Apple Seeds First Ios 8 1 1 Beta Bug Fixes And Performance Boosts For Older Devices

Apple tonight has released the first beta of iOS 8.1.1 to developers. This update is packed with bug fixes, according to the release notes. Most notably, “this release includes bug fixes, increased stability and performance improvements for iPad 2 and iPhone 4s.”

This marks the first time in recent history that Apple is seeding a beta for a patch update. A new seed for the Apple TV is also available. Apple released the first OS X Yosemite 10.10.1 beta earlier today. iOS 8.1.1 is the follow-up to iOS 8.1, which includes Apple Pay support, SMS forwarding to Yosemite, and iCloud Photo Library Beta.

Have we spooked Apple into providing every single minor point release as a developer prerelease – is that what’s happened? 😜

— Steve T-S (@stroughtonsmith) November 4, 2014

Apple is also developing iOS 8.2 and iOS 8.3 for release next year.