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iOS 16.5 Beta 4 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

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TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️ said:
Many people are reporting this Beta is very smooth and Battery life has been improved as well. I hope this is true.
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My battery life on 13 mini seems especially trashy on this beta thus far. Did IPSW install well over 24 hours ago; usually by such a point I can get a general feel for things like performance/battery life. Also battery health level dropped to 93% from 94% upon installation of this beta. I will say performance feels nice and fast, and I do personally like the level of haptics I feel upon using the mini’s on-screen keyboard.

I will note as well that on this beta and on the last I have been experiencing some remarkably bad signal drops wherein attempting to place a call crashes the LTE connection and the radio reverts to EDGE and then back to LTE and the call hangs in limbo without so much as a dial tone. So sadly I can’t say the same for cellular performance as for general system performance. Using Metro (T-Mobile network).
 
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ajay96 said:
Well I believe each time you update it does force iOS to check the battery health again, so it could be refreshing more frequently if you update to each beta. Betas do tend to have worse battery life than release versions so if it's a real concern it might be best to stay on public releases.
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ZolloTech said that the beta’s do not make your battery health go down it’s how many times you have been charging it or you keep it charged. The battery health doesn’t keep to it 100% after 6 months. What iPhone do you have?
 
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ajay96 said:
Well I believe each time you update it does force iOS to check the battery health again, so it could be refreshing more frequently if you update to each beta. Betas do tend to have worse battery life than release versions so if it's a real concern it might be best to stay on public releases.
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That’s not true the battery health area is not showing a real battery life and you think betas ruin the health of the battery. I had iPhone 7 with beta on battery health went down because I was using it everyday charging it and keeping it to 100% charged. It’s how many times I’ve charged it the charge cycle went up to 399 so the health was at 90 then 89. So it’s nothing to do with any betas.
 
StumpyBloke said:
Anyone have anything similar to this within home settings/software update in the home app? It's been like this for the last couple of versions but according to the Eve app, the devices are already up-to-date (matter updates).

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I’m still on 16.4.1 and I’m seeing this too with my Eve contact sensors.

I know there are a lot of HomeKit/Matter bug fixes in the next round of releases. Are your hubs on the beta too?
 
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Thanks for confirming I'm not alone LOL

Yes I am running the latest public beta on all of my kit. Hopefully it will be resolved by the final release… Yeah right
 
After the update to 16.5b4 the beta update option disappeared from the update screen until this morning, and now it's back.
 
Sunsster1988 said:
It depends on how many charge cycles you are on, you should check it by coconut battery it tells you the actual battery health.
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The health is not a charge cycle count. That is a different figure/parameter. The health is the measured amount of current available in relation to the advertised current capacity. So the percentage between those two.
 
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Sunsster1988 said:
ZolloTech said that the beta’s do not make your battery health go down it’s how many times you have been charging it or you keep it charged. The battery health doesn’t keep to it 100% after 6 months. What iPhone do you have?
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I find that the betas lean heavily on location services which have a negative effect on battery life. I have two iPhone 12 Pros one is on the public beta programme and the other on GM releases, the difference in power drain is immense.

(For what it's worth)
 
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Sunsster1988 said:
ZolloTech said that the beta’s do not make your battery health go down it’s how many times you have been charging it or you keep it charged. The battery health doesn’t keep to it 100% after 6 months. What iPhone do you have?
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That's the battery cycles he's mainly referring to - but cycles are only part of the battery health.
Sunsster1988 said:
That’s not true the battery health area is not showing a real battery life and you think betas ruin the health of the battery. I had iPhone 7 with beta on battery health went down because I was using it everyday charging it and keeping it to 100% charged. It’s how many times I’ve charged it the charge cycle went up to 399 so the health was at 90 then 89. So it’s nothing to do with any betas.
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Betas tend to make your phone run warmer than public releases due to all the background resources used to collect logs, so betas can definitely make you charge your phone more. Heat is generally bad for batteries and will cause your battery health to drop much quicker.
 
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Friends are telling me that they cannot read the text on screenshots I sent them via iMessage. Apparently it looks blurry while it looks fine to me. I wouldn’t even have known, that they couldn’t read it until they told me.

Note: I have sent low quality photos or whatever it is called, turned off.

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Also, battery life is CRAP. Lost so much over night:
 

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TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️ said:
Just another day with iOS 16.5 Beta 4... 🫠

While editing today's POTD, iPhone froze and could not exit out. Tried to exit out (Cancel) "Discard Changes" from the Photo App at least 5 times. iPhone stopped responding and would not let me exit out.


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Iphone 12 with 16.5 Beta 4 and no problem in editing photos and saving/exiting. Actually, battery life has been excellent on this Beta for me and everything running well with the exception of "Apple maps" once in a while reboots during Carplay after 30 seconds of being on....but it's only once or twice a week.
 
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Hope this battery life gets carried over to the public release. Everything looks stable, fluid and awesome.
 
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Navigating with maps today with the screen locked, the map disappeared. ETA and other info still at the bottom as well as the speed limit up above.
 
I'm finding more and more lately the map data in Apple Maps has incorrectly listed speed limits. Sometimes it ten miles higher than the posted limit and sometimes its ten miles lower than the posted limit.
 
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contacos said:
Friends are telling me that they cannot read the text on screenshots I sent them via iMessage. Apparently it looks blurry while it looks fine to me. I wouldn’t even have known, that they couldn’t read it until they told me.

Note: I have sent low quality photos or whatever it is called, turned off.

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Battery life is terrible for me on 14PM as well.
 
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TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️ said:
Just another day with iOS 16.5 Beta 4... 🫠

While editing today's POTD, iPhone froze and could not exit out. Tried to exit out (Cancel) "Discard Changes" from the Photo App at least 5 times. iPhone stopped responding and would not let me exit out.


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Similar thing happened to my 14 PM. Was swiping up to unlock and everything froze half way up the swipe. Nothing would respond. Finally after about 60 seconds or so a small spinning circle appeared for a split second and Home Screen appeared. Only has happened the one time.
 
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Connectivity is poor on this beta often it’ll stutter and or take forever to load.

Using exactly the same handset (14PM) on the latest release with the same network speeds and loading is fine.

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