iOS 16 beta (20a5358a)

Anyone else encountering this ... The latest beta that just came out a day or two ago changed how notifications appear on the lock screen. you tap your screen to wake, faceID unlocks, and then notifications used to appear in their respective notification tiles depending on prefs, etc. After this latest iOS 16 beta, the notification tiles are there but very translucent and when you tap or swipe down or whatever to try and see them, it takes you to the particular app whose notification tile you tapped on. If there’s some way to scroll up and down in notifications and actually see them while sitting at the lock screen, for the life of me I can’t figure it out. It seems very odd that Apple would introduce some new notifications on Lock screen behavior this late in betas. This update just lost all usefulness to showing notification on the lock screen.

Every time I think to myself I must be missing something obvious, I try and figure out how to scroll/view notifications while staying on the lock screen and it's definitely not working as well as previous iOS 16 betas. If it's some new behavior, it's not intuitive at all and users are going to be ticked off. The lock screen is about the first thing users will interact with after upgrading to iOS 16.

what in the heck am I missing here?

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Some of what I’m seeing is user error on my part. The more I use this latest iOS 16 beta I realize you can both show and hide notifications while remaining on the lock screen in iOS 16. On iOS 16 and on previous public iOS versions, your new un-read notifications list has always been immediately visible when you tap to wake the phone; with the existing behavior of some of your notifications configured to show some on lock screen while others don’t show on the lock screen. On iOS 16 and previous public iOS versions, while on the unlocked lock screen, you can swipe up from the middle of the screen to get the list of notifications (aka the Notification Center). But being able to swipe down to hide the notification list while remaining on the lock screen is new to iOS 16. To get a sanity check, I went to my wife’s iPhone, which is running the regular public iOS 15.6.1. On iOS 15.x, there is no way to hide the notification list again while remaining on the unlocked lock screen.

Note that I’m not talking CLEAR the notification list. Just show/hide it while remaining on the unlocked lock screen.

I still don’t know why some of the notification tiles are translucent while others are fully opaque and viewable on the unlocked lock screen. that’s probably user error too and I’m missing something obvious there too.

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Since updating my iPhone to iOS 16, I can no longer use Face ID correctly, either it does not recognize me correctly or does not work outright, I tried to reset Face ID settings, impossible to reconfigure.

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