I usually wait until the 2-3 Dev beta to install on my iPad and 3-4 on my iPhone. Im curious as to how well its running on your devices so far?
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Beta performance so far
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It is running fine on my iPhone 12 Pro Max so far. Nothing that is detrimental has been found on my end so far.
Running excellent on my 13 Pro, things are actually smoother in general. There's of course the usual UI glitches here and there that I've already reported back to Apple but overall 16 has been butter smooth.
My only bug so far is, the brightness can slowly drop, then increase, with auto brightness off. It happened a few times, only outside so far. Nothing major, but I reported it.
Relatively benign update compared to previous B1 releases. A few random individual process crash notices and prompts to report them. Also, some Bluetooth connectivity issues.
Been on it for a day and so far everything is behaving as expected. I haven't encountered any bugs yet but I also have not had time to really mess around with the new features or the issues found in the release notes. Only thing is the phone heats up sometimes but thats about it so far.
So far on my 13 pro it’s been as good as iOS 15, no issues and all my apps work such as banking , games etc.. I guess because it’s not such a big upgrade not much changed with the framework .. IMO the lockscreen feature is really the only BIG feature added .Everything else just seems like updates to their apps ..
I know its a big no no to run it on your daily driver but I really am actually excited for the betas this year. Except for Mac OS since I dont have anything that can run it annoyingly haha
Had it on my ipp since announcement. Bugs are mainly involved with the new features: external display works but sometimes something crashes though everything still works. Display scaling have some UI bugs and once made touch unresponsive. Other elements of the system works fine. Waiting for B2
well since I have a 2020 iPad I dont have to worry about any of those external display issues.
Always install beta on a secondary device, especially the early ones. I installed the beta on two of my old devices and so far :
- iPhone XS Max : Run generally smooth but can easily get very warm affecting brightness and the battery.
- 2018 11' iPad Pro : Almost unusable due to the touch screen not working well. about 50% of the time the swipes don't register making the navigation a real pain. Thinking to revert back even its not my primary iPad.
- iPhone XS Max : Run generally smooth but can easily get very warm affecting brightness and the battery.
- 2018 11' iPad Pro : Almost unusable due to the touch screen not working well. about 50% of the time the swipes don't register making the navigation a real pain. Thinking to revert back even its not my primary iPad.
I have a 2018 11” iPad Pro and the beta is perfect on it! Just goes to show how variable these things are.
Outside of some lock screen widgets disappearing and then reappearing its been running well. Battery life has been good with no major hiccups. Some apps are not compatible yet and will crash though when opened.
Also, unless you are really into the lock lockscreen customizations you really aren't missing anything. The rest of iOS 16 is really just more of iOS 15. None of the new messages features will work either unless you are messaging someone who is also running iOS 16. In my opinion there isn't much else to get excited for here.
Just some food for thought if you are considering putting this beta on your main device.
Also, unless you are really into the lock lockscreen customizations you really aren't missing anything. The rest of iOS 16 is really just more of iOS 15. None of the new messages features will work either unless you are messaging someone who is also running iOS 16. In my opinion there isn't much else to get excited for here.
Just some food for thought if you are considering putting this beta on your main device.
Running very smooth on 13 pro. Volume controls are a little screwy in Safari on iPad. From experience, beta 1 tends to be better every year, and betas 2 and 3 tend to break more things. Usually there will be one with awful battery life. Just part of the cycle.
Hopefully this year they can avoid pushing back features like in 15.
Hopefully this year they can avoid pushing back features like in 15.
A couple of tiny quirks (a weather lock screen randomly just told me to lodge feedback, I can't text myself voice notes) but otherwise a very solid build. Always proceed with caution but I'd say you'd be fine.
Just make sure your banking apps work, if that's a requirement. They're usually iffy.
Just make sure your banking apps work, if that's a requirement. They're usually iffy.
Bit laggy at times on my XR can at times have a slight delay once you pressed something but in gener running decent
I would be more concerned about reduction in battery life (since not fully optimized) and any apps that you rely on not working yet. If neither of these things scare you, then jump in. I would say that generally, the public beta being released signals that Apple feels there aren't significant issues or bugs, which will happen in early-mid July with developer beta 3.
So far no noticeable drain for me! (Watch) I see but macOS, iOS and iPadOS are great.
It runs very, very well on my 12 Pro, although battery life seems like it may have taken a bit of a hit, particularly if any of the custom lockscreens are running (I'm not using any widgets at this point since that really seemed to create a battery hit). I feel like last year's B1 was pretty good, too – but it may have been B2 or B2 where the real bugs and annoyances happened.
It’s working fine on my 2nd gen SE.
Couple random things but its running fine.
Couple random things but its running fine.