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iOS 17 Beta 8 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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If I did that with my ONE AppleTV, I would be sleeping on the couch for a very long time…
It used to show the street you were on/near at the bottom of the page. Mine is not showing that now, though.
I’ve been running betas on my daily driver phone since sometime in the iOS 3 cycle and have never had a catastrophic failure like this. Luckily it was only one of three boxes in the house so no doghouse but it’s definitely an inconvenience.
Battery life is still crap on this beta.
Does your wife also have an iPhone? If so, what are the iMessage addresses (able to receive iMessage) configured on HER phone? I would check there to make sure that it hasn't changed or been updated. (We are seeing all sorts of settings that have been updated during installation of this beta.) I get prompted to pick an address all the time if I don't specify "mobile" when making the request.
As others report excellent battery life, it's sounding like you may have a runaway process, likely associated with a 3rd party app. Screenshots of battery usage would be helpful.
This beta feels pretty smooth, I'd even say better than the previous one, I'm actually surprised.
But I'm still having problems with:
- keyboard that lags a lot, it's really annoying If you type a lot,
- battery life is STILL pathetic, nothing changed from the previous beta. Right now I'm literally recharging my phone for the THIRD TIME to at least 50% because it drains battery so fast. I have never had such a bad battery life with my 13 Pro Max. It feels like my old iPhone X that was on iOS 14 with 80% battery health. And no, I don't think that's a 3rd party app problem since beta 6 was doing perfectly fine, obviously not iOS 16.6 level but a lot better than what I'm having since beta 7,
- 3rd party apps are still taking more space than on iOS 16,
- Safari still stutters when swiping up to see all of the open tabs.
But I'm still having problems with:
- keyboard that lags a lot, it's really annoying If you type a lot,
- battery life is STILL pathetic, nothing changed from the previous beta. Right now I'm literally recharging my phone for the THIRD TIME to at least 50% because it drains battery so fast. I have never had such a bad battery life with my 13 Pro Max. It feels like my old iPhone X that was on iOS 14 with 80% battery health. And no, I don't think that's a 3rd party app problem since beta 6 was doing perfectly fine, obviously not iOS 16.6 level but a lot better than what I'm having since beta 7,
- 3rd party apps are still taking more space than on iOS 16,
- Safari still stutters when swiping up to see all of the open tabs.
Her iPhone 14 is running iOS 16.6 ... and nothing has changed on her end - her phone, her version of iOS and her iMessage settings... THAT was my point... that MY iPhone with iOS 17 beta 8 suddenly started prompted me to specify phone number or @me.com address, which it has never done before... her entry in my address book in changed from probably 10 years ago... and her settings have not changed. The only difference is MY iPhone being updated to iOS 17 beta 8. That is why I mentioned it.
I am not necessarily looking for a "fix"... just pointing out the anomaly with this release.
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My usage hasn't changed. I'm at at home, on wifi, all day. On the 16 beta train, I would mostly hit the 4pm mark in the neigborhood of 60%.
Frankly, this beta is worse than 7 was.
And I even slept in this morning, lol.
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Yes any app that uses text input fields just like here on safari. It’s like it always gets stuck on the first letter of a word and then it catches up
Like if I write „like that“ it’s like „l … *phone thinking* ike t … *phone thinking* hat“.
It seems like I type faster than my phone can process what I may want to type and it’s suggestion gets in the way of my typing
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Facebook the main offender; no surprise there! Anyway, battery doesn't seem as bad as your making it out to be. Could be some background indexing going on.
A 20% difference is “as bad as I’m making it out to be.”
Like I said, my usage hasn’t changed. 60% when it’s time to clock out means I don’t have to charge midday to make sure I can go out after work.
The battery life of this beta cycle has been crap.
Give it a couple days. You just installed yesterday.
I’ve been trying to download the IPSW for iPadOS beta 8 for my iPad Pro 10.5. But when I click on it, it takes me to a page that goes nowhere. “Access denied”. I don’t think the beta is loaded into their system for whatever reason. Would someone mind checking on the Apple developer software downloads page for me to see if they see the same thing? Thanks in advance.
I hope this fixes the alarm in iOS 17. Ever since beta 2 or 3 my alarm fails to go off in the morning, intermittently (about 50% of the time).
It doesn't. Obviously!!!
Was just asking/curious. And for the age of the phone, that's impressive.
Sorry to bother you.