I wish there were a public beta for WatchOS 3. The existing WatchOS 2 is worse than a beta anyway so anything would be an improvement.
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Apple Launching Public Betas of iOS 10 and macOS Sierra Today
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No crashes, slowdowns, incompatible apps, or significant battery life issues?
This is now the third time I am posting this. It is not out yet!!! 10am Pacific at the earliest. The article clearly says launching today. If it was out there would be a new article saying it's now available.
It's kinda cool that we can build up what we want to do in public, with public apps, public beta testing so we know what's coming and look ahead. And then pay the developer fee in 2017 when we're ready to start the seriousness.
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The timezone confused me. I added six hours and thought it was out. I should have known they would milk it with a pre-announcement
Will all of you developers please understand that you will be getting questions like "How stable is the latest version" because the public want to know any major known problems.
Public Betas are introduced for the general public. That is why they are called Public Betas and not Developer Betas!
The public will be expecting the public betas to be almost fully functional but stable.
We live in a new world now where we have Public Betas and Developer Betas.
Public Betas are introduced for the general public. That is why they are called Public Betas and not Developer Betas!
The public will be expecting the public betas to be almost fully functional but stable.
We live in a new world now where we have Public Betas and Developer Betas.
Based off of what I went through, save your Macs for later, especially if a large portion of your apps are not from Mac App Store, compatibility can really bug your mind (literally). iPhones should be alright, I cruised through public betas since day one and never had anything going wrong.
Now, if only they would announce a new iMac, then my Apple bucketlist is fully checked off
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I feel safer knowing emergency service on my iPhone works because I run a stable release. Not because it worked for 99 people that said so. No offense. But my primary phone, I rather not risk it. My experience with beta on my iPhone (before this one) was that things like PayPal had issues when a site used it, and my online banking app stopped working. Those two were rather important to me. Unfortun. Because I would really love to run it on my iPhone now. Even as a beta.
MacOS Sierra Beta 2 works slow sometimes, also Safari is buggy. iOS 10 Beta 2, tho, works fine on iPhone 6.
Lol, thank you. I'm just saying, I've used beta 1 and beta 2 and a little surprised they are releasing beta 2 as the public beta.
I haven't experienced any crash yet, and all the apps I use daily seem to work fine apart from some minor glitches. Battery seems perfectly fine for me.
Interesting. Like many I was thinking we'd see the first iOS 10 public beta after beta 3.
As always it depends per user but the masses say that beta 2 is very stable so, why not? The more people that can test it, the more feedback they'll get.
I hope we don't need to wait another three weeks for the next beta though, I predict DP3 will be out on the 19th with PB2 following a day or two later.
As always it depends per user but the masses say that beta 2 is very stable so, why not? The more people that can test it, the more feedback they'll get.
I hope we don't need to wait another three weeks for the next beta though, I predict DP3 will be out on the 19th with PB2 following a day or two later.
Really? That stable huh? I'm debating whether to go for it on this beta, or wait a couple more cycles to put it on my main device (iPhone 6s)
Oh great, 6 months of news mongering about iOS beta version updates followed by iOS 10 official release which will be full of flaws and security holes.
I don't know why Apple bothers with a public beta because their beta programs have NOT improved release quality at all. This is just for a bunch of fanbois rushing out to be the first to use iOS 10 and none of them ever report one issue back to Apple, or they only use 4 apps and never fully test the full features of iOS. Apple needs to improve internal testing greatly instead of relying on public feedback, pushing betas to sycophants is never a valid Q/A cycle.
Also, if these early betas are for app developers it is also a fail because many apps still don't work properly for weeks after an official iOS release. Either Apple is slow to release updated apps on their store, or developers simply wait to see what new nightmare Apple has introduced in their official iOS release.
Also its 2016, I should not have to modify an existing app to work on a new version of the OS. I haven't had to do that on Windows for over 10 years, a 10 year old properly written app works on Windows 10 and will continue to work, period.
I don't know why Apple bothers with a public beta because their beta programs have NOT improved release quality at all. This is just for a bunch of fanbois rushing out to be the first to use iOS 10 and none of them ever report one issue back to Apple, or they only use 4 apps and never fully test the full features of iOS. Apple needs to improve internal testing greatly instead of relying on public feedback, pushing betas to sycophants is never a valid Q/A cycle.
Also, if these early betas are for app developers it is also a fail because many apps still don't work properly for weeks after an official iOS release. Either Apple is slow to release updated apps on their store, or developers simply wait to see what new nightmare Apple has introduced in their official iOS release.
Also its 2016, I should not have to modify an existing app to work on a new version of the OS. I haven't had to do that on Windows for over 10 years, a 10 year old properly written app works on Windows 10 and will continue to work, period.
Been using Beta 1 and 2 as a Dev on my iPad Pro and 6s Plus, IOS 10 is not ready for the public. There's an insane amount of issues in these Betas. That's why they are beta but still, putting this out to the public at this time isn't something I would have done. If you are thinking of installing it, make sure you put it on a secondary device first.. then go to your primary if you so choose.
Additionally, to stress the backend/systems/iCloud etc with a larger number of active (translate) real world use/experience.
Most developers are checking compatibility with their apps and the iOS, public is really apples isolated Guinea pigs for overall feedback and bug identification.
Yes there are and will be bugs, depending on ones use/workflow it may affect you, there may be workarounds, there may be no workarounds.
Smart thing is to always backup, and know how to restore if you need to, be aware you may not be (most likely won't be*) running an optimum workflow. And if all else fails go rant on macrumors.
The same ones will submit a bug request in the feedback app and generally fixed/followed up with, within 2 betas 4 weeks (in my own experience). Point is Apple is listening and follow up is happening.
Not to state the obvious but it's a beta, install at your own risk. I've just said that the more people testing it, the more feedback Apple will get. Just out of interest, what's wrong with it that it effects daily use? I've not had ANY major issue so far and I installed beta 1, day one.
