Apple Seeds Third Betas of iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4 to Developers

[craigcoffee]

no of course not. that's not what i meant.
what i meant was that it release software (and hardware product too) in unfinished state, that didn't undergo proper quality testing. the user/buyer are now considered as beta testers even though they buy product and software labeled as stable.
think about those:

- magic mouse: barely usable, it register lots of false events as soon as you put your hand on it. plus the need to put it belly up to charge. this obviously wasn't properly designed, and full quality testing would have indicated there was issues to be solved before putting it on sale.
- butterfly keyboard (same, not enough quality testing, bad design)
- touchbar (mine broke under 1 year, bad quality components used most probably, unsufficient quality testing, not to mention most people disliked it and apple had to scrap the darn thing.)
- more and more bugs on macos, they release new features that still contain problems and then they are very slow at acknowledging / fixing them (read: it takes years, all the while new customers buy the hardware with an ever growing list of bugs, old and new ones)
- apple pencil/ipad (the bug is on the ipad, the software that handle the pencil input)
- airpod max (condensation build up and can break the headset, plus no power button, missing codecs, average-ok sound quality for a very expensive product, etc.. not enough quality testing/ bad design, yet released on unsuspecting customers).

just to name a few..

This post and thread is about iOS 17.4 beta3. You should find a more appropriate place to complain about your butterfly keyboard friend.

 

[SKeijmel]

better battery life lol what a trolls

 

[srbNYC]

Same here! Can’t do anything involving the microphone if replacing keyboard entry. That includes apps and audio-voice texts, etc.

I called up Apple support and they said report it.

Restarting didn't fix it -- but somehow about three hours later, it was working, and has worked since.

 

[InReality]

Dictaton of Messages is suddenly not working for me.

It's not been working on the last Beta either - writes the words "new paragraph" instead of putting in a paragraph, also the dictation button won't react when touched, so cannot dictate - this is random behaviour.