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iOS 9.3 Beta 5 Bug Fixes, Improvements, and Changes.
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Been using 6S Plus since iOS 9, and I have to say 9.3 Beta 5 is the best iOS 9 build.
Super smooth and easy with battery life...
- The screen blinking or quickly flashes is tied to the same bug that using AssistiveTouch can kill all the fade in/out animations. (See your own bug listed as "Animations are still disappearing -> Video") it's tied to that bug which is produced by using AssistiveTouch.
- Opening CC while Siri is listening is why you see iPhone Speaker. It's not an option or a bug that it's "missing" when opening CC any other time.
On one of your other bugs in the list. The Safari Maplos.com "bug" is an issue with the website not Safari. Zooming in on the map breaks the map on the site, if you have just enough space on the screen that isn't the map you can still use Safari (I can reproduce it everytime that it's the map itself and not Safari.) Safari isn't frozen, it's a poorly writen site with a map that breaks.
I'm having a strange issue with Safari, Chrome, Mail, and News app and wondering if anyone else is having or ever had this issue.
I recently did a complete wipe of my iPhone 6s Plus and installed 9.2. I set it up as a new phone so there were no issues restoring anything. Last week when 9.3 Beta 5 was released, I installed it since the issue with Apple Watch notifications had been fixed. My phone was running like a dream. However, this weekend I started experiencing an issue that caused me to reset my phone in the first place. It happens in Safari and Chrome and also in the News App.
With Google as my default search engine, if I enter a search in the Safari or Chrome address bar, I am presented with a list of results as it should be. However, when I try to click on one of the results, nothing happens. I can click away until my fingers bleed and nothing happens when I try to open the link. This however does not happen if I have Bing as my default search engine and search within Safari with Bing or if I actually search from the Google Now app.
In Safari the links open as they should with bing as the default search engine and in the Google app, links open within the Google app as they should. Another issue that I have is that regardless of what I have set as my default search engine, when I visit the Macrumors page for instance from within Safari and open up the dropdown menu and click on the forums link nothing opens. I have to enter forums.macrumors.com in the address bar if I want to visit the forums page. Again, same behavior in Chrome.
My issue with the News app is within the Siri Suggestions screen. When I click on one of the News headlines, nothing happens. It takes as long as 5 to 10 minutes for a headline to open. I will be doing something else on my phone and all of a sudden the News app opens to the link I was trying to open. I was experiencing this same issue before I wiped my phone and was hoping a clean install would fix it.
With the Mail app, I am not able to open links in e-mails. If I click on a link in an e-mail, Mail will freeze and I have force quit to start using it again. As I mentioned earlier, everything was working fine after I installed 9.3 Beta 5 until this weekend. I finally had some time this weekend to work on my phone so I started installing all the apps I wanted back on the phone. I'm not sure if something I installed is causing the behavior but one thing I do know is that it's not normal behavior.
I submitted a bug report to Apple so i'm wondering what they will come back with. This doesn't make it impossible for me to use the phone since I can still do most everything, but it is a rather annoying issue and one that has me lost trying to find out what is causing the issue. I have 9.3 Beta 5 installed on my iPad Air 2 and have none of this issues. Everything runs smooth on there. Has anyone ever experienced anything like this or know how I can fix it?
I recently did a complete wipe of my iPhone 6s Plus and installed 9.2. I set it up as a new phone so there were no issues restoring anything. Last week when 9.3 Beta 5 was released, I installed it since the issue with Apple Watch notifications had been fixed. My phone was running like a dream. However, this weekend I started experiencing an issue that caused me to reset my phone in the first place. It happens in Safari and Chrome and also in the News App.
With Google as my default search engine, if I enter a search in the Safari or Chrome address bar, I am presented with a list of results as it should be. However, when I try to click on one of the results, nothing happens. I can click away until my fingers bleed and nothing happens when I try to open the link. This however does not happen if I have Bing as my default search engine and search within Safari with Bing or if I actually search from the Google Now app.
In Safari the links open as they should with bing as the default search engine and in the Google app, links open within the Google app as they should. Another issue that I have is that regardless of what I have set as my default search engine, when I visit the Macrumors page for instance from within Safari and open up the dropdown menu and click on the forums link nothing opens. I have to enter forums.macrumors.com in the address bar if I want to visit the forums page. Again, same behavior in Chrome.
My issue with the News app is within the Siri Suggestions screen. When I click on one of the News headlines, nothing happens. It takes as long as 5 to 10 minutes for a headline to open. I will be doing something else on my phone and all of a sudden the News app opens to the link I was trying to open. I was experiencing this same issue before I wiped my phone and was hoping a clean install would fix it.
With the Mail app, I am not able to open links in e-mails. If I click on a link in an e-mail, Mail will freeze and I have force quit to start using it again. As I mentioned earlier, everything was working fine after I installed 9.3 Beta 5 until this weekend. I finally had some time this weekend to work on my phone so I started installing all the apps I wanted back on the phone. I'm not sure if something I installed is causing the behavior but one thing I do know is that it's not normal behavior.
I submitted a bug report to Apple so i'm wondering what they will come back with. This doesn't make it impossible for me to use the phone since I can still do most everything, but it is a rather annoying issue and one that has me lost trying to find out what is causing the issue. I have 9.3 Beta 5 installed on my iPad Air 2 and have none of this issues. Everything runs smooth on there. Has anyone ever experienced anything like this or know how I can fix it?
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I would
I would recommend staying on 9.2.1 until 9.3 is released, people on here claim their iPhone doesnt have issues but you are going to run into weird bugs they may not be seeing.
Battery life on the 6s has def taken a hit (at least for me) on b5. Tried to roll back to b4, but was unable to restore an iTunes backup. I didn't archive the backup, which may be the reason why it was showing as a corrupted file. After reinstalling b5 though, I was able to restore from the same iTunes backup file.
My iPhone 6 with iOS 9 it's slow and very slow on this beta .. Wtf 
.. I miss 8.4 .... On 9.3 beta 5 animations are slow , glitchy, stutters , lag.. C'mon Apple ..
.. I miss 8.4 .... On 9.3 beta 5 animations are slow , glitchy, stutters , lag.. C'mon Apple ..
Feel the same with b5...
Didn't do a reset all settings with b5 though, so that could help slightly. Hopefully final is as good as b3/4 was.
I have made a clean install of 9.3 beta 5 by flashing ipsw file on Iphone 6s and setup the phone as NEW. Whenever i try to reboot the phone, it starts with initial setup screen like wifi, sign in to icloud and set up the wallet etc everytime. Is there any solution for this?
not even close.
Maybe a "public beta", but most definitely not the public release of 9.3.
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I think it's likely that we'll see another beta this week (exact same build as the GM). Rumors say Apple is holding their event on the week of the 21st. One more beta this week would give them time to make sure there are no show stopping bugs in the GM and start production of the new 'iPhone SE' and new 9.7-inch iPad presumably shipping with 9.3 out of the gate, all while having the public release of 9.3 on the day of the event. Same goes with watchOS 2.2. You heard it here first
Damn, they are on fire at Apple! Went from 2 weeks between beta's to every week. I guess we'll see the GM next Monday/Tuesday.
Im sure this will be the final build until the event in 2 weeks and the release of the public version probably 1-2 days after the event.
