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Apple Releases First Beta of iOS 11.3 for Public Beta Testers

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Apple today released the first public beta of an upcoming iOS 11.3 update to its public beta testing group, one day after seeding the first beta to developers and a few days after releasing the iOS 11.2.5 update.

Beta testers who are members of Apple's beta testing program will receive the iOS 11.3 beta update over-the-air after installing the proper certificate on an iOS device.

Those who want to join the beta testing program can sign up on Apple's beta testing website, which gives users access to iOS, macOS, and tvOS betas. iOS betas are not always stable and should not be installed on a primary device.


iOS 11.3 is a significant update that introduces multiple new features like Messages on iCloud for storing your iMessages in iCloud, and ARKit 1.5, a new, upgraded version of ARKit that can more accurately map irregularly shaped surfaces and recognize and place objects on vertical surfaces like walls.

Four new Animoji are available for the iPhone X, the Health app has a new Health Records feature where you can store your medical records, and AirPlay 2 features are available in both iOS 11.3 and tvOS 11.3.

Other features new to iOS 11.3 include an Apple News "For You" section that displays the top videos of the day, Advanced Mobile Location (AML) for sharing more accurate location info when placing an emergency call in a supported country, and a new Privacy icon that will show up whenever Apple asks you for info. iBooks has also had the "i" removed from its name, so it's just "Books" now.

In the future, Apple plans to introduce more detailed information about the health of a device's battery. The update should provide a lot more data about battery health, and there will also be an option to let customers turn off the power management feature entirely, though Apple does not recommend disabling it.

Business Chat, which will let you interface with businesses like Wells Fargo, Delta, Hilton and Lowe's right in the Messages app is coming when iOS 11.3 is released, and improvements to Apple Music will bring better support for music videos.

Apple says iOS 11.3 will be released to the public in the spring.

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Wow, I'll eat my hat; I made a comment somewhere that they probably won't do a public release for Beta 1.

I guess Apple is fairly confident in this beta. Still, I'm staying away for a few more cycles. My iPhone 7 Plus runs so damn well on 11.2.5.
 
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zorinlynx said:
Wow, I'll eat my hat; I made a comment somewhere that they probably won't do a public release for Beta 1.

I guess Apple is fairly confident in this beta. Still, I'm staying away for a few more cycles. My iPhone 7 Plus runs so damn well on 11.2.5.
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I don't think it has anything to do with that, considering iOS 11.0 was available as a public beta as well. And those major releases always have much, much more bugs and other issues. :p

I'm gonna upgrade to the iOS 11.3 public beta later today. Looking forward to it! Have been doing betas since iOS 5, never had actual big problems. Except with the first beta of iOS 9, which drained iPhone batteries like hell. But overall betas have usually run pretty smoothly for me. Bit slowdowns here and there, but 'nothing I can't handle'.
 
abi12a said:
For developers who downloaded yesterday...how's the battery life so far?
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Haven't seen any issues with battery life, but depending on what type of applications you use there are some issues with touch not working iphone X.
 
There's a part of me that likes the idea of Messages over iCloud but part of me that gets concerned about accidentally deleting something and having it gone permanently. I have multiple OS and iOS systems, and I had one important Messages thread that I accidentally deleted from my phone by swiping the wrong thread. 100% my fault. Fortunately, I still have the important stuff on my iPad. Yes, I could have theoretically restored from backup, but what a pain for one message thread. Had that occurred while managed on the cloud, it would have been a huge hassle.

Now what about this: I have a phone that has different messages on it than my iPad and Macs due to different uses, though they all sync to the same iCloud account and all initially receive the same iMessage texts. If I enable iCloud Messaging, does it simply sync every thread on all devices? Is there a chance that--since I have deleted some threads on different devices--those threads will be deleted across all devices?
 
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There's a part of me that likes the idea of Messages over iCloud but part of me that gets concerned about accidentally deleting something and having it gone permanently. I have multiple OS and iOS systems, and I had one important Messages thread that I accidentally deleted from my phone by swiping the wrong thread. 100% my fault. Fortunately, I still have the important stuff on my iPad. Yes, I could have theoretically restored from backup, but what a pain for one message thread. Had that occurred while managed on the cloud, it would have been a huge hassle.

Now what about this: I have a phone that has different messages on it than my iPad and Macs due to different uses, though they all sync to the same iCloud account and all initially receive the same iMessage texts. If I enable iCloud Messaging, does it simply sync every thread on all devices? Is there a chance that--since I have deleted some threads on different devices--those threads will be deleted across all devices?
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If you have cloud messages enabled on say iphone and not on ipad, it will still receive messages but not sync them to the ipad. So if you delete them off iphone, they should still be available on ipad. However, being beta I'd question how well that works. Considering you have to manually turn on the cloud feature, even with the info card coming up once you enter messages for the first time. It is almost like it is suppose to be on by default but isn't ready for prime time yet.
 
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11.3 pb1 downloading.
Is this the popular icloud text messages return.
Not that I send lots of texts though certainly missed the fun option to store texts in icloud.
Maybe I’ll get to try the latest battery feature-not that most 11 betas have been any problem with power.
 
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Does anyone know if you enable iCloud messaging for one device that has 11.3 does your other device with 11.2.5 affected?
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Has to be enabled on each device in my testing. You'll still get messages on 11.2.5 but I don't think it will sync across all devices until 11.3 is installed and feature is turned on. Now I only attempted this on 3 devices so take it for what it's worth. This is beta so it's possible there could be some issues still, which I'd assume.
 
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MacRumors said:

In the future, Apple plans to introduce more detailed information about the health of a device's battery. The update should provide a lot more data about battery health, and there will also be an option to let customers turn off the power management feature entirely, though Apple does not recommend disabling it.
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Does this mean that these features are included or not?
 
MacRumors said:



Apple today released the first public beta of an upcoming iOS 11.2.5 update to its public beta testing group, one day after seeding the first beta to developers and a few days after releasing the iOS 11.2.5 update.

Beta testers who are members of Apple's beta testing program will receive the iOS 11.3 beta update over-the-air after installing the proper certificate on an iOS device.

Those who want to join the beta testing program can sign up on Apple's beta testing website, which gives users access to iOS, macOS, and tvOS betas. iOS betas are not always stable and should not be installed on a primary device.


iOS 11.3 is a significant update that introduces multiple new features like Messages on iCloud for storing your iMessages in iCloud, and ARKit 1.5, a new, upgraded version of ARKit that can more accurately map irregularly shaped surfaces and recognize and place objects on vertical surfaces like walls.

Four new Animoji are available for the iPhone X, the Health app has a new Health Records feature where you can store your medical records, and AirPlay 2 features are available in both iOS 11.3 and tvOS 11.3.

Other features new to iOS 11.3 include an Apple News "For You" section that displays the top videos of the day, Advanced Mobile Location (AML) for sharing more accurate location info when placing an emergency call in a supported country, and a new Privacy icon that will show up whenever Apple asks you for info. iBooks has also had the "i" removed from its name, so it's just "Books" now.

In the future, Apple plans to introduce more detailed information about the health of a device's battery. The update should provide a lot more data about battery health, and there will also be an option to let customers turn off the power management feature entirely, though Apple does not recommend disabling it.

Business Chat, which will let you interface with businesses like Wells Fargo, Delta, Hilton and Lowe's right in the Messages app is coming when iOS 11.3 is released, and improvements to Apple Music will bring better support for music videos.

Apple says iOS 11.3 will be released to the public in the spring.

Article Link: Apple Releases First Beta of iOS 11.3 for Public Beta Testers
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May need to edit the 1st paragraph :)

"Apple today released the first public beta of an upcoming iOS 11.2.5 update to its public beta testing group, one day after seeding the first beta to developers and a few days after releasing the iOS 11.2.5 update."
 
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looking forward to cloud based imessages.
DOes this mean that imessage won't be eating up memory on the phone itself?
 
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