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Apple Releases Third Public Betas of iOS 17 and iPadOS 17
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I'm curious to know how the battery life is on iOS 17 Beta 5 (Public Beta 3). The bad battery life is what's keeping me from trying out the public beta this year.
Glad to see a good report. We’ll hopefully public beta updates are weekly now… still waiting to read a few more reports to decide whether I take the PB3 plunge, or wait until PB4, presumably next week.
How the phone’s heat? This was, by accounts I’ve read in various places, a problem with DB4/PB2.
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No heat problem on my 12 mini, but I only use 49 GB of its storage, the rest is in iCloud, so perhaps it has less stuff to index after the install. YMMV.
If I update to the public beta of iOS 17 now, then update to the stable master of iOS 17.0.0 on release day, will I, at any point have to restore from a backup, or redownload all my apps?
Or will this process be as seamless as updating from the stable releases of 16.x to 17.0.0?
Or will this process be as seamless as updating from the stable releases of 16.x to 17.0.0?
I found after updating MY iPad Pro that it was taking all the Messages. So, with my phone on 16, I didn’t see Messages there until I refreshed the app. If your iPad is set up for accepting Messages, that maybe one thing you don’t like (although your mileage may vary).
Have they fixed the calendar alarm bug yet? It is so annoying. I know this only affects some users, but for several releases now it does not matter what sound I set up for the Calendar app, it always plays one I set up years ago.
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Although it seems (I'm not sure) that sometimes it suggests some really interesting options for a misspelled word and not the most obvious one (say, with two letters transposed).
Updated yesterday afternoon and I barely lost any battery overnight on my iPhone or iPad. Everything seems to be running great, so far.
The Standby Mode for nighttime is useless still, won't stay on all the time so you can't just glance over and see the time Have to knock your table or wave a hand.. such a pain! Just make it really dim and red and let us enjoy a simple digital clock that moves around the screen and there will be 0 burn in issues. I have been wanting the same thing on the apple watch since the day it came out.. but Apple seems insistent on making us knock our phones or watches in the middle of the night!!
Have to knock your table or wave a hand.. such a pain! Just make it really dim and red and let us enjoy a simple digital clock that moves around the screen and there will be 0 burn in issues. I have been wanting the same thing on the apple watch since the day it came out.. but Apple seems insistent on making us knock our phones or watches in the middle of the night!!
iPad OS17 is still buggy af.![]()
Apple today seeded the third betas of iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 to public beta testers, allowing non-developers to test the software ahead of its launch. The third betas come two weeks after the second betas. The third public beta features the same content that's in the fifth developer beta.
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Public beta testers who have signed up for Apple's beta testing program can download the iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 updates by opening up the Settings app, going to General, tapping on the Software Update section and toggling on the iOS 17 Public Beta option.
iOS 17 adds a new StandBy option for the iPhone, allowing it to serve as an information hub when it is in a horizontal position and connected to a charger. StandBy mode displays the time, Live Activities, incoming notifications, and tons of widgets.
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Speaking of widgets, widgets you use on the Lock Screen and Home Screen are interactive, so you can do things like control a smart light or check off a Reminder without opening an app. Autocorrect is smarter than before, and it's easier to correct mistakes with a quick tap.
AirDrop has a new NameDrop feature for quickly sharing contact information with a person nearby, and the Phone app has customizable Contact Posters that let you choose what people see when you call them.
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Live Voicemail shows the voicemail that someone is leaving right on your Lock Screen so you can pick up if it's important, and the Messages app has a refined look and a Check-In feature that's meant to help you get to your destination safely.
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FaceTime supports video messages so you can leave a video voicemail if someone misses a call, plus you can use it on the Apple TV. Safari has a locked private browsing window and a password sharing feature, and better tracking prevention. The Maps app now works offline, the Photos app can recognize your pets, and Visual Look Up works with food, symbols, videos, and more.
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There's a new mood tracking feature available in the Health app, and later this year, Apple also plans to add a journaling app.
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For a complete overview of all of the new features in iOS 17, we have a dedicated iOS 17 roundup. iPadOS 17 also has some iPad-only features like a revamped Lock Screen, with details available in our separate iPadOS 17 roundup.
Apple has also released new public betas of watchOS 10 and tvOS 17.
Article Link: Apple Releases Third Public Betas of iOS 17 and iPadOS 17
Does anyone know if the Journaling app will come to iPadOS also? I would have thought that was a definite, but iPadOS references have been noticeably devoid from discussion on the upcoming Journaling app. Seems to be only iOS. Curious if anyone has seen otherwise.
Then probably best to wait until the real public beta lands between Sept 18-25 😂😋
I am on a SE-2 and on the public beta the only issue I have is sometimes messages lock up when I type a longer text. can, t tell you how long it has to be. I would say more than 200 words. It just locks up.
I have to close messages and the message is gone except the first 10 or so words when I open it back up. But if I type it in notes and copy and paste it is fine.
I reported it to Apple.
This beta taught me to avoid them going forward.
My IPhone 12 Pro hard locked while watching a video on chrome, resetting it put me in a boot loop that only a DFU restore could fix. Shortly after the restore I started getting FaceID issues (I kept my iPhone on ios16 after the restore). Resetting my phone again cleared it for another day before my MagSafe charging failed. Just restarting my phone caused the Face ID to crap again. Apple diagnosed it and found that the display, speakers, MagSafe and cameras were all giving hardware issues so I was issued a replacement phone. Cool to have a new phone but the beta was certainly not worth the headache.
My IPhone 12 Pro hard locked while watching a video on chrome, resetting it put me in a boot loop that only a DFU restore could fix. Shortly after the restore I started getting FaceID issues (I kept my iPhone on ios16 after the restore). Resetting my phone again cleared it for another day before my MagSafe charging failed. Just restarting my phone caused the Face ID to crap again. Apple diagnosed it and found that the display, speakers, MagSafe and cameras were all giving hardware issues so I was issued a replacement phone. Cool to have a new phone but the beta was certainly not worth the headache.
As far as what Apple has said, it is only iOS 17 this year. I assume it comes to iPad in iPadOS 18.
One of the features I’m more interested to see is the auto-stripping of link tags/trackers. Removing everything from the question mark on has grown weary.
If you worry about that, I wouldn’t install the beta to begin with if I were you.
Snap! Updated my iPad Pro M2 to iPad OS 17 and seeing great battery improvements, dropped 1% overnight with the Magic Keyboard attached!