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iPad iPadOS 13. Beta 2
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Personal opinion, it is way more unstable than previous public betas. Don't install it thinking it will be as smooth as those, this is definitely on the level of a dev beta. I'd probably wait till beta 3 before bothering.
Am in the process of installing it on my new iPad Pro 11...with my like, the iPad will catch on fire. 
Works OKbut I reverted. Your battery takes a bit of hit - drains fasterAm in the process of installing it on my new iPad Pro 11...with my like, the iPad will catch on fire.
The OS has some freezing issues with some apps.
And it may restart randomly without notice.
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They do, no scrolling or gestures though....
I would not recommend it at all. It’s rough. Rougher than I thought it would be, to be honest.
Did a full backup, updated all Apps and made sure I was running the latest version of iOS (I was, I make sure I am up to date). Plugged it in, installed the Beta Profile, rebooted, downloaded and installed. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.
TouchID, I’m in...oh, look 4 App updates, not unexpected...launch App Store, tap on my avatar (hate this method of updating apps, the UI is cramped and horrible, like updates are a damn afterthought now), spinning up like updates are going to happen...time goes by, updates spin and spin, a couple “Install”, but they don’t and I have to tap all of them to stop and bring up the Update button. I try this about 5 or 6 times...Hulu is now endlessly updating.
Turn off iPad (hold down button), reboot...now I have 45 app updates. I tap on two, Dropbox and Adobe Premiere Rush, they are still spinning as I write this - two hours later - ...oy vey, what a PITA, wish I had not done this.
Editing text in the MacRumors comment box here is weird, as revising the leading character of a word is typed as a capital letter and then delete and capital again and third time and backspace backspace and now it’s okay. Weirdly and stupidly frustrating.
Udemy bombs out on launch, and I can’t update it to see if they updated it for this issue, because App Store Updates don’t work.
Pinning widgets to the left side is great, unless they refuse to load content and just stare back at you blankly. Notes, Dark Sky are blank and don’t load unless you tap on them or flick up and down through the list of active widgets (I have 6 total). Updating is slow and not guaranteed.
Oh hey look, App Expose says Udemy is running, only its not...and still boots me back to the Home Screen if I tap on it.
Pencil did not want to connect at first. I have two other items under Bluetooth listed as “Accessory”, that’s nice, what are they, I forgot as I share some BT devices (Anker BT sound cube) with my wife? iOS 12 could have told me, but iOS 13 is just dumber than a box of rocks. Should I keep them, let them go...fear them as someone trying to connect remotely...a government conspiracy, CIA, DEA, FBI, DOPE...wait, that might be me.
Oh, and now the apps are asking if I want to share Bluetooth. No, Dominos Pizza app, in fact, I Do Not want to share Bluetooth with you, and why would I ever want to do that?
So, for me, it’s a B-/C+ on the first Public Beta and I do not recommend using it on your daily driver unless you want to be an unpaid beta tester for Apple and experience all the pain, uh, joys of testing this dynamic new direction for the iPad.
Seriously, it’s not fully baked yet. Hell...the batter isn’t even warm.
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I just installed it on my iPad Mini 5. This seems to be a much better, more stable installation than on my iPad Pro (1st gen). I think I might uninstall and reinstall on that iPad.
On both iPads, Safari is extremely fast, but it’s faster on the Mini 5. So far, so good. There are small glitches I’ve noticed, like “twitching” icons in App Store update, but nothing major yet.
On both iPads, Safari is extremely fast, but it’s faster on the Mini 5. So far, so good. There are small glitches I’ve noticed, like “twitching” icons in App Store update, but nothing major yet.
Are you sure they are 2nd gen? I've only seen 1st gen ones work, though I think newer trackpad will work wired just not over BT.
Haha! This explains it!
At some point I literally watched my iPad Air 2 battery fly down from 80% to 67% in very little time
However it never got hot
I installed it on an ipad pro 9.7 and man, I will wait until it’s out of beta for my other ipads. Since last night I have had to hard reboot at least 30 times. It freezes very often, generally when I quit an app... even while trying to write this comment it froze and I had to reboot several times, actually if I stay in the browser and do no gestures it’s fine, but as soon a I call the dock, press the home button etc, frozen, sometimes it comes back to life quickly sometimes I have to hard reboot. I gather it’s more stable on more recent machines, but I wouldn’t dare writing anything serious and risking losing it...the OS is amazing, but the bugs kill it...
Oh no. Mine doesn’t feel like a beta so far. Amazing how diff configurations are so extreme
11” Pro daily driver on Beta 2 here. No real issues to speak of so far. It’s definitely not refined yet and there’ve been a couple of times I’ve needed to hard reboot (some apps not opening and Face ID not working being the biggest issues I’ve seen that a reboot took care of) but overall it’s pretty stable.
It’s honestly harder to get used to some of the “normal” changes I think. In particular I’m used to the URL bar completely highlighting when I click on it.. now it just sets a cursor wherever I tap. I also couldn’t find the Reload without Content Blockers option (it’s now tucked into the old Reading Mode / Aa menu). I also don’t like that all Safari tabs go away when hard quitting the browser and when you go to open a new tab it doesn’t set it as the newest tab (on the far right of the tab collection) anymore, but rather opens the new tab right next to the active one.
Just a few little things I have to get used to.
It’s honestly harder to get used to some of the “normal” changes I think. In particular I’m used to the URL bar completely highlighting when I click on it.. now it just sets a cursor wherever I tap. I also couldn’t find the Reload without Content Blockers option (it’s now tucked into the old Reading Mode / Aa menu). I also don’t like that all Safari tabs go away when hard quitting the browser and when you go to open a new tab it doesn’t set it as the newest tab (on the far right of the tab collection) anymore, but rather opens the new tab right next to the active one.
Just a few little things I have to get used to.
You got this completely wrong: now you have a chance to say no. Before version 13, apps did not ask, they just got bluetooth access by default.
it's kinda weird to read all those complaints. I've installed it yesterday on my IP2018 pro 11''.
So far, so good. Only minor glitches (had a files app crashed once), widgets won't stay on the home screen, and usual BT access requests, that i deny.
All other apps i've tested works fine ( app store, udemy, safari, windy, notes, pages, vlc [with ext monitor]).
Other than that - no reboots, no crashes, battery life is "ok". Lenovo usb-c dock works fine ( audio, ethernet, usb headset, DP monitor)
Xbox one gamepad connected without issues, and played GTA SA for few minutes.
It certainly does not feel like an early beta.
So far, so good. Only minor glitches (had a files app crashed once), widgets won't stay on the home screen, and usual BT access requests, that i deny.
All other apps i've tested works fine ( app store, udemy, safari, windy, notes, pages, vlc [with ext monitor]).
Other than that - no reboots, no crashes, battery life is "ok". Lenovo usb-c dock works fine ( audio, ethernet, usb headset, DP monitor)
Xbox one gamepad connected without issues, and played GTA SA for few minutes.
It certainly does not feel like an early beta.
No real issues on an iPad Pro 9.7".
I like the dark mode.
Volume changing UI is good. Altho, some apps have their own volume (like Netflix), and you have two. So it'd be nice to use the iOS/iPad OS native volume, unless an app has its own specific version.
AppStore app updates are horrible. Completely unintuitive. I never use the AppStore except to briefly install an app or update, and I guess they're trying to make other parts of it more visible/make you want to go back to it.
I like the dark mode.
Volume changing UI is good. Altho, some apps have their own volume (like Netflix), and you have two. So it'd be nice to use the iOS/iPad OS native volume, unless an app has its own specific version.
AppStore app updates are horrible. Completely unintuitive. I never use the AppStore except to briefly install an app or update, and I guess they're trying to make other parts of it more visible/make you want to go back to it.
Thanks for pointing that out...access by default just flies in the face of privacy and security.
Yup, indeed many apps used this for tracking users. iOS13 exposes/shames those apps.
Does anyone know how to get RID of the home screen TODAY VIEW tiles? It wasn't there when I started after the ipadOS beta update, then I clicked on something that said (you can always changed this in settings) but now it's there ALWAYS and I really cannot find the setting in the os to turn it OF and get it back to home screen just filled with tiles (and small tiles too mind you, wish I could have the regular larger tiles back)