iOS 16.1 Beta 4 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

[Pearsey]

In recovery mode.
Downloaded 16.1 B4 IPSW and was able to option + update, just to the same version I was already on…

Yeah same. Wow that way hasn't failed me in years. weird. Must be some new file architecture or something of significance changed in 16.1.

Pleased, rather a PHEW, they allow the option + UPDATE button, then select the IPSW, so 16.1 beta 4 or for some people thats just straight into a restore. UGH.

 

[Felixlmomo]

If you sync to a computer it can also dump a lot of data files.

I dropped 2 gigs.

EDIT: I just emptied my Spotify cache for the first time, 4 gigs 😆
thats now come off my system data also

No.. I backup and restore through iCloud.
The symptom is every time I reboot the phone, those “System Data” all gone.

Then I just use my phone normally and eventually I found that the “System Data” increased. May be from 5GB to 20GB. And then eventually from 20GB to 90GB.. just keep increasing until all 512GB are gone.

 

[dk001]

No.. I backup and restore through iCloud.
The symptom is every time I reboot the phone, those “System Data” all gone.

Then I just use my phone normally and eventually I found that the “System Data” increased. May be from 5GB to 20GB. And then eventually from 20GB to 90GB.. just keep increasing until all 512GB are gone.

Any idea if it is app specific?
As in one app is causing this?

 

[gwhizkids]

No.. I backup and restore through iCloud.
The symptom is every time I reboot the phone, those “System Data” all gone.

Then I just use my phone normally and eventually I found that the “System Data” increased. May be from 5GB to 20GB. And then eventually from 20GB to 90GB.. just keep increasing until all 512GB are gone.

Let’s take this out of this thread and over to the Help thread ==> https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ios-16-help-thread.2364734/.

You definitely have some sort of issue if its consuming multiple hundreds of GBs of memory.

 

[Pearsey]

Let’s take this out of this thread and over to the Help thread ==> https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ios-16-help-thread.2364734/.

You definitely have some sort of issue if its consuming multiple hundreds of GBs of memory.

Done 👍🏼

 

[Pearsey]

No.. I backup and restore through iCloud.
The symptom is every time I reboot the phone, those “System Data” all gone.

Then I just use my phone normally and eventually I found that the “System Data” increased. May be from 5GB to 20GB. And then eventually from 20GB to 90GB.. just keep increasing until all 512GB are gone.

Replied on the other thread, so if we get to the bottom of it, people can easily find a source thread. 👍🏼

 

[gwhizkids]

Replied on the other thread, so if we get to the bottom of it, people can easily find a source thread.

And this way, the discussion can continue even with another beta dropping in the interim…as just occurred.

 

[nardobenz]

Yeah same. Wow that way hasn't failed me in years. weird. Must be some new file architecture or something of significance changed in 16.1.

Pleased, rather a PHEW, they allow the option + UPDATE button, then select the IPSW, so 16.1 beta 4 or for some people thats just straight into a restore. UGH.

I was doing this—I have downgraded before in the past. It keeps failing on my pc and mac and idk why. It’ll work for the same beta version but not down to 16.0.3. Time to try beta 5.

 

[RamGuy]

The solution that worked for me was to change the “Mic Mode” to Standard instead of Voice Isolation. This was with my AirPods 3 and 14 Pro Max. There was no issue on 13 Pro Max.

This solved the problem! Thanks a ton for the feedback. Saved me from having to use my wired setup on my desktop which feels very dated to use after getting used to roaming around wirelessly!

Very strange to have it only act up when using Microsoft Teams, while it works perfectly fine using FaceTime, phone calls and every other app I use on my phone. Tried to disable the built-in noise suppression within Microsoft Teams just to see if there was something conflicting when having both options enabled, but no dice.

Difficult to say if this is an Apple/iOS issue, or a Microsoft/Teams issue. One would figure that Microsoft itself can't do much in regard to the built-in AI Voice Isolation feature within iOS. Yet again, strange for it to only act up while using Microsoft Teams and nothing else.

 

[RoarinRow]

It’s either your network or one of your firewall/VPN apps that’s blocking the connection as I mentioned in the DM. Unlikely it’s a beta issue.

After talking to Apple Support for 2-3 days, an hour or so each call, I was finally able to resolve the issue myself. I won't go through all the steps, but what fixed it in the end was to logout of my Apple account on my Macbook 14 Pro, then log back in and this made my icloud account sync the shared photo library back to my personal library. Once that was done, it cleared the way for my iPhone 14 Pro. Whew glad that's done after rollback back and forth between production and beta versions. Ugggghh.