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IOS beta

  • 13-03-2015 8:41am
    #1
    shanec1928
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,206 ✭✭✭


    Anyone else get invited to the IOS beta program? Assume it's anyone who was signed up to OS X beta program got an invite


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  • #2
    Zcott
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,206 ✭✭✭Zcott


    It's apparently a select group of those signed up to the OSX beta. I didn't get an invite :-(


  • #3
    Bob24
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    Zcott wrote: »
    It's apparently a select group of those signed up to the OSX beta. I didn't get an invite :-(

    Same here, I'm registered for the Yosemite beta programme but haven't received anything about iOS.

    Even if I had I wouldn't install it as I don't think getting a couple of new features a few weeks before others is worth risking data loss or having a buggy phone (I was testing Photo beta for iOS and it did mess-up some metadata in my iCloud Photo library).


  • #4
    Creamy Goodness
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    These betas should never be installed on your daily driver phone. It's why I keep last years phone for them :)


  • #5
    Bob24
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    Creamy Goodness wrote: »
    These betas should never be installed on your daily driver phone. It's why I keep last years phone for them :)

    But actually even if you install it on a secondary device, you also need a secondary Apple ID. If you are using your main account and the beta software has a but which lets say swaps phone numbers between your iCloud contacts, this will be synced back to your primary phone and I am not sure Apple will help you troubleshoot the issue.


  • #6
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    well yeah obviously, who doesn't have several AppleIDs lying around?


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  • #7
    Bob24
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,905 ✭✭✭✭Bob24


    Creamy Goodness wrote: »
    well yeah obviously, who doesn't have several AppleIDs lying around?

    I guess what I'm saying is that the interest of the beta programme is limited for someone who isn't a developer.

    You can play with the new software on your previous generation device which doesn't synchronise with your actual data. Might be entertaining for a few hours but then I'd go back to my main device and just wait for the software to get out of beta.


  • #8
    Zcott
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,206 ✭✭✭Zcott


    It turns out you can install the public beta OTA by downloading the public beta profile from elsewhere.

    http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=20841770&postcount=282

    So far so good here.


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