iOS 17 Beta 4 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

[bilibug]

I don’t see a way to rearrange iMessage apps so that more commonly used things (#images, for example) can be brought up into the options that appear as soon as you touch the plus sign.

Hold the icon and drag up.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

iOS 17 beta 4 has new remote control icon for Apple TV in Control Center 📺

 

[solo118]

How is battery life with the latest BETA? Anybody noticing a difference compared to ios16?

 

[mogilesha]

Is this battery widget animation new?

Noticed this animation on the weather widget too.

 

[cwosigns]

How is battery life with the latest BETA? Anybody noticing a difference compared to ios16?

So far it’s much improved over beta 3, but not quite as good as I was getting on 16.5.1. I’ve had an off charger for a few hours tonight with moderate usage and I am at about 85%. Un beta three that would have been in the low 70s easily.

 

[Speedman100]

Messages keeps crashing on me when I’m just simply typing out an iMessage. It’s crashed like four times in the past hour.

 

[solo118]

So far it’s much improved over beta 3, but not quite as good as I was getting on 16.5.1. I’ve had an off charger for a few hours tonight with moderate usage and I am at about 85%. Un beta three that would have been in the low 70s easily.

Sounds good to me! I can sacrifice a few %

Just installed, but will fool around a bit with it tomorrow. Just noticed I had no service after starting up, but reset the phone and it got signal.

 

[d5aqoëp]

The app launches, but doesn’t work properly. Cant load its lists into Safari and also throws other errors. On all my iOS devices running Beta 3 and 4. Multiple bug reports on Adguards support website have been made where they acknowledge that Apple changed some things and they’re waiting for Apple to fix them in a new beta.

Another user on this forum also listed Wipr as having issue and the FAQ on the Wipr devs site says the app is broken since Beta 3 and they’re working with Apple on a fix.

I assumed this is not a “some users” bug but rather the underlying system used by these blockers has been broken by Apple for all users. So maybe check again if it really is working for you.

Adguard is working fine for me. 14 Pro Max. It was on iOS 16.6 and today I finally jumped on DB4 directly.

 

[R3k]

I’m also using AdGuard custom DNS, so it could be what I’m seeing isn’t the local app, but the DNS level filters.

Yeah, that’s probably it. DNS is working as it should, actually listed as a work around on their website. I actually just now paid for a premium subscription in order to enable DNS filtering. Works good. It’s the safari extensions specifically that are the problem, which are the only thing available without a subscription.

 

[d5aqoëp]

Jio 5G (India) has Voice over 5G Standalone toggle. 👍

 

[one more]

Time for me to test the beta!
According to users seems pretty good ☺️

Welcome to the party! 🥳

 

[Radeon85]

So many frame drops in B4 swiping about the homescreen and closing apps it's very distracting. Hopefully this gets patched in the next beta.

Inside apps it seems fine so far at least. From beta 1 to 4 this is my least favourite version so far.

 

[marzfreerider]

Is the always on display issue still on this beta? when the phone goes to sleep it goes all black instead of AOD. I’m on iOS 16 and keep having this issue. Thinking of installing iOS 17 now with this beta

I've been having this issue all through iOS 16 and now iOS 17 betas. I have reported this a few times now with no fix. Can't figure out why they can't get this to work the way it should. Maybe they can get someone from Android development to show them how to get it to work.

 

[ibookemo]

How many betas usually appear prior to GM? I think I might install iOS 17 when it’s much closer to completion.

The ‘low hanging fruit’ bugs like service drops, rotation issues, dropped frames, battery loss etc seem like too much of a trade off for the benefits offered at this early stage. The system seems to be peppered with such small niggles - should be renamed ‘iOS Hard Restart’ 🤣

 

[pw5a29]

How many betas usually appear prior to GM? I think I might install iOS 17 when it’s much closer to completion.

The ‘low hanging fruit’ bugs like service drops, rotation issues, dropped frames, battery loss etc seem like too much of a trade off for the benefits offered at this early stage. The system seems to be peppered with such small niggles - should be renamed ‘iOS Hard Restart’ 🤣

usually beta 8 then RC ?

Should start to be weekly betas after beta 5

 

[daio]

Nice touch with animated lock screens, when you use a Live Photo.

You turn on or off the Live Photo feature but what’s missing the ability to focus where on the photo you would like it to be centralised. When I put a landscape Live Photo as the wallpaper, it seems to left justify, rather than using the centre of the photo, I was unable to move it around as with standard photos.

 

[Pearsey]

After trying since 10am PST this morning, I finally restarted my router and restarted all HomePods and it seems to be installing now.

I’ll try the router in hope. Cheers.

 

[Pearsey]

HomePod users, seems a restart of both HomePod and router, unclogs the update from installing 🤷🏽

 

[planetf1]

I was unable to find 'developer mode' after updating to iOS 17 beta 4.
Under settings/privacy and security/security, only lockdown is listed. No reference to developer

It was previously enabled with beta 3.

Only checked as I noticed there was a new small airpods beta update...

Is this menu item missing for others?

Update - I also checked my iPad. Also running beta4, and with same apple id. There developer mode was present (and enabled). I then rebooted my iPhone, but still no developer menu

 

[Pearsey]

Phone feels great this morning. Animations more fluid. Scrolling seems smoother… some nice bugs squashed and refinements made to this build. 💋

 

[ixrated]

So significant location still not fixed.

Fixed for me for both 14Pro and XS Max. That was the very first thing I checked after updating. 😅

 

[planetf1]

Having updated xcode, reattached, somehow the developer menu came back. After a reboot it's now enabled again ....

 

[Brachaci]

is the keyboard/scroll working fine in Instagram DMs?

Works fine for me

 

[Brachaci]

I've encountered issue with Apple Maps, where 3D view could be only activated when viewing Satellite mode. For the remaining 3 modes (Explore, Driving, Public Transportation) the "3D" button does not appear when close enough to the surface.
You have to switch to Satellite mode, then activate 3D and then switch back to Explore mode to experience the 3D mode. Once you switch back to 2D the button disappears again.

Reported under feedback FB12379782

I've run into old issue from iOS 16.6 beta 3 which I previously reported and it got fixed in following beta releases.
It's a cosmetic bug but finally something I can contribute with into this thread .
I've collected new sysd

iagnose and create new video of the issue and updated the old report.

Reported under Feedback ID: FB12379782

 

[Trezona]

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