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iOS 16 Beta 6 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

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OhMyMy said:
Weird that it improved for me while deteriorated for some when Apple boasted the reliability for their new architecture.
Perhaps you could try resetting just the Settings once you update to the final release and see if it helps.
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It’s a beta. You don’t know what they might be testing. You can only judge on this sort of thing if it persists into the publicly released version.
 
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gank41 said:
For ME? “Yes”

For all of the other people? Some issues. Some not. You can read more about it in the 100 some posts before this…
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Yea reading won't do much because 95% could say it's good, but you could have something major happen. I've never had anything go critically wrong, but some have nasty stuff happen
 
gwhizkids said:
I thought my phone bricked over night. Completely unresponsive. Took a hard reset to get it restarted.

Scary but that’s the chance we take.
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Yea at least with Phones you can near always recover somehow, even if it mean losing stuff. I'll never beta Watch until the is a user way to recover. I'm losing my watch for days/weeks if there is an issue
 
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gwhizkids said:
It’s a beta. You don’t know what they might be testing. You can only judge on this sort of thing if it persists into the publicly released version.
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But their baseline claim shouldn’t be affected. It’s touted as something that’ll improve the reliability drastically so regardless of it’s beta (6) tag it should come up close to the final release in terms of performance.
 
I'm sure a restart will fix this, but these opaque rectangles are getting annoying

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I just installed the beta and hate the lockscreen. ALL the notifications are crammed at the bottom? Why are they wasting so much space between the bottom and top widget?
 
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gank41 said:
Although I agree with you whole heartedly, we’re much too late on the iOS 16 beta train to make any changes now.
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I dunno who thought this was a good idea, its honestly awful. I literally submitted it as a bug through feedback before i realized its intentional.
 
dorkimoe said:
I dunno who thought this was a good idea, its honestly awful. I literally submitted it as a bug through feedback before i realized its intentional.
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It really does seem like Notifications are just kinda shoved out of the way. I submitted feedback for this after beta 1 was released, too. I've accidentally dismissed way too many notifications due to their new location. Including morning alarms I've snoozed.

While 'tech savvy' folks like ourselves, used to figuring out tech related things and used to dealing with things during a beta, will generally have no issues... once this gets out to the masses? I really do believe MOST folks will just start ignoring Lock Screen notifications all together. I mean, a couple weeks ago I was showing my Mom how the new Home App will look for her (she doesn't like it), and she noticed my Lock Screen with the big empty space in the middle and a stack of notifications at the bottom... When I showed her you can just swipe up to scroll thru them, she asked "isn't that the same way you unlock your phone? So I swipe up to unlock AND to scroll thru my notifications?"

Sometimes Apple is good at shoving some new feature or change in our face, and then telling us "Oh yeah! This new way is SO much better, see??" and it is! But sometimes it's just not. At least with last year's Safari changes, they left it up to us to determine how we wanted it to look/behave. I don't think we'll be as lucky this year with Notifications. And don't even get me started with how poorly designed they are on the Apple Watch!
 
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gank41 said:
It really does seem like Notifications are just kinda shoved out of the way. I submitted feedback for this after beta 1 was released, too. I've accidentally dismissed way too many notifications due to their new location. Including morning alarms I've snoozed.

While 'tech savvy' folks like ourselves, used to figuring out tech related things and used to dealing with things during a beta, will generally have no issues... once this gets out to the masses? I really do believe MOST folks will just start ignoring Lock Screen notifications all together. I mean, a couple weeks ago I was showing my Mom how the new Home App will look for her (she doesn't like it), and she noticed my Lock Screen with the big empty space in the middle and a stack of notifications at the bottom... When I showed her you can just swipe up to scroll thru them, she asked "isn't that the same way you unlock your phone? So I swipe up to unlock AND to scroll thru my notifications?"

Sometimes Apple is good at shoving some new feature or change in our face, and then telling us "Oh yeah! This new way is SO much better, see??" and it is! But sometimes it's just not. At least with last year's Safari changes, they left it up to us to determine how we wanted it to look/behave. I don't think we'll be as lucky this year with Notifications. And don't even get me started with how poorly designed they are on the Apple Watch!
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The thing is, the behavior isn't that much different from how Notification Center previously worked. Notifications first showed up on lock screen, then after X amount of time, they disappeared from lock screen and then hid in the "Notification Center" where you would need to swipe the screen up from the bottom to pull it up to see your older notifications. This is something I was constantly checking in the past, so needing to scroll upwards to see NEW notifications isn't really that big of a change.
 
I’ve installed since this morning, seems very stable battery speaking. I’m on XS. The heating is also under control. they removed some languages from the translator, though
 
gank41 said:
Although I agree with you whole heartedly, we’re much too late on the iOS 16 beta train to make any changes now.
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Right, this was to change in June, and maybe was too late already… it’s a design decision made for iOS 16
 
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