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Apple Seeds Fourth Beta of iOS 10.1 to Developers and Public Beta Testers
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I doubt it, the build number is 14B72b a gm version never contains a letter a the end. there will most likely be one more beta
Whatever, the Apple beta program is only for people who want to brag about using the newest version and let all the, often, trivial issues slip through and become general release issues. We are all pretty much beta users these days if you use a Mac or iDevice.
It's existed on a lot of iPhones for several versions of iOS going back awhile now. It's a software issue that may seemingly never be fixed. Just some people are starting to notice more and more as I believe it's slowly but surely getting worse.
See UI Performance - http://www.anandtech.com/show/10685/the-iphone-7-and-iphone-7-plus-review/9
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Largely ignored by most tech reviewers which is another discussion altogether. Hardware - great. Software - wtf.
Are there any new features in 10.1 for regular iPhone 7 users? I get that Portrait Mode is the big update for 7+'ers, but do the rest of us get anything new in this update?
No "b" after it here, only 14B72
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Yeah not exactly true. Some maybe but I dare say most here file bug reports pretty consistently. Not our fault if Apple doesn't address them.
Just found a fix, I had to disable any accessibility features enabled through triple-clicking the home button. My phone is zippy now.
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Just found a fix, I had to disable any accessibility features enabled through triple-clicking the home button. My phone is zippy now.
Do you use the triple click accessibility shortcut? If so thats what causes it, the phone is waiting to see if you are going to click the button a third time.
Nah, every iOS device stutters in multitasking.....no reason my A9X iPad Pro should drop frames like crazy when it was silky smooth in iOS 9.
I dont have much faith in the facade of 4 betas for a X.1 update. It makes it look like Apple is fixing tons of stuff to the public. I'd be interested to see really how much the public beta program is actually helping....but we never will. iOS 9.1 made things worse before they got better last year on iPad. If it fixes stuff...great. Other wise its the reality of today's Apple. Jamming in features inherently leads to more bugs.
Its a pipe dream but I'd love just for once to have a release that does nothing but make everything as silky smooth as iOS 6 was. But as long as Apple is a money machine that'll never happen so I try to live with it.
But I do feel like iOS has been "death by 1000 cuts" since iOS 7. So many teeny tiny annoyances add up to a lot of hurt for some people.
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There is definitely memory leak in the OS level services.
I have been having app reset a lot more often as I keep using the phone, but eventually fixed itself when I reboot it.
I have been having app reset a lot more often as I keep using the phone, but eventually fixed itself when I reboot it.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but does the 'b' in this case just not differentiate the developer build from the Public Beta build?
10.1 PB4 installed without incident and works fine on my 6S+ so far.
Though, I am noticing the Safari keyboard bug that others have pointed out. When filling out a form in Safari, if you type a space after a comma or number, the keyboard doesn't change back to letters, it stays on numbers & punctuation.
This behavior is only in Safari. In any app, pressing a space after a comma or number returns you to the letters keyboard.
I do not know if this "bug" is new to 10.1, or may have appeared in earlier versions of iOS as one or two people here suggested.
All things considered, though, I've had a good experience with the public betas of 10.1 and am using 10.1 as my daily driver.
YMMV
Though, I am noticing the Safari keyboard bug that others have pointed out. When filling out a form in Safari, if you type a space after a comma or number, the keyboard doesn't change back to letters, it stays on numbers & punctuation.
This behavior is only in Safari. In any app, pressing a space after a comma or number returns you to the letters keyboard.
I do not know if this "bug" is new to 10.1, or may have appeared in earlier versions of iOS as one or two people here suggested.
All things considered, though, I've had a good experience with the public betas of 10.1 and am using 10.1 as my daily driver.
YMMV
Another beta, another round of complaints about "laggy" iPhones.
The animation stutter has everything to do with the new home button. Whether it's a bug or intentional, I do not know. I do know however that the stutter point seems to be the cutoff for allowing a secondary click to bring up multitasking. I've theorized that this is a buffer added for the new home button, to allow people to become familiar with the new feel of the home button. You can test this. Try to catch it in the middle of the animation, before the animation stutters press the home button again, and you will catch it and go into multitasking view instead.
It is NOT lag however. It is simply a faulty animation that is not animating properly. It is skipping frames, rather than seeing a reduced frame rate. I imagine it is something that will get fixed in time. It is not that big of a deal, and I'm tired of hearing about it. Yes, I know we all love the smooth fluid animation in iOS, but it's just a minor aesthetic bug that does not impact actual performance in any significant way.
This has been around since beta 1 of 10.0 and currently exists in all production versions that I have used, minus 10.0.3 since I don't have a 7. Someone said it looked like it was fixed in this beta, but you say it isn't. Hmm....
The bounce is not a bug. Apparently, according to Anandtech, it's part of the new way iOS 10 handles animations. So instead of having to wait for the app to minimize before you can multitask, you can actually bring up the multitasking AS the app is minimizing. So that makes it look like the app tiles are bouncing down before minimizing.
Now the stutter as it minimizes I think IS a bug. You can prove this by opening an app and IMMEDIATELY minimizing it after it appears, - it's smooth as silk minimizing - absolutely perfect. Only after the app has been up at least a few seconds does it revert to a stuttery minimizing animation. The reason is still a mystery, but I think it's a bug.