I have no idea how Apple's WiFi engineers can be so utterly incompetent. This beta still has the issue where my iPhone 13 Mini refuses to roam between access points after being connected to an 802.11r-enabled network for at least 30 minutes. I've been reporting this issue for well over a year now. Apple did get back to me at one point and said that their engineers determined the issue to be caused by my specific access points and that I should contact the manufacturer. This turned out to not be true because I got help from a WiFi professional on Twitter that was able to reproduce the same issue on his enterprise level access points. I submitted another bug report in Feedback with links and screenshots to the Twitter thread, but Apple ignored it.
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iOS 17 Beta 5 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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I’d say betas 7 and 8.
But I just had to pick up a MagSafe battery pack so I don’t run out while on vacay.
Love this. Can't wait to see if it's also available with transit directions; always need to walk after getting out of the subway!
Should be easy post:
1: hard reboot up to 6 times.
2: reinstall via IPSW up to 5 times.
3: Otherwise report as a bug and wait until next release.🤣😂
Yeah. My 14 Pro Max and all other iPhones in our household don’t roam correctly between two Asus GT-AX 11000 Pro AI Mesh routers. iPhone stubbornly remains connected to previous router even if the other is in front of me and Wifi signal drops to 1 dot. I switch off wifi and back on, and it connects to nearest router. Only when the previous router is out of range, it connects to the other. Highly infuriating and renders my mesh almost useless.
We also have a dirt cheap Pixel 6a which not only does 160Mhz channel width on 5Ghz for that sweet 2400 Mbps link speed, it roams seamlessly between my two routers. Here Apple insists to use 6Ghz band to be able to utilize 160Mhz channel width for 2400 Mbps link.
Since our foolish Indian govt is joining hands with equally foolish Australian govt to give 6Ghz band to greedy Cellular operators at premium price, we will never have Wifi6e/7 here. We can never reach Gigabit speeds on our Apple devices only because Apple refuses to do 160Mhz width on 5Ghz. 🤬👿
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Sorry if this little screenshot disturbed you. Didn’t thought that it can be so bad. I’m not all day here and didn’t see more screenshots like mine.
It’s more that for last few years, at least, there’s always been storage things during beta, it’s normal and it’ll go back to normal once final release comes out.
My calls app has a red circle notification on it that won’t go away, anyone else?
So far no on transit. Been doing exactly that all day and really want this feature.
It's an old dig at Android. Early on (and in the early LTE days) the battery would die really quickly. Now it seems like apple is going toward that while android doesn't skimp on the battery anymore.
Very True.
But I don’t have the time to manage it. Even with my instructions written for a 5 year old to follow, people still miss read, don’t read, or can’t be bothered to read and it’s loooooong sometimes trying to help.
I sorted it by changing my region back to United States, eventually the voicemails appeared. Deleted and badge gone and set myself back to the UK.
Would have driven me nuts seeing ‘3’ on the phone app otherwise 😂
I’m left handed and is a pain to end a call when using my phone one handed.
Tell the other one to stop messing about and give you a hand
It’s reports like this that make me worried about taking the PB3 plunge on my primary device. I’ve been playing with the DBs on a secondary device, but my primary is still on iOS 16.6 for stability!
I read it is possible to ask Siri to end a call, that might not be the best solution, and it would presumably sound weird to the other person, but you could try asking Siri.
Also I wonder if it works if you mute your microphone first so the other person can’t hear you asking Siri to hang up on the call?
for me, it should be closer, but so many years of muscle memory still confuses me
Actually not a bad thing to have in general.
I don’t miss the days of running around with huge bricks with sub-c cells in them and yards of cables.
What would you say if I told you that the first 16 beta was better than the last 16.6 beta that I was on? 🤣It’s reports like this that make me worried about taking the PB3 plunge on my primary device. I’ve been playing with the DBs on a secondary device, but my primary is still on iOS 16.6 for stability!