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iOS 12 Beta 4 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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+1. Public Beta 3 (16A5327f), Watch series 3, watchOS 4.3.2.
What watchOS?
I've restarted phone and watch, no improvement in messages already showing on watch, or new messages received...still no contacts on watch, and siri can't handle things like "text my wife" since it doesn't know the contact info needed to identify that relationship.
Instagram frequently will stop responding to touch. GPS is still bad, putting me in the park next to my house now. :/
I want to say that swiping a notification away from the lockscreen is a lot easier now in beta 4.
it works for me now.. I am on watchos5 beta 4 ..some have said it works with 4.3.2 but I cannot go backwards to test it..
I’ve noticed since iOS 12 when listening to music using the music app, the battery drains faster when listening through the iPhone speakers. It drains normally if I’m using headphones or it’s connected to my cars Bluetooth. Anyone else have this issue. I’ve been reporting it since the 1st beta and it hasn’t been fixed!
I have generally had an issue with tap targets over the past few betas. Getting the screen to react to hitting the buttons located at the top like the ones I’ve highlighted below has been very difficult at times.
iOS 12 beta 4 pretty stable for me on my A1901 iPhone X.
Let’s see if that continues through the next couple of weeks. Had some frequent re springs in beta 3. While using CarPlay, if I used the bottom bar to swipe between apps, the phone would crash and take a while to reboot.
As to be expected with any beta, but I think it’s pretty smooth for the most part.
Let’s see if that continues through the next couple of weeks. Had some frequent re springs in beta 3. While using CarPlay, if I used the bottom bar to swipe between apps, the phone would crash and take a while to reboot.
As to be expected with any beta, but I think it’s pretty smooth for the most part.
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Side note: Every single one of those "redactions" is readable if you were going for privacy there.
Whoa just updated and things feel so much more fluid. Wonder what kind of optimizations they did cause this phone feels very fast. iPhone SE. 
Couple of regressions for me in this beta that I’ve reported.
- Tap targets on the phone sometimes fail. Only noticed in Safari or apps using webviews so far. Restarting the app and/or locking and unlocking usually gets you on your way
- Tap targets on the iPad very often fail and it seems to be aggravated by the hardware keyboard (I can only vouch for magic keyboard). Quite often, again especially in Safari or other webviews, I can’t tap but pulling they keyboard up off the connector allows me to tap them.
A bit irritating but that’s betas for you (I just had to lift my keyboard to tap Post Reply!)
- Tap targets on the phone sometimes fail. Only noticed in Safari or apps using webviews so far. Restarting the app and/or locking and unlocking usually gets you on your way
- Tap targets on the iPad very often fail and it seems to be aggravated by the hardware keyboard (I can only vouch for magic keyboard). Quite often, again especially in Safari or other webviews, I can’t tap but pulling they keyboard up off the connector allows me to tap them.
A bit irritating but that’s betas for you (I just had to lift my keyboard to tap Post Reply!)
This is by far the most aggravating bug in an otherwise smooth and polished beta.
Quite annoying. First time I separated the iPad keyboard and the tap worked I thought, “Nah, coincidence” but after the second and the third I was confident enough to add it to the feedback. Hopefully fixed in the next beta, but you never know.
(I couldn’t tap Post Reply without separating it again
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The colors in control center is still too bright and outwatched. I hope this is a bug and not a feature.