iOS 18 Beta 5 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

[LockOn2B]

Anyone else notice that apps that are not dark are no longer a darker shade in beta 5? My IG and Reddit aren’t shaded darker now.

Mine do get dimmed on beta 5 albeit it’s more subtle than on the first 4 betas. Other than the special dark mode icons, of course.

 

[iGeneo]

Mine is dark now. 15pmView attachment 2403277

This was a WhatsApp update. Mine was not dark, the app just updated and now it is

 

[AZhappyjack]

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[AZhappyjack]

Sounds like the beta is more unstable rather than less. Great job apple 🙄

I don’t know that that is true. Neither do you. But, it’s kind of how beta releases go. It’s always kind of a wild rollercoaster ride at some point.

 

[Pearsey]

Tried a few times and all attempt failed to update after getting an error in the process then it stuck loading on the phone. DFU restored it.

Oh!

I restarted both devices.
Installed the new Mobiledevice.pkg.
Restarted my MBP.
Installed the beta.

All went smoothly and surprising fast install for nearly 3 gigs - ip14P.

 

[Pearsey]

Mine is dark now. 15pmView attachment 2403277

Mines been dark since beta1/2

 

[Pearsey]

Some are getting dark icon, some aren’t. It’s random that some people are not getting dark mode version of apps when others are.

Apple Store App, still not gone into dark mode yet. 🤷🏽

 

[Pearsey]

This was a WhatsApp update. Mine was not dark, the app just updated and now it is

Yeah totally.

Most of my apps have turned dark after app updates. It’s not been iOS betas related.

 

[Pearsey]

Sounds like the beta is more unstable rather than less. Great job apple 🙄

For a select few.

Running smoothly on my ip14Pro. So yeah, great job Apple. 👍🏼

 

[Fontvnilla]

Is the frequently used emojis bug (not updating) fixed?

Still seems broken on my 14 Pro

 

[one more]

Is the frequently used emojis bug (not updating) fixed?

Fixed on my iPhone 15. 👍

 

[redbeard331]

I really wish they’d make the Notification Center/bar icons dark when in dark mode as well, they are still light in 18.1

 

[oMc]

Sounds like the beta is more unstable rather than less. Great job apple 🙄

Apple never promised to anyone that it would become more stable over time. It's not necessarily a linear process. New bugs arise all the time, even in stable releases sometimes, you know.

 

[anthdci]

Anyone else seen this bug? This blue box is moving round my screen selecting various parts for a second before moving onto another section. I think it might be something to do with shortcuts. I was creating a shortcut for turning Bluetooth on and off since having it buried in control centre was annoying.

I've deleted those and restarted and it's still happening.

 

[TheBMacAttack]

Mine do get dimmed on beta 5 albeit it’s more subtle than on the first 4 betas. Other than the special dark mode icons, of course.

Interesting. I turned off dark mode icons and it looks exactly the same as when dark mode icons are on. Maybe we will get these apps in dark mode at some point and won’t have to worry about it.

 

[TheBMacAttack]

Anyone else seen this bug? This blue box is moving round my screen selecting various parts for a second before moving onto another section. I think it might be something to do with shortcuts. I was creating a shortcut for turning Bluetooth on and off since having it buried in control centre was annoying.

I've deleted those and restarted and it's still happening.

I don’t think it’s a bug. Sounds like you have the eye tracking feature turned on.

 

[Grayburn]

Sounds like the beta is more unstable rather than less. Great job apple 🙄

No complaints here.

 

[adrianlondon]

I don't really care about icons tinting, or going dark, or having shadows or whatever, so with that out of the way ... this beta is working well for me (iPhone 11).

No doubt because my phone doesn't support 5G anyway, I've had absolutely no cellular issues on any of these betas.

 

[anthdci]

I don’t think it’s a bug. Sounds like you have the eye tracking feature turned on.

nope, checked that was turned off. It seems to have stopped itself now weirdly.

 

[Stiille]

Sounds like the beta is more unstable rather than less. Great job apple 🙄

What the heck you’re talking about! Where did you get that information!?
It’s more fluent and much more responsive than before!

 

[TheBMacAttack]

Anyone else seeing keyboard lag back a bit? Beta 4 was amazing, but it seems its a bit worse on beta 5.

 

[mikelets456]

I’m kinda surprised by how slowly this thread is progressing so far…

Anyone have any updates on the cellular connectivity bug a few people were reporting where they’d lose all cellular signal for a few seconds? I’m assuming with the size of this update that a new modem firmware was included but I’m holding off on installing until there some more confirmation this one is resolved.

There’s another thread discussing the cellular bug…. They’re reporting no problems so far.

 

[gwhizkids]

Sounds like the beta is more unstable rather than less. Great job apple 🙄

I’ve just gone through this thread and see only a small bit of evidence of that.

Beta development is not linear in that respect. Invariably each year we see this same pattern. Stability usually only tends to improve by betas 7 or 8 when Apple is largely done tweaking things.

 

[Stiille]

Anyone else seeing keyboard lag back a bit? Beta 4 was amazing, but it seems its a bit worse on beta 5.

For me there was never a keyboard lag, when do you experience it?

 

[TheBMacAttack]

I’ve just gone through this thread and see only a small bit of evidence of that.

Beta development is not linear in that respect. Invariably each year we see this same pattern. Stability usually only tends to improve by betas 7 or 8 when Apple is largely done tweaking things.

I also won't call this beta unstable at all. Does it have bugs, yes, do full releases of iOS have bugs? Oh yeah. The beta 5 of 18 is very stable. I think people misuse the word unstable.