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iOS 11 beta 4 daily driver?

No major issues on iPhone SE & iPad Air 2, apart from a faster battery drain, which is normal at this stage.
 
Running fine on an iPad Pro 10.5, with lower than optimal battery life (much better than db3 though).

All apps are working, a major exception being MXPlayer which is consuming a lot of battery, but that likely needing new OS compatibility from the dev.

Apple News seems to have disappeared from my iPad. Anyone else seeing this?
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legaleye3000 said:
Anyone on a 10.5 ipp?
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Yes, may I help you
 
Way too many bugs remain to be my daily driver on my phone. On my iPad, which is not mission critical, I am playing with it.
 
I have it running in my SE which I use as my main phone and really have no issues except the wifi not turning off when I swipe up and off. I have to go to settings to permanently turn it off. Granted I also don't run a ton of apps.
 
bahndoos said:
Running fine on an iPad Pro 10.5, with lower than optimal battery life (much better than db3 though).

All apps are working, a major exception being MXPlayer which is consuming a lot of battery, but that likely needing new OS compatibility from the dev.

Apple News seems to have disappeared from my iPad. Anyone else seeing this?
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Yes, may I help you
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My news app disappeared when I turned on location services and it probably realised I wasn't running a US account. I still don't understand what's stopping Apple from rolling out this app to users worldwide.
 
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I am using it as a daily driver but have figured out the bugs. Such as hitting the lock button and having the screen darken for 2 minutes.some occasional springboarding during the day and horrible battery life. Hopefully beta Tuesday or Wednesday will improve things
 
zhenya said:
Beta 2 and 3 were reasonably bug-free for me on my 9.7" iPad Pro. A few graphical glitches but little else. Today on Beta 4 I had my first full lockup where I had to hard restart.
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Same iPad Pro 9.7, similar results. Some lockups when multitasking/control center but otherwise great and much improved battery life vs prior betas
 
jbindy1 said:
I am using it as a daily driver but have figured out the bugs. Such as hitting the lock button and having the screen darken for 2 minutes.some occasional springboarding during the day and horrible battery life. Hopefully beta Tuesday or Wednesday will improve things
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Beta monday
 
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Abazigal said:
My news app disappeared when I turned on location services and it probably realised I wasn't running a US account. I still don't understand what's stopping Apple from rolling out this app to users worldwide.
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Ahhh yes. I completely forgot I was using Egypt as my region as it enables the FaceTime block imposed by the UAE. Thanks for bringing it to mind!
 
Now that b5 has been out for almost 12 hrs, what does everyone think about it as a daily driver?
 
JerTheGeek said:
Now that b5 has been out for almost 12 hrs, what does everyone think about it as a daily driver?
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It's much more of a daily driver candidate than B4. With B4 I kept having glitches and high CPU issues (with battery drain), all pretty much gone in B5.

robert1998 said:
Is beta 5 getting your iPhones hotter than usual?
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Not anymore, no. With B4 that was the case, though.
 
ManuCH said:
It's much more of a daily driver candidate than B4. With B4 I kept having glitches and high CPU issues (with battery drain), all pretty much gone in B5.



Not anymore, no. With B4 that was the case, though.
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Thanks for your response! I will try it when PB is released.
 
GIZBUG said:
Look at the previous 4 pages on running "betas" as "daily drivers"
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Each beta is different though. There are oftentimes performance improvements and of course bugs fixed with each one. And yet sometimes there's downgrades. Each beta is different, so it's worth asking with each one whether it's decent enough to run on a daily device. The advice given for b4 has no effect on b5.
 
JerTheGeek said:
Each beta is different though. There are oftentimes performance improvements and of course bugs fixed with each one. And yet sometimes there's downgrades. Each beta is different, so it's worth asking with each one whether it's decent enough to run on a daily device. The advice given for b4 has no effect on b5.
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Agreed. After reading the main beta 5 thread, opinions on performance are decidedly mixed with this build. I'm considering staying with PB3 when PB4 is released later today.
 
MacDevil7334 said:
Agreed. After reading the main beta 5 thread, opinions on performance are decidedly mixed with this build. I'm considering staying with PB3 when PB4 is released later today.
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I'm still gonna hold off on my 7 Plus I think. About to go on vacation and definitely don't want issues while I'm gone. 10.3.3 is just too smooth and optimized for me to switch to a beta rn
 
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