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iOS 7 Beta 2 Bug Fixes & Changes

Location Services

Has anyone else noticed that the iPhone is checking the location for weather like every 5 minutes? Every time I pick up my phone, it has the location arrow in the status bar. Going into Privacy - Location Services and turning off weather makes the icon go away from the status bar, confirming it is weather and not some other app.
 
jnappleseed said:
Has anyone else noticed that the iPhone is checking the location for weather like every 5 minutes? Every time I pick up my phone, it has the location arrow in the status bar. Going into Privacy - Location Services and turning off weather makes the icon go away from the status bar, confirming it is weather and not some other app.
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Probably a combination of background updates and/or weather information being included in the Today section of Notification Center--you can tweak all those settings separately as well.
 
Tyler23 said:
I know I've seen this around but thought I'd re-ask..

Is anyone else having major problems with iMessage? 90% of the time it sends as text about 3 minutes later, the other 9% it takes about 5 minutes and finally sends as an iMessage, and 1% of the time it works normally and sends immediately as iMessage.

I have turned iMessage off and on, rebooted the phone, etc..Any other possible fixes?
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That's most likely because the person to whom you're sending the iMessage doesn't have an internet connection when you're sending it. After the app notices it doesn't go through, it backsup to SMS. I experience the same thing with a friend who has cellular data turned off on her phone, so she gets iMessages only when she's on wifi. Do you experience the issue with everyone or is it isolated to one person?
 
jnappleseed said:
Has anyone else noticed that the iPhone is checking the location for weather like every 5 minutes? Every time I pick up my phone, it has the location arrow in the status bar. Going into Privacy - Location Services and turning off weather makes the icon go away from the status bar, confirming it is weather and not some other app.
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It's the background app refresh. It's a new feature of iOS 7, where the phone can update certain apps in the background without manually opening them to refresh them. You can turn it off in settings, general, background app refresh.
 
C DM said:
Probably a combination of background updates and/or weather information being included in the Today section of Notification Center--you can tweak all those settings separately as well.
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I suspected the same thing, so I turned off background updating for weather but it continued. The only solution, I found, is to turn off weather entirely in location services.
 
jnappleseed said:
That's most likely because the person to whom you're sending the iMessage doesn't have an internet connection when you're sending it. After the app notices it doesn't go through, it backsup to SMS. I experience the same thing with a friend who has cellular data turned off on her phone, so she gets iMessages only when she's on wifi. Do you experience the issue with everyone or is it isolated to one person?
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Issue with everyone. They are successfully sending messages as iMessages to other people, it's only through me that there's an issue. I had the same issue at first with beta 1, but turning imessage off/on solved it. Not solving it in this case.

The people I am messaging are either in strong cellular area or on wifi. They are having no issues with iMessage, it seems to just be a bug with my phone.
 
Tyler23 said:
It's the background app refresh. It's a new feature of iOS 7, where the phone can update certain apps in the background without manually opening them to refresh them. You can turn it off in settings, general, background app refresh.
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I wouldn't call it a feature when it's draining battery. lol. But yes, I know about the background updating. They should change the update intervals, 15-20 minutes would be fine. Every 5 minutes is just way too much.

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Tyler23 said:
Issue with everyone. They are successfully sending messages as iMessages to other people, it's only through me that there's an issue. I had the same issue at first with beta 1, but turning imessage off/on solved it. Not solving it in this case.

The people I am messaging are either in strong cellular area or on wifi. They are having no issues with iMessage, it seems to just be a bug with my phone.
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I used to have a similar problem when I would restore my iPhone and set it up as a new device. To fix it, I would have to sign out of FaceTime and iMessage on my Mac, then on my iPhone. After doing so, I would first sign back in on my iPhone then Mac, getting the message XXXXX's Mac is now using (xxx) xxx-xxxx and xxxx@xxxx.com for iMessage and Facetime. Try that and see if it works
 
I have a 1 unread text message showing on home screen but there is no new messages. I had this in beta 1 also but it showed up after using beta 1 a few days.
I was hoping it would go away after beta 2 but no luck
 
Some iPad 3 notes:
Transparent keyboard is terribly laggy, just terrible
Animations are fine after disabling Parallax.
I get random resprings followed by a complete freeze of touch response. Reboot usually fixes it, though not necessarily. Already happened twice today.
Tweetbot can't be set-up. I really, really miss it already.
Bookmarks bar doesn't work.
There's no X to close a single tab. Kind of annoying.
 
freemini said:
Some iPad 3 notes:
Transparent keyboard is terribly laggy, just terrible
Animations are fine after disabling Parallax.
I get random resprings followed by a complete freeze of touch response. Reboot usually fixes it, though not necessarily. Already happened twice today.
Tweetbot can't be set-up. I really, really miss it already.
Bookmarks bar doesn't work.
There's no X to close a single tab. Kind of annoying.
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Tweetbot works perfectly fine on my iPad mini.
 
chraos said:
Beta 2 has introduced 2 arrows pointing towards the right with the slide to unlock text, HOWEVER, most people won't see it because seems that Apple forgot to include it with the English language pack. If you switch languages to German (Deutsche) you will see "Entsperren >>". I would expect beta 3 to include it in the english language.
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This is by design. Those who speak German (Deutsche) are easily confused and need the arrows. </s>
 
A concern.

iOS 7 does not notify you when you're finished charging. This isn't an icon that says it's done,
 
Contacts App Bug

I don't know if anyone else has experienced this bug, but for me this was present on beta 1 and migrated over to beta 2. I am running ios 7 beta 2 on my 16gb iPhone 4s. When I enter into the the contacts app, then navigate to my Favorites tab, sometimes it can get stuck where I cannot access my top contact. I have a total of 7 contacts on my favorites list, and my font is on the default size setting, so there has never been any need for me to scroll. Unfortunately, about 40% of the time when I enter into my favorites, the list is stuck in an upward scroll position to where I cannot select the top contact. I can still scroll it downward with my finger to see the top contact, but as soon as I let go it bounces right back up. The top contact hides behind the Favorites label bar. The only way I've resolved this is to get out of the Contacts app, enter into multitasking view, and close the contacts app process. Upon re-entry it tends to be unstuck.

I hope I'm not the only one with this issue. I'm also curious if this is only an issue that affects non iPhone 5 users. Since iPhone 5 has more screen real estate, maybe it gets stuck because the beta is having trouble with the smaller screen size every now and then. I'm sure the majority of the testing Apple conducts is on the iPhone 5 because it is the premier hardware at the moment.
 
BlueGummiBear said:
This is by design. Those who speak German (Deutsche) are easily confused and need the arrows. </s>
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ohhh, thats why German automobiles are so poorly designed and show complete lack of attention to detail. ;)

but seriously, I think the unlock arrows are unnecessary.....even those "easily confused Germans" will learn how to unlock the phone in under 30 seconds and never forget.
 
My issues:

- still a fair amount of lag
- swiping for Notification/Control Center on the home-screen doesn't always work
- music is messed up (wrong art for artist, cover flow view shows almost none of the albums)
- when you open then close an app, your background disappears
- the keyboard is driving me nuts...it isn't correcting words like it should
 
Apple... said:
My issues:

- still a fair amount of lag
- swiping for Notification/Control Center on the home-screen doesn't always work
- music is messed up (wrong art for artist, cover flow view shows almost none of the albums)
- when you open then close an app, your background disappears
- the keyboard is driving me nuts...it isn't correcting words like it should
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Are you on a 4s or a 5?
 
I was able to replicate two previous mentioned bugs today.

After every reboot or respring (which is happening more frequently on b2 than on b1... this one seems to crash more often), I am prompted to re-enter my iCloud password.

Also, with regard to the lock screen randomly losing touch responsiveness, I think it's related to the battery alert. I was able to duplicate when the battery dropped to 20% and I did not dismiss the alert before locking the phone. When I locked it with the alert still open, the lock screen would not respond to touch input and slide to unlock (or open NC, or open CC). Rebooting did not solve the issue -- every time it rebooted, the alert "20% battery remaining" would reappear on top of the lock screen and immediately go into the background. The only way I was able to get it working again was to charge my phone back up to 21%, then unlock it. I believe the battery notification alert is keeping input focus, even when it goes behind the lock screen layer. Would be a killer if I wasn't near a charger.
 
jnappleseed said:
I suspected the same thing, so I turned off background updating for weather but it continued. The only solution, I found, is to turn off weather entirely in location services.
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It's in the beta 2 release notes ... It states that per app background refresh settings are currently ignored. You have to disable all in this release.
 
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