Hands-On With Apple's New iOS 12 Update

"... and iOS 12 will work on all iPhones and iPads that are able to run iOS 11." Is this true? I thought iOS 11 would be the end of the line for 5s and 5c.

 

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Apple said it during the Keynote so yes its true..

 

Hmm.. OK. Think it's the first iOS device that'll have support for 6 generations of iOS: 7-12

 

I am surprised how fast the 5s feels now, really nice

5c is not supported

 

iOS 10 was the end of the road for the 5c. The 5s is able to support both iOS 11 and 12.

 

I’d like for Siri to open Audible without needing to unlock my phone (when I’m driving to work). Is this something Shortcuts can do?

 

I feel like this could have been a “point” release. Still not much interactivity with notifications, just grouped, which we had before iOS 10....

 

For those of you that made the jump - this update looks much more stable than previous v1 betas. How has it been for you? Lots of crashes and bugs or fairly usable for a main phone?

 

iOS 12 already? Can they fix all the issues of 11 first! What a mess.

 

iPad 2 - iOS 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

It's the first iPhone to do so though

 

They have, it's called iOS 12.

This is the first beta I am thinking of installing...

 

Will Siri work with Spotify now?

 

That’s great, but this release is really the opportunity to reduce some technical debt: More stable, solid, reliable code, with an overall better, smoother, faster user experience. That’s what’s important. I could care less about new features at this stage. I have everything I need, just tweak it so it’s a joy to use.

What’s considered the best version of OSX? It’s always Snow Leopard that tops the list. I’m sure people moaned about the lack of “new features” back then, too...

Apple should give us what we need, not what the vocal want. Finally with this round of updates they’re doing it. Praise be!

 

I've been running the dev preview since late yesterday on an iPhone X, and I'm very impressed. Surprisingly stable, and Face ID is much faster (it genuinely feels close to twice as fast) and they will interrupt the spinning face animation if it authenticates me before it's done, which really helps. I haven't had any system-level instability, and the only app that's crashed is Safari which became unresponsive once. Good deal as far as I'm concerned.

 

Does phone get warm with any noticeable battery drain? Thanks in advance

 

With shortcuts I'm hoping it will

 

Can you actually control Wi-Fi in ‘Control’ Center again yet? Or is it just the same as in iOS 11?

 

I'm tempted but won't. I'll probably wait for the .1 update (as I always do).

 

In the video you can see the iPhone X infrared strobe in iOS 12. Is it just me or did they decrease the number of bursts per second in the scan loop?

 

Best beta ever...FASTER than 11.4 on beta 1! WOW

 

I wonder when the CarPlay features will be activated.

 

Does Siri Shortcuts offer automations for AppleTV? For example, Hey Siri, I’m home could trigger the TV App to play the news.

Alternatively, this could be built into the Home app since the AppleTV is a HomeKit device.

 

Thanks for showing the gesture to go home on iPad. From the verbal descriptions that were floating around ("swipe up from the dock"), it sounded like you needed two swipes to go home--one to bring up the dock, then one to "swipe up from the dock." I'm glad to see you simply swipe once from the bottom edge of the screen, regardless of the presence of the dock!

 

This feels like a big update to ios11 rather than ios12. What most people here are saying is true, very stable, very reliable and not bad on the battery...I mean its not like they rocked the boat too much.

What I mean is most users with recent devices wont see anything different with their devices. I had to go to settings to make sure it really was ios 12.0