iOS 16 Speculation Thread

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Just a little under 1 hour to go. Fingers are crossed for a new beta Life is GOOD!

 

[viettanium]

i think Dev Beta 4 is next week with the same build of Public Beta 2

 

[mariuskv]

i think Dev Beta 4 is next week with the same build of Public Beta 2

Me to

 

[DFZD]

Beta 4 dropping today?

 

[TimFL1]

I was thinking… all these speculations. Isn’t it amazing how Apples developers keep their beta programs ”in house” when it comes to leaks… dates and so on. Compared to Microsofts Insider program… there are no efforts to stop info from leaking at all. You read about upcoming beta releases in detail with dates and so on

Is it just that Apple has a faithful crew working on this?

The difference is one has to advertise to get people to join their beta program and the other has sheeplets subbing for an expensive developer program just to get a hit of that sweet beta goodness.

 

[gwang73]

That guy literally knows nothing about future releases...but man, can he find every stinking detail in something that HAS been released.

But takes 5 minutes to explain each one repeating himself to make his videos longer and annoying af.

 

[christian.terra]

I think we’ll see it in 20 min. The PB and DB are already synced up and the PB doesn’t get released on the same day this early on anyway.

 

[mngdew]

We are a bunch of beta addicts.

 

[Pearsey]

We are a bunch of beta addicts.

You beta believe it!

 

[mngdew]

You beta believe it!

In beta, we trust.

 

[bamf-hacker]

Twitter refresh, MacRumors refresh, Twitter refresh, MacRumors refresh....

Every 10 seconds 😂

 

[MacNerd01]

Hmm, three minutes… let’s see what MY cat has to say…

Cat: twists head upside down and sneezes


Is that a good sign?

Beta 4 plsss 🙏🙏

 

[gwhizkids]

This is probably our last chance for any reasonably significant new/altered features before 16.1. Hoping we see some.

 

[MacNerd01]

10:00!!!

 

[uandme72]

This is probably our last chance for any reasonably significant new/altered features before 16.1. Hoping we see some.

Can you elaborate

 

[Pearsey]

wait... wait... 6 or 10mins past

 

[TimFL1]

Can you elaborate

There are cutoff dates when they shift focus to stability and bug fixes and stop altering how stuff works because the RC has to be finalized by mid- to end August for the new devices to be preloaded with.

 

[Phogro]

This is probably our last chance for any reasonably significant new/altered features before 16.1. Hoping we see some.

There's a chance that we see some iPhone 14 specific things in the 16.0 release that they're hiding from us in the beta cycle. But yeah most likely 16.1 will be the next major features destined for all phones.

 

[gwhizkids]

Can you elaborate

Usually we get some new (late to the game) or significantly altered features in the first several betas. But by the time beta 4 drops, its usually feature complete and its just fine tuning until the X.0 release (in this case 16.0) drops. Then we get new stuff again in X.1, X.2, etc…

 

[MacNerd01]

Mmm- I’ll give it twenty minutes

 

[dannyyankou]

when the public beta was released last year, the next beta didn't come for another 2 weeks

 

[uandme72]

Mmm- I’ll give it twenty minutes

Nothing today it seems.

 

[joshy123]

Not looking like today

 

[uandme72]

when the public beta was released last year, the next beta didn't come for another 2 weeks

Yes. Next week it is

 

[gwhizkids]

There's a chance that we see some iPhone 14 specific things in the 16.0 release that they're hiding from us in the beta cycle. But yeah most likely 16.1 will be the next major features destined for all phones.

I honestly can’t recall, but have older phones ever gotten new functionality in the release version of a major iOS update that was otherwise hidden due to the new phones? Most likely candidate is some camera feature, but I don’t think so…