Here's Everything New in iOS 18.2 Beta 3

[minimo3]

Please give us an option to revert to the old iPad navigation bar that sat at the bottom of the screen. Any app that uses the default UItabbarcontroller class now has the nav bar on the top breaking the muscle memory navigation for many apps out there, particularly Microsoft outlook. Thank goodness Apple never made a car… “with our latest update you no longer steer with the steering wheel, you just use the little touchpad in the center console”

 

[jonnyb098]

I think swipes are broken across the system generally.

I wonder if it has something to do with the “accidental swipe protection” or whatever it’s called…designed to ignore unintentional taps or swipes. Accept things the opposite. It thinks every smaller swipe is a tap. 😆

 

[JustSomeInfo]

Oooohh, here's a good feature. Image Playground isn't working for me so I don't have to see how terrible it is.

 

[CarAnalogy]

Customizable Navigation Bar in TV App

Starting with iPadOS 18.2 beta 3, the navigation bar in the TV app can be customized, according to the screenshot above from 9to5Mac.

I don't care about any changes to the TV app unless they

1. Let me remove the Apple TV+ tab entirely and

2. Give me an option to opt out of promotional takeover ads. The kind that take over the screen and interrupt what I'm doing, with the only way to get rid of it being a giant button front and center that says "BUY NOW!" or tap the "Not Now" small text in the corner. It's this kind of garbage Apple used to take a stand against.

I bought TV shows from iTunes and watched them on the TV app for one glorious year until they came up with TV+. Now the app is ruined because it's just a promotional vehicle for them. It used to be about what I want to watch, but now like all other streaming services, it's about what they want me to see.

To keep it on topic, I fail to see the point of this change, or the floating toolbar in general. It's redundant. Seems once again to be there only to keep that TV+ tab prominently displayed.

 

[SebCohen]

I just want to turn off the shutter sound when shooting RAW/anything other than Live… it’s an annoying shutter sound.

Ps how does Live work in countries with mandatory shutter sound?

 

[ProbablyDylan]

It'd be nice if they could revert the Photos app to the pre-18.0 version in general. They gave us the option to keep the old Safari UI, why can't they give us that here?

 

[srbNYC]

Can't wait to get home and see if the TV Nav bar customization is also available on Apple TV.

 

[ppdix]

Finally you can watch a video at full screen like before!
It was the stupidest thing to do. Now put the photos app the way it was on iOS17nand all will be good! HAHAHa

 

[ppdix]

Also have u noticed the thin white border around icons in the settings app?
They look like 2007 icons when everything had borders around them...
Horrible!
Keep the minimalistic clean look. It looks like an Android now!

 

[johnsawyercjs]

After I updated my Apple Watch Series 7 and my iPhone 15 Pro Max to 18.2 developer 3, the time on both was an hour ahead of the actual time. I didn't see this problem on my other devices after updating them to their latest developer betas--my iPad Air 3, 16 inch Macbook Pro M1, and Apple TV 4K all showed the correct time.

I tried to fix the problem on my iPhone by checking the time zone setting in Date & Time preferences, but at first I couldn't since the Time Zone section of the Date & Time preferences showed just a perpetually spinning activity indicator instead of the time zone, and I wasn't able to find an option to see or set the time zone on my Watch. But after I turned off the iPhone's option to set the time automatically, the Time Zone section displayed the correct time zone (Cupertino), which I'd previously selected when I first set up the iPhone, and the time corrected itself to the current time. My Watch then showed the correct time too. Then I turned on the option in Date & Time to set the time automatically again, and the Time Zone field then showed "Denver", though I'm near Sacramento, not Denver. This has been a problem with my iPhone ever since I got it last spring, requiring me to keep the option to set the time automatically turned off, so I guess this has nothing to do with the beta, except that the beta installation process seems to have turned back on Date & Time's option to set the time automatically. Easy enough for me to turn it off again, but maybe other people will see this problem if they too have an issue with their iPhone's time zone being incorrectly chosen when Set Automatically is on.

 

[Mr. Rod]

Also have u noticed the thin white border around icons in the settings app?
They look like 2007 icons when everything had borders around them...
Horrible!
Keep the minimalistic clean look. It looks like an Android now!View attachment 2450440

How does it look if you select light icons in the Home screen but have dark mode enabled?

 

[timeislove]

Most annoying thing in photos app is navigation.
Everywhere in the system the swipe from left edge either closes the view or navigate user back, but not in the Photos Library. Interestingly, that in the same photos app if you open any other album, the navigation will work as expected, but in the library the swipe from the left edge will change the view from days to months and then to years. And after you change to years, you cannot go back to days using swipe. It is worst UX decision, giving that closing the photos library is used much more often than changing the view, and for changing the view there are tabs on the bottom.

i do feel the photo app ui upgrades kinda like being handled by a group of intern. ui design is inconsistent within the app and non-sense, e.g. large margins wasted on all four sides, rounded thumbnails and big gaps in between in grid views.

 

[C3mtl]

Seems to have broke my Air Tag tracking in Find My. None of my AirTag devices can play a sound or be found.