beta 4 of mac OS, iPad OS, iOS, and TV OS are available

By Dennis Long, 18 March, 2025

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Apple Beta Releases

has anyone found anything good or interesting? the Dev releases came out yesterday.

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By peter on Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - 02:20

The AIStudio feature to have Gemini describe real time video with voice interaction was working with iOS 18.3 and then seems to have been broken with iOS 18.4 betas 1-3.

Now with iOS 18.4 beta 4, this feature now seems to be working again.

Good news since this is a really nice tool for describing what your camera is seeing and having a live voice chat. Perhaps this will be integrated into the Gemini app soon. That would be nice.

--Pete

By Holger Fiallo on Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - 02:20

FYI. The banner will no longer show up when doing back double tap. Apple remove it from setting. Is back to normal.

By TheBlindGuy07 on Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - 02:20

Did they get rid of the feature altogether?
Updating my watch, iphone and mac while writing on my poor windows :(

By Levi Gobin on Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - 02:20

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

There is no mention of the back tap banner in settings. I have not tested to see if VoiceOver still says back tap, double/ triple tap detected, but I would assume not.
Also, for the longest time, in net news wire, an RSS reader, when I was in the all unread feed, I could not see when it was last updated without going back to the previous screen. In beta two and three, I finally could. Now in beta four, I can’t.
I know the app has not been updated, so I know Apple Has been doing something.

By Holger Fiallo on Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - 02:20

The banner feature is history. They took it off. Is back to what it was before.

By TheBlindGuy07 on Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 02:20

Yeah they completely removed it. I've installed the betas and so far except for this change on ios I haven't noticed anything yet for mac, and watch... I run the beta but rarely actively test it.

By Brian on Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 02:20

Let us hope the back tap banner stays removed for the public release. Having said that, I would not mind a small haptic feedback for the back tap function. Something that could be a toggle, of course. 😉

By Sebby on Sunday, March 23, 2025 - 05:20

Is it just me, or have they managed to completely break the Messages rotor in iOS mail? Between this breakage and the inconsistent summarisation, following email threads is now a real chore.

By Holger Fiallo on Sunday, March 23, 2025 - 15:20

Bug, some are having issues. Hope the RC fixes it or if Apple releases a beta 5 it will be done on it.