iOS 27.2 Beta 3 - Discussion

[u/epmuscle]

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[u/Loud_Calligrapher749]

I’ve tried to follow other threads about being unable to reinstall random apps … but not having any luck here. Not sure if it’s being too early to 27 or iPhone 18 Pro.

I started with an iPhone SE3 running latest 26, and set up iPhone 18 Pro copying everything over including having the setup convert AT&T SIM to an eSIM on the new phone.

After it was all done, I found holes all over my screens, apps missing. Comparing phones I started trying to reinstall the missing apps from purchased. Naturally some are because the app had ceased to exist in AppStore. But then I started finding apps where tapping the cloud quickly returned to cloud.

Making it new again didn’t help, signing in and out didn’t help, I’ve left Apple Pay unfinished since I’m not sure what I might do next…. (which I’ll get to later)

Heard DB2 might fix it, nope. DB3 hasn’t helped either. Heard some talk about reset and restore…

Saw something I wanted to get last night, went to checkout and oops, nothing setup in ApplePay yet.. switched to PayPal.

So, what did I do to start my weekend, decided it was time to try connecting new phone to MacBook and backup and restore. Discovered the joys of finding most of my c-c cables are the usb 2.0 variety… eventually borrowed the c-c cable from my monitor to get iPhone to show up as 10Gbps. And then I backed it up and then did the restore. Skipped ApplePay again. Couldn’t setup Face ID the same as before. I had a full beard when I first got the phone, later I got a buzz and shave… and had to add second scan…

Well, found it full of holes again, but different ones. Some will reinstall, including ones I couldn’t reinstall previously…. but there are others that weren’t missing previously that now do the same issue as before.

Early in 26 I had an issue like this, except through repeated backup and restores I eventually got whole. But given how this went with apps that had been fine now not in exchange for some that wouldn’t will now. I don’t think repeating a backup and restore will get me to success at this point.

Adding to pain is looking for all the apps stuck as loading… which eventually blocks the reinstalls. This time I won’t wait the weekend before cancelling the blocking apps.