Apple Launches Public Betas of iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan


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Apple Launches Public Betas of iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan

Just a day after releasing a new set of developer builds for iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan, Apple today launched its public beta program for both upcoming operating systems. Apple had announced at WWDC last month that it would launch the public betas in July, and a new support document published yesterday regarding changes to two-factor authentication hinted a launch was imminent.

iOS and Mac users interested in trying out the public betas can sign up on Apple's beta software program page.

We'll be looking for any changes specific to the public beta versions, but they are almost certainly essentially identical to the developer seeds released yesterday.

iOS 9 is the first major version of Apple's mobile operating system to see a public beta release, as the company did not initiate the program for iOS until iOS 8.3 earlier this year. OS X users may already be familiar with the public beta process, as a similar program was in place for OS X Yosemite last year.

Source: Mac Rumors

Link: Apple Beta Program

If it works anything like the Yosemite public beta, it will be slightly behind from the developer betas. Thus, my guess is it won't be identical to B3, but maybe something slightly more or less advanced, whatever proves more stable.

Both the new OS X and iOS betas (DP3) are very buggy in my experience. I'm running OS X on a retina MBP and iOS on a 6 Plus, so "mileage may vary."

 

Also, SanFran doesn't fit UI elements on either of the systems. I prefer the font tenfold, but it looks silly when it's misaligned here and there.

Installed it on my MacBook Pro from 2013. It's running pretty smooth apart from a few bugs:

  • Finder sidebar size not being remembered
  • Text on the tabs in the notification centre aren't vertically centred.
  • Spotlight not opening on it's default position
  • Arrows in "Today" buttons in Calendar aren't vertically centred
Apart from that I'm loving El Capitan. The visual changes are nice improvements over Yosemite, and the added functionality to multitasking etc. is great!

For #3, did that happen the very first time you opened Spotlight? I noticed on previous betas, if you move the window around, it will "remember" where it was all subsequent launches.

For #3, did that happen the very first time you opened Spotlight? I noticed on previous betas, if you move the window around, it will "remember" where it was all subsequent launches.

Haha, yep! That did the trick, thanks! I moved it to it's original position and it keeps opening exactly there. The new natural search function doesn't exactly work in Dutch though. I typed in Spotlight "Photos from Heerenveen 2014" (in Dutch) for instance, but it only brought up typical files that contained those words, not the photos. Does it work for anyone else?

Haha, yep! That did the trick, thanks! I moved it to it's original position and it keeps opening exactly there. The new natural search function doesn't exactly work in Dutch though. I typed in Spotlight "Photos from Heerenveen 2014" (in Dutch) for instance, but it only brought up typical files that contained those words, not the photos. Does it work for anyone else?

 

The natural language search is still pretty spotty in these betas. Obviously, it will improve.

I'm having problems with the beta and Juniper Network Connect (version 7.4.12), I can sign into my companies secure landing page but it just spins round. Only fix is to restart and launch Network Connect again, worked fine on Yosemite.

 

Other than that works pretty well.

I've just installed the public beta on my iPad 3 (still chugging along). Apart from some apps having to be reinstalled because they got stuck in some update/installing loop, it seems to be working fine.

 

No split-screen and slider-over for me, which is a bummer.

Just wanted to mention a few things to people who were considering going with ios 9 - it "appeared" to be buggy.

I want to stress appeared because Im not a dev, know nothing about smartphone software and can only comment as a longtime iphone user who never had software glitches, but in the span of 2 days, experienced many.

I also just switched from a iphone 6 to a 6Plus - maybe there are 6 Plus bugs, but I am not aware of them.

Apps would get stuck in a panorama view, or the view where things are shrunk a little for the iPhone 6 Plus so you can access  them with 1 hand.  Even when I would to rotate back to side view, or vice versa, I had to double-tap and close the app outright to get it to display correctly.  This happened on multiple apps, so it was restricted to one bad app.  Also had many times where the phone would go completely unresponsive for 3-5 seconds then "snap" back to life - like it got bogged down or confused and then came back.  This happened about 5 times in 1 day.

I did the install about 3 days ago, and used whatever was the latest leaked/released build @ the time.  I have since gone back to 8.4

Just thought Id throw this out there.

 

Tried it out quickly yesterday and it felt a lot smoother than Yosemite. 2 things in particular were improved: 1. Mission Control animations, 2. Opening and closing tabs in Finder and Safari. Really looking forward to the final release!

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