iOS 18 Beta 2 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

[contacos]

A short sidenote about MMS in Germany (i.e. Vodafone), as the info is well hidden and even support doesn't seem to know it ...

Wonder why your iPhone even has no MMS switch in the cellular options? And adding a MMS APN doesn't help?
Don't worry ... it is not your or your iPhones fault - Vodafone just stopped the MMS service in January 2023!

Vodafone burries MMS

(Sorry for the German text...)

I don’t think MMS has ever really been a thing in Germany as a single MMS was like 0,49€! The only time I used it was in my old Nokia 16+ years ago and only by mistake 😅

 

[Fred Zed]

When saving a photos memory video that the iPhone made I can’t send it or save it to files without the error message “export failed, there was a problem trying to export this memory “.

 

[dubvulture]

Anyone else having this issue again?

 

[cbreze]

When I send an RCS message to an android and they respond back the screen seems to bob up and down as they write their message. Only on RCS. Not sure if bug or not.

 

[novagamer]

Mail still won't refresh my inbox on iOS, but all other devices work, and also my Junk folder works. I sure hope the next Developer Seed causes the inbox to refresh because Good Lord I do not want to sign out of icloud totally and re-download hundreds of gigabytes of data.

 

[LutzRFrank]

The easiest way to Check RCS being supported. In General, About - click on the Carrier Name. If supported, RCS would appear here too

 

[gwhizkids]

Mail still won't refresh my inbox on iOS, but all other devices work, and also my Junk folder works. I sure hope the next Developer Seed causes the inbox to refresh because Good Lord I do not want to sign out of icloud totally and re-download hundreds of gigabytes of data.

Have you tried reinstalling it via IPSW?

 

[adrianlondon]

Anyone else having this issue again?

Yep!

 

[Artesia]

Mail still won't refresh my inbox on iOS, but all other devices work, and also my Junk folder works. I sure hope the next Developer Seed causes the inbox to refresh because Good Lord I do not want to sign out of icloud totally and re-download hundreds of gigabytes of data.

Uninstall mail app and reinstall, it fixed it for me.

 

[novagamer]

Uninstall mail app and reinstall, it fixed it for me.

I completely forgot this was an option. Thank you, this worked!

 

[H3LL5P4WN]

Anyone else having this issue again?

Yeah, I removed then redownloaded the album I saw that happen to.

 

[dubvulture]

Definite bug…the “typing” bubble causes the keyboard to disappear and the screen might move too.

Yeah, I removed then redownloaded the album I saw that happen to.

I'm hoping it gets fixed in the next beta. It is widespread thoughout my library of over 41,000 songs.

 

[hevaKmaI]

Anyone else's Home Key having difficulty? Schlage Encode locks + iPhone 15 Pro Max are not functioning properly in this beta. Doing a restore and set up from scratch to see if it fixes it.

Yes, I see the same thing in this and the watchOS beta 2

 

[Broken Hope]

Doesn't appear to be any way to disable iPhone mirroring so far, the UI allows you to remove a Mac but it just comes back and is also showing my watch for some reason, I'm sure they will fix it in the next beta or two.

 

[adrianlondon]

Siri has suddenly forgotten how to translate anything from one language to another. The Translate app is also dead.

This might not be an iOS 18 problem - is it unique to me?

 

[H3LL5P4WN]

I'm hoping it gets fixed in the next beta. It is widespread thoughout my library of over 41,000 songs.

It’s annoying AF. It’s also a different bug than the one that’s been there forever, where different albums with some shared songs or different versions of the same album squish together.

 

[H3LL5P4WN]

What’s everyone’s take on these new “flowing” road names? It seems a bit cluttered to me.

 

[novagamer]

I completely forgot this was an option. Thank you, this worked!

Update: removing mail and reinstalling does catch up the emails but I‘m already not getting new ones. So weird!

I assume it’ll be fixed with the next version but posting in case anyone else isn’t paying attention because missing emails could be devastating for certain situations. I’ll just keep an eye on it.

 

[cbreze]

I have always preferred to dictate my emails and messages. But sometimes the keyboard seems to have a mind of its own. Putting in double words, periods where they don’t belong, and capitalizing letters that shouldn’t be capitalized. Is anyone having good luck with G board or another keyboard?

Edit: wow! Just tried Gboard. What a difference! Super smooth and dictation works perfectly! FYI, for anyone having trouble with the Crapple keyboard.

 

[d245770q]

I have always preferred to dictate my emails and messages. But sometimes the keyboard seems to have a mind of its own. Putting in double words, periods where they don’t belong, and capitalizing letters that shouldn’t be capitalized. Is anyone having good luck with G board or another keyboard?

Edit: wow! Just tried Gboard. What a difference! Super smooth and dictation works perfectly! FYI, for anyone having trouble with the Crapple keyboard.

Sounds like an ad to me! 🤣

 

[dk001]

I have always preferred to dictate my emails and messages. But sometimes the keyboard seems to have a mind of its own. Putting in double words, periods where they don’t belong, and capitalizing letters that shouldn’t be capitalized. Is anyone having good luck with G board or another keyboard?

Edit: wow! Just tried Gboard. What a difference! Super smooth and dictation works perfectly! FYI, for anyone having trouble with the Crapple keyboard.

I try the stock kb then swap to GBoard. Not a clear win however it is significantly better than stock.
For whatever reason, even GBoard on iOS/iPadOS is worse than its’ Android version.

 

[cbreze]

I try the stock kb then swap to GBoard. Not a clear win however it is significantly better than stock.
For whatever reason, even GBoard on iOS/iPadOS is worse than its’ Android version.

You are right about it not being as good as the android version. But that is typical with Google apps on iPhones. It seems to work very well at least much better than the OEM keyboard. Be sticking with it for now.

 

[dallardice]

What’s everyone’s take on these new “flowing” road names? It seems a bit cluttered to me.

I posted this a few days ago in another thread, I think it looks horribly messy, my current road number appears on screen five times...

 

[adrianlondon]

Siri has suddenly forgotten how to translate anything from one language to another. The Translate app is also dead.

This might not be an iOS 18 problem - is it unique to me?

This fixed itself overnight. Siri (and the Translate app) wouldn't translate anything on my Phone, my old (iOS 15) Phone or my laptop. I'm assuming it was a temporary server outage, although Apple's status stayed green as always.

Downloading the languages and doing offline translation was my temporary fix.

 

[gwhizkids]

This fixed itself overnight. Siri (and the Translate app) wouldn't translate anything on my Phone, my old (iOS 15) Phone or my laptop. I'm assuming it was a temporary server outage, although Apple's status stayed green as always.

Downloading the languages and doing offline translation was my temporary fix.

I’ll be a glass half full guy and theorize that this means they’re upgrading the Siri servers in advance of the impending roll out of DP3 next week.

But it’s probably not that and you just got assigned to that weird Siri server that never knows the answer to anything. That’s the one that really could have used ChatGPT integration…a long time ago.