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Apple Seeds Eighth Beta of iOS 16 to Developers [Update: Public Beta Available]
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It was usable for me since PB3. ✋
Beta 4 (Public Beta 2) was horrendous, but it got a lot better after that.
I was still having some pretty horrendous bugs and crashes as of beta 6 - I am on beta 7 and haven’t had any major issues that affect me (yet) so I likely won’t update to beta 8 at all if not necessary. Takes too long and isn’t worth the risk.
Beta 7 seems to have serious issues with wireless charging in my experience and according to other reports on the internet, so if wireless charging matters to you maybe beta 8 is the ticket. I almost never wireless charge so I am not missing it enough to go through another update.
Beta 7 seems to have serious issues with wireless charging in my experience and according to other reports on the internet, so if wireless charging matters to you maybe beta 8 is the ticket. I almost never wireless charge so I am not missing it enough to go through another update.
Installed. Beta 8 is much worse for me in almost every way than Beta 7. Less responsive, janky animations, even worse CarPlay disconnects, spotlight terribly slow.
You’re a developer and you’re piddling around on a user forum quibbling about a missing Xcode update? For what it’s worth, Apple released an Xcode 14 beta 6 six days ago and it’ll work with this iOS beta release just fine.
It’s not a “disaster” and it doesn’t exist outside of beta. Nevertheless we are still in beta testing and Apple has already made it clear that they’re delaying the iPad launch until they’ve perfected it (hence the jump to iPadOS 16.1). Just pretend it doesn’t exist until they release the hardware, and OS, that is actually meant to be stable.
Well this is a developer beta, meant for developers to work on their next big release. Not meant for users.
An iOS beta newer than an Xcode beta never works. They say it does but last time it didn't. Oh well...
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I’ve actually been using stage manager on iPadOS, submitting bug reports, and yeah, it’s a disaster.
iOS 16, apart from the Apple Music bug early on has been fairly stable. iPadOS 16 has been the same, apart from Stage Manager which is still a buggy mess, likely many of the apps I’m using aren’t caught up yet, to be fair.
Absolutely. I tried using it the other day at work as I used my iPad instead of my MBA and I had to leave Stage Manager off.
Yeah it’s humorous seeing these clueless individuals who have never used stage manager in iPadOS trying to defend it. I get where apple is going, and I’m pretty sure at some point I’ll prefer using it over the current multitasking iteration, but a lot in stage manager needs to be fixed—and I’m not just talking about the bugs.
I personally don’t get what problem it’s trying to solve. It seems like a solution in search of a problem.
Edit: especially in the Mac.
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When I installed the first dev beta, a lot of my downloaded songs from Apple Music wouldn't play, it would just skip and downloading beta 2 and 3 didn't fix it. I would have to delete the download and re-install it. Besides that, the heating up the first couple betas and the occasional bug, I really didn't experience that many bugs
I’ve had stutters when I installed b8 today on my 13 Pro but a hard restart brought things back to normal. Practically zero issues.
It’s seemed to have gotten better after a restart and after I let it sit for a bit. It could be indexing or who knows what.
I’ve been using the beta on my primary phone since it was released and have had not a single major issue. Some hiccups and battery drain? Yep. But I’m impatient and used a beta. It seems great to me. The new Maps features bring it closer to feature parity with Google Maps. Lock Screen customizations are cool, but not important to me. To me it has felt ready for prime time since the start compared to other final releases I have seen from other companies. That said, it’s a beta, at your own risk and all of that….
I’d been doing that a few hours after an update for iOS 16 and barely had an issue. And I fully charge after.
Seems to be working well.