Apple Seeds Tenth Beta of iOS 11 to Developers and Public Beta Testers

You know the drill boys :)

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Likely golden master (GM) now.

Event soon - six days!

No, this is definitely not the GM. Apple never releases a GM before the iPhone event. A GM is intended to be the exact same version as the final release going out to the public and serves the purpose to allow developers to test their apps on that version ahead of its release to make sure everything is working fine.

It would make no sense for Apple to release the GM ahead of the event, since it would reveal everything about the new iPhones. For instance, the final version would have to include stuff like iPhone 8 glyphs for the devices section in the iCloud settings and the Find my iPhone app or strings revealing the naming scheme of the new iPhones. If you dug in deeper into the code, you would likely find everything there is to know about every single feature. Also, because its main purpose is developer testing, a GM release wouldn’t make any sense if it wasn’t accompanied by an Xcode GM, which would obviously have to contain an iPhone 8 Simulator. This is clearly something Apple wouldn’t want to do, especially after the huge HomePod leak.

Apple Seeds Seventy-Ninth Beta of iOS 11 to Developers and Public Beta Testers

Is this beta ok as a daily driver?

The last 2-3 betas have been good enough for daily drivers, in my opinion.

Pretty sure it's still the same weight.

I'm not sure. Pretty certain both my iPad and my iPhone feel heavier now as well. I may have to delete some apps to avoid arm strain.

Can't wait for the Photoshop font hue comparisons on EverythingApplePro.

Is Control Center still hideous?

What's hideous about it?

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Surfari performance is OFF THE CHARTS!!! [points at chart with no data labels]

Where is iOS 11 GM? Only 6 days left. . .

in 6 days

Feel free to skip ahead to the next post, I’m just grumpy and seriously overdue a rant about something on here :p


Why is it every year when we enter the beta phase, we put our silly hats on, throw our common sense out of the window and forget everything we’ve learned from the past.

I mean all, or let’s say most, of the complaints are usually down to the fact that it is a beta release and not everything is in place.

The following are always true, certainly they have been in my 8 years or so of using the iOS betas and 20 odd years of product testing.

It’s a beta, there’s debug code running that will affect performance to varying degrees and in different places.

Some of the changes are temporary, surprisingly Apple don’t want all and sundry to see every single thing they have planned until it’s time to do so.

Some new features aren’t fully implemented yet, same reason as before.

Some aspects of the OS aren’t available at all to us yet, they’re still and until it’s time, will remain in internal testing.

Some aspects of the OS are being designed with the new devices in mind as much as they are the old devices. Some things will always work better on the soon to be released hardware than they will on current or older generations. Some may not work on current or older hardware at all.

Some of the problems with X app are because it’s a beta OS and apps haven’t been updated to comply with the changes.

Sometimes there are unforeseen problems, by their very nature they will take time to debug, fix and test before we get our grubby little hands on the fixes.

And of course, some of us just like to complain and proclaim doom over something we haven’t even seen in its completed state yet ;)


None of which changes the fact that it can be fun to try and second guess Apple and what they have planned. Or that next year, we’ll go through the exact same scenarios, questions and complaints all over again. So pay no attention to the grumpy, caffeine deprived old man in the corner.

Ahhhhhh, it’s nice to get a rant out of my system :p Now to work on grumpy, coffee machine on, Red Bull in hand, morphine, yeah this’ll do it :D