Wait for iOS 16 Beta 4 Now the Longest Since iOS 6

[ohthehorror]

Shock, horror.

 

[gwhizkids]

Deleting Twitter entirely fixes even more things.

Yes. If I did so, I would magically have 2-3 hours more per day.

 

[Realityck]

What apple needs to do is to stop releasing a new OS every year, and move to a 24 month cycle. And give themselves time to develop new features, debug them, and then release them to the public. The bugs I faced on Monterey were the worst I’ve ever faced on a Macintosh ever. Even worse than Catalina which was bad.

Oh so we have twice the features offered, instead of half the features as a yearly cycle.

 

[falkon-engine]

Oh so we have twice the features offered, instead of half the features as a yearly cycle.

I value stability more than all the new features. I use MacBook for work. I need it to work, not kernel panic during resume from sleep.

 

[sjsharksfan12]

Oh my god Apple hasn't released an update in a few weeks. I'm used to major updates once every year, even though I guess security updates happen each month. This article just has privilege and first world problems written all over it.

 

[jonnysods]

I'm on the public beta, and I have to say its pretty solid. A little jittering the other night, so I gave it a reboot. I'd never seen an iPhone behave like that before, but it was only for a few minutes. I still remember the pain of the iOS13 beta. Yikes.

 

[CarAnalogy]

I’m unsure what’s more painful:
1. The fact that I’ve read this article
2. The fact it’s be written in the first place
3. The fact I’m bothering to comment on this post

It’s a slow day for everyone involved…

Not an entirely pointless article. I was already thinking about waiting until at least .1.1 (the inevitable hotfix to .1) to update, the article commentary leads me to believe that this would be a good idea.

 

[Macaholic868]

I’d rather see them take their time and get it right than stick to arbitrary deadlines. Yes, I realize it’s a beta but I’d still rather see quality out of devs than to worry about self imposed or media imposed deadlines.

 

[WWP99]

Probably irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. These things take time.

 

[switz]

Have beta versions on my two iPads (iPad mini v6 and 11" iPad M1 Pro), my iPhone backup device iPhone 13 mini) and my M1 MBAir and M1 14" MBPro Max. I kept the 2019 16" MBPro pristine as I want to leave it it on 12.6 for legacy use.

 

[MCKLMT]

I can't wait for beta 4, really hope they fix the bug they added in beta 3 that made keyboards stop working.

This keyboard bug is driving me crazy as well!

 

[MrGimper]

Take your time. Work out the kinks. No rush.

Not too slow tho, as the idea behind the betas is to allow people to find said kinks

 

[R3k]

I’m unsure what’s more painful:
1. The fact that I’ve read this article
2. The fact it’s be written in the first place
3. The fact I’m bothering to comment on this post

It’s a slow day for everyone involved…

3.

 

[xxFoxtail]

Honestly, I have forgotten numerous times that I’m even running the iOS 16 public beta on my iPhone. I can count the number of issues I’ve run into on one hand. It’s pretty darn solid. Heck, there are general releases of iOS software that are buggier than this first-round public beta.

Now that I say this, Beta 4/Public Beta 2 is probably going to break more stuff and make me eat my words. 😂

It’s been very smooth on my iPhone. My iPad on the other hand has been a buggy mess. Stage Manager crashes at least once a day.

 

[pacmania1982]

I hope that the unlock with watch works again in the next beta. I've tried turning it off and back on again but nope. Also tried updating my watch but nope.

 

[DFZD]

and here I am with a MBA without a Network tab in system preferences. ended up reinstalling the entire beta by wiping, upgrading, and I still dont have a working network tab. this has been exceptionally buggy for me on my MBA and iPad, but my iPhone and MBP have been ok. my work MBA I usually update when the PB releases is still on 15 due to the issues.

Is that an M1 or Intel MBA? It seems like Apple has dumped intel like a hot potato so avoid rushing untested software on intel machines.

 

[upandown]

The article states Mark Gurman speculated it was buggy which didn’t appear to be true as this is one of the smoothest betas I’ve seen maybe ever, for an early beta*. I attribute this to being a very minor update with few changes.

 

[terrapinjess]

Public beta for watchOS and iOS has been pretty good. Only thing I’ve noticed is battery taking a huge hit. Haven’t run into many issues other than apps randomly closing on me, most notably, Music.

 

[pdaholic]

Repeated springboard crashes when I tried to access wallet for boarding passes at the airport made me want to reconsider going back to ios15. The new lock screen is fun, but the beta risk:benefit ratio just isn't worth it to me this year.

 

[uandme72]

If iOS 16 betas are considered buggy, then how did they release iOS 13 which was virtually crap as compared to 14, 15.

 

[mkschenk]

Fine with me, DB3 has been rock solid so far.

Fine with me, DB3 has been rock solid so far.

Lucky, mine has been so buggy it feels like the old days again lol

 

[gwhizkids]

The long national nightmare is over!

 

[CIA]

Work from home slows development?

 

[jarman92]

But without banking apps.

Yeah but that’s the banks’ fault, not the beta.

 

[mkschenk]

Beta 4 is out yall