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I've been using the beta for a few months now. Overall I'm pretty impressed. It really does make my phone work better than before.

But I'm most excited about Waze support on CarPlay, which does not appear to have dropped today.

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I’m in the Waze beta program, and just received the update that has CarPlay support. I’ve only done about 15 minutes of testing but so far it works pretty well.

As of a few days ago, the rumors were that Waze support was still in early beta and a ways (sorry) off, but that Google Maps would likely land in October.

This makes me sad. It was the main reason I started running the beta -- because I foolishly thought they already had the beta of CarPlay support, since it was shown in the keynote. I only found out later that the keynote was just vaporware.

Apps need to wait until the general release before they can push updates through the App Store.

Yeah I assumed I'd need to use Testflight, but it's not even there yet.

You need to be invited to a beta for it to show up in Testflight. Testflight doesn't support open public betas.

it’s not in waze beta yet either though

On Friday they pushed a uuid beta/submitted testflight beta, according to their latest email. I just got a waze testflight update today, so I'm assuming that was what was pushed.

yup just got the email earlier today too

Chrome for iOS just went through a huge UI redesign a few days ago. It autoupdated the other night and really threw me off.

What's the typical sequence when a new iOS version hits and then all the apps that were developed in beta need to release fully?

They've been allowed to post on the store for a couple of days, I think. I installed a bunch of updates yesterday and most of them were "Added Siri Shortcuts support."

It’s been uneven as usual. There have been stories of apps being rejected because they mentioned new features or iOS 12 in the release notes even though other apps have been able to do that.

They're given a couple days to submit apps built with the golden master version of Xcode. Usually, this is on the day the new iPhones are announced.

And every year Apple introduces bugs in the GM build that weren't there in the last beta build.

Always fun to be an iOS dev. :)

We got the GMs last Monday, so we got a week to regression test against it vs the previous betas.

Well, the Xcode GM dropped with the new hardware because it contains references to it. So you weren't allowed to submit with a beta toolchain before then.

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