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

[Pearsey]

Customising Lock Screen apps is still buggy. When you add an app shortcut you then select the app and your left with a window open and eventually it goes or you tap off screen and the app doesn’t preview in the space till you close out. Doesn’t quite seem there yet or UI figured out properly.

 

[AZhappyjack]

Can’t install b2 right now as I’m not at home but I’m curious about 2 things, if anyone know.

1.Are the notifications fixed when in list view?
2.Can we remove the app name when in small mode like we can in large icons mode?

2. No. And we can't "remove" the labels at all, they are just eliminated because of the lack of space with the larger icons.

 

[bigjnyc]

Can’t install b2 right now as I’m not at home but I’m curious about 2 things, if anyone know.

1.Are the notifications fixed when in list view?
2.Can we remove the app name when in small mode like we can in large icons mode?

1. Yes
2. No

 

[adrianlondon]

Just upgraded.

Unlike the first beta, my IMAP email account (with about 10 "send from" aliases) works! This time I won't be rolling back to iOS 17.

Happy.

 

[CrisiomiroX]

Control panel is getting there. I’d say there’s a slight improvement to reorganising icons and adding.

Definitely. There were some controls I couldn’t position in DB1 that I can now. (The panel with the connectivity toggles couldn’t be placed in the ‘middle’ spots of the screen on my 13, now it can.)

 

[Pearsey]

All I can think of is on the off case where I leave my phone in another part of the house and am too lazy to get up and get it. But that's so rare... Not seeing it either.

“Oh hi this is your Chase bank calling, there seems to be a problem with our app and we would like to offer you a personal service to repair it, free of charge, would that be ok, can you enter your phones pin to unlock the screen so we can take over your phone and steel all your money like we do on laptops?”

 

[addamas]

Control panel is getting there. I’d say there’s a slight improvement to reorganising icons and adding.

Yep, finally can make a top 2 rows like:
[x][x][x][x]
[ XX ][ XX ]

On Beta1 it was extremely hard or impossible to get anything than mirrors of:

[x][x][ XX ]
[x][x][ XX ]

 

[Ansath]

With RCS, @TimFL1 has created this thread:

RCS supported carriers

Let‘s compile a list of country & carriers that have the toggle showing and potentially confirmed working in the Messages app: Toggle showing: - At&t (US) - T-Mobile (US) Toggle not showing: - Telekom Germany - Visible - Congstar Germany

forums.macrumors.com

Best to keep that confirmed to there, so it doesn’t clog this thread up.

 

[jfiggy77]

I'm having a weird problem on Beta 2 and wondering if it's just me. My notifications aren't working properly. Some show up and some don't. For some, I can hear the notification come in, ESPN for example, but when I go into the notification center, there is not ESPN notification to open. If I reboot my phone, all my notifications show up (including the missing ESPN notification) but then after a few minutes, I have the same issue and the only way to correct it is by rebooting my phone. Is anyone else seeing this? They were working fine in Beta 1.

 

[adrianlondon]

Just tried Phone Mirroring.

Had to turn Bluetooth on, on both devices. So it only works if the devices are close to each other. For me, that makes it a feature I doubt I'll ever need. Oh well.

 

[jdavid_rp]

i dont get "Oye Siri" i have Siri, Hey Siri the default one. what language have you selected

Oye Siri is the Spanish way for “hey Siri”

 

[jfiggy77]

I'm having a weird problem on Beta 2 and wondering if it's just me. My notifications aren't working properly. Some show up and some don't. For some, I can hear the notification come in, ESPN for example, but when I go into the notification center, there is not ESPN notification to open. If I reboot my phone, all my notifications show up (including the missing ESPN notification) but then after a few minutes, I have the same issue and the only way to correct it is by rebooting my phone. Is anyone else seeing this? They were working fine in Beta 1.

So this seems to be tied to iPhone mirroring. I just went on my MacBook and I see the notifications that I wasn't seeing on my phone. I just removed my phone from the control center on my MacBook so it's not the one used for iPhone mirroring. Let's see if that fixes the issue.

 

[eternalflame]

Seems quite sluggish on iPhone 14 Pro. iPhone Mirroring works but making the phone hot, throttled and rebooted a few times.

 

[VSMacOne]

Do you mean on the Home Screen or when you open the folder? I’m on DB2 and they’re showing as large icons for me in the latter. I honestly can’t recall if they were any bigger in the Lock Screen view on DB1.

On the Homescreen. Could you post a screenshot of yours?

 

[CrisiomiroX]

On the Homescreen. Could you post a screenshot of yours?

 

[contacos]

iPhone Screen Mirror works in the EU (Germany) with an US Apple Account 🥳

 

[VSMacOne]

Yeah. Its been there since the beginning.

Don't think I saw it in the first days of iOS 17. It was only the analog option on the calendar view.

 

[VSMacOne]

@CrisiomiroX It's the same. I wish they would make the icons slightly larger. Maybe future betas.

 

[redbeard331]

i dont get "Oye Siri" i have Siri, Hey Siri the default one. what language have you selected

I’m gonna have to try this.

 

[VSMacOne]

cant see the digital clock. only analog!

You have to go add it as a new Widget.

 

[dk001]

Photos frame rate when you scroll is still not very smooth.

Agree.
On top of that Albums are still messed. Have an extra Raw folder, empty, People and Pets is blank. It cannot identify either of my dogs. I have a bunch of downloads from Twitter (X) but it shows only 2, it created a bunch of Memories I didn’t ask for, etc….

I’ll give it 24 hrs before I file a FB….

 

[CrisiomiroX]

@CrisiomiroX It's the same. I wish they would make the icons slightly larger. Maybe future betas.

I think the difference in the curves between the squircle icons in the folder and the curves of the folder squircle background could look odd if they were larger. And now I really want to know the proper name for them. (And it had better be an improvement on ‘squircle’.)

 

[Joseph C]

The wallpaper dimming button is there under Automatic Home Screen customisation, but it doesn't seem to respect the appearance. So it's dim in light mode too if activated. Hope they fix that as I only want it dimmed in dark mode.

 

[dk001]

Can’t install b2 right now as I’m not at home but I’m curious about 2 things, if anyone know.

1.Are the notifications fixed when in list view?
2.Can we remove the app name when in small mode like we can in large icons mode?

I reset Notifications to List View. On the Lockscreen I can only see them if I swipe up. Otherwise the screen is blank.
15PM

 

[T-Will]

After reading 9 pages of commentary, sounds like I should just stay on Beta 1 for now! 😂