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Is it worth to try out iOS 12 Beta now?

How is iOS 12 Developer Beta 2?

  • This beta is very solid and completely fulfills Apple’s promise on performance. Bugs are ignorable.

    Votes: 35 44.3%

  • This beta is so-so in performance. Some minor bugs persist.

    Votes: 15 19.0%

  • This beta ruins my device and some major/annoying bugs persist

    Votes: 6 7.6%

  • No idea, waiting for the results of this poll.

    Votes: 23 29.1%
  • Total voters
    79
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APPLEGO

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Hello guys:;)

I love experiencing fresh new things and on softwares, I always upgrade them to the latest ones. However, I have 1 principle: Only upgrading to the latest official releases but not betas. Since the introduction of iOS 12 on June 4th, I have thought if it’s worth to try the beta (Developer/Public Beta), but it’s hard to answer for myself.

iOS 12 brings performance enhancements, which is the most exciting feature to me, and ARKit 2, which of course will bring revolutionary changes such as measuring dimensions of items by iOS devices but not traditional rulers, to our daily lives.

The candidate devices for installing iOS 12 betas will be 2nd Generation iPad Pro and/or iPhone 7 Plus. How are these 2 devices running under the beta? And how is the beta compared with iOS 11.4 ?

Thank you for taking time to read this post and enjoy a great day. :)
 
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It's pretty stable for a Beta 2. There are def some wonky behaviors going on. Most can be ignored. If you need your phone for work or for important calls I would say no. Otherwise, I think it's ok to jump. Just be mindful that sometimes these betas get worse.
 
jhall8 said:
I recommend waiting for the first public beta.
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Thanks for this suggestion, my friend. I think that stability is more important than new features. I’ll probably wait for Public Betas.
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thebeatsalive said:
It's pretty stable for a Beta 2. There are def some wonky behaviors going on. Most can be ignored. If you need your phone for work or for important calls I would say no. Otherwise, I think it's ok to jump. Just be mindful that sometimes these betas get worse.
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You are right, at the end of the day, beta is a beta. Although it’s stable enough, some unpredictable things will happen. Thank you for solving my problem.
 
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I'm on a 7+ here's my experience: I went from iOS 10 straight to the 12 beta so I can't compare to 11 (refused to use it). The animations are very smooth, things load quickly, and the battery life is pretty good-a little worse but not bad for a beta. Overall I'd say the performance is as good or better than 10.

As for bugginess, some apps don't respond to keyboard input which is very annoying, and when I push the home button to leave an app there's an extremely noticeable.5-1 second pause which is very bizarre compared to the smooth performance of everything else.
 
Hastings101 said:
I'm on a 7+ here's my experience: I went from iOS 10 straight to the 12 beta so I can't compare to 11 (refused to use it). The animations are very smooth, things load quickly, and the battery life is pretty good-a little worse but not bad for a beta. Overall I'd say the performance is as good or better than 10.

As for bugginess, some apps don't respond to keyboard input which is very annoying, and when I push the home button to leave an app there's an extremely noticeable.5-1 second pause which is very bizarre compared to the smooth performance of everything else.
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So iOS 12 performs better than iOS 10 as a whole, however, there’re some minor parts needed to be refined. Overall, it’s very promising to see that a 2nd developer beta can perform so well. Thanks for your long review.
 
Definitely wait for public beta, I've come across a bug that tries to respring but it goes until the battery dies. it did it once in beta 1, and it just happened now in beta 2. Just a few mins ago i picked up my phone and saw it was respringing. at this point i can't go in to safe mode, won't turn off, it just spins until it runs out of battery.

it's going to be a quiet afternoon for me!
 
Mrjynx said:
Definitely wait for public beta, I've come across a bug that tries to respring but it goes until the battery dies. it did it once in beta 1, and it just happened now in beta 2. Just a few mins ago i picked up my phone and saw it was respringing. at this point i can't go in to safe mode, won't turn off, it just spins until it runs out of battery.

it's going to be a quiet afternoon for me!
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Wow.. that's pretty serious. First I've heard of it in iOS 12 too.

Any possibility that it's a hardware issue?
 
I'm still on iOS 12 because I am very comfortable reverting back to 11.4. But I have to say that between the GPS issues and the number of times I've had to restart my phone in order to make a phone call, its been a little rough. All the other features are great and the phone definitely feels much faster than under iOS 11. If the phone call thing, in particular, gets any worse, I will head back, as this is my primary device (anyone tempted to comment on that, please refer to my first sentence!)
 
APPLEGO said:
Hello guys:;)

I love experiencing fresh new things and on softwares, I always upgrade them to the latest ones. However, I have 1 principle: Only upgrading to the latest official releases but not betas. Since the introduction of iOS 12 on June 4th, I have thought if it’s worth to try the beta (Developer/Public Beta), but it’s hard to answer for myself.

iOS 12 brings performance enhancements, which is the most exciting feature to me, and ARKit 2, which of course will bring revolutionary changes such as measuring dimensions of items by iOS devices but not traditional rulers, to our daily lives.

The candidate devices for installing iOS 12 betas will be 2nd Generation iPad Pro and/or iPhone 7 Plus. How are these 2 devices running under the beta? And how is the beta compared with iOS 11.4 ?

Thank you for taking time to read this post and enjoy a great day. :)
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I can't choose one of the options. The performance on my iPad Pro is great. What bugs are still there (and there will be bugs in these early betas, always), are livable.

But, there are still several apps I depend on that don't work yet under iOS 12. Once those apps work, I will move to iOS 12 on my daily driver .. but until they do, I can't.
 
APPLEGO said:
Hello guys:;)

I love experiencing fresh new things and on softwares, I always upgrade them to the latest ones. However, I have 1 principle: Only upgrading to the latest official releases but not betas. Since the introduction of iOS 12 on June 4th, I have thought if it’s worth to try the beta (Developer/Public Beta), but it’s hard to answer for myself.

iOS 12 brings performance enhancements, which is the most exciting feature to me, and ARKit 2, which of course will bring revolutionary changes such as measuring dimensions of items by iOS devices but not traditional rulers, to our daily lives.

The candidate devices for installing iOS 12 betas will be 2nd Generation iPad Pro and/or iPhone 7 Plus. How are these 2 devices running under the beta? And how is the beta compared with iOS 11.4 ?

Thank you for taking time to read this post and enjoy a great day. :)
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I recommend waiting
 
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I have a question and don't want to start a new thread for this, because someone will probably give me a yes or a no as an answer right away.

So, about a month ago, my iPhone 7 died after a software update, I think it was 11.2 (it was impossible to make a phone call, it would freeze, crash and reboot over simple tasks) Since it was under warranty for another 10 days (lucky), I decided to go to the authorized retailer and responsable for the warranty (since I am in Colombia, and we don't have Apple Sotres here) They could not solve the issue and they just replaced my phone within a few days.

If that would have happened with a Developer / Public Beta aupdate, would they have changed my phone? or does that void the warranty on that software issues?
 
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I have a question and don't want to start a new thread for this, because someone will probably give me a yes or a no as an answer right away.

So, about a month ago, my iPhone 7 died after a software update, I think it was 11.2 (it was impossible to make a phone call, it would freeze, crash and reboot over simple tasks) Since it was under warranty for another 10 days (lucky), I decided to go to the authorized retailer and responsable for the warranty (since I am in Colombia, and we don't have Apple Sotres here) They could not solve the issue and they just replaced my phone within a few days.

If that would have happened with a Developer / Public Beta aupdate, would they have changed my phone? or does that void the warranty on that software issues?
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Beta doesn't void the warranty.
 
SANTIAGOP26 said:
I have a question and don't want to start a new thread for this, because someone will probably give me a yes or a no as an answer right away.

So, about a month ago, my iPhone 7 died after a software update, I think it was 11.2 (it was impossible to make a phone call, it would freeze, crash and reboot over simple tasks) Since it was under warranty for another 10 days (lucky), I decided to go to the authorized retailer and responsable for the warranty (since I am in Colombia, and we don't have Apple Sotres here) They could not solve the issue and they just replaced my phone within a few days.

If that would have happened with a Developer / Public Beta aupdate, would they have changed my phone? or does that void the warranty on that software issues?
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It doesn't void warranties, but they can refuse to support software related issues. And in your case, if you'd had a beta on it and the phone was acting funny, they probably wouldn't have done a swap unless it was still acting funny after a restore to a non-beta version of the OS, or if it was impossible to do the restore.
 
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Only bug I’ve seen was the large blank “music” notification on lock screen. It went away with a restart. Though to be honest I don’t find the performance so different from 11.4 on my iPhone 7.
 
1. It'd be the Public Beta as you haven't beta tested in the past so probably wouldn't have an Apple Developer account.
2. I'd wait for Public Beta 2 or 3, the early stages of an operating system aren't the best in the world and even though iOS 12 is focused on performance and bug fixes that doesn't make it perfect.

So, yes, I would recommend it. IF you wait for the second or third Public Beta.

Also little nit-pick, try not to use bold font for a whole thread ;). Quite annoying to read at times and takes up a lot of room.
 
GPS worked perfectly on both betas for me on my iPhone 8 but CarPlay stopped working with beta 2 and the SIM card was not functional unless it was removed and inserted back again.
If you are familiar with backups, IPSW files and DFU-Mode, try it. Otherwise I would not do it.
Going back to 11.4 only takes 20 minutes for me - I almost do it on a daily basis :).
 
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LarryJoe33 said:
GPS doesn't work through two betas. If I could go back to 11 I would purely for this, I rely on GPS a lot. I can deal with bugs, but GPS not working has been a killer for me.
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I’m assume no you don’t have access to a Mac to go back?
 
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