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iOS 16 Speculation Thread

July was such a long month and it dragged. The month of August is almost here.

I am not expecting much action this week. However, last week for the bi-weekly beta. After this week I'm expecting to be on weekly beta. Exciting times are ahead. I hope everyone is going to have a hardworking productive month of August.
 
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TheYayAreaLiving 🎗 said:
July was such a long month and it dragged. The month of August is almost here.

I am not expecting much action this week. However, last week for the bi-weekly beta. After this week I'm expecting to be on weekly beta. Exciting times are ahead. I hope everyone is going to have a hardworking productive month of August.
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Productive and quick. August better fly by 😜
 
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So... Wednesday, beta 5.
Then into weekly for, 6,7,8
RC on the Wed 31st sit on that for 2 weeks

Public release Monday 19th Sept

Is my food for thought. Cant wait to get Safari fixed, thought that would have been massive battery drain surprisingly.
 
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Pearsey said:
So... Wednesday, beta 5.
Then into weekly for, 6,7,8
RC on the Wed 31st sit on that for 2 weeks

Public release Monday 19th Sept

Is my food for thought. Cant wait to get Safari fixed, thought that would have been massive battery drain surprisingly.
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I think RC is released when the new iPhone is announced (September 12th).

My prediction would be.

Beta 5-9 weekly releases starting this week (or 5-8 starting next week)
No release the week of September 5th
RC releases after the iPhone event September 12th
iPhone pre-order the 16th
Public release the 19th
iPhones arrive the 23rd
 
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Pearsey said:
So... Wednesday, beta 5.
Then into weekly for, 6,7,8
RC on the Wed 31st sit on that for 2 weeks

Public release Monday 19th Sept

Is my food for thought. Cant wait to get Safari fixed, thought that would have been massive battery drain surprisingly.
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I don't think we'll be on Weekly's until Beta 5, and I'm guessing that won't come until next week, Tuesday. Then we'll have roughly 4 more weekly betas until the RC, probably the week you suggested, not counting the random "Friday Fix" or something.
 
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I expect a relaunch of beta 4 for the watch, because the current one is seriously destroying the battery
 
drak22 said:
I expect a relaunch of beta 4 for the watch, because the current one is seriously destroying the battery
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Glad I didn’t upgrade, as it is my Ti Series 5 is at 82% health.

So the consensus is beta 5 this week? God I hope so, my XS is getting thrashed by beta 4...
 
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Hmm. Interesting. It’s performing quite well on my XR aside from browsers occasionally crashing.
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It’s weird. At times the phone performs smoothly, to the point where I’m considering my plans to upgrade to a 14 Pro this year.
At other times it’s a hot, laggy mess. Same workload too. Probably just beta software...
 
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FNH15 said:
It’s weird. At times the phone performs smoothly, to the point where I’m considering my plans to upgrade to a 14 Pro this year.
At other times it’s a hot, laggy mess. Same workload too. Probably just beta software...
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Yeah, I’ve had some lagging as well, but it doesn’t really bother me
 
FNH15 said:
Glad I didn’t upgrade, as it is my Ti Series 5 is at 82% health.

So the consensus is beta 5 this week? God I hope so, my XS is getting thrashed by beta 4...
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That is actually not the consensus. Most of us (at least of those who have posted) believe it will be next week.
 
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gank41 said:
I don't think we'll be on Weekly's until Beta 5, and I'm guessing that won't come until next week, Tuesday. Then we'll have roughly 4 more weekly betas until the RC, probably the week you suggested, not counting the random "Friday Fix" or something.
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Yep Ignore me, it was beta 8 we sat on for 2 weeks for iOS 15. I thought, and miss read the Thinky Bits graph, that it was the RC (I think beta 8 was the RC anyway that’s why that was in my head) so worked back from that.

Beat 5 next week… sigh 🥹

Looking back, @gwhizkids is on the money 👍🏼
 
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mcvaughan said:
Seriously? I’m seeing amazing life on my S6.
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yes, I have gone from doing almost two days of autonomy with beta 3, to hopefully 10-12 hours. I don't know why it drains in such an alarming way. I have already restored it twice without any kind of improvement. The charging doesn't work as it should either, it charges too fast. If before from 60 to 100% it took me maybe 40 or 50 minutes, now it takes 15 or 20 minutes, and it never cuts the load, even if it reaches 100%. I know that, because I usually charge it at night, to go to sleep with 100%, and there are times when I got confused and spent more time with 100% already achieved, and when I took off the clock it was fresh. Now I remove it and it is burning, it is as if it is from 0 to 100% permanently the fast charge activated.
apple music doesn't work well either, because out of nowhere it starts downloading ghost songs on the watch, only on the watch, and it keeps taking up space with songs that I don't even have access to in the watch or iphone app. this beta, my series 7 has felt terrible. I don't know if it's a bad OTA update, it looks like it, but now for two weeks like this, it's going to do more cycles than in the previous two months.
 
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yes, I have gone from doing almost two days of autonomy with beta 3, to hopefully 10-12 hours. I don't know why it drains in such an alarming way. I have already restored it twice without any kind of improvement. The charging doesn't work as it should either, it charges too fast. If before from 60 to 100% it took me maybe 40 or 50 minutes, now it takes 15 or 20 minutes, and it never cuts the load, even if it reaches 100%. I know that, because I usually charge it at night, to go to sleep with 100%, and there are times when I got confused and spent more time with 100% already achieved, and when I took off the clock it was fresh. Now I remove it and it is burning, it is as if it is from 0 to 100% permanently the fast charge activated.
apple music doesn't work well either, because out of nowhere it starts downloading ghost songs on the watch, only on the watch, and it keeps taking up space with songs that I don't even have access to in the watch or iphone app. this beta, my series 7 has felt terrible. I don't know if it's a bad OTA update, it looks like it, but now for two weeks like this, it's going to do more cycles than in the previous two months.
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I would do an unpair / re-pair. Beta 4 is way better than beta 3 in battery life.
 
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JCCL said:
Indeed, I couldn't get to end of day with Beta 3 on my Series 5, with Beta 4 battery is lasting as much as it did with WatchOS 8.
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I charged my S7 Watch up to 100% yesterday around 4PM CST, and as of right now Ive still got 61% battery left, more than enough to make it past the 24 hour / 4PM mark. I might be able to go thru until 5-6PM tonight before charging again.

ALTHOUGH I did make the mistake of rebooting my Watch again, and then losing all 3rd party complications AGAIN.. UGH. Another 3 reboots "fixed" that for me again...
 
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H3LL5P4WN said:
Let’s all collectively put out some positive energy aimed at the Space Ship, so we can get a much more stable Beta 5 in about 3.5 hours.
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I would love to but I don't want to get disappointed. I think we won't be getting a new beta this week. Next week seems more likely.
 
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