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iOS 17.3 Beta 3 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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Are you connected by wifi? When I’m connected by cellular I must use faceid. Wifi prompts for passcode.
It’s been 2+ hours since your last update. Many of us are nervously waiting to see how it went. Please tell……
Adidas.de hangs for me until I turn off content blockers / cookie requests. Fair enough.
Adidas.de loads correctly for me on beta 3 in safari with 1Blocker enabled/running.
Nope. On iPhone 14 Pro the site works but on iPad Air 5 I just can‘t visit the site. It’s loading for a couple of seconds, then safari page goes black and shows this:
Tried deleting safari data, tried loading without 1Blocker no dice.
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Tested with my iPad Pro 10 running beta 3; Safari loads adidas.de without issue, can navigate the site fine with 1Blocker running.
Why not force restart your iPad and test again?
1. Do you know that Apple does not have such a team?
2. Have you considered that you might be more sensitive to these things than the average user? Or that other users are not seeing these issues at all (me, for example)?
3. Appearance is not as important as functionality, at just not at the level you are referring to.
While I’m not the OP, and don’t agree Apple needs a dedicated UX/UI team to fix UI bugs, there should be focus given to them once critical/high priority bugs have been addressed.
The issue however is with their release cadence and large volume of what appear to be critical/high priority bugs release after release, little to no time is given to the UI bugs OP is pointing out.
Let’s be honest, there are UI bugs in iOS that have existed for years and new ones are added every release. So I understand the frustration folks have where this is particularly important to them.
Feels smooth and phone is pretty cold during usage.
The keyboard works better, especially with battery saver mode enabled.
Very satisfied after the first couple of hours of usage.
The keyboard works better, especially with battery saver mode enabled.
Very satisfied after the first couple of hours of usage.
I swear I don't recall seeing these little "widgets" in the last version. They're great.
Hope I don’t have a major case of placebo; beta 3 is very smooth. Every app I’ve used since install feels and behaves faster. There were no modem or carrier updates for the iPhone 15 Pro.
Hope this continues and that everyone else is seeing/feeling it.
Update: having the same positive experience with beta 3 for tvOS.
Hope this continues and that everyone else is seeing/feeling it.
Update: having the same positive experience with beta 3 for tvOS.
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It’s not an option. If you don’t have reduce motion turned on in accessibility options, then you have parallax icons on the Home Screen. You used to be able to turn off this effect individually when setting the wallpaper but that’s not an option anymore.
The only way to completely turn off parallax is to enable reduce motion OR turn on low power mode. Both are not ideal. I’d rather they just fix this issue. I’ve reported it, but I don’t have high hopes of it being fixed since there’s a ton of UI glitches that anyone who uses the device MUST SEE. They stick out because the rest of the OS is so nice to use.
I installed beta 3 on my iPhone 15 Pro Max (6.39 GB). moved from stable version 17.2.1. So far, everything is working smoothly. I noticed that there is an improvement in the graphics. The screen gets brighter.
Still broken - if you have a different photo for the lock screen and home screen and reboot, then login, the home screen uses the lock screen photo. To get the home screen photo back, I need to customize, select home screen, set it to pair with the lock screen, done, then go back and customize the home-screen to use the photo instead. Been this way all of this beta cycle.
Apart from the new security features in 17.3, which are admittedly quite large and welcome, are there any remarkable new features other than minor tweaks and bug fixes?
I’ve found that the Photos app in iOS 17 thus far has been very slow indeed at applying edits to ‘live’ photos with portrait applied on a 15 Pro Max. Feels like a budget phone in this regard.
A fix likely requires quite a lot of rewriting/rearchitecting within the Photos engine to leverage the new chip perhaps…not sure. That’s the only reason I can think of why it’s still so slow at this task so late into the iOS 17 development cycle.
Looking forward to this fix but I think it’s maybe an edge case - not sure too many people use Live Photos with portrait mode applied as it can only be achieved on iPhone 15s (otherwise the user can only user either Live Photos OR Portrait mode, not both together).
I’ve found that the Photos app in iOS 17 thus far has been very slow indeed at applying edits to ‘live’ photos with portrait applied on a 15 Pro Max. Feels like a budget phone in this regard.
A fix likely requires quite a lot of rewriting/rearchitecting within the Photos engine to leverage the new chip perhaps…not sure. That’s the only reason I can think of why it’s still so slow at this task so late into the iOS 17 development cycle.
Looking forward to this fix but I think it’s maybe an edge case - not sure too many people use Live Photos with portrait mode applied as it can only be achieved on iPhone 15s (otherwise the user can only user either Live Photos OR Portrait mode, not both together).
Delete 1Blocker and see what happens.
Works fine on my 14Pro. It’s got to be related to that blocker.
Ah ok thanks. Well, it doesn’t work at all for me then. Don’t think it ever has on iOS 17.
Saw another comment with this for b2.
Not sure probably there are really some improvements in the display and color calibration or it’s just a placebo
