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Apple Seeds First Beta of iOS 11.4.1 to Developers
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Erm.. Out of curiosity, I checked out the DND settings in my iPhone (iOS 10.3.3) and there is an option to choose between:
"Always"
or
"If the iPhone is Locked"
Rough translation from pt-br.. In my case, the second option is selected.
Hope it helps!
Thank you very much. Historically, I didn't get notifications, so I don't know if the option default was changed or if it was something else. Very peculiar. Hoping it's fixed now.
I know my original comment was harsh. I know how hard it is to build great software, particularly at scale. But I want Apple to win, a company which protects our privacy, which cares about making great products. And to achieve this, it needs to get better where it is very weak.
Would be nice if they would release changelogs with the releases.
False. The first beta has usually been released the day of the WWDC keynote, if not always.
I'm having a strange issue w/ contacts as well (since the 11.4 update). When I receive a text message from a new contact, and I go to add/edit their information, the option to enter a name, company, and photo do no exist. I can add the info from my Mac, and the option appears to edit the information. Very odd.
Apple Pay Cash in the majority of the western world.
Wrong. Sometimes same day. Most of the time it is developers only. Public Beta usually 30 days after. Too buggy.
I always install beta 1 of .0 releases to get a feel for the new updates and changes, then I revert back to the latest signed release for stability. Once they hit beta 5/6 it's usually stable enough for my daily driver.
(officially) developers only. Anyone can add the developer profile should they so wish. Imagine a large majority running iOS 12 next week won't be developers (myself included). Not my first rodeo. Know what I'm in for, but that's part of the fun!
Anyone running the Public Beta won't see it yet as it's only available to those on the Developer platform at the moment.
While I'm glad you got this fixed, I always use AirPlane mode when I am doing presentations just to be safe
Edit: seems my info here is probably wrong based on replies below...
Requisite warning: for the first 30 days or so of a new major version dev-only beta, you are advised to have your UDID listed in someone's developer account or the device may refuse to boot with the dev-only beta.
It happened to me on 11.0. Was a painful process of downgrading then re-upgrading. Had forgotten that the device was new and not listed in my dev account.
There have been mixed reports about whether this is always enforced. All I know is that after I put in the UDID in the account I had no problems. It theoretically could have been a coincidence but I tried every other reset/recovery mode trick in the book and nothing worked.
Requisite warning: for the first 30 days or so of a new major version dev-only beta, you are advised to have your UDID listed in someone's developer account or the device may refuse to boot with the dev-only beta.
It happened to me on 11.0. Was a painful process of downgrading then re-upgrading. Had forgotten that the device was new and not listed in my dev account.
There have been mixed reports about whether this is always enforced. All I know is that after I put in the UDID in the account I had no problems. It theoretically could have been a coincidence but I tried every other reset/recovery mode trick in the book and nothing worked.
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And yet all kinds of things get fixed and all kinds of features and changes are released.
Are you objecting only to any kind of X.x.1 updates or also to any X.x updates? Meaning did you dislike the 11.1 update as well after 11.0 went through such a long public beta period?
iOS has been getting around 15 updates per year for while now. Do you think that makes the beta programs jokes?
When 11.4 was mainly a bug fix, that was in beta for 60 days with tens of thousands of people beta testing it, and yet they still have enough bugs to put out a .1 beta not even 24 hours after 11.4 was released, 11.x iOS is nearly end of life.....yes, I find that humorous.
So what think they do all day? Twiddling their thumbs?
Modern OSes are complex enough to probably have thousands of known/reported bugs and several times that in unknown bugs. Only a fraction of reported bugs can even be reproduced by the developer.
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As if having even multiple betas in parallel would be so rare. Bugs are found continuously on probably a daily basis. Should they have waited a couple of weeks before implementing and testing (via betas) a fix to a newly found bug?
And this might shock you, beta tests are there to test the changes applied to code (a: do the changes fix the bug as intended for hopefully everybody, b: do they introduce new bugs aka regressions). They are not there to catch and fix all bugs in the codebase.
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11.4 brought a number of larger features with it, in addition to all kinds of fixes. That by no means means that there aren't plenty of other things still left to fix. Pretty typical for complex software, especially on the level of an OS.
There are absolutely bugs in iOS 11.4 on HomePod. Siri gets confused much more easily than before. Voice commands for AirPlay 2 features sometimes give unexpected results.
In addition, my iPhone 6 rebooted itself while I was using it today. It froze up in Safari and next thing I knew I was looking at the Apple logo in the middle of the screen. That has NEVER happened before. So, clearly, bugs in iOS 11.4 for iPhone 6.
I welcome the update *if* it fixes the bugs.
Mark
In addition, my iPhone 6 rebooted itself while I was using it today. It froze up in Safari and next thing I knew I was looking at the Apple logo in the middle of the screen. That has NEVER happened before. So, clearly, bugs in iOS 11.4 for iPhone 6.
I welcome the update *if* it fixes the bugs.
Mark
From experience of working at phone software development (not Apple): When issues are fixed during a release candidate phase, e.g. a beta program, the management will make a call on whether the issue is serious enough to make it to the beta branch. Most things do not, and from a developers point of view it's really annoying when your program is being released with bugs you've already fixed. But that's done so that the features will have been tested long enough. Any new change might cause other things to break down and as such they're held off to the next release unless they're very serious -- ie. security or affecting *a lot* of people. So the fixes to things you reported may well be in 11.4.1, and possibly fixed long ago but just not deemed serious enough to interrupt the testing phase.