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iOS 15.4 Beta 1 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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My, although I almost don't use it, so can't give feedback on stability, etc. UC is kinda working, have been having some issues with scrolling at the beginning, but I think they resolved on its own.
I am still up in the air to run on my ipad, I will roll the dice once i unbox it!
Being a new device, I would suggest staying on 15.3(or whatever version it shipped with if desired) unless you have issues. Beta builds can be hard on the device with all of the additional logging and bugs and whatnot. Just by two cents.
I restored to 15.3 and lost my fitness data and the app wouldn’t refresh. Had to go back to 15.4 beta to see fitness data
This is a buggy mess, I do every beta and I find this one the worst in a long time. 15.0 Beta 1 was more stable for me even
Health and Fitness are two of the most frequently updated features in recent iOS releases, and the underlying database schema changes applied during iOS updates seem to frequently not be backwards-compatible.
This is why I strongly recommend making a local encrypted backup from the latest released version before installing any iOS beta, and that you accept that if you later roll back to the previous version (restoring from that backup) you will probably lose any health and fitness data that was collected while the beta was installed.
i just restored back to 15.3.. This is for sure one of the buggiest beta 1 i have been in a bit. IMO
Not a buggy mess for me. Quite the opposite. Really solid B1. Battery is great, and stable. Performance and animations smooth. A couple of bugs have popped up in 15.4 yes, but more have been fixed from 15.3. Safari running nicely as an example - PDF viewing fixed. Memory leaks look good.
If you told me I was on a beta I wouldn’t believe you. IP12.
If you told me I was on a beta I wouldn’t believe you. IP12.
That is the beauty of the beta though. You can have two identical devices side by side running the same build and one may have more issues than the other. Just how the cookie crumbles.
What speeds are you seeing on 15.3? I have ATT 5G on iOS 15.1.1 and I am seeing 65MB down with 14.4MB up, lol
Sorry I am blind, lol. That is a huge difference. Since you rolled back, are you seeing these numbers roughly again now? I would think if you are back to 15.3 that you should if it was in fact that 15.4b1 killed it.
I restored to 15.3 and using my iCloud backup and all my fitness data is still there. Don’t think I’ve ever lost data altogether.
hell yes, that was today speeds, right when i reverted back..
Keeping to 15.3 on my 13PM. Having enough issues on my IPP11 G2 on this beta. Only really critical one is WiFi. All looks good but I am having sporadic data flow issues. Says connected but data speed drops to zip. Meanwhile all the rest of my devices are having a speedy time of things.
It is amazing how some people have a certain issue while others don’t. Case in point the storage calculation bug. Some users don’t see the issue, others see the storage over reported, still others see under reported or zero reported storage.
Yep — so many variables at play:
- Was the beta installed clean (restore via IPSW), or was it an upgrade?
- Was it an upgrade from a production release, or from another beta?
- Was the upgrade installed OTA or via IPSW?
- How many upgrades (and from/to which versions) have been run on this device since the last restore?
- Were apps and system settings migrated from an older device, or was it set up as new?
- What apps are installed on the device, and how many of them have background processes that run automatically?
- What apps and system services sync data via iCloud, and are all devices syncing that data running the same versions of iOS and/or those apps?
- Did a solar proton ricochet off a transistor in a memory chip in the device at just the wrong moment to cause corruption during the last iOS upgrade?
Bugs like this leave me scratching my head. This should be simple and straight forward. Yet it isn't and Apple cannot or will not tell us why.
So are we back to the days of having to do multiple OS reinstalls to get it to run right? Kinda like the ol' blue wonder?
Or having to do multiple reboots?
Sigh...