Apple Releases iOS 5 Beta 4 to Developers

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Posted July 22, 2011 at 9:09pm by Shalom Levytam

Apple has just released iOS 5 Beta 4 to developers for download. Alongside the new firmware comes Xcode 4.2 Developer Preview 4 and iTunes 10.5 beta 4.

Issues in this Version:
NEW: In this beta iPhone 4 device cannot join personal hotspot even if it is on due to a non functional WiFi tethering on these devices.
NEW: iOS 5.0 terminates VoIP applications that are resumed in the background for incoming network traffic with extreme frequency. Developers are encouraged to make sure all incoming data is read from VoIP sockets to avoid this condition.
NEW: When tweeting your location from Safari and exiting before the location can be established, the location arrow will stay in the status bar. The arrow can be removed by killing Safari from the task switcher.
NEW: In some cases, syncing photos may result in only thumbnails on your device. If this happens, unsync Photos then re-sync again.
NEW: Some songs are missing their album artwork after changing the device library via syncing.
NEW: Forwarding a message with attachments included does not attach the file and the message compose screen does not change from "Loading...."
NEW: In MobileMe local contacts are deleted instead of be being merged.
FIXED: In this beta FaceTime icon is missing in Settings on the iPhones.

Apple Releases iOS 5 Beta 4 to Developers

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V-Tino - July 23, 2011 at 12:11pm

All I want to know is....When can a triple O.G hacker make IOS5 available to the masses that want to "try it out" w/out having to have one of those developer I.D's...call me selfish but FALL is TOO far away IMO :-\

Andrew - July 23, 2011 at 1:33pm

I won't call you selfish... Just cheap. Pay a Dev a few bucks to register your phone and have at it with the betas. I did it for $5 usd and have been able to utilize every beta since beta 1.

Ranmat - July 23, 2011 at 6:23am

It's a beta. There's bound to be bugs. But why it has new bugs every time is a mystery. The point of having multiple betas is to reduce the bugs each time b

Andrew - July 22, 2011 at 10:39pm

Is it me or... besides adding wifi sync to later betas... Beta 1 had the most promise!? Every release since has sucked... FaceTime issues, imessage problems, reminders there not there... Etc. I truley think apple is mucking up betas to discourage all but the developers of iOS apps.

yingie - July 22, 2011 at 10:22pm

FaceTime icon still there in settings

Nobo1 - July 22, 2011 at 9:57pm

Is next beta 5 or gold master? Not sure what to make of the iOS termination of VoIP apps...

Foobar - July 22, 2011 at 9:37pm

Let's hope it's a bit more stable than Beta 3!

Skaven - July 22, 2011 at 9:32pm

OTA Update works now!!!!!!!!!

Adam - July 22, 2011 at 9:23pm

Sounds like 3 steps backwards

kloquewerk - July 22, 2011 at 9:35pm

I'm definitely not the smartest man in the world, but read where it says "Issues in this version" and I think you'll understand what he means...that's if you even read the whole article to begin with. SMH

adam - July 23, 2011 at 3:11am

exactly... Thanks