Apple issues third developer betas of iOS 11.1, watchOS 4.1 and tvOS 11.1 [u]

Seemingly skipping macOS High Sierra 10.13.1 for now, Apple has issued new betas of iOS 11.1, watchOS 4,1 and tvOS 11.1 a week after the last revision.

The new software and accompanying build numbers are as follows:

watchOS 4.1 beta 15R5843a
iOS 11.1 beta 15B5086a
tvOS 11.1 beta 15J5580a

Apple's iOS 11.1 beta 3 also includes the return of the 3D Touch multitasking app switcher, added with beta 2. The third beta of watchOS 4.1 does not appear to add anything else, after an earlier version of the beta introduced support for streaming radio stations, including Beats1, over LTE.

A number of features were absent from the public release of iOS 11, including AirPlay 2 and Apple Pay Cash.

Apple's iOS 11.1 is likely to arrive around the time that the iPhone X, ships to customers on Nov. 3.

iOS 11 was quickly patched with two minor releases, fixing glaring bugs. It is not clear at this point if the bug fixes introduced in iOS 11.0.3 have been rolled into the latest iOS 11.1 beta — but the issues fixed in iOS 11.0.1 and iOS 11.0.2 have.

Update: Apple has since released identical versions to public beta testers.

8 Comments

AI_lias 436 comments · 8 Years

About 7 years ago

Hope it fixes draining battery life, now that we've missed the iOS 10.3.3 downgrade chance. There is also some camera initialization delay on iPhone 6, and still some text overlap in notifications pull-down. I think they stop signing the prior iOS version too soon. They should wait at least until 11.1.

lkrupp 10521 comments · 19 Years

AI_lias said:

Hope it fixes draining battery life, now that we've missed the iOS 10.3.3 downgrade chance. There is also some camera initialization delay on iPhone 6, and still some text overlap in notifications pull-down. I think they stop signing the prior iOS version too soon. They should wait at least until 11.1.

I do not have any “draining battery life” issue on my iPhone 6. Battery life has been the same since day one. And I’m not the lucky one either. I’m the vast majority of users.

jbdragon 2312 comments · 10 Years

My battery in my iPhone 6 is getting poor life. I can almost watch the percentage dropping down. I just looked, and my phone is now at 61%, in about 6 hours since on the charger. I've hardly touched it!!! It's drained faster then iOS11.

lkrupp said:

AI_lias said:

Hope it fixes draining battery life, now that we've missed the iOS 10.3.3 downgrade chance. There is also some camera initialization delay on iPhone 6, and still some text overlap in notifications pull-down. I think they stop signing the prior iOS version too soon. They should wait at least until 11.1.

I do not have any “draining battery life” issue on my iPhone 6. Battery life has been the same since day one. And I’m not the lucky one either. I’m the vast majority of users.

Good for you!