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Apple Seeds iOS 7 Beta 4 to Developers

Multitasking

Multitasking apps always stay in portrait now even if you were viewing them in landscape before going back to the home screen and double clicking the home button to bring up the multitasking screen.😀😀
 
Does the phone still buzz with a notification message when you're on a call, deafening you, or have they finally done away with that gremlin?
 
I can't remember this in beta 3 but in Music and landscape mode if you tap on album artwork it brings up a track listing.

Also you can re arrange the icons at the bottom os the music app again.
 
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evaporateddwarf said:
Hopefully this helps my battery life. With moderate usage, my phone is lasting about 6 hours. I unplug around 7:30, and my battery is dead around 1-2.
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wow, sounds like you are more than a moderate user...

on my iPhone 4 on Beta 3 I was using on a regular basis,

5am - 11am: Podcast app, email and safari + feedly app
11am through 4pm: Music App (iTunes Radio), + email, safari and feedly app.
4pm through 6pm: games, ie, Minion Rush, Tiny Tower Tiny airport Real Racing3
6-7pm Nike app (3G only)
7 to 10 safari + feedly

plug into doc with 20% battery remaining. Granted I run mostly on wifi most of the day except for when I go out running in the afternoon, but that is my typical usage. I text throughout the day but I don't think that's enough to warrant more or less battery life, what I don't do as much is take pics or video as much as when I first got my iPhone.

what are you doing?
 
iPad and Wallpaper

Not sure if this is a feature, or bug? But if I change Wallpapers from Stills to Dynamic, and select Both the Dock restarts. However, going from Dynamic to Stills doesn't.

Not sure if this happens on the iPhone?
 
seecoolguy said:
wow, sounds like you are more than a moderate user...

on my iPhone 4 on Beta 3 I was using on a regular basis,

5am - 11am: Podcast app, email and safari + feedly app
11am through 4pm: Music App (iTunes Radio), + email, safari and feedly app.
4pm through 6pm: games, ie, Minion Rush, Tiny Tower Tiny airport Real Racing3
6-7pm Nike app (3G only)
7 to 10 safari + feedly

plug into doc with 20% battery remaining. Granted I run mostly on wifi most of the day except for when I go out running in the afternoon, but that is my typical usage. I text throughout the day but I don't think that's enough to warrant more or less battery life, what I don't do as much is take pics or video as much as when I first got my iPhone.

what are you doing?
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I don't have wi-fi at my work, so everything is over HSPA+ or LTE. I do some texting, maybe 20-30 minutes total of web browsing, Chck in Hobbit: KOM for maybe 2-4 minutes an hour. 10 minutes max of angry birds space.

If I have spotify running, my phone is dead in 5 hours typically.

I've never had good battery life on a phone, and I don't know why sometimes. When I was running IOS 6, and jailbroken IOS 6, I'd unplug at 7:30 and my phone would die around 5-7 at night, depending on what I did.
 
evaporateddwarf said:
I don't have wi-fi at my work, so everything is over HSPA+ or LTE. I do some texting, maybe 20-30 minutes total of web browsing, Chck in Hobbit: KOM for maybe 2-4 minutes an hour. 10 minutes max of angry birds space.

If I have spotify running, my phone is dead in 5 hours typically.

I've never had good battery life on a phone, and I don't know why sometimes. When I was running IOS 6, and jailbroken IOS 6, I'd unplug at 7:30 and my phone would die around 5-7 at night, depending on what I did.
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You do realize that playing games on your iPhone and playing spotify/pandora drains your battery fast. Especially Safari, Instagram and etc.
 
My big hope is it fixes the lockup issue where the screen goes black and you have to do a hard reset. All of the phones in my dev account are experiencing this :/

Sadly I didn't see anything about it in the release notes. Surely I'm not the only one with this.
 
KattDaDon said:
You do realize that playing games on your iPhone and playing spotify/pandora drains your battery fast
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WHHAAAAA?????!! 🙄

First of all, a total of 20 minutes or so of game playing shouldn't kill my battery that much. It's not like I'm sitting here playing 5-6 straight hours of games and wondering why my phone is dead.

I expect spotify to drain my battery, but to have it go from 100% to 0 in 5 hours (and days I'm running spotify, there's no game playing) in a place with a strong signal isn't normal.

This battery life was unique to beta3. Like I said, on ios6 and a jailbroken ios6, I got to 6PM on average. 1PM is almost a 50% reduction. Additionally, my usage as of late has been even lighter than it is normally.
 
I think the shift key on the keyboard has been updated. In B3 it had a white outline to signify it being uppercase, now it is filled grey.

The clock app has been updated and the bug of having an arrow semi-hidden behind the on/off toggle has been removed. The background I think is a bit darker and the font is slightly thicker/darker.

Did the video camera have a timer before? If not, it does now.

Focus box in the camera is now yellow.
 
chrono1081 said:
My big hope is it fixes the lockup issue where the screen goes black and you have to do a hard reset. All of the phones in my dev account are experiencing this :/

Sadly I didn't see anything about it in the release notes. Surely I'm not the only one with this.
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+1

This has happened about once a day on average.
 
Issues with iPad Bookmarks etc.

Poor alignment of icons and content.

Feature? The bookmark dropdown floats much like the parallax.

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tonystark21 said:
One change is that in the message app, when you click into a particular chat convo, it just shows the contacts full first name and first letter of their last name... this can definitely be confusing if you have contacts with similar names...
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There is a setting that determines how names display in messages. This setting is under the contact settings for short name. If you turn off short names it will display the full name in the messages app. If short names are turned on you have 4 different options.

First Name & Last Initial
First Initial & Last Name
First Name Only
Last Name Only

There is also an option to prefer nicknames.
 
evaporateddwarf said:
WHHAAAAA?????!! 🙄

First of all, a total of 20 minutes or so of game playing shouldn't kill my battery that much. It's not like I'm sitting here playing 5-6 straight hours of games and wondering why my phone is dead.

I expect spotify to drain my battery, but to have it go from 100% to 0 in 5 hours (and days I'm running spotify, there's no game playing) in a place with a strong signal isn't normal.

This battery life was unique to beta3. Like I said, on ios6 and a jailbroken ios6, I got to 6PM on average. 1PM is almost a 50% reduction. Additionally, my usage as of late has been even lighter than it is normally.
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Okay relax buddy. 😎
 
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