{"id":17843,"date":"2010-05-04T20:07:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T19:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.razorianfly.com\/?p=17843"},"modified":"2010-05-16T22:39:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T21:39:34","slug":"apple-releases-iphone-os-4-0-beta-3-come-see-whats-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/04\/apple-releases-iphone-os-4-0-beta-3-come-see-whats-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Releases iPhone OS 4.0 (Beta 3). Come See What&#8217;s New! [Updated x14]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has just this minute released the third beta revision of it&#8217;s upcoming mobile operating system, iPhone OS 4.0 (Beta 3) to developers. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While people are still sending in reports of what has changed or been fixed in this release, we now know for certain that beta 3 finally brings back the ability to take OS-wide screenshots using the built-in image capture method.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside this, the ability to sync your photos with iPhoto has returned. Both these functions were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/apple-releases-iphone-os-4-0-beta-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">previously disabled<\/a> or broken by Beta 2, and many reviewers and journalists <em>(including ourselves)<\/em> who were in the beta program hit a huge snag as they couldn&#8217;t save, export or transfer application screenshots.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Update]<\/strong> &#8211; As noted by @Viticci of Mac Stories <em>(see below)<\/em>, the &#8216;Multitasking Dock&#8217; in beta 3 now has a different look.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tray.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>[Update 2]<\/strong> &#8211; The multitasking dock now has iPod controls and a rotation lock button.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tray-1.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>[Update 3]<\/strong> &#8211; Rotation lock button in status bar. Physical lock rotation button coming on iPhone 4?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tray-3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>[Update 4]<\/strong> &#8211; Jeff contacted us to let us know that if you are still on beta 1 you must do a full erase and install of beta 3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Update 5]<\/strong> &#8211; As noted by @iSpazio, the background of &#8216;Folders&#8217; has also changed to the new &#8216;slate grey&#8217; hatched background thingy, as well as the folder notificaiton bubble now showing the correct number of alerts, instead of &#8216;!&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/folders.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>[Update 6]<\/strong> &#8211; You can now delete multiple multitasking processes simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0006-240x360-1.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>[Update 7]<\/strong> &#8211; Camera works, and saves photos, however photos taken using &#8216;Zoom&#8217; are not saved. According to @iSpazio, when you press to save the shutter sound is repeated 4 times, but the photo is not saved. The problem was reportedly only found to be an issue on the iPhone 3G.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Update 8]<\/strong> &#8211; It appears the beta has been pulled from <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.apple.com\" target=\"_blank\">developer.apple.com<\/a>. <del datetime=\"2010-05-05T11:31:42+00:00\"><em>(Possibly due to flash rom causing overheating and shutdown).<\/em><\/del><\/p>\n<p><strong>[Update 9]<\/strong> &#8211; Tweetie, the popular Twitter client, is reportedly not working under this new beta. <em>(Other reporting working with latest update)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>[Update 10]<\/strong> &#8211; File Sharing options in iTunes have been updated<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2010-05-05-at-12.22.49.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>[Update 11]<\/strong> &#8211; The beta is back up on <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.apple.com\" target=\"_blank\">developer.apple.com<\/a>. Was originally pulled due to SDK install issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Update 12]<\/strong> &#8211; Now in location services not only does it have a list of apps but says with in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Update 13]<\/strong> &#8211; An new animation on the unlock screen kind of a 2 step lighting of the back light.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Update 14]<\/strong> &#8211; Developers are now allowed to access the messaging app from\/with their apps.<\/p>\n<p>So far, general consensus is beta 3 is reportedly much more stable than previous releases of the software. 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