It was a day of developer betas.
On Thursday, Apple seeded developer beta 7 versions of each of its operating systems with the exception of macOS Catalina.
First and foremost, iOS 13 and iPadOS 13’s seventh developer beta includes the following fixes and changes:
- Greater outward-facing use of Dark Mode
- An overhauled Photos app, which introduces a new Photos tab that curates your entire Photos library and shows you a selection of highlights organized by day, month, or year, and there are revamped Photo editing tools
- Users can now edit video in the Photos app, alongside cropping, rotating, filtering, and adjustment tools for lighting and color
- The Photos app contains a new High-Key Mono lighting effect, and for Portrait Lighting in general, intensity can be adjusted
- There’s now a less obtrusive volume heads up display
- A new Find My app combines Find My iPhone and Find My Friends and lets you track your devices even with they don’t have an LTE or WiFi connection
- Sign In with Apple feature (not yet active) gives you a convenient and data safe way to sign into apps and websites, providing an alternative to Facebook and Google sign in options. Apple’s even able to generate single-use randomized email addresses so users don’t have to give their real info to apps and websites.
- Maps now include a new street-level “Look Around” mode as well as a Collections feature for compiling lists of places.
- Reminders has been overhauled for functionality
- A new profile option in Messages can add Memoji and Animoji stickers
- Siri features a new voice
- CarPlay in iOS 13 has been overhauled with a new look
- iOS 13 can support multiple sets of AirPods (or Powerbeats Pro) can be connected to the same phone so you can share music with a friend
- Siri on HomePod can detect multiple voices for multi-user support, and HomePod also supports Handoff.
Apple also released the following notes for watchOS 6 beta 7:
- Apps are correctly installed in the background when you unpair your watch from your phone then pair it again and no longer display erroneous alerts
- Audio playback on your paired phone won’t pause while receiving notification alerts on your watch
tvOS 13 beta 7 includes the following major changes:
- Removed support for FTP and File URL schemes for Proxy Automatic Configuration (PAC). HTTP and HTTPS are the only supported URL schemes for PAC. This affects all PAC configurations including, but not limited to, configurations set using Settings, System Preferences, Profiles, and
URLSessionAPIs such asconnectionProxyDictionaryandCFNetworkExecuteProxyAutoConfigurationURL(_:_:_:_:). - The
URLSessionandNSURLConnectionAPIs no longer support SPDY. Servers should use HTTP 2 or HTTP 1.1
Registered developers will need to download the profile for the iOS 13 and iPadOS betas from Apple’s Developer Center. These betas, like earlier betas, can be downloaded over-the-air once the proper profile has been installed.
If you’ve had a chance to try the new betas and have any feedback to offer, please let us know about your experiences in the comments.
Via Reddit, MacRumors, and The Mac Observer