iOS 8.2 beta 5 – iata tot ce aduce nou!

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 theNSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains 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 lastviewWillDisappear:, 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 ofNSURLSessionTask 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 useupdateUserActivity:userInfo:webpageURL: instead.

• The WKInterfaceMap API has changed. Specifically, setMapRect: and setCoordinateRegion: have been replaced bysetVisibleMapRect: 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 returnBOOL 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 usingreloadRootControllersWithNames: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.