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iOS 14 Beta 3 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

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ios 14 betas have been super stable, loving it. Has anyone else noticed that the fast charging notification (the second battery ding) is gone? kinda miss knowing i’m fast charging.
 
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Now this was interesting ....
PM db3 ....
My wifi went down and had to reboot the modem. My PM switched to LTE. Modem came back on line; wifi back up; and PM immediately crashed. back to the Apple logo. IPP 11 was linked to the PM for internet access while modem was off. Not sure if that affected anything. No issue with IPP 11.
 
For the life of me I can’t seem to get the translation app working. It always says services are temporally unavailable. Is it something that needs to be enabled or it is region specific?
 
dsdevries said:
That's a good question. It boils down to the definition of the word release. In software development the word release means something different than it does for general public.

Software is just a collection of text files containing the source code. The source code lives in a central repository to be shared with all the developers. Developers can download the source code to work on it locally on their machines and then upload it again. On this central repository there are also a lot of so called 'branches' to aid with the development process. Generally there is a master branch which contains the code that is currently in production. Then, there could also be a multitude of support branches and there are so called feature branches. Whenever a developer starts working on a new feature, he creates a separate branch for it. The idea behind it is that you can work on a feature without bothering other developers that might work on something else with it and that only finished features end up in the master branch. It is vital that a master branch always only contain production ready code. At any moment someone should be able to release the master branch and all the features that are finished up to that point. Generally a feature has to undergo a whole bunch of tests to determine whether or not it's good enough to be merged to the master branch.

This source code needs to be compiled to machine code or assembly before it can be executed. This compiled executable is referred to as a build. During development the source code is built very often in the process. You build it locally on your machine every time you want to see your own end result. You also have it built by a dedicated server every time you upload your code to the central repository. You can build individual feature branches to see if they work properly, and you can build the master branch to see if all the finished features are working well together. Many of the builds created are just for internal testing by the development team. But whenever a built is send out to be installed on machines outside of the development team, this build is called a release. As a developer, you release a build. It doesn't matter whether that build only makes it to the alpha phase, to the beta phase, to GM or all the way to production. For a developer the release is the same. A developer might not even know which build makes it to what phase.

All a developer has to care about is that no unfinished features make it to the master branch. And that brings me down to the questionable choices Apple made here. How the hell does a Clock widget that clearly isn't working end up in the master branch!? It should not have made it past internal testing at all!
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OK good refresher on how the coding process works. Guess you meant to say "released outside of Apple development" then in previous posts. Perhaps so in that case. But if you have been around iOS for more than a minute you will know that stuff like this is common for Apple betas and unfortunately even some general releases that cause a x.0.1 or x.1.1 shortly after a release. So seeing that in an early beta is not shocking for Apple :)
 
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In all of these ios 14 betas, in various apps, I have had to turn off wifi and turn it back on, to get content to load. For example, the app store, my work, walmart app and others. I reported it on the feedback app. This is on more than one wifi network.
 
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gank41 said:
What about trying to paste this into the top blank area of the iPhone Phone App dialed screen?

*3001#12345#*


Does anything happen at all when you try that? You said it’s not available on the iPhone 8, but it is on my wife’s iPhone 8 Plus. It’d be odd to omit a feature like this from one size to another on the same model.

I also just entered FTM on an older iPhone 6S on iOS 14 beta 3.
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When I said not available, I implied the new version is not available. The old version is still alive and working. Apologies for any confusion. :)
 
Apologies if answered in other threads or above, but is the Weather widget disabled in this beta? Finally took the leap and loving it so far
 
stoopkidblues said:
Apologies if answered in other threads or above, but is the Weather widget disabled in this beta? Finally took the leap and loving it so far
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There has been a lot posted here about the Weather Widget not working and working.. It‘d be best to read thru but the tl;dr is that a reboot usually fixes that. Maybe even another reboot after some time Has passed.
 
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gank41 said:
There has been a lot posted here about the Weather Widget not working and working.. It‘d be best to read thru but the tl;dr is that a reboot usually fixes that. Maybe even another reboot after some time Has passed.
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Okay I’ll try that, thanks for the help!
 
dbrewood said:
One issue noted yesterday and today. Each morning widgets (weather, fitness in a smart stack) still show yesterdays data and do not refresh. The only fix (for me) it to reboot the iPhone.
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Yup. Almost everyone it seems is getting this issue. Hopefully everyone's fed back to Apple, in which case they'll no doubt be aware of it. Hopefully a fix in the next Beta.
 
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dbrewood said:
One issue noted yesterday and today. Each morning widgets (weather, fitness in a smart stack) still show yesterdays data and do not refresh. The only fix (for me) it to reboot the iPhone.
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I saw this this morning (don't remember if it happened yesterday also). Sometimes changing the location in the weather app corrects it, but today I had reboot the iPhone to get them to work. Fitness worked perfectly but the stock app was screwed up as usual - but it had update issues before iOS 14.
 
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swandy said:
I saw this this morning (don't remember if it happened yesterday also). Sometimes changing the location in the weather app corrects it, but today I had reboot the iPhone to get them to work. Fitness worked perfectly but the stock app was screwed up as usual - but it had update issues before iOS 14.
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I get the delay on all the widgets - news, sport news, weather. everything!
 
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