Apple has just this minute released the fourth beta revision of it’s upcoming mobile operating system, iPhone OS 4.0 to developers. <\/p>\n
While people are still sending in reports of what has changed or been fixed in this release, we now know for certain, courtesy of @Viticci of Mac Stories, that beta 4 seems to include a ‘Utilities’ Folder by default. This folder now includes clock, calculator and voice memos.<\/p>\n
[Update]<\/strong> – As noted by @Viticci of Mac Stories (see below)<\/em>, there are a few new backgrounds<\/a> included in this beta.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n [Update 3]<\/strong> – The time limit for task completion has changed from 5 minutes to 10 minutes.<\/p>\n [Update 4]<\/strong> – In this and future releases, there are changes to networking behavior for suspended apps.<\/p>\n [Update 5]<\/strong> – There isn’t an odd silent pause when you pick up a phone call now and the Maps app seems snappier and more precise than ever. (source<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n [Update 6]<\/strong> – People with iPhone 3G\u2019s still can\u2019t change the wallpaper (on the springboard) (source<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n [Update 7]<\/strong> – The tab bar in Photo\u2019s that has Faces, Albums, Map, etc, looks like it\u2019s gone. (source<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n [Update 8]<\/strong> – 18 new wallpapers in total (source<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n [Update 10]<\/strong> – Built-in tethering support for AT&T customers (source<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n [Update 11]<\/strong> – Tiny change to the Photo app in that you can finally view your Photo Roll in a different orientation\u201d\u201dunless you have Orientation Lock turned on that is. (source<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n [Update 12]<\/strong> – As noted by @jcostaman this beta can now support more characters when an apps name appears on the home screen.<\/p>\n [Update 13]<\/strong> – As noted by @JasonKneen Mail app shows number of messages in a group\/conversation instead of ‘>>’.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n [Update 14]<\/strong> – The addition of a custom dictionary<\/a>. (via @CultOfMac)<\/p>\n[Update 2]<\/strong> – The GPS button<\/a> in Maps now uses the same icon of apps that use location<\/del><\/p>\n
\n[Update 9]<\/strong> – Unconfirmed: the weather app Icon now shows the correct or current temperature in degrees. (source<\/a>)<\/em><\/del><\/p>\n
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![<\/a><\/p>\n[Update 2]<\/strong> – The GPS button<\/a> in Maps now uses the same icon of apps that use location<\/del><\/p>\n[Update 3]<\/strong> – The time limit for task completion has changed from 5 minutes to 10 minutes.<\/p>\n[Update 4]<\/strong> – In this and future releases, there are changes to networking behavior for suspended apps.<\/p>\n[Update 5]<\/strong> – There isn’t an odd silent pause when you pick up a phone call now and the Maps app seems snappier and more precise than ever. (source<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n[Update 6]<\/strong> – People with iPhone 3G\u2019s still can\u2019t change the wallpaper (on the springboard) (source<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n[Update 7]<\/strong> – The tab bar in Photo\u2019s that has Faces, Albums, Map, etc, looks like it\u2019s gone. (source<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n[Update 8]<\/strong> – 18 new wallpapers in total (source<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n\n[Update 9]<\/strong> – Unconfirmed: the weather app Icon now shows the correct or current temperature in degrees. (source<\/a>)<\/em><\/del><\/p>\n[Update 10]<\/strong> – Built-in tethering support for AT&T customers (source<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n[Update 11]<\/strong> – Tiny change to the Photo app in that you can finally view your Photo Roll in a different orientation\u201d\u201dunless you have Orientation Lock turned on that is. (source<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n[Update 12]<\/strong> – As noted by @jcostaman this beta can now support more characters when an apps name appears on the home screen.<\/p>\n[Update 13]<\/strong> – As noted by @JasonKneen Mail app shows number of messages in a group\/conversation instead of ‘>>’.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n[Update 14]<\/strong> – The addition of a custom dictionary<\/a>. (via @CultOfMac)<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nAs our editor Trevor (@HereIsTrev) notes, this custom dictionary may be 3GS-only<\/a>.<\/p>\nStay tuned — We’re constantly updating as we have it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple has just this minute released the fourth beta revision of it’s upcoming mobile operating system, iPhone OS 4.0 (Beta 4) to developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,2144,16],"tags":[2754,768,2755,336,503],"class_list":["post-19248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-breaking-blog","category-iphone","tag-beta-4","tag-changes","tag-come-see-whats-new","tag-iphone-os","tag-razorianfly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19248"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19485,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19248\/revisions\/19485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/liot.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/p>\n[Update 11]<\/strong> – Tiny change to the Photo app in that you can finally view your Photo Roll in a different orientation\u201d\u201dunless you have Orientation Lock turned on that is. (source<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n[Update 12]<\/strong> – As noted by @jcostaman this beta can now support more characters when an apps name appears on the home screen.<\/p>\n[Update 13]<\/strong> – As noted by @JasonKneen Mail app shows number of messages in a group\/conversation instead of ‘>>’.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n[Update 14]<\/strong> – The addition of a custom dictionary<\/a>. (via @CultOfMac)<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nAs our editor Trevor (@HereIsTrev) notes, this custom dictionary may be 3GS-only<\/a>.<\/p>\nStay tuned — We’re constantly updating as we have it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple has just this minute released the fourth beta revision of it’s upcoming mobile operating system, iPhone OS 4.0 (Beta 4) to developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,2144,16],"tags":[2754,768,2755,336,503],"class_list":["post-19248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-breaking-blog","category-iphone","tag-beta-4","tag-changes","tag-come-see-whats-new","tag-iphone-os","tag-razorianfly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19248"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19485,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19248\/revisions\/19485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tether-2.png\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/p>\n[Update 12]<\/strong> – As noted by @jcostaman this beta can now support more characters when an apps name appears on the home screen.<\/p>\n[Update 13]<\/strong> – As noted by @JasonKneen Mail app shows number of messages in a group\/conversation instead of ‘>>’.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n[Update 14]<\/strong> – The addition of a custom dictionary<\/a>. (via @CultOfMac)<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nAs our editor Trevor (@HereIsTrev) notes, this custom dictionary may be 3GS-only<\/a>.<\/p>\nStay tuned — We’re constantly updating as we have it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple has just this minute released the fourth beta revision of it’s upcoming mobile operating system, iPhone OS 4.0 (Beta 4) to developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,2144,16],"tags":[2754,768,2755,336,503],"class_list":["post-19248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-breaking-blog","category-iphone","tag-beta-4","tag-changes","tag-come-see-whats-new","tag-iphone-os","tag-razorianfly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19248"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19485,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19248\/revisions\/19485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/500x_cameraroll.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/p>\n[Update 14]<\/strong> – The addition of a custom dictionary<\/a>. (via @CultOfMac)<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nAs our editor Trevor (@HereIsTrev) notes, this custom dictionary may be 3GS-only<\/a>.<\/p>\nStay tuned — We’re constantly updating as we have it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple has just this minute released the fourth beta revision of it’s upcoming mobile operating system, iPhone OS 4.0 (Beta 4) to developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,2144,16],"tags":[2754,768,2755,336,503],"class_list":["post-19248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-breaking-blog","category-iphone","tag-beta-4","tag-changes","tag-come-see-whats-new","tag-iphone-os","tag-razorianfly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19248"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19485,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19248\/revisions\/19485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/x07u.jpg\"){kind=link}
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