And it syncs fine with Music and TV on the old Mac OS (Catalina I guess?) without requiring that you also have Big Sur?
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And it syncs fine with Music and TV on the old Mac OS (Catalina I guess?) without requiring that you also have Big Sur?
So far so good in that regard! Only issue I had is that out of all my photo albums, one disappeared from my photo library on all devices. (The pictures themselves are in the library, but the full album they were in isn’t. And it was only ONE album. The rest are still there 😂
Is this something that's been done in previous years or is it new to this year? I've done public betas ever since iOS 11, but that's it. Getting those email invites was definitely a "wait...what?!?" moment for sure! I was fully expecting to wait until July for betas 😂 I did end up caving and putting the beta on my phone, so that makes my phone, iPad, and TV on beta. Can't do macOS as mentioned because I use my MacBook for work. I'm debating whether or not to do the HomePod one. As for watchOS...I got the invite a few hours after receiving the emails for the rest. I'm extremely hesitant on that one. Apple has not opened either of the Apple stores in my area yet, so I don't want to risk having something go wrong with my watch and not having an Apple store open to have it fixed at! (Assuming that's what has to be done. I think I recall hearing that).
What's weird is my 11PM also said PB, but my SE2020 just said 14.0 with no mention of Beta.
July, like every year.
June = Keynote and Developer Beta
July = Public Beta
September = Final Release & new iPhone
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You can fetch the Public Beta Profile from Apple's Website once the Public Beta is out. No need to pay for a registered developer account.
June = Keynote and Developer Beta
July = Public Beta
September = Final Release & new iPhone
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You can fetch the Public Beta Profile from Apple's Website once the Public Beta is out. No need to pay for a registered developer account.
It's an invite program. I was invited several years ago also. But was a developer the last few years but cancelled this past year and was now invited again. So don't really know how it works...
I installed the beta on my Mac, watch, phone, iPad, Apple TV & HomePod. Having zero issues with anything. Actually the watch is best experience so far, battery life has exceeded my expectations. Phone battery life is about the same. But everything I use works...
Interesting. Well, I can’t complain, that’s for sure! It was a nice surprise!
Did you give the sleep tracking a try yesterday? If so, how’d that go? I’m looking forward to that one!
Not yet, I plan on it tonight. Since 6am to now at 8pm, I still have 60% battery remaining on watch. Normally it would be down under 50%. This is Series 4 also...
Cool, you’ll have to let me know how that goes!
And that’s actually pretty impressive! I’d put that under “significant” difference for sure! Hopefully that continues!
This didn’t age too well!
I’ve never been so happy to be wrong!
This didn’t age too well!
LOL.
Let’s be honest, I think most of us were expecting the same
Since WWDC was 3 weeks later than usual this year, and therefore shortening the beta period, is there any chance Apple would expedite the release of beta 2?
There could be the possibility we may see one this week. I wouldn’t put it past Apple to already have Beta 2 ready to go.
I’ve always assumed the two weeks after the first beta was largely due to many developers busy with WWDC activities and not really having any time to spend actually working on their apps the first week after the beta became available.
Given the virtual nature of the conference that might change this year, but I doubt it. I would love to be wrong though.
The assumption there being that releases this year would come out in a similar timeframe as in previous years.
Beta 1 has been surprisingly good. I'm finding bugs, sure, but they're not major ones and I'm currently much happier with the iOS 14 beta bugs than I was with my iOS 13 tough-luck-these-are-forever bugs. So I doubt there's a rush for beta 2. In fact, I'm concerned things will get worse before they get better 
They will change how they test out the beta and use flags and select the working feature and disable the non working feature. They will release the new beta as a daily builds. Read this website
appleinsider.com
Apple shifts iOS 14 development strategy to cut buggy releases | AppleInsider
Apple is allegedly adjusting how it develops its operating systems internally, shifting to generating new builds of iOS, iPadOS, and others to make more of an effort to try and catch bugs and issues that have affected software updates that ship to the public.
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I think the daily builds may refer to internal beta testing. I would not expect a change in how they release outside of Apple.They will change how they test out the beta and use flags and select the working feature and disable the non working feature. They will release the new beta as a daily builds. Read this website
Apple shifts iOS 14 development strategy to cut buggy releases | AppleInsider
Apple is allegedly adjusting how it develops its operating systems internally, shifting to generating new builds of iOS, iPadOS, and others to make more of an effort to try and catch bugs and issues that have affected software updates that ship to the public.
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You are assuming that iOS 14 is scheduled for release in September. However, given the virus, the latest intel is targeting an October release date. If that were the case, the beta cadence could well resemble what we've seen in years past.
Or it might not!