This is our opinion on iOS 9 Beta 5

iOS 9

Just hours since Apple has released Beta 5 (3 for the public beta) of its new version of iOS, let us remember that iOS 9 brings with it an improvement of the pillars of the system and is almost completely devoted to improving both the performance and the battery life of our devices.

With this new beta and with the enormous amount of people who want to know every time a new version comes out what is its news, we have launched to analyze this new beta in search of significant changes and give you our opinion and professional recommendation.

Beta after beta Apple is polishing the operating system that will govern our iPhones soon, despite that I am not entirely satisfied with the route they are doing, we can see how once again we are having differences between the same version of iOS because we are in different places of the globe.

I talk about what iOS 9 is not as functional here as it is in the United States, at home, and that can be practically felt in its main functions, Proactive, Siri Suggestions, News and Wallet.

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To start, Siri Suggestions in Spain only suggests the last used contacts, the most used applications and the recently downloaded ones in the Spotlight. In addition to this, it also offers quick access to points of interest on the map such as fast food, hospitality, leisure and others, but other than that in our spotlight nothing of interest appears, or related news or anything that makes the return useful. of this section on iOS (unlike the United States, where that section is filled with news that might interest us thanks to News).

News is another great disappeared, in iOS 9, if we are not located in the United States, the official News application does not make a presence, and with its absence it also carries the related recommendations of Siri Suggestions.

Wallet is another official application that is useless, it is nothing more than Passbook, a place to save tickets and tickets, but no sign of Apple Pay nor the possibility of saving credit cards, with that limitation I would not dare to call it a "wallet".

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Proactive works well within the scope of its scope, but has a lot to improve, we are the most used action depending on what we do, for example in my case, if I connect the headphones sometimes it shows me Skype or sometimes the Music app, something that is fine but is still far from being what it promised, like it also does not show us suggestions according to location and other useful functions.

It could be said that the only novelties in iOS 9 beta 5 are the new wallpapers (yes, very beautiful) that you can download from our article, and the Wi-Fi Assistant function, a function that allows our iPhone to use our data connection in case our Wi-Fi signal is very weak.

Still, iOS 9 beta 5 brings many improvements internally, improvements that as always depend on the user who uses it, and I say this because not all of us enjoy them; Something that I can say that I am happy about is the return of the direct access to the camera on the lock screen, a shortcut that in my case disappeared between the second and third beta and that I have missed a lot.

Our readers, however, report improvements in system fluency and multitasking (in my case I can say that they are minimal improvements) and even dare to cross it off as "final version" to describe its proper operation and battery life.

Clearly iOS 9 is improving step by step, despite that there is still a piece left to become a final version, in my case for example the spotlight functions are totally useless, it is true that in some situations they work, but most of the time when I write something on the box search simply nothing happens. To continue with the batch of things to improve I can highlight that the virtual trackpad that Apple announced as an improvement to QuickType still does not work, it stopped working on beta 2, and even so when it worked it was cumbersome and difficult to use, we had to use two fingers on the screen of our iPhone, no point of comparison with the tweak "SwipeSelection", a tweak that in my opinion uses the method that Apple should have implemented.

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The animations have also been corrected, especially those of the official camera application, which despite working correctly in iOS 8, in iOS 9 betas when switching between modes the animations were simply not there. And it is in the camera section where iOS 9 takes another step back, currently in iOS 8 we can change the fps of the slow motion video by clicking on the figure and varying between 120 and 240 (on devices such as the iPhone 6), however in normal video mode, we cannot vary between 30 and 60 fps to record in FullHD (you have to go to settings and enter photo and video settings), nor can we change between HD or FullHD, something that I hoped iOS 9 would solve and that nevertheless worsens, removing the option to change the fps in the slow motion and adding these settings to its corresponding section in the Settings application.

Undoubtedly, iOS 9 has a long way to go to improve, and above all in Apple they must put the batteries and stop discriminating according to the location, since that function so acclaimed that Siri can understand our phrases according to the context of iMessage ("Siri remind me of this" style while we have a message from a friend saying to meet tomorrow at that time) does not work in Spain, we must select the English language for Siri to unlock its full potential and the US localization so that iOS of everything he has to give of himself.

For these reasons and for the little time that remains for him to be officially released, from here I I do not recommend installing the public beta and I recommend continuing to enjoy a stable version such as iOS 8, however if you are already users of the previous public betas without a doubt you should install this one, in reference to previous betas any fix or change is always for the better.


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  1.   Antonio said

    You have been in the glory with this article garbage. Basically you complain that there are some services that are not available in Spain (Apple Pay and News). Well, do an article about that but do not mix churras with merino and to make you interesting tell us this bullshit. Have you analyzed anything from the Beta? NOTHING!!!!

  2.   Ariel polanco said

    I did not understand if he complained about the System or the Apps that at the moment only work in the USA as indicated on the Apple page, very bad article.

  3.   Magi said

    Well, with a 5s I drink the battery that is nice. With the previous betas it was great, but this one does not last at all.

    1.    samuel soto said

      The same thing happens to me ... the battery in the 5s with the beta 5 only lasts 4 hours ... it drains it

  4.   Rafael Pazos placeholder image said

    Juan with all due respect ... you have not done a deep analysis of iOS 9 beta 5, you have only limited yourself to what is "missing", because in Spain it is not available but in the US it is ...

    There are very interesting things in iOS 9 beta 5 like these!

    1-the battery has improved compared to beta 4 (iPhone 6)
    2-the fluidity and performance and as the stability is perfect, it looks like the final version of iOS 9 in my opinion 😛
    3-the compatibility of the apps is perfect, before there were games that did not open to me and now they do! In addition, the Apps are more stable !!
    4-the iPhone 6 does not heat up, that is important
    5-the reboot of the iPhone takes 12-14 seconds compared to the beta 4 that took about 14-20 seconds to exceed !!
    6-multitasking goes much more fluid !!
    7-Siri is faster than beta 4!
    8-Spotlight is now correct and has no LAG as in beta 4
    9-have changed the icons to capital letters and delete!
    10-MY character has been activated
    11-they have corrected the notification center (that when you had many emails you deleted it and they appeared again, now it is fixed !!)
    12-in general iOS 9 beta 5 is going very well !!

    I would not limit myself to what is "missing" but to what is inside and how they are doing it, but beta 5 is going very well ...

    I don't know what you meant Juan, but I ... personally recommend installing or uploading to beta 5 of iOS 9 ..

    Greetings Juan !!

    1.    Juan Colilla said

      Greetings Rafael, thank you very much for spending time and effort in suggesting improvements to the article, I have to say that due to personal issues I have written it a bit quickly and running, despite that I have taken the liberty of adding details that I found interesting and go a bit deeper into the changes of this new version, despite that although the title talks about beta 5 my main focus has been the fact that beta after beta iOS 9 still does not inherit those announced news that it would have and that are only available in your home, leaving us a little vitaminized iOS 8.

      If you consider a new change necessary or have any questions / suggestions, do not hesitate to comment again, thank you very much for your collaboration and that of all 😀

  5.   Matias said

    Someone with iphone 6plus to test if the keyboard once again had the option of two fingers to move the cursor put the screen as in beta 1

  6.   Ruben said

    I fully subscribe to Rafael's words, beta 5, or public 3; Let's call it X it works fancy ...
    K has no News? Tp will surely have it definitively… Is K Wallet a Passbook? Chico writes to Apple as I have done… The more clients we ask to enable Apple Pay in Spain, they might think about it; that shops are already adapted and I work in one of them ...
    But justify or demonize it because there are functions that are not yet available in Spain? Please don't install IOS 9 when it comes out; and be consistent ... Because tp will have those options aunk will go infinitely better than iOS 8 ... And I speak after testing all the betas eeeh.

    The only thing I miss is enabling News with Spanish media, it not only depends on Apple and Apple Pay, otherwise delighted.
    Pd: at the moment the Virtual Trackpad was lost in beta 2 and it was amazing!

  7.   Rafael Pazos placeholder image said

    Thanks to you Juan!

  8.   anthony vazquez said

    You are unique. Apple pees for you and you say it rains.
    Well, nothing, to buy iPods for 300 euros.

  9.   ikervalen said

    Hello good,
    I have a problem and I need to know if someone else is happening to him, my company is Euskaltel and when I update to the beta version 5 of iOS 9 the mobile internet connection does not work for me in any way. I have tried to reset the network settings and enter the manual data as well as contact the att service and they tell me that according to them they do not have network problems, so I imagine that unless an antenna has been broken or so the problem comes from my iPhone 6 Plus (to specify more), someone can tell me if it happens and / or if someone has solved it ...

    Thank you very much in advance.

  10.   David said

    Hello ikervalen

    I'm like you but with lebara it seems that it is a beta bug and it does not detect the omnv apn.

    In other words, the low-cost companies that work on the network of another company.

    In other forums in English something is said but I can't find a solution and I have written several times to this forum, which is the one I usually read asking for help or simply to know if they have echoed it and they have not even answered the emails.

    They are not only talked about in Apple forums, there seems to be a solution. But I can't understand how it's done…. Greetings

    Loss of Cellular Data Connection in iOS 9 beta 5

    1.    ikervalen said

      Good morning David!
      Sorry for the delay ... but I gave up and reinstalled 8.4 ... at this time we will wait for the first public version ... Thank you very much again and I have already been looking at something in more forums!
      A hug !!