Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
iOS 8.3 beta 3 bug fixes and changes
- Thread starter iPhone20
- WikiPost WikiPost
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
- Status
Ah, that. I thought I noticed it after upgrading to 8.2, but wasnt completely sure if it was just me never really noticing it before or if it was actually something new.
Ok this is interesting. It seems the Dev Beta and Public Beta are the same build. I did a DFU mode restore on my 6 Plus to iOS 8.2 then installed the profile and updated to 8.3 PB1. Everything worked great, and I had the Feedback app.
I restored my phone via iTunes with my backup from 8.3 DB3 and the Feedback app was gone. I checked the build numbers and they were identical. I restored back to DB3 via iTunes and used the backup I made under DB3 and it all worked fine. Of course, no Feedback app.
Just interesting, thought it was worth pointing out. I wonder if this means the PB people will get updates at the same pace as the Devs. I know Yosemite PBs and DBs are different builds and the PBs tend to be staggered.
I restored my phone via iTunes with my backup from 8.3 DB3 and the Feedback app was gone. I checked the build numbers and they were identical. I restored back to DB3 via iTunes and used the backup I made under DB3 and it all worked fine. Of course, no Feedback app.
Just interesting, thought it was worth pointing out. I wonder if this means the PB people will get updates at the same pace as the Devs. I know Yosemite PBs and DBs are different builds and the PBs tend to be staggered.
I completely agree with you on this. When iOS 7 was introduced my big issue was that it was extremely bright. A dark mode would be very well received.
It sure would, I remember in iOS 7.1 beta there was a Dark Keyboard option and I absolutely loved it. I was not happy to see it had been removed in a later build.
MFI Amazon Charger rejected
Guys,
MY MFI certified Amazon private labeled 2.1AMP Car Charger is now being rejected after i upgraded to iOS 8.3 B3?
Anyone having this issue?
Guys,
MY MFI certified Amazon private labeled 2.1AMP Car Charger is now being rejected after i upgraded to iOS 8.3 B3?
Anyone having this issue?
I love the dark keyboard when you use spotlight on iOS. This keyboard is too bright even at night when turning brightness all the way down.
Music still has a problem where it thinks it has reached the end of a song partway through then moves to the next song in the middle of the track. Very annoying; it's been like this since iOS 8.0.
Looks like this change came with 8.2 I just looked at my iPhone 4S 8.2, iPhone 5 (8.1.3) and iPhone 6 (8.3 b3) I see the change between iOS 8.1.3 and 8.2 but no change between 8.2 and 8.3 b3
I must say i'm pretty happy with the battery life on 8.3 b3
wifi on, bt on, background refresh on, location service on, auto brightness on, iCloud photo library on, 4G on.
wifi on, bt on, background refresh on, location service on, auto brightness on, iCloud photo library on, 4G on.
Attachments
Last edited:
Very disappointed to see this is still an issue. It happened to me yesterday.
I have seen this too. IMHO, the Music app is borked in general. It has never worked with large music libraries for the past few iOS releases. I have a feeling that with the rise of subscription music and their relaunch of Beats, they aren't spending much time on the Music app either...
I just installed the beta on my iPod touch and after syncing for the first time it removed nearly all of the album cover art plus the photos of the artists that are automatically added. The album art is still there in iTunes so I'm not sure why that happened.
Edit: It's not syncing anything either now. I'm using a 32 bit Macbook running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. Haven't had a problem before.
Edit: It's not syncing anything either now. I'm using a 32 bit Macbook running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. Haven't had a problem before.
Last edited:
There's your problem. iOS 8 isn't officially compatible with OS X Snow Leopard because the last version of iTunes it runs is version 11. iOS 8 requires iTunes 12.0 or newer. I don't know why you didn't have problems before, but your going to have to buy a newer Mac or a PC.
Another option would be to Boot Camp Windows 7 or 8 on your machine (Win8 drivers on this machine are a PITA, I have a 2.0GHz Core Duo MB as well) which, believe it or not, Apple still makes iTunes in 32-bit mode for these OSes. Both of which run pretty decent on that MacBook.
That must be it. I'm in the process of transferring all 100GB of my iTunes to an external drive (formatted in FAT32) and will try and transfer my library as cleanly as possible to my 2014 Windows 8.1 machine. My biggest thing is retaining playlists, playcount etc in the transfer so hopefully that's doable in the transition.
Edit: Copied everything over to the Windows machine, playcounts and playlists are intact etc. However the iPod now gets stuck on step 5 for awhile, waiting for changes to be applied, then does the same thing. It's acting nearly identical to the Macbook. There are also nearly 2000 songs that can't be found (despite being in the music folder) but that's another issue. I have to believe it's an 8.3 bug at this point or something wrong with my iTunes file.
Last edited:
It's both. Some times moving iTunes data from one machine to the other (even if both are on the same platform) you can loose data. I was moving a small iTunes library from my Mac Pro to my MacBook Pro and I lost about 10 songs. They had to be redownloaded from iTunes. It happens, but I have never had that many songs go missing and I have been using iTunes for almost a decade.
As for it getting stuck in the sync, I'd wipe the iPod and start fresh. If that is not possible, then at least restore the firmware and restore your backup. Since the update was done with a version of iTunes that isn't supported by iOS 8, it probably didn't install properly and is causing problems. Or, iTunes for Windows is still crappy coding compared to its OS X counterpart (it was like this for quite a while).
Thanks for your help. I've never had that many songs missing either. The thing is, they're there and I can easily find them in the proper folder with "Locate this song", I don't know why iTunes can't see them. Is there a way of finding entire albums at once or do I have to click and find each song?
You're probably right that it has something to do with my using an unsupported OS for the iPod. This didn't start happening until I upgraded to the 8.3 beta so my hope is a further update will fix my issues. There's still cover art missing, albums that synced with the photo of the artist showing but album art missing etc. I don't get it at all.
Edit: It's definitely an 8.3 issue. I synced my 8.2 iPad Air with my iTunes library just fine on the Windows machine (it had also previously been syncing with the 32 bit Macbook). This leads me to believe the .itl file isn't damaged. The iPod touch backed itself up, then actually resynced the missing album artwork and then took it away again the next time I plugged it in so it's acting wonky. I'll wait for an update to the software instead of downgrading and then not install further betas.
Last edited:
Battery life seems worse for me. No resprings so far, but the rotation issue is bugging me.
iPhone 6+
iPhone 6+
Both my iPad Air 2 and 6plus have Been flawless upto now it's good to see that the copy n paste problems I was having are sorted in this beta
Just found an odd bug in iOS 8.3 beta 3. Try invoking Spotlight and searching for "million". Once you hit the second "i", Spotlight (and everything else in the foreground) freezes up totally. A hard reboot of the device (hold down Power and Home for 5 seconds, until the Apple logo appears) is needed.
EDIT: This issue doesn't occur on my iPad Air, which has no music loaded in the Music app, while my iPhone does, and has a song called "8 million W T D" there (which happens to be what I was looking for). From this additional testing I can conclude that music searching is horribly buggy and prone to freezing the device, not the specific query of "million".
EDIT: This issue doesn't occur on my iPad Air, which has no music loaded in the Music app, while my iPhone does, and has a song called "8 million W T D" there (which happens to be what I was looking for). From this additional testing I can conclude that music searching is horribly buggy and prone to freezing the device, not the specific query of "million".
In the process of reproducing the issue I had to reboot the phone 3 times. At least it's consistent at occurring. Happens reliably every time I try.
EDIT: Now I can't reproduce it. Yay, I guess.
EDIT 2: Tried "8 mil" - was going to type million but it froze again. How delightfully odd.
Last edited:
The share function in any applications, safari share to telegram, open in icab, in opera coast, not works.
Not only in safari, in Newsify also fail
Not only in safari, in Newsify also fail