Is anyone here interested in iOS 18 db1 talk, or is this community kinda dead?

If you're interested I suggest just making a few posts. It sometimes doesn't take much breathe life into a community.

Yup;)

Would love to chat about it, I hate going back to Reddit but I do with Sink It! for the small communities, just like iOSBeta.

Learned a ton of QoL stuff there in this release that wasn’t covered in the Keynote and isn’t on the preview page:

Recents in Phone now have a call button instead of tap to call, which prevents accidental calls.
T9 dialing has been added, just enter the first few letters of a contact’s name via the dialer and their contact appears.
Apple TV controls on Lock Screen tuck away into a dropdown, preventing accidental scrubbing.
Long-press the Flashlight button in control centre, and on Dynamic Island models you can set beam width by dragging right or left, and intensity by dragging up and down.
Calculator has full history, editing of already entered numbers, multi line.
Reminders show in calendar now and can be tapped to complete them.
Calendar UI has been totally reworked, multi-day view is awesome.

The more notable stuff is also on https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-18-preview/ which I encourage everyone to read. It started being less comprehensive in the iOS 17 cycle which is disappointing, but it still covers lots that wasn’t talked about in the keynote.

EDIT - I posted the preview page and release notes, trying to help stir up some discussion.

Bring it on. I’m still deciding if I should risk it

48 hrs in and for me this is by the best beta 1 ever. Outside of the initial SOC warmup everything has been uneventful. iPhone 13 Pro.

This is the kinda stuff I wanted to hear, thanks!

Looks like flash light beam width only works on phones that have more advanced flashes. It requires a flash that can control both light intensity and flood.

For example, I think it works on the 15 pro, but not the base 15’s less sophisticated camera assembly.

Spotlight serach is broken for me, was it mentioned in the release notes? Otherwise it’s mostly fine, aside from some layout issues related to new features

Is this just standard iOS indexing rebuild after a major update or some aspect of iOS 18 not yet built up?
Will take the jump and contribute later today.
- It’s working for me, I hadn’t seen that reported on iOSBeta sub too so it might be isolated.
  Nothing in release notes either.
- Yup, started working after 2 nights of charging;)
- Same applies for my Series 8 45mm watch. Briefly warm and took a few days to index whatever needed indexing. During this time the battery depleted at a much faster rate. Typically by 4pm it has about 69%. During the two “indexing” days I saw 10% and 13%. It now has what I consider normal battery usage with no changes in behavior by me.
Spotlight is working for me, do you have the release notes link?
EDIT - Nvm, found it and posted it: https://lemmy.ca/post/22980921
EDIT 2 - Nothing in release notes about Spotlight.
- Working now, I guess it took 2 nights to re-index it