Does anyone else have problems with the new Emoji keyboard? If I open it, I'm always somewhere in the middle of the "recently used" section, having to swipe to the right to see the first two or three columns of Emojis. As a result, I always have to swipe around to see my 5-10 mostly used Emojis, which are of course at the beginning of the "recently used" section. I'm using the developer beta, btw.
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iOS 8.3 beta 3 bug fixes and changes
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I read that Steve Jobs was obsessive about making sure that the OS was smooth in every possible way, and would not allow code out the door unless this was the case.
We need someone else at the company like this, who absolutely refuses to release crap. I'm starting to believe those old stories that say the reason Apple became so successful is because Steve Jobs was an *******.
We need another ******* at the helm. Tim Cook is a nice guy, but we're not going fishing with him, he's CEO of Apple. That position needs an *******.
Crap? So what would you consider the other software solutions from Microsoft and Google?
Also the Steve Jobs myth in regards to polish needs to finally stop. Just have a look how many issues there where with iOS 5 or Lion, what about mobile me? Let's stop this nonsense once and for all, even under Steve **** got messed up and some would say even more so than iOS 7-8.
I don't like the Job did everything right narrative too, but these are very bad examples. Jobs didn't watch over iOS 5 on his death bed. And this discussion about the worst software producer of all times isn't helpful. I don't care which iOS version was more crap, i just want Apple to fix problems, which exist since 8.0 GM on my iPad. I am glad to see that there a reports about possible performance improvements with 8.3.
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This looks to be new in 8.3 Beta 3, but need someone to confirm.
This morning I missed a call from a business that was not in my contacts, so I went to my missed calls and the phone number had been replaced by the name of the business.
on a related note, clicking the (i) for that call pulled up the full details for that number. Yelp, address, map, etc.
I tried to duplicate it, but it has mysteriously went back to the number and city info only, with the normal (i) information.
This morning I missed a call from a business that was not in my contacts, so I went to my missed calls and the phone number had been replaced by the name of the business.
on a related note, clicking the (i) for that call pulled up the full details for that number. Yelp, address, map, etc.
I tried to duplicate it, but it has mysteriously went back to the number and city info only, with the normal (i) information.
I concur. Steve may have been a great visionary but he didn't always get everything right the first time. Remember AntennaGate? Personally I think Cook is doing a pretty damn good job. Sure iOS 8 has its bugs, however does he personally oversee everything done to the OS? I'm sure Jobs didn't either.
Back on topic here, anyone with a 6 Plus notice that the phone is able to save more data in to RAM? It's not as resource intensive. I had Safari open and was able to jump back 5-6 apps to Blue Alien with no reloading required.
I've had that happen before in previous versions of iOS 8 and possibly as far back as iOS 7.
I personally don’t think that Jobs was too much involved with the engineering aspect. I still think that this design flaw simply went unnoticed during the development stage and was either not discovered at all, discovered but not acted upon or discovered and deemed minor. I think what others mentioned here is more his role as a consumer and his well-known habit of making sure that the end-user experience is top-notch (e.g. no choppy scrolling, attention to detail). Tim Cook talked a great deal about his and his team’s personal experiences with the Apple Watch, mimicking that exact point Jobs was known for.
Yeah exactly, Steve was obviously the man but the myth of everything being perfect with him is just that, a myth.
Under Steve would we have gotten a new design this fast? Probably not
Under Steve would we have gotten a much more open iOS than ever (extensions, etc)? Probably Not
Like you said antenna gate or mobile me where much worse than iOS 7-8 ever was.
To go back on topic anyone with an iPad can check if shake to undo is fixed or is still so sensitive that it basically pops up just looking at the iPad?
Battery still seems to be an issue with the Public Beta release. Seems like every time I press the sleep/wake power button I lose 1% of battery.
This makes sense though...just like every product Apple has made is better now than they were when first introduced. Not sure what you're getting at here.
Yes, I filed a bug on this.
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Yes! Google Hangouts isn't reloading every time I reopen it anymore. This is a fantastic improvement.
Text message issues
I just updated to iOS 8.3 Public Beta yesterday. Today I started having random text messages issues. This only happens with SMS texts (and seems to be limited to group messages), iMessages are just fine and so far it seems 1 to 1 SMS texts are okay as well. The issue is that there seems to be formatting issues with the texts. I seem to be getting all of the formatting and header info on some of the texts I receive, and this makes them illegible. I can't tell if this is an iOS issue or an intra-carrier issue (I'm on t-mobile and the people I've received messages from are on either ATT or Sprint, and possibly Verizion). I know one of the people on a group message didn't receive some texts at all from either myself or another iOS user not on the beta and he's on a driod phone and on a different carrier. I've posted a screen shot of what I'm seeing, so far about 6 of 25 messages have been delivered like this.
EDIT: looks like it is indeed a carrier issue.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6873766
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6873735
http://forums.androidcentral.com/as...ictures-messages-not-showing.html#post4283217
EDIT 2: I just got off the phone with T-Mobile customer service. They are indeed having issues with text messaging. They said they are working on it, but there's no ETA for the fix.
I just updated to iOS 8.3 Public Beta yesterday. Today I started having random text messages issues. This only happens with SMS texts (and seems to be limited to group messages), iMessages are just fine and so far it seems 1 to 1 SMS texts are okay as well. The issue is that there seems to be formatting issues with the texts. I seem to be getting all of the formatting and header info on some of the texts I receive, and this makes them illegible. I can't tell if this is an iOS issue or an intra-carrier issue (I'm on t-mobile and the people I've received messages from are on either ATT or Sprint, and possibly Verizion). I know one of the people on a group message didn't receive some texts at all from either myself or another iOS user not on the beta and he's on a driod phone and on a different carrier. I've posted a screen shot of what I'm seeing, so far about 6 of 25 messages have been delivered like this.
EDIT: looks like it is indeed a carrier issue.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6873766
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6873735
http://forums.androidcentral.com/as...ictures-messages-not-showing.html#post4283217
EDIT 2: I just got off the phone with T-Mobile customer service. They are indeed having issues with text messaging. They said they are working on it, but there's no ETA for the fix.
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So I'm not the only one! Hopefully this is a small taste of the improvements coming with iOS 9.
EDIT: According to Omnistat with no apps running and the phone idle I have 225MB of RAM free with 57MB inactive. This is a major, major improvement. Before I would be lucky to have 180MB free.
iOS 8.3 beta 3 bug fixes and changes
Check your brightness and make sure it's not maxed out. I wish I could limit max brightness (already submitted feedback) since every iPhone I've ever owned overheats when brightness is > 50%. The alternative is I just turn auto brightness off.
Check your brightness and make sure it's not maxed out. I wish I could limit max brightness (already submitted feedback) since every iPhone I've ever owned overheats when brightness is > 50%. The alternative is I just turn auto brightness off.
No setting has been changed, brightness or otherwise, and it only heats up when plugged in. On battery it's as cool as the Squirtle Squad.
