📱iOS 12.2 Beta 1 📺
Build - 16E5181f was released on 24 Jan, 2019 for:
• iPhone XR, XS/Max, X, 8/8+, 7/7+, SE, 6s/6s+, 6/6+, 5s
• iPad 6G, 5G
• iPad mini 4, 3, 2
• iPad Air 2, iPad Air
• iPad Pro 12.9(3G), 10.5, 12.9(2G), 9.7, 12.9
• iPod Touch 6G.

New Features & Changes:
• High and low heart rate notifications and irregular heart rhythm notifications are now available as read-only category sample types in HealthKit
Apple News will be available in Canada with iOS 12.2, and is now available for Canadian users on the developer beta. Apple News in Canada supports both English and French. Readers can access a bilingual experience when they follow a channel in a second language
• Added the ability to control access to TV using the Home app
• Redesigned Apple TV Remote in the Control Center with support for AirPlay 2 TV
• New Screen Mirroring icon in the Control Center
• New AirPlay icon when AirPlaying to certain devices
• Revamped Wallet interface with the ability to "Add Money" option in Wallet when you select Apple Pay Cash card and easier to view last transaction detail
• Added Safari Search Arrow to Google Search autofill section when tapping the arrow will add the text to the search field rather than simply conduct the search
• Safari now display non-HTTPS website as "Not Secure" in the menu bar
• Added “Motion and Orientation Access” option in Safari settings and removed “Ask Website Not to Track Me” with many new experimental features
• Added the ability to display Air Quality Index in the Maps under Settings app
• New music UI when asking Siri to play a song
• Added ability to browse by Films category in the TV app in the US
• Added support for "Hey Siri" on AirPods 2
• Added ability to customize Downtime in Screen Time by the days of the week
• Added ability to enable full trust for root certificate in the Certificate Trust Settings.

New Issues:
• Some iPhone and iPad may encounter an error that Apple Pay is not available until it has been updated
• FaceTime bug allows the person to hear your audio and video before they answer
• Gmail Account "Mail server is not responding" when trying to check mail. Gmail accounts won't save when being added in "Passwords & Accounts"
• Status bar sometimes disappears from the Home Screen after 3D touching through options in Control Center. Status bar appears when apps are open. Only way to fix is to reboot
• When opening the Apple TV remote widget from the Now Playing widget, the GUI at the bottom of the screen doesn’t fill in the curves of the screen correctly. Note: doesn’t apply to when opening the remote widget directly from its own button.

Remaining Issues:
• You might be unable to authenticate within Wallet after selecting a card
• YYou might be unable to purchase a prepaid data plan using cellular data
• YSiri doesn’t work in iOS simulators
• YLock screen orientation glitch in the Control Center: If you have screen orientation lock enabled, and then change the state of "Increase Contrast" in Settings, for example enable it, your lock orientation icon will be fully white instead of red
• Grouped notifications glitch - Expand, collapse and then expand again a grouped notification quickly, it will have a glitchy animation with DND
• If you have enough notifications to hide the time, then scroll down-up few times, the notifications will get glitched with the time. After you collapse the notifications, there will be a glitchy animation
• Lock screen time & lock status glitch: using your locked iPhone, swipe from right to left two times quickly. For the second swipe, your time and lock status will disappear
And more..

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📱iOS 12.2 Beta 2 📺
Build - 16E5191d was released on 4 Feb, 2019 for:
• iPhone XR, XS/Max, X, 8/8+, 7/7+, SE, 6s/6s+, 6/6+, 5s
• iPad 6G, 5G
• iPad mini 4, 3, 2
• iPad Air 2, iPad Air
• iPad Pro 12.9(3G), 10.5, 12.9(2G), 9.7, 12.9
• iPod Touch 6G.

New Features & Changes:
• New Animoji (Giraffe, Shark, Owl and Warthog)
• New AirPlay icon in Control Center and Lockscreen when AirPlaying to compatible device and TV Remote shortcut in the media control when streaming to Apple TV
• iPhone on AT&T network now displays "5G E" when customers are in an area where 5G Evolution may be available
• Removed "Do Not Track" from Safari setting
• Added the ability to “Mark as Played” when you tap “...” option to bring up additional menu list.

Remaining Issues:
• You might be unable to authenticate within Wallet after selecting a card
• The device charge level may remain on the lock screen after removing the device from a charger
• Some iPhone and iPad may encounter an error that Apple Pay is not available until it has been updated
• Group FaceTime bug allows the person to hear your audio and video before they answer
• Gmail Account "Mail server is not responding" when trying to check mail.
• Status bar sometimes disappears from the Home Screen after 3D touching through options in Control Center.
• Status bar appears when apps are open. Only way to fix is to reboot.
• When opening the Apple TV remote widget from the Now Playing widget, the GUI at the bottom of the screen doesn’t fill in the curves of the screen correctly. Note: doesn’t apply to when opening the remote widget directly from its own button
• You might be unable to authenticate within Wallet after selecting a card
• You might be unable to purchase a prepaid data plan using cellular data
• Siri doesn’t work in iOS simulators
• Lock screen orientation glitch in the Control Center: If you have screen orientation lock enabled, and then change the state of "Increase Contrast" in Settings, for example enable it, your lock orientation icon will be fully white instead of red
• Lock screen lock disappears: Swipe on the lockscreen for a few times, after some time, your lock status will disappear. If you happen to reproduce it while your phone is unlocking, you will get something like this, the notifications will get glitched
• Some apps like Google Maps and Clash Royale will lag on iPhone X and above: Open the affected app, for example Google Maps. • Do not do anything else, just minimize your brightness to the lowest. Now, you will see the app's FPS number has been drastically decreased, try to do circles in the map, you will see it is laggy. To make it smooth again, you can: A) Start screen recording or B) Increase brightness
• Folder in Dock bug - swipe to widgets and then back to home screen: it will blink.
Grouped notifications glitch - Expand, collapse and then expand again a grouped notification quickly, it will have a glitchy animation with DND
• Notification Center bug: If you have a grouped notification in the notification center, make sure to delete till you have only one, then click the X next to the app and not the one next to "Notification Center".
And more..

Resolved Issues:
• Resolved an issue that prevented prepaid data plan purchases while using cellular data
• Photos shared using Sharing Suggestions now load correctly
• Fixed the "Volume" and "Ringer" HUD when increasing or decreasing volume with "Changed with Buttons" enabled in Sounds settings
• Resolved Gmail accounts won't save when being added in "Passwords & Accounts.

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📱iOS 12.2 Beta 3 📺
Build - 16E5201e was released on 19 Feb, 2019 for:
• iPhone XR, XS/Max, X, 8/8+, 7/7+, SE, 6s/6s+, 6/6+, 5s
• iPad 6G, 5G
• iPad mini 4, 3, 2
• iPad Air 2, iPad Air
• iPad Pro 12.9(3G), 10.5, 12.9(2G), 9.7, 12.9
• iPod Touch 6G.

New Features & Changes:
• New Settings layout in General>About
New Apple TV Remote layout in Control Centre
• In the Apple News app, “Apple News” in the heading now displayed as “🍏 News”
• In the Music app, music videos no longer automatically plays in fullscreen
• In Settings>Apple Store>Siri & Search, "Find Interests in Other App" toggle to have Siri suggest Today at Apple sessions based on Safari and app usage
• In the Wallet app, there are added buttons such as "Add Money"and "Transfer to Bank" for Apple Pay Cash and "Call"and "Website" for other payment cards in detail.

Remaining Issues:
• You might be unable to authenticate within Wallet after selecting a card.

Resolved Issues:
• The device charge level no longer remains on the lock screen after removing the device from a charger
• Fixed "Volume" HUD display instead of the "Ringer" HUD when increasing or decreasing volume on the Home Screen with "Changed with Buttons" enabled in Sounds settings
• Timer countdown is back on lock screen
• Text size slider in settings now responds as expected instead of having to lift and retouch finger for each notch you want to move it to
• Apple TV remote widget fills the screen correctly now that it has been completely redesigned
• Restored Group FaceTime.🔥

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iSpeed Test📱
iOS 12.1.4 vs. 12.2 Beta 3
iPhone 8, iPhone 7, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6, iPhone 5s.
🗣Not really feeling it for Beta 3 on the older devices, it does seem a bit slower than what I saw with Beta 2 (5S, 6), however on the new devices it still feels pretty good.

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📱iOS 12.2 Beta 4 📺
Build - 16E5212F was released on 4 Mar, 2019 for:
• iPhone XR, XS/Max, X, 8/8+, 7/7+, SE, 6s/6s+, 6/6+, 5s
• iPad 6G, 5G
• iPad mini 4, 3, 2
• iPad Air 2, iPad Air
• iPad Pro 12.9(3G), 10.5, 12.9(2G), 9.7, 12.9
• iPod Touch 6G.

New Features & Changes:
New icon for News app
New icon for Apple TV remote in Control Center
Added "Public Safety Alerts" in Government Alert section under Notification settings.

Remaining Issues:
• You might be unable to authenticate within Wallet after selecting a card.

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iSpeed Test📱
iOS 12.1.4 vs. 12.2 Beta 4
iPhone 8, iPhone 7, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6, iPhone 5s.
🗣I am still not seeing much improvement, especially the older devices seems to be needing some love from Apple.
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📱iOS 12.2 Beta 5 📺
Build - 16E5223a was released on 11 Mar, 2019 for:
• iPhone XR, XS/Max, X, 8/8+, 7/7+, SE, 6s/6s+, 6/6+, 5s
• iPad 6G, 5G
• iPad mini 4, 3, 2
• iPad Air 2, iPad Air
• iPad Pro 12.9(3G), 10.5, 12.9(2G), 9.7, 12.9
• iPod Touch 6G.

Remaining Issues:
• You might be unable to authenticate within Wallet after selecting a card
• Lock screen orientation glitch in the Control Center: If you have screen orientation lock enabled, and then change the state of "Increase Contrast" in Settings, for example enable it, your lock orientation icon will be fully white instead of red
• Lock screen lock disappears: Swipe on the lockscreen for a few times, after some time, your lock status will disappear
• Some apps like Google Maps and Clash Royale will lag on iPhone X and above: Open the affected app, for example Google Maps. Do not do anything else, just minimize your brightness to the lowest. Now, you will see the app's FPS number has been drastically decreased, try to do circles in the map, you will see it is laggy. To make it smooth again, you can: A) Start screen recording or B) Increase brightness
• Grouped notifications glitch - Expand, collapse and then expand again a grouped notification quickly, it will have a glitchy animation with DND
• Notification center missing background: Lock and unlock your phone. Then open an app, and quickly pull down the notification center. It won't have background for a few seconds
• Lock screen time & lock status glitch: using your locked iPhone, swipe from right to left two times quickly. For the second swipe, your time and lock status will disappear
• Landscape mode control center bug: Open anything in landscape mode, for example a YouTube video in full screen. Open your Control Center, swipe from right to left, then close CC. There will be a stuck bar at the top of your screen for a few seconds
• App crash bug: Open the app switcher. Tap on an app, swipe it up to close, but while its closing tap on it - > glitchy crash
• Adding the first widget in the available widgets list will have a glitchy animation
• Since iOS 11.4 still can’t initiate ‘album’ playback via Siri on the watch with music that is locally stored on phone
• When iCloud Keychain and text replacements are enabled, text replacement won’t be offered anymore when trying to login. The specific text replacement is overwritten with “Password”
• iMessage app sort order resets after a period of time from custom order to default order
• In Messages: using 3D Touch to Peak and Pop, or when rotating the screen orientation turns the iMessage app strip black (iPhone 7 only)
• Sometimes, if you have no SIM inserted, you will see an old time to appear at the top of the screen
• Opening app switcher in landscape mode will sometimes show old stuff that you did with the app before
• On the home screen, scrolling to the second page, swiping up then holding the screen will cause the second page to disappear
• Lockscreen blocking bug: Get to the passcode request page, then swipe up and down while not releasing the screen - this will cause the first line (1, 2, 3) to be unresponsive.

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iSpeed Test📱
iOS 12.1.4 vs. 12.2 Beta 5
iPhone 8, iPhone 7, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6, iPhone 5s.
🗣We are getting very close to the final version. This could be the last beta version we will see, maybe a Beta 6 next Monday. But pretty sure the final release will be online on March 25th same time as the Apple services event. So I am expected it to be performing close to what we will see from the final version. So without wasting much more time lets get down to business and test Beta 5.
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