This beta on my 7+ is going way better than the two previous, it feels quicker and at this time, the phone has drained less battery than usual, so at a first glance its good. Also it isn't heating like with b6.
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iOS 12 Beta 7 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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Actually seems faster than any previous betas for me. Its very responsive. Perhaps just the iPX OTA code had some issues. I remember 8.0.1 (i think it was) killed cellular service for some but just the OTA builds. People that installed with iTunes were not affected. It was re-released a day or so later and fixed.
Have beta 7 installed on iPhone X since it came out and zero issues so far...
No issues with mine yet either.
I wonder if we will see beta 8 or revised beta 7 Tuesday or Wednesday?
I had a fast install on iPhone 7 and a regular install on iPad Air. Out of both oh iPhone lagged.
Also, the reboot is too quick for iPhone 7. It makes me wonder that some process is pending and it shows the lock screen already. Because after a couple of minutes even iPhone 7 is back to normal and fast.
Also, the reboot is too quick for iPhone 7. It makes me wonder that some process is pending and it shows the lock screen already. Because after a couple of minutes even iPhone 7 is back to normal and fast.
My guess would be whatever it's doing in that first 10 minutes was supposed to happen during install, before rebooting. You know, one of those crazy long updates where people start freaking out that their phone is "bricked"
Probably relinking, rebuilding cache etc. It's working fine.
This update seems pretty solid despite the sluggish at post-boot but after a few minutes it stabilizes.
I think this Diagnostic menu was added in iOS 10.3. Were you able to start the diagnostic?
I think this Diagnostic menu was added in iOS 10.3. Were you able to start the diagnostic?
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Unfortunately, this kind of stuff is becoming more and more common out of Cupertino.
Many people probably have issues with this beta because they updated OTA for so long. How many of you updated from ios 11 via OTA to ios 12 beta 1? Then beta 2 and 3 and so on? And how many of you did a clean restore recently? I DFU restored to install ios 12 beta 1 then I DFU restored again when ios 12 beta 6 was available because it felt sluggish. And now I updated OTA to beta 7 and nothing is wrong, some apps, like settings, don t even flash when I open them, it s just instant, my geekbench 4 multiscore on iphone 8 is 10802. My point is, the more you update OTA, the more chances are you re gonna run into bugs and slowdowns.
Not really that baffling, if you really think about it. Even looking on here (and everywhere else), it's evident that the problems are not present for all users. That's what beta's are for, you know... Letting a lot more people than your internal testers have at it exactly to expose problems like these, that hits some users but not all.
They pulled the update due to performance issues.
I noticed even though Apple may have pulled OTA for this build and made IPSW unavailable via Dev portal but the direct URL links do still work to download IPSW
Edit: Don't try since the build is not signed
Edit: Don't try since the build is not signed
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I get the "that's what betas are for" thing... but look at the general state of most (all?) things Apple. As far as this beta, I am not and have not seen any issues with the extreme sluggishness reported around here... and I am actually quite happy with the the iOS 12 beta experience, in general.
But look through the MacRumors website and you see people experiencing serious issues with brand new out of the box MacBook Pro machines... kernel panics, crypto_val errors with FileVault, bridge OS errors... and similar... it's almost like everything being released by Apple these days could be considered 'beta'.
I could go on and on, but the iOS beta thread is not the place.
You can't take a forum as a general public experience. You'll always hear problems first on forums. Its normal. When new MacOS updates comes, you always have tons of "serious" problems topic, but personally - and also with my friends and family - never experience big problems with any macOS updates except minor ones who are fixed at the next .1 update.
Same thing with iOS 11. Personally, except for the battery life, I had a great user experience with no real bugs and it perform generally well.