Known Issue

If you sign in with different Apple IDs for iCloud and iTunes during Setup Assistant, it may hang.

Workaround: Do not use different Apple IDs for iCloud and iTunes during Setup Assistant. After setup, sign in by going to Settings > App and iTunes Stores.

Note

During the iOS 9.1 beta, iCloud Keychain accounts with two-factor authentication enabled will use beta servers. If you do not want your iCloud Keychain data stored on beta servers, do not use the beta software.

Fixed in Beta 3

• If you disable two-factor authentication on your iCloud account, your iCloud Keychain may also get turned off.

  Workaround: Confirm that iCloud Keychain is still on in Settings after disabling two-factor authentication.

• When activating iCloud Keychain in Settings on iPad, you may be unable to complete the activation.

Known Issue

Sometimes while setting up iCloud Keychain, you receive a "Could Not Set Up iCloud Keychain" error.

Workaround: Reboot the device.

Note

For tvOS Metal development, it is required that you use the tvOS-specific feature set enum MTLFeatureSet_TVOS_GPUFamily1_v1.

Known Issue

If your app gets the gesture recognizer from the PHLivePhotoView object (via playbackGestureRecognizer) to install it on a different view, subsequently setting a new value forlivePhoto on the PHLivePhotoView object causes it to reinstall the gesture recognizer on itself.

Workaround: Your app can get the gesture recognizer and reinstall it on the appropriate view every time after setting a value for livePhoto.

Fixed in Beta 3

The sleep timer does not work in this beta.

Fixed in Beta 3

If you’ve set a region that doesn’t match your language, restores from iCloud Backup might not progress.

Workaround: During restore, change your region to match your language. You can change it back after the restore is over.

Known Issue

Sometimes while restoring from iCloud backup, you will not see your list of backups, if you have two-factor authentication enabled on your iCloud account.

Known Issue

Settings may become unresponsive after signing into an iMessage or FaceTime account.

Workaround: Quit Settings from the App Switcher.

Known Issue

When asking Siri to play music, Siri will return an error but will still play back the music requested.

Note

On 3D Touch capable devices, touch pressure changes cause touchesMoved:withEvent: to be called for all apps running on iOS 9.0. When running iOS 9.1, the method is called only for apps linked with the iOS 9.0 (or later) SDK.

Apps should be prepared to receive touch move events with no change in the x/y coordinates.

Known Issue

iForgot links may not work.

Workaround: Go to iforgot.apple.com in Safari.

Note

During the iOS 9.1 Beta, iCloud Keychain for iCloud accounts with two-factor authentication enabled will use beta servers. If you do not want your iCloud Keychain data stored on beta servers, do not use the beta software.

Known Issues

• Sometimes while setting up iCloud Keychain, you recieve a "Could Not Set Up iCloud Keychain" error.

  Workaround: Reboot the device.

• If you disable Two-Factor Authentication on your iCloud account, your iCloud Keychain may also get turned off.

  Workaround: Confirm that your Keychain is still on in Settings after disabling Two-Factor Authentication.

• When activating Keychain in Settings on iPad, you may be unable to complete the activation.

• If you have an account with Two-Factor Authentication and set up iCloud Keychain, it may not succeed if you take a few minutes to get through Setup Assistant.

  Workaround: Go back to the beginning of Setup Assistant and sign into iCloud again.

• If you had been using a Random Security Code for your Keychain before upgrading to iOS 9.1 Beta, tapping “Back” when prompted to enter your security code in Setup Assistant may result in a sign-in failure.

  Workaround: Go back to the beginning of Setup Assistant and sign into iCloud again.

• If you change your device passcode while in Airplane Mode, you iCloud Keychain may cease to sync with other devices.

Known Issue

3rd party keyboards don’t appear in sharing sheets and action sheets.

Workaround: Use the Apple keyboard.

Known Issue

If you add a PHLivePhotoView to an app UI in Interface Builder, it might end up as a regular UIView object at runtime.

Workaround: Declare a dummy PHLivePhotoView subclass in your code:

@interface DummyLivePhotoViewSubclass : PHLivePhotoView

@end

@implementation DummyLivePhotoViewSubclass

@end

Known Issue

If you try to play the last item in a list, Podcasts may crash.

Known Issue

If you’ve set a region that doesn’t match your language, restores from iCloud Backup might not progress.

Workaround: During restore, change your region to match your language. You can change it back after the restore is over.

Note

On 3D Touch capable devices, touch pressure changes cause touchesMoved: to be called. This is true for all apps running on iOS 9.0. When running iOS 9.1, it is true only for apps linked with the iOS 9.0 (or greater) SDK.

Apps should be prepared to receive touch move events with no change in the x/y coordinates.

Known Issue

iForgot links may not work.

Workaround: Go to iforgot.apple.com in Safari.

Note

During the iOS 9.1 Beta, iCloud Keychain for iCloud accounts with two-factor authentication enabled will use beta servers. If you do not want your iCloud Keychain data stored on beta servers, do not use the beta software.

Known Issues

• Sometimes while setting up iCloud Keychain, you recieve a "Could Not Set Up iCloud Keychain" error.

  Workaround: Reboot the device.

• If you disable Two-Factor Authentication on your iCloud account, your iCloud Keychain may also get turned off.

  Workaround: Confirm that your Keychain is still on in Settings after disabling Two-Factor Authentication.

• When activating Keychain in Settings on iPad, you may be unable to complete the activation.

• If you have an account with Two-Factor Authentication and set up iCloud Keychain, it may not succeed if you take a few minutes to get through Setup Assistant.

  Workaround: Go back to the beginning of Setup Assistant and sign into iCloud again.

• If you had been using a Random Security Code for your Keychain before upgrading to iOS 9.1 Beta, tapping “Back” when prompted to enter your security code in Setup Assistant may result in a sign-in failure.

  Workaround: Go back to the beginning of Setup Assistant and sign into iCloud again.

• If you change your device passcode while in Airplane Mode, you iCloud Keychain may cease to sync with other devices.

Known Issue

3rd party keyboards don’t appear in sharing sheets and action sheets.

Workaround: Use the Apple keyboard.

Known Issue

If you add a PHLivePhotoView to an app UI in Interface Builder, it might end up as a regular UIView object at runtime.

Workaround: Declare a dummy PHLivePhotoView subclass in your code:

@interface DummyLivePhotoViewSubclass : PHLivePhotoView

@end

@implementation DummyLivePhotoViewSubclass

@end

Known Issue

If you try to play the last item in a list, Podcasts may crash.

Known Issue

If you’ve set a region that doesn’t match your language, restores from iCloud Backup might not progress.

Workaround: During restore, change your region to match your language. You can change it back after the restore is over.

Note

On 3D Touch capable devices, touch pressure changes cause touchesMoved: to be called. This is true for all apps running on iOS 9.0. When running iOS 9.1, it is true only for apps linked with the iOS 9.0 (or greater) SDK.

Apps should be prepared to receive touch move events with no change in the x/y coordinates.

Fixed in Beta 5

Lightning video dongles don’t work with this beta.

Note

iOS 9 enforces the UILaunchImages requirement; apps can no longer declare the same launch image to support different interface orientations.

Known Issue

Users might be prompted twice for credentials on the first In-App Purchase.

Note

Some users will be offered the option to upgrade their Apple ID to use two-factor authentication. For more information about two-factor authentication see developer.apple.com/support/two-factor-authentication. Two-factor authentication is not supported on iOS 9 betas prior to beta 3.

Fixed in Beta 5

• You may not be able to create a new Apple ID in Settings or Setup Assistant.

  Workaround: Create a new iCloud account on iCloud.com.

• You cannot manage your two-factor authentication trusted devices at appleid.apple.com.

  Workaround: You can find and manage trusted devices in Settings > iCloud > yourName > Devices.

• Removing a device from your account removes it as a trusted device for two-factor authentication, but will not sign out of any services or permanently remove it from the device list.

  Workaround: To fully remove a device, click Remove From Account then sign out of iCloud in device Settings of the device you want to remove.

Known Issues

• iForgot links may work intermittently.

  Workaround: Please try again.

• If you upgrade your Apple ID to use two-factor authentication, iTunes purchases on Mac and Windows and store purchases on Apple TV will require you to append a six-digit verification code to the end of your password on every purchase. The six-digit code will display automatically on your iOS 9 or OS X El Capitan devices, or can be sent to your trusted phone number via a text message or phone call.

• If your Apple ID uses two-factor authentication, you may not be able to sign in to services that use Apple ID on iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan beta installations earlier than beta 3.

• If you disable two-factor authentication and set a new password at iForgot.apple.com, the password requirements are not indicated so your password may not be accepted.

  Workaround: Make sure your password meets these requirements:

  • Have at least one lowercase letter

  • Have at least one uppercase letter

  • Have at least one number

  • Your password must not contain more than two consecutive identical characters

  • Not be the same as the account name

  • Be at least 8 characters

  • Not be a common password

Notes

• The canUseNetworkResourcesForLiveStreamingWhilePaused property has been added to AVPlayerItem. The default value is NO for apps linked on or after iOS 9.0 or OS X 10.11, but YES for apps that were linked earlier.

  To minimize power usage, set this property to NO if you do not need playback state to stay up to date while paused.

• AVQueuePlayer now supports a mixture of file-based media and HTTP Live Streaming media in its queue. Prior to this, you had to ensure that all items in the queue were of the same type.

• For apps linked against iOS 9 or later, the media interruption behavior for AV(Queue)Player has changed.

  Before iOS 9, apps could interrupt other media-playing clients by associating or adding AVPlayerItem to AVPlayer or by modifying the time or date of the current AVPlayerItem (using the seekToTime: or seekToDate: methods). In iOS 9, these operations interrupt only when AVPlayer object’s playback rate is changed to a non-zero value through the rate property or play method.

• Picture in Picture playback might stop and the Picture in Picture button might disappear when using AVPlayerViewController for video playback and replacing the underlying AVPlayer object’s current item usingreplaceCurrentItemWithPlayerItem:.

• The AVPictureInPictureController interface and the cancelPictureInPicture method are deprecated.

Fixed in Beta 5

Calendar may hang if you tap Ignore on a suggested event.

Fixed in Beta 5

The Home button may not always work.

Known Issue

The navigation bar in Maps can sometimes get into a state where it is inaccessible.

Note

The retrievePeripherals: and retrieveConnectedPeripherals methods were deprecated in iOS 7.0 and removed in iOS 9.0. Apps that use these methods will crash on launch or upon pairing an accessory.

Note

iOS 9 adds support for TLS v1.2 in 8021.X authentication. Authentication servers that support TLS v1.2 may require an update for compatibility. If you are using FreeRADIUS, update to version 2.2.7 or 3.0.8. If you are using Aruba ClearPass update to version 6.5.2. If you are using other Aruba products, update to ArubaOS 6.4.2.9.

Notes

• There is new Foundation API that can be used to detect if the device is in Low Power Mode. See the updated Energy Efficiency Guide for iOS Apps for details.

• Horizontal location constraints should consistently reference either left/right or leading/trailing attributes. For apps linked against the iOS 9 SDK, NSLayoutConstraint will throw an exception if you attempt to create a constraint between a leading/trailing attribute and a left/right attribute.

Known Issue

In rare circumstances, it is possible for the health database to be deleted during an upgrade to a beta build.

Workaround: To make sure the health database is not lost, make an encrypted iTunes backup prior to installing this beta.

Although keeping the device unlocked for the duration of the upgrade process reduces the risk of the database being destroyed, it’s recommended that you create a backup so that you can recover the database if you encounter this issue.

Fixed in Beta 5

• If you have an empty music library, you will be unable to enable or disable Home Sharing in Music.

• The Home Sharing option doesn't always appear in My Music.

Note

The fetchAllChanges property on CKFetchRecordChangesOperation has been deprecated, and will be removed in iOS 9.

Note

Russian, Turkish, and Korean QuickType keyboards require iOS 9 beta 2 or later.

Fixed in Beta 5

If you use a complex passcode on an iPad, some panes in Settings will now show the keyboard.

Note

iCloud Keychain will not sync passwords & credit cards with previous betas of iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan.

Fixed in Beta 5

• You may not be able to accept a Suggested Password when creating a new account.

• You may be unable to join an existing iCloud Keychain circle using iCloud Security Code and SMS Verification Code.

• After changing your iCloud password, you may see an “iCloud Keychain Reset” prompt.

• If you have two-step verification enabled on your AppleID and then change your iCloud Keychain or iCloud Security Code on a non-trusted device, you see a “Verification Failed” error.

• If your iCloud account uses two-factor authentication, you will get a sign-in alert on all logged-in iOS 9 or OS X El Capitan devices whenever there is a change in the phone number in Settings > iCloud > Keychain > Advanced.

Known Issue

A Yahoo mail account may periodically display “Cannot get mail.”

Known Issue

If you use Siri to get driving, walking, or transit directions, you may see a failure with a dialog that says “Current Location not Available.”

Workaround: Toggle Wi-Fi and then try again. Alternatively, get directions in Maps directly without using Siri.

Fixed in Beta 5

• When recording audio messages, the audio glyphs are not shown. This occurs in both quick reply and in the Messages app.

• When you send an audio message, it may be difficult to begin playback.

Note

When users plug in headphones or connect to Bluetooth or CarPlay in their car, their favorite music app appears on the lock screen or the car display.

For your app to be eligible for this, it must publish to Now Playing upon launch and consistently maintain a Now Playing state. A common practice upon launch is to continue playing the track from when the app was last exited.

Known Issues

• The share sheet may not appear when sharing tracks from Apple Music.

• The New tab may not load if you are not signed into Apple Music.

Note

When negotiating a TLS/SSL connection with Diffie-Hellman key exchange, iOS 9 requires a 1024-bit group or larger. These connections include:

• Secure Web (HTTPS)

• Enterprise Wi-Fi (802.1X)

• Secure e-mail (IMAP, POP, SMTP)

• Printing servers (IPPS)

Fixed in Beta 5

Photos taken with Photo Booth are not saved.

Known Issue

Playing a video while ReplayKit recording is ON will stop ongoing recording session and video will fail to play.

Fixed in Beta 5

Fixed a bug where calling reloadContentBlockerWithIdentifier:completionHandler: returned an error when running on a physical device.

Notes

• When Done is tapped in a SFSafariViewController, it is automatically dismissed. You no longer need to dismiss it in the delegate method safariViewControllerDidFinish:.

• “Find on Page” is now available both from the share sheet as well as in the Completions List.

• Request Desktop Site has moved; it’s now in the Share sheet instead of Favorites.

• Web Browser–to–Native App Handoff does not work with your app if the apple-app-site-association file isn’t correctly formatted and signed. For more information, see Handoff Programming Guide and Shared Web Credentials Reference.

Note

• DHE_RSA ciphersuites are now disabled by default in Secure Transport for TLS clients. This may cause failure to connect to TLS servers that only support DHE_RSA cipher suites. Applications that explicitly enable ciphersuites usingSSLSetEnabledCiphers() are not affected and will still use DHE_RSA ciphersuites if explicetely enabled.

Fixed in Beta 5

• Siri cannot change Settings options.

• Siri Eyes Free may not work.

• You are unable to create, view, or edit notes using Siri.

Fixed in Beta 5

After upgrading to this beta, some contacts are not searchable in Spotlight.

Notes

• If initialized with a nil nibName value, UIViewController.nibName has always looked for a nib with a similar name as the view controller’s class, and defaulted to that value if loadView is not overridden.

  Prior to iOS 9, subclasses of UIViewController that were written in Swift would require that their corresponding nib file name include the module prefix.

  To improve flexibility in the event of refactoring, you can omit the module name from the nib file name in code that runs in iOS 9 beta 4 and later. UIViewController.nibName still prefers a name that contains the module prefix, but falls back to an unqualified name if a nib with the fully-qualified name is not found.

• In iOS 9, when layoutIfNeeded is sent to a view and all of the following conditions are satisfied (which is not common), we apply fitting-size constraints (width/height = 0 at UILayoutPriorityFittingSizeLevel) instead of required size constraints (width/height required to match current size):

  1. The receiver is not yet in the subtree of a view that hosts a layout engine, such as window, view controller view (unless you have set translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints to NO on that view—or created constraints that have one item in its subtree and one item outside it), table view cell content view, and so on.

  2. The final ancestor (that is, top-level view) of the receiver has translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints set to NO.

  3. The top-level view has a subview that is not a UIViewController-owned layout guide that also has translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints set to NO.

  Under condition 1, we create a temporary layout engine from the top-level view and add all the constraints from the subtree to it. The problem is that we need to add some constraints that make the size of the top-level view unambiguous in the layout engine. The old behavior (prior to iOS 9) was that we would add constraints to restrict the size of the top-level view to its current bounds for any situation under condition 1. This really doesn’t make sense when you add conditions 2 and 3 and can result in unsatisfiable-constraints logging and broken layout.

  So in iOS 9, for this special case only, we use fitting-size constraints instead.

  This means that if you are sending layoutIfNeeded to a view under these conditions in iOS 9, you must be sure that either you have sufficient constraints to establish a size for the top-level view (which usually, though not always, is the receiver) or you must add temporary size constraints to the top-level view of layout size you desire before sending layoutIfNeeded, and remove them afterward.

• For apps linked on iOS 9 or later, UITextView will now always correctly constrict its NSTextContainer to the fit inside the view when scrolling is disabled. Overflowing lines that lie outside of an NSTextContainer, even partially, are not rendered.

  In previous iOS releases, the NSTextContainer sometimes was not constricted in size. This meant that logically overflowing lines were erroneously rendered. If you are seeing previously rendered lines at the end of your text view no longer rendered after linking your app against iOS 9, this behavior change is the likely cause. You can remedy this by making your UITextView larger, or perhaps by adjusting the bottom value of the text view's textContainerInset property.

• There is a redesigned UI for printing that includes a print preview (presented from UIPrintInteractionController or UIActivityViewController). For apps that provide printing items or use only built-in UIPrintFormatter objects (such asUISimpleTextPrintFormatter, UIMarkupTextPrintFormatter, UIWebViewPrintFormatter, or the UIViewPrintFormatter of any system-provided view), nothing additional is needed for the print preview to display.

  Apps that subclass UIPrintPageRenderer or UIPrintFormatter to draw content for printing must be built with the iOS 9 SDK for the preview to display. The behavior of UIPrintPageRenderer has been updated to call drawPageAtIndex:inRect:multiple times with potentially different page sizes and margins. Various methods on UIPrintPageRenderer may be called from a non-main thread, but never from multiple threads concurrently.

• UIPickerView and UIDatePicker are now resizable and adaptive—previously, these views would enforce a default size even if you attempted to resize them. These views also now default to a width of 320 points on all devices, instead of to the device width on iPhone.

  Interfaces that rely on the old enforcement of the default size will likely look wrong when compiled for iOS 9. Any problems encountered can be resolved by fully constraining or sizing picker views to the desired size instead of relying on implicit behavior.

Known Issues

• Instances of UIViewController classes that are defined in the UIKit library and are created with a nil nibBundle attempt to find their nib inside the UIKit framework instead of the app's main bundle.

  Workaround: Pass [NSBundle mainBundle] for the nibBundle argument instead of nil.

• Apps linked to versions of iOS earlier than iOS 8 may display incorrectly. Symptoms include cropping and displaying only in a small section of the screen.

Fixed in Beta 5

Apps that are distributed through VPP and are licensed to a device won't launch.

Known Issue

Pairing iOS 9 beta 3 or 4 with watchOS 2 beta 1 or 2 requires you to sign out of your AppleID in Messages prior to pairing and to skip iCloud sign-in during pairing. Pairing with watchOS 2 beta 3 and watchOS 1 is not impacted.

Note

The if-domain and unless-domain value strings only match the exact domain. To match the domain and any subdomains, begin the string with the asterisk character (*).

Note

Activation Lock is enabled on your Apple Watch if you have Find My iPhone enabled on your iPhone.

Fixed in Beta 4

Apple Pay is not functional.

Known Issue

Your app may crash when using NSNumber and NSDate objects with the WCSession API.

Workaround: Convert an NSNumber or NSDate object to a string before calling WCSession APIs. Do the opposite conversion on the receiving side.

Known Issue

Contact syncing doesn’t work in Simulator.

Fixed in Beta 4

• Pushes from complications are not received on iPhone.

• CLKImageProvider objects do not currently honor the foregroundImage property.

• The CLKComplicationRingStyle property is currently not honored on any CLKComplicationTemplate.

• The CLKRelativeDateStyleOffset enumeration of CLKRelativeDateStyle is not honored for use in CLKRelativeDateTextProvider; instead, it appears asCLKRelativeDateStyleNatural.

Known Issues

• When you are using the complication scheme to debug your complication, the debugger may not attach until you launch the main app.

• The CLKComplicationPrivacyBehavior on CLKComplicationDataSource is not currently honored.

Fixed in Beta 4

File transfers fail from Watch to iPhone.

Fixed in Beta 4

You may not see your glance appear while debugging in Simulator or on a device.

Known Issues

Glances become unusable when you have attached with a debugger.

Fixed in Beta 4

Haptic feedback does not work with this beta.

Note

Keychain items created on an Apple Watch are not viewable on an iOS device.

Fixed in Beta 4

The following callbacks in WKExtensionDelegate have not yet been implemented.

• - (void)didReceiveRemoteNotification:(NSDictionary *)userInfo;

• - (void)didReceiveLocalNotification:(UILocalNotification *)notification;

Fixed in Beta 4

If you disable the "Fitness Tracking" privacy setting on the companion device for your app, the app on the Watch side will still receive motion updates.

Known Issue

When invoking Siri by pressing the Digital Crown from the watch face, Home screen, or over an app, you may see words that you did not speak added to the Siri request.

Workarounds:

• Use Hey Siri instead of the Digital Crown to trigger Siri.

• Trigger Siri using the Digital Crown with Siri already in the foreground.

Known Issues

• Pairing iOS 9 beta 3 with watchOS 2 beta 1 or 2 requires you to sign out of your AppleID in Messages prior to pairing and to skip iCloud sign-in during pairing. Pairing with watchOS 2 beta 3 and WatchOS 1 is not impacted.

• Tapping Cancel does not work in the iForgot work flows in Watch Setup Assistant.

Known Issue

Some apps that run in Simulator may fail to launch on device.

Note: If you see this, please file a Radar so that we can follow up to obtain logs.

Notes

• App extensions need an arm64 slice to run on 64-bit devices. If you try to run the armv7 slice on a 64-bit device it won’t work.

• Apps need to have an arm64 slice if the bundle contains a framework that both the app and the app extension link against.

Fixed in Beta 2

The dialog that appears when connecting an iPhone to a CarPlay-compatible car is not functional.

Known Issue

Creating an animated image using the UIImage method animatedImageWithImages:duration: and then playing the animation using startAnimating ignores the duration and plays back as fast as possible.

Workaround: Use startAnimatingWithImagesInRange:duration:repeatCount: instead.

Known Issue

LTE Voice does not work properly with Verizon.

Workaround: If you are using Verizon, please set LTE to Data Only for this seed.

Notes

• App extensions need an arm64 slice to run on 64-bit devices. If you try to run the armv7 slice on a 64-bit device it won’t work.

• Apps need to have an arm64 slice if the bundle contains a framework that both the app and the app extension link against.

Fixed in beta 5

3rd party calendar sync does not work in this beta.

Note

A single CKAsset instance can no longer be set as a value on multiple CKRecord objects.

Notes

• Your app needs the iCloud entitlement to be able to be used as a document provider.

• The com.apple.developer.icloud-container-identifiers entitlement is required.

Known Issues

• After rotating the document picker to landscape, the status bar is hidden.

• Upon bringing up the document picker in landscape, the containing view may be shifted beneath the navigation bar.

Note

The file system layout of app containers has changed on disk. Rather than relying on hard-coded directory structure, use the NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains function or the URLForDirectory:inDomain:appropriateForURL:create:error: method of the NSFileManager class. See Accessing Files and Directories in File System Programming Guide.

Note

The Thai system font has increased in size to improve readability. This will cause clipping in many places in your UI if you don’t take appropriate action:

1. Use UILabel as much as possible. If you use Interface Builder, make sure that Clip Subviews is not checked. UIKit will grow the clipping region as necessary to not clip text.

2. Use Dynamic Type. This will ensure that you do not have overlapping glyphs in multiline labels or text fields.

If you can’t do 1 and 2 because you implement your own views, you must implement measures not to clip. You can use CoreText to figure out the appropriate clipping region for a line of text by calling:

CTLineGetBoundsWithOptions(lineRef, kCTLineBoundsIncludeLanguageExtents);

To avoid overlapping glyphs in multiline text elements, adjust the line height. An additional 30% is recommended.

This measure will also help your app perform better in other languages, including Arabic, Hindi, and Vietnamese.

Note

HKUserPreferenceDidChangeNotification has been renamed HKUserPreferencesUpdatedNotification.

Known Issue

Some information encoded using moles in previous releases may not be be decoded correctly with this beta.

Note

Mail handoff and AirDrop may stop working after changing your iCloud password at appleid.apple.com.

Workaround: Sign out and back into iCloud on the device.

Note

URLForUbiquityContainerIdentifier: might return nil when running your application in Xcode. If so, open System Preferences, navigate to iCloud > iCloud Drive, and enable Xcode.

Fixed in beta 5

Music playback from iTunes in the Cloud does not work in this beta.

Note

The schedule and intended use of widgetPerformUpdateWithCompletionHandler: is as a convenient home for all data/model update logic. If implemented, the system will call at opportune times for the widget to update its state, both when Notification Center is visible, as well as in the background. An implementation is required to enable background updates. It’s expected that the widget will perform the work to update asynchronously and off the main thread as much as possible. Widgets should call the argument block when the work is complete, passing the appropriate NCUpdateResult. Widgets should NOT block returning from viewWillAppear: on the results of this operation. Instead, widgets should load cached state in viewWillAppear: in order to match the state of the view from the last viewWillDisappear:, then transition smoothly to the new data when it arrives.

Note

The NSURLSessionTask class provides a new “priority” property with three associated constants: NSURLSessionTaskPriorityDefault, NSURLSessionTaskPriorityLow, and NSURLSessionTaskPriorityHigh. NSURLSessionTask priorities can be used to specify how multiple requests and responses to the same host should be prioritized. Note that the priority is a hint and not a strict guarantee of NSURLSessionTask performance.

For complete usage details of NSURLSessionTask priorities, refer to the NSURLSession.h header file, which is provided by the Foundation framework.

Note

To activate Wi-Fi Calling functionality for T-Mobile (U.S. only), follow these steps:

• Go to Settings > Phone > Wi-Fi Calling.

• Toggle the Wi-Fi Calling switch to ON.

• If the carrier does not have the user’s registered emergency address, you will be asked to add it before the feature is activated.

Notes

• Maintain a backup of your photo library before enabling and while using iCloud Photo Library beta by:

  • Importing to your Mac using iPhoto

  • Importing to your Mac using Image Capture

• iCloud Photo Library beta will not download photos and videos that were synced to your device from iTunes. Any photos and videos synced to your device from iTunes will be removed when you enable iCloud Photo Library beta.

• iPhoto for iOS will not launch on iOS 8 beta. Launching Photos.app will migrate your iPhoto edits to the iOS 8 Photo Library. Make sure your iPhoto for iOS data is included in your device backup.

• The ability to automatically optimize device space is enabled for all accounts larger than 5GB.

• When using iCloud Family Sharing, both iCloud Photo Sharing and My Photo Stream are enabled.

Notes

• UILabel has a default value of YES for clipsToBounds. This differs from the normal UIView default of NO.

• The leftLayoutGuide and rightLayoutGuide APIs have been removed. Please use the layoutMargins property instead.

Notes

• Settings bundles are now supported for WatchKit extensions running in iOS Simulator. The Apple Watch app displays the controls you specify in your settings bundle. To learn how to create a settings bundle for your WatchKit extension, see Settings in Apple Watch Programming Guide.

• WKInterfaceSwitch now has setTitle: and setAttributedTitle: methods.

• WKInterfaceController now has an invalidateUserActivity method that may be called to clear out any user activity state previously set.

• WKInterfaceImage and WKInterfaceGroup allow setting a negative duration for playback. A negative duration causes the animation to play back in reverse, starting from the end of the range and ending at the beginning.

• The WKInterfaceController method updateUserActivity:userInfo has been deprecated. Please use updateUserActivity:userInfo:webpageURL: instead.

• The WKInterfaceMap API has changed. Specifically, setMapRect: and setCoordinateRegion: have been replaced by setVisibleMapRect: and setRegion: respectively.

• The WKInterfaceController method initWithContext: has been deprecated. Please use awakeWithContext: instead. The designated initializer for WKInterfaceController is now init.

• The WKInterfaceDevice API has changed. Specifically, addCachedImage:name: and addCachedImageWithData:name: now return BOOL to indicate the success or failure of adding an image to the cache. Note that these methods return NO if the cache size has reached its limit. Delete images from the cache by calling removeCachedImageWithName: or removeAllCachedImages.

• A page-based WatchKit app can dynamically resequence the pages at the root level using reloadRootControllersWithNames:contexts:.

• Rows in a WKInterfaceTable now have a default appearance. This appearance can be overridden by specifying the values for background color, margin, corner radius, and height for the row in Interface Builder.

• The method setColor: on WKInterfaceButton has changed to setBackgroundColor:.

Known Issues

• Calling the WKInterfaceController method openParentApplication:reply: multiple times without waiting for a return from the first call will fail the first time and may cause multiple replies to be delivered to the wrong reply handler.

  Workaround: Wait for a reply before calling openParentApplication:reply: again.

• Creating an animated image using the UIImage method animatedImageWithImages:duration: and then playing the animation using startAnimating ignores the duration and plays back as fast as possible.

  Workaround: Use startAnimatingWithImagesInRange:duration:repeatCount: instead.

• Inserting, deleting, or updating rows of a WKInterfaceTable may cause the table to temporarily size incorrectly. Scrolling your interface controller should restore the table to the proper size.

• SecRequestSharedWebCredential API calls will always give a -909 Autofill disabled error.

• WKInterfaceSwitch does not reflect the color you set using setColor:.

Note

The carrier name in the status bar will show “T-Mobile Wi-Fi” when the device is able to make and receive Wi-Fi calls.

Note

A single CKAsset instance can no longer be set as a value on multiple CKRecords.

Notes

• Your app needs the iCloud entitlement to be able to be used as a document provider.

• The com.apple.developer.icloud-container-identifiers entitlement is required.

Known Issues

• After rotating the document picker to landscape, the status bar is hidden.

• Upon bringing up the document picker in landscape, the containing view may be shifted beneath the navigation bar.

Notes

• App extensions need an arm64 slice to run on 64-bit devices. If you try to run the armv7 slice on a 64-bit device it won’t work.

• Apps need to have an arm64 slice if the bundle contains a framework that both the app and the app extension link against.

Note

The file system layout of app containers has changed on disk. Rather than relying on hard-coded directory structure, use the NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains function or theURLForDirectory:inDomain:appropriateForURL:create:error: method of the NSFileManager class. See Accessing Files and Directories in File System Programming Guide.

Note

The Thai system font has increased in size to improve readability. This will cause clipping in many places in your UI if you don’t take appropriate action:

1. Use UILabel as much as possible. If you use Interface Builder, make sure that Clip Subviews is not checked. UIKit will grow the clipping region as necessary to not clip text.

2. Use Dynamic Type. This will ensure that you do not have overlapping glyphs in multiline labels or text fields.

If you can’t do 1 and 2 because you implement your own views, you must implement measures not to clip. You can use CoreText to figure out the appropriate clipping region for a line of text by calling:

CTLineGetBoundsWithOptions(lineRef, kCTLineBoundsIncludeLanguageExtents);

To avoid overlapping glyphs in multiline text elements, adjust the line height. An additional 30% is recommended.

This measure will also help your app perform better in other languages, including Arabic, Hindi, and Vietnamese.

Note

Mail handoff and AirDrop may stop working after changing your iCloud password at appleid.apple.com.

Workaround: Sign out and back into iCloud on the device.

Note

URLForUbiquityContainerIdentifier: might return nil when running your application in Xcode. If so, open System Preferences, navigate to iCloud > iCloud Drive, and enable Xcode.

Fixed in Beta 3

Your device may get into a state where tapping into Messages conversations can take a long time.

Note

The schedule and intended use of widgetPerformUpdateWithCompletionHandler: is intended as a convenient home for all data/model update logic. If implemented, the system will call at opportune times for the widget to update its state, both when Notification Center is visible, as well as in the background. An implementation is required to enable background updates. It’s expected that the widget will perform the work to update asynchronously and off the main thread as much as possible. Widgets should call the argument block when the work is complete, passing the appropriate NCUpdateResult. Widgets should NOT block returning from viewWillAppear: on the results of this operation. Instead, widgets should load cached state in viewWillAppear: in order to match the state of the view from the last viewWillDisappear:, then transition smoothly to the new data when it arrives.

Note

The NSURLSessionTask class provides a new “priority” property with three associated constants: NSURLSessionTaskPriorityDefault, NSURLSessionTaskPriorityLow, andNSURLSessionTaskPriorityHigh. NSURLSessionTask priorities can be used to specify how multiple requests and responses to the same host should be prioritized. Note that the priority is a hint and not a strict guarantee of NSURLSessionTask performance.

For complete usage details of NSURLSessionTask priorities, refer to the NSURLSession.h header file, which is provided by the Foundation framework.

Note

To activate Wi-Fi Calling functionality for T-Mobile (U.S. only), follow these steps:

• Go to Settings > Phone > Wi-Fi Calling.

• Toggle the Wi-Fi Calling switch to ON.

• If the carrier does not have the user’s registered emergency address, you will be asked to add it before the feature is activated.

Notes

• Maintain a backup of your photo library before enabling and while using iCloud Photo Library beta by:

  • Importing to your Mac using iPhoto

  • Importing to your Mac using Image Capture

• iCloud Photo Library beta will not download photos and videos that were synced to your device from iTunes. Any photos and videos synced to your device from iTunes will be removed when you enable iCloud Photo Library beta.

• iPhoto for iOS will not launch on iOS 8 beta. Launching Photos.app will migrate your iPhoto edits to the iOS 8 Photo Library. Make sure your iPhoto for iOS data is included in your device backup.

• The ability to automatically optimize device space is enabled for all accounts larger than 5GB.

• When using iCloud Family Sharing, both iCloud Photo Sharing and My Photo Stream are enabled.

Known Issue

If you have upgraded to the 8.2 beta from previous iOS 8 betas you may see your apps crashing due to provisioning profile issues.

Workaround:

1. Connect the device via USB to your Mac.

2. Launch Xcode.

3. Choose Window > Devices.

4. Right click on the device in left column, choose "Show Provisioning Profiles".

5. Click on the provisioning profile in question.

6. Press the "-" button.

7. Continue to removing all affected profiles.

8. Re-install the app.

Notes

• UILabel has a default value of YES for clipsToBounds. This differs from the normal UIView default of NO.

• The leftLayoutGuide and rightLayoutGuide APIs have been removed. Please use the layoutMargins property instead.

Notes

• The WKInterfaceMap API has changed. Specifically, setMapRect: and setCoordinateRegion: have been replaced by setVisibleMapRect: and setRegion: respectively.

• The WKInterfaceController method initWithContext: has been deprecated. Please use awakeWithContext: instead. The designated initializer for WKInterfaceController is now init.

• The WKInterfaceDevice API has changed. Specifically, addCachedImage:name: and addCachedImageWithData:name: now return BOOL to indicate the success or failure of adding an image to the cache. Note that these methods return NO if the cache size has reached its limit. Delete images from the cache by calling removeCachedImageWithName: orremoveAllCachedImages.

• A page-based WatchKit app can dynamically resequence the pages at the root level using reloadRootControllersWithNames:contexts:.

• Rows in a WKInterfaceTable now have a default appearance. This appearance can be overridden by specifying the values for background color, margin, corner radius, and height for the row in Interface Builder.

Fixed in Beta 3

• In iOS Simulator, the Emoji button should now be visible, regardless of the selected input mode.

• The WKInterfaceController method openParentApplication:reply: now launches the containing app in the background when the iPhone (or iOS Simulator) is unlocked or locked.

• The WKInterfaceController method presentTextInputControllerWithSuggestions:completion: is now fully supported in iOS Simulator.

Known Issue

• Inserting, deleting, or updating rows of a WKInterfaceTable may cause the table to temporarily size incorrectly. Scrolling your interface controller should restore the table to the proper size.

Note

The carrier name in the status bar will show “T-Mobile Wi-Fi” when the device is able to make and receive Wi-Fi calls.

Fixed in beta 5

• Use of the AVCaptureDevice method rampToVideoZoomFactor:withRate: will fail.

• In some configurations, the maxBracketedCaptureStillImageCount property on AVCaptureStillImageOutput will yield incorrect results.

Known Issue

Use of the new constant, AVCaptureISOCurrent, will result in inconsistent ISO values (as observed on the ISO property) if setExposureModeCustomWithDuration:ISO:completionHandler: is called repeatedly.

Fixed in beta 5

A restoration of an iCloud backup onto the same device the backup was taken from may not work properly. As a result, some apps may crash.

Known Issues

• Encrypted backups to iTunes fail.

• iOS 7 iCloud backups restored to an iOS 8 beta device may not properly restore photos.

Fixed in beta 5

The Now Playing screen is missing the Back button in the top-left corner.

Fixed in beta 5

Clients sending multiple simultaneous record update requests to the same zone in the private database may encounter CKErrorZoneBusy errors.

Workaround: Clients should send update requests for a given zone one at a time. In addition, they should handle CKErrorZoneBusy errors by retrying with an exponential backoff.

Note

The Address Book UI people picker has been changed for iOS 8. A new mode with new API has been added where the app does not need access to the user’s contacts and the user will not be prompted for access. A temporary copy of the selected person is returned to the app. See ABPeoplePickerNavigationController.h for more details.

As of iOS 8 beta 2, you must use the new mode. The old mode has been deprecated.

See the new PeoplePicker: Picking a Person or Property sample project demonstrating usage of the new mode.

Notes

• Your app needs the iCloud entitlement to be able to be used as a document provider.

• The com.apple.developer.icloud-container-identifiers entitlement will be required when iOS 8 is released.

Fixed in beta 5

• App icons in the document picker do not show up on iPhone and iPad.

• Document providers may hang when importing files.

Known Issues

• After rotating document picker to landscape, the status bar is hidden.

• Upon bringing up document picker in landscape, the containing view may be shifted beneath the navigation bar.

• On iPhone, bringing up DocMenu from Locations in DocPicker, overlaps with status bar.

Known Issues

• Extensions need an arm64 slice to run on 64-bit devices. If you try to run the armv7 slice on a 64-bit device it won’t work.

• Apps need to have an arm64 slice if the bundle contains a framework that both the app and the app extension link against.

Fixed in beta 5

• Keyboard extensions can now be profiled with Instruments.

• Extensions now more reliably support control of location access.

• After redeploying an app, the Today view extension may not be launched, and sometimes its bundle display name becomes the name of the app.

Fixed in beta 5

FaceTime does not work properly in landscape orientation.

Known Issues

• Shared purchase history pages on Mac App Store and iOS App Store are disabled.

• Items already owned by family members must be re-downloaded from the Purchased page (not Store pages) to get them free of additional charge.

Note

The file system layout of app containers has changed on disk. Rather than relying on hard-coded directory structure, use the NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains function or the URLForDirectory:inDomain:appropriateForURL:create:error: method of the NSFileManager class. See Accessing Files and Directories in File System Programming Guide.

Note

Now that the Share My Location feature is integrated into Messages, Find My Friends only supports the Apple ID configured in Settings > iCloud.

Note

The Thai system font has increased in size to improve readability. This will cause clipping in many places in your UI if you don’t take appropriate action:

1. Use UILabel as much as possible. If you use Interface Builder, make sure that Clip Subviews is not checked. UIKit will grow the clipping region as necessary to not clip text.

2. Use Dynamic Type. This will ensure that you do not have overlapping glyphs in multiline labels or text fields.

If you can’t do 1 and 2 because you implement your own views, you must implement measures not to clip. You can use CoreText to figure out the appropriate clipping region for a line of text by calling:

To avoid overlapping glyphs in multiline text elements, adjust the line height. An additional 30% is recommended.

This measure will also help your app perform better in other languages, including Arabic, Hindi, and Vietnamese.

Note

Handoff is incompatible between devices using this beta and the prior beta. You should test Handoff with the most recent beta software because it is not backward-compatible with previous betas.

Notes

• Spirometry data types are now available in HealthKit.

• Any blood type that was set in Medical ID prior to beta 3 will be cleared.

• The pairing UI for BTLE health devices has been removed from HealthKit and is now available in Settings > Bluetooth.

• The HKWorkout API is now available to store workouts.

• HKQuantityTypeIdentifierGalvanicSkinResponse has been renamed HKQuantityTypeIdentifierElectrodermalActivity.

• The following HKObjectType identifiers have been removed:

  • HKQuantityTypeIdentifierRRInterval

  • HKQuantityTypeIdentifierHeatFlux

  • HKCorrelationTypeIdentifierHeartRateReading

Note

• After upgrading to beta 5, you need to reset your home configuration in Settings > Privacy > HomeKit > Reset Home Configuration.

• You must sign into iCloud and enable Keychain sync to use HomeKit with this seed.

Known Issue

Siri may not immediately recognize HomeKit data changes.

Workaround: To trigger an update to Siri, edit other data used by Siri such as a contact or the name of a Reminders list.

Fixed in beta 5

iAd videos may not play in NPR HLS station.

Notes

• iCloud Documents & Data created with iOS 8 Beta will be deleted from the servers at some point during this beta period. Information downloaded and not evicted from the device will remain on device and will re-sync after the data wipe occurs.

• Document storage containers created using the UIDocument class in iOS 7 are not yet available for use with iCloud Documents through Xcode 6 beta or in the Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles section of Member Center. These containers will be migrated later and associated with your existing App IDs.

• URLForUbiquityContainerIdentifier: might return nil when running your application in Xcode. If so, open System Preferences, navigate to iCloud > iCloud Drive, and enable Xcode.

• Migrating to iCloud Drive will disable Documents & Data syncing for your iCloud account on iOS 7 and earlier devices, as well as OS X Mavericks and earlier Macs.

Fixed in beta 5

• Initial sync does not work if the approving device is locked when the approval occurs.

• Using the recovery option can leave you in a state where new items added to the keychain do not sync.

Known Issue

Upon logging into a device with the iCloud 8 beta, other devices in your keychain circle may have their access to the circle revoked.

Workaround: Enable iCloud Keychain Sync on your other devices again.

Known Issue

Apps do not sync from a device to iTunes.

Fixed in beta 5

• If you turn off predictive text in one app and then turn it back on in another, it may not actually be reactivated.

• Caps Lock may be unexpectedly enabled in text input fields.

Fixed in beta 5

The following have English strings that are now properly localized in other languages:

• VoiceOverTouch

• Sharing

• ManagedConfiguration

• AirPortAssistant

• MapKit

• SpringboardUIServices

• AccessibilityBundles

• Music

Known Issue

When viewed in the Simulator, the "Hybrid" view in Maps and MapKit apps does not show all of the tiles.

Fixed in beta 5

Shadow samplers are broken when using linear filtering.

Workaround: For OpenGL, set GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER and GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER to GL_NEAREST. For Metal, set the mag_filter and min_filter sampler properties to nearest in the shader source.

Fixed in beta 5

The Music app may stop responding when downloading an album.

Note

The schedule and intended use of widgetPerformUpdateWithCompletionHandler: is intended as a convenient home for all data/model update logic. If implemented, the system will call at opportune times for the widget to update its state, both when Notification Center is visible, as well as in the background. An implementation is required to enable background updates. It’s expected that the widget will perform the work to update asynchronously and off the main thread as much as possible. Widgets should call the argument block when the work is complete, passing the appropriate NCUpdateResult. Widgets should NOT block returning from viewWillAppear: on the results of this operation. Instead, widgets should load cached state in viewWillAppear: in order to match the state of the view from the last viewWillDisappear:, then transition smoothly to the new data when it arrives.

Note

Beginning in iOS 8 beta 2, the NSURLSessionTask class provides a new “priority” property with three associated constants: NSURLSessionTaskPriorityDefault, NSURLSessionTaskPriorityLow, and NSURLSessionTaskPriorityHigh. NSURLSessionTask priorities can be used to specify how multiple requests and responses to the same host should be prioritized. Note that the priority is a hint and not a strict guarantee of NSURLSessionTask performance.

For complete usage details of NSURLSessionTask priorities, refer to the NSURLSession.h header file, which is provided by the Foundation framework.

Note

To activate Wi-Fi Calling functionality for T-Mobile (U.S. only), follow these steps:

• Go to Settings > Phone > Wi-Fi Calling.

• Toggle the Wi-Fi Calling switch to ON.

• If the carrier does not have the user’s registered emergency address, you will be asked to add it before the feature is activated.

Notes

• iCloud Photo Library requires beta 3 or later.

• Back up your photo libraries before enabling iCloud Photo Library by:

  • Importing to your Mac using iPhoto

  • Importing to your Mac using Image Capture

• Enabling iCloud Photo Library will not add photos/videos that have been synced with iTunes to the cloud.

• iPhoto for iOS will not launch on iOS 8 Beta. Launching Photos.app will migrate your iPhoto edits to the iOS 8 Photo Library. Make sure your iPhoto for iOS data is included in your device backup.

Known Issues

• The ability to automatically optimize device space is not enabled in this beta.

• When using iCloud Family, both iCloud Photos and My Photostream are enabled.

• After restore from iCloud backup, modified photos may show unmodified thumbnails.

• If you reach your iCloud quota, there is no way to add or delete data within the Photos app.

Known Issue

PDF files may not display in some applications.

Notes

• Safari now blocks ads from automatically redirecting to the App Store without user interaction. If you still see the previous behavior, or find legitimate redirection to the App Store to be broken in some way, please file a bug.

• You can now quickly add a site to Shared Links or save a bookmark by tapping and holding on the bookmarks button.

Known Issue

Some icons are missing in Settings and only appear after the row is tapped.

Known Issue

Updating the iCloud settings screen may appear to hang during setup.

Workaround: Some accounts may have an extra long lag. Wait a couple of minutes and they should complete.

Known Issue

Calling contacts with Siri is supported only on devices with the latest developer seed build. Prior developer seed builds no longer support this feature.

Fixed in beta 5

Some projects may launch in portrait when the destination device is in landscape.

Workaround: Rotate the device to portrait and back to landscape to continue in landscape.

Known Issue

Sometimes, loading certain pages or performing a search on the App Store or iTunes Store can be slow.

Notes

• UILabel has a default value of YES for clipsToBounds. This differs from the normal UIView default of NO.

• leftLayoutGuide and rightLayoutGuide API have been removed. Please use the layoutMargins property instead.

Fixed in beta 5

When the width of a multiline label changes due to changes in the layoutMargins of some view, the intrinsic content size of the label is not invalidated when it should be. As a result the layout can unexpectedly truncate the label (or text view).

Workaround: The view whose layoutMargins are changing should override layoutMarginsDidChange and send invalidateIntrinsicContentSize to the label.

Known Issue

To use an action sheet-style UIAlertController on iPad, the sourceView of the alert controller's popoverPresentationController must be set.

Note

The carrier name in the status bar will show “T-Mobile Wi-Fi” when the device is able to make and receive Wi-Fi Calls.

Notes

• Subpixel rendering is now on by default for all web content. Websites or in-app web views with extremely tight design constraints may render differently. Solutions for each issue will vary, but use Web Inspector to adjust position, border thickness, and width or height of elements.

• In iOS 8.0 beta 2 and later, CSS object model getters (offset{Left|Top|Width|Height} and client{Left|Top|Width|Height}) return fractional double values based on subpixel metrics instead of rounded integral values.

• The minimal-ui viewport property is no longer supported in iOS 8.

Known Issue

The window.outerWidth and window.outerHeight DOM properties always return 0. Other DOM properties will need to be used instead. This may affect websites that use leaf.js.

Known Issue

Links to Developer websites from an apps developer page are broken.

Known Issues

• The API returns incorrect values in some cases.

• Use of the AVCaptureDevice method rampToVideoZoomFactor:withRate: will fail.

• Use of the new constant, AVCaptureISOCurrent, will result in inconsistent ISO values (as observed on the ISO property) if setExposureModeCustomWithDuration:ISO:completionHandler: is called repeatedly.

• In some configurations, the maxBracketedCaptureStillImageCount property on AVCaptureStillImageOutput will yield incorrect results.

Known Issue

Certain apps may crash on launch consistently if they came over from a Restore from Backup.

Workaround: Delete and re-download the app.

Known Issues

• The switch in Developer Settings to hide Bug Reporter is not working.

  Workaround: Remove it from the Notification tab in Notification Center settings.

• The Bug Reporter icon does not appear on the Home Screen on iPad.

  Workaround: Open the app from the Notification tab in Notification Center settings.

Known Issue

When attached, the camera connector is not offered as an import option.

Known Issues

• After using Siri, audio quality goes to 24KHz regardless of where it was originally set.

• CarPlay may crash when pressing the Back button when in Now Playing.

• When using the knob only, the highlight can move off screen but the scroll position of view doesn't follow.

• The Now Playing screen is missing the Back button in the top-left corner.

Known Issue

Clients sending multiple simultaneous record update requests to the same zone in the private database may encounter CKErrorZoneBusy errors.

Workaround: Clients should send update requests for a given zone one at a time. In addition, they should handle CKErrorZoneBusy errors by retrying with an exponential back off.

Note

The Address Book UI people picker has been changed for iOS 8. A new mode with new API has been added where the app does not need access to the user’s contacts and the user will not be prompted for access. A temporary copy of the selected person is returned to the app. See ABPeoplePickerNavigationController.h for more details.

In this beta, you have the choice of using either the new mode or the old mode. The old mode will be deprecated in a future iOS 8 Beta, so you should migrate to the new mode as soon as possible.

See the new PeoplePicker: Picking a Person or Property sample project demonstrating usage of the new mode.

Known Issues

• openURL does not work from an extension.

• When Extension with UI is killed, it relaunches and is not dismissed.

• Certain types of media, such as those synced from iTunes, are not editable in the Photos app.

• Sharing extensions are enabled by default.

• Sharing extensions display the name of the project instead of the name of the target.

• If a Sharing extension or an Action extension hangs, it may be necessary to kill the hosting application.

• Using xpc_service_set_attach_handler to profile app extensions for keyboard does not work.

  Workaround: Run your app extension in Simulator, then trigger the Keyboard extension to load and attach to the running instance (for example, com.thirdparty.foo.keyboard (123)) from Instruments’ target chooser.

• Sometimes Sharing or Action extensions are not updated properly after enabling or disabling.

  Workaround: Dismiss the Share sheet and relaunch it.

• During a debug session, extensions may time out before loading.

• Action extension view controllers do not support full-screen presentation.

• Passing NSExtensionItem or NSItemProvider instances to UIActivityViewController does not work.

• Action extensions do not animate smoothly when dismissed.

Known Issue

FaceTime does not work properly in landscape orientation.

Known Issues

• Shared purchase history page on Mac App Store and iOS App Store are disabled.

• Items already owned by family members must be re-downloaded from the Purchased page (not Store pages) to get them free of additional charge.

• Under 13 account creation is disabled in this beta.

• While using the iTunes Store you may experience a spinner that never completes.

  Workaround: Log out and back in to iTunes to correct the issue.

• Email invitations are not enabled; members can join using push notifications or via inline password entry flow.

• Notifications for “Ask to Buy” are not available on older clients. After parental approval, kids will have to reinitiate the purchase.

• You can't approve an “Ask to Buy” request from the requestor's iOS device.

• Login to iCloud may be slow on iOS.

• A blank screen may be seen after creating a family on iPad.

  Workaround: Tap on other settings and then back to iCloud settings.

• “Ask to Buy” and Family Notifications may not appear due to SpringBoard crashing.

  Workaround: Reboot.

Note

Your app needs the iCloud documents entitlement to be able to use the document picker.

Known Issues

• After installing or modifying an existing File Provider, you may need to restart the device for it to show up in the Document Picker.

• File Provider extension sometimes crashes when trying to import a document from a document picker view controller.

• Import/open causes sandbox denial on first try.

  Workaround: Please try again.

• When using the document menu, make sure to log into iCloud to properly enable selecting iCloud Documents to return a UIDocumentViewController; from there, you may enable your File Provider extension.

• File providers may hang when importing files.

• File Provider extension will not load if changes are made to an existing file provider on device.

  Workaround: You need to either reboot the device or delete the app and reinstall it.

Note

The file system layout of app containers has changed on disk. Rather than relying on hard-coded directory structure, use the NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains function or the URLForDirectory:inDomain:appropriateForURL:create:error: method of the NSFileManager class. See Accessing Files and Directories.

Note

Now that the Share My Location feature is integrated into Messages, Find My Friends only supports the Apple ID configured in Settings > iCloud.

Known Issue

If you disable Location Services and choose Don’t Enable when prompted on the Find My iPhone page in Setup Assistant, Find My iPhone will not be enabled.

Known Issue

Some Hindi strings are incorrectly displayed and cause search and rendering issues.

Known Issues

• Interacting with some menus in Game Center may cause a crash.

• Clicking Achievements and Challenges always opens Leaderboards.

• Notifications may not go through to a second device.

  Workaround: For matchmaking, use automatch.

• Invites to matchmaking may get stuck on Waiting.

  Workaround: Use automatch.

• Swiping or tapping a Game Center friend request notification anywhere automatically accepts the friend request.

• GameCenterUIService will crash if you try to send matchmaking invites multiple times.

  Workaround: Use automatch.

Known Issues

• Handoff does not work properly for document-based apps.

• Some apps that use Handoff will mistakenly show as Safari in the iOS lock screen and OS X Dock.

• In some cases, not all devices associated with an Apple ID will pair successfully. These devices will be unable to use Handoff, Phone relay, or Tethering.

• When using a Mac, Handoff may sometimes stop showing icons on other iOS and OS X devices. Powering the Mac off and then back on can sometimes work around this issue.

• Handoff-based Bluetooth connections between devices may stop working after trying to use Handoff.

• In some cases, using Handoff with Safari will result in an old URL being resumed instead of the current URL.

• Directions and Navigation in Maps do not work with Handoff in this beta.

• Phone calls to and from the Mac may sometimes not complete or send and receive audio.

Known Issues

• HKCorrelationQuery only returns objects that were saved with correlations. It should return all data entries matching the predicate.

• Blood pressure readings saved from Health will not have a correlation stored between the systolic and diastolic readings.

Known Issues

• The “primary” property will not be available in HMService in the future.

• HomeKit Bluetooth LE support is not enabled.

• Siri may not immediately recognize HomeKit data changes.

  Workaround: To trigger an update to Siri, edit other data used by Siri, such as a contact or the name of a Reminders list.

• Pairing with the Home Kit Accessory Simulator may fail the first time you try. A second pairing attempt should resolve the issue.

• A bridge accessory only supports a total of 5 services for all bridged accessories.

Notes

• Upon upgrading to iOS 8 Beta, existing iCloud Documents & Data present (not evicted) on your device are copied into special server-side containers for use during the beta period.

• iCloud Documents & Data created with iOS 8 Beta will not sync with with Documents and Data managed with iOS 7, OS X Mavericks, or earlier operating systems.

• iCloud Documents & Data in iOS 8 Beta will only sync with devices running iOS 8 and OS X v10.10 Developer Preview.

• iCloud Documents & Data managed with iOS 7 or OS X Mavericks will remain unaffected.

• iCloud Documents & Data created with iOS 8 Beta will be deleted from the servers at some point during the beta period. Information downloaded and not evicted from the device will remain on device and will re-sync after the data wipe occurs.

• The UI for managing iCloud Documents & Data does not show the documents and data for iOS 8 Beta and OS X v10.10 Developer Preview. It only shows the documents and data synced with previous operating systems.

Known Issue

• In some cases, signing into iCloud can take up to two minutes.

Known Issues

• Opening iTunes Radio URLs from the iTunes Store music grouping page display a page that asks you to upgrade to iOS 7.

• The shelf is not displayed on first sign-in or first launch.

  Workaround: Relaunch the store from the App Switcher.

Known Issues

• In some cases, you may need to restart an app to get third-party keyboard input to register.

• If an iPad is restored while in landscape, it may end up with an offscreen keyboard in certain views.

  Workaround: Reboot the device.

• Custom Keyboards do not have Network Access even after setting the RequestsOpenAccess key to YES in the plist.

• Deploying a third-party keyboard multiple times may cause the system keyboard to render incorrectly or go blank.

  Workaround: Kill the hosting app or reboot the device.

• The requestSupplementaryLexiconWithCompletion: method does not return any lexicon entries.

Known Issue

Keychain Access developer APIs may not work in Simulator.

Known Issue

There are a number of strings that will display in English for people running the iOS in other languages. Known areas of concern include, but are not limited to:

• Find My iPhone/iPad/iPod

• iBooks in Hindi is in English

• Many strings in the Camera app

• Locations in Messages

• Apple Dictionary untranslated for French (Canada) and Traditional Chinese (Honk Kong)

• Family Sharing Request Dialogs

• Calendar notifications

• Error dialogs

• Time units in Videos and Music

• Adding events in Mail

• Safari search and privacy strings

• Photos

• Setup assistant

• Predictive typing

• Voice Memos

• Units in Health

Known Issues

• When Location Services is turned on, the device’s current location is used to recommend relevant apps on the lock screen. In this beta, this happens whether or not the App Store is enabled for Location Services.

  Workaround: To disable app recommendation on the lock screen, turn off Location Services.

• The CLVisit class incorrectly declares the coordinate and horizontalAccuracy properties as read/write.

• Apps using visit monitoring that are denied location authorization via Settings may appear to continue using location when they are not.

• Visit monitoring may continue if an app is uninstalled while it is monitoring for visits.

Known Issues

• A device doesn’t display the Lost Mode message in the lock screen if the device was locked at the time it was put into Lost Mode.

  Workaround: Reboot the device.

• After remote wiping a device and logging into the same (@icloud.com) iCloud account, the Lost Mode lock screen is displayed and the device cannot be unlocked.

Known Issues

• Sometimes Mail crashes when replying to an email with an attachment.

• On iPad, trying to add a contact via a Suggestion Banner causes Mail to hang.

  Workaround: Quit and relaunch Mail.

Known Issues

• MKMapItem called with -[MKMapItem url] that have no URL return “http://(null)” when the should return nil.

• On iPad, tapping on “Points of Interest” can cause Maps to hang.

  Workaround: Kill Maps from the App Switcher and relaunch it.

• Taking multiple snapshots using MKMapSnapshotter can sometimes produce a distorted map snapshot.

  Workaround: Reinitialize a new class between subsequent snapshots.

Known Issue

MediaPlayer.framework - MPVolumeSettingsAlertShow() does not display a volume slider or the AirPlay controller.

Known Issue

The string “Location” appears in non-English languages.

Known Issue

Radio Redirect links from product pages do not work.

Known Issue

Content downloaded via NKAssetDownload doesn’t get returned to the app.

Known Issue

Some app crashes cause Family notifications to stop appearing.

Workaround: Family notifications will come back after a reboot.

Known Issues

• Passes added on iOS 7 devices won’t appear in iOS 8 devices, and vice versa.

• Pulling down to refresh passes does not work.

Known Issues

• Missed calls and recent call info doesn’t always update properly.

• Double height status bar does not always dismiss for phone and FaceTime calls.

• Tapping a Maps pin during a call causes a hang.

• Bringing up a contact card in Mail during a call causes a hang.

• Phone call relay uses Bluetooth, when it should be using Wi-Fi. Since not all devices have the necessary BT support, this may fail on some hardware.

• Phone call relay sometimes results in poor audio quality.

• Sometimes the FaceTime Audio icon appears when FaceTime Audio is not available.

Notes

• Back up your photo libraries before enabling iCloud Photo Library by:

  • Importing to your Mac using iPhoto

  • Importing to your Mac using Image Capture

• Enabling iCloud Photo Library will not add photos/videos that have been synced with iTunes to the cloud.

Known Issues

• The ability to automatically optimize device space is not enabled in this beta.

• “Save to Camera Roll” button in a Shared stream doesn’t work.

• If you turn off iCloud before disabling iCloud Photo Library, synced photos are still present on your device.

  Workaround: After signing back in to your iCloud account, turn iCloud Photo Library off and then back on.

• If you turn on iCloud Photo Library while an iCloud restore is in progress, your initial upload will not happen until the restore completes.

• When using iCloud Family, both iCloud Photos and My Photostream are enabled.

• After restore from iCloud backup, modified photos may show unmodified thumbnails.

• If you reach your iCloud quota, there is no way to add or delete data within the Photos app.

• Items deleted from the Recently Deleted album don’t sync to other devices.

• Slow motion clips that have been trimmed sync to other devices as a gray thumbnail.

• iCloud Photo downloads stall when a device is idle for a long period of time.

  Workaround: Sync resumes when the device wakes up.

• If both iCloud Photos and Photostream are enabled, duplicate photos are displayed.

• iCloud Photo Library does not upload Photos synced from iTunes.

• When uploading large libraries, users may encounter a stall when syncing.

  Workaround: Reboot the device.

• iPhoto for iOS will not launch on iOS 8 Beta. Launching Photos.app will migrate your iPhoto edits to the iOS 8 Photo Library. Make sure your iPhoto for iOS data is included in your device backup.

Note

PHContentEditingController protocol methods may be called on background threads.

Known Issue

When you select Edit in a list of reminders and then scroll, reminders in the list are no longer editable.

Known Issue

QuickTime Player X is unable to connect to iPad Air devices for screen capture.

Known Issues

• Settings sometimes crashes upon addition of a third-party keyboard.

• The screen brightness slider in Settings does not work.

  Workaround: Use Control Center to adjust the screen brightness.

• When signing out of iCloud, the account will actually be signed out, but the UI will not correctly reflect this until the user goes out of iCloud settings and back into it.

• iTunes Wi-Fi Sync does not work.

• Sometimes Settings shows an iCloud Drive/iCloud Documents incompatibility dialog and will not let you press OK.

  Workaround: Wait a couple of minutes and then press OK again.

• You are unable to use the “Forgot Apple ID or Password” dialog on your device.

  Workaround: Reset passwords from appleid.apple.com.

Known Issue

Updating iCloud settings screen may appear to hang during setup.

Workaround: Some accounts may have an extra long lag. Wait a couple of minutes and they should complete.

Known Issues

• Logging into Game Center from the Settings app will result in an error:

  • Unable to connect to server. The operations couldn't be completed. (Cocoa error 4097.)

  Workaround: Dismiss the alert and continue to log in or sign in through the Game Center app.

• Apps deployed to CarPlay do not launch or display controls.

• Changing keyboards in Settings > General > Keyboard requires you to relaunch your app before the new settings are observed.

• The resizable iPhone does not work.

• If a resizable device is being used in iOS Simulator, keyboard input will go to the width and height text fields if they have focus. If you want input to go to the hosted iOS app, you will need to use the Tab key to change focus away from the text field.

• If you rename Xcode.app after having previously run it, Simulator stops working.

  Workaround: Reboot or revert the name change.

Known Issues

• Localized strings for Voice Activation phrases don’t appear in Settings > General > Siri.

  Voice Activation phrase for each Siri Language:

  • English (US, UK, AU, CA): Hey Siri

  • French (FR, CA, CH): Dis Siri

  • German (DE, CH): Hey Siri

  • German (DE, CH): Hey Siri

  • Italian (IT, CH): Ehi Siri

  • Japanese (JP): Hey Siri

  • Chinese - Cantonese (HK): 喂Siri

  • Chinese - Mandarin (CN, TW): 嘿Siri

  • Spanish (MX, SP, US): Oye Siri

  • Korean (KR): Siri야

• If you use Bluetooth to activate Siri and ask what song is playing, Siri fails to identify the song.

Note

UILabel has a default value of YES for clipsToBounds. This differs from the normal UIView default of NO.

Known Issues

• There is no publicly available way to customize the search key for a UISearchBar.

• UIScrollViewcontentInset is not set correctly when pushing a navigation controller on a navigation controller in a UISVC.

• Share sheets sometimes include the “Send to Shared Photostream” item when they should not.

• If an app is using a xib as its main window and is launched in landscape iPad, the main window will have the incorrect dimensions, causing significant distortion and difficulty using presented view controllers. An app may have to be force-quit after presenting a system view controller to function again.

  Workaround: Launch all apps in portrait before rotating to landscape.

Note

Subpixel rendering is now on by default for all web content. Web sites or in-app web views with extremely tight design constraints may render differently. Solutions for each issue will vary, but use Web Inspector to adjust position, border thickness, and width or height of elements.

Known Issues

• Applications that use Apache Cordova/PhoneGap are broken due to a bug that causes the window.navigator.userAgent object to become undefined when window.navigator is replaced by a pure JavaScript wrapper object.

• If you pass NULL for the fqdn parameter of SecRequestSharedWebCredential as recommended, only the first domain in the entitlement is used.

• SecRequestSharedWebCredential and SecAddSharedWebCredential currently only work on device, not in Simulator.

Known Issue

Mapviews do not load tiles in widgets.