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IOS 6 Beta 1: stability
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The official advice is not to use the beta on your "real" devices but it seems that nobody follows that from the posts on this forum. That said, it seems useable to me although not if you need reliable maps ... that part is definitely still in development. The app store is a bit buggy too but nothing serious.
It seems my WiFi only 3rd generation iPad doesn't like WiFi. There's some irony for you I suppose. I reset my router, disabled security, reset network settings on the iPad, restored as new...nothing worked.
Seems I won't be on the beta boat this time around since without WiFi, my iPad is pretty much useless for anything I need.
Seems I won't be on the beta boat this time around since without WiFi, my iPad is pretty much useless for anything I need.
Maps crashes when I try and search for anything 100% of the time.
Music stops playing and forgets my position when I exit the music app 50% of the time.
Like in the first iOS 5 beta I have the US app store even though I am in the UK.
No other issues so far.
Music stops playing and forgets my position when I exit the music app 50% of the time.
Like in the first iOS 5 beta I have the US app store even though I am in the UK.
No other issues so far.
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I've experienced a few crashes so far, but some of them were related to the fact that I was pulling massive amounts of data for the restore, so I let them slide.
All in all it's pretty stable, but still obviously beta software. Beta means beta. I don't understand why people assume this is the release version. It was specifically beta'ed for the EXACT PURPOSE of finding bugs. Everytime it crashes, Apple learns something they didn't know before.
With that said, I've noticed a little weirdness with iTunes Match and music, sometimes it signs me out whenever I log into my iTunes/iCloud account with the other AppleID. My iCloud Email and AppleID are different (however interchangeable in everything). Weirdly though, iTunes Match does a MUCH better job of actually working in iOS6 than it did in iOS5. Apart from being signed out twice, which wasn't a big deal, I haven't been able to trip it up.
Seriously though, there are new features EVERYWHERE, and most of them aren't publicized.
Read the release notes over at the Dev center. Cool stuff they fixed/added.
All in all it's pretty stable, but still obviously beta software. Beta means beta. I don't understand why people assume this is the release version. It was specifically beta'ed for the EXACT PURPOSE of finding bugs. Everytime it crashes, Apple learns something they didn't know before.
With that said, I've noticed a little weirdness with iTunes Match and music, sometimes it signs me out whenever I log into my iTunes/iCloud account with the other AppleID. My iCloud Email and AppleID are different (however interchangeable in everything). Weirdly though, iTunes Match does a MUCH better job of actually working in iOS6 than it did in iOS5. Apart from being signed out twice, which wasn't a big deal, I haven't been able to trip it up.
Seriously though, there are new features EVERYWHERE, and most of them aren't publicized.
Read the release notes over at the Dev center. Cool stuff they fixed/added.
I find this BETA slow. Also I can see that some application is using the location service, and what a surprise guess GPS will drain my battery coz i have Setting time zone turned on to location. wow.
Maps dont have the turn by turn voice yet, no route recalculation, so its pointless at this stage to be honest. No 3d view for my country.
I did download it and will continue testing but it seems more raw than ios 5.
Maps dont have the turn by turn voice yet, no route recalculation, so its pointless at this stage to be honest. No 3d view for my country.
I did download it and will continue testing but it seems more raw than ios 5.
I find the performance to be pretty good..only thing that lags sometimes is typing in the messages app..
I noticed a weird bug that my brightness on my 4S seems to drop back down to zero unexpectedly (auto brightness is off)
other than that, its been running pretty smooth on my new iPad and 4S
I noticed a weird bug that my brightness on my 4S seems to drop back down to zero unexpectedly (auto brightness is off)
other than that, its been running pretty smooth on my new iPad and 4S
Agree also i noticed that theres a bug in screen brightness settings..
too dark at restart and hurtful in 100 %
Maps is awesome too
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Did you ever get this resolved? I did on my iPad but nothing I try on my iPhone 4S gets me to the UK store.
There is a thread with over 200 responses about the bugs and flaws of iOS 6 so far. If you want to check it out, follow the link...
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1384604
Very usable. A few little bugs here and there, but nothing that hinders daily performance. Very smooth so far, and I can only assume it will get even better with each beta release, but from the gate it's quite polished.
running well here,
only one app crashes on me. but not all the time,
maps is a bit of a issue, still needs work.
but for a first beta, not too bad.
only one app crashes on me. but not all the time,
maps is a bit of a issue, still needs work.
but for a first beta, not too bad.
