Almost certainly this is a final release candidate. Makes sense too, that way public beta testers don't have to restore their iPhones and iPads to the final release like devs normally do.
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Apple Seeds Fourth iOS 8.3 Beta to Developers, Second Beta to Public Beta Testers
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Almost certainly this is a final release candidate. Makes sense too, that way public beta testers don't have to restore their iPhones and iPads to the final release like devs normally do.
Have people noted that many of the people emoji have been changed to have gold hair? It was also changed on the new Yosemite beta.
What is the landscape bug? I am not a huge fan of how ios8 switches between landscape and portrait but I wouldn't call it a bug. Is there something else I am missing?
The new hair colour looks truly awful, very yellowish. Reminds me of cheese. Is Apple trying to make us use the new Emoji colour options by making the neutral/default ones ugly?
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I get the keyboard disappearing when I go to type in something in spotlight. I begin to type and BAM! Spotlight closes. Open it back up and no problems.
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On a separate note, does VoLTE work again on Verizon?
I've been using the iOS 8.3 beta since it first came out and have been pleasantly surprised by how stable it is, given a few hiccoughs here and there. I'm still too wary to use my 6 Plus since I rely on it so much in case something crazy were to happen and leave it unusable like with iOS 8.0.1
I thought those emojis were a generic color-like a muppet or the smiley faces, not imitating a true flesh tone. In the pop-up choices the skin tones seem much more realistic. I'm loving the latest Beta on 6+ and Air2. Snappy
This is great, but am I the only one that desperately needs a "by day" filter where instead of messages only being sorted by contact/conversation, they could be grouped by day/month so if you know a time frame you received a message but aren't sure in which chat it was, you could just go back to that day and look through them all there quickly?
For my fellow Verizon users, carrier updated to 19.0 on my 6 Plus and iPad Air. I was having problems with my network just stopping. No data or voice at all. The only fix was resetting the phone by holding both buttons. That was 18.1.1 on iPhone. I reported it as bug. Hopefully this carrier update fixes that problem
How does anyone with A7 ipads feel about this update? I tried ios 8.3 beta 3 and it was pretty laggy and became even laggier after a few days of use even without too many apps installed.
How does beta 4 or public beta 2 operate? Is it as smooth as ios 7.1.2? Animation stutter for exiting apps from apps like safari? Stutter for various rotation animation? Keyboard pop up stutter in spotlight? Safari favourite menu scrolling stutter when you have keyboard up?
Of course you should test it with blur effect ON.
Thanks! I am going to test it later today but would love to know earlier if this update fixes these animation glitches.
How does beta 4 or public beta 2 operate? Is it as smooth as ios 7.1.2? Animation stutter for exiting apps from apps like safari? Stutter for various rotation animation? Keyboard pop up stutter in spotlight? Safari favourite menu scrolling stutter when you have keyboard up?
Of course you should test it with blur effect ON.
Thanks! I am going to test it later today but would love to know earlier if this update fixes these animation glitches.
Are/were you seeing any difference in signal strength previous or now with b4? Seems like since 8.2 my LTE signal has either been less or they changed how the dots represent the signal strength. iP6. My son made a comment the other day that his signal has been worse on his 4s recently. ( he just updated to 8.2 too) Maybe coincidence but..........
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How so? and what device?
Wasn't part of the whole thing with iMessage is to seamlessly integrate it with carrier (SMS/MMS) messaging so that you wouldn't really have to even pay attention to it essentially. Sort of one of those "it just works" type of things.
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Wasn't that mostly pretty much from the unicode standards people/organization and not just really something that Apple just (randomly) decided to do?
While extra options like that would be interesting, do typical messaging apps (mobile or desktop or web) typically include something like that? Seems like the general paradigm for messaging in general is separation by contact/conversation basically.