iOS 11 - Developer, public beta and official release

Sad Professor

I think it's time for a new thread.

For anyone who missed the keynote, here's a link to Apple's preview page for iOS 11. The headline features are a new Files app for managing documents, a redesigned Control Centre, new App Store, and significant improvements to iPad multitasking, including drag and drop. However, there's hundreds of other new features and changes, many of which have been long sought after. Here's 9to5Mac's video walkthrough:

Developer beta is available now for developers, public beta is available at the end of July (sign up here), and the official release is in September/October.

So, any thoughts on iOS 11? I'd really recommend the video above, it's long but gives a good overview of the many tweaks and improvements.

murpho999

I was on he IOS 10 beta.

Does that carry over or do I need to sign up again?

Sad Professor

murpho999 wrote: »

I was on he IOS 10 beta.

Does that carry over or do I need to sign up again?

Usually, yes, you have to sign up again as its a separate profile.

murpho999

Sad Professor wrote: »

Usually, yes, you have to sign up again as its a separate profile.

Ok, I signed in and got as far as "Enrolling your device'

I download mobile.config and in bottom right it gives me the 'open in' option and then says that no application on this device can open the file.

Any ideas?

Sad Professor

murpho999 wrote: »

Ok, I signed in and got as far as "Enrolling your device'

I download mobile.config and in bottom right it gives me the 'open in' option and then says that no application on this device can open the file.

Any ideas?

Weird. Tapping on download profile should take you straight to the install screen, no "open in" option. Does it actually say "no application on this device"? That doesn't even sound like an Apple error message. Are you currently running a beta? Maybe it's a bug.

murpho999

Sad Professor wrote: »

Weird. Tapping on download profile should take you straight to the install screen, no "open in" option. Does it actually say "no application on this device"? That doesn't even sound like an Apple error message. Are you currently running a beta? Maybe it's a bug.

Got it.

I made the mistake of opening it first in Google Chrome.
Just did it in safari and it has worked fine.

Also, that video above really shows what a good update iOS11 is.

Sad Professor

murpho999 wrote: »

Got it.

I made the mistake of opening it first in Google Chrome.
Just did it in safari and it has worked fine.

Ah that makes sense.

Also, that video above really shows what a good update iOS11 is.

Yeah, a lot of good stuff. Message syncing is very welcome and should make doing a full restore a lot less painful.

murpho999

Sad Professor wrote: »

Ah that makes sense.



Yeah, a lot of good stuff. Message syncing is very welcome and should make doing a full restore a lot less painful.

Also the control centre, the amount of customisation on it is great. Very un-Apple like. Welcome though.

waynegalway

Is the public beta out yet?

murpho999

waynegalway wrote: »

Is the public beta out yet?

No, out at the end of June.

eeloe

I've installed iOS 11 on my Air 2.

Seems stable enough. the screen recorder is pretty good.

There's gonna be some seriously dodgy goings on on snapchat with this!

Wonder should i chance installing it on the phone.....hmmmm

Zcott

Definitely going to jump on the public beta of this when it comes out.

Sad Professor

The new image formats have put a damper on any enthusiasm I have for the public beta. I don't want the cloud syncing compatibility headaches I had to endure with iCloud Drive.

naasrd

Zcott wrote: »

Definitely going to jump on the public beta of this when it comes out.

There's a couple of links to it knocking around, I've installed it on my phone and ipad, also put watchOS 4 on too. All running really well so far.

Zcott

naasrd wrote: »

There's a couple of links to it knocking around, I've installed it on my phone and ipad, also put watchOS 4 on too. All running really well so far.

I'd thought about it but I can wait a few weeks for the public beta. I picked up the new 10.5" iPad and while it's great, it's really designed for iOS 11.

peteeeed

The public beta site is down currently

Sad Professor

Beta 2 is out now.

Ya-Boy-Ya

How do I get a public version of IOS 11 beta ??

peteeeed

Ya-Boy-Ya wrote: »

How do I get a public version of IOS 11 beta ??

Not out yet , devolper beta 2 is out so maybe tomorrow

naasrd

Ya-Boy-Ya wrote: »

How do I get a public version of IOS 11 beta ??

There’s a few links to,the dev beta knocking about. Pretty stable on iPad and iPhone. watchOS the same, this beta adds the Toy Story watch faces.

ibFoxer

peteeeed wrote: »

Not out yet , devolper beta 2 is out so maybe tomorrow

Wasn't the iOS 10 beta something like 20 days between dev 1 and public 1? Just speculating it could possibly be next week before public is seen. Hopefully tomorrow though.

Gwildor

Public beta 4 out now...

Zcott

Gwildor wrote: »

Public beta 4 out now...

That's of 10.3.3.

Gwildor

Zcott wrote: »

That's of 10.3.3.

Dope! Wrong thread!

DubDJ

What's the situation with running public betas and using an Apple Watch? As there isn't a public beta for the watchOS will they both work ok together? E.g. using watchOS 3 with iOS 11.

I know there could be feature incompatibilities between the two so I wasn't sure if it would cause issues. Think it's the only OS that they don't offer a public beta for currently.

Aquos76

Mr.S wrote: »

FYI anyone tempted by the developer Beta 2 - it's a little tricky to downgrade easily back to iOS 10, so stick to Beta 1 if you really need to try it out - or wait for the public release.

My young lad had terrible problems downgrading from beta 2 back to ios10, he eventually managed it but now his home button no longer works. The touch id does work so he's able to unlock the handset. He spent ages over the weekend to support and they are sending him out a a box to ship the phone back to them as they are saying its just a hardware fault that has nothing to do with ios11. I dunno though as he never had any problems with the home button before trying to go back to ios10.

ibFoxer

Hopefully there's a public beta soon, i'm eager to try it but i'd rather wait to see how others get on with it.

arch_stanton

Last year public beta 1 came on July 7 so it might be another week or so before we get a public beta of ios 11

arch_stanton

arch_stanton wrote: »

Last year public beta 1 came on July 7 so it might be another week or so before we get a public beta of ios 11

So much for that theory :-s, the public betas are available now

peteeeed

Not showing up yet but should be in the next couple of hours

DubDJ

Tempted by this public beta but haven't seen much about how well it performs. Curious to how anybody here who tries it gets on.

peteeeed

Mr.S wrote: »

Did you install the public beta profile on your device? Working fine for me

Yeah , was on a few apple sites , no one is getting it now , maybe over loaded at the minute

peteeeed

Working again

Ya-Boy-Ya

Ok I read online IOS11 is available but all Im getting is IOS 10 3.3 ???

Ya-Boy-Ya

Getting it now

Simply Red

Anyone that's installed it, is it stable enough for main device?

murpho999

Ya-Boy-Ya wrote: »

Ok I read online IOS11 is available but all Im getting is IOS 10 3.3 ???

Same for me even though I have the beta profile installed.

Anybody any ideas?

Sad Professor

murpho999 wrote: »

Same for me even though I have the beta profile installed.

Anybody any ideas?

Sure you have the iOS 11 beta profile?

peteeeed

murpho999 wrote: »

Same for me even though I have the beta profile installed.

Anybody any ideas?

I had to delete the profile and reinstall a couple of times before it worked

arch_stanton

Simply Red wrote: »

Anyone that's installed it, is it stable enough for main device?

No major problems so far on a 7 plus but it’s eating through the battery today. Looking at the battery usage it seems that it’s been doing something in the background all day with the photos. I don’t think it converts them to the new format but it could be scanning for facial recognition and all the other AI cleverness

Sad Professor

I could live with the bugginess but not the terrible battery life. I'll wait for the final release or close to it.

Zcott

Battery life great here on the 10.5.

peteeeed

Battery life fine with 11 on my iPad (2017)haven’t updated my 7 plus

ibFoxer

Decided, probably foolishly, to put it on the iPhone 6s. Will see how the battery life plays out. So far everything seems to be working okay, will report any issues i happen across.

peteeeed

Really liking it so far , the keyboard , multitasking working very well

peteeeed

Task bar is also really good

The Black Oil

Installed it on iPod Touch 6th gen. Will see how it goes. Reminders app still not working.

Zapp Brannigan

Not having the 3D Touch app switcher is a pain in the arse.

murpho999

Sad Professor wrote: »

Sure you have the iOS 11 beta profile?

peteeeed wrote: »

I had to delete the profile and reinstall a couple of times before it worked

Yes, I reinstalled the profile and now have iOS11 installed.

Like it so far. Seems pretty stable and don't notice any extra battery drain on iPhone 6.

New control centre is best feature so far.

ibFoxer

Since I took the phone off charge at 100% this morning at 7.33 it has gone down 13%:

Roughly 20 minutes of Spotify through the Beats X

2 phone calls totalling 11:47

Some moderate texting, browsing and Facebook usage.

Pretty happy with that for battery life, I’d say it’s no worse than 10.3.2 for me. Phone is connected via Bluetooth to my Apple Watch all day, wifi is turned off, brightness is set at about a quarter on the slider.

chrislad

Is there a beta of the Apple WatchOS 4? I got asked to set up my watch with a beta profile but don't see any updates available yet.