Apple Seeds iOS 7 Beta 2 to Developers with iPad and iPad Mini Support

[irDigital0l]

The update gear icon looks terrible compared to ios 6

How does it even rotate?

The gears in the new Settings icon don't even make sense.

 

[angemon89]

Did you do a clean install of the beta and then setup as a new phone without importing any backup? If not then this is what is causing your battery woes.

Getting as good battery life on my iPhone 5 running iOS 7 beta 1 (2 days on a full charge).

The above also applies to iPhone 4 & 4S.

Yep, I always do clean installs of new OS's.

My phone gets really hot and only lasts half the day - an issue I never had in iOS6.
I also disabled some of the battery draining "features" of iOS 7 and that didn't help either.

 

[Menneisyys2]

Quickly tested zooming while recording video. Unfortunately, beta2 still doesn't have true, intelligent zooming making use of the full width of the sensor. At the theoretical losless maximum of 1.45x zoom level, the resolution already drops quite a bit (unlike with the Nokia PureView 808); at the maximum 3x, it becomes much-much worse.

I really hope Apple does implement intelligent zooming like that in the Nokia PureView 808 to give zoom folks as good resolution as possible.

Will post some examples of these zoom levels.

 

[TonyC28]

iMessage is showing the nickname from the Contacts card, rather than the full name...

Option in settings. Not sure if it's new with this beta.

Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Contacts > Short Name

 

[Menneisyys2]

The CEO gets final say -- but they'd be a bad CEO (or Steve Jobs) if they meddled in the jobs of those they'd hired.

Anyway: Damn, this update is taking a LONG time preparing!

Yup, it took me about 10 minutes in that "Preparing" phase... don't panic, it'll work!

 

[JohnnyW2001]

Ew, I'm kind of sad that the voice memo app doesn't look as sweet as this fan-made interpretation:

http://blog.manbolo.com/2013/06/12/ios-7-voice-memos-design-challenge

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How does it even rotate?

The gears in the new Settings icon don't even make sense.

It just turns. No more animation than that. It still looks pretty ugly.

 

[thisisdallas]

The music app is A LOT less buggy.

1. Artist Tab now shows ALL artists from iTunes Match where it was bugged before
2. iTunes Match download icons now appear aligned and tweaked/finished.
3. Scrolling is MUCH smoother.

The animation when sending a message is fixed and automatically scrolls down to the most recent message where it was bugged before.

Overall, there's a lot less lag.

3rd party apps display properly again. IE: Facebook would always launch and have the status bar jammed into the blue area on the top. After it loaded, the bar snapped up. Also, in the side menus, the search bars were mis-colored. Both things are fixed and work as normal.

 

[apollo1444]

Heres the change log via BGR:

http://bgr.com/2013/06/24/ios-7-beta-2-change-log-ipad/

the change log is practically the same to beta 1 i think its fake

 

[aardwolf]

How does it even rotate?

The gears in the new Settings icon don't even make sense.

It's the gears from a bicycle. And yes, they rotate during an OTA update.

 

[l0renz]

This couldn't have come at a better time! The bugs and amount of broken things was getting long in the tooth... I hope this fixes a lot.

Feel free to let us know I downgraded back to iOS 6 because of these bugs

 

[MidtownAtlCoffe]

Siri is working much much faster than it was in beta 1.

Also the new male/female voices were added.

Where do you see that setting??
According to the Release Notes :
"Siri
Known Issues

The new Siri voices are not in this seed."

 

[Redbeard25]

Successfully upgraded in place on an un-IMEI-registered iPhone 4S!

 

[HyQuality]

Still no love for the Skype app
It crashes immediately upon tapping on any chat...

 

[AppleFan73]

Did they fix the wifi issue?

It keeps dropping after awhile on beta1. Also, Apple startup logo kept displaying at times too.

 

[bgro]

Does month view in the calendar app have the dots on the days you have an appointment?

 

[Risco]

The music app is A LOT less buggy.

1. Artist Tab now shows ALL artists from iTunes Match where it was bugged before
2. iTunes Match download icons now appear aligned and tweaked/finished.
3. Scrolling is MUCH smoother.

The animation when sending a message is fixed and automatically scrolls down to the most recent message where it was bugged before.

Ahh super, I will give it a go again as that was one of my annoying bugs.

 

[stiligFox]

Would anybody be able to confirm whether Skype is broken in a clean b2 install?

Thanks muchly!

 

[Steve J0bs]

Does month view in the calendar app have the dots on the days you have an appointment?

nope

 

[oliversl]

what an ugly palette

 

[bgro]

nope

Ty. Really hopes this makes it into the GM

 

[Steve J0bs]

iCloud syncing for Reminders between Mavericks and iOS 7 beta 2 finally works. (for me at least)

 

[jmak1015]

Still no love for the Skype app
It crashes immediately upon tapping on any chat...

This is not an iOS error. It will require an update from Skype.

 

[inspirations365]

Available for iPad!

 

[monty77]

Still no love for the Skype app
It crashes immediately upon tapping on any chat...

Surely that's up to the App dev to make it play nicely with the new iOS not Apple?

 

[Smith288]

Still no love for the Skype app
It crashes immediately upon tapping on any chat...

That's a Skype issue. WHich is what these Beta programs are for. For Skype to test and fix any crash problems like that.