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Apple Releases First Public Beta Of iOS 11 for iPhone and iPad

Zac Hall, writing for 9to5Mac: Apple has released the first macOS High Sierra public beta for Mac. This allows users who are not registered developers to test pre-release versions of macOS with new features for free. Prior to the public beta availability, macOS High Sierra has only been available to test with a $99/year developer account. You can register for the free public beta program here. [Note: some outlets report that the update is still "coming soon." [...] Apple has released the first iOS 11 public beta for iPhone and iPad. This allows users who are not registered developers to test pre-release versions of iOS with new features for free. You can register for the free public beta program here..

56 comments

  1. PISSY FROST by Killall+-9+Bash · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WHAT WHAT?!

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    1. Re:PISSY FROST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      WHAT WHAT?!

      I just want to vigorously RUB your stinking puckered ANUS with coarse grit SANDPAPER until it really starts BLEEDING, then pour rubbing alcohol all over it and jam a big black dick right up your pooper. Yes, it simply must be a black dick, for the sake of diversity and inclusiveness. Do you like this idea? If not, why are you such a racist homophobe?

  2. CBO score released by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Senate version of Obamacare repeal will cost 22 million Americans their insurance. Many will die, effectively murdered by the Republicans. Never before has America been faced with genocide on this scale.

    1. Re:CBO score released by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      To really drive your point home, you should kill yourself. Right now. Go big or go home.

    2. Re:CBO score released by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Senate version of Obamacare repeal will cost 22 million Americans their insurance. Many will die, effectively murdered by the Republicans. Never before has America been faced with genocide on this scale.

      If 22 million njggers die then it will serve the greater good.

    3. Re:CBO score released by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Only 22 million? The left is backing off their original estimate of 300 million dead.

    4. Re:CBO score released by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Only 22 million? The left is backing off their original estimate of 300 million dead.

      300 million dead? Sounds like the load of sperm I pumped into your mother's rancid ass hole.

    5. Re:CBO score released by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Only 22 million? The left is backing off their original estimate of 300 million dead.

      300 million dead? Sounds like the load of sperm I pumped into your mother's rancid ass hole.

      If you would fuck a rancid ass hole, doesn't that say more about YOU?

    6. Re:CBO score released by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      I thought it was 600 gorrillion?

    7. Re:CBO score released by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      As opposed to those who wouldn't have to be on obamacare if they could spend more of their money on private coverage and less of it on taxes?

    8. Re:CBO score released by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Also, if they had bothered to read the report, it's 22 million people won't be forced to buy healthcare they don't need, in addition to the 30 million people Obamacare doesn't cover in any case. The Senate bill will save Americans money without any reduction of care.

      Not that any of this has anything to do with iOS 11, but let's be fair, the CBO report is far more interesting than Apple releasing an update to their OS that does nothing more than poach an additional couple of features from Android while drastically slowing down older phones. Oh, and flat-out breaking a ton of old apps for no reason, I forgot about that part.

  3. iTards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Soon will be time to upgrade your products.

    1. Re:iTards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Once you go black ... ... You're a single mother!!

  4. yuo fail _It.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1
    1. Re:yuo fail _It.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      As possibleR? How people's faces at

      You see ...

      Your morbidly obese, fat, lard-ass, grotesquely rotund, cellulite-ridden pile of adipose beached fucking whale of a woman mother accepted a njgger cock into her unsanitary nether regions. Because a njgger will fuck anything. And now she is a single mother. So you see, she failed at life and well, the apple didn't fall far from the tree.

  5. You pay to be beta testers, now. by Khyber · · Score: 0

    Used to be beta testers were the ones getting paid.

    But then you suckers decided to support companies like Apple and Google with their shit release and testing practices.

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    1. Re: You pay to be beta testers, now. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Itâ(TM)s free dumbass. You arenâ(TM)t paying for anything for the public beta. If you want early access to developer builds you only need a free developer account.

    2. Re: You pay to be beta testers, now. by cant_get_a_good_nick · · Score: 1

      their point was - you're doing Apple/Google's QA work for them, for free. The inference that this qa work should be compensated for.

      That said, i disagree with their anger. If you don't want the beta, don't install it. it won't randomly end up on your device. You know you're not getting paid, just do you want to spend the effort to install it and deal with bugs to see new features.

    3. Re: You pay to be beta testers, now. by Khyber · · Score: -1, Troll

      Uh, the Developer account is $99/year.

      You're still paying, dumbass.

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    4. Re:You pay to be beta testers, now. by TheFakeTimCook · · Score: 2

      Used to be beta testers were the ones getting paid.

      But then you suckers decided to support companies like Apple and Google with their shit release and testing practices.

      Ever hear of "Fuzzing"?

      There is only so much one can learn from test scripts and even a limited pool of human alpha and beta testers.

      To really find MOST (nothing ever finds ALL) of the most obscure errors, nothing beats a huge base of random user setups and user actions..

    5. Re: You pay to be beta testers, now. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Uh, the Developer account is $99/year.

      You're still paying, dumbass.

      He said "public beta", you dumbass.

    6. Re: You pay to be beta testers, now. by UnknowingFool · · Score: 1

      What part of the summary did you not understand "public beta". If you had Developer's access you were granted earlier access but as of now, it's public.

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    7. Re: You pay to be beta testers, now. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Only dumbass is you. It's a PUBLIC beta. Also, if you don't want to "test" for Apple then don't.

    8. Re: You pay to be beta testers, now. by Dog-Cow · · Score: 3, Informative

      It's not for free. It's for a preview of upcoming attractions. If that's of any value to you, you install the update. If it's not, you ignore it. Who, in their right mind, would install an iOS beta if they weren't interested?

    9. Re:You pay to be beta testers, now. by antdude · · Score: 2

      I guess Apple got rid of its SQA like MS and many others companies. No wonder I can't find many SQA jobs, and get hired. :(

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    10. Re: You pay to be beta testers, now. by cant_get_a_good_nick · · Score: 1

      Yes. That's pretty much my point.

      That, and "hey you get new features". We've gotten spoiled for Apple updates for free. They spend money coding new features, testing them, and you get them on your existing phone for free. Not only do people bitch about "oh, we're not paid for the beta" but we have expectations we get everything. You get people complaining that "apple as feature X for the iphone 7 but my 6 doesn't get it"... as if they can add better hardware through the beta program.

      I can't get a fridge update that makes it faster. I can't get a socket wrench update that makes it easier to turn. But i have lots of expectations for a free update to my phone that adds features.

    11. Re: You pay to be beta testers, now. by Dixie_Flatline · · Score: 1

      Youâ(TM)re talking like I get nothing out of this. I get features I want, and all I have to do is file a bug report now and then.

      Iâ(TM)m the sort of person that played World of Warcraft and was excited for patch notes day, even if I never used any of those features. Lots of people here have used or contributed to open source projects. Sometimes their contribution was only reporting bugs.

      Today I stumbled across a bug that requires trying to reblog a tumblr post from a webview thatâ(TM)s not in Safari or the tumblr app, but causes an infinite redirection loop between tumblr and Safari, and is difficult to stop because the multitasking interface doesnâ(TM)t interrupt the redirection or give you enough time to kill either app. How in the world would Apple OR tumblr guess to do that test? And now I can be reasonably sure someone will look at that problem and I wonâ(TM)t have it anymore. Iâ(TM)ve bought myself future functionality for a few minutes out of my day.

      If you donâ(TM)t want to install it, donâ(TM)t. Iâ(TM)m happy to do it. (And as long as I have the feedback app installed, I also report âoebugsâ that are just things that make me crazy. Also a good trade off.)

    12. Re: You pay to be beta testers, now. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      > their point was - you're doing Apple/Google's QA work for them, for free.

      No. You aren't doing shit. There is a huge difference between debugging an app/OS and toying with it for fun. You don't have to send reports or anything at all so STFU.

      Also, if people wants to run beta software willingly it's their problem, not yours.

    13. Re: You pay to be beta testers, now. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      To be Frank there's been things that Apple don't enable on older devices without it beeing tied to hardware.

    14. Re: You pay to be beta testers, now. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You can't opt out of your device phoning home with usage data on Apple's new betas. You can on release versions but not beta versions. This is what you provide - Apple don't need 8.000.000 reports on how the camera works, they want feedback from the camera app.

  6. and my nipples are HARD! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    I'm so exicted! And I just can't hide it! Obviously, because my nipples are HARD! If this had mentioned Jobs in any form I would have gotten so wet.

    1. Re:and my nipples are HARD! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      I'm so exicted! And I just can't hide it! Obviously, because my nipples are HARD! If this had mentioned Jobs in any form I would have gotten so wet.

      Please, tell me more.

  7. Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Who cares? Google released the beta of the new features that will be in iOS 11 years ago, I think they called in Android Fro-Yo.

    iOS 11 doesn't add anything worth mentioning. Everything in it has been in Android for years at this point.

    1. Re:Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Who cares? Google released the beta of the new features that will be in iOS 11 years ago, I think they called in Android Fro-Yo.

      iOS 11 doesn't add anything worth mentioning. Everything in it has been in Android for years at this point.

      You're a dumb cunt and you don't know anything.

    2. Re:Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Says the coward who couldn't come up with a single new feature in iOS to mention that hasn't already existed in Android for years.

      Go ahead, name one. Name one that isn't Apple reinventing an existing standard API for the sake of being different. You can't, because there aren't any.

    3. Re:Who cares? by Dog-Cow · · Score: 1

      Who cares what features are in the festering pile of feces called Android?

    4. Re:Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      LOL. What an ass!!

    5. Re: Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Apple, apparently, since they keep on copying features straight from Android.

  8. Programmed device death number 6 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Sorry iPhone 5c/6 users. Get ready for the intentional, slow, buggy hell that is another step closer towards outdating your device of only two years. At least most other OS's bother to keep up with security instead of making people upgrade each time to get it.

    1. Re: Programmed device death number 6 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Could you imagine if you could run iOS 7/8.x and still have security updates? No one would ever buy new Apple products.

  9. Beta filesystem by Espectr0 · · Score: 2

    Using a beta with a brand new filesystem. Nothing bad can come from that.

    1. Re:Beta filesystem by Rei_is_a_dumbass · · Score: 1, Informative

      Using a final with a brand new filesystem. Nothing bad will come from that.

      The same file system has been working on millions of iPhones and iPads already.

    2. Re:Beta filesystem by Espectr0 · · Score: 2

      if you believe the desktop implementation has been copy pasted from ios i have a bridge to sell you. even if that were true many bugs may arise, for example in the installer.

    3. Re:Beta filesystem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm pretty certain it's the exact same code running on iOS and macOS.

      Bugs and issues to be found? Probably, it's a beta.

    4. Re: Beta filesystem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why not?

      A few revisions ago my UPS stopped working properly with OS X. I dug into the source code for that daemon on opensource.apple.com and discovered they'd replaced a large chunk of code that looked like it had been cut and pasted from iOS- it even referenced the cell phone's battery several times within the comments. It seems like they'd gone from treating UPS units as some sort of external battery to treating it like some sort of internal battery and used code from iOS to do that.

      I had to compile my own version of the older daemon to get things working again. They still haven't fixed the bugs they introduced by doing that, nor does it appear like they care (any bugs I've filed on radar have been totally ignored).

      Apple certainly isn't opposed to cut and pasting code between operating systems. Their bread and butter is the handheld business, which is where the majority of their development takes place (APFS was, after all, a file system primarily designed for mobile devices).

    5. Re:Beta filesystem by Rei_is_a_dumbass · · Score: -1

      if you believe the desktop implementation has been copy pasted from iOS i have a bridge to sell you.

      If you believe they are completely different code bases then you're a dumbass moron.

    6. Re: Beta filesystem by Espectr0 · · Score: 1

      I didn't say portions of the code couldn't be copied. I said that the whole implementation is done differently. APFS wasn't designed primarily for IOS, that's false. It is a generic filesystem that was released first as an alpha for Sierra, but of course it makes sense to use a similar codebase for all devices

    7. Re: Beta filesystem by Dog-Cow · · Score: 2

      Are you ignorant of the fact that every iOS device running 10.3.3 (possible .2, but I'm not sure off hand) is already using APFS? That's orders of magnitude more devices than all the Macs running the beta.

    8. Re:Beta filesystem by TheRaven64 · · Score: 1

      The ARM (iOS) and x86 (macOS) versions of XNU (the kernel) are 99% the same. Apple open sources all of the macOS parts, but not the iOS-specific stuff (which didn't stop a friend in the CoreOS team porting it to run on his RPi - unfortunately he can't release it publicly). You can, nevertheless, see a lot of iOS kernel stuff in the open source releases because they'll release any file that's used in both, and that includes all of the filesystem stuff. Why do you think features from one keep appearing on the other.

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    9. Re:Beta filesystem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      APFS has been in use on iOS for a good few months already - I've not seen a single post of anyone getting a hosed FS.

      You have no clue.

    10. Re: Beta filesystem by Mattskimo · · Score: 1

      Not every device running 10.3.2 will be using APFS, and I suspect the same is true for 10.3.3 when it is released soon. With APFS being 64-bit only, the 32-bit devices currently running iOS 10.x almost certainly won't have been switched across. These are also the devices for which 10.3.3 will probably be the final compatible version of iOS: iPhone 5, iPhone 5C and iPad 4. See: http://iossupportmatrix.com/

  10. Use correct english please. by jondeanmack · · Score: -1

    As this has been a predominately English language based website, I ask that you use the English language correctly. The word 'new' in the story is out of place and I hope that you can conceptualise that the latest iPhone is essentially just assembled from a previous melted down iPhone and that the software mentioned was assembled from software previously melted down, i.e. there is nothing actually new. I suggest Slashdot update their policy to only allow God to use the word new, and I suggest everyone else refrain from using the word, as well as teaching children whom have used it that the use of the word was wrong. In fact, removing it from dictionaries etcetera might be a good start. I am reminded of the idiot who said no one person has more knowledge of the truth than another.

    1. Re:Use correct english please. by Dog-Cow · · Score: 0

      I suggest you have someone rip your head off.

    2. Re:Use correct english please. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I suggest you have someone rip your head off.

      I think your body should be tied up to a big rock or large tree or something. Then a piece of piano wire should be tied around the base of your penis, with the other end tied to the bumper of a truck. Then the truck should accelerate hard. After your little cock makes a sickening POP sound and comes out at the base, sea salt should be vigorously rubbed into the bloody stub that remains.

  11. HEY JUDE (beatles) explain this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Jews believe this about others they call goyim/gentiles: Jews = biggest racists of all (for which they "jew guilt" you for no less! They're hypocrites known as thieves all thru history or were Argentines in the 1940 under Perrone, Spanish inquistion, France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (pre & post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms and Germany who got rid of them from their nations nazi german's too? No:

    1. Sanhedrin 59a: "Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animal."

    2. Abodah Zara 26b: "Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed."

    3. Sanhedrin 59a: "A goy (Gentile) who pries into The Law (Talmud) is guilty of death."

    4. Yebhamoth 11b: "Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age."

    5. Schabouth Hag. 6d: "Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording."

    6. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Do not save Goyim in danger of death."

    7. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Show no mercy to the Goyim."

    8. Choschen Hamm 388, 15: "If it can be proven that someone has given the money of Israelites to the Goyim, a way must be found after prudent consideration to wipe him off the face of the earth."

    9. Choschen Hamm 266,1: "A Jew may keep anything he finds which belongs to the Akum (Gentile). For he who returns lost property (to Gentiles) sins against the Law by increasing the power of the transgressors of the Law. It is praiseworthy, however, to return lost property if it is done to honor the name of God, namely, if by so doing, Christians will praise the Jews and look upon them as honorable people."

    10. Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dia 17: "A Jew should and must make a false oath when the Goyim asks if our books contain anything against them."

    11. Baba Necia 114, 6: "The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts."

    12. Simeon Haddarsen, fol. 56-D: "When the Messiah comes every Jew will have 2800 slaves."

    13. Nidrasch Talpioth, p. 225-L: "Jehovah created the non-Jew in human form so that the Jew would not have to be served by beasts. The non-Jew is consequently an animal in human form, and condemned to serve the Jew day and night."

    14. Aboda Sarah 37a: "A Gentile girl who is three years old can be violated."

    15. Gad. Shas. 2:2: "A Jew may violate but not marry a non-Jewish girl."

    16. Tosefta. Aboda Zara B, 5: "If a goy kills a goy or a Jew, he is responsible; but if a Jew kills a goy, he is NOT responsible."

    17. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 388: "It is permitted to kill a Jewish denunciator everywhere. It is permitted to kill him even before he denounces."

    18. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348: "All property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which, consequently, is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples."

    19. Tosefta, Abda Zara VIII, 5: "How to interpret the word 'robbery.' A goy is forbidden to steal, rob, or take women slaves, etc., from a goy or from a Jew. But a Jew is NOT forbidden to do all this to a goy."

    20. Seph. Jp., 92, 1: "God has given the Jews power over the possessions and blood of all nations."

    21. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 156: "When a Jew has a Gentile in his clutches, another Jew may go to the same Gentile, lend him money and in turn deceive him, so that the Gentile shall be ruined. For the property of a Gentile, according to our law, belongs to no one, and the first Jew that passes has full right to seize it."

    22. Schulchan Aruch, Johre Deah, 122: "A Jew is forbidden to drink from a glass of wine which a Gentile has touched, because the touch has made the wine unclean."

    23. Nedarim 23b: "He who desires that none of his vows made during the year be valid, let him stand at the beginning of the year and declare, 'Every vow which I may make in the future shall be null'. His vows are then invalid."

    Really nice people guess all nations are nazis (egypt "despoiling" robbing it, Romans under titus, russian pogro

  12. HEY JUDE (beatles) explain this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Jews believe this about others they call goyim/gentiles: Jews = biggest racists of all (for which they "jew guilt" you for no less! They're hypocrites known as thieves all thru history or were Argentines in the 1940 under Perrone, Spanish inquistion, France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (pre & post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms and Germany who got rid of them from their nations nazi german's too? No:

    1. Sanhedrin 59a: "Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animal."

    2. Abodah Zara 26b: "Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed."

    3. Sanhedrin 59a: "A goy (Gentile) who pries into The Law (Talmud) is guilty of death."

    4. Yebhamoth 11b: "Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age."

    5. Schabouth Hag. 6d: "Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording."

    6. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Do not save Goyim in danger of death."

    7. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Show no mercy to the Goyim."

    8. Choschen Hamm 388, 15: "If it can be proven that someone has given the money of Israelites to the Goyim, a way must be found after prudent consideration to wipe him off the face of the earth."

    9. Choschen Hamm 266,1: "A Jew may keep anything he finds which belongs to the Akum (Gentile). For he who returns lost property (to Gentiles) sins against the Law by increasing the power of the transgressors of the Law. It is praiseworthy, however, to return lost property if it is done to honor the name of God, namely, if by so doing, Christians will praise the Jews and look upon them as honorable people."

    10. Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dia 17: "A Jew should and must make a false oath when the Goyim asks if our books contain anything against them."

    11. Baba Necia 114, 6: "The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts."

    12. Simeon Haddarsen, fol. 56-D: "When the Messiah comes every Jew will have 2800 slaves."

    13. Nidrasch Talpioth, p. 225-L: "Jehovah created the non-Jew in human form so that the Jew would not have to be served by beasts. The non-Jew is consequently an animal in human form, and condemned to serve the Jew day and night."

    14. Aboda Sarah 37a: "A Gentile girl who is three years old can be violated."

    15. Gad. Shas. 2:2: "A Jew may violate but not marry a non-Jewish girl."

    16. Tosefta. Aboda Zara B, 5: "If a goy kills a goy or a Jew, he is responsible; but if a Jew kills a goy, he is NOT responsible."

    17. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 388: "It is permitted to kill a Jewish denunciator everywhere. It is permitted to kill him even before he denounces."

    18. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348: "All property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which, consequently, is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples."

    19. Tosefta, Abda Zara VIII, 5: "How to interpret the word 'robbery.' A goy is forbidden to steal, rob, or take women slaves, etc., from a goy or from a Jew. But a Jew is NOT forbidden to do all this to a goy."

    20. Seph. Jp., 92, 1: "God has given the Jews power over the possessions and blood of all nations."

    21. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 156: "When a Jew has a Gentile in his clutches, another Jew may go to the same Gentile, lend him money and in turn deceive him, so that the Gentile shall be ruined. For the property of a Gentile, according to our law, belongs to no one, and the first Jew that passes has full right to seize it."

    22. Schulchan Aruch, Johre Deah, 122: "A Jew is forbidden to drink from a glass of wine which a Gentile has touched, because the touch has made the wine unclean."

    23. Nedarim 23b: "He who desires that none of his vows made during the year be valid, let him stand at the beginning of the year and declare, 'Every vow which I may make in the future shall be null'. His vows are then invalid."

    Really nice people guess all nations are nazis (egypt "despoiling" robbing it, Romans under titus, russian pogro