie - 5pm on June 9th)
  • relative time offset (1 hour before sunrise, 2 minutes after sunset, etc) Finally!
  • The relative time offset could be gated relative to an event (ie start 1 hour before sunrise and finish 1 hour after sunrise)
  • This gating feature could be applied to other inputs as well - such as temperature thresholds
  • Conditional presence is functional now (you can trigger events when one person leaves - and/or when ALL people leave). This could mean - Jane's bedroom lights go out when Jane leaves. It could also mean that all lights go out and the thermostat changes when the last person leaves - or the first person comes home.
  • End events. When I open my patio door at night, the light will come on. Ten minutes after coming on, the light will turn off.
  • Events can be run on specific days of the week. ( I feel like that's currently possible... perhaps I am wrong)
  • Execute once. You can set up a single shot event.
  • Bluetooth LE triggered automation will experience a reduction of latency from several seconds to under a second due to a change in the broadcast process.
  • HomeKit Faucets are intended to - I kid you not - allow you to warm up the shower or bath via Siri.
  • HomeKit can now be authorized by SOFTWARE!!! In my opinion, this is huge - and could open the floodgates for all of the accessories that don't have a MFi chip.
  • Apple has added more MFi certification labs to speed up the release of accessories.



    More here: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2017/705/
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I wish it could be tied to the weather. so i i arrive home during the day and its cloudy/rainy outside then turn on the lights. This would especially be useful for sprinkler systems.
 
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shk718 said:
I wish it could be tied to the weather. so i i arrive home during the day and its cloudy/rainy outside then turn on the lights. This would especially be useful for sprinkler systems.
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I've been on an automation kick recently and I've found HomeKit frustrating and fragile; both HomeKit itself and 3rd party support for it.

I have a Liftmaster MyQ garage door and they've been promising homekit support for 2 years but never delivered it. In the end I built a Homebridge server on a Raspberry Pi to support it. It works but it is incredibly fragile - If I add/remove functionality about 50% of the time HomeKit becomes corrupted and I have to delete my house and start over (thankfully Phillips Hue App retains its own view and my 20-something lightbulbs can at least be restored quickly)

I bought EcoBee instead of Nest for this house specifically because of its HomeKit support (I half think I should have stuck with Nest and just used the homebridge-nest plugin sometimes though). Its HomeKit support is shambolic though. EcoBee is built around "Comfort Profiles" but these are not exposed to HomeKit. Instead, to add EcoBee in HomeKit you can either set temperatures manually (though unreliably) which then override your schedules or use the app to generate, which it does completely unreliably, often corrupting Scenes or failing to add anything to them.

I have a bunch of Elgato Eve door and window sensors. So, I can use these to get a notification when I'm away, right? No, not really. In iOS 10 notifications are either on or off (which means I get a notification every time I open the patio door etc) or in 11 they can currently be restricted to a time period and when TV OS is updated to a geofence.

Which brings me to Geofencing. In iOS 10 it simply does not work correctly for a household with multiple people. Rules trigger when one person leaves and there is not a concept of "everyone". I'm using another Homebridge plugin called homebridge-people, with this plus an iOS app called locativity, I've set up a web server that receives a ping from our phones when we leave the area and I've added 4 extra states "Me Home", "My GF Home", "Anyone Home" and "No-one Home". This is all a tremendous hack and I had to buy and set up DynDNS on my router to get it to work. Even then HomeKit inexplicably sometimes (maybe 1 time out of 10) fails to trigger - all the conditions are met but the rule simply does not trigger. Even with this hack in place there's still no provision for tying notifications to it (other than another home bridge hack and my patience for those is running thing). Supposedly iOS 11 will fix multi-person geolocation but I'm not holding my breath.

Hue. Well, Hue is OK. Sometimes the app and/or the bridge get confused but they're not difficult to reset.

It's decidedly not the home of the future I envisioned when I started out on this! :(

Edit: Hmm. This post didn't really belong in this thread. Apologies for the rant :oops:
 
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If your in safari, for example on this page, tap on the adress field.

Now the keyboard opens and the link is marked.

Now just hold your finger a second on the marked link, and it turns the link into a movable drag and drop item.

Im on a iphone 6s running ios 11 b1.
 
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Jeeg said:
just wondering if anyone has it installed on the 2017 iPad pros? Getting the beta profile installed and restarting a few times but the OTA still wouldn't show up.
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I did but I downloaded the whole file and installed through itunes
 
Picked up an iPad 10.5” today and upgraded to iOS 11 Beta but when it went to restore from my old iPad that’s already on iOS 11 it’s just stalled on the Apple logo for over an hour. Anyone have an idea what’s going on or how to hurry it along?
 
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Slevin said:
Picked up an iPad 10.5” today and upgraded to iOS 11 Beta but when it went to restore from my old iPad that’s already on iOS 11 it’s just stalled on the Apple logo for over an hour. Anyone have an idea what’s going on or how to hurry it along?
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Put it to DFU mode and restore
 
I haventread the entire conversation, so sorry for possible dupe.

Has anyone noticed continuity doesnt work? It doesnt work for my iPad pro 12.9, and my iphone 7. I only tried using it after my ipad w+had ios 11 and my iphone ios 10, and have since updated the phone to ios 11, but the instant hotspot, global clipboard and handoff still do not work?
 
red_epicness said:
I haventread the entire conversation, so sorry for possible dupe.

Has anyone noticed continuity doesnt work? It doesnt work for my iPad pro 12.9, and my iphone 7. I only tried using it after my ipad w+had ios 11 and my iphone ios 10, and have since updated the phone to ios 11, but the instant hotspot, global clipboard and handoff still do not work?
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Works ok for me. Handoff apps appear on the right side of the dock.
 
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Feenician said:
Works ok for me. Handoff apps appear on the right side of the dock.
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Hmm wierd, i’ll try rebooting both again to make sure. Anything you could think of that i missed in the settings? both deviced have bluetooth and same wifi, asnd handoff is turned on. Could it be that my iphone is from UAE and doesnt support facetime (i dont see it as relevant, but idk?)
 
red_epicness said:
Hmm wierd, i’ll try rebooting both again to make sure. Anything you could think of that i missed in the settings? both deviced have bluetooth and same wifi, asnd handoff is turned on. Could it be that my iphone is from UAE and doesnt support facetime (i dont see it as relevant, but idk?)
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Can't really think of anything. Make sure bluetooth and wifi are on and that Handoff is on in Settings -> General. You might well have an issue with your particular hardware combination too I suppose. Such is beta life.
 
Feenician said:
Can't really think of anything. Make sure bluetooth and wifi are on and that Handoff is on in Settings -> General. You might well have an issue with your particular hardware combination too I suppose. Such is beta life.
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Yeah I understand it’s a beta, im sad that i only discovered these features after installing a beta on the ipad, so i couildnt verify before the beta... I never wanted to keep bluetooth on, scared of power waste. What is your combination that works?
 
red_epicness said:
Yeah I understand it’s a beta, im sad that i only discovered these features after installing a beta on the ipad, so i couildnt verify before the beta... I never wanted to keep bluetooth on, scared of power waste. What is your combination that works?
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iPad Pro 9.7 and iPhone 7+ works but it worked previously on an SE just fine too.

Try reviewing these pages and see if you tick all the boxes

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204689

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204681
 
red_epicness said:
Yeah, I learned about thde features from there... Anyway, I’ll wait for the next beta.
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One thing you can try if anything iCloud related isn't working (and these features are related) is to sign out both devices and sign back in. That often helps when all the other boxes are ticked and it still doesn't work. Be careful if you use Apple Pay though, signing out of and into iCloud will remove all cards and at least one person has reported difficulty re-adding them.
 
Feenician said:
One thing you can try if anything iCloud related isn't working (and these features are related) is to sign out both devices and sign back in. That often helps when all the other boxes are ticked and it still doesn't work. Be careful if you use Apple Pay though, signing out of and into iCloud will remove all cards and at least one person has reported difficulty re-adding them.
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Started the sign-out procedure when I realized that means it will delete the 60GB of photos I would then have to redownload from iCloud Photo Library, sigh
 
red_epicness said:
Started the sign-out procedure when I realized that means it will delete the 60GB of photos I would then have to redownload from iCloud Photo Library, sigh
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If you have the full size versions on there you should be able to choose to leave them on I think. If you have the thumbnails/optimise storage thing then you will have to download but nowhere near the full size. Still, it would be a pain.
 
Feenician said:
If you have the full size versions on there you should be able to choose to leave them on I think. If you have the thumbnails/optimise storage thing then you will have to download but nowhere near the full size. Still, it would be a pain.
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Wow that actually didn’t delete my photos even though it clearly said it will redownload them, and it all works now! Dude you rock! thanks a lot :)
 
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Can anyone with dropbox installed please check what happens if you download a file through safari, then tap on „open in files“.

Before I installed the dropbox app, Safari leads me to the „files“ app, but now it opens downloads in dropbox automatically if I tap on open in files.

Strange. Do I have too much fantasy for saying that maybe default apps are coming? :p
 
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