Apple Seeds Third Beta of iOS 9.3 to Developers

[skwood]

Are these new in this beta?
New 3D Touch features for stock iOS apps?

Not new

 

[nutmac]

Many eyes will be focused on the tMobile carrier file.

My wishes:

1. Change Wi-Fi Calling profile to "cellular preferred" vs. current "Wi-Fi preferred", just like AT&T
2. Change LTE-to-4G handover signal strength to around -100 dBm to reduce call drops.

 

[torukawahata]

Yeah, they do... 9.3 beta 2 did.... *double eyeroll*

Actually Beta 2 was released on January 25 for developers and after that, on January 27 as a public beta.....*triple eyeroll*

 

[KPOM]

How about the Apple Pencil? Is scrolling back to the way it was in 9.2 or is it still not working? If the latter I'm guessing it's a permanent change.

 

[john991]

Is that normal? Should they appear later?
I don't have a developer account anyway, so if you find them please let me know,i would really appreciate it

Not out for me. (OTA update not out yet).

 

[KALLT]

Only the first betas of a given version are usually distributed to developers first. At some point they appear at around the same time, typically beta 3 or 4. That is how it has been since the programme started.

 

[lagwagon]

I'm sure some will dispute this but right off the bat I noticed apps seem to launch quicker after tapping. (The second delay seems to be much less *so far*)

 

[lordofthereef]

Nope, but it does not give me an honest feedback (6th principle of good design by Dieter Rams). The lamp was a better idea IMO.

Considering the entire point of it is to be easier on the eyes, I will have to disagree. I am just happy they added a toggle at all.

 

[kch50428]

Actually Beta 2 was released on January 25 for developers and after that, on January 27 as a public beta.....*triple eyeroll*

Ok.. Got that one wrong... but I do know for fact public betas have in the past released simultaneously with dev betas.

 

[AZhappyjack]

Is that normal? Should they appear later?
I don't have a developer account anyway, so if you find them please let me know,i would really appreciate it

They typically lag by a couple of hours...

Beta 3 does fix the issue of CC icons being cut off in landscape mode:

 

[alecgold]

How about the Apple Pencil? Is scrolling back to the way it was in 9.2 or is it still not working? If the latter I'm guessing it's a permanent change.

Very curious about this too. It makes my life a whole lot less easy

 

[Jukens]

How about the Apple Pencil? Is scrolling back to the way it was in 9.2 or is it still not working? If the latter I'm guessing it's a permanent change.

no

 

[adenslayer]

Many eyes will be focused on the tMobile carrier file.

I can verify that this update fixes the cellular data issue on T-Mobiles network

 

[MrGuder]

Thanks Matt for the video.

Finally apple fixes the video issue in the news app. I emailed them numerous times about embedded videos in the news apps and not being about to rotate it to landscape mode. Happy to hear they are fixing this glitch. Who wants to watch a video in portrait?

 

[JohnIrvine]

I really hope the fix the "spotlight" pull down searching. I have to type in something then press search then delete it and type it again before results show.

If you have the Amazon shopping app on your phone, try disabling its Spotlight Search. I had the same problem you outlined (along with just not getting results period), and when I disabled the Amazon app's Spotlight Search capability, Spotlight started behaving normally again immediately. Hope it helps.

 

[dillacom]

Wifi calling is already in the iOS - Verizon has to release a carrier settings update to enable it.

nope, it was part of this update. woooo!

 

[darkkknighttt930]

For T-Mobile users the carrier setting was updated to 23.5.5 and the previously broken apps over cellular are now fixed. iOS 9.3 beta 3

 

[KPOM]

no

Sounds like it is a permanent change.

 

[lagwagon]

Ok.. Got that one wrong... but I do know for fact public betas have in the past released simultaneously with dev betas.

Yes in the past. It's different with each 8.x, 9.x version though and every build for that version usually follows the pattern set by beta build 1 of that version. Say as an example 9.1 beta 1 was not same day, every build for 9.1 follows that. But then they do same day for 9.2 beta 1, every build for 9.2 after is same day. (Not actually what may have happened for 9.1, 9.2. They are just examples)

Apple seems to change it up every time. (Not usually between builds, but between update numbers.)

 

[HopefulHumanist]

nope, it was part of this update. woooo!

I noticed it too. The thing about 911 wifi calls and addresses threw me off a little though.

 

[alecgold]

no

Oooooooh, nooooooh, I use the pen to click on far away things. But when you use it that way, you automatically scroll with it. I don't like this.

 

[mofoliar]

i hope that Battery was better than Beta 2.... i had to roll back to 9.2.1 and Battery CRAP!

 

[C DM]

nope, it was part of this update. woooo!

Could a Verizon carrier update that enables this simply be part of the new beta update?

 

[aldrinjtauro]

Wi-Fi calling on Verizon! Time to see what the fuss is about!

 

[Michael Goff]

nope, it was part of this update. woooo!

I'm guessing Verizon pushed a carrier update with the new beta.