It was compared to it by the person who posted it, here. As for the original effective power bug, this is the one I'm talking about.
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Apple Seeds Sixth Beta of iOS 11.2.5 to Developers and Public Beta Testers [Updated]
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No problem! Have no idea why the beta profile disappeared like that which caused me to miss beta 5 and jump right up from beta 4 to 6. Very strange...
TechCrunch also reported Siri reports NPR by default.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/17/s...-give-me-the-news-feature-is-now-out-of-beta/
Well initially only worked on 11.2.5 beta then Apple enabled later for everyone else (after this article was published)
It's nice that Apple is fixing that malicious link problem. Most posts about iOS and macOS betas are just filler material with nothing mentioned about what changes the updates will bring.
CarPlay is still buggy when launching. I hope they fix it before release. It crashes 75% of the time on me. Not good when the vehicle is moving!
Not to mention that it was enabled in iOS 11’s first beta version(s) and has then been removed. The difference is considerable, when one gets used to it. After having tasted the advantages, I ended up going back to ‘cleaning’ four instances of messages, leading me to disable the feature on two of them...
As to minor or major feature: it is a Apple ecosystem feature, and a major one for people that interact trough Messages on multiple devices like me.
It may be minor to those who only have one device (iPhone or iPad only owners exist in a considerable amount).
As this is multi-platform stuff, it is a major feature when putting it in technical perspective.
If you didn’t taste the feature, you probably have no clue about the major impact it can have. It’s like messages turn out like a IMAP mail account, while we now are in POP-mode.
Apple, please give it back... soon !
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When I said “minor”, I meant in terms of what I would guess would be complexity. Obviously, I’m no computer programmer or anything so minor features could be hard to code, while things I would consider major (like the introduction of the App Store, iCloud in general, etc) could be easier. It just seems like they said “messages will sync across devices”, it doesn’t sound overtly earth-shattering. I’m just surprised it’s been MIA this long.
It would be like if they added a “close all” button to close all apps open in the background... perhaps it’s hard to implement, but if they announced it, I wouldn’t expect it to be over half a year to show up, or longer.
Well, that's the thing, while it might not necessarily sound like much (although for plenty it does), it doesn't mean that it's simple or doesn't have some sort of pitfalls of one type or another that might be encountered.
You misunderstand. I am not using the beta which is why I said I want some non beta stability on my iPhone.
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Kudos for you. My 7+ is quite buggy even with fresh restores. Hopefully 11.2.5 will remedy that.
In that case, the release of the sixth beta shouldn't affect you either way.
For example?
-face palm-
Spelling it out for you: Apple typically releases several betas before releasing the non-beta version. Thus my comment "Hopefully this is the last one. I'm ready for some non beta stability on my iPhone." means if the 6th beta is the last one, then it will soon become a non-beta release and (hopefully) improve the stability my iPhone (running the latest non-beta iOS).
Sadly, instead we got beta 7, so the wait continues.
Beta 7 is actually the stable public version of iOS 11.2.5 that was released today.
I don't quite understand your hostility. If I understand correctly, all you originally meant to say was, "I'm currently on 11.2.2, and having some issues. Hope 11.2.5 comes out soon and fixes a few of them!"
It was in the "features". Either way it's besides the point. They've taken a while to incorporate it - hopefully it really does come with 11.3 but since they've scrapped it before I am not holding my breath...
It was mentioned in WWDC and some related material perhaps, but that seems to be as far as it got.
But it's back in the iOS 11.3 beta so far, so we'll see how it goes.
It was definitely on Apple's page. Even Macrumors confirmed that it was removed from the website it in their article:
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/01/24/icloud-messages-available-in-ios-11-3/
But as I said, does that really matter at this point? It appears to be back, but I am not holding my breath since it was removed before. I do hope it sticks around for the final release of 11.3.
It would be odd if it was there while the archives don't have it. As for whether or not it matters, no, not really (like many other things essentially), but that doesn't really get in the way of people talking about them.
Well...
I guess there was a reason why I wasn't holding my breath. Guess the website debate was beside the point if it is a fact that Apple keeps scrapping this.
It's still there in the initial 11.4 beta that was released this week. So it sounds like we are still in that "we'll see" state essentially.
I saw, but we've been in that "we'll see" state for while now. I hope Apple gets it together for 11.4 instead of moving it to iOS 12, but again, not holding my breath.
Same stuff is going on in Mac OS... also there it seems to come and go.
But why bother to have us upgrade to a new beta itteration, log us out of Messages in Mac OS, to then prompt for logging in with messages in the cloud after the upgrade process? Really messy...
I give a lot of props to you developers for having the patience to do this process three times now... I have texts from 2010 and I can only imagine the uploading process.