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Apple Seeds Fifth Beta of iOS 10.3 to Developers [Update: Public Beta Now Available]
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Public Beta Available already.
Apple today seeded the fifth beta of an upcoming iOS 10.3 update to developers, just over one week after seeding the fourth beta of iOS 10.3 and almost three months after the release of iOS 10.2, the last major update to the iOS 10 operating system.
Registered developers can download the fifth iOS 10.3 beta from the Apple Developer Center or over-the-air with the proper configuration profile installed.
iOS 10.3 is a major update, introducing several new features and changes to the iOS 10 operating system. The biggest new consumer-facing feature is "Find My AirPods," which is designed to help AirPods owners locate a lost earphone. Find My AirPods records the last known location of when an AirPod was connected to an iOS device via Bluetooth and can play a sound on a lost AirPod.
Apple's latest update also introduces a new Apple File System (APFS), installed when an iOS device is updated to iOS 10.3. APFS is optimized for flash/SSD storage and includes features like strong encryption.
Apple plans to introduce some App Store changes in iOS 10.3, allowing developers to respond to customer reviews for the first time. iOS users are also able to label reviews in the App Store as "Helpful" or "Not Helpful," which should help surface the most relevant review content.
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Apple also plans to limit the number of times developers can ask for a review, allow customers to leave app reviews without exiting an app, and provide a "master switch" that will let users turn off all app review request prompts.
Also new in iOS 10.3 is a redesigned app open/close animation, an Apple ID profile in Settings, a better breakdown of iCloud storage usage, warnings about outdated apps that won't work with future versions of iOS, HomeKit support for programmable light switches, improvements to SiriKit (bill paying, bill status, and scheduling future rides), CarPlay interface improvements, iCloud analytics options, and more.
Article Link: Apple Seeds Fifth Beta of iOS 10.3 to Developers
I'm hoping any Carplay update brings the music app in line with every single previous iOS, allowing "new" "features" like touching in the timeline to skip to that part of the song, which any touch-based music player has been able to do for a decade. Or tapping on an album to bring up the other songs on the record.
I honestly can't believe how half-baked Carplay is. I was very excited when i first got it, but the fact that it can't even do a lot of the functions my standard car system (hyundai) could do is extremely frustrating. Like, how hard is it to have the screen split between music and maps? Why do i constantly have to toggle in between? My car has a pretty huge screen, and the native app can split the screen three ways between navigation, music, and other app buttons. Why can't carplay?
I honestly can't believe how half-baked Carplay is. I was very excited when i first got it, but the fact that it can't even do a lot of the functions my standard car system (hyundai) could do is extremely frustrating. Like, how hard is it to have the screen split between music and maps? Why do i constantly have to toggle in between? My car has a pretty huge screen, and the native app can split the screen three ways between navigation, music, and other app buttons. Why can't carplay?
What does this show?
For one thing, yes, people care about battery life. Who doesn't care about battery life?
Well, seeing how much thinner their phones keep getting - Apple doesn't care.
For what it's worth, I had terrible performance issues after installing 10.3 on my 6s. Terrible stuttering and pauses that made my phone almost unusable. I finally got fed up and wiped my phone and performance has been better than ever. I'm wondering if there was a a hiccup in the file system changeover. Whatever it is, yeah, my performance is much better now (even better than pre-10.3), but I'm not super happy about having to wipe my phone in order for that to happen.
updating to public beta 4 on my phone corrupted and forced a restore. I'm stepping out of the beta game.
Definitely same for me. 18 minutes on an iPhone 7+, 21 minutes on a 12.9" iPad Pro.
I'm just hoping this beta fixed my horrid data connection problems with my 7+ on T-Mobile. It constantly goes from around -80 dBm to -110 dBm and drops out my connections. This is a problem only affecting my 7+. Not my 6s on the same beta.
So far it's been more stable, maybe there was a fix under the hood. I know I'd reported the issue.
Edit: Better battery life so far too. I know my 7+ was doing pretty badly, I'm assuming due to the signal fluctuations and inconsistencies.
So far it's been more stable, maybe there was a fix under the hood. I know I'd reported the issue.
Edit: Better battery life so far too. I know my 7+ was doing pretty badly, I'm assuming due to the signal fluctuations and inconsistencies.
So if I want to install beta 5 now over my iOS 10.2.1. Will it directly download and install beta 5 or will go from 1 to 5 and I have to download all of them in the order? If that's the case it's too much work and installation. Please comment.
You can't get earlier betas. Beta 5 will download and update your phone accordingly.
- Apple rushes software out without enough testing.
- People worry about falling quality software that needs a couple bug-fix updates to be really usable.
- Apple does more testing and betas.
- People worry about the quality of the software because of so many betas.
Agreed, for sure snappier, am I the only one though that think's this release was a 'tad' timely in the light of the recent situation with the "Vault 7" Wikileaks stuff.
I can see it now, Tim's red phone ring's at home (what, all red phones have actual bells that ring!)...
Tim: "Hello"
Ive: "It's out, they know about the backdoors for the CiA"
Tim: "Assange?"
Ive: "Yep, afraid so"
Tim: "Y'all better get this mess cleaned up Johnny, we need them tax havens"
Ive: "On it, beta 5, maybe 6 soon. Leave it with me."
Tim: "Sigh, I'm gonna have to mention this at the event huh"
Ive: "Just say 'security and privacy is of the upmost important to us' repeatedly, then gloss over it with the new iPad stuff! hahahaha"[/QUOTE]
CarPlay in iOS 10.3 enables tapping Album Title to see the full album track list. It also adds Up Next support. It added a scrubber to the player in the UI but it still does not let you scrub within the playing song (a problem I've reported to Apple...they added the UI element but not the functionality? Bugs me too!).
Hopefully we see more CarPlay attention in iOS 11. I love CarPlay in my Hyundai but it has room to grow for sure.
Sorry, but saying "oh here we go with those msgs", is on the same level as "what about dark mode" comments..
they're obvious and filling the thread with useless offtopic content.
this reply i just made, probably adds to that
Honestly, I think we need to get over this. People CAN ask things. Not everyone has time to follow every single thread and ask. Yes, you can google, but it is becoming very difficult thing to do. There are just so much info that it is easy to get overwhelmed (and misinformed). If you see a redundant question, you can just easily ignore it.