iPhone iOS 13 Beta 4 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

[uniquexoxo]

It seems Apple currently agrees with you having left it in the hands of individual Developers as to whether a website displays in Dark Mode or not in Safari (which will no doubt mean most won’t).

I’m personally saddened by this as I believe, “Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder” and wanted system-wide Dark Mode to mean exactly that.

As a web developer and graphic designer , before we even start anything, we start on a drawing board on how we want our website to look like, and it’s just unfair if a Dark mode version is mandatory because it will just ruin the aesthetics of the design if its completely different than what we envisioned it.

It’s the app not supporting code section of his post, not his code breaks the app.

It’s a sarcasm, I didn’t mean he broke broke the app

Dark Mode is now supported in all major browsers. I worked on a major site and we have supported it since before it was supported anywhere: https://www.buysearchsell.com.au.

The actual CSS to do so isn't super complicated. It's basically a smart invert with some exceptions:

It’s not about how easy it can be implemented, we all know most of the work is just setting up a media query then JQuery and probably a trigger button. But it’s about the aesthetics of the design.

 

[Shirasaki]

3. MAJOR BLUETOOTH BATTERY DRAIN: When i switch bluetooth on, the phone gets nice and hot and battery gets killed in under 90 minutes from 100% full. (This is a new battery showing 100% capacity replaced by apple care three weeks ago). When i switch bluetooth off from settings, the battery life goes back to normal. Downloaded StatusLite and it shows processor at 80-100% with BT on and 5-15% with BT off. Just toggling BT off from notification centre doesnt make a difference. BT needs to be toggled off from within settings. The phone is unusable (and potentially dangerously overheating) with the BT on. With it off its excellent battery and completely normal behaviour. Very wierd. Tried resetting Network Settings ( i have about 10-12 BT devices paired, not connected but paired), no change. The only device its always connected to is my Fitbit, (some other devices are paired to my phone, but havent been connected to in ages). Anyone else have this problem?

I have Apple Watch and Bluetooth headphone connected to my iPhone, Apple Pencil and Bluetooth headphone connected to my iPad. I never experience overheating issues or massive battery drain. This morning I went to Canberra from Sydney via coach, and 5 hours in total I was listening to music using Bluetooth headphone nonstop. I don’t see the issue described in your post and my iPhone has 90% battery remaining before I stop listening to music.
I think you have a unit that is not so friendly with how beta 4 handles Bluetooth. Definitely worth a feedback.

 

[Sid77]

I have Apple Watch and Bluetooth headphone connected to my iPhone, Apple Pencil and Bluetooth headphone connected to my iPad. I never experience overheating issues or massive battery drain. This morning I went to Canberra from Sydney via coach, and 5 hours in total I was listening to music using Bluetooth headphone nonstop. I don’t see the issue described in your post and my iPhone has 90% battery remaining before I stop listening to music.
I think you have a unit that is not so friendly with how beta 4 handles Bluetooth. Definitely worth a feedback.

I have passed on feedback, its rather alarming how hot the phone gets, i have an ipad running the same beta (ipad OS) and that seems fine. Never had this problem on previous OS versions. Hopefully they will look at the feedback and find a fix.

 

[uniquexoxo]

In all honesty, I prefer this pop design. It’s more chic

 

[uniquexoxo]

I also noticed that there is now a small dashed at the top of the album art that minimises the Now playing sheet. Also the album art has now more shadow with a Gaussian blur effect.

Yes, I like noticing minute details.

 

[KeanosMagicHat]

As a web developer and graphic designer , before we even start anything, we start on a drawing board on how we want our website to look like, and it’s just unfair if a Dark mode version is mandatory because it will just ruin the aesthetics of the design if its completely different than what we envisioned it.

Whilst I appreciate the hard work and creativity which goes into web design, I could argue that it’s unfair on me to have everything with white backgrounds when my eyes feels far more rested with a dark backdrop.

it’s also important to remember that Dark Mode is not enabled by default, it is a personal choice.

 

[uniquexoxo]

Whilst I appreciate the hard work and creativity which goes into web design, I could argue that it’s unfair on me to have everything with white backgrounds when my eyes feels far more rested with a dark backdrop.

it’s also important to remember that Dark Mode is not enabled by default, it is a personal choice.

Then don’t visit the website

 

[greg624]

Extremely disappointed that Apple News is still a disjointed mess in Dark Mode with only the initial screens Dark and all articles in White.

Beginning to think Apple intend to release it like this, but hoping I’m wrong.

You do realize that the news publishers have to make this change themselves right?

 

[gwang73]

Got a couple of problems with beta 4 on my iPhone 7. Please bear with me if some of these have been mentioned before...

1. Mail App: Everytime i get a new mail, the notification shows and the icon changes to show the number of emails arrived, but when i open the mail app, it doesnt display the emails. I have to force close the app and then when i reopen the mails are there.

2. Random issues connecting and downloading mail from yahoo and gmail. The mail app keeps saying "error connecting to account". When i force close and reopen, it connects and downloads the mail just fine.

3. MAJOR BLUETOOTH BATTERY DRAIN: When i switch bluetooth on, the phone gets nice and hot and battery gets killed in under 90 minutes from 100% full. (This is a new battery showing 100% capacity replaced by apple care three weeks ago). When i switch bluetooth off from settings, the battery life goes back to normal. Downloaded StatusLite and it shows processor at 80-100% with BT on and 5-15% with BT off. Just toggling BT off from notification centre doesnt make a difference. BT needs to be toggled off from within settings. The phone is unusable (and potentially dangerously overheating) with the BT on. With it off its excellent battery and completely normal behaviour. Very wierd. Tried resetting Network Settings ( i have about 10-12 BT devices paired, not connected but paired), no change. The only device its always connected to is my Fitbit, (some other devices are paired to my phone, but havent been connected to in ages). Anyone else have this problem?

I have reported all of these using the feedback app.

#1 I have the same issue but only sometimes. I have Hotmail, Exchange and iCloud connected.

#2 haven't experienced this yet on b4 but have on b3. I do experience the bottom status in the Mail app disappearing.

#3 AirPods, Apple Watch and BT streaming to my car doesn't make my phone hot or get abnormal battery drain. Try deleting all the paired devices and adding them back.

 

[ErikGrim]

It’s not about how easy it can be implemented, we all know most of the work is just setting up a media query then JQuery and probably a trigger button. But it’s about the aesthetics of the design.

Well, no. It's not. It helps if you think of it as an accessibility feature.

 

[HylianKnight]

Whilst I appreciate the hard work and creativity which goes into web design, I could argue that it’s unfair on me to have everything with white backgrounds when my eyes feels far more rested with a dark backdrop.

it’s also important to remember that Dark Mode is not enabled by default, it is a personal choice.

This topic has been beaten to death. I will say this again though, scientifically speaking the human brain does better with black text on a light background than it does with white text on a dark background.

 

[HylianKnight]

Smart Invert - which worked fine on PB1 remains broken for me on PB3.

It won’t toggle off, requiring a hard reset.

Anyone else experiencing this on this version?

Instead of toggling it in the settings menus, use Accessibility shortcut and set it to Smart Invert. Then you can triple click the side button on your XR to turn it on and off. Just tested and it works. It is still buggy in that sometimes it doesn’t turn it off, but just try triple clicking again until it does goes off.


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I have passed on feedback, its rather alarming how hot the phone gets, i have an ipad running the same beta (ipad OS) and that seems fine. Never had this problem on previous OS versions. Hopefully they will look at the feedback and find a fix.

It could be related to an app. For me the problem was NPR One. It was constantly connected and behaving like it was playing and transmitting. Sometimes, after it had been off for hours (or so I thought) the app would randomly start playing while my phone was locked. I now make sure that app is closed when not in use.

 

[SoYoung]

Seriously?

Seriously, yes.

For what I remember, even iOS 11.0 beta's wasn't as buggy as of now on iOS 13 beta 4. I also experience too many atrocious bugs that I can't imagine everything will be stable like iOS 12 in early september.
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You do realize that the news publishers have to make this change themselves right?

People will laugh at me, but its exactly why as of now, iOS 12's smart invert colours is actually better than iOS 13 dark mode for all apple apps (safari, news, mail). Its actually all in dark and no need for devs to decide if we have to see theirs websites on white or not.

 

[Shirasaki]

This topic has been beaten to death. I will say this again though, scientifically speaking the human brain does better with black text on a light background than it does with white text on a dark background.

I guess the fact that books have black texts printed on white/yellow coloured papers proves otherwise, and white background with black texts help eyes concentrating on contents a bit better.

 

[jarman92]

Aaaaand my banking app still doesn’t work .

It probably won’t work at all until after the public release when whatever bank can update their app for iOS 13...devs aren’t allowed to release beta-specific app updates.

 

[soundslikeaudio]

I also noticed something interesting... I was connected to CarPlay when I did the screenshots (text overlay issue, above) ... and in addition to a screenshot of the phone image, it also took a screenshot of the CarPlay screen.

This has been an annoyance ever since I’ve had CarPlay, isn’t new in iOS 13. I screenshot 10-20 times a day, including the car and end up with a bunch of screenshots of my car display as well.

 

[TimFL1]

Stand by battery life so far is much better. Usage too. Haven’t charged since 3pm yesterday. At 35% now. It’s gonna be hard making the call to go to beta 5 lmao.

I’m still having resprings, not as frequent now. Could also be related to hangouts app being removed. So far only had one respring while I was on the widget screen. It slowed down to crawl before it crashed. So that’s a new thing I guess.



Reinstall the profile and reboot both devices. I’m now on the latest watchOS beta. That fixed it.



Works for me both ways. Try toggling the lock screen options in settings in Siri.

What’s really a bug is it not detecting “mobile” part of a contact lmao. So weird.
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Just a heads up, your image shows phone numbers and mail of your contact. The markup stuff doesn‘t fully cover it.

 

[macintoshmac]

Somewhere within the scope of iOS 13 betas, I had read about "Screen Recordings" album in Photos. I do not see it. Yes, I have some previous recordings, and I just tested out with a fresh recording.

Would others please share their experiences in this regard?

 

[ovo6]

My other issue with iOS 13 is that when searching on google and opening a link it always take you you the app you have installed but in iOS 12 there’s a way to force safari to take you to the site instead

 

[Shirasaki]

It probably won’t work at all until after the public release when whatever bank can update their app for iOS 13...devs aren’t allowed to release beta-specific app updates.

While they cannot use beta Xcode to release software for beta iOS, they still can apply certain fixes for iOS 13 beta using hacks or workarounds on current Xcode. Asphalt releases an update specifically mentioning iOS 13 crash, for example.
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Somewhere within the scope of iOS 13 betas, I had read about "Screen Recordings" album in Photos. I do not see it. Yes, I have some previous recordings, and I just tested out with a fresh recording.

Would others please share their experiences in this regard?

I don’t see that screen recording album either, even after finishing a fresh recording. As of now the only way to find screen recording is browsing through videos.

 

[Freakonomics101]

Sort of off topic: What would be awesome is if they implemented the option of having the iPhone X UI on iPhones with a home button. I have an iPhone SE on an iOS 12 jailbreak with the iPhone X UI and the resolution of the iPhone 8 and it has been working wonderfully and makes the iPhone SE so much better to use. I don’t know bout y’all but the music app on that phone is awful. The buttons are too big and too close together. I always ended up pressing the wrong button. With the iPhone 8 resolution, smaller buttons, problem resolved. I’m keeping that on the current firmate it’s at now unless they implement what I want, which is highly unlikely.

I just don’t like the home button or the stock UI. It confuses me with having the iPhone X as my main phone. I go to use the iPhone SE and always ended up accidentally pulling up the CC when wanting to unlock the phone. Now that I have this current setup, I never use the home button anymore, which I like. Same applies to my iPad Pro 10.5.

 

[w00dy81]

Before I post a bug report in the feedback app has anyone noticed the share sheet within different Apple apps slow to pop up?

In safari for example I can tap the safari tabs or bookmarks buttons and the respond instantly but the share sheet lags.

Its the same across different Apple apps with the share sheet not being as responsive as other buttons

For troubleshooting I have restarted and hard rebooted and got the same results

If there’s nothing else to try then hopefully it’s something they can optimise for speed like they did for iOS 12

 

[Iosfan85]

Still no option to set weather to always allow in location access in privacy, and then also not able to get weather forecast on lockscreen after bedtime/dnd.

 

[UltraZ33]

If you have downloaded movies (not purchased from itunes) and have subtitles they show up right in the middle of the screen. And I’ve reported it.

 

[StumpyBloke]

Still no option to set weather to always allow in location access in privacy, and then also not able to get weather forecast on lockscreen after bedtime/dnd.

Have you reported it to Apple?