Registering as a Developer

It may take 24 hours (or longer) to go through.

 

Takes about 24 hours to process. So if you register and pay for a iOS Dev account, you'll probably have to wait until tomorrow to have access to the iOS 7 BETA.

 

haha, reminds me of when iOS 6 came out officially. Apple: Oh yeah, iOS 6 is available....NOW!

*itunes goes down and so do multiple sites*
Same thing with evasi0n
I still think they should follow the discovery process. Not say anything about release and let people find it on their own.

 

Are new iOS releases unstable? Any reason to not start using in beta?

 

Ya i don't what the issue is here with discussing installing the betas here. I have not seen any mods drop the hammer so far today so maybe they have relaxed on the issue.

Its very easy to get added to the developer program for less than $5 and your registration will be added within a few minutes and your ready to go... Just use your head as to where you could find someone selling registration slots...no need to pay $99.

And yes they are legit, I have been doing it for four years now on multiple devices and always help friends do it also.

The betas for the most part are stable, nothing in the 4 years of betas i have test had made the phone unusable in anyway. I think the worst bug i had was my phone would not connect to my car stereo because apple changed the way it communicated with devices in iOS 5. That was a painful couple months.

Other than there are little annoyance bugs that you get used to quickly until the next beta release is out.

 

If you're only registering to access the betas, well I'd recommend against it because it's usually not as good as what they show on stage.

On stage they make it seem perfect and stable, because it's a PR event. It wouldn't look great if it crashed whenever you tried to make a call and WiFi didn't work, for example.

Anyway, even if you do register just for the betas, you should give it a few weeks (let's say on July 1st). That way your 1 year registration will also cover you for the first beta of iOS 8 next year.

 

I was never asking or implying about buying dev access from someone or anything shady. I was just asking about the general experience of using early builds of iOS. I haven't had a bunch of experience with making apps, but might try again now that using iOS 7 will have new UI changes and that's a perk.

 

Nothing shady about it, when you register as a developer you will get the same slots these other people have. I forget the number, But its something like each developer gets like 100 UDID slots they can register. The only thing people consider "shady" is that Apples policy says you cannot sell the slots, but there are millions of slots being sold every year. Ideally when someone "gives" you a slot you are supposed to report back to them any bugs, then in turn, they report it back to Apple.

I did find a couple people back in iOS 3 and 4 that were really good about it and wanted to here back from people they sold slots to. The last couple years though its all about the money and you have millions of people not reporting bugs, thats what kinda sucks i guess.

 

A beta is a beta

Don't expect a beta to be stable. A beta by definition is software that is very near the end of the development cycle, but is STILL in development, so yes it could very easily have bugs. It is recommended to NOT put betas on critical devices, such as your one and only cell phone, because a beta could easily brick your phone. If you absolutely insist on putting a beta on your one and only phone, I would not even THINK about it until very late in the development cycle; e.g. a month before the final release.

 

When I registered a few weeks ago, it took a few hours for them to send me the activation email.

Registering now will probably take at least a day, with all the traffic and new sign-ups they'll be getting.

 

If you are actually asking this question, then don't try a beta.

 

A beta could not 'easily brick your phone'.

 

Given the radical redesign of this version no one knows yet

 

Does anyone know how many devices you can have on 1 developer account? The Dev FAQs indicate 100, but it's unclear if that is for individual accounts, or larger team accounts.

I assume it's 100 and that is why the $10 UDID websites get away with it?

 

I had the paid license for iOS 5 beta and I purchased a new license and was approved within 60 minutes. That might be because I previously had the license.

 

It took me about a day to get it through

 

registration slots? umm someone can just download and give you the file, it doesn't check to see if you have a dev apple id. i'm not say do that, but I don't remember my dev id being checked during install.