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iOS 18 Beta 1 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

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Nikhil72 said:
Gotta say, in some ways this beta feels smoother than iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 on both my M4 iPad Pro and my iPhone 15 Pro Max. Battery has been stable, temperature is definitely cooler. Little things aside, quite impressed so far.

I presume another beta in ~15 days (week before July 4th), a DB3 ~July 10th with a PB1 of that DB3 ~July 15th. That’d be my guess for how this will go based on last year.
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Well, in the past, beta 1 has been usable but then beta 2 and 3 start taking a nose dive with bugs galore and apps crashing, then beta 4 starts getting better and each beta after that gets a bit more stable until go-live. I learned to wait until beta 5 or so to jump in.
 
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I gotta say, this is the least exciting iOS update ever for me.

And I can't get over how hideous the Home Screen icon tinting looks. I am surprised it got the green light. Did apple fire their design team? The tinting effect looks like a 10 yr old hackathon side project gone wrong. So basic and ugly. Hope they keep improving on every beta.
 
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Has anyone noticed the effect of the light icon on the Homescreen customize control? If you have DARK or TINTED icons, a little light button appears on the upper left corner of the controls... but as far as I can tell, it doesn't change anything (yet)... it toggles between two states with no noticeable effect on the screen or icons.

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thatJohann said:
I gotta say, this is the least exciting iOS update ever for me.

And I can't get over how hideous the Home Screen icon tinting looks. I am surprised it got the green light. Did apple fire their design team? The tinting effect looks like a 10 yr old hackathon side project gone wrong. So basic and ugly. Hope they keep improving on every beta.
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That's typically how the beta process works.
 
The Photos app looks like it was done by another company and within the app itself the interface elements look like they were created by different teams who didn’t know what the other teams were doing. Those oval save and cancel buttons need to go and the choice of yellow on the save one is so random I don’t know what they were thinking.
 
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Has anyone noticed the effect of the light icon on the Homescreen customize control? If you DARK or TINTED icons, a little light button appears on the upper left corner of the controls... but as far as I can tell, it doesn't change anything (yet)... it toggles between two stated with no noticeable effect on the screen or icons.

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It makes the wallpaper darker, at least it does on iPadOS.
 
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AbSoluTc said:
Whose running this as a daily driver?
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I was, like every beta for years, but I've had to roll back to 17.5.1.

I seem to be an outlier, but my main IMAP mail account didn't work.

I have other IMAP accounts which worked, and many people don't use IMAP any more anyway (iCloud, Outlook, Gmail etc.) but it was enough of an irritation to me that I went back.

I'll try again next beta. Rolling back is easy, apart from all my banking apps. They're a pain.
 
Ben running iOS 18 on my 15PM since last night. So far so good. Just wondering if the new Clean Up in the photos app launched with iOS 18 Beta 1 or will this come later?
 
AZhappyjack said:
That's typically how the beta process works.
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Actually we do usually see some “apparent” regression in the mid part of the cycle many years. But that’s likely due to adjustments being made elsewhere in the software.
 
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Has anyone noticed the effect of the light icon on the Homescreen customize control? If you DARK or TINTED icons, a little light button appears on the upper left corner of the controls... but as far as I can tell, it doesn't change anything (yet)... it toggles between two stated with no noticeable effect on the screen or icons.

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If you have a light wallpaper, this button makes it darker or lighter.
 
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Pearsey said:
Gooooo onnnnnnn!

Honestly, few little niggles here and there, but 90% happy using it for the first day.
Performance and battery is just like io17.5.1 on my IP14P.
And there is a nice smoothness to it that feels different to iOS 17.
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I probably will! :D Just waiting till I get back from vaca this weekend. Less I can't stand it tomorrow and just go for it. ;)
 
COBRASVT said:
I probably will! :D Just waiting till I get back from vaca this weekend. Less I can't stand it tomorrow and just go for it. ;)
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Take a backup.

If you only backup to iCloud, you'll have to disable backups before upgrading to ensure no iOS 18 backup over-writes it. If you backup to a laptop, click on it to archive it.

Once you IPSW-restore back to iOS 17.5.1 you won't be able to read iOS 18 backups. Of course, if you re-apply the beta then you can.
 
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Glad to see T9 contact lookup in phone app. Now, let's bring a better way to delete calls than selecting one by one or the entire list.
 
VSMacOne said:
It took a little effort (and a couple of random re-springs along the way 😂) but here’s my current version. Very much liking this CC update.
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I found Translate was a nightmare to place and move. It kept cloning itself and every time I selected another app it turned into translate.

Restarts then aloud me to edit the control panel again. 😵‍💫

Got somewhere in the end… it’s not my best work 😆
 

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