Apple Seeds Sixth Beta of iOS 11.2 to Developers and Public Beta Testers

[bryan1andersons]

With how large of a company Apple is, why does it take so much time for them to come out with updates to software and products? They have over 100,000 employees. Probably a 1/3 are engineers or 30,000 and half are software half computer/devices. That’s 15,000 software engineers. Probably 10,000 are dedicated to iOS. Wouldn’t they have a couple hundred engineers to implement iMessage in the Cloud? Not sure what the hold up is... Maybe it’s scalability on the server end? I mean over 40 billion iMessages are sent per day (that was 2013).

As a software engineer, I can tell you that one of the problems of software is that it doesn’t scale well.

Throwing more and more people at a task increases the complexity of the project in ways you can’t imagine.

There comes a point where more people working on a software project actually slows it down until massive reorganizations take place

 

[Return Zero]

Maybe it works without killing your phone as a phone? Yeah that was in there for many of us.

Oh wow I didn't know that happened!! Ha, sorry to hear that.

 

[GIZBUG]

Update: Today's beta is also available for public beta testers.

mentioned a few times already in this thread...

 

[iGeneo]

You'll need to update your X to the new version or you won't be able to restore from backup.
1. set up as new phone
2. download beta
3. reset all content and settings
4. restore from backup

I did a very basic setup on the new phone and sent the dev profile package to the new phone via Airdrop.

Also, if you can do the backup/restore (encrypted) from a Mac it is MUCH faster. iCloud needs to download all the apps again

 

[Ad13]

When they get around to version 11.3.3, most of the bugs should be fixed

...Just in time for iOS 12 and introduction of a host of new bugs to fix. I really wish Apple would just pause the whole annual release cycle and just make iOS extremely efficient and stable.

 

[912181]

someone messed up and trying to cover up the oops before it gets posted on tech blogs

Messed up what?

 

[Mtmspa]

I can't wait for this public release. None of my friends have beta so I haven't been able to send anyone cash!

I can’t wait until can send me cash.

 

[bytethese]

Strange, both my iPhone X and my iPhone 7+ say I am "up to date". Do we need to install a new Beta profile for this?

 

[mattynat]

I can't wait for this public release. None of my friends have beta so I haven't been able to send anyone cash!

you can send some to me!

 

[3460169]

Yay visual voicemail works again and Phone app isn' laggy as hell (There would be noticable lag, for instance, viewing Recents after a call came in). Likewise for the Phone section in the Setting section. That thing took upwards of 20 seconds to load on iPhone 7 w/ T-Mobile on prior 10.2 betas.

 

[spacemnspiff]

What's the guess as to when 11.2 is going to be released?
I need to do a fresh install for GPS issues that I am having with my phone, which hopefully gets resolved. I would like to wait until 11.2 is released.

 

[kycophpd]

I didn't even realize until I updated that my voicemail was not working before. After reviewing 18 voicemails, I have some people not so happy with me! It was actually a nice break, maybe I should go back to beta 5

 

[Noiseboy]

Well I hope that this will finally bring my iPhone 6 back up to normal working speeds, 11 has been a disaster of sluggishness for me.

 

[ABoredDrunkGuy]

Yay visual voicemail works again and Phone app isn' laggy as hell (There would be noticable lag, for instance, viewing Recents after a call came in). Likewise for the Phone section in the Setting section. That thing took upwards of 20 seconds to load on iPhone 7 w/ T-Mobile on prior 10.2 betas.

I had the same issue with VVM on my AT&T iPhone 8 Plus. What I did to fix it was put my phone into Airplane mode for about 5 minutes and then turned it back off and VVM loaded back up.

 

[jhfenton]

Beta 5 killed visual voicemail for me and messed with the phone app on my X. After starting the app it stalled for 5 to 10 seconds before becoming usable. Very annoying.
In addition audio/video sync in youtube is messed up - sometimes audio running faster than video, sometimes the other way round. Very annoying too. Now I‘m eagerly waitimg for some new bugs for a change.

I noticed the problems with the Phone app today too. Visual voicemail is gone and the phone app repeatedly locks up for long periods. I'm downloading B6 now, hoping it will fix the app.
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Yay visual voicemail works again and Phone app isn' laggy as hell (There would be noticable lag, for instance, viewing Recents after a call came in). Likewise for the Phone section in the Setting section. That thing took upwards of 20 seconds to load on iPhone 7 w/ T-Mobile on prior 10.2 betas.

Good news!

 

[kendals]

Has anyone had any success on these Beta releases enabling fast Qi charging (7.5w) I have a Ravpower Aplpa series charger and it still won't show fast charging after this update.

 

[JM]

What's the guess as to when 11.2 is going to be released?
I need to do a fresh install for GPS issues that I am having with my phone, which hopefully gets resolved. I would like to wait until 11.2 is released.

Your picture and forum name win all the prizes.

 

[calzon65]

...Just in time for iOS 12 and introduction of a host of new bugs to fix. I really wish Apple would just pause the whole annual release cycle and just make iOS extremely efficient and stable.

You are so right and their practice is pathetic, but they don't want to miss out on all the great hype they generate releasing a new version of IOS.

 

[atikalz]

Security, and user data, two things that if gotten wrong, tank the image and customer base like few other things can. They want to get this right. It is best they take their time with it, than implement it half-baked.

And how is it, that WhatsApp can do that for a long time? With a lot more messages a day!

 

[bigpoppa]

I noticed the problems with the Phone app today too. Visual voicemail is gone and the phone app repeatedly locks up for long periods. I'm downloading B6 now, hoping it will fix the app.
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Good news!

Turn on airplane mode and then turn it off again. Voila, voicemail is there.

 

[PickUrPoison]

So I guess the statement about iCloud Message coming later this year is going to be proven incorrect at this pace... sheesh

It wasn’t promised for this calendar year, only for a future iOS 11 release.

 

[rovolo]

Turn on airplane mode and then turn it off again. Voila, voicemail is there.

Yep, that‘s how I got it back on my X. If you are with Deutsche Telekom (in Germany) you can also try texting „VVM“ to the number 3011 to turn visual voicemail on.

But for my mother‘s 6Plus none of these methods worked - and she isn‘t even in the beta program. She recently updated to the regular current iOS.

 

[Craiger]

Strange, both my iPhone X and my iPhone 7+ say I am "up to date". Do we need to install a new Beta profile for this?

I'm having the same problem on my X with the public beta. Says I am up to date with 11.2. Restart didn't help.

 

[acctman]

Messed up what?

we'll probably never know... but considering Apple's track record lately iPhone X not restoring with from a beta backup, let "i" auto correct, it auto correcting to IT, security fix on MacOS recently that cause file corruption... and this is all happened in less than 2 mons. There quality is slipping with OS testing

that is why i think more than likely something major was caught after the release that prompted another update the same week.

 

[rovolo]

I'm having the same problem on my X with the public beta. Says I am up to date with 11.2. Restart didn't help.

Probably your beta profile somehow got lost. Happened to me after updating from beta 3 to 4.

Solution: go to the apple beta tester webpage, reregister and install the beta profile again.