Lot of non-speculation in here. Good stuff but wrong thread.
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I tried steering it back in at the end there.
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Heart says RC hopefullyHappy Monday ya'll!
The last week of November is here. Hopefully, this is the week where we get to see a new beta for iOS and macOS.
What are the chances of RC being released?
Brain says another beta got released, fixes the auto brightness bug, but then breaks the keyboard.
Beta 5 we go
Amsterdam this weekend is ruined me, don’t think I can handle an update today, so I’m hoping for one tomorrow ?
Jaded today ??. Man those brownies ?
Jaded today ??. Man those brownies ?
Please let it be today. This beta has been a nightmare.
Funniest moments of my life when there’s 8 of your high school friends with you. Amazing time.
But tomorrow, please tomorrow. THE FEAR has me today.
Let it be today. Fix the auto brightness bug and the call history bug then it’s good to go again. Had to downgrade to 15.1.1 for optimal use but the downside is Apple Watch’s fitness data won’t sync properly at version 8.3 (but it’s there, if you upgrade iOS to 15.2 beta again it will sync).
We all want another beta or the RC today. Watch them throw us a curve ball and release 15.1.2 lol
I don’t think anything today, as they just gone back to work after a holiday so maybe not to midweek but I like to be proven wrong
I'm thinking the same. Also, I assume that they didn't work on it last week as well, so I am not sure what is there to release.
They have done with RC builds.
Really? It's the first day back after a 4 day holiday in the US...If we didn't get it last week, my assumption is you won't see it until next week.
It will be less than 8 builds newer in my opinion. Don’t put your hopes high.
Hi. I would like to share my downgrade experience with you. If you download an IPSW file, you can press shift + “update” in iTunes and load the old IPSW (15.1) and downgrade your iOS from 15.2 beta. Yes it may seem that the health data from Apple Watch stopped syncing and “lost”, but don’t worry it’s still there, if you upgrade back to 15.2 beta again and it will become visible. The watch will continue to collect health data regardless, so if you’re not pleased with iOS 15.2 beta 3 just downgrade to 15.1 and upgrade to 15.1.1 for better QoL for now.
Health and fitness data are some of the most likely things to be affected by downgrades as they are features that have frequently changed in recent iOS updates — if the old iOS version does not fully support the schema or data formats used by a newer version, the data may not be visible post-downgrade (and could potentially be lost entirely — this is part of why you're not supposed to use betas on non-test devices!).
This is why you should always make a local, encrypted backup of any iOS device from a production version of iOS before updating to a beta — it may be your only recourse to avoid losing a large amount of data in the event that a downgrade goes south and you end up having to restore. (iCloud backups don't count unless you turn them off before installing a beta build, as once you make a backup with a beta version of iOS the backup can't be used to restore to a device running a previous public release build.)