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Apple Seeds Sixth Beta of iOS 11.2 to Developers and Public Beta Testers
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This beta fixes a bug that prevented the ringer volume from being lowered when the iPhone X detects your face. Probably almost no one noticed but i had missed this feature a lot.
Apple today seeded the sixth beta of an upcoming iOS 11.2 update to developers, a few days after releasing the fifth iOS 11.2 beta, a month after releasing the first major iOS 11 update, iOS 11.1, and two weeks after releasing the iOS 11.1.2 update.
Registered developers can download the new iOS 11.2 beta from Apple's Developer Center or over-the-air once the proper configuration profile has been installed from the Developer Center. Today's beta update may be the iOS 11.2 golden master, suggesting we could see the official release of iOS 11.2 soon.
iOS 11.2 introduces Apple Pay Cash, Apple's new peer-to-peer payments service. Apple Pay Cash works through the Messages app and is designed to allow for quick person-to-person money transfers. It's available as a dedicated iMessage app in Messages, with cash transferred through the app.
Cash can be sent from a linked debit or credit card, while received cash is stored in an Apple Pay Cash card in Wallet that can be used for purchases or sent to a bank account.
On the iPhone X, iOS 11.2 adds a small bar underneath the icons located at the upper right side of the device on the Lock screen, which is designed to make the location of the Control Center gesture more clear. On the iPhone X, Control Center is accessed by swiping down from the top of the device.
In Control Center on all devices, there are two new informational pop-ups that are displayed when using the Wi-Fi or Bluetooth toggles. These pop-ups explain that Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are disabled temporarily rather than permanently when accessed from Control Center.
In iOS 11.2, there's support for faster 7.5W wireless charging for the iPhone X, iPhone 8, and iPhone 8 Plus. The faster speeds will be available when using third-party wireless chargers that support 7.5W charging or more.
The update also addresses an animation bug in the Calculator app that caused some numbers and symbols to be ignored when entered in rapid succession. The update removes the animations from the calculator app so calculations can be done quickly with no need to pause between entering numbers to obtain the correct result.
In addition to these bug fixes, iOS 11.2 introduces a new Now Playing option for controlling content on the Apple TV in Control Center, a dedicated Sports section in the TV app, redesigned camera emoji, a new loading animation for Live Photos effects, and new Live wallpapers for the iPhone X, plus it adds a feature that lets developers offer new customers discounted introductory pricing for auto-renewable subscriptions on the App Store.
Update: Today's beta is also available for public beta testers.
Article Link: Apple Seeds Sixth Beta of iOS 11.2 to Developers and Public Beta Testers
I'd love to know this as well. I have the Ravpower Fast Wireless charger that should support 10W (max 7.5 for iPhone), but I'm not sure if 7.5 is being supported by the phone at this time or not.
Same here. After hard reboot and Deleting All Network Settings failed to fix it, just toggling Airplane Mode for 30 seconds brought VVM back.
Did this beta (and the previous) remove the Apple TV “Now Playing” widget from control center? I was just getting used to it and now it’s gone.
That didn't work with B5, but B6 fixed the problem. (Maybe I needed to leave it off longer, but it's too late to test it.)
I finally updated my 6s and iPad mini 4 yesterday from 10.3.3 to 11.1.2. Battery life on both my 6s and iPad mini 4 seem to be same as before. Performance on my 6s “feels” better, animations are a little quicker. Performance on the iPad mini 4 is about the same which is to say not bad, but could be a little better. I may be wrong, but it seems like my 6s charges a little quicker, charging is about the same with my iPad mini 4. There’s not much to get excited over with iOS 11, on my 6s it feels more like Apple just moved the furniture around a little and called it a day. I preferred a darker screen with Apple Wallet. I hope dark mode is introduced for all Apple apps in iOS 12 or sooner.
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not sure how it is vs. 11.1.2, but 11.2 b4&5 had much better battery life than earlier betas...and i imagine b6 will be equally as good. i now think it’s on par with my 2 yr. old 6+, or even better.
You’ll have to update your X to the beta build what your last iPhone backup was if you’re trying to restore an iCloud back up or something like that
At this point iOS 11.2 was officially released, so the only thing that would be needed would be to update to that badially.