Apple Seeds Seventh Beta of iOS 10.2 to Developers and Public Beta Testers

[MacRumors]

Apple today seeded the seventh beta of an upcoming iOS 10.2 update to developers and public beta testers, two days after seeding the sixth beta of iOS 10.2 and more than a month after releasing iOS 10.1, the first major update to iOS 10.

Registered developers can download the seventh beta of iOS 10.2 from the Apple Developer Center or over-the-air with the proper configuration profile installed.

iOS 10.2 introduces new emoji, such as clown face, drooling face, selfie, face palm, fox face, owl, shark, butterfly, avocado, pancakes, croissant, and more.

There are dozens of new Unicode 9 emoji, plus several profession emoji available in both male and female genders, such as firefighter, mechanic, lawyer, doctor, scientist, and more. Apple has also redesigned many existing emoji, adding more detail to make them look more realistic.

Along with new emoji, iOS 10.2 includes new wallpaper, new Music sorting options and buttons for Repeat and Shuffle, new "Celebrate" and "Send with Love" Screen Effects, an option for preserving camera settings, Single-Sign On support for watching live TV via apps, and the official "TV" app that was first introduced at Apple's October 27 event.

The TV app serves as an Apple-designed TV guide that aims to simplify the television watching experience and allow users to discover new TV shows and movies to watch.

The TV app is available on both iOS devices and the Apple TV (in the tvOS 10.1 beta), and in iOS 10.2, the "Videos" app has been replaced entirely with the new "TV" app, which will now serve as the iOS TV and movie hub.

Apple has called iOS 10 its "biggest release ever" for iOS users, with a revamped lock screen, a Siri SDK for developers, an overhauled Messages app, a dedicated "Home" app for HomeKit users, new facial and object recognition capabilities in Photos, and redesigned Maps and Apple Music apps.

Article Link: Apple Seeds Seventh Beta of iOS 10.2 to Developers and Public Beta Testers

 

[DaveOP]

28MB on 7+

 

[MrGimper]

GM? Am I correct in thinking the betas that end up being GM don't go to public beta testers?

 

[naeS1Sean]

Good sweet lord...

 

[MrGimper]

GM? Am I correct in thinking the betas that end up being GM don't go to public beta testers?

Oh, this has gone to public beta testers lol

 

[BoricuaHec01]

Seventh?

 

[stan1028]

I think the number of betas for a .x build is equal or more than the x.0 builds.

 

[testcard]

Hey Juli, tell us about the new emoji.

Oh, you did.

 

[slimothy]

Is this a f***ing joke?

 

[Mlrollin91]

GM? Am I correct in thinking the betas that end up being GM don't go to public beta testers?

GMs are only a X.0 thing. There has never been a GM seed for non-X.0 releases.

 

[delonholmes]

It must be true then 10.2 might hit public tomorrow or early next week

 

[nfl46]

And, the train just won't stop. Lol. Let's go for 10 betas!

 

[Ron21]

probably some security updates

 

[dannyyankou]

It still has this annoying shake to undo bug when sharing pages from safari-

 

[C DM]

Is this a f***ing joke?

Things getting fixed is a joke now? Interesting how that works.

 

[thadoggfather]

Are they even doing anything between betas at this point or just updating the number?

Release 10.2, already. I want a jailbreak, 10.2 or <

you can't even applaud them for these "Stringent" standards, as we've seen the results and they aint pretty.

 

[slimothy]

Things getting fixed is a joke now? Interesting how that works.

Don't be so simple-minded. 2 betas each week, rather than 1 per week, is more than likely a result of bad planning on Apple's part.

 

[C DM]

Don't be so simple-minded. 2 betas each week, rather than 1 per week, is more than likely a result of bad planning on Apple's part.

Better to release things with more issues? Talk about simple-minded.

 

[tevion5]

I love how the actual technical changes (nevermind their own insignificance) are basically a footnote to the emoji additions.

Enough with these normie updates.

 

[nutmac]

Is this a f***ing joke?

I strongly suspect buggy TV app is the culprit. I filed a bug report few days ago and received a reply the next day.

 

[Mlrollin91]

Don't be so simple-minded. 2 betas each week, rather than 1 per week, is more than likely a result of bad planning on Apple's part.

No. Apple internally is always 2-3 builds ahead of us. Sometimes they release them, sometimes they don't. Maybe they felt they should release them this time around. I guarantee you that other iOS version have up to 10 betas, they just aren't released to developers.

 

[PipSeg]

I bet it's nice being a writer for MacRumors...
Just copy and paste previous articles and change the first line or two.

 

[MrGuder]

Wow are these coming out weekly now?

 

[BornAgainMac]

Step 1: Change code
Step 2: Compile
Step 3: Was compile successful
Yes/(Release as Beta), No/Go to Step 1.

 

[AhRiHmAn]

Maybe it is the update with this battery monitoring stuff for the 6s they want to test before release it next tuesday

 

[C DM]

No. Apple internally is always 2-3 builds ahead of us. Sometimes they release them, sometimes they don't. Maybe they felt they should release them this time around. I guarantee you that other iOS version have up to 10 betas, they just aren't released to developers.

There are likely daily/nightly bulds internally if not even more frequently than that, at least for a good part of the release cycle, but it gets slowed down closer to the release with only isolated changes that are deemed important enough resulting in new builds. Sounds like Apple is just making more of them externally available than before.