iOS 14 Beta 5 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

[xxMACxx]

Have beta 5 on my iPhone 11 Pro and my 2018 iPad Pro. I feel like on both devices I am getting prompted more for my pin code vs it accepting Face ID.

Same devices... and I was starting to feel that way too.

 

[s2mike]

Just sent one from the photo drawer in the iMessages app and no problems here.

Thanks. I’ll try a restart.

 

[gwang73]

Thanks. I’ll try a restart.

Yeah, I always hard-reboot once and restart after these updates. Hopefully it clears it up for you.

 

[s2mike]

Yeah, I always hard-reboot once and restart after these updates. Hopefully it clears it up for you.

Yep, that seemed to do the trick. Thanks for confirming it was good on your end.

 

[gwang73]

Yep, that seemed to do the trick. Thanks for confirming it was good on your end.

Awesome! Glad to help.

 

[NBKindaGirl]

Ah, yes. Thanks for explaining. The spelling in the screenshot is the correct one (for British English). That’ll teach me for replying to a post this late at night!

No problem! I admit it got pretty confusing with everyone replying with “correct” spellings. Lol

 

[s2mike]

Awesome! Glad to help.

When you say “hard reboot,” you mean continuing to hold the power button down until the “slide to turn off” prompt goes away and then Apple logo appears, right?

I used to do those a lot but was told it was better to simply “slide to turn off” because the hard reboots are the equivalent of pulling the plug on a running computer...

 

[gwang73]

When you say “hard reboot,” you mean continuing to hold the power button down until the “slide to turn off” prompt goes away and then Apple logo appears, right?

I used to do those a lot but was told it was better to simply “slide to turn off” because the hard reboots are the equivalent of pulling the plug on a running computer...

For FaceID phones, it's the vol-up, vol-down and hold the power button until the apple logo appears - I think that's what you mean. Yeah, I'm just in the habit of doing this after updates. I don't know for sure if it does anything but doesn't hurt.

 

[ghostface147]

Thank you for your input. If you do try your other chargers at a later time, please do provide your findings!

Anker wireless charger here....no issues.

 

[oeyvind]

Is Instagram Story now broken with only black frames?

 

[ErikGrim]

English spelling

It's the normal spelling.

 

[funkdoc23]

Is Instagram Story now broken with only black frames?

Looks like it... worked fine on beta 4

 

[Ansath]

Have beta 5 on my iPhone 11 Pro and my 2018 iPad Pro. I feel like on both devices I am getting prompted more for my pin code vs it accepting Face ID.

does it say is asking for the pin due to restarting? As that was happening to me many times a day, until B4.

 

[nortonandreev]

Is Instagram Story now broken with only black frames?

Looks like it... worked fine on beta 4

yep... 😟

 

[QuarterSwede]

Great update. Fixed a bunch of stuff for me:

• Flakey photos picker
• Disappearing keyboard
• Camera focusing glitch when using airpods
• Sloooow flashlight on/off

Plus widgets and app launching is noticeably faster. Great so far.

 

[alex2792]

The mail app seems to work again, beta 4 was a disaster on my iPhone XR. Emails were randomly disappearing or not loading.

 

[swarlos]

So is this setting working for anyone? It isn’t for me and wasn’t working in beta 4 either. Submitted feedback.

 

[iGeneo]

Here’s a nice little new widget enhancement (I just added to the Wiki)

Option to remove photo from “Featured Photos” widget. Tap on photo, then in photos app share sheet “Remove from Featured Photos”

 

[lawhochun]

Can anyone confirm if spatial audio is in this beta? Most anticipated feature for me.

 

[xmnj]

Anyone else having screen flickering and excess dimming issues in photos, maps, and full screen video?
Maps is more excess dimming when you pull down the sheet to search.

I submitted feedback, but when I try to do a screen recording, the issue goes away.
This is on an iPhone XS.

 

[nortonandreev]

Can anyone confirm if spatial audio is in this beta? Most anticipated feature for me.

It won’t be available until iOS 14 is publicly released as firmware update is needed for the AirPods. I’m thinking that it might even be iOS 14.1 feature.

 

[gwhizkids]

Can anyone confirm if spatial audio is in this beta? Most anticipated feature for me.

Per Arnold Kim, there are artifacts of the feature showing up in the beta code, but the feature itself is not yet active.

 

[gwhizkids]

Is this new in the Maps widget?

 

[zorinlynx]

"Clock widget not updating/time incorrect compared to clock app icon (whilst much better than B4, clocks still go out of sync after a while)"

Widgets not updating and being out of sync with reality has been a problem ever since widgets were first introduced. Hopefully now that they're more front and center they're finally going to fix this issue.

It's especially frustrating for the Weather widget. It would update about half the time, so I ended up removing it, since having no weather information is far better than wrong information.

 

[macintoshmac]

how is your 8 handling the update? thinking about puting it on mine

It is a very smooth experience. I don’t feel any slowdowns on account of the new OS.