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IOS 6 beta 3 now available.

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Are the changes published? If not, could somebody who's trying it let us in on what's new?

9to5mac typically has a comprehensive overview: http://9to5mac.com/2012/07/16/whats-new-in-ios-6-beta-3/

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1405178

Does ios6 finally have file upload in the browser? Can anyone confirm firsthand?

I can confirm that the file upload works since beta 1. However, if you choose to take a photo (instead of selecting an existing one), the photo orientation may not work correctly. Tested with an iPad 2, beta 1 and beta 2. Will update my reply after testing with beta 3.

Are you saying when you take a live photo for the upload, it doesn't embed exif data with the orientation?

Strange. Does it not send it as a jpeg?

Yes it does. You can upload from your photo album.

Nice but as a rule of thumb I only install beta's when they hit version 9, especialy in the case of IOS 6.

Unless you have dedicated development hardware to play with this, then ask yourself - how much am I getting paid to test this and is it worth it. Your choice, use it wisely.

Go read 'Crossing the chasm' - many people on HN are early adopters that love the opportunity to try out cutting edge software.

Why, please reread what I said. I said I personaly won't as a rule of thumb and not as a clear definatly not.

I also said it was your choice, use it wisely.

cutting edge or bleeding edge? (Installing the update, but I have a dedicated iPhone to test it on)

Surprisingly, iOS 6 betas are extremely stable. Only 2 iPad apps (Instapaper & Air Video) out of hundreds of apps I have would crash with Beta 1 & 2 (and Marco issues an update to fix it).

When I installed iOS 5 beta 1, literally no third party app that used NSTableView would run.

Except for the nasty wifi bug that was in beta 1. Where wifi basically wouldn't work on certain routers. Nasty one, that.

Yeah - I'm using iOS 6 daily and have had very few issues, especially from beta 2 on. Very stable.

But you have still had issues. As I said if your choice, I was not advicating not, just saying personaly as a rule of thumb and not a clear cut don't.

Why is iOS 6 so special ?

It has for me anyway been the most stable and trouble free beta iOS release to date. Which you would expect as this is more of an iPhone 5 / developer API release.

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