Apple Seeds Sixth Beta of iOS 10.3.3 to Developers and Public Beta Testers

[MacRumors]

Apple today seeded the sixth beta of an upcoming iOS 10.3.3 update to developers and public beta testers, one week after seeding the fifth beta and over a month after the release of iOS 10.3.2, which was a minor bug fix update.

Registered developers can download iOS 10.3.3 beta 6 from the Apple Developer Center or over-the-air with the proper configuration profile installed. Public beta testers can also download the beta over-the-air after installing the configuration profile.

There were no significant features or notable bug fixes found in the first five iOS 10.3.3 betas, suggesting iOS 10.3.3 is an update that's minor in scale, focusing primarily on security updates, bug fixes, and other small improvements.

iOS 10.3.3 is likely to be one of the last updates to the iOS 10 operating system, as Apple has shifted development to iOS 11. The first beta of iOS 11 was released to developers on June 5 following Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, and two betas have been seeded so far.

Article Link: Apple Seeds Sixth Beta of iOS 10.3.3 to Developers and Public Beta Testers

 

[chrfr]

These are build number 14G57/14G58.

 

[jtwlbz]

2 gigs on my 7+.

 

[testcard]

Public beta 6 available.

 

[KrisLord]

I wonder why there’s so many betas for what seems to be such a minor release.

I saw the word beta on Twitter had hoped it was for iOS 11!

 

[mariusignorello]

So anticlimactic.

 

[VespiYT]

I really hope ios 11 get new beta today, old bugs now they need to fix like appstore and appswitcher not closing apps, unleas they release a new ios 11 beta with bug fixes we wont be able to find many more bugs

 

[lunarworks]

I'm surprised at this release today, given yesterday was a holiday.

 

[Vashetti]

I wonder why there’s so many betas for what seems to be such a minor release.

I saw the word beta on Twitter had hoped it was for iOS 11!

It's likely the last iOS 10 update, and therefore the last update that 32-bit iDevices will receive. Has to be as close to perfect as possible.

 

[shanson27]

No! Please give us iOS 11 beta 3. The battery sucks

 

[Wildkraut]

I wonder why there’s so many betas for what seems to be such a minor release.

I saw the word beta on Twitter had hoped it was for iOS 11!

Because its maybe the last iOS for a few devices. e.g. iPhone5 iPhone5c iPads etc.

 

[Audigy]

I guess that all the nonsense with the normalization of APFS(or lack thereof) is proving challenging.

 

[melgross]

I use the betas on my iPads, but not my phone. I was on 10.3.3 beta until Apple came out with the first public beta of 11, then I moved to that.

But 11 is buggy. I’ve already reported 8 bugs, or oddities, such as the limitation to 5 bookmarks when tapping on a bookmark folder, rather than utilizing the entire height of the screen. That’s one thing they’ve got to put back the way it was.

So this new 10.3.3 beta is nice, but getting more 11 betas out is more important. It’s not that far away now.
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I guess that all the nonsense with the normalization of APFS(or lack thereof) is proving challenging.

What do you mean? That went very well.

 

[rwilliams]

Not exactly the beta release people here were hoping for.

 

[ck2875]

These are build number 14G57/14G58.

So likely the GM release, considering the lack of a lowercase letter beta identifier in the build no.?

 

[Audigy]

(...)
What do you mean? That went very well.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2017/06/27/apfs-native-normalization/

• iOS 10.3 through 10.3.2 use the problematic version of APFS that is case-sensitive, normalization-preserving, and normalization-sensitive. You can write a lot of app code to make everything work, but anyone who hasn’t done this already probably won’t.
  
  
• iOS 10.3.3 and iOS 11 will also be case-sensitive, normalization-preserving, and normalization-sensitive, but they will add runtime normalization. If you try to read a file but don’t have the right normalization in your path, the file system APIs will transparently look for the file using other normalizations. This should give the correct behavior but at a performance cost.
  
  
• If you get a new device or erase and restore, iOS 11 will use case-sensitive APFS with native normalization. This is what Apple should have done from the start. It should have basically the same user experience as with HFS+ but with better performance.

 

[JetBlack7]

So likely the GM release, considering the lack of a lowercase letter beta identifier in the build no.?

Exactly what I was thinking.

 

[SerialStorm]

So likely the GM release, considering the lack of a lowercase letter beta identifier in the build no.?

If I had to guess I'd say yeah, it is probably the final beta, to GM, unless some big bug is found.

 

[Scottsoapbox]

I wonder why there’s so many betas for what seems to be such a minor release.

Because iOS 11 is leaving behind 32 bit devices (and apps) so this will be the last version many old devices can run.

 

[petitpiton]

This is a full install of iOS 10.3.3 (1.8GB) rather than a delta update to patch changes in the Beta. That, and the fact there is no Beta identifier, suggests to me that this IS the release of 10.3.3

 

[dan9700]

this one is final as they removed the feedback app

 

[sbailey4]

So likely the GM release, considering the lack of a lowercase letter beta identifier in the build no.?

Sorta but the elimination of the "5"'s not necessarily the letter. The letter is the version of THAT build. a is 1st, b would be 2nd revision of build 14G5057 for example.
Beta 5 14G5057a
Beta 6 14G57
(so basically the same build as b5 but with release/GM versioning)
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this one is final as they removed the feedback app

Yeah and look at the build# too. It is a release versioning scheme (without the "50") but the same as beta 5.

 

[theoapo]

@ anyone using this: have they fixed the safari bug that you can't clear all browsing data?

 

[Mac-lover3]

It's quite big no? 1,76GB on SE

 

[LordQ]

At least they want to leave the iPhone 5 and iPad 4 running as smooth as possible before axing them in September.