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Everything New in iOS 17.1 Beta 2

Sadly, as with b1, the Set Silent Mode shortcut action is missing. This was in 17 and v useful for the action button shortcuts. Shortcuts that already have this action present still work, but you can’t find it to add it to new shortcuts. Suggest you duplicate a shortcut containing this action as a template for new shortcuts in the future, until this is fixed.
 
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klasma said:
That still doesn't make a lot of sense, because you can have a shortcut be triggered on a certain battery percentage (there's just no action to turn off charging then).
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You can for sure but I don’t think shortcuts work when the phone is turned off. I haven’t tried myself but I’ve seen a few people claim that the 80% limit apply even with phone turned off. That shouldn’t be possible with shortcuts? Obviously Apple could still provide a version of this feature to older phones that works when the phone is turned on but Apple’s historically been pretty much all or nothing with feature support.
 
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Mighuel said:
You can for sure but I don’t think shortcuts work when the phone is turned off. I haven’t tried myself but I’ve seen a few people claim that the 80% limit apply even with phone turned off. That shouldn’t be possible with shortcuts? Obviously Apple could still provide a version of this feature to older phones that works when the phone is turned on but Apple’s historically been pretty much all or nothing with feature support.
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Hardly anyone ever turns their iPhone completely off AND charges it in that state, so it still seems strange.
 
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DDustiNN said:
I found a new feature with beta 2:

Safari randomly crashes while I’m typing a comment here. It’s happened 5 times so far. Can’t figure out what causes it.

UPDATE: figured it out. Any time I touch a word that has been autocorrected, Safari crashes. 100% of the time. And with iOS 17, accidentally selecting autocorrected words happens constantly now, as it will always select a word instead of repositioning the cursor, such as when I decide I want to reword something.
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Ive found iOS 17 and the cursor don’t play well when the Apple Dictation (Dictator) voice to text is in use.
 
klasma said:
Hardly anyone ever turns their iPhone completely off AND charges it in that state, so it still seems strange.
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That is true but it’s pretty much the only reasoning for Apple to limit this feature to latest phones (outside the obvious encouragement to get people get new phones if they want latest features 😊).
 
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Bobajobbob said:
I wouldn't stress it unless you keep your phones for 5 years.
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Yup. My day 1 13 Pro Max is still at 96% and I've charged it whenever, wired and wireless, left it plugged in all night (9/10 times) and never even restricted the charge to 80% ..
 
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lk400 said:
>Standby Display Options

Is anybody using this? I have a stand that I can wirelessly charge in landscape orientation, and expected to use the mode a lot. I used it for the first day, and forgot about it until I read this article.
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Yeah I bought the white Twelve South Forté MagSafe stand used in Apple marketing during WWDC iOS 17 reveal. Very nice, but I don’t use it as much as I thought I would. I’m in a phase of my career where I don’t sit at a desk very often, and I don’t want to leave my phone on a charger all night.
 
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whsbuss said:
It’s also reported that custom tones can now be assigned to text and email notifications like it was in 16 and below.
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I HOPE they really bring this back.
Even though I really like the new custom notification tones, they really ARE way too soft and with my previous custom calendar tone, I immediately knew when my next appointment was up.
 
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phoneman2023 said:
yes the original notifications are back that were introduced with iOS 17. this is bad for a few reasons. 1 it is difficult to hear. 2 if you are in an environment with any kind of noise you won't hear it. 3 [people with hearing issues may not hear it. I use voice over. The old reliable try tone was very useful and just worked. for anyone on the beta please quote feeback id FB13228878 and submit feedback to either bring back try tone or better yet allow the user to choose the notification tone. Thank you all for your help.
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I agree with you 100%. The new way to low sound can’t be heard even with volume all the way up. I’m missing security camera alerts and all kinds of other alerts in other apps. I’m also not getting the little red number next to any of the apps and I have notifications on so now I have to check these several times a day to see if I’ve missed anything.
 
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AppleTO said:
Why only iPhone 15 models? Clearly the percentage can be determined on every model.
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I wonder if it is due to battery degradation capacities....with the 15 models they are all FRESH, fully chargeable batteries. with anything older your 100% capacity may be lower in real terms. If they said all phones and your iPhone 12 could only MAX charge to 77% (current battery capacity) then it may error out or have issues.

Even if you could buy a brand new older phone that has a current 100% battery life, Apple doesnt want to say only brand-new models so, they limit this to the newest phones released that will have a screen and current/actual capacity of 100%.
 
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Cake01982 said:
I agree with you 100%. The new way to low sound can’t be heard even with volume all the way up. I’m missing security camera alerts and all kinds of other alerts in other apps. I’m also not getting the little red number next to any of the apps and I have notifications on so now I have to check these several times a day to see if I’ve missed anything.
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Badges are missing too? I recently turned on notifications for Instagram (I've never had them on before), and I don't see any badges on IG. Everything else? Yes. IG? No.
 
Cool. Maybe they can fix Home pod handoff that they broke with 17.1. Since updating have been unable to hand, any music off from my phone to my HomePod. AirPod functionality is also horrible now. If I have music or radio streaming on my phone while I make a phone call from my watch anytime I get within 30 feet of my phone it kicks the music to my AirPod in the phone call back to my wrist. Completely annoying. Getting tired of the continued increase in bugs with iOS software these last four or five years.
 
Has anyone noticed that streaming on Apple Music vs. downloaded causes documents & data in iPhone storage to grow and grow? Last I looked I am over 6gb. Don’t remember seeing this in iOS 16
 
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