iOS 12 Beta 8 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

[scjr]

I’m seeing this message on my iPhone 7 Plus in iMessage: “Downloading Messages from iCloud”

It’s been a long while and it never goes away. I saw it on my iPad Pro 10.5, but eventually it went away. Has this happened to anyone? Will it eventually finish?

Screenshot. Thanks

 

[radubraharu]

Normally it should finish maximum after a few minutes. You could try a reboot. If not, report as bug

 

[Mr$tone]

Normally it should finish maximum after a few minutes. You could try a reboot. If not, report as bug

Yes, FIRST try a reboot and THEN report as bug (if the reboot didn’t solve it).

 

[barstep]

If you are not a developer, I would just download the current public beta 6 OTA, play with it and subsequent betas until the final iOS 12 release comes out for everybody and then do a fresh install via iTunes. Else you might just keep leftover beta bits & pieces on your device.
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Yep, same here, I keep automatically hitting the wrong key. The problem is further aggravated by the fact that they kept them as before on iPhones, so the “123” numbers key is still the leftmost there. Just weird. Feedback submitted to Apple.

The iPhone keyboard layout changes with orientation, which has been annoying for some time to the extent that I gave up using the iPhone landscape keyboard all together. Now the iPhone portrait keyboard is the odd one out. No chance of reprogramming muscle memory to the new iPad layout as it has to revert to use the iPhone in it’s ‘normal’ orientation. Issues have been sent to Apple via feedback app.

 

[scjr]

Normally it should finish maximum after a few minutes. You could try a reboot. If not, report as bug

Yes, FIRST try a reboot and THEN report as bug (if the reboot didn’t solve it).

Thank you. It appears with a simple reboot, the message is gone. Sometimes it would pop back up again, so I’ll monitor it for a bit and see if it’s gone for good. Really appreciate the advice.

 

[GreyOS]

Thank you. It appears with a simple reboot, the message is gone. Sometimes it would pop back up again, so I’ll monitor it for a bit and see if it’s gone for good. Really appreciate the advice.

Report it, it’s a bug if the message wouldn’t go without a restart.

 

[uandme72]

Do we expect any of the bugs reported from now onwards to be resolved in any beta upto the public release of ios 12.

 

[gwhizkids]

Do we expect any of the bugs reported from now onwards to be resolved in any beta upto the public release of ios 12.

Probably will depend on whether Apple noticed them during their internal testing of these betas in the weeks before we got them.

 

[Shirasaki]

I found another bug. I cannot search for songs in my library, the only option I have is Apple Music. In other builds it was exactly the opposite, I was not able to search for songs in Apple Music

I can search the song without problem. No Apple music.

 

[AZhappyjack]

I found another bug. I cannot search for songs in my library, the only option I have is Apple Music. In other builds it was exactly the opposite, I was not able to search for songs in Apple Music

Report your issue to Apple... that's the point of the beta releases.

 

[Shirasaki]

You dont need to pay ... Just search a bit and you‘ll find IPSW links. I have a Dev Account but you don‘t need one for IPSW files.

The keyword is "legitimately". Of course, if we throw that out of window, obtaining IPSW is not an issue at all.

 

[uandme72]

Probably will depend on whether Apple noticed them during their internal testing of these betas in the weeks before we got them.

Perhaps Apple is already working on GM and the public release.
This implies that if the bugs have been reported just by us and not detected by Apple themselves by now, then it might get resolved in the subsequent versions of iOS 12 and not in the first release expected in September.

 

[mjschabow]

Wow! Took the plunge and feels like a new phone.

Liking shortcuts so far. That’s probably my favorite new feature. Instead of going to “Find Friends” I can just ask “Where’s my daughter?”

 

[GreyOS]

Wow! Took the plunge and feels like a new phone.

Liking shortcuts so far. That’s probably my favorite new feature. Instead of going to “Find Friends” I can just ask “Where’s my daughter?”

Siri has been able to do that for a while without Shortcuts

 

[purpleparrotuk]

Been running the last few Betas. Yesterday when trying to call someone the phone crashed and came up with a message on a grey background. Can’t remember what it said but never had that before.

 

[HackDaBox]

View attachment 776466 Is anyone else annoyed by the new iPad keyboard layout. The ‘number shift’ and ‘other keyboards’ key have been swapped round. I keep bringing up a new keyboard instead of entering a number.

Hate it

 

[Ninflu]

I'm experiencing another strange behaviour on my iPhone 8+: If I try to enable "Text message forwarding", it pop ups on my mac with the code but not on my phone to enter it. Already did a network reset, doesn't help.

 

[Shirasaki]

All good for me on everything apart from the AirPods keep disconnecting every few seconds.

My non-Airpods Bluetooth headphone works ok here. Guess something is not right in the communication between phone and airpods.

 

[Menopause]

Hello guys, could someone please tell me what is the current status of wallpaper dimming in beta 8? Dimming was removed back in beta 2, as far as I can recall. Did it come back?

 

[Blaster13]

Just wanna make sure it’s not this beta before I rip my network a new butt!

Has anyone had issue with no signal?
Reset phone reset network stuff.

 

[StumpyBloke]

My non-Airpods Bluetooth headphone works ok here. Guess something is not right in the communication between phone and airpods.

This is already sorted thanks. I fed back that a restart from of my phone fixed it

 

[gwhizkids]

Perhaps Apple is already working on GM and the public release.
This implies that if the bugs have been reported just by us and not detected by Apple themselves by now, then it might get resolved in the subsequent versions of iOS 12 and not in the first release expected in September.

The GM is probably already complete. So, you’re likely correct.

 

[xerxers]

New Issue for me. I had to call somebody on Friday which I did successfully but then didn't hear back from the person. I then called them again and they said that they had left me a voicemail. No voicemail. So yesterday I had my wife call me and I didn't respond. She left a voicemail but nothing appeared on my iPhone. I then went into settings>phone and the Change Voicemail Password is in blue so tapped on it and went in and entered a new pass-code, then verified that pass-code. it then states Saving Password but nothing then happens.

1, Is anybody else experiencing this?
2. Do you think that this is an iOS 12 beta 6 issue?
3. Is this an AT&T issue and I need call them.

Iphone X running the latest beta.


Follow up - This was an AT&T issue. Called and spoke with somebody that was very helful indeed and I had a backup of 15 unheard voicemails....Oh dear. but they have been cleared and I now have voicemail back.

TIA

 

[Strelok]

I forget which beta version it was, but this has been pretty bad since a few versions back for me. I’ve replaced a stock app I deleted so I can get settings to work without crashing, but now other apps randomly freeze and take a few seconds to reset themselves. I hope they can fix this in the final release version, but as of now this is pretty bad.

 

[gardiboy]

Is it me or after upgrading, the wallpaper or screen looks brighter?