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Apple Seeds Second iOS 9 Beta to Developers
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Not a clue, but the fact not everyone is getting OTA at the same time would suggest they haven't done a full rollout to all ios 9 beta 1 devices
Certain things wouldn't really be OK even for a developer beta for the beta to be useful.
My El Capitan beta, on the other hand, is slower than molasses. Time remaining 38 months.
Just installed:
- No News App
- No new wallpapers
- Radio tab in Music is totally blank (compared to some choices like the Beats 1 preview from Beta 1)
- Looks like new Podcast icon? maybe.
- Search seems to be working better. (Beta 1, typed in "eggs" only got bing search and Wikipedia, Beta 2, got Yummly results and BigOven results.)
Will keep digging...
- No News App
- No new wallpapers
- Radio tab in Music is totally blank (compared to some choices like the Beats 1 preview from Beta 1)
- Looks like new Podcast icon? maybe.
- Search seems to be working better. (Beta 1, typed in "eggs" only got bing search and Wikipedia, Beta 2, got Yummly results and BigOven results.)
Will keep digging...
Ugh, was really looking forward to the News app. How am I supposed to keep myself up to date on the latest in the world??
It's based on your location and what Edge CDN server you're connected to. It takes about an hour for all Edge servers around the world to get the upload.
Facetime doesn't work on iOS 9 on a iPhone 6+? Weird, I just did one yesterday with the wife while I was at work. I'm on iOS9 Beta 1 on my iPhone 6+.
Hoping for more stable Wi-Fi, better "Back to ___" performance, and elimination of kooky iMessage/orientation bugs -- AND OF COURSE BATTERY LIFE!
I find it ridiculous that Apple advertises iOS 9 as improving battery life, even though thus far, the beta version of iOS 9 drains the battery at least twice as fast as iOS 8.0-8.3 did. How can Apple claim an extra hour of battery life when their beta gets less than half the battery life?
This isn't something minor that can be pushed off until later betas - this is a massive problem.
For anyone saying "Oh, it's just a developer version, so it doesn't matter.", consider the fact that we have 0 ability to test how our apps impact battery life right now. The OS drains the battery so fast, we can't tell whether our iPhone died because our app is hogging the battery, or because the OS did it.
This isn't something minor that can be pushed off until later betas - this is a massive problem.
For anyone saying "Oh, it's just a developer version, so it doesn't matter.", consider the fact that we have 0 ability to test how our apps impact battery life right now. The OS drains the battery so fast, we can't tell whether our iPhone died because our app is hogging the battery, or because the OS did it.
