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

[iLuddite]

Are they teaching a behavior that is counterproductive? What good is a 100% capacity if we're not charging it past 80% anyway? Why not charge to 100% daily, reducing the risk of the battery dying by the end of the day, and after 2 years your capacity is down to 85%? Still more than limiting charging to 80%.

In my experience thus far a top-shape battery is much less likely to die by the end of the day, even when limited to 80% charge. If I occasionally want or think I might need to charge to 100% I can while still preserving overall battery life for normal days (on which I usually only use 10-25% of the 80% charge).

People have different needs and different priorities. But sorry my exercising basic freedom of choice bends you out of shape so severely.

 

[Artesia]

Hmm, iOS 18 is randomly switching off my Email app alerts.

 

[sbailey4]

Yea, I’m kind of wishful thinking about it being brought to older devices if they refine it, but on the other hand Apple will want to get Apple Intelligence out there more. I’m on the fence.

Apparently not happening. IP15 Pro and up. New MR article with Apple execs say so.

I don’t want to have to buy another new phone in September again, but my 15pm is already down to 90% battery health so I may need to.

Bruh.. My iPhone 15 (acquired one month after launch) is still at 100% capacity although I always use the 80% charge limit.

Launch day XR (2018) with original battery, charged to 100% every night all night (do have optimize on) and drain most all the way down daily. And still at 84% health. Soooooooooooo all this battery worry is unwarranted IMO.

 

[Natya Sadella]

iPadOS 18 + M4 iPad Pro + New Magic Keyboard is a brutal Kombo. But Not in a Good way.

 

[dk001]

iPadOS 18 + M4 iPad Pro + New Magic Keyboard is a brutal Kombo. But Not in a Good way.

Add the Pro Pencil

 

[vinegarshots]

I don’t want to have to buy another new phone in September again, but my 15pm is already down to 90% battery health so I may need to.

Battery replacement costs under $100.... 🤪

 

[Ledsteplin]

exactly ... and that "Advanced" disappeared with iOS18 for me

I found Advanced here:

Settings > Apps > Mail > Mail Accounts > pick one > Account settings > Advanced

 

[jazzzyJeff]

I don’t want to have to buy another new phone in September again, but my 15pm is already down to 90% battery health so I may need to.

I got my 13Pro at 100% and would love to trade with ya.

I’ll even pay for shipping.

 

[gwhizkids]

iPadOS 18 + M4 iPad Pro + New Magic Keyboard is a brutal Kombo. But Not in a Good way.

Might be helpful if you tell us why that is.

 

[redbeard331]

Battery replacement costs under $100.... 🤪

I can’t afford that!

 

[redbeard331]

I got my 13Pro at 100% and would love to trade with ya.

I’ll even pay for shipping.

I’ll trade it for my iPhone 6 Plus.

Bonus if it’s on a version of iOS that’s still jailbreakable.

 

[jazzzyJeff]

I’ll trade it for my iPhone 6 Plus.

Bonus if it’s on a version of iOS that’s still jailbreakable.

Gotta say. I respect your negotiation skills

 

[Pearsey]

App switcher: settings, when left open would always just show as a black window for me. Had this since iOS 15.

Got so used to this is how it was I’ve only just realised, It’s now fixed. 😆.

 

[LutzRFrank]

I found Advanced here:

Settings > Apps > Mail > Mail Accounts > pick one > Account settings > Advanced

Yes ... can you try this on your main iCloud-accounts eMail? Just to verify...

 

[dk001]

Crap!!
15 Pro Max - Badges

Well, it was nice while it lasted but badges have started messing up again.
Outlook
Teams
Mail
Telegram

On all of these the badge count is incorrect and updates when you open the app.
This issue has just resurfaced over the last two days.

FB13984539

 

[Ledsteplin]

Did anyone have a fix for the gibberish stuff? Seems like it's numbers.

 

[Ledsteplin]

...

 

[Rob9874]

In my experience thus far a top-shape battery is much less likely to die by the end of the day, even when limited to 80% charge. If I occasionally want or think I might need to charge to 100% I can while still preserving overall battery life for normal days (on which I usually only use 10-25% of the 80% charge).

People have different needs and different priorities. But sorry my exercising basic freedom of choice bends you out of shape so severely.

Whoa, no one is bent out of shape. I have mine set to 80% battery optimization too. I was merely questioning why we're intentionally limiting charging to 80%, to keep our battery capacity from dropping down to 85%? It seems counterproductive. You do you, I don't care.

 

[addamas]

If you ever wished to have a dock on Widgets page (the one swipe right from Home Page, so left of it) you can have it due to bug 😂

Steps to repro:
1) Swipe down on desktop to open Spotlight
2) Type some text but not open anything via it
3) Swipe to close Spotlight
4) Swipe to Widgets tab

Reported as: FB13986886

 

[addamas]

Ouch... not only System Locations Services settings were all reversed to base one (all turned on) but also Screen Time password was erased with update 17.5.1 -> 18.0 beta o_0 (had set it up to not use iCloud / phone number as recovery for forgetting such password before) - reported as FB13988191

Sorry for double post - but it's more readable if bug report and this info are separated

 

[Aliknos]

The cache storage bug hit my iPhone 12 running the beta! Well it’s not only that. I removed it from the charger today, it crashed (spinning wheel) and after that WiFi won’t connect to anything unless I turn it completely off and back on, connection with Apple Watch doesn't function whatever I do (with a severe hit on AW battery life happening simultaneously for some reason), Face ID would not work (fixed with a restart) and some other smaller mishaps here and there. I just thought that my phone had a severe stroke when I suddenly got a “storage full” notification and saw the cache storage piling up. I will probably be able to live with a severed device until the next beta, but how will I be able to download it given that space is filled up constantly? Will downloading beta 2 from the Mac help? How do we go about this? Thanks y’all!

 

[Paddle1]

The cache storage bug hit my iPhone 12 running the beta! Well it’s not only that. I removed it from the charger today, it crashed (spinning wheel) and after that WiFi won’t connect to anything unless I turn it completely off and back on, connection with Apple Watch doesn't function whatever I do (with a severe hit on AW battery life happening simultaneously for some reason), Face ID would not work (fixed with a restart) and some other smaller mishaps here and there. I just thought that my phone had a severe stroke when I suddenly got a “storage full” notification and saw the cache storage piling up. I will probably be able to live with a severed device until the next beta, but how will I be able to download it given that space is filled up constantly? Will downloading beta 2 from the Mac help? How do we go about this? Thanks y’all!

You need to have a certain amount of free space to install updates even with a computer. If there isn't enough you may need to reset/restore.

 

[addamas]

Nice! You can add to your Medical ID new things:
> Pregnancy + optional Day of Delivery (somehow as a man I can set it up )
> Names of medicines
> Allergies (not sure if it was there, had NKDA in disorders)

Absolutely hats off Apple for such little but important things

Screenshots:
1st in Health app Medical ID setting
2nd on Lock Screen > Emergency

 

[Aliknos]

You need to have a certain amount of free space to install updates even with a computer. If there isn't enough you may need to reset/restore.

So if the dreaded storage bug hits you you are doomed, gotcha

 

[gwhizkids]

So if the dreaded storage bug hits you you are doomed, gotcha

That assumes that it’s real data occupying that storage. The bug is frequently that available storage is being misreported.