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iOS 17 Beta 4 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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Your telling me!
I think I’ll do the same
Where did you hear about this genius procedure ?
This one deserves a big
Have you considered doing an IPSW install to see if you can get your apostrophes back?
OK, that was a cheap shot. But I'm a cheap person 😁
If the battery thread is anything to go by, not much point in creating one. Everyone just seems to chat on here regardless. 🙄
Plus, can you imagine the hassle I’d get if it didn’t work, which it does, because they knocked a cable whilst installing and it bricked their phone, or they installed the wrong IPSW file. It would end up a 24/7 hot line ☎️ 😆😂
“Good morning, IPSW International, you’re speaking to the Pear5ey, the creator, genius some even say iPhone Marvel or legend, how can I help?”
“Oh hi it’s Adrian London here from MacRumors”
“Who?”
“You know, purple octopus man”
Phone hangs up
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I have some strange bugs that have popped up with beta 4
1. The calls suddenly go silent and I have to end the call and reinitiate the call. Has this happened with anyone else?
2. Wireless carplay gets choppy all of a sudden
3. itunes backup is greyed out.
1. The calls suddenly go silent and I have to end the call and reinitiate the call. Has this happened with anyone else?
2. Wireless carplay gets choppy all of a sudden
3. itunes backup is greyed out.
You on Mac or Windows? Process won’t work thru iTunes on a windows machine.
The issue is not just that of inconvenience but also the additional wear on the battery due to heat when the phone is charging. Because the battery doesn’t last as long, the phone spends more time on the charger which wears down the battery more. The faster the charger, the higher the wear. Even MagSafe battery packs seems to be causing more heat. Even beyond a beta, the battery wear on my 14PM with both iOS 16 and now 17 has been the worse of any iPhone in recent years. I’m sitting at 93% health whereas last year at this time I was 4-5% higher.
It’s running very well on my iPhone 14 Pro. Battery, performance, apps, all very smooth.
I hear ya
I beta tested every other year but don’t remember it being so issue-ridden. Kinda reminds you of how well the final releases work.
It’s hilarious how people base their decision on this forum. “Issue-ridden”? Compared to what? This is one of the best beta cycles I can remember and I’ve been doing this a long time.
#2 is likely related to Bluetooth rather than CarPlay as my 14PM has been disconnecting randomly while I drive and I’ve not been blessed by wireless CarPlay just yet. Even when I’m not listening to music through the device, I’m still getting repeated Maps notifications as it disconnects and connects back up.
#2 is likely related to Bluetooth rather than CarPlay as my 14PM has been disconnecting randomly while I drive and I’ve not been blessed by wireless CarPlay just yet. Even when I’m not listening to music through the device, I’m still getting repeated Maps notifications as it disconnects and connects back up.
The only explanation I can find for why some folks are having tons of issues while others aren't, is that different devices must have different firmware or updates/files as opposed to other devices. Trying to find how many iPhones (not even iPads!) are currently supported, including the "regular" and "Max" sized phones, I'm counting 30 different phones models?
It's going to be weeks still until all of these devices get shored up and are on the same playing field. Someone with an iPhone 14 Pro Max (like me) might LOVE beta 4 because it runs great, while someone on an iPhone XS Max might have tons of problems...
It's going to be weeks still until all of these devices get shored up and are on the same playing field. Someone with an iPhone 14 Pro Max (like me) might LOVE beta 4 because it runs great, while someone on an iPhone XS Max might have tons of problems...
I have a version of #1. Calls on my AirPods Pro seem to suddenly go silent, but it turns out all sound for the call has suddenly switched to my phone. Has happened several times.
Wow! Something is amiss in your settings, or an app or two are misbehaving. My 14 PM battery doesn’t discharge at all overnight. Sometimes maybe 1% or 2.
I've run into the same issue, while trying to update from iOS 16 to the 17 on the Ventura. For some reason, the install process was looking for an update on MacOS, so I switched to MacOS Sodoma (I have separate partition for it) and then the IPSW install process worked without issues.
I don't understand the frustration with beta bugs, unless there is something which is really unexpected. So many comments shouting about how the betas are bad and worse and I have seen very few with report ID or at least attempts to troubleshoot, fix it etc. It's like these people are expecting beta versions to pass their expectations with flying colours. It will never be like that otherwise this forum thread will be pointless.
Me personally have after installing iOS 17 two hard days when my battery was juiced by iOS indexing background tasks, phone was hot so I could boil water on and all it takes was to open weather app. After two days everything settled down and I am experiencing only minor bugs and glitches from time to time.
So really, think twice before you jump into beta train if your expectations aren't too high.
Peace
Me personally have after installing iOS 17 two hard days when my battery was juiced by iOS indexing background tasks, phone was hot so I could boil water on and all it takes was to open weather app. After two days everything settled down and I am experiencing only minor bugs and glitches from time to time.
So really, think twice before you jump into beta train if your expectations aren't too high.
Peace