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Apple Seeds Eighth Beta of iOS 10 to Developers and Public Beta Testers

SMIDG3T said:
I know. And people still ask so hopefully when they've read it enough times, it'll get in their head!!
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Except that last year, Apple did the timing much differently last year than it has in most previous years.
The keynote was held on Wednesday, September 9th 2015, because the media needs one travel day (Tuesday), and Monday was the Labor Day holiday, which is the same as it is this year, assuming they will hold the event on Wednesday, Sept 7th (iPhone 7....announced on Sept 7th....doesn't seem like a coincidence). Additionally last year, they sent out the invites 13 days in advance (Thursday, August 27th 2015 at 9:00 AM), which is why many here thought the invites would go out yesterday. I suppose it is possible that Apple could still send them out a week (or 8 days, which has been customary also). Preorder and release date last year were out of line with the normal as well.
 
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Can some clear this up for me;
If I'm a public beta tester, I see it as iOS 10 beta 7? Is it one number behind developer betas?
 
newtestleper said:
How would I implement an iPadOS?
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No, you were complaining about the wasted screen space for the dialog box. You said you were a designer so I was curious how you would implement better. In other words, sure, how would you implement the same dialog box on "iPadOS"? Curious if you could come up with something better. I'd think someone with some experience could.
 
bqchamps said:
Except that last year, Apple did the timing much differently last year than it has in most previous years.
The keynote was held on Wednesday, September 9th 2015, because the media needs one travel day (Tuesday), and Monday was the Labor Day holiday, which is the same as it is this year, assuming they will hold the event on Wednesday, Sept 7th (iPhone 7....announced on Sept 7th....doesn't seem like a coincidence). Additionally last year, they sent out the invites 13 days in advance (Thursday, August 27th 2015 at 9:00 AM), which is why many here thought the invites would go out yesterday. I suppose it is possible that Apple could still send them out a week (or 8 days, which has been customary also). Preorder and release date last year were out of line with the normal as well.
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FYI Labor Day is ALWAYS on a Monday!
 
Animations have slowed down considerably for me. Slight delays where it was blazing fast before. Anyone else experiencing this?
 
DNichter said:
No, you were complaining about the wasted screen space for the dialog box. You said you were a designer so I was curious how you would implement better. In other words, sure, how would you implement the same dialog box on "iPadOS"? Curious if you could come up with something better. I'd think someone with some experience could.
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I didn't mention the dialog box. If there's an iPadOS implemented, these issues would get taken care of. There's the three miles of space between icons as well. Would you like me to implement a change that makes the spaces narrower?
 
notmach67 said:
Anybody use the MS outlook app for mail?
Not sure if it's buggy or what, but each time I go to access my emails it's stutters and flashes quite a bit...
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Yes I'm also having this issue. Not sure what's causing it, but it's been like this since beta 1. It's become a bit more usable in the later betas, but still stutters and glitches.

Also, is anyone else having major battery draining on beta 8 on an iPhone 6? Beta 2-7 were ok, but this is almost beta 1 bad. Restarting didn't help, maybe I have to drain and recharge? I'll report back after I do so (which won't take long)
 
bbbggg said:
I can't believe that there are STILL bugs with creating Reminders with Siri and then trying to change it. For instance, say "Remind me to get a haircut at 10am" and then "Change that to 9:30am" or even "Change my last reminder to 9:30am". It acts like it knows what to do, sometimes... but then gives you blank output, and doesn't change anything.

Also, HUGE bug since iOS 7 where the "saved state" of an app screen (shown as a card in the App Switcher) differs between portrait and landscape mode. Funny, it works as expected on iPad but is borked on iPhone. For instance, go to iMessage in portrait mode and select a conversation from Joe. Now exit iMessage back to the Home screen. Rotate phone to landscape, launch iMessage, then navigate to a message from Laura. Exit iMessage back to the Home screen. Rotate phone to portrait. Double click home button to bring up the App Switcher. It should show the saved state (card) of iMessage as the conversation from Laura, right? Since that was the last one I viewed. But no, it shows Joe, until you tap on it and then it switches to Laura when iMessage comes to the foreground. Same thing happens with tabs in Safari, etc. It seems like an App Switcher error.

What's the point of filing these bugs if Apple won't fix them? I found another huge bug in creating reminders with Siri, where if you had two people in your phone with similar names (e.g. Kerry and Carrie) and corrected a reminder so that it was about the correct person it would create two reminders -- the correct and incorrect one, instead of throwing away the original misinterpretation. That bug persisted from iOS 8 (it was fine in iOS 7) all the way to iOS 10 betas (finally fixed!) even though I reported it over a year ago. How Apple couldn't notice that there were major issues creating reminders if you have contacts with similarly pronounced names, I don't know... that's just so basic.

Honestly, I'm not a developer and I find bugs in iOS all the time just from regular day to day use. It's crazy, I never used to encounter so many bugs in Apple software and I've been a Mac user since 1991 and iPhone user since 2009. Their quality control on iOS is poor, and it seems like they don't even listen to the bug reports unless it's something really egregious that will affect 95% of users and might get Walt Mossberg to complain publicly.
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to be more effective, a troll really needs to be earlier in the thread.
try next time to get your post in within the 1st 20 or so posts.
 
notmach67 said:
Anybody use the MS outlook app for mail?
Not sure if it's buggy or what, but each time I go to access my emails it's stutters and flashes quite a bit...
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I use the Outlook app and I haven't noticed anything different with Beta 8.
 
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Was getting the "unable to update" error... H
philfry said:
I wonder if this beta is to fix the security holes that were fixed in 9.3.5. Does anyone know if that was fixed in beta 7?
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This was fixed in the beta 7 (last Friday's release)...
 
notmach67 said:
Anybody use the MS outlook app for mail?
Not sure if it's buggy or what, but each time I go to access my emails it's stutters and flashes quite a bit...
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I use the MS Outlook app for mail on my 6S Plus and Air 2. I'm not experiencing the problems you describe, on either device on PB7 or earlier PB's.
 
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FredV said:
Can some clear this up for me;
If I'm a public beta tester, I see it as iOS 10 beta 7? Is it one number behind developer betas?
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I don't know if you are genuine or trolling. If genuine, I really don't understand how people are still asking this. It's pretty clear what the beta version is for the developers and the public. It is even made categorically clear in the 1st line of the article - "Apple today seeded the eighth beta of iOS 10 to developers and a seventh version to public beta testers for testing purposes,". It must have taken more time to post and ask that than it would have been to read the article's 1st line.
 
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MacRumors said:



Apple today seeded the eighth beta of iOS 10 to developers and a seventh version to public beta testers for testing purposes, one week after releasing the seventh developer beta and more than two months after first unveiling the new operating system at its 2016 Worldwide Developers Conference.

iOS 10 beta 8 is available as an over-the-air download to those who installed the first seven betas or the beta configuration profile and it's available for direct download via Apple's Developer Center (developers only).

iOS 10 is a major iOS update with a ton of new features and design tweaks, including a new Lock screen experience with 3D Touch-enabled notifications, a more easily accessible camera, a redesigned Control Center, and a new widgets screen. According to Apple, iOS 10 is the company's biggest iOS update ever released.


The Messages app in iOS 10 has been overhauled with features that include background animations, bubble effects, Digital Touch, handwritten notes, Tapback replies, predictive emoji, and a dedicated App Store, and Photos has gained new facial and object recognition capabilities along with a Memories feature for rediscovering forgotten moments.

iOS 10 is currently available to developers and public beta testers, with a full public release planned for the fall. iOS 10 beta 8 is likely to be the last update before the golden master version is released as Apple will need time to finalize the software before its public launch. For full details on iOS 10, make sure to check out our iOS 10 roundup.

Update: Many users appear to be running into an error when attempting to download the new beta, getting an "Unable to Check for Update" popup.

Article Link: Apple Seeds Eighth Beta of iOS 10 to Developers and Public Beta Testers
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MacRumors need a quality control filter to hide all low quality posts like "update not available to me" and other none informative posts. I know you guys like the comment count but most of it is pointless.
 
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