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Title: Don't brick your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Watch by installing developer betas Post by: HCK on June 15, 2016, 04:05:21 pm Don't brick your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Watch by installing developer betas
As a reminder: You shouldn't install developer betas on your primary devices if you want them to work. This is our yearly reminder, folks: Unless you're a developer with a secondary iPhone or Mac, we strongly, strongly urge you to consider not installing developer betas on your devices. It's not because we don't want you to have fun: iOS 10, watchOS, tvOS, and macOS have some phenomenal features coming this Fall. But they're beta seeds for a reason: These features are not fully baked, may crash at will, and probably will slow down or crash your third-party applications. If you're a developer, researcher, or otherwise need the beta on a device for day one, please back up the phone, tablet, or Mac first; preferably, that device should be an auxiliary model you have lying around. (Older iPhone and iPads make great test devices.) In short: Be smart. The public beta period for iOS 10 and macOS Sierra is coming next month in July, and that seed will likely be much more stable. And if y... Source: Don't brick your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Watch by installing developer betas (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/kGO-pyL5tDo/dont-brick-your-mac-or-iphone-installing-developer-betas) |