iOS 9.3 Beta 1 Bug fixes, Changes and Performance Improvements

[Skika]

Why do I keep seeing this is listed as a new feature? It's been like this for me since the 6S was released. If I hold down on the left side of the screen, multitasking pops up and I receive Taptic feedback.

Unless this is referring to hold and swiping in from the side, which does not have feedback, nor do I activate it this way.

Are you sure?

 

[balamw]

Are you sure?

Definitely that way on 9.2.

B

 

[tarheelfan1977]

As always, be sure to report any and all bugs to bugreport.apple.com (a developer account is not required to do this).

iOS 9.3 beta 1
Build: 13E5181d

iOS 9.3 beta 1.1 and public beta 1
Build: 13E5181f

Bugs:

• Cannot select Bluetooth device on call, or for any other AirPlay function.
• Notes security does not work yet (for some).
• Some apps may be stuck in installing/loading mode and not useable.
• When swiping left to like a news article in News app, can get stuck in "remove like" mode even if you haven't liked it yet.
• iPad Air's multitasking menu is dropping frames when you scroll through homescreen card, not a major issue though. It only occurs when there are active apps in the background, if you close recent two or so apps, everything is smooth again.
• Sometimes after watching a video within News app, audio will continue playing after leaving the article and even coming back to the app again later
• News app: When holding down a word to define it (not 3D To.uch) the app crashes
• Animation in messages missing when tapping on Edit and then Cancel (the messages will just pop back).
  
• Dark keyboard flashes when changing capitalization.
  
• In Safari a black rectangle appears during fade out animation when you're in landscape favorite bookmarks view and tap outer area in order to close it.
  
• Settings app preview turns blank in app switcher after using another app for 10 mins.
• If an iPhone in landscape mode (sleep/wake button facing upwards) with keyboard on screen is turned for 180 degrees to alternative landscape mode, keyboard rotating animation executes in an opposite direction than other UI elements.
• HomeKit - when sending invitation to someone to share my HomeKit devices and control, he receives the invitation, accept it, but the status is still invited and no feedback to my HomeKit that he accepted it. And he still has the notification in his setting for pending invitation though he accepted it. In short - HomeKit sharing does not work. (P.S. If both devices are on 9.3 dp1 - the HomeKit works fine )
• App switcher on iPhone 5s sometimes displays small app icons.
• Double tap to zoom in Safari for iPad (possibly just the Mini 4) does nothing.
• Pressing Power button when on a Bluetooth call ends call.
• Unable to add emergency contact to your Medical ID in Health app.
• Apple Pencil does not scroll the home screen or within certain applications such as Mail or Safari.

Changes: (Compared to 9.2)

• Blue Light Reduction.
• Password-protected notes. Accessible with TouchID.
• New 3D Touch shortcuts for stock apps.
• Multi-user support for education.
• New Classroom app for education.
• Re-designed Health app.
• iBooks for iCloud (Syncs all ePubs and PDFs through iCloud).
• CarPlay: New for You in Music and Nearby functionality in Maps.
• Multiple Apple Watch device support.
• Siri support for Hebrew, Finnish, and Malay.
• 3D Touch for setting now bring up options for setting wallpaper, Wi-Fi, battery, and Bluetooth.
• Daily/Monthly Workout view added to Activity app.
• Wallet has reduced brightness & icon to open companion app.
• Wi-Fi Asisst displays exact data usage.
• Slightly tweaked Cellular Data Options menu in Cellular settings.
• Choose to Duplicate a Live Photo as a Still Photo when exporting from Photos app.
• New ‘Duplicate’ action in Photos.
• Home screen icons are farther from the top of the screen on 4.7 inch devices (iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s). This change makes the home screen look more balanced.
• Taptic Feedback when accessing multitasking via 3D Touch.
• Music app displays song ratings by tapping album artwork.
• Tapping on the song title in now playing view brings you to the album the playing song is on.
• Music app: Small indictor for each song showing iTunes purchase popularity of the song like on iTunes Store
• New Workout tab in Activity app - https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ce-improvements.1949874/page-15#post-22460818
• Safari 9.1: https://developer.apple.com/library....html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40014305-CH10-SW1
• The "detective" emoji now can have his skin color adjusted
• Using Apple Configurator, you can now hide stock apps. http://www.cultofmac.com/406594/ios-9-3-officially-supports-hiding-stock-apps-heres-how-to-do-it
• When you have a photo in an album in Photos, previously if you hit the trash button it would only give you an option to remove it from the album, not delete it entirely. Now there are two options "remove from album" or "delete".
• After locking orientation in a landscape mode, Control Center automatically closses and screen orientation changes to a portrait mode.

Performance Improvements:

• 3D Touch Improvements on iPhone 6s. 3D Touch menus pop out at smooth 60 fps..
• Control Center on iPhone 6 is less stuttery for most people but still stutters. On the iphone 5s it stutters initially before it's completely up. Remove your finger. But once it's up, it will not stutter.
• 5S gets stuttering Notification Center. (Fixed after beta 1.1)
• Control Center fixed on iPhone 5s after beta 1.1
• iPad Air received a lot of performance tweaks to animation rendering. Multitasking menu is much smoother, Spotlight doesn't stutter anymore, Safari's keyboard popup no longer skips animation, opening and closing apps is smooth again.
• News app refresh articles and performs much faster

6S Plus and iPad users try this for fun:

• Go to homescreen and hold the phone in landscape mode. Swipe down to bring spotlight search with black landscape keyboard. Now flip the phone upside down and see the show. It cracks me up everytime. Keyboard loses the race all the time. But I could look at the animation for the whole day.

This is a wiki. Anyone can edit this post. But keep it short and concise and please do not post links to unofficial download sites.

Is it Normal to not be able to do an iCloud backup on a Beta build? Just curious? I have 9.3 running on my iPhone 6 and I am not able to back up to the cloud. I have plenty of space so I know that isn't the issue.

 

[Jamesk811]

Is it Normal to not be able to do an iCloud backup on a Beta build? Just curious? I have 9.3 running on my iPhone 6 and I am not able to back up to the cloud. I have plenty of space so I know that isn't the issue.

My backups are working perfectly fine on 9.3 b1. Possibly another issue at play here for you

 

[SMIDG3T]

I think for the bug list we should only include brand new bugs that were introduced in this version. If not it just gets confusing on when a bug was introduced. Just my opinion.

 

[rmadera]

Why do I keep seeing this is listed as a new feature? It's been like this for me since the 6S was released. If I hold down on the left side of the screen, multitasking pops up and I receive Taptic feedback.

Unless this is referring to hold and swiping in from the side, which does not have feedback, nor do I activate it this way.

You know how when you first start to hold down on the side of the screen, and a little peek comes up of the multitasking cards? In 9.3, there's a little bit of haptic feedback right there, and then when you open multitasking all the way there's an even deeper feedback. It's a pretty nice touch.

 

[tosbsas]

My backups are working perfectly fine on 9.3 b1. Possibly another issue at play here for you

Its definitly a not resolved issue. Apple Forum is full with it. Started with 9.2. Some people see it others don’t. No clue yet

 

[zosokm]

Ibooks is a mess on the iPhone in iOS 9.3. The app is slow , laggy, crashes frequently on the iPhone 6 plus on iOS 9.3. Ibooks on my iPad mini 2 on 9.3 is very smooth however .Looks like apple didn't focus much on the iOS version .Anyone else noticing the same problem?

 

[coolsean20]

Ibooks is a mess on the iPhone in iOS 9.3. The app is slow , laggy, crashes frequently on the iPhone 6 plus on iOS 9.3. Ibooks on my iPad mini 2 on 9.3 is very smooth however .Looks like apple didn't focus much on the iOS version .Anyone else noticing the same problem?

No, not at all mate. I am also using an iPhone 6 Plus.

 

[C DM]

Ibooks is a mess on the iPhone in iOS 9.3. The app is slow , laggy, crashes frequently on the iPhone 6 plus on iOS 9.3. Ibooks on my iPad mini 2 on 9.3 is very smooth however .Looks like apple didn't focus much on the iOS version .Anyone else noticing the same problem?

Both are running iOS. Sounds like there might be something odd about your iPhone install.

 

[bamf-hacker]

iBooks works fine for me as well.

I have had to reboot a few times to get my health data to re-apear though. Other than that things have been running smooth.

 

[nsblum]

anyone else having issues with 9.3 and icloud backup? i woke up this morning and found that icloud did not backup over night. when i go into settings > icloud > backup, back up is disabled, and when i try to enable it, i get an error stating "icloud backup failed. there was a problem enabling icloud backup"

ive reset network settings, hard rebooted the phone, even reset phone and restored via icloud backup and also by itunes. this is also happening on my girlfriends ipad.

the only way to get icloud backup enabled, is to sign out of icloud and sign back in, but backing up still is an issue. if you turn icloud backup off, you cannot re-enable it.

any insight or help would be appreciated...

Working as expected on my 6s plus.

 

[Brammy]

Ibooks is a mess on the iPhone in iOS 9.3. The app is slow , laggy, crashes frequently on the iPhone 6 plus on iOS 9.3. Ibooks on my iPad mini 2 on 9.3 is very smooth however .Looks like apple didn't focus much on the iOS version .Anyone else noticing the same problem?

iBooks is a dumpster fire on iOS. It won't download any epubs I've put in iCloud.

 

[BigDO]

Definitely that way on 9.2.

B

Nope, it isn't.

 

[Radon87000]

Found another bug.Even after removing Instagram it's still showing up in my Spotlight for nearly 8 hours now

 

[Mitsjke]

I hope Apple will make an option to auto disable Night Shift when displaying media. Like opening a photo, editing photo, watching movie (and re-enable it auto on pause) and most inportant: using the camera!

 

[rmadera]

I hope Apple will make an option to auto disable Night Shift when displaying media. Like opening a photo, editing photo, watching movie (and re-enable it auto on pause) and most inportant: using the camera!

Wow, I'm surprised they didn't think of that.

 

[imagineadam]

I hope Apple will make an option to auto disable Night Shift when displaying media. Like opening a photo, editing photo, watching movie (and re-enable it auto on pause) and most inportant: using the camera!

I think that would be painful on my eyes to keep switching between a nice warm yellow color temperature to a blinding blue color at night when switching between certain apps. Maybe they could put a toggle in CC center. Doubt they would create what you are saying. Why would you want it to do that anyways?

 

[iGeek2014]

Found another bug.Even after removing Instagram it's still showing up in my Spotlight for nearly 8 hours now

Had the same. Go to Settings>General>Spotlight and turn Siri Suggestions off.

Seems to clear recently deleted apps but deffo a bug.

 

[rmadera]

I think that would be painful on my eyes to keep switching between a nice warm yellow color temperature to a blinding blue color at night when switching between certain apps. Maybe they could put a toggle in CC center. Doubt they would create what you are saying. Why would you want it to do that anyways?

To get accurate colors while editing a photo or watching a movie, instead of a warm yellow.

 

[GreyOS]

I hope Apple will make an option to auto disable Night Shift when displaying media. Like opening a photo, editing photo, watching movie (and re-enable it auto on pause) and most inportant: using the camera!

It's a nice idea. I'm going to consider some of things that would have to be thought through though:

It'd be easy for iOS/Apple to detect when you're viewing media in their apps like Photos and Videos, but what about when viewing media in third party apps and websites? I'm not sure if there are APIs for apps to declare 'I'm viewing media right now' so they'd either have to implement that and make apps use it, or have this only work for their stock apps, but then you're excluding those who use third party apps for media.

Another alternative would be to have a list of all installed apps from which some can be selected to be excluded from Night Shift. f.lux has this feature on OS X. It's still not perfect as you may only want certain features within an app (e.g. its media playback) to be excluded but not everything else.

So there are a couple of options here which would enhance the feature but I don't think there is a perfect solution, and I can see people who are really fussy about colour accuracy still going in and out of settings to disable/enable regardless of options available, because of the limitations above (and their fussiness!)

I reckon the vast majority of people who use Night Shift will not care too much about the colour accuracy when editing photos and watching videos. We mentally compensate for it and most people's editing is not dependent on perfect accuracy.

A CC toggle would be great.

 

[rmadera]

It's a nice idea. I'm going to consider some of things that would have to be thought through though:

It'd be easy for iOS/Apple to detect when you're viewing media in their apps like Photos and Videos, but what about when viewing media in third party apps and websites? I'm not sure if there are APIs for apps to declare 'I'm viewing media right now' so they'd either have to implement that and make apps use it, or have this only work for their stock apps, but then you're excluding those who use third party apps for media.

Another alternative would be to have a list of all installed apps from which some can be selected to be excluded from Night Shift. f.lux has this feature on OS X. It's still not perfect as you may only want certain features within an app (e.g. its media playback) to be excluded but not everything else.

So there are a couple of options here which would enhance the feature but I don't think there is a perfect solution, and I can see people who are really fussy about colour accuracy still going in and out of settings to disable/enable regardless of options available, because of the limitations above (and their fussiness!)

I reckon the vast majority of people who use Night Shift will not care too much about the colour accuracy when editing photos and watching videos. We mentally compensate for it and most people's editing is not dependent on perfect accuracy.

A CC toggle would be great.

Very true. Didn't think of these implications.

 

[maikm]

ios 9.3 beta 1.1
iPhone 6s Plus

 

[Tyenglund]

Has a new beta been released for public beta testers. I'm on 9.3 public beta 1

 

[Tyler23]

Has a new beta been released for public beta testers. I'm on 9.3 public beta 1

No new beta, not likely for another week but who knows.