Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and this past week saw the release of new betas across all
of apple's devices so if you're a developer or a public beta tester we had ios 14.4 beta 2 ipad os
14.4 beta 2 mac os 11.2 beta 2 watch os 7.3 beta 2 as well as tv os 14.4 beta 2. and while there were
some significant changes in the ios updates there were not huge changes in watch os or mac os and so
i thought i'd do sort of a new style video that i haven't done before recapping what was new in all
of these betas as far as the major changes since they weren't really worth doing a separate video
just on the small changes that we have this week in watch os for example and so the first thing is
ios 14.4 beta 2 and ipad os 14.4 beta 2 brought with it really one notable change and one small
fix or update so under settings if we go into settings then sound and haptics under sound and
haptics is headphone safety and while this is a nice feature many people have been complaining
that headphone notifications are lowering volumes of everything including when you're connected to
your car for example so maybe you're in your car listening to music or you make a phone call and
all of a sudden the volume levels drop and then you can't hear anyone and so apple has made a
way for you to specify what you're connected to so that it no longer handles it the same way so under
your settings under bluetooth in this update under bluetooth if you go to let's say a car here go to
device type you can specify that it's a car stereo so it will know what it's actually listening to or
or using it for and it says specifying the type of device can ensure your headphone audio level
measurements are accurate so it shouldn't drop the audio levels like before you can do headphone or
specify headphone hearing aid speaker and other so that was the major change in ios 14.4 beta 2.
there's also some updates that help with playing music across devices such as when you bring it
closer to a homepod mini they've improved the haptics and they've improved the sensitivity of it
and some of the wording so this has been updated as well you'll see it works really well
and those were the major changes in ios 14.4 beta 2 and ipad os 14.4 beta 2. now when it comes to
mac os 11.2 beta 2 they've made some updates as well now on the mac they've updated a couple
things that are worth noting the first thing is apple removed the content filter exclusion list
basically what this does is it removes a feature that lets apple apps bypass third-party firewalls
and vpns this could have posed a security risk and caused a lot of problems for some people so
they've updated this which is something that people have wanted for a very long time not
only for security but for monitoring reasons as well so it's not something you can physically see
but they've updated it to help with that sort of third party firewall and vpn
monitoring safety and security now another thing that's really interesting to know is
according to hector martin on twitter beta 2 has full custom kernel support which means you
can change the kernel within the os to allow for custom icons when you boot for example
there's other things you can do with it as well of course if you're into linux or unix
you'll be familiar with the kernel but basically it allows you to modify things as need be or as
you want now whether or not this stays unlocked is hard to say because apple's very tight on security
with this but it's interesting that he found this this seems to be a reliable source so maybe
we'll see more come from this in the future now with watch os 7.3 beta 2 this week there's only
one thing to talk about in this update at least that i could find so if we go into our settings
in watch os 7.3 go down to workouts so i have this sorted alphabetically i don't really like
that grid layout go to workouts go all the way to the bottom you'll see there's a new time to
walk dialogue so it says time to walk add newest workouts to watch and then at the bottom it says
time to walk workouts are downloaded when apple watch is connected to power and near your iphone
completed workouts are deleted automatically now this could have been in beta 1. i didn't notice it
if it was but this particular change is the only thing in here we'll probably see more about this
in the future but right now it doesn't seem to be anything hugely significant but there could be
more features coming soon and so that was updated on the watch os 7.3 beta 2. now with tvos 14.4
beta 2 well there's nothing really to mention so many of you have been asking me for an update as
to what's new in the betas well so far it doesn't seem like there's anything of note it must be
background fixes or changes there so if you have an apple tv 4k and you're running the beta and
you've found anything i'd love to hear from you but so far i've not seen anyone online or myself
included able to finding anything new or able to find anything new within tvos 14.4 beta 2. so
there's not a whole lot of information about that now apple also updated the iwork apps so this week
they updated all the os's with betas so if you're a beta tester you can try those out if you want
and they updated iwork apps as well that means pages numbers and keynotes so if you have those
go to pages they updated them not only for ios but also macs as well all supported mac so to 10.3.9
and basically it's just improvements that they say they don't specify anything specifically that
they've updated with those apps but apple did update them this week now as far as additional
updates in when the next betas will be well ios 14.4 beta 3 may come out next week but we may
be on a bi-weekly cycle right now and based off what we had last year with ios 13.4 we didn't
see a final release of that until march and with that release there were five betas so we may be on
a weekly schedule now but most likely bi-weekly we probably won't see anything this coming week
based off what we've had in the past however i would expect a public release of ios 14.3.1
or something around that number for release to the public and the reason i say that is apple
stopped signing ios 14.2 and 14.2.1 and when they stop signing anything and only leave one version
which is 14.3 to downgrade to for the public they normally come out with a new version within two
weeks if it doesn't come out later today which it's very unlikely on a friday if it doesn't
come out later today i would expect it early next week based on what we've had in the past so some
people are saying don't expect anything i think we will see something and also i do expect a mac os
update as well and the reason i say that is there was someone that said there's a mac update coming
to fix the bluetooth issues specifically on m1 devices so if you have an m1 macbook air macbook
pro or mac mini some people were having bluetooth issues with it and hopefully there'll be an update
for that soon so those are all the updates this past week let me know what you think about these
sort of overall update videos covering the major changes in each one of them if you'd like to see
these weekly if there's not major changes to say watch os or mac os and i don't do separate videos
let me know what you think about that in the comments below as far as ios 14.4 beta 2 well i
normally do a weekly follow-up or a few days later video every week after an update comes out so be
sure to look for that on saturday or sunday i'll have that posted and also look for the youtube
community poll where i'll ask how it's going for you read some of the comments as well now if
you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course i'll link it in the description like
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