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Apple Seeds Fifth Beta of iOS 11.4 to Developers [Update: Public Beta Available]

Siri's voice has changed on my iPhone 8. She's more robotic all of a sudden.

Edit: after I fully signed in and used my passcode it was back. Maybe something downloaded in the background?
 
moabal said:
I was hoping that since the phone and watch communicates it would somehow keep it updated. If what you say ends up being the case that is a shame because it is hardest to delete messages from the watch.
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I concur.

Even a firm press and a “delete all” or the ability to mark the ones you want to remove would be fine.
 
lec0rsaire said:
Red Alert is one of the best games of all time along with Diablo 1 and Starcraft! It's ridiculous how many great games were made in the '90s. They're so good that even though the graphics are old that doesn't stop them from being fun.

I definitely agree as far as iOS. When I first used it and the App Store back in 2008, it was really amazing. Everyone who saw my iPhone 3G couldn't believe everything it did compared to their Blackberrys and other regular phones. Today, I barely even look for new apps. The main apps haven't really changed and there is no real reason to want to get a new phone until it can no longer run the latest version of iOS well. Right now that's happening for the devices that have 1 GB RAM. iOS 11 really needs 2 GB to run well and I imagine it will only get worse with iOS 12.
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Back in the old days when computing device capability is highly limited, to sell their software, developers need to work extra hard to squeeze out the best potential of their apps, polish them, test them to its full extent before selling so that apps are in its best state. Story lines, plots, ideas, everything current developers do not want to polish too much, developers at 1980s do.
Now, thanks to internet, developers can release their app, and fix the bug later cause reinstalling or updating an app becomes just so easy. Same for the iOS. Same for Microsoft Windows, and macOS. Not sure if such sloppiness is good or bad but definitely not better than the old days when considering the efforts developers put on polishing their products.
 
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Any mention of stereo HomePod support? I'm assuming AirPlay 2 will stay in for the 11.4 GM and there seems to be a link between the two features, so I'm crossing my fingers for a HP update soon.
 
RudySnow said:
Shoot... only 1.5GB available on my iPhone 6 16GB, and the update needs 2.35GB. I would have to delete a bunch of apps to make space and redownload. Tried the iTunes route but since it’s beta, 11.4b5 doesn’t appear. Does anyone have any helpful suggestions? Or am I going to have to delete to high heaven?

I’m waiting on the iPhone SE2 to upgrade, so no, “time for a new phone” won’t be helpful. ;)
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You can go get the IPSW file for your device and update via iTunes manually using shift/update.
 
Shirasaki said:
Back in the old days when computing device capability is highly limited, to sell their software, developers need to work extra hard to squeeze out the best potential of their apps, polish them, test them to its full extent before selling so that apps are in its best state. Story lines, plots, ideas, everything current developers do not want to polish too much, developers at 1980s do.
Now, thanks to internet, developers can release their app, and fix the bug later cause reinstalling or updating an app becomes just so easy. Same for the iOS. Same for Microsoft Windows, and macOS. Not sure if such sloppiness is good or bad but definitely not better than the old days when considering the efforts developers put on polishing their products.
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This is a great point. Everything had to be as perfect as possible before release because there was not much they could do to fix anything later on. Same thing with arcade machines although some games did have several revisions and I’ve been able to see them through available ROM libraries online.

It is amazing how solid most software was. Of course some programs and games had problems but nothing like we see today. It is so common for a patch to be released just days later to fix something that was discovered or something that was not possible to fix before the deadline.

I wonder if the increasing complexity along with much larger teams is responsible for this. In some cases devs are either sloppy, lazy or both. ID Software has usually always put out an optimized product. Naughty Dog doesn’t accept second rate work. Valve as well. I remember when they first deployed Steam for HL2. Most companies would’ve made a mess with such a large, global project but Steam was a success from the beginning. Such a success that they quickly became the de facto distribution and networking hub for PC games like Apple did with iTunes for music around 2003 although Apple made the mistake of not moving to a streaming service much earlier. The second Netflix and Spotify came out it was really obvious that this model was going to take over. I think Apple has made a big mistake by not offering a free option with ads for Apple Music.
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C DM said:
Perhaps you are affected by something like the "black dot" issue? https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/how-to-fix-the-black-dot-unicode-bug-crashing-imessage.2118198/
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That damn black dot is really a mess. The easiest solution requires 3D Touch to fix. A new malicious Unicode bug is discovered every single year. This one is pretty awful from all of the people I’ve seen complaining about it. I’ve never had problems but I’m not in high school where kids always like to prank others. Most of my friends rarely ever use emojis except for the most common ones.
 
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