OK the freezing and crashes finally got to me. DFU'd the ipad and restored my ipadOS18.5 backup.
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For those on developer beta - is it super buggy?
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If freezing is constant after restarting, it might mean cache is full (debug). This was issue last year and year before that with first build.
Restarting device and leaving it overnight or a day asleep with power cable attached will let it process it, just dont open any app after restarting.
To be honest it is pretty bad. Safari has heaps of visual glitches and weirdness going on that makes normal browsing actually frustrating. I keep closing the wrong tab - I'm not even sure why yet but something in the UI is confusing me.
It's pretty sluggish and stuttery at the moment. I wouldn't say I entirely regret installing it, because my iPad isn't mission critical and I'm enjoying the visuals, but I almost do.
It's pretty sluggish and stuttery at the moment. I wouldn't say I entirely regret installing it, because my iPad isn't mission critical and I'm enjoying the visuals, but I almost do.
Updated to dev2 last evening. Different bugs.
I truly loathe the aesthetics. The white fade at the top of many screens is enough to keep me on 18 on my older devices that can’t use Apple Intelligence.
And from what I read in these forums, many of the new features are only a big deal to those in the USA. We aren’t slammed with junk calls/texts in Mexico, and everyone uses WhatsApp for texting. (Although I read that the wizards at META are adding adverts to WhatsApp.
) I’ve learned how to effectively use the split screen option on iPad, so even the windowing isn’t that exciting.
YMMV
I truly loathe the aesthetics. The white fade at the top of many screens is enough to keep me on 18 on my older devices that can’t use Apple Intelligence.
And from what I read in these forums, many of the new features are only a big deal to those in the USA. We aren’t slammed with junk calls/texts in Mexico, and everyone uses WhatsApp for texting. (Although I read that the wizards at META are adding adverts to WhatsApp.
YMMV
I’m already tired of it, but will keep it through roll-out to make my final decision about installing it on my devices that can use Ai.
Side by side with 18.5, I can’t see a reason to embrace Aero. Or OSX.0 with its unnecessary transparency. 2D is fine. 3D wastes clock cycles and battery life.
I installed beta 2 and it messed up my “my card” contact, swapped it for my wife’s Apple ID contact. No amount of editing would make it change its mind. DFU’d it immediately, I’m not having betas mess with my iCloud data!
Using dev2 on 9th gen iPad I found that many visual glitches disappeared when I DEselected Reduce Transparency. The focus is on refining Liquid Grass, not the less glitzy option.
Running on my iPad Air 4th gen without many issues. Certainly nothing to complain about. It’s beta!
Running beta 2 on my 11" iPad Pro M4, no complaints so far except for visual glitches. All apps run and it has been stable.
I skipped beta 1. Usually, I wait until version 4 or 5, but this time I went ahead and installed beta 2 on my M4 iPad Pro 13. I was quite surprised at how smooth it is. All opinions will differ based on the device used and the user’s specific set up of that device, so no one experience is any more or less valid than another, but for me, I’m very happy and have had no issues that make me regret installing a version so much sooner than I normally do.
I'm only experiencing one 'bug' and that's having Siri trigger from unlocking the screen for some reason. It also happens on my iPhone 12, unlock instantly triggers Siri. Easy to dismiss though. Doesn't happen in Dark Mode though.
Every other complaint I have is a 'feature' and not a 'bug' sadly, like the gesture bar being GONE from iPadOS, as well as slide-over. Still diagnosing how to trigger the ability to run two apps side by side as I can't figure it out yet. It's reduced my iPad into being a 2017 Galaxy Tab S3, since I can no longer (as far as I can tell) run YouTube and my Messages side by side anymore. That was super convenient. I didn't have to leave my playing video or take any steps to just reply to my girlfriend who texts me each morning before work. Now I have to leave the app completely or use YouTube videos in pop-out view hoping the algorithm can auto-queue the video I want to watch next. This is supposed to make iPad more 'like a Mac?'
Every other complaint I have is a 'feature' and not a 'bug' sadly, like the gesture bar being GONE from iPadOS, as well as slide-over. Still diagnosing how to trigger the ability to run two apps side by side as I can't figure it out yet. It's reduced my iPad into being a 2017 Galaxy Tab S3, since I can no longer (as far as I can tell) run YouTube and my Messages side by side anymore. That was super convenient. I didn't have to leave my playing video or take any steps to just reply to my girlfriend who texts me each morning before work. Now I have to leave the app completely or use YouTube videos in pop-out view hoping the algorithm can auto-queue the video I want to watch next. This is supposed to make iPad more 'like a Mac?'
Everyone's experience is different, for me with it on a 15 pro and M4 iPad pro it's been the buggiest beta I've experienced for a long time. Both devices randomly heat up doing mundane tasks, animations are stuttery and choppy, cameras are buggy and often only give the blurry preview screen when opening the camera, often the change wallpaper screen takes literal minutes to be ready, it's 50/50 whether applying a new wallpaper actually changes it, I can't turn the glassy clock on the lockscreen to be plain, I select plain and it immediately changes back to glossy. Sometimes the keyboard becomes completely unresponsive when typing and I'm forced to close the app from running apps. Battery life on the iPhone had been terrible, haven't noticed a difference on the iPad.
I can’t say that you won’t have problems, but on my 13 M4 it’s been the smoothest beta I’ve ever installed at this stage. I long ago began waiting until version 4 or 5 was released, and sometimes till the RC was released, to install on my devices. This time I jumped in on beta 2 and have not regretted it. There have been no battery issues, no heating issues, though that seems to be mostly a phone problem, and I don’t install these anymore on my phones. Visually it’s very appealing to me and seems blazingly fast. Although I still can’t figure out what Preview does that Files didn’t do. It launches unnecessarily when I tap on a file or document in a folder in Files, which is fine, same result, but what’s the point.
I have it on my iPad Pro m4 and it’s great, I’m using it mostly on external display, stage manager is actually useful now.
I won’t install on iPhone just yet
I won’t install on iPhone just yet
macOS beta 3 is definitely a step forward. Safari is considerably less janky (both visually and in performance terms) and I’m not seeing pinned cores and high SOC temps. The “dark image when editing images” bug in Photos seems to have been fixed.
iPadOS - can’t really tell the difference tbh, but it wasn’t terrible before.
iPadOS - can’t really tell the difference tbh, but it wasn’t terrible before.
The new iPadOS update finally fixed the stuttering when moving from one screen to another. Generally very smooth now!
My M1 still isn’t great but you know, caveats and all
They’ve fixed a few things now. The bottom bars and buttons are quite frosted in a lot of apps now and don’t change colour anymore. I find the layering to be a bit silly. It reminds me of all the material design wallpapers Google put into Android 10 years ago.
Legibility is still all over the place. I tried again to set a white-on-black monochrome theme and you can’t read a thing.
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