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Apple Unexpectedly Seeds iOS 7 Beta 6 to Developers, Update Fixes Issue With iTunes in the Cloud [Updated]

mcdj said:
The funny part is half the people complaining about icons will end up butchering their phone with garbage winterboard themes anyway..

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Wow that's a classic.
 
BvizioN said:
Your phone being ******** due to some unknown security issue is more emergency then the icons. And seriously, what is with people in this forum and icons? Because everyone I know outside this forum have no problem with them! Where did all this obsession came from?
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i guess everybody feels since they made that brilliant decision to be an iPhone owner and paid some money to buy the phone, that makes them some kind of design genius. i agree its getting really really old with the icon complains. in fact it got old after the first post and thread complaining about icons.
 
petsounds said:
Congrats on breaking your NDA agreement
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I'm a developer, haven't broken my NDA, most discussions outside of Developer forums are about features already made public.

I think it's safe to say, there seem to be a lot of developers on MacRumors. A lot NDA's being broken, nothing new.
 
merrickdrfc asked this in the other thread

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1623417/

"How'd you install the profile? Can't get it to install for the life of me."

You can download and decompress the zip file in something like goodreader. Then email the uncompressed file to yourself.

Open your email attachment and it will ask you to install. Just follow the instructions from then on, but note carefully the warning that after resetting in music, all your music and videos will be deleted.

You can still safely install the profile before resetting. Just make sure you have a backup of your music and videos before resetting!
 
I don't use iTunes in the Cloud and don't intend to in the near future. Is the general consensus that I can ignore steps 2 onward of the installation instructions without any other implications?

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This update addresses an issue with iTunes in the Cloud, where some purchases may download or play unexpected items. If you have any devices running previous versions of iOS 7 beta, you must:

1. Install iOS 7 beta 6
2. Install the ResetMusicAndVideosLibraries configuration profile
3. From Settings > Music, tap the Reset Media Library button
4. Restart the device
 
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vojta3476 said:
I still wish they would have changed the Photos icon to the one on the right. :(

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I like the original better. The "petals" all meet and there is no "dead space". This results in a second, darker and smaller flower in the middle. In the one on the right, there are eight "triangles" that show up because the petals don't touch all the way to the center. So out of those two, the original one is much better in my opinion.
 
mcdj said:
And why this silly little 13mb hotfix? To fix a problem with iTunes Match? How does that help developers? No 3rd party app I know of can even access music stored in the cloud (which really sucks), so why is it so almighty important to push a separate hotfix when they could have just baked it into the next beta?.
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It could, for example, be breaking the server purchase database.

In which case I could see a fix is probably considered urgent before it causes enough havoc to start bringing down services for non-beta users.
 
I haven't dared to update my iPad3 yet. How are the speeds on it with beta 5 and 6, has anyone tried? I'd like to update, but not if it's significantly slower than 6.1.3...

I just have beta 5 on my old iPhone4 and it's getting a bit faster every beta release. I will update to beta 6 tonight.
 
benji888 said:
what I don't get is why I am reading from BGR and others that they think this is the last beta before the GM?? Are these people nuts?? They can't possibly be using it! If they are, they are basing this theory on what? ...funny how the site that claimed we'd get beta 6 on monday, then, hours later, apple releases beta 6 is the one still saying it's the last beta. Bunk.

I think there will be 8 betas before the GM...but, I thought that before this minor update to fix a problem for some users...so, either 8 or 9 betas, then the GM. ...This is a total overhaul, not just an incremental update, iOS 5 was not as big a deal as this and had 8 betas.
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With previous iOS beta versions, basically the following happens:

- during the early part of the beta period, Apple releases betas every two weeks, pretty much like clockwork
- later in the beta period, Apple releases betas less frequently, generally 3 weeks apart
- there is no beta in the last 3-4 weeks prior to the Golden Master

This beta period, there were three weeks between beta 3 and beta 4, then only one week between beta 4 and beta 5. However, due to the developer site hack and site outage, it is assumed that their schedule was thrown off and beta 4 was released a week later than originally intended, since the site was down. Had beta 4 been released a week earlier (during the site outage), these betas would all line up with the previous pattern. I think beta 5 was intended to be the last beta to be released before the golden master, but they found a significant enough bug that they released a previously-unplanned beta, because they don't want this bug out there during the remainder of the beta period. This beta is only 13.5MB, so it likely contains little more than the fix for the iCloud music issue.

It's been pretty much confirmed at this point that Apple will announce the next iPhone on September 10th (confirmed by Jim Dalrymple, who has a spotless prediction record), which is a little more than 3 weeks away. Based on the last few releases, it's highly likely that events will play out like this:

- No more betas between now and the golden master
- new iPhone announcement at 10am Pacific on Tuesday, September 10th
- iOS 7 Golden Master released to developers the afternoon of Tuesday, September 10th
- preorders for the new iPhone start Friday, September 13th (unless Apple chooses a different date due to superstitions about Friday the 13th)
- iOS 7 public release on or about Wednesday, September 18th
- new iPhone officially on sale, and preorders delivered, on Friday, September 20th
 
oatman13 said:
Yea its a very small file size, odds are they only fixed one big security flaw and they want people to grab it before the community figures out what it is.
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Probably a bug that would allow infinite free purchases of all iTunes content forever :D
 
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