I only care about build number. Whatever said in settings page doesn’t matter to me.
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Apple Seeds Second Public Betas of iOS 15, iPadOS 15, tvOS 15, and watchOS 8
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iPhone 5 wasn't the fifth iPhone
what issue are you having? I've been reporting in the feedback freezing for several betas on my Ipad 12.9 M1 - I got to swipe the browser and away to regain touch control
I've had no issues with iCloud or Notes on the earlier PB of iPadOS 15 syncing with my phone on 14.6 and Mac on Big Sur (latest).
With 14.6 on iPhone X, second public beta on ipp 2018 11’ and Big Sur (latest) on mac air iCloud syncing seems to happen without any issue ..
HSBC personal and business banking apps in the UK still broken on iPhone.
Seems to be a bug with the Siri remote (2nd gen) not being paired after a restart of the Apple TV. Keep having to re-pair it and even then there is a constant popup saying that the remote needs to be held closer to complete the pairing, even though its paired. I’ve also noticed a sudden impact on the Wifi speed. I would skip this tvOS update.
Seems to be a bug with the Siri remote (2nd gen) not being paired after a restart of the Apple TV. Keep having to re-pair it and even then there is a constant popup saying that the remote needs to be held closer to complete the pairing, even though its paired. I’ve also noticed a sudden impact on the Wifi speed. I would skip this tvOS update.
I think breaking macOS into its own article and grouping the mobile OSes together is a good way to reduce the number of fluff articles while still separating things in a pretty logical way. I hope they do not go back to the old way of having an article per OS per beta release, that has always felt spammy and annoying to me. However, I think for official major releases it does make sense to announce each in a separate article so people can have the focused discussion as you've said.
Safari seems crappier. And by that I mean it’s crashed three times on me today. Also, auto-correct on the keyboard seems to be sometimes doing weird things like correcting a previous word to something nonsensical.
One big improvement for me is automation for Focus settings, I can now trigger modes based on the app running which is very handy.
One big improvement for me is automation for Focus settings, I can now trigger modes based on the app running which is very handy.
I went for a short walk today. Forgot to set counter. It flagged me when I got home that I had covered a km (Home might have been a coincidence w 1km) and wanted to know if I wanted to turn on counter. I thought that was cool.
But your preference is a prescription for depolluting mac centric topics only but letting all other O/S suffer by taking a little less poison. Why should everybody but Mac users be relegated to cattle class?
For somebody who wants to read and discuss issues about a watch update, how do the benefit from the recent change? They don’t in any way. Moving mac back out to its own article only benefits the mac centric individual but leaves everyone else to wade thru lots of chaff before finding the rare grain of watch wheat. And for the larger group looking for iPhone info they have to scan and skip unnecessary material.
Similarly, somebody like me who isn’t eligible for Monterey because my Mac is now vintage and I mostly use my iPhone or iPad benefits not from there being a Mac and all else thrown in same jumbled pot.
Now we have unfocused time wasting nonsense because some persons couldn’t simply scroll past 3 or 4 articles, each focussed on a specific topic, without whinging about it.
I truly hope the editors revert to the previous practice.
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Safari definitely has bugs. Sometimes I have to change the phone orientation to landscape and then revert back to portrait to regain my tab control and browser bar, scrolling doesn't always fix it.
I loaded Watchos 8 public beta. I thought the photos thing was going to be a gimmick. I was wrong. Now every time I lift my wrist a different photo shows up (I have it set to show favorites). Additionally, the day, date, time, and battery % are displayed on the bottom. Now I just leave the watch set up this way. Sometimes, just lifting my wrist brings forth a nice spontaneous smile.