Yes, my experience has been smooth so far, so I even decided to jump on last beta train and updated my iPhone😁
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iOS 17 Beta 8 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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Well actually yes! iOS 17 enables wider channel width. How wide depends on the iPhone you have. iPhone 14s with up to 200 MHz I believe. (Up from 80) And iPhone 13s up to 100 MHz. This is significant because channel width directly corresponds to wireless bandwidth. Just over the past month the US cellular carriers released additional spectrum within the mid-band 5G (additional channel width) so the results are speeds have increased 2x to 3x faster as well as additional range. It did not help with 4G other then indirect improvements such as less load on the 4G network. In laymen’s terms I did a speed test the other day and got 2.3 GBs down over c-band 5G. On average you’re looking at 500-1gbs down. (Up from 150-200mbs down avg) But it just goes to show what’s possible.
Edit: Unfortunately Apple limits channel width via software. The hardware is capable of doing a lot more which would benefit the iPhone 12 and 13.
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So your battery life issue has nothing to do with the beta? Or are you saying your battery life is still bad on the stable update tree?
I'm curious, as usually Apple does not deal with effects from beta use. Just re-install iOS 16 if it's software related?
As mentioned above Reddit is one of them. If it’s deleted from the stickers section, it deletes the entire app from iOS entirely.
It’s not just Reddit though, it’s any app that offers stickers with an actual app and when you go into the stickers menu in Messages, if you remove any of them from the list, it removes the app entirely!
I love hearing stuff like this but the fact that I’m still sporting 1 bar of LTE sitting in a state capital in late 2023 makes my heart hurt.
Yeah I hear you. But I will say there are a ton of advancements happening right now and more to come over the next few years that should help with indoor reception.
I live in Scottsdale AZ, and can’t get decent 4g or 5g in the center of most shopping centers that are outdoors lol
I jumped on the beta train fairly late, and am wondering if anyone else has noticed memory management in iOS 17 is not as good as in 16.
I'm on an iPhone 11 Pro Max, and for example, I went from Telegram to camera to take a video, then went back to Telegram to send it, and Telegram had been killed in the background. Same thing with Safari; apps are being killed in the background a lot more than in 16.
It's bad enough that I'm thinking of rolling back to 16 until later this year when I buy a new iPhone 15 which will have more RAM to resolve this.
I'm on an iPhone 11 Pro Max, and for example, I went from Telegram to camera to take a video, then went back to Telegram to send it, and Telegram had been killed in the background. Same thing with Safari; apps are being killed in the background a lot more than in 16.
It's bad enough that I'm thinking of rolling back to 16 until later this year when I buy a new iPhone 15 which will have more RAM to resolve this.
I had to download Reddit. You're right about that one. I think Reddit did wrong. When you tap the +. Then tap "more" at the bottom. That's where Reddit should be. Those can't be deleted. They're apps with stickers. The other group you can delete. Most of those don't have an actual app icon. They're just stickers. So when you delete one, it's gone. Reddit should change that.
Go to the Stickers menu in iMessage,, scroll all the way to the right , and hit edit. If you delete any apps from there, it will remove entire app from your phone. It’s not just Reddit. It’s every app I have that also offers stickers. Taco Bell, Chewy, Reddit, eBay…
With the way it seems to morph, I wonder if it is the amount of RAM or the algorithm Apple uses to monitor it.
17 doesn't seem to be better than I remember 16 being but neither is that good. I don't use my 13PM as a daily driver so cannot really say.
Since beta my battery life has deteriorated so the issue i have may (or partially at least) be to do with beta. Battery performance is inconsistent with all betas, but this one seems to have been the worst.(i’ve lost around 10% of battery performance ). As for apple dealing with it, i am paying for a replacement battery.
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It’s not just Reddit, it’s every app in the list.
The Weather Network, Flipp, Fantasical, Flipp, Mini Metro, and even the Fitness app by Apple are affected. Seems like an Apple iOS issue.
The camera app has always been problematic for me with 4GB RAM on XS. The RAM management is fine until I open that app. Not having the same experience with Safari.
Battery talk for what version of software? iOS 14-15-16-17 etc…
Visit this topic and you will quickly find the answer 😁
Clicking the link would have taken you less time that typing the first word in that reply and you would have seen…… was trying to help you, but oh well.
Did Canasta get an update and it’s now not running smoothly on an iOS beta? Your usage is 43% just from that app.
It’s probably an app, which won’t get an update to the new iOS 17 SDK until official release.
But yeah, have a look over on the battery forum for iOS 17 betas here
Standby screen froze. Took my 14 Pro off charger this morning. It was vertical and stand-by not on. Put it in my robe pocket, got coffee and when I sat down and to phone out of pocket the standby screen was on showing a photo. Tapping and moving phone changed photo to standby clock screen. Only way to clear things up was to reset.