iOS 14

DubDJ · 22-06-2020 9:03pm #1

So Apple just dropped iOS 14 with a redesigned app screen for the first time since iOS was introduced. The Maps and Messages features are welcome, as well as the extras such as Clips and picture-in-picture mode. It will be interesting to see how stable this release is after iOS 13 was one of the more bug-filled releases.

Anyone tempted to install the developer beta on their daily device?

peteeeed · 22-06-2020 9:10pm

Not beta 1

DubDJ · 22-06-2020 9:30pm

I’d never install the dev beta but am tempted at the public one. Don’t know if I wanna risk it though. Suppose it’s better to wait and see how buggy the update is.

Micky 32 · 22-06-2020 11:06pm

Mr.S wrote: »

Incoming calls not taking up the whole screen is finally here, that only took years

Going to try it on my ipad pro, downloading now. I might chance my iphone pro max if it seems ok on the ipad.

JohnnyFlash · 22-06-2020 11:22pm

Being able to use a 3rd party browser as your default browser is a big plus. No more Safari opening by default.

awec · 22-06-2020 11:29pm

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Being able to use a 3rd party browser as your default browser is a big plus. No more Safari opening by default.

Can only imagine that Apple are starting to really worry about the EU.

If only they’d done it for maps too, to save us all having to suffer the absolute garbage that Apple maps gives us.

pad199207 · 22-06-2020 11:37pm

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Being able to use a 3rd party browser as your default browser is a big plus. No more Safari opening by default.

So does this mean we are going to get these pop ups asking what browser ya want to use to open every link every time?

DubDJ · 23-06-2020 9:14am

Cool new feature of iOS 14, you can double tap the back of tour iPhone to trigger shortcuts (e.g. open Notification Center, camera etc.)

https://twitter.com/bengeskin/status/1275206369755398145

IamMetaldave · 23-06-2020 9:29am

I'd love the default music to be optional..

I'll probably give the publlc beta a spin on my daily device. Might wait a couple of days to see how others are finding it.

deep1 · 23-06-2020 11:08am

Have it installed since last night and not a single issue so far.
No app crash, battery is good for 1st beta, very fluid, loving it so far. iPhone 11 Pro.

IamMetaldave · 23-06-2020 11:11am

deep1 wrote: »

Have it installed since last night and not a single issue so far.
No app crash, battery is good for 1st beta, very fluid, loving it so far. iPhone 11 Pro.

Looking at Twitter, the general opinion seems to be pretty good across the board!

23-06-2020 11:16am

awec wrote: »

Can only imagine that Apple are starting to really worry about the EU.

If only they’d done it for maps too, to save us all having to suffer the absolute garbage that Apple maps gives us.

I still try and use it because it fits in so much better in CarPlay. Hopefully the new updates for here announced will make it more useful.

23-06-2020 11:18am

deep1 wrote: »

Have it installed since last night and not a single issue so far.
No app crash, battery is good for 1st beta, very fluid, loving it so far. iPhone 11 Pro.

Developer account is needed at this stage isn’t it? I just stuck the Beta back on my ipad but it only updated to 13.6.

Shn99 · 23-06-2020 11:20am

Is there something wrong with my phone? Installed the first beta last night and it runs perfectly! Very surprised

deep1 · 23-06-2020 12:21pm

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Developer account is needed at this stage isn’t it? I just stuck the Beta back on my ipad but it only updated to 13.6.

Not sure about iPad but for iOS public profile is floating around and can be installed with dev account.

deep1 · 23-06-2020 12:21pm

deep1 wrote: »

Not sure about iPad but for iOS public profile is floating around and can be installed with dev account.

You need to have right profile, you might have iOS 13 beta profile.

Gregor Samsa · 23-06-2020 12:27pm

I won't go near the Dev beta, but every year I say I'll wait until the final release, and every year I end up installing the Public Beta on my daily phone after about the second or third release. There's been a few glitches here and there, sometimes a bit of extra battery drain, but nothing that's so bad or lasts long enough that I regret it or revert back to the official release. Of course, there's no guarantees. We'll see how my patience lasts this year after the PB is out a while and people are using it.

FourFourRED · 23-06-2020 12:34pm

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

I won't go near the Dev beta, but every year I say I'll wait until the final release, and every year I end up installing the Public Beta on my daily phone after about the second or third release. There's been a few glitches here and there, sometimes a bit of extra battery drain, but nothing that's so bad or lasts long enough that I regret it or revert back to the official release. Of course, there's no guarantees. We'll see how my patience lasts this year after the PB is out a while and people are using it.

Once the first Public Beta comes out, you’re essentially just running the 2nd or 3rd Developer Beta at that stage. The only difference is the naming of them and if you’re on the developer profile, you usually get the updates a day or so early.

Gregor Samsa · 23-06-2020 12:39pm

FourFourFM wrote: »

Once the first Public Beta comes out, you’re essentially just running the 2nd or 3rd Developer Beta at that stage. The only difference is the naming of them and if you’re on the developer profile, you usually get the updates a day or so early.

True, but the PB (particularly after the 1st release) will have had a lot more people using it than the Dev beta, and more using it on daily devices rather than developer dedicated ones, reporting on real world issues, etc.

FourFourRED · 23-06-2020 1:11pm

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

True, but the PB (particularly after the 1st release) will have had a lot more people using it than the Dev beta, and more using it on daily devices rather than developer dedicated ones, reporting on real world issues, etc.

For sure it’s more to highlight the reality that once it goes public, people are getting the same thing from then on. There is a common misconception that the developer beta is more of a risk for some reason when it’s the same builds.

23-06-2020 1:16pm

deep1 wrote: »

You need to have right profile, you might have iOS 13 beta profile.

Yeah I think it must be that. I haven’t a developer account though anyway so I’ll check back for the 14 beta profile next month.

GhostyMcGhost · 23-06-2020 1:33pm

Got the iPad profile from betaprofiles and then went to software update via settings

Looks strange, anyone else see this? They’re one and the same so maybe it’s ok, not sure. iOS version was developer

23-06-2020 1:49pm

Does using a developer profile kill Apple Pay?

Shn99 · 23-06-2020 1:51pm

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Does using a developer profile kill Apple Pay?

No

Rtg78 · 23-06-2020 3:19pm

DubDJ wrote: »

So Apple just dropped iOS 14 with a redesigned app screen for the first time since iOS was introduced. The Maps and Messages features are welcome, as well as the extras such as Clips and picture-in-picture mode. It will be interesting to see how stable this release is after iOS 13 was one of the more bug-filled releases.

Anyone tempted to install the developer beta on their daily device?

I installed it yesterday right after the keynote on my ip11 pro max which is my daily driver and I have to say so far it hasn’t skipped a beat! I’ve yet to encounter a single bug. Not a single app crashed on me all animations are smooth like butter no frames dropped nothing! And it’s blazing fast. I’m impressed. Feels like final release tbh. At least for me.

Shn99 · 23-06-2020 3:22pm

One would have to wonder will firms even take advantage of app clips in ireland?

23-06-2020 3:22pm

I’ve stuck it on both now too. Apart from adding/removing widgets on iPad OS being a bit broken I’ve seen little else wrong. The apps asking for network access all the time is a little annoying though.

murpho999 · 23-06-2020 6:22pm

Shn99 wrote: »

One would have to wonder will firms even take advantage of app clips in ireland?

Why wouldn't they?

You see QR codes everywhere?

Ireland is not behind other countries.

23-06-2020 6:25pm

murpho999 wrote: »

Why wouldn't they?

You see QR codes everywhere?

Ireland is not behind other countries.

Most of the time things like this get uptake within a 20km radius of San Francisco.

23-06-2020 6:27pm

The Weather widget on the home screen is a bit dodgy too. Lasted on my location for a while but now has just defaulted to Cupertino.

Shn99 · 23-06-2020 7:47pm

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

The Weather widget on the home screen is a bit dodgy too. Lasted on my location for a while but now has just defaulted to Cupertino.

Same has happened to me

23-06-2020 7:48pm

Shn99 wrote: »

Same has happened to me

Reboot has fixed it for now.

DubDJ · 23-06-2020 10:28pm

Honestly surprised at how people are finding the dev betas so far, I expected a lot of bugs and issues that would make it a no-go. Especially with such drastic changes to the app layout and things like picture-in-picture. Not just simple app redesigns or small feature additions.

I’ll be interested to see if macOS 11 is a mess this year, that had such drastic changes it probably takes a lot of hits.

Still, it’s welcome Apple could pull together such a polished beta 1 especially with the current climate.

Shn99 · 23-06-2020 10:30pm

DubDJ wrote: »

Honestly surprised at how people are finding the dev betas so far, I expected a lot of bugs and issues that would make it a no-go. Especially with such drastic changes to the app layout and things like picture-in-picture. Not just simple app redesigns or small feature additions.

I’ll be interested to see if macOS 11 is a mess this year, that had such drastic changes it probably takes a lot of hits.

Still, it’s welcome Apple could pull together such a polished beta 1 especially with the current climate.

MacOS Big Sur has lots of bugs, had to revert back to catalina earlier today. Ill hold out for the public beta

DubDJ · 23-06-2020 10:32pm

Mr.S wrote: »

The accessibility feature that opens an app by double tapping the back of the iPhone is really cool

I always love the days after the keynote where smaller features like this start to be discovered. There’s a lot to like in this release, event stuff like the smaller incoming call banner are really welcome changes.

23-06-2020 10:36pm

Mr.S wrote: »

The accessibility feature that opens an app by double tapping the back of the iPhone is really cool

It’s brilliant. So much easier take a screenshot with it assigned to a double tap. I’ve Google Assistant on the triple but hopefully they allow the camera to be added to them.

boreder · 23-06-2020 10:37pm

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Most of the time things like this get uptake within a 20km radius of San Francisco.

Cupertino isn't within 20km radius of San Francisco :P

Sonics2k · 24-06-2020 10:50am

I'm extremely tempted to get the Developer Beta again this year, but I'd be concerned the AIB app won't work, which happened to me before.

turfthrower · 24-06-2020 11:00am

Running the developer beta on my iPad pro. It's rock solid. I'm really surprised. I only installed it last night, so perhaps it'll implode later, but so far so good.

As someone said already, it's super impressive that they got a beta so refined for its first exposure to developers, given they have been dealing with the virus like everyone else. Obviously having their own developers working from home has had advantages. Less time wandering around a Cupertino office having coffee and watching Apple TV.

turfthrower · 24-06-2020 11:02am

AIB Mobile Tablet app is working perfectly, for the person who was concerned about that. I still wouldn't put this on my main iPhone - it's too important for work to me - but there you go.

bluemachaveli · 24-06-2020 11:10am

Sonics2k wrote: »

I'm extremely tempted to get the Developer Beta again this year, but I'd be concerned the AIB app won't work, which happened to me before.

Running it since Monday and no issues with the AIB app, works as expected. Really surprised how solid this release is. I've religiously installed the dev beta on day one for the past few years and this is the most solid it's ever been.

So far only issues with 2 apps, All 4 randomly crashes when trying to play a show, takes 3-4 attempts to get it going (only seen this on Apple TV, twice so may have been a glitch).

Nintendo Switch app seems to hang when trying to log in. No way around it from what I can see.

Micky 32 · 24-06-2020 1:38pm

Been using it on my iphone the last day or so now. Seems quite stable no issues.

24-06-2020 1:40pm

It seems far buggier on the iPad but I’m happy enough to leave it as I don’t rely on that as much. Apart from a few little glitches with the weather widget the phone has been bang on.

Metalpanic · 24-06-2020 3:16pm

Had the weather widget glitch too, but cleared after a restart. The only other bug I've noticed is the clearing storage part of iPhone Storage in Settings is totally bugged. It crashes if you try to free up space in an app. Also double tap the back of the phone can be triggered by putting the phone down on the table, so going to just use triple tap!

quiggs1000 · 24-06-2020 8:25pm

It was mentioned that iOS14 would bring significant updates to Apple Maps for Ireland. Has anyone noticed a difference with the maps yet?

24-06-2020 8:28pm

quiggs1000 wrote: »

It was mentioned that iOS14 would bring significant updates to Apple Maps for Ireland. Has anyone noticed a difference with the maps yet?

Was that not to come later in the year?

There’s no eircodes yet so I hope this isn’t it anyway.

Gregor Samsa · 24-06-2020 9:14pm

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Was that not to come later in the year?

There’s no eircodes yet so I hope this isn’t it anyway.

Yeah, they said later this year.

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/06/22/apple-maps-revamp-uk-ireland-canada/

Mr Velo · 25-06-2020 9:12am

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Was that not to come later in the year?

There’s no eircodes yet so I hope this isn’t it anyway.

Not having the Eircodes like Google Maps is a huge reason that i can't use Apple Maps.

waffles85 · 25-06-2020 10:34am

I installed iOS 14 developer beta 14 on my secondary iPhone 6S first and had no issues so have install now on my main phone, an iPhone X. Absolutely no issues so far. Seems like they are more solid than previous early beta builds.

DubDJ · 25-06-2020 12:15pm

Worth mentioning that things can sometimes break as the betas go on, so even though everything might be smooth now there’s a chance apps can break down the line.

waffles85 · 26-06-2020 4:07pm

DubDJ wrote: »

Worth mentioning that things can sometimes break as the betas go on, so even though everything might be smooth now there’s a chance apps can break down the line.

Yeah I have seen that before. I notice that Sky Go is not working on iPhone or iPad now. App just dies on startup.

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