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iOS 18 Beta 7 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

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ibookemo said:
I’m surprised by how many complaints we have about ‘the recent call list’. Who on earth actually makes phone calls anymore? I thought the world had largely moved on from that 📞

Must be a bit like vinyl records - still in use but just not the mainstream.

I think I have, at most, 1 call per week and that’s with my mum. Don’t particularly need a strong recents list for just 1 person.

What’s the use case for having multiple people in the recents list - you guys running a call centre from your iPhone? 🤪
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I get a lot of spam calls in the USA and sometimes like to copy and paste the number to make sure before blocking it. Hence why I need to be super accurate by pressing the “I” information to get to the screen to copy and paste number in usphonebook or other phone number reverse search engine prior to blocking.
 
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I’m surprised we are this far into the beta process and you still can’t get rid of this.
 
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Stiille said:
Already did a force restart - have a fast charge Apple‘s 20W charger.
Until 80% it’s hot after that it stops the heat…
Was better with beta 5!
Beta 6 was bad, now it’s more bad …
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I would say the fast charger is the issue, not the phone. 4 x the power (and heat) going through the phone. Are you charging overnight? If so get the regular charger and see if that helps.
 
This heat issue is definitely worse in this beta !
Was best with beta 5
Playing a bit games, for not more than 10-20min.
Listening to audible audiobooks and I did took my case off for a while now
 
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TgeekB said:
I would say the fast charger is the issue, not the phone. 4 x the power (and heat) going through the phone. Are you charging overnight? If so get the regular charger and see if that helps.
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No, mostly charge when phone is at around 30%.
And that’s in the evening, the battery life does not lasts that long, have to charge in the evening, even though it’s a freakin 15 PM!!!

Hope this gets fixed before the official release.
 
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What makes it confusing in this beta cycle that there are two beta versions available at the same time:

1) iOS 18.0 beta, currently in DB7/PB5, which is quite mature and should be released to the public in September;

2) iOS 18.1 beta, currently only in DB2, which contains early AI elements and which you are currently running. This beta has less frequent releases than iOS 18.0, as it would probably be released to the public in October. The next beta of iOS 18.1 can come as early as today and, if not, most certainly next week. We could also expect it to contain most of the fixes already contained in the latest iOS 18.0 beta.

Back to your question. Rolling back to a previous iOS is relatively simple if you have made a proper backup before installing your beta. If you were running iOS 17.6.1 before installing iOS 18.1 beta and made an archived backup on your Mac/PC, you can then restore your iPhone. This will wipe your iPhone clean and install the latest official iOS release (17.6.1) on it. You can then put everything back from your backup, so you will have 17.6.1 running on it and then install the latest iOS 18.0 (not 18.1!) beta.

If you do not have the archived iOS 17 backup, things get more complicated, as your iOS 17 iCloud backup has probably been overwritten by iOS 18.1 by now. If this is the case, I would leave it as it is and hope that the next iOS 18.1 beta sorts out most of your bugs.

PS If you want to go IPSW route, you will also need to download and install the latest X-code beta from Apple’s developers website. If you do not want to install the whole thing, you can just run MobileDevices.pkg utility contained in it, otherwise your IPSW file will not work.
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Thanks a lot for your helpful answer 🙂
Kind of doomed I think. I didn't take any backup, and I know it's stupid.
I'll wait for the next beta.

Does it have anything to say if I switch to "Public Beta" instead of "Developer Beta" under the upgrade settings?
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Anyone getting old satellite views, I mean 5+ years old. This is happening in Find My and in the Maps App. Started to occasionally occur in IOS 17.xx and is now ALWAYS happening in 18 B6 and B7. The normal explore views are correct. The satellite views are correct with respect to business location names showing correctly, but structures are missing. Just showing the views of fields and forest prior the business and houses constructed over some 5 years ago. Find My device locations are accurate. I have rebooted, deleted/reinstalled apps, set up phone (15 Pro) as new and then before installing anything I setup and checked Find My and Maps and the old Sat views still show up. Even restored my phone to current 17.xx then clean install to 18 B7 and still have the problem My wife's 15 PM running the current IOS 17 is fine. At a loss as to what to try next. Feedback has been sent to Apple.
 
torbjornhb said:
Thanks a lot for your helpful answer 🙂
Kind of doomed I think. I didn't take any backup, and I know it's stupid.
I'll wait for the next beta.

Does it have anything to say if I switch to "Public Beta" instead of "Developer Beta" under the upgrade settings?
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Public beta is considered to be “safer” early in a beta cycle, as first Apple release the developer beta, wait for a few days, then release the public beta, if nothing is broken. Later in the beta cycle this gap between developer and public beta gets shorter, so for the latest iOS 18.0 DB7 = PB5 the gap was just 3 hours.

In your case, however, since you are running iOS 18.1 beta and there is no public beta for it as yet, it would make more sense to stay on the developer beta track, as otherwise you would just delay your next update.
 
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torbjornhb said:
Thanks a lot for your helpful answer 🙂
Kind of doomed I think. I didn't take any backup, and I know it's stupid.
I'll wait for the next beta.

Does it have anything to say if I switch to "Public Beta" instead of "Developer Beta" under the upgrade settings?
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No, because you have iOS 18.1 beta on your iPhone.
It’s the newest OS, so no it does not make any difference.

That’s a pity that you don’t have a backup to rely on.

Sorry for you, but that’s the problem when you react to quickly and install the newest beta without an backup.

I for myself have no backup too, because there is nothing to backup, because my phone is brand new - early July.

But for you it seems like a real problem if you downgrade and delete everything you got, on your phone?
 
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teeshot44 said:
Anyone getting old satellite views, I mean 5+ years old. This is happening in Find My and in the Maps App. Started to occasionally occur in IOS 17.xx and is now ALWAYS happening in 18 B6 and B7. The normal explore views are correct. The satellite views are correct with respect to business location names showing correctly, but structures are missing. Just showing the views of fields and forest prior the business and houses constructed over some 5 years ago. Find My device locations are accurate. I have rebooted, deleted/reinstalled apps, set up phone (15 Pro) as new and then before installing anything I setup and checked Find My and Maps and the old Sat views still show up. Even restored my phone to current 17.xx then clean install to 18 B7 and still have the problem My wife's 15 PM running the current IOS 17 is fine. At a loss as to what to try next. Feedback has been sent to Apple.
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I don’t think this has anything to do with your iPhone or a beta, most likely Apple are just tweaking something on the Maps backend. It should go back to normal at some point without you having to do anything about it, I reckon.
 
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garetc said:
SA has been hyped up too much.

In my experience with Vodafone SA using it on my Samsung S24U, it’s slower than NSA by a fair bit. Presumably because they're splitting their 5G spectrum between NSA and SA with less allocated to SA.

Maybe as they enable more lines and handsets that will change?

Ping isn’t better, many times I’ve switched to NSA and had better ping.

At least with the iPhone people can switch off SA until it improves.
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With SA you will generally get slower download speeds, because you won't have carrier aggregation with the 4G bands anymore. So yes, latency should be lower, and you have less congestion (and providers can provide fancy things like dedicated slicing), but for pure download, NSA is usually better.
 
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Stiille said:
No, mostly charge when phone is at around 30%.
And that’s in the evening, the battery life does not lasts that long, have to charge in the evening, even though it’s a freakin 15 PM!!!

Hope this gets fixed before the official release.
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Are you sure it's not your phone? I think you're the only one I'm seeing who is complaining of heat issues.
 
ManuCH said:
With SA you will generally get slower download speeds, because you won't have carrier aggregation with the 4G bands anymore. So yes, latency should be lower, and you have less congestion (and providers can provide fancy things like dedicated slicing), but for pure download, NSA is usually better.
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I understand that but but the MNO’s have sold SA (and generally 5G) as something more than it is. Latency on SA here isn’t that great with NSA generally being better. We’re a suburban town in the North East of England where the population isn’t that high.

EE UK are not far off from launching their SA network and will want to boast that it’s better than everyone else so maybe it’ll drive some healthy competition!
 
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ManuCH said:
My 15PM also definitely gets warmer with the beta compared to 17.6.1. Beta 6 was really bad, beta 7 is a bit better.
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Seems to be random. Both my 15 Pro Max and my 13 Mini run pretty cool with good battery life.

I’m a heavy enough user so would certainly notice any heat up. I do a lot of photo and video editing on my phone, seems to handle it well.

I bet some of the apps that people are using are causing heat.

Nobody can really problem solve complex issues like how apps behave on a beta OS remotely - too many variables. The only solid advice to improve matters is to downgrade to iOS 17 using the archived backup of your iPhone you obviously made before installing the beta.

Do this and maybe update when we get to 18.1 final release. You should have better luck at that stage perhaps.
 
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IslesFan said:
Are you sure it's not your phone? I think you're the only one I'm seeing who is complaining of heat issues.
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I am definitely not the only one who is experiencing this issue.

I saw some here which have the same issue!
 
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Reeneman said:
My phone hasn’t been running hot with beta 6 also but with beta 7 it’s definitely a bit cooler and seems to drain battery less quick as before.
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Strange, my 15PM is warm/hot in the area of the volume buttons and the upper back of the phone.
Only listening to audible audiobooks and simultaneously surfing macrumors
 
Stiille said:
This heat issue is definitely worse in this beta !
Was best with beta 5
Playing a bit games, for not more than 10-20min.
Listening to audible audiobooks and I did took my case off for a while now
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Yikes! I was thinking this update was better from beta 6 with heat and battery life. Battery drain is more like 4 and 5 for me. I don't play games on my phone, but I was having heating issues with a few apps, and that seems to be corrected. So far that is.
 
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