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iOS 4.0 Beta 4

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Developer beta

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About this appearance

Beta 4 is a sourced historical archive page with 14 structured records and an explicit account of the evidence limits that shape its coverage.

Date
May 18, 2010
Availability
available
Revision
No

Release notes

What changed

Original editorial synthesis. Linked references appear with the claims they support and in the source ledger.

Release milestone

Apple’s fourth developer beta appeared on May 18. Its archived known-issues section can be compared with the Beta 3 transcript, while two contemporaneous reports preserve user-visible observations outside that developer text.[1][2]

What this page indexes

Beta 4 has 14 structured records. Reader-facing titles and summaries are original synthesis, while short locators identify the evidence used for each factual statement.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]

Selection method

Ten developer records are limited to newly resolved, newly stated, or semantically changed Beta 4 entries. Four observed interface and settings changes are separately labeled undocumented; three have two reports and the Photo Roll orientation item remains reported from one source.[21][22][23][24]

Evidence gaps

Repeated cumulative FIXED lines are excluded when the Beta 3 transcript already carried the same state. Tethering and performance claims are also excluded because carrier availability and hardware context were not sufficiently bounded.[21][22][23][24]

Source ledger

References

Sources are linked to the claims they support. Publication and access dates are shown when available.

  1. iPhone OS 4 Beta 4 developer known-issues transcript

    MacRumors Forums · Apple · 2010-05-18T18:05:26-07:00 · Beta 4 identity and timing

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  2. Apple Releases iPhone OS 4 Beta 4 and SDK to Developers

    MacRumors · Eric Slivka · 2010-05-18T12:50:22-07:00 · Beta 4 identity and timing

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  3. Apple Releases iPhone OS 4 Beta 4 and SDK to Developers

    MacRumors · Eric Slivka · 2010-05-18T12:50:22-07:00 · Beta 4 release identity and timing

    Contemporaneous milestone corroboration.

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  4. iPhone OS 4 Beta 4 developer known-issues transcript

    MacRumors Forums · Apple · 2010-05-18T18:05:26-07:00 · Core Foundation; FIXED; _OBJC_CLASS_$_NSURL

    Apple-authored developer-note text preserved by the credited host; factual result rewritten in original language.

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  5. iPhone OS 4 Beta 4 developer known-issues transcript

    MacRumors Forums · Apple · 2010-05-18T18:05:26-07:00 · Core Location; FIXED; startMonitoringSignificantLocationChanges

    Apple-authored developer-note text preserved by the credited host; factual result rewritten in original language.

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  6. Here’s What’s New In iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4

    Gizmodo · Rosa Golijan · 2010-05-19T01:16:05.000Z · default Home Screen; Utilities folder

    Independent contemporaneous report.

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  7. Here’s What’s New In iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4

    Gizmodo · Rosa Golijan · 2010-05-19T01:16:05.000Z · default wallpapers

    Independent contemporaneous report.

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  8. Here’s What’s New In iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4

    Gizmodo · Rosa Golijan · 2010-05-19T01:16:05.000Z · group messages setting

    Independent contemporaneous report.

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  9. iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4: New Features Breakdown

    PCWorld · Brennon Slattery · 2010-05-19T13:14:00-07:00 · Home Screen; utilities

    Contemporaneous observed-change report.

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  10. iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4: New Features Breakdown

    PCWorld · Brennon Slattery · 2010-05-19T13:14:00-07:00 · Home Screen; wallpaper patterns

    Contemporaneous observed-change report.

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  11. iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4: New Features Breakdown

    PCWorld · Brennon Slattery · 2010-05-19T13:14:00-07:00 · Messaging; group messaging

    Contemporaneous observed-change report.

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  12. iPhone OS 4 Beta 4 developer known-issues transcript

    MacRumors Forums · Apple · 2010-05-18T18:05:26-07:00 · Multitasking; preserve the user’s context

    Apple-authored developer-note text preserved by the credited host; factual result rewritten in original language.

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  13. iPhone OS 4 Beta 4 developer known-issues transcript

    MacRumors Forums · Apple · 2010-05-18T18:05:26-07:00 · Music Library; FIXED; free songs of the week

    Apple-authored developer-note text preserved by the credited host; factual result rewritten in original language.

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  14. Here’s What’s New In iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4

    Gizmodo · Rosa Golijan · 2010-05-19T01:16:05.000Z · Photo Roll; different orientation

    Single contemporaneous observed-change report; retained as reported rather than corroborated.

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  15. iPhone OS 4 Beta 4 developer known-issues transcript

    MacRumors Forums · Apple · 2010-05-18T18:05:26-07:00 · UI Automation; FIXED; Automation template

    Apple-authored developer-note text preserved by the credited host; factual result rewritten in original language.

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  16. iPhone OS 4 Beta 4 developer known-issues transcript

    MacRumors Forums · Apple · 2010-05-18T18:05:26-07:00 · UIKit; FIXED; UIBackgroundTaskInvalid

    Apple-authored developer-note text preserved by the credited host; factual result rewritten in original language.

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  17. iPhone OS 4 Beta 4 developer known-issues transcript

    MacRumors Forums · Apple · 2010-05-18T18:05:26-07:00 · UIKit; NEW; colorWithPatternImage

    Apple-authored developer-note text preserved by the credited host; factual result rewritten in original language.

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  18. iPhone OS 4 Beta 4 developer known-issues transcript

    MacRumors Forums · Apple · 2010-05-18T18:05:26-07:00 · UIKit; NEW; transition animation block

    Apple-authored developer-note text preserved by the credited host; factual result rewritten in original language.

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  19. iPhone OS 4 Beta 4 developer known-issues transcript

    MacRumors Forums · Apple · 2010-05-18T18:05:26-07:00 · Xcode; FIXED; LLVM Compiler 1.5

    Apple-authored developer-note text preserved by the credited host; factual result rewritten in original language.

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  20. iPhone OS 4 Beta 4 developer known-issues transcript

    MacRumors Forums · Apple · 2010-05-18T18:05:26-07:00 · Xcode; FIXED; navigation core data template

    Apple-authored developer-note text preserved by the credited host; factual result rewritten in original language.

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  21. iPhone OS 4 Beta 4 developer known-issues transcript

    MacRumors Forums · Apple · 2010-05-18T18:05:26-07:00 · Beta 4 evidence boundary

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  22. Here’s What’s New In iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4

    Gizmodo · Rosa Golijan · 2010-05-19T01:16:05.000Z · Beta 4 evidence boundary

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  23. Apple Releases iPhone OS 4 Beta 4 and SDK to Developers

    MacRumors · Eric Slivka · 2010-05-18T12:50:22-07:00 · Beta 4 evidence boundary

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  24. iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4: New Features Breakdown

    PCWorld · Brennon Slattery · 2010-05-19T13:14:00-07:00 · Beta 4 evidence boundary

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Release changes

Changed in this release

Features, fixes, removals, and regressions first observed in this release record.

enhancement · introduced

Photo Roll supported alternate orientations

undocumentedreported

Contemporaneous reporting places this Photos observation at Beta 4; it remains separately labeled because it is outside an Apple-hosted milestone note.

  1. [1] Here’s What’s New In iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4 · Photo Roll; different orientation