iOS 11.2.5 Beta 6 Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

[Banglazed]

iOS 11.2.5 Beta 6

Release Date — January 17, 2018
Build Number — 15D5059a
Darwin Kernel Version — 17.4.0: Wed Dec 13 22:51:56 PST 2017; root:xnu-4570.40.9~7\/RELEASE_ARM64_T8010

Use at your discretion. Please report all bugs using the Feedback app.

New Features & Changes
New Issues
Remaining Issues

• Keyboard keys become blue when text is pasted in the text field of WhatsApp, especially for URLs (Since iOS 11.0)
• Widgets jump up then goes back to normal position after device restart (Since iOS 11.0)
• Unlocking the device causes keyboard to disappear for a moment if keyboard is left open before locking the device (Since iOS 11.0)
• Transition animation stutters a lot while entering into the city list in Weather app when device is in Low Power Mode (Since iOS 11.0)
• Widgets and search bar overlap during call (Since iOS 11.0)
• Emoji keyboard has duplicate emojis in Frequently Used tab after resetting the keyboard settings (Since iOS 11.0)
• Weather Widget is not updating every time visiting the widget page (since iOS 11.0)

Resolved Issues

• chaiOS iMessage bug fixed in this release

Spoiler: Modem Firmware

• Qualcomm iPhone 7 Plus: 3.42.00
• Qualcomm iPhone 7: 3.42.00
• Intel iPhone 7 Plus: 2.02.04
  
• Intel iPhone 7: 2.02.04
• Intel iPhone 8: 1.03.06
• Qualcomm iPhone 8 Plus: 1.62.00
• Intel iPhone 8 Plus: 1.03.06
• Qualcomm iPhone X: 1.62.00
• Intel iPhone X: 1.03.06
• iPhone SE: 6.30.4
• iPhone 6 Plus: 6.30.4
• iPhone 6: 6.30.4
  
• iPhone 6S/6S Plus: 4.30.02

Spoiler: Carrier Version

United States

• Verizon - 31.1
• Verizon iPads - 30.5
• T-Mobile - 31.1
• AT&T - 31.0
• MetroPCS -
• U.S. Cellular - 30.5.1
• Sprint - 31.1

United Kingdom

• O2-UK - 31.0
• BT-UK - 31.0
• Three - 31.0
• EE - 31.1
• Vodafone UK -

Canada

• Videotron -
• Rogers - 31.0
  
• Fido - 31.0
  
• Bell -
• Telus - 31.1
• Freedom Mobile -

France

• Orange France -

Germany

• O2-DE -
• Vodafone.de - 31.0
• Telekom.de - 31.0

Netherlands

• KPN -

Southeast Asia

• Singapore Singtel -
• Philippines Globe - 31.0
• Thailand AIS -

Sweden

• Comviq -
• Tre - 31.0

Ireland

• Meteor

Australia

• Optus - 30.5.1
• Telstra - 31.0

Turkey

• Turkcell (Lifecell) - 31.0
• Vodafone TR - 31.0
• Turk Telekom - 31.0

Poland

• T-Mobile - 31.0
• Orange - 31.0
• Play - 31.0

India

• Airtel - 31.0
• Jio - 31.0 (previously 30.5.2)

Mexico

• Mexico - Telcel - 31.0

Guatemala

• TIGO GT - 31.0

Other

• Docomo - 31.0
• AlwaysOnline -

 

[vince085]

Another long build beta.. where's our 11.3 for god sake

 

[atlchamp]

just proves how trash ios 11 is

 

[dan9700]

Still not GM oh my days

 

[Mlrollin91]

Another long build beta.. where's our 11.3 for god sake

Literally no different than 10.3.3, 10.3.2, 10.2.1, 9.3.5, 9.3.4, 9.3.3. I can do this all day.

 

[cale508]

173.1mb on iPhone 8 Plus

 

[OJCDEV]

165.4mb OTA on my iPhone 7.

 

[0014]

Well I wasn’t expecting them to release this today and still another one to go.

 

[dan9700]

6 betas for a point release with nothing really improved i cant take this anymore haha

 

[devesh9]

162.1 mb on 6s

 

[simba4]

This GM Will become over 3.0GB!!!

 

[robert1998]

Still better than nothing )))

 

[Natya Sadella]

6 betas for a x.x. Release? Wtf

 

[RSmith2023]

175 mb on my X...

 

[nortonandreev]

So many betas... I think they're just postponing the release until they're ready to release the first 10.3 beta.

 

[maflynn]

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[WaruiKoohii]

So many betas... I think they're just postponing the release until they're ready to release the first 10.3 beta.

Honest question for you.

Would you rather fewer bugs in 11.2.5 GM, or a faster release of the GM with more bugs?

 

[Paddle1]

If there's going to be another beta 11.3 may have to wait.

 

[Mlrollin91]

I literally see no rush in iOS 11.3. Usually .3 will add new features. We don’t need features right now.

 

[Paddle1]

I literally see no rush in iOS 11.3. Usually .3 will add new features. We don’t need features right now.

We don't need one but we're still waiting on the new battery features and iCloud messages.

 

[dannyyankou]

I literally see no rush in iOS 11.3. Usually .3 will add new features. We don’t need features right now.

iMessage in the cloud would be nice

 

[dan9700]

to be honest as much as i think its so many betas, i would rather a polished release so guess its all good, i think next week GM and Final

 

[zorinlynx]

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[dreadlord]

There will be no GM version for iOS 11.2.5. There weren't any GM version for point releases of iOS 10 or 9. If you're talking about the long build number which has '5' to indicate this version is built with the extra analyzing and logging tools enabled.

This build has build number 15D5059a (Debug version). They will release same version with logging tools disabled (Release version) with build version 15D59. All code will be same as today's beta in the final release, they will just switch off the debug tools by editing the property files like:

DEBUG_BUILD = TRUE (15D5059a / iOS 11.2.5 beta 6)
DEBUG_BUILD = FALSE (15D59 / iOS 11.2.5 release)

If they want to hide some features that will debut with the final version, RELEASE switch will do the trick.

RELEASE = FALSE (hide features such as Apple Watch app which shows Apple Watch 3 with red dot in the crown in the iOS 11.0 betas)
RELEASE = TRUE (enable features like iOS 11.0 GM)

Point version betas (11.x.x betas) can have short build number but this does not mean they are the GM version. Apple just disables the logging tools in these builds. Apple probably wants more info/data from the tester's usage regarding to under the hood changes in this release, hence they didn't release a version with logging tools disabled. They usually release beta releases with logging tools disabled when they have enough data regarding to changes in betas.

To clarify, GM version is the final version that has finalized SDK and APIs of a version that has a lot of new APIs and SDK.