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iOS 11 beta 4 daily driver?

SumYoungGai said:
fwiw i'm not having any of those issues aside from the occasional spinning circle here and there. it's fine as a daily driver.
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Yep. I will reiterate, this latest beta is a massive improvement over previous betas.

And the reason I'm keeping it as my daily driver is for the camera. Great features include HEIF with choosing your own index image for Live Photos, as well as h.265 HEVC videos.

Luckily both my MacBook and iMac are Kaby Lake, so they are fine with HEIF and HEVC in High Sierra.
 
SumYoungGai said:
fwiw i'm not having any of those issues aside from the occasional spinning circle here and there. it's fine as a daily driver.
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just because YOU aren't having them doesn't mean they might not happen to someone else. cause not everyone is using the same hardware as you at the same age, same amount of daily use, same cell carrier or same apps.

so my comment stands. if you can handle having everything go to crap go for it. if not, don't.
 
charlituna said:
just because YOU aren't having them doesn't mean they might not happen to someone else. cause not everyone is using the same hardware as you at the same age, same amount of daily use, same cell carrier or same apps.

so my comment stands. if you can handle having everything go to crap go for it. if not, don't.
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The risk with beta 4 is likely much lower than with beta 1. There is still a risk, but then again there is a risk with the release versions too. But that's what backups are for.

Historically, in general the later betas are much, much, much better than the early betas, for obvious reasons. I think we have hit the tipping point for "OK-for-many-if-not-most-enthusiasts-as-a-daily-driver" with the current DB4/PB3. I wouldn't have said the same thing for any of the previous betas.

Ironically, I've never had an iPhone or iPad "go to crap" with a beta install. I have had them "go to crap" with installs of official releases though.
 
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Is something wrong with my iCloud or something? iPhone 7 and iPad Pro 9.7 have been extremely buggy with every beta. Much more than usual betas.
 
I upgraded my iPhone 7 to iOS 11 PB3 (beta4) yesterday, so far only one apps has not been working, and that is a news app, that can easily be substituted with the their website.

I have the original Apple Watch, running watchOS 3.2.3, and the only problem I have seen so far, is that the music app on the watch can't see what my iPhone is doing. So the watch can't display what music is being played, or control it.

iOS 11 feels generally snappy, works pretty well. Moving apps around though, is a little buggy.
 
iOS 11 beta 4 on my iPhone 7 seems no less stable than some of the final releases of iOS 7 and 8. on the iPad though it's much less smooth, seems each beta it gets better but man does that new springboard have a memory leak.
 
Had it on IPP 12.9 since beta DP1 and now on DP4 and all good in the hood. A few glitches but nothing too scary. Put it on a spare iPhone 5s and that is all good, so now currently installing on my daily iPhone 7+.

..knowing my luck all my 'non-production' units will be fine and my DD will die :)

Still, I know it's a Beta and that is what backups and DFU mode is for.
 
6s here, used the IPSW method to do a clean install. Other than the horrible battery life, i would say its a fine daily driver.
 
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Just put PB3 on iPhone SE & iPad Air 2, moving over from iOS 10.3.3. Working fine so far on both and actually feels faster than 10.3. Good stuff & more surprises to come with the future betas.
 
I installed PB3 on my main device (iPhone 7+) and so far it’s been fine. A bit slower than the latest iOS10 release, but so far no crashes, no noticeably excessive battery drain, and only minor bugs - no show-stoppers, at least in my experience.
 
I’m running it on an iPad 10.5 and iPhone SE. it’s definitely still a beta, but it works.

I’ve had issues with notification badges failing to clear, ProTube crashing, and worse battery on the iPhone.
 
Konceptz804 said:
Yeah i'm confused, what did I say wrong? I keep a charger with me at all times so its not a big deal. iOS11 just uses the battery a lot more than the final version of iOS 10.3.3
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IOS 11 BETA is using more battery, not IOS 11.
 
I also have worse battery life with IOS 11 PB 3 on my iPhone 6S+ than before, but have not noticed that much change on my first Gen iPad Pro 12.9. However, this is just an early beta and I'm not that concerned about it. The iPhone 6S+ is not my daily driver for that I use a iPhone 7+. I was going to sell the iPhone 6S+ but then when the Public Betas came out I decided to have some fun playing with them. Something I've not been able to do before. I have been having fun discovering all the things you can do with it. My favorite thing right now is the "Screen Recording," I showed this to a friend who works in a big box store that sells Apple Products and he put the Public Beta on one of his phones just so he could make recordings to give customers a short video when he answers their questions.

I plan to do the same thing with it when my sister asks me questions about the iPhone that she bought from me.
 
This build has been a significant improvement over the last beta. A few small bugs but nothing show stopping. Battery life is definitely diminished over iOS 10.3.3. I’d say it’s useable as a daily driver as long as you are ok with reduced battery life and/or have access to a charger mid day.
 
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Updated to PB 3 last night.

Not really long enough to give a full analysis , however first thoughts.

Currently running nicely on my 64GB 6S+

Battery life certainly doesn’t seem too bad at all , considering it’s been heavily used & indexing etc. Certainly no worse to what I was experiencing prior to 10.3.3

Certainly a delay with 3D Touch , about a second I’d say.

Seems smooth with majority of stuff , swiping between screens all ok , however certainly choppiness with closing apps sometimes.

Had 1 respiring. Was editing apps via the more button in the iMessage tray. Went to add Carrot weather & all crashed on me.

All but 1 of my regular apps works fine. The only one that isn’t working correctly is MileWiz mileage tracker. Can use , but it sporadically logs & notifies me of the trip I’m doing every 5-10 Miles , even whilst I’m still on it. Once I’ve reached my destination it’s not informing me of entire trip & I have to add it manually. Once added the mileage rate calculation is also wrong. Can certainly live with this currently & informed the developers.

So I’m still playing with it & no doubt will discover more. Last year with iOS 10 I jumped on board at PB4 , so about 2 weeks earlier this year. Certainly no problems for me currently for this not to be a daily driver , & hopefully the next update in a week or so should polish further , & at a regular rate thereafter.

Cheers
 
I've been running B4 since it came out and it's pretty fine (although not as good anymore as it was day 1). It did respring once on me yesterday and had a few annoying app crashes (music app is the worst offender when I'm browsing the song queue while airplaying to a bluetooth speaker). The stutter has gotten a bit worse but it usually only lasts a few seconds then it's smooth again.
App Store Updates does seem to get stuck a lot, showing me no new updates even though there are a few (they show up once the phone updated them automatically).
A few random animation issues I guess? Sometimes apps open via the zoom-in animation, other times they slide in from the right. Can't reproduce it at will, but it seems like apps that are in the app switcher sometimes slide in from the right.
The widget screen tends to glitch out the show more/less state of apps (weather widget is always set to expanded but sometimes it's the small version).
Mail app has a permanent "Checking for mail" hint at the bottom and the manual refresh loader gets stuck until I change mail boxes.
3DTouching an app got really laggy the past few days, I'll have to reset and see if it changes anything.
Still not really used to the cover sheet mechanic, I find myself pulling down on the lock screen to check notifications a lot. I see why it's an improvement though, way easier to swipe up to see past notifications than it is to slide down the notification center with bigger phones. Only thing I hate is that reachability no longer allows you to invoke the cover sheet right above the moved down apps (or it's broken here, no clue).
The people / faces are of the photos app has no way to add new faces/people. It seems the only way to add new people is via an individual photo which is a step back imo.
I've reported all issues in the feedback app, there were a few more but I forgot about them.

Battery life is surprisingly good, I had around 30h standby with 7h usage last time I checked at 5%. No unexpected shutdowns when the battery is low, previous iOS betas usually shut down when my battery percentage was below 20% (could've been the 6S battery issue, not sure).
 
I installed pB3 yesterday and it's ok. Only thing is really annoying is the text messages. It takes a second to send after you click send. It's like there's a lag
 
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