iOS 7.1 Beta 2 Bug Fixes and Changes

[Parise]

Every year when the minor release numbers get incremented I keep asking the same question, because I honestly forget.

When they introduced 6.1, were any new features added that proved to be quite useful? Or was it simply a bug fixing release?

 

[thedeejay]

Every year when the minor release numbers get incremented I keep asking the same question, because I honestly forget.

When they introduced 6.1, were any new features added that proved to be quite useful? Or was it simply a bug fixing release?

This one seems to be more of a refinement. It's too early to tell. But celebrate the joy of the new calendar with us all.

 

[marvz]

But celebrate the joy of the new calendar with us all.

This. Didn't thought we would get this back as soon as with 7.1.

 

[mcfly88]

did they change the shade of the status bar or am I just imagining things?

 

[Howard Ellacott]

Wow... Animations in the video look as if the video was running in 2x speed... It was the #1 reason I sold my 5S and bought the Nexus 5!! me miss me iphone baahhaa

that seems like a silly reason to change your whole phone experience...

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I noticed that now where you're trying to manually fast forward the music you're playing in the lock screen it doesn't accidentally swipe to the passcode. Now it stays still.

I always use to swipe by accident to the passcode or sometimes it wouldn't register my swipe correctly.

This has been annoying me for ages! I find it also does it with the volume one, has that been fixed too?

 

[C DM]

This one seems to be more of a refinement. It's too early to tell. But celebrate the joy of the new calendar with us all.

Yeah, the improvements to the calendar app and calendar events in the today section of notification center are definitely welcome.

The overall increase in speed/responsiveness makes it all that much better too.

 

[rtomyj]

except for parallaxing wallpaper, zooming vs fading apps, glossy transparency vs solid colours, font size, font thickness, optional shapes around button words...

the black keyboard looked much classier to my eye. subjective opinion, yes, but you don't even have to like it. it was a nice option for those who preferred it, and was a cruel tease that it went in and then was taken out.

This. People forget that you can control a lot of the look on OS X. It is now happening to iOS. Not as much as Android, but I never wanted Android on my iPhone.

 

[emulajavi]

did they change the shade of the status bar or am I just imagining things?
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It seems they finally did!! The kryptonite green was painful

Could you also post a screenshot of the red bar that appears where recording audio?


Thanks

 

[djrod]

Here you go. Animations do seem noticeably faster

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8LC_8jFYGo

Hello there shurmano

 

[ahmet]

it seems they finally did!! The kryptonite green was painful



could you also post a screenshot of the red bar that appears where recording audio?





Thanks

 

[Zmanbaseball2]

iOS 7.1 Beta 2 Bug Fixes and Changes

This sometimes happens after I close all the apps in multitasking:

iPad air

 

[Paddle1]

Where does the option to turn of animations and translucency stand then as it is now?

Accessibility options.

 

[snowcrash]

My contact app doesn't load at all anymore. Was messing around editing a contact and the app crashed. Tried to open it again and it crashed, killed the app and tried again and it crashed, reboot the phone opened the app and crashed.

Luckily it's still accessible via the phone contact icon but going straight in to contacts via the app itself crashes the app so be warned using beta 2 on a daily driver. (It's a beta).

I found a workaround (that worked for me at least). Not sure what happened but every time the contact app would load it flashed the last contact I was editing (mine) and then would suddenly just crash out of it. I couldn't do anything before it would crash. Yet like I mentioned contacts opened fine in the phone app. So what I did was edit my contact from the phone app (just added a letter to my last name) closed it and for curiosity sake tried to open the contact app again and "BOOM"!!! It worked! And didn't crash. I even edited my name back (without the extra letter) saved, closed and reopened and all seems to work.

So if anyone runs in to this while editing a contact try that and hopefully that gets you back. Or just don't install betas on primary iPhones lol.

 

[PNutts]

This. Didn't thought we would get this back as soon as with 7.1.

Yes (calendar list view) and buttons.

I suppose there are two lines of thought:

1. Apple is reversing it's design decisions based on user feedback.
2. The UI wasn't finished and we'll see more items appear.

Personally, I believe the second one. iOS 7 was rushed out the door.

 

[MikhailT]

Has safari crash been fixed I don't care about anything else please

Yes (calendar list view) and buttons.

I suppose there are two lines of thought:

1. Apple is reversing it's design decisions based on user feedback.
2. The UI wasn't finished and we'll see more items appear.

Personally, I believe the second one. iOS 7 was rushed out the door.

Same here. This is precisely why Apple rarely does a complete UI redesign in one single release on OS X and how it should technically be done.

When I saw that iOS 7 was going to be a complete redesign and with so little time, I knew it was going to take a few major releases before everybody's back to happy mode.

For now, it looks like iOS 8/9 is going to finally reveal what Apple had in mind and why they needed to do this in a single release so quickly. It feels like Apple needed to rush this out to reveal major features properly down the line.

Look at the recent iWork release, they purposely reset all apps on web, iOS, and OS X to match the same feature parity. It did remove several features that everybody's used to but Apple's already revealed that they're going to release several updates in the next 6 months to return many of those features.

Apple's switching all of its development teams to release smaller but more frequent updates type of schedule instead of every 2-3 years.

For now, 7.1 is looking to be a fine release so far.

 

[SMIDG3T]

Hey guys

What's the new wallpaper for ipads?

It's this one. Let this page load fully and you'll see it.

http://9to5mac.com/2013/12/13/apple-releases-ios-7-1-beta-2-to-developers/#jp-carousel-301590

 

[batting1000]

Is assistive touch bug fixed?

Nope. Workaround is to just wait an extra half-second before pressing home.

 

[Zmanbaseball2]

Is this happening to anyone else: (no album artwork)

 

[Billymac19]

Is this happening to anyone else: (no album artwork)
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happened to me with beta 1, seems back to normal on beta 2, which beta you on??

 

[Zmanbaseball2]

happened to me with beta 1, seems back to normal on beta 2, which beta you on??

Beta 2. I just synced with iTunes and all the artwork synced. Now back to normal.

 

[kockgunner]

This. People forget that you can control a lot of the look on OS X. It is now happening to iOS. Not as much as Android, but I never wanted Android on my iPhone.

It's like Apple doesn't want to admit their design choices were wrong so they list the settings under Accessibility

 

[bucksaddle]

The shuffle button that displays next to each album when viewing music by artist now only shuffles that album instead of the entire artist collection. This is a fix I've been waiting for.

 

[TC03]

Too bad no one makes a decent side-by-side by animation comparison with iOS 7.0.4.

 

[cobbyco]

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did they change the shade of the status bar or am I just imagining things?
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They seem to be using the colours from the colour scheme now:

 

[marvz]

They seem to be using the colours from the colour scheme now:
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Which color scheme is this or from where does it come?