Apple Seeds First Beta of iOS 12.1 to Developers With Group FaceTime

[coolfactor]

They wasted no time, lol

This is normal for software development. It's not linear.

It doesn't go "develop - stop - release - develop - stop - release".

There are several "develop" branches that co-exist in parallel. Only once a branch reaches a certain stability and completeness does it gets released, but already several other branches have moved forward, and then those changes get folded in when they are ready. Quite often different teams are assigned to different branches. Some branches might be for new features, some might be bug fixes. Software development is not just "one thing", "one project", but many projects that are being coordinated together. That's why Apple was able to create a build of iOS 12 without Group FaceTime, because it's being developed in its own branch and can be included or excluded, as needed.

 

[famoussasjohn]

Son of a biscuit, I did have a profile on there! Thanks for the heads up.

Enjoy!

 

[coolfactor]

You mean like this one?
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/shortcuts/welcome/ios

These are also good:
https://www.macstories.net/stories/ios-12-the-macstories-review/7/#shortcuts
https://sharecuts.app

Note, it appears you need to open up the Sharecuts.app site on an iOS device running iOS 12, or the links won't work. That was not clear. They don't work when browsing by Mac (yet), but I expect that macOS will adopt Siri Shortcuts in the future.

 

[tito2020]

They don’t waste a minute.

Who uses facetime anyways

 

[hop]

They don't work when browsing by Mac (yet), but I expect that macOS will adopt Siri Shortcuts in the future.

I mean yeah, a thing that only exists on iOS only works on it .

Also, the Automator robot just started crying, I hope you're happy..

 

[212rikanmofo]

Who uses facetime anyways

I do, and pretty much my entire family and most of my friends. So yes, facetime is huge for some people.

 

[Apple_Robert]

Big update. Almost 3 GB.

 

[coolkid93]

How do you list all your Apple products I see listed when you post?

 

[mariusignorello]

Who uses facetime anyways

I do...pretty often.
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YOU sound like the ungrateful one.
Your point is not "perfectly clear", your point is a misconception of how Apple should operate and if it's not up to your standards, then off with Tim's head?

If your memory serves you correctly, you'll remember that last year's 11.1 beta was released 1 day after iOS 11 was released. The year before, guess what? THE SAME THING! This is not new!

The company may have started as Mac(intosh), but Apple was not built, nor meant to be built, around MacOS.
Apple knows that their money is in iOS, not MacOS and you should understand that the two operating systems are not developed by the same team whatsoever. They have different timelines and duties. One has nothing to do with the other.

I’ll also add...macOS is a much larger system than iOS. It inherently requires more time to refine and perfect. Chances are more people rely on macOS than iOS for work so it would make sense to spend longer on the larger system.

 

[anshuvorty]

I had this yesterday after installing and running Shortcuts. I did a reboot (Vol up, Vol down, Hold On/Off for 10 seconds). I haven't had the issue since.

This fixed it for me as well! Awesome! Thanks!

 

[Black Magic]

Who uses facetime anyways

Many folks use FaceTime. It's damn near a standard at this point. The real question is if you have an iPhone and most of you friends do too, why would you not use FaceTime?

 

[ronno]

You do know they are two complete separate development team.

Right, so for each minor version of the OS they bring in a “complete separate dev team.”
Right.

 

[chucker23n1]

Right, so for each minor version of the OS they bring in a “complete separate dev team.”
Right.

No, but macOS and iOS are done by different (but overlapping) teams, and the almost-finished release vs. the next-to-come minor release vs. the next-to-come major release are each different subsets of teams.

You don’t bring in the entire cavalry to ship the GM of iOS 12 or 10.14 Mojave.

 

[AshleyHredone]

Some hints:

Exploits available to security researchers in the iOS 12 betas were not patched for the final release, and it has already been jailbroken along with a fully untethered jailbreak by a security team in China. This likely patches that.

This also probably patches the exploit that triggers device reboot.

Feature-wise someone will have to try it out to see what it adds.
[doublepost=1537290479][/doublepost]

If you just updated, you're likely seeing the indexing process take its effect. New iOS releases typically get better after a couple days.

And clicking on notifications on lock screen going straight into the app, which you can then close and the iPad remains unlocked. Never touched the home button. iPad Pro.

 

[kstotlani]

Any news about the dual sim update?

 

[Spacedust]

Is FieldTest working again on SE on second or more run?

 

[Henk Poley]

Does this break compatibility with older iOS like it did during the 12.0 betas?

(I mean, also in the regular old one-on-one mode, of course)

 

[DeathBecomesMe]

Beta testers: please submit a problem with Apple Music. It keeps cutting off while playing or skips the next track without reason.

Is this still happening for you? Every early beta has Apple Music issues for some reason.

 

[Will.O.Bie]

Is this still happening for you? Every early beta has Apple Music issues for some reason.

Yes, unfortunately. I have reverted back to the previous iOS to alleviate that problem, it was just really annoying. I'll reinstall iOS 12, hopefully, when they have issued a fix for that.

 

[charlituna]

For those receiving a new phone or watch on Friday, you may want to wait until you receive your new device if you want to restore from a backup. You won't be able to restore a backup from iOS 12.1 or watchOS 5.1 to a device on iOS 12 or watchOS 5. If you update your current device now, you'll have to set up the new devices on Friday as a new device, install the beta profiles, update, reset the device, and then restore from a backup.

The sign of a true beta tester is that the above is no big deal.
[doublepost=1537373263][/doublepost]

They don’t waste a minute.

Kind of calls into question this notion that Apple needed more time to test Group FaceTime. Versus perhaps they wanted to delay it until after the launch because activations, iCloud and FaceTime are working off the same servers.

 

[Baldilocks]

How do you list all your Apple products I see listed when you post?

Are you talking about in someone's signature, like mine has at the bottom?

 

[SegPip]

I do...pretty often.
[doublepost=1537309679][/doublepost]
I’ll also add...macOS is a much larger system than iOS. It inherently requires more time to refine and perfect. Chances are more people rely on macOS than iOS for work so it would make sense to spend longer on the larger system.

I still agree with this

 

[iAdam1n]

iOS 12.1 beta seems to have significantly reduced backgrounding time out to be 30 seconds if background refresh is not enabled.

 

[JosephAW]

I've been tinkering with iOS 12 on my 5S. Seems okay but I had to turn off a lot of iCloud sync setting again.
Also I like the fact that I can turn off the iOS 12.x updates. Hopefully that turns off both automatic downloads and nag.

 

[ronno]

No, but macOS and iOS are done by different (but overlapping) teams, and the almost-finished release vs. the next-to-come minor release vs. the next-to-come major release are each different subsets of teams.

You don’t bring in the entire cavalry to ship the GM of iOS 12 or 10.14 Mojave.

I presume you worked as a developer for Apple then?
;-)