A few years ago there was a beta update that disabled all telephony features. Apple had to pull and reverse within a day.
Good times.
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iOS 12 Beta 7 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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A few years ago there was a beta update that disabled all telephony features. Apple had to pull and reverse within a day.
Good times.
Never had the slowdown on my iPhone X...so far, this has been the fastest beta on my device, so incredibly smooth.
I have been running b7 since it was released on both a 8+ and iPP 9.7. Neither device has experienced any issue at all .
Both devices were installed OTA and initially upgraded from 11.4.
The 8+ with b1 had cellular connection issues. I wiped it and installed 12b1 as new. It has had no issues since.
The iPad has still been stacked. The only issues were with b4 & b5 with apps randomly crashing. This issue was fixed with b6.
B7 has been flawless.
Both devices were installed OTA and initially upgraded from 11.4.
The 8+ with b1 had cellular connection issues. I wiped it and installed 12b1 as new. It has had no issues since.
The iPad has still been stacked. The only issues were with b4 & b5 with apps randomly crashing. This issue was fixed with b6.
B7 has been flawless.
In the many years i have ran Dev beta's maybe i have grown superstitious.... but Ive developed a process and honestly had very few issues. Ive never felt OTA's to really be up to par, as they always seem to lend to people having bugs. Even with the newest beta 7, i don't see any of the lag or stutter everyone seems to be in a tuft about. My Ver iPhone X is running better then ever before!. so far with ios 12 the only real issue Ive seen was the Exchange notifications /sync issue from early on, but even then i believe that was more MDM based then notifications directly.
my process has ALWAYS been,
Charge phone or pad to 100%
and do a upgrade via ispw in iTunes, after downloading the files directly off Dev portal.
hasn't failed me yet across many devices, and beta's.
my process has ALWAYS been,
Charge phone or pad to 100%
and do a upgrade via ispw in iTunes, after downloading the files directly off Dev portal.
hasn't failed me yet across many devices, and beta's.
I have updated OTA every single build since the feature was first implemented (on many devices) and have the exact same great experience as you have via ISPW.
Good plan. I do use OTA but also have a process that seems to work fine. I force close all apps, then restart the device and then perform the update before opening anything else. After maybe 15-30 minutes after the update finishes I reboot once more just for good measure. Not really had any issues either.
I updated my 6+ yesterday without issue. It might help that I started the update and just let it sit there for a couple hours doing its thing. By the time I ended up playing with the phone again, it ran without any issue. Then I read of the problems here and just set it aside for a few more hours. It's totally fine this morning (as it was every time I checked yesterday). It was OTA.
I remember that, I was in NYC and never so grateful for crappy in room wifi service. Could never get the update downloaded. Turned out to be a good thing! lol
I wonder how come Apple responds to some issues within 3 hours, while not responding to many issues even after months. In other words, how do they gather feedback so quickly within 3 hours. What is their mechanism.
Merely bugreport portal cannot be so fast.
Merely bugreport portal cannot be so fast.
There's absolutely no way they don't read the threads here and in other iPhone enthusiast forums (Reddit, iMore, etc...). They probably knew as soon as the first few posters posted the issue here that there was likely a problem.
Or maybe they will release both public and developer at the same time hehe..who knows..
24 hours in with beta 7 on my iphone 7 and I'm really happy with it. No issues at all, smooth as heck and battery is better than I ever thought possible and no I'm not trolling. This is how it should have been for all. I may hold back from installing the "fix" that will be coming until I see how the rest of you get on with it. I just don't see how it could get better. A disclaimer tho as I do not use alot of the stuff folks are complaining about. No Apple watch and do not use bluetooth but so far all my 3rd party apps as well as Apple apps open fast and work smoothly. Even all my Google stuff is working fine. Hope you all find your fix maybe tomorrow.
Beta 7 has been a mess for me. In addition to the lagginess issue (that eventually went away except for the first app launch after each reboot), notifications are messed up for me (not getting notifications until minutes after the event occurs, Apple Watch not getting notifications, etc.), exchange email not pushing, weird behavior with nomorobo (robocall phone blocker), various screens in settings.app hanging for awhile, etc.
Constantly having to kill and restart mail.app, etc., to get things working.
Looking forward to the fixed update.
Constantly having to kill and restart mail.app, etc., to get things working.
Looking forward to the fixed update.
For a revised release, I wouldn't hang my hat on the 1pm EDT release time (its 10am PDT). They'll release when they're ready, especially because its a fix.