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Apple Seeds Fourth Beta of iOS 9.3 to Developers

petsounds said:
The new Night Shift icon is much worse. Now it looks like a solar eclipse, which gives no metaphorical clue as to what it does. The drowsy eye icon was much much better; even if you didn't like the old one aesthetically, its symbolism was at least appropriate to the task.
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It's not necessarily worse, the main problem with the previous icon was looking too much like Do Not Disturb, the sun helps counteract that. Also the feature is related to sunlight too. Does it give a clue to what it does though? No, (but neither does a lamp or an eye with a moon) people will have to learn what it is. It's just not an easy icon to design.
 
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So far looks like they fixed the time on home screen bug, and the empty spotlight bug! Yay! Also 3D Touch reactions seem better, especially the trackpad, might just be me though
 
petsounds said:
The new Night Shift icon is much worse. Now it looks like a solar eclipse, which gives no metaphorical clue as to what it does. The drowsy eye icon was much much better; even if you didn't like the old one aesthetically, its symbolism was at least appropriate to the task.
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Actually it does "give a metaphorical clue". It is the regular brightness icon/indicator with the moon in the center, which indicates "nighttime brightness". I think that can reasonably be associated with the Night Shift function.
 
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bilibug said:
Actually it does "give a metaphorical clue". It is the regular brightness icon/indicator with the moon in the center, which indicates "nighttime brightness". I think that can reasonably be associated with the Night Shift function.
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I would almost read it as a shift between day, as symbolized by the sun, and night, as symbolize by the moon--so almost literally "night shift" (or "day shift" in a sense, depending on if it's enabled or disabled). In that sense, seems quite fitting.
 
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C DM said:
There's an actual bug in the code that needs to be addressed though.
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Yes, but how is it high-priority?

Between A) fix the underlying issue, B) work around it such that people can't set a date before iPhone 1's release (because why would you ever need to) or something else equally arbitrary and C) do nothing, apparently they've picked the third so far.
 
chucker23n1 said:
Yes, but how is it high-priority?

Between A) fix the underlying issue, B) work around it such that people can't set a date before iPhone 1's release (because why would you ever need to) or something else equally arbitrary and C) do nothing, apparently they've picked the third so far.
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Probably because it's a rather bad bug in the sense of its consequences, and while it would normally be fairly obscure, given how much publicity it has gotten--quite a bit of which was not as a warning but as a trick to get people to run into it--it would seem like that would push the priority higher up as far as Apple addressing it. Whatever it is that they decide to address it with (either actually fixing it, which would be the better way of going about it, or at the very least working around it so that people don't run into it, etc.) is still something they need to do.

Given that there's already been a statement from Apple that they will address the issue in the next update they release, it seems like they are certainly not going with option C.
 
C DM said:
Probably because it's a rather bad bug in the sense of its consequences, and while it would normally be obscure, given how much publicity it has gotten, quite a bit of which was not as a warning but as a trick to get people to run into it,
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Right — it was mostly a "prank" by particularly fun people to hang around.

C DM said:
it would seem like that would push the priority higher up as far as Apple addressing it.
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Yes, that's fair.

C DM said:
Given that there's already been a statement from Apple that they will address the issue in the next update they release, it seems like they are certainly not going with option C.
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That doesn't have to mean that they'll bother pushing the fix into a beta, though. There isn't really much worth to having the fix tested externally. Either it didn't make the cut for time constraint reasons, or they'll simply put it in the next non-beta release.
 
chucker23n1 said:
Right — it was mostly a "prank" by particularly fun people to hang around.



Yes, that's fair.



That doesn't have to mean that they'll bother pushing the fix into a beta, though. There isn't really much worth to having the fix tested externally. Either it didn't make the cut for time constraint reasons, or they'll simply put it in the next non-beta release.
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Well, they would put in the fix in the code as it is becomes available, so if they have made the fix and it's part of the 9.3 code, it could very well be in a beta update. I don't think anyone is saying it has to be in the current beta update or in any particular beta update before the next release necessarily, but some people are wondering if it might be.
 
Well whats more important is fixing the brightness slider when iPhones are in landscape mode. There is a vibrant rectangle around the slider that needs to extend to the sides of the screen or have rounded corners..
 
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C DM said:
Well, they would put in the fix in the code as it is becomes available, so if they have made the fix and it's part of the 9.3 code, it could very well be in a beta update.
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Yep. That's what I meant by "either it didn't make the cut for time constraint reasons". If they branch for this beta happened before the fix was committed, there's little point in merging that fix. For the release branch or the next beta branch, though, it'll probably be done.
 
Hope they fix the iCloud restore issue in this one! Myself (and about 600 others on the developer forums) has to download a beta 2 ISPW and restore it through itunes and when it got to the part on the "Hello" screen where you enter your password, shut it down, update to beta 3 through itunes and THEN enter your icloud password to get our stuff back. Took me all night but I'm glad I got my stuff back, thanks to user Navdboor on the Dev forums for conducting 3 days worth of trial and error to find a work around!
 
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RedGala said:
Well whats more important is fixing the brightness slider when iPhones are in landscape mode. There is a vibrant rectangle around the slider that needs to extend to the sides of the screen or have rounded corners..
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It's been that way for so long, right at the start of iOS 9 betas... Looks real annoying. I haven't reported it though so.

I think iOS 8 had nothing around the slider if I remember correctly? Like the volume slider. Either that or just rounded corners on the current thing like you said would look fine.
 
3D Touch is now much faster, seems like they removed the intentional delay between push and pop gestures. Great news, now I can enter the full app switcher much faster.
 
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