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iOS beta 5 for iPad observations
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Yes, that's just happened to me twice, had to hold power and home button to reset. But now it seems to be working (the 5 finger pinch to homescreen gesture)... :S
EDIT: Ok, now it's freezing again when I try it :/
Did they take the transparent keyboard and notification center on the iPad mini or is it still there?
They take transparency from keyboard on both iPad 3 and iPad Mini, iPhone 4S... Looks like all those devices with A5 and variants have these transparency disabled. For iPad 3, Apple removed blur on notification centre.
Agree with everyone that the lack of blur/transparency really takes away a lot from the style of the OS. The only thing I'd say is that the dock is still blurred, so hopefully they've taken it out for optimisation rather than totally removed it. If not hopefully the jailbreak community will reimplement it.
I think the problem with the iPad freezing/restarting is a bug related to the multitouch gestures.
I've turned multitouch gestures off and it seems to be working okay now... however it may well start again, this seems to be a very buggy beta.
Seems strange for Apple to release such an unstable beta completely off schedule, they should have waited a week and then released it on their regular schedule...
If you take away the glitchy multitouch gestures though, it's actually a very smoothly running beta on the iPad 2... Much more so than iOS6 even (I think).
I've turned multitouch gestures off and it seems to be working okay now... however it may well start again, this seems to be a very buggy beta.
Seems strange for Apple to release such an unstable beta completely off schedule, they should have waited a week and then released it on their regular schedule...
If you take away the glitchy multitouch gestures though, it's actually a very smoothly running beta on the iPad 2... Much more so than iOS6 even (I think).
The gestures always looked a little funny since the first beta but they weren't buggy like this at all.
All they care about is the iPhone version
If they continue to neglect the iPad in terms of iOS 7 performance optimization, soon they'll be losing even more market share in the tablet industry.
However, this is only beta 4 for iPad. I feel iOS 7 need lot more betas than just 6. It doesn't look good so far.
I would say "It's only a beta" - however, this software needs to be complete in just 1 month now so it can be loaded onto the iPhone 5S+C for its mid-September release (and released to older devices as a software update the same week).
There are some obvious clues that help to explain why iOS7 for iPad is in such a bad state at the moment:
- The iPad 5 (and possibly iPad mini w/Retina) are due out 1 month after the iPhone 5S+C.
- iOS 7 was released in beta nearly a month after the iPhone version.
Apple therefore clearly has just 1 month until iOS7 has to be finished on the iPhone for the iPhone 5S, but 2 months until the iPad version needs to be ready. Apple are probably concentrating on getting the iPhone version finished for the 5S release, and then will concentrate on the iPad version when they are finished (hence why development of iOS7 on the iPad is around a month behind the iPhone version). Basically the whole iPad schedule is 1 month behind the iPhone schedule.
Therefore, I wouldn't be surprised if iOS7 was released in October for iPad (as opposed to September on iPhone) since it doesn't need to be ready until then.
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I do, however, think that Apple have fallen behind schedule somewhere along the line with iOS 7 as the iPad version feels like a blown up iPhone version. Things like the multitasking and especially the music app have been ported straight from the iPhone without thought of how they could be better on iPad.
I reckon iOS 8s main features will be making iOS7s features work better for the iPad (multitasking, music app, etc)
Wow... That was a long post!
There are some obvious clues that help to explain why iOS7 for iPad is in such a bad state at the moment:
- The iPad 5 (and possibly iPad mini w/Retina) are due out 1 month after the iPhone 5S+C.
- iOS 7 was released in beta nearly a month after the iPhone version.
Apple therefore clearly has just 1 month until iOS7 has to be finished on the iPhone for the iPhone 5S, but 2 months until the iPad version needs to be ready. Apple are probably concentrating on getting the iPhone version finished for the 5S release, and then will concentrate on the iPad version when they are finished (hence why development of iOS7 on the iPad is around a month behind the iPhone version). Basically the whole iPad schedule is 1 month behind the iPhone schedule.
Therefore, I wouldn't be surprised if iOS7 was released in October for iPad (as opposed to September on iPhone) since it doesn't need to be ready until then.
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I do, however, think that Apple have fallen behind schedule somewhere along the line with iOS 7 as the iPad version feels like a blown up iPhone version. Things like the multitasking and especially the music app have been ported straight from the iPhone without thought of how they could be better on iPad.
I reckon iOS 8s main features will be making iOS7s features work better for the iPad (multitasking, music app, etc)
Wow... That was a long post!
I'm not sure what you guys are seeing but I have an iPad 4, iPad mini and iPhone 5 running and outside of flipboard crashing when I go to a menu item it's been stable for the past two releases and only getting faster including on the mini.
It's been stable enough that I put my wife's iPhone 5 and iPad 2 on it and outside of issues with the menu bar disappearing or last item not being able to be selected it's been running fine for her.
It's been stable enough that I put my wife's iPhone 5 and iPad 2 on it and outside of issues with the menu bar disappearing or last item not being able to be selected it's been running fine for her.
Everything seems smooth so far on beta 5. Still early. So I haven't tested everything again on my iPad mini and iPhone 5. The one thing that does seem fixed is the wallpaper seems to set fine now (without overly zooming like before)
Edit: For some reason the iPhone I can set my wallpaper fine. My iPad mini still zooms way too much though.
Edit: For some reason the iPhone I can set my wallpaper fine. My iPad mini still zooms way too much though.
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I was having trouble with the multi-touch gestures, but after I turned them off, and then back on again, the multi-touch gestures appear to be working okay now.
Not sure how long it will last!
Not sure how long it will last!
Yes, the pinch to home 4/5 finger multi-touch gesture isn't working (all others are for me though -- iPad 3).
It isn't actually freezing/crashing the iPad though... just Springboard. Use Siri to open Settings App and Springboard will restart.
Should save a few of us some time when we forget not to pinch to home.
Well... I just rebooted from that multi-touch gesture crash. Multi-touch gesture crashes have never happened in pervious beta
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Yes, the pinch to home 4/5 finger multi-touch gesture isn't working (all others are for me though -- iPad 3).
It isn't actually freezing/crashing the iPad though... just Springboard. Use Siri to open Settings App and Springboard will restart.
Should save a few of us some time when we forget not to pinch to home.
Yes, so far it is only seems to be the iPad 3 issue.
True, but every beta is different - we've seen this with other iOS functions through all of the betas so far.
Did you try turning the Gestures OFF, then turning them back ON? That's all I did, and it's been working now.
Try saying, "Turn Wifi Off" and the iPad should respring.
EDIT: Siri is unreliable at respringing
She can still do other things though. Kind of cool that Siri runs at such a deep level independent of Springboard.
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