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Apple Seeds Release Candidate Versions of iOS 17.2 and iPadOS 17.2 to Developers

AirDrop​

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed: Sending an AirDrop or using NameDrop to an 17.0 or 17.1 device might fail sporadically. (117925962)

Apple Music​

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed: The Favorite Songs playlist might take a while to appear on some iOS/iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS devices. (117219873)

AVKit​

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed: AVCaptureEventInteraction does not currently respond to the Action button. (112861854)

Camera​

New Features​

  • Capture spatial video with remarkable depth on iPhone 15 Pro to view in 3D in the Photos app on Apple Vision Pro. Turn on spatial video capture in Settings > Camera > Formats, then capture spatial videos in Video mode in the Camera app. (102470597)
  • Added support for depth with select AVCaptureDeviceFormats on AVCaptureDeviceTypeBuiltInTripleCamera. Depth is now available on a wider range of videoZoomFactors on iPhone 15 Pro’s AVCaptureDeviceTypeBuiltInTripleCamera and iPhone 15’s AVCaptureDeviceTypeBuiltInDualWideCamera with select AVCaptureDeviceFormats. Select AVCaptureDeviceFormats now offer the ability to zoom when depth is enabled without a disruptive reconfiguration. (110654309)

iMessage Contact Key Verification​

New Features​

  • With iMessage Contact Key Verification, users can choose to further verify that they are messaging only with the people they intend. iMessage Contact Key Verification uses Key Transparency to enable automatic verification that the iMessage key distribution service returns device keys that have been logged to a verifiable and auditable map. When a user enables the feature, they will be notified about any validation errors directly in the Messages conversation transcript and Apple ID Settings.
    For even higher security, iMessage Contact Key Verification users can compare a contact verification code in person, on FaceTime, or through another secure call. They can also choose to create or edit a contact and save a public key to turn on iMessage Contact Key Verification with that person.
    All devices signed into your iCloud account must be on the minimum supported version of iOS 17.2 Beta, macOS 14.2 Beta, or watchOS 10.2 Beta. If you wish to keep using other devices on older versions of the OS, you will need to sign out of iMessage on these devices in order to enable contact key verification. (111356044)

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed: When verifying another user, Contact Verification Code will not show unless both users are on beta 4 or higher. (114462363)
  • Fixed: After verifying a contact, the verificaton checkmark might not show up in Messages app. (116142336)
  • Fixed: Users might see an error to Turned Off transcript every few hours. (116405131)
  • Fixed: Users might see that they’re are not eligible to enable Contact Key Verification on some of their upgraded devices. (117044482)

Known Issues​

  • The Learn More links do not link to Knowledge Base articles during Beta. (101563811)

Journal​

New Features​

  • Journal is a new app that helps iPhone users reflect and practice gratitude through journaling. (117631805)

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed: Setting a schedule for notifications will cause Journaling Suggestions notifications to not trigger. However, user will continue to receive Journal App notifications with the set schedule beginning 3 days after onboarding to Journaling Suggestions. (116999378)
  • Fixed: Users might see duplicate journaling suggestions. (117099386)
  • Fixed: Journaling Suggestions might not get populated. (117170356)

Journaling Suggestions API​

New Features​

  • Journaling Suggestions provides a visual picker interface for iPhone apps. The picker displays personal Moments that occur in someone’s life, such as their workouts and exercise, places they visit, a trip they take, a person they connect with, their photo memory highlights, Photos in their library, a song or podcast they listen to. Only suggestions explicitly added by the user will be shared with an app. If your app donates activities or interactions to SiriKit or CallKit or if someone authorizes your app to save data to HealthKit, some data might show up as part of Journaling Suggestions. (117044228)

Known Issues​

  • Landscape mode is not supported for Journaling Suggestions API. (117154771)
    Workaround: Please use Portrait mode only.

Messages​

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed: Unlocalized string shown for member count in the full screen Map View of Group Messages might appear (e.g. DETAIL_NUMBER_OF_PEOPLE_LABEL). (117287022)

Music app​

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed: Apple Music recently searched content might not appear in the recently searched section of the Search tab in the Music app, on devices that had iOS 17.2 Beta 1, Beta 2 or Beta 3 installed. Library recently searched items are unaffected. (117109015)

Personal Hotspot​

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed: Some third-party devices might be unable to connect to iPhone Personal Hotspot. (113517807)

StoreKit​

New Features​

  • New pricing properties price, currency, and currencyCode are now available on Transaction. If an offer was applied to the transaction, a new property offer is available to see information about it (id, type, payment mode), as well as convenience properties offerID, offerType, and offerPaymentMode. (106650768)

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed: The StoreKit 2 Transaction properties price, currency, and Offer.paymentMode now have Optional types. (116592563)
  • Fixed: The StoreKit 2 Transaction properties price, currency, and Offer.paymentMode now have Optional types. (116809380)
  • Fixed an issue causing productViewControllerDidFinish(_:) method in SKStoreProductViewControllerDelegate to be called before the page is dismissed. (117113118) (FB13284259)
  • Fixed an issue causing the refund request “Done” button to not dismiss the sheet when using StoreKit Testing in Xcode. (117482750)
  • Fixed an issue where StoreKit 2 deviceVerification was incorrect, which caused transaction verification to fail. (117689523) (FB13315344)

StoreKit Testing in Xcode​

New Features​

  • New testing functionality to send Purchase Intents to apps using StoreKit Testing in Xcode from the Transaction Manager. (101034395)

Swift Charts​

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed an issue where a scrollable chart did not respect the initial non-zero binding value passed to chartScrollPosition. (114889276)

SwiftUI​

New Features​

  • Use _logChanges() to log causes of SwiftUI view updates.
    Call the new debugging method _logChanges() in the body of a SwiftUI view to log information about why the system is updating the view. For example:
    struct MyView: View {
    var body: some View {
    #if DEBUG
    let _ = Self._logChanges()
    #endif
    // … rest of view body …
    }
    }

    As well as the physical property names, “@self” marks that the view value itself has changed, and “@identity” marks that the identity of the view has changed (that is, that the persistent data associated with the view has been recycled for a new instance of the same type).
    The new _logChanges() method is like the existing _printChanges() one, except that the new method uses the system console, which is useful in some debugging workflows.
    Calls to _logChanges() log at the info level to the “com.apple.SwiftUI” subsystem with the category “Changed Body Properties”. (113352555)

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed: Resolved a possible Swift access conflict crash that could occur with toolbar items. (113992797)
  • Fixed: To prevent unintentional implicit dependency cycles, ImageRenderer no longer sends Observable updates when the image it produces changes. This change does not affect the behavior when a dependency is explicitly declared by observing the ImageRenderer’s publisher. (116836341)

WidgetKit​

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed: In widgets Text(_:style:) does not animate its content by default. (107582710)
 
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I see the full 6.39GB OTA from stable to RC, which doesn't seem correct. RC for all intents and purposes is supposed to simulate a stable release. Anyone got a smaller OTA size from stable?
 
MrGimper said:
An RC can be superseded. A GM isn’t. So the fact that they are one and the same the majority of the time doesn’t mean they ARE the same all the time.
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A GM can have a succeeding version as well. Apple simply has retired the GM terminology in favor of RC because the latter isn’t racially loaded.

This change was made a couple of years ago and announced in the developer beta release notes.
 
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Kissmo1980 said:
I know I am off-topic.
I would have been on all betas if this Journal App would also show its face on Mac - but seeing that it's only on the phone.... I have zero interest in it.


Nevertheless, I am pretty sure it is on the RC as it was in all previous betas.
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I don’t see Journal on ipad. If it’s only for iPhone, will not be interested also.
 
aira-mjn said:
I don’t see Journal on ipad. If it’s only for iPhone, will not be interested also.
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Yeah - that's the bummer.Maybe others do, but personally, journaling should have a proper Keyboard.
I know it's only for iPhone... at least for now.

This is why 16.2 is not so interesting for me.

Maybe in the next OS iterations they will bring Journaling to iPad and Mac in a very Apple-like move...
Anyway, sticking to DayOne - still a beatiful app with a very low monthly subscription.
 
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Kissmo1980 said:
Yeah - that's the bummer.Maybe others do, but personally, journaling should have a proper Keyboard.
I know it's only for iPhone... at least for now.

This is why 16.2 is not so interesting for me.

Maybe in the next OS iterations they will bring Journaling to iPad and Mac in a very Apple-like move...
Anyway, sticking to DayOne - still a beatiful app with a very low monthly subscription.
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Well, it only took 12 years for the weather app to come to iPad. I don't understand the journal app, though. I feel like it makes the most sense for the iPad than anywhere else—use a keyboard, use your Apple pencil, etc.
 
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eddiezus said:
They removed collaborative playlists? Booo 👎
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Our friend group was really looking forward to this feature as our current way of collaborating on a playlist is our group has a playlist each and we share songs with each other to add.

I wonder what was so show stopping that they had to remove it over “fixing”
 
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This release of iPadOS broke my Anker charging stand for my iPad Pro. The previous beta releases of 17.2 did not. I tested the same cable and it works without using the stand. The stand worked up until I updated to 17.2 RC so there's no doubt that was it.
 
Surprised to see Apples widgets not fixed, AppStore along with others still broken on the rc. Guess it’s a feature these days. IMG_9577.jpeg
 
“In Apple Music, there's a Favorites playlist that houses everything you've favorited, plus Apple added support for collaborative playlists. You can now share a playlist with multiple people, and each participant can add songs.”

Hmm, then why does the release notes not mention Collaborative playlists at all? I’m pissed! Now we probably wont see this feature until sometime in 2024. Would have been a killer new feature this close to New Years Eve.
 
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