Apple Releases First iOS 9.2 Beta for Public Beta Testers

[WilliamG]

Just thought I'd weigh in here, having worked in web for about 12 years now...

Chances are the site you're viewing doesn't have 'mobile' site, but a 'responsive' one.

Request desktop site doesn't help you when the viewport is being used as the method of rendering the site... It'll just request a non-M version. They should update it to send a mocked header with viewport info at 1080x1900 and that might make it more robust, but you'll always get some 'mobile' elements depending on the tools being used.

So... It's not that it doesn't work, it's that it doesn't really confirm to modern web standards.

Hope that helps

Right, but we've been used to this for YEARS. e.g. Google's non-standard IMAP solution is another example of this sort of nonsense. However, the onus is 100% on Apple to provide a system of letting us just access a desktop site. On my iMac, I always get the desktop site, so obviously Apple could/should make it that way on iDevices if we choose to use them that way. On a 6s Plus there's simply no reason (for me, at least) that I shouldn't be able to set my browser settings to DESKTOP at all times.

 

[Magmystour]

You can reorganise the menu and save. I have request desktop site in the first position.

Also did you know if you press and hold website refresh icon it brings up request desktop option.

Holy hell... Thank you for this!!! 100 times, thank you

 

[Traverse]

Also it never works anyway

It's there as it was in 9.0 and works the same as it has before (even before iOS 9).

It's there. But whether it works depending on the site you are one. I find it fails more often than not.

 

[eyeseeyou]

Over the last 24hrs the lag and choppiness have been improved a lot on a 6 plus even with the animations enabled.

 

[QuarterSwede]

It's there. But whether it works depending on the site you are one. I find it fails more often than not.

It is request desktop site after all not force desktop site.

 

[QuarterSwede]

So after using 9.2 public beta 1 on my iPhone 6 Plus for around 24 hours I have to say that the UI performance is finally where it should've been. I don't have anymore frame drops or choking while invoking the app switcher or switching to tab view in Safari. It just feels quick, fast, and right again. Looks like this will be the iOS 9 to update to.

There are some minor bugs like my phone playing white noise when a caller not in contacts calls instead of my default ringtone, or the clock on the lockscreen disappearing, or UI artifacts under the Copy/Paste popup menu, or the Define word function not defining anything in Safari forms (all reported). However, I'll take that over incessant UI lag any day. Hope they get fixed before release of course. Wouldn't be professional.

 

[Lexdexia]

Judging from how smooth the first public beta is, iOS 9.2 will definitely be better than 9.1 because of bug fixes and improvements to the responsiveness of user interface. With that being said, 9.2PB1 still doesn't deliver the 'faster performance' Apple advertised on their website (making system animations less laggy doesn't count as 'faster performance' since they weren't supposed to be that laggy in the first place). But I still think it's totally worth upgrading to because of the noticeable reduction in lag compared to 9.1. And who knows, maybe Apple will make 9.2 even more polished and smooth for the final public release. PB1 is off to a good start.

The app switcher on iPads has been FINALLY improved in terms of responsiveness and fluidity. Nowhere near the smoothness of other animations like opening an app, but I'd say it's acceptable now.

 

[EwanMcTeagle]

Finally, they revamped the Music app, so that you can see right away which tracks are saved on the phone and which are not. Plus they renamed the download function/button to "download" instead of the stupid "make available offline".

 

[crashoverride77]

I can without any shadow of a doubt confirm that 9.2 fixes some frame-rate issues. It's not limited to the 6s Plus, though. I did a before and after comparison with TWO freshly-rebooted iPad Air 2 devices. One with 9.1, and one with 9.2. The multitasking frames per second increase is huge between the two versions. After updating both to 9.2, they both have identical frame-rates when multitasking. The biggest frame-rate difference is just double-tapping the home button. The pan out/pan in animation is much smoother.

But again, I'm irritated you STILL can't configure the darn Safari sharing menu and have it actually save your layout of icons/shortcuts. Way too long this has been going on.

Yes u can, it remembers everything just fine. Why do u keep saying this?

 

[crashoverride77]

I've noticed significant battery drain since updating to 9.2 this morning. I did the update at about 9:00 this morning and in about 4 hours, my phone has gone down 70%....this is abnormal for me. I usually still l have 80% left at this time of day not 25%....anyone else noticing bad battery performance?

Indexing? Battery is always bad after an update. Why do people still ask this in 2015. Wait 1-3 days

 

[Quorro]

Yeah, but only if your iPhone has TSMC cpu

"first of all ... my english is not good and i can easily make mistakes"

In my experience with both device "tsmc and samsung 6s Plus" chipgate dosen't exist or "more accurate" exist if you run benchmarks or intensive tasks that is really hard to have in a "tipical" usage of the device... i'm are the very first that want samsung out of this world but it's not this the case "unfortunately" and in my experience my iphone 6s plus A9 Samsung have a range of "9 to 17 mins" of more battery life compared to TSMC A9 Chip. "Cloning side by side an entire working day on both device in the same day ... same networks conditions. same backup."
Anyway... an increse of 35% in battery life is absolutely insane just with a software update and my personal opinion is that this is not possible in any way "if you don't significantly downgrade the SoC base clock"

 

[Freakonomics101]

Just updated my 6 from 9.1. I also noticed the lag is pretty much gone. Battery life is to be determined. Also updating my iPad Mini right now. My iPad hasn't seen much light since iOS 7, but upgrading it to iOS 9.1 actually helped make the lag less severe. I'm hoping 9.2 beta will make it even better.

 

[DiscoMcDisco]

Couldn't agree more, sadly it seems to come down to spoofing viewport sizes, and don't forget that the phones use x2 and x3 scaling techniques to take advantage of all the retina.. In most cases they're still sending 640x320!!!

 

[Marshe27]

Thanks for the heads up, but I'll wait it out and watch people do actual video comparisons on YouTube before updating mine. I've started to lose faith in updates maintaining or improving the speed of my devices.

here is the linked that lag and stutter of 6s plus has been fix...