Good luck if you had "find my phone" turned on.
Why? Because you have to type in your Apple ID and password once you do the DFU restore?
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#32Good luck if you had "find my phone" turned on.
Required starting in DFU mode + restore. Didn't think to try option + update as eggbrain mentioned above. Does this mean Find My iPhone can be circumvented with a DFU mode restore?
I just made the same mistake, restoring with DFU. It doesn't bypass the Find My iPhone lock though, you still need to do the activation, but it will let you activate.
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#33Did anyone find this extremely rude. I was suddenly locked out of my own hardware for which I paid hundreds of dollars. I stopped receiving calls in the middle of the day. Why do they have to treat people who installed beta like they are criminals on a parole. Where is the magic Apple ?
Why did you use a test operating system on your production device? The beta is for testing compatibility with apps you're developing, not for daily use.
Because apps on make on the side are a hobby. At work we have test devices, but for my home stuff i can't justify a second phone for test only.
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#34Did anyone find this extremely rude. I was suddenly locked out of my own hardware for which I paid hundreds of dollars. I stopped receiving calls in the middle of the day. Why do they have to treat people who installed beta like they are criminals on a parole. Where is the magic Apple ?
Why did you use a test operating system on your production device? The beta is for testing compatibility with apps you're developing, not for daily use.
Agreed. The meaning of the concept "beta" has been devalued.
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#35For everyone saying "you should have read the release notes" - yes I agree. However, there are two things that made this very opaque and should have been better.
1) all sources indicate everywhere that the software is "up to date". I realize that as a developer I should be keeping better tabs on things but I usually trust things not to just lie to me. It's pretty opaque.
2) The error you get when the beta expires makes no mention of the fact that the beta expired. Without judicious twitter searches and a quick look on hacker news, I didn't know what the source of the error was and assumed something was wrong w/ apple's activation or that someone had compromised my account in some way.
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#36There are lots of comments here that rightly point out that you have no reasonable expectation of uninterrupted functionality using beta software. But to me, there's a bigger, more interesting picture here: There's clearly a demand for pre-release Apple software among people who don't really have any need for it.
I'm sure I'm not alone in having seen people this summer running iOS 7 betas on their personal phones, even people with no software development experience who probably couldn't tell you what Xcode is. It's not in Apple's interest for this to be happening, as it leaves a bad taste in people's mouth when things like this inevitably happen.
Restricting access clearly doesn't work. Everyone who knows the beta exists knows someone who can hook them up. There's got to be something else, some other way Apple can make these betas less appealing to the casual user, without lessening the betas' usefulness for people actually trying to test things.
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#37This is semi related tangent.
I've worked in at a lot of software companies where they spent a lot of time being concerned about small groups of customers that were using old builds, how we would keep their setup working, etc. It always impresses me how Apple moves forward in spite of who may be left behind and I assume that this is a conscious choice they constantly have to revisit. The counter example would be Microsoft that still supported DOS for more than a decade after they moved on from it.
I don't know any engineers who like maintaining legacy systems, so it seems to be a perk of working with Apple and I also think that this lack of concern for legacy is allowing Apple to move forward faster. At my last job every time a new project was requested by management I would ask, "What old project will we remove then? Because maintenance takes time." I pretty much never got an answer on that. It takes discipline to stay lean and to non-engineers legacy costs can be invisible a lot of times.
One area where I see progress accelerating is XCode. You basically need to be running latest XCode to publish apps to the App Store, so people always run latest. On the other hand, I've got Visual Studio all the way back to 2003 on hand because clients don't want to take the time to upgrade. It drives me nuts.
There's something satisfying about progress and something very depressing to me when I sit down to make changes to a project using Visual Studio 2003 .NET. Anyone know what I mean?
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#38There are lots of comments here that rightly point out that you have no reasonable expectation of uninterrupted functionality using beta software. But to me, there's a bigger, more interesting picture here: There's clearly a demand for pre-release Apple software among people who don't really have any need for it. I'm sure I'm not alone in having seen people this summer running iOS 7 betas on their personal phones, ev…
I agree - they should change the registration process so each developer account only install firmware on a single phone
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why did you use a test operating system on your production device? The beta is for testing compatibility with apps you're developing, not for daily use.
Because apps on make on the side are a hobby. At work we have test devices, but for my home stuff i can't justify a second phone for test only.
Yeah, mobile development sucks for personal projects. You always end up needing ten different devices with ten different operating systems or screen sizes.
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#40There are lots of comments here that rightly point out that you have no reasonable expectation of uninterrupted functionality using beta software. But to me, there's a bigger, more interesting picture here: There's clearly a demand for pre-release Apple software among people who don't really have any need for it. I'm sure I'm not alone in having seen people this summer running iOS 7 betas on their personal phones, ev…
I wonder if the large amount of regular users who jump at the chance to join a beta has anything to do with the severe dilution of the term. These days a product labeled as beta is very likely to be using that to imply a degree of exclusivity or simply to emphasize that it is the absolute latest, rather than it being unfinished. Beta access for video games is extremely desirable, Google has made the term completely meaningless with products like Gmail, etc.
When beta is so frequently a good thing, who wouldn't want to get the latest iOS and tell all their friends about how awesome it is?
Just some thoughts, but I'm feeling deja vu while writing this post - I suspect the topic has been beaten to death in the past.
edit: indeed it has, here is a discussion from when iOS5 was released: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2649222