Given they had the Walkie Talkie vulnerability doesn't look like they are rolling it out just yet. Guessing it'll be next week now.
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iOS 12.4 Beta 6 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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Battery life seems better on xs max on beta 6 is it just me or does anyone else see a good improvement in battery life
I just installed, when I reboot or hard reset I am presented with the normal white screen with black apple logo (as normal) however it then turns black (normally after this i would be presented with the screen to enter my passcode)
now it boots to white screen with apple logo, black screen and then white screen with apple logo again followed by a quick black screen and then the screen to enter my passcode.
I didn’t think this was normal and never happened with any earlier iOS 12 versions. So I downloaded the IPSW and DFU restored and set up as new, its still happening? Is this new? Anyone else have it?
Edit: I guess it must be new in 12.4.
now it boots to white screen with apple logo, black screen and then white screen with apple logo again followed by a quick black screen and then the screen to enter my passcode.
I didn’t think this was normal and never happened with any earlier iOS 12 versions. So I downloaded the IPSW and DFU restored and set up as new, its still happening? Is this new? Anyone else have it?
Edit: I guess it must be new in 12.4.
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Posted this a few posts above yours today! Still going strong on XS a few hours later.
Anyone else getting apps asking for location access again when they get updated? Google Maps and Yelp were updated today and when I launched Maps, it asked for location permission again. Then I got curious so I launched Yelp and it also had to ask again.
I'm wondering if this is related to the beta, or if something else is going on.
I'm wondering if this is related to the beta, or if something else is going on.
I haven't seen this for any of my location apps, including Yelp.
Seems there's some random behavior across different devices when it comes to beta updates. I've seen people say they have been prompted to go through Siri setup and some have had the "your phone has been updated to iOS 12.4" message while others do not.
Everyone here can laugh here if you want, but I'm still on 12.4 on my Iphone XS. It runs awesome and I've been afraid to update it. (WHen I ask people at apple or At&T I will hear complete opposite answers like "Don't update it now, it's going to run super super slow on the new software!", or I hear "Yes, update it, it will run quicker!"
I never liked updating because there is always a new issue. I'm a power user and am on this phone 8 hours a day for work stuff. The issue now is, some apps won't run anymore. I hate how apple basically forces you to upgrade. I wanted some opinions from the power users here. Maybe I should make a new post, but wanted to post here first.
I never liked updating because there is always a new issue. I'm a power user and am on this phone 8 hours a day for work stuff. The issue now is, some apps won't run anymore. I hate how apple basically forces you to upgrade. I wanted some opinions from the power users here. Maybe I should make a new post, but wanted to post here first.
Ok big update here. I finally broke down and got a Iphone 15 pro with 17.4 ios on it. Even though I replaced my battery with an extended battery many months ago (made the phone last forever) more and more apps started breaking on that old firmware and I couldn't update them on that old ios. The phone ran great but I didn't want to slow it down with updating the ios. Again, I was scared to update that old phone thinking it would super slow it down.
The new 15 pro is blazing fast and is working good. I restored from an Itunes backup from the Xs still on 12.4. The backup took 7 hours, 512 gig XS that only had 40 mb of free space lol. THe new phone has USB C so when I did the restore to the new phone I thought it would do it much much faster since usb C on the iphone 15 is supposed to be super fast. The restore took close to 6 hours. I'm guessing maybe due to the fact there are a ridiculous amount of photos. If anyone is stuck on a phone with an older ios and doesn't want to update the phone in fear that it may cripple it etc, I can tell you this 15 pro is freaking fast as hell.
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One other small annoyance on the 15 pro with 17.4. I'm not sure if this was a feature change or not, again, I came from 12.4 beta firmware.
In text messages, say someone texted you today, and you went in and deleted the individual text from them, (this would move the conversation back down your list to say yesterday or the last time they texted you, and that message wouldn't show up at the top of your screen still) Now with ios 17.4, if you delete say all the texts someone sent you today, their message thread still says up at the same spot from the original time stamp that was sent to you. It doesn't know to put that message down in your list further after you delete the single messages. I don't know when that changed? or if it's a bug in the new ios.
Or say you send a new text today to someone that that haven't texted in a few days ago... If you delete your own message that you just sent them after you send it, it still has their message thread at the TOP of your phone, it doesn't push it back to a few days later where it should be.
The new 15 pro is blazing fast and is working good. I restored from an Itunes backup from the Xs still on 12.4. The backup took 7 hours, 512 gig XS that only had 40 mb of free space lol. THe new phone has USB C so when I did the restore to the new phone I thought it would do it much much faster since usb C on the iphone 15 is supposed to be super fast. The restore took close to 6 hours. I'm guessing maybe due to the fact there are a ridiculous amount of photos. If anyone is stuck on a phone with an older ios and doesn't want to update the phone in fear that it may cripple it etc, I can tell you this 15 pro is freaking fast as hell.
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One other small annoyance on the 15 pro with 17.4. I'm not sure if this was a feature change or not, again, I came from 12.4 beta firmware.
In text messages, say someone texted you today, and you went in and deleted the individual text from them, (this would move the conversation back down your list to say yesterday or the last time they texted you, and that message wouldn't show up at the top of your screen still) Now with ios 17.4, if you delete say all the texts someone sent you today, their message thread still says up at the same spot from the original time stamp that was sent to you. It doesn't know to put that message down in your list further after you delete the single messages. I don't know when that changed? or if it's a bug in the new ios.
Or say you send a new text today to someone that that haven't texted in a few days ago... If you delete your own message that you just sent them after you send it, it still has their message thread at the TOP of your phone, it doesn't push it back to a few days later where it should be.