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Monday, December 17, 2012, 01:15 pm
Apple seeds iOS 6.1 beta 4, plus new Apple TV and Xcode betas to developers
Apple on Monday supplied its developer community with fresh betas of iOS 6.1, Xcode 4.6, and Apple TV software.iOS 6.1 beta 4 is now available to developers as an over-the-air update. The pre-release update, identified as build 10B5126b, can be accessed in the Settings application by those already running iOS 6.1 beta software.
The latest beta version of iOS 6.1 is said to contain bug fixes and improvements. It is not finalized and is not available to the public.
In addition, Xcode 4.6 Preview 4 and Apple TV software update beta 3 were also supplied to developers on Monday. In addition to Software Update, they can also be accessed from Apple's developer website.
The latest release of iOS 6.1 comes two weeks after the third beta was supplied to developers, labeled as 10B5117b. That update prompted users to enter security questions for iCloud once their device boots up, while earlier betas of iOS 6.1 added the ability to purchase movie tickets through Fandango with Siri.
The first two betas of iOS 6.1 also featured an enhanced Map Kit framework that will allow developers to search for map-based addresses in points of interest. In one example provided to developers, users could search the term "coffee," and the system would return the location of local coffee bars along with information about each one.
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I have issues with my AppleTV and iTunes. The AppleTV is unable to connect to iTunes after the computer has gone to sleep and been woken. I have to share the computer's screen and manually restart iTunes to get the AppleTV to successfully connect. I'd love to have that fixed.
Originally Posted by Mr Beardsley 
I have issues with my AppleTV and iTunes. The AppleTV is unable to connect to iTunes after the computer has gone to sleep and been woken. I have to share the computer's screen and manually restart iTunes to get the AppleTV to successfully connect. I'd love to have that fixed.
I have issues with my AppleTV and iTunes. The AppleTV is unable to connect to iTunes after the computer has gone to sleep and been woken. I have to share the computer's screen and manually restart iTunes to get the AppleTV to successfully connect. I'd love to have that fixed.
Weird. What Apple TV? What OS and what iTunes?
hopefully it will fix the annoying bug where half the apple TV features don't work if you use ethernet instead of wifi
I use hard wired Ethernet and have no issues. What are the issues you are referring to?
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
Weird. What Apple TV? What OS and what iTunes?
Mine is the last 10.x iTunes, 10.8.1 OS X. I was waiting out iTunes 11 bugs that got reported as soon as it got released and 10.8.2 didn't have anything related to the ATV. ATV is 2nd gen 720p unit. It was doing this before either iTunes 11 or 10.8.2 came out.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
Weird. What Apple TV? What OS and what iTunes?
Weird. What Apple TV? What OS and what iTunes?
Lots of peeps with the disconnect issues. I had it for a long while as well. Many ideas on potential causes and fixes.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2808065?start=0&tstart=0
ATV disconnects fixed by changing to Never Sleep under Settings
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Originally Posted by ChristophB
Lots of peeps with the disconnect issues. I had it for a long while as well. Many ideas on potential causes and fixes.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2808065?start=0&tstart=0
Lots of peeps with the disconnect issues. I had it for a long while as well. Many ideas on potential causes and fixes.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2808065?start=0&tstart=0
Indeed. I use Apple TV as my only media source and it's been having major glitchy wi-fi problems for the last few versions at least. I don't know what's wrong but not only aren't they fixing it, iTunes 11 made it far worse. Now, if I'm watching Apple TV in the living room and my computer falls asleep in the bedroom, the entire Apple TV feed just drops and the TV goes black instantly.
As far as I'm aware, that's a new bug with iTunes 11 though.
Someday, far in the future, the things they told us about sync and Wi-fi and persistence of signal with the introduction of iOS 4 will actually work and be real things instead of just some story that Apple tells you. Someday, you will be able to have your mail on all of your devices and it will all keep in sync also. I wouldn't hold your breath though.
This should be required reading for anyone considering the future of TV:
Jeremy Allaire, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Brightcove
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What is in the new AppleTV update? I'm still having to get up and reset home sharing on my Mini about half the time I try and stream something from my library to my TV. Really want that fixed.