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iOS 12 Beta 4 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

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19SK91 said:
Honest question since I have no idea of coding/programming:

Why can Apps cause a multitude of issues on your phone, or to be more specific on your iPhone(/iPad)? I thought Apple's whole sandboxing approach and App Store review process is there to prevent exactly that? Shouldn't just the Apps themselves behave bad if they have bad code instead of affecting other parts of the phone?
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The technical (Sandbox) and business (App Store Review) limitations should mitigate these things but, in practice, some slip the net, or perhaps even a blind eye is turned if the developer is important enough to the platform.

Two examples: -

- Uber: Uber kept using background data after they should have. They didn't defeat a technical limitation to do so, it's something that is technically possible. What they did was put code in the app that detected whether the current location was where they knew Apple tested apps for the store and didn't behave badly in that circumstance and only that circumstance. Uber cheated to track you longer than they said they did, robbing you of your privacy and battery. When it was discovered Tim invited the CEO of Uber for a "little chat" that I would have paid to be a fly on the wall for.

- Facebook: Famously, Facebook played silence over the background audio API in order to defeat the process reaper and always stay running. In this way they could periodically do things like check location with high accuracy. This one, unless they put in similar measures to Uber, I find much more surprising that it wasn't caught at app review. Some people think Facebook may have just been too big to be called on their behavior but I'm less conspiracy minded and suspect it was just an app review failure. I'm sure measures were put in place since if that is the case.
 
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I wasn't able to take pictures with Instagram, WhatsApp, i get an error or just get stucked, also in the main camera app i could take pictures, but if i switch to portrait it would fail and get stucked there. When i was recording the screen for the feedback app, suddenly it let me take pictures and now its normal. I have to say that i hard restarted the phone and it was with the same error, so the restar would not fix it.

i am unable to upload a photo to here with my phone (doing it on the Mac), because i can select a picture but when you hit done it does nothing.
iPhone 7 plus.
Edit: WhatsApp still don't work.
 

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antisomnic said:
I’m updating to Beta 4 now. I will let you all know if they fixed the contacts bug.
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I still have my contacts on my watch after updating to 4. I don’t know if that’s because they synced while on Beta 2 or what. I don’t know how contact syncing works; if it sends them over and theyre stored on the watch or if it grabs them from the phone as it needs them.
 
Feenician said:
The technical (Sandbox) and business (App Store Review) limitations should mitigate these things but, in practice, some slip the net, or perhaps even a blind eye is turned if the developer is important enough to the platform.

Two examples: -

- Uber: Uber kept using background data after they should have. They didn't defeat a technical limitation to do so, it's something that is technically possible. What they did was put code in the app that detected whether the current location was where they knew Apple tested apps for the store and didn't behave badly in that circumstance and only that circumstance. Uber cheated to track you longer than they said they did, robbing you of your privacy and battery. When it was discovered Tim invited the CEO of Uber for a "little chat" that I would have paid to be a fly on the wall for.

- Facebook: Famously, Facebook played silence over the background audio API in order to defeat the process reaper and always stay running. In this way they could periodically do things like check location with high accuracy. This one, unless they put in similar measures to Uber, I find much more surprising that it wasn't caught at app review. Some people think Facebook may have just been too big to be called on their behavior but I'm less conspiracy minded and suspect it was just an app review failure. I'm sure measures were put in place since if that is the case.
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I definitely remember the facebook incident. Still seems weird to me that people have had issues with for example facebook for years now (battery draining etc.), when the audio trick has long been fixed. I would've expected Apple to have a "little chat" with Zuckerberg as well and that they value user privacy, stability of their OS and therefore user experience over a 3rd party App. Especially when facebook probably needs the iOS user base more than Apple needs facebook. Even if the App would be removed from the store, users could still access facebook through Safari - with content blockers even - so facebook would be the clear loser here. At least I don't use anything facebook (no Instagram or WhatsApp either) so I'm not personally affected. I still find it interesting though.
 
19SK91 said:
Especially when facebook probably needs the iOS user base more than Apple needs facebook
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You know, for pretty much any other service, Twitter or whatever, I'd agree. Most people, regardless of what brand they're buying probably just want the wifis, the three gees and the facebooks though
 
eyeseeyou said:
There is a bug with the last iPhone beta that prevents contact data from syncing to the Apple Watch.

Might be fixed in this version but I won’t know until they release the public beta.
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My series 0 Apple Watch is on the latest beta as well while running iOS 12 on my iPhone 10. Every time I receive a notification to my watch it ends up disappearing on the red dot panel if I don’t immediately look at my watch once it rings. It’s quite annoying.

Guess I’m due for a new watch.

Update - My watch seems to be receiving notifications properly now that I’ve updated my phone to beta 4
 
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pinkoos said:
Anybody noticing battery issues with this new dev beta? I wasn't having any before, but now it seems my iPhone X is slow to charge
[doublepost=1531865139][/doublepost]Also, I'm still having the App Store issue I had previously - "No Purchases" under my name in the Updates tab and, subsequently, all apps in the store show as either being free or have a price (unless they're installed on my phone). I don't have the cloud icon next to apps that I know I've purchased or downloaded in the past but are just not installed on my phone.
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I’m also having the charging issue. Didn’t have that problem in beta 3.
 
I skipped beta 3 and waited for this one. Phone says it’s going to be 2.98 gb. Phone shows 53 of 64 gb available and the installer wants me to delete apps just to be able to install.
 
Anyone else having issues with imessages showing up on the phone? I see them on my watch and computer, but my phone doesn't get them!
 
iPhone X and my WiFi signal/speeds drop. Reset network settings and it fixes it temporarily. Submitted feedback.
 
daio said:
It looks to me like the iPhone X rendering is being used for iPhone apps on my iPad Pro 10.5“. Precious Betas seemed to be iPhone 6 rendering.
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Huge if true. Can anyone else confirm?
 
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