Hi, everyone.
Aaron here for Zollotech and today Apple released iOS 14.3
developer beta 3. Now, by the time you're watching this video,
public beta three could be out, but this particular beta,
depending on how you installed it,
if you updated from beta to came in at 211.2 megabytes on my iPhone,
12 pro and installing without a beta pre-installed it came in at
4.4, two gigabytes on my iPhone, 12 pro max. And so I want to use it regularly.
Day-to-day now this particular beta,
we'll talk about what's new in it in just a moment.
But along with this Apple also released a bunch of other betas.
So iPad S 14.3 beta three,
which I have on my 2020 iPad pro it's right here.
They also released watchOS 7.2 beta three and T V O S
14.3, beta three. No, they have not released any Mac OS update yet,
hopefully soon in the future.
Now let's take a look at the build number and talk about what's new.
So we'll go to settings, then we'll go to general than about,
and you can see that this build number is 18C5061a
and the A means we're getting closer to a final build.
And if you watch my video from a couple of days ago,
I thought Apple would come out with a beta this week and potentially the final
next week. I'll talk more about that a little bit later.
Now this update does have a modem update in it.
So if you were using an iPhone 12 or any of the others,
you should have a modem update,
which hopefully will fix issues like 5g connectivity on the iPhone twelves,
and maybe some others as well. If you were having those issues. Now,
as far as new features, there are no new features that are listed.
I wasn't able to find anything significant at all within the OS.
And there's just not anything that's really different than what we had with beta
2. This is good in some ways bad and others,
since we don't have a lot of features, but this one does have Apple pro RAW.
If you have an iPhone 12 pro or 12 pro max,
I've talked about this a little bit before,
but it seems to take really nice photos.
And then you can modify those photos a little bit later.
So if I take a raw photo, for example,
you can tell that it's raw because it will say RAW in the upper left.
So it says RAW right there.
And then you can go in and edit it with your favorite editor and get a lot more
out of it. If you want to change it up a little bit.
So if you want to change the exposure,
you'll just retain more data if you have that.
So that's the major thing in this update. Now,
as far as other things with iOS 14.2 Apple actually added
1080P support to iPhone 8 models and later,
so if you have an iPhone 8,
unfortunately not an iPhone 6S plus like I have here,
but an iPhone 8 you'll have 1080P FaceTime. So you'll have that in 14.2.
And of course that will carry over to this version once it's out. Now,
there's a couple of things.
People were wondering if this fixes with this particular update. So for example,
5g dual SIM,
meaning you can use 5g from two different carriers at the same time.
That is not in this update. It's already been confirmed.
And I don't know that that's ever going to be in an iPhone 12,
because I think that's more of a physical hardware limitation as opposed to
software. So that's unfortunate if you use dual Sims.
Also the major thing is the notification bug and people have said,
it's not fixed yet. If you're getting notifications,
whether that be through messages or anything else,
they don't seem to be coming in properly for anyone,
whether they're popping up on your screen. It just seems to be a problem. Now,
since this is hitting everyone at the same time, including iOS 14.2 and 14.3,
it makes me wonder if it's something on the server side as well,
but we'll have to wait and see. Hopefully Apple will patch that very quickly.
Now, of course, the green tint option,
if your phone is dark and you're using an iPhone, iPhone 12 series,
some people are still having that issue, whether or not it's on this.
I was never able to reproduce it on the iPhone 12 series that I have,
but let me know in the comments below if you're able to. So other than that,
Apple did list one known issue basically for developers and they've resolved
three issues. So for example, iPad OSTP 14.3,
a beta three now supports shared iPad mode in beta two.
They warned not to use that. Now you can use that in this update.
Other than that, there's no changes to iPad, OAS or iOS at all that I can find.
So mostly bug fixes in this update.
And since it was only a couple of hundred megabytes and smaller than that on the
iPhone success,
plus it makes sense that this is mostly bugs and sort of getting everything
really stable before the holiday Apple usually takes the end of December off for
holidays, and then they'll release things in January.
So it makes sense that they're getting that taken care of.
They did resolve a couple other bugs as well, that were minor. But again,
nothing was mentioned about wifi notifications, the green tin issue.
That doesn't mean it's not fixed in these updates,
but they haven't mentioned it specifically yet.
So hopefully we'll see that in the future. Now, as far as anything else,
well, it seems to perform really well.
People online are saying performance seems to be really solid.
I'll go into my library here. You'll see it's nice and fast.
And let me switch over to the iPhone 6S plus,
since it's the oldest phone here and if we scroll through,
so the first time I've opened settings, we'll open music,
let it load will open the camera. It seems to be nice and fast.
If we take a photo,
it performs like you would expect and hopefully better than you would expect,
actually at this point,
because Apple did get in a little bit of trouble for older phones slowing down.
So it seems like they're going to continue keeping older phones performing well,
this could be the last update, meaning iOS 14 or the last version,
rather not the last update for the iPhone six S series phones.
So iOS 14 updates will continue to it.
Many people are saying iOS 15 will not. So either way,
it seems very fast given that it's such an old phone at this point,
but performance seems to be solid.
And I've been using iOS 14.3 beta two or iPad iOS 14.3
beta 2 full-time on my iPad pro and it's performed fine.
My major issue is with the battery.
So I'll take a look at the battery here and then we'll look at the other phones,
but my battery on iOS 14.2 beta two was not great on the iPad.
So if I go to my battery here, we'll wait for it to load.
It seems like it was draining super fast.
So yesterday I use this for almost two hours, one hour and 53 minutes,
one hour and 31 minutes of screen off time. I'm not sure why,
because I didn't play music or anything like that, but you'll see,
it was last charged to a hundred percent at 12, 12:00 AM last night.
So I got a couple hours before the previous charge.
I'm getting about five or six hours of screen on time with the iPad pro it
should get closer to 10 or 11. It's really bad.
And I've had a few other people say the same thing.
Hopefully this update fixes it,
but it takes a few days to know what battery life is like.
So if we go into my iPhone,
I've been running iOS 14.2 0.1 on the iPhone,
12 pro max. And so if we go into my battery here, battery has been okay,
it's been getting me through the day, but I don't think it's accurate.
So yesterday you'll see it used about 50% of my battery with three hours and
51 minutes of screen on time, 22 minutes of screen off time.
25% of my battery was FaceTime. And so it really varies from day to day,
but this easily gets me through a day.
I go to bed at night with about 50% of my battery life left in.
That's not an issue and that's usually after midnight.
So it gets me through the day.
It easily lasts 12 hours without a problem and uses about 50%.
So I don't know that this is accurate. I haven't had any issues with it.
I haven't had it crash or anything else,
but it will take a few days to know what batteries like.
So I'm using iOS 14.3 beta three full time on the 12th pro max. Now,
as far as the overall geek bench scores, while I ran it on all of these devices,
let's go into geek bench here. So geek bench five,
I scored 1,590 for single core,
4,097 from multi-core on the 12 pro max. If we take a look at the history,
you can see, uh, November 19th,
it looks like the last time it was run on this device.
It was a little bit faster for both single and multi-core,
but I ran this right after it updated.
So let's take a look at the other devices and see what we have here.
So if we go into geek bench on the 12 pro and the success,
plus you'll see that the success plus is 534 and
999.
The 12 pro is 1597 and 4,010.
And then the iPad pro let's go into that.
I scored a 1,122 for single core,
4,612 for multi-core. If we go to the history in this,
since I've been using this one regularly, let me find the right dates here.
November 17th, we had 46, 82 and 1125.
So 4682 and 1125.
It's a little bit lower on this update, but again,
I just updated it and then ran geek bench on these.
So it may take a few days to know,
or a few hours before those numbers go up in a few days to know about battery
life. Now, as far as when Apple releases iOS 14.3 to the public,
while based on what they did last year and based on what they do with the
holidays and saying that they're going to have Apple pro RAW ready by the end of
the year, I think we're going to see a final, probably next week.
And the reason I say that is last year,
Apple released iOS 13.3 on December 10th and the previous
week they released a beta their final beta.
So it seems to make sense to me that beta three could be the last,
although we could go a couple more weeks for that,
but I think we'll have beta three and a final next week. Some point last year,
they released it on the 10th. It could be sometime around then of course,
Apple could always change this and push it to January or even late December if
they wanted to. But just based on what they've done year over year,
that's kind of what I expect at this point. Now,
should you install iOS 14.3 beta three? Well, if you're a beta tester,
absolutely.
It's kind of our duty to figure out the bugs and report feedback as needed.
And then once you've reported that feedback,
Apple categorizes that and make sure they address the things from top priority
down to bottom priority as soon as they can.
So make sure you're submitting that feedback,
but if you're on iOS 14.2 or 14.2 0.1,
and you're upset about battery and you're trying to get better battery or
something along those lines, I would probably wait for the final.
Instead of updating to a beta betas are really meant for testing in.
I would expect the,
the final to be out soon enough that I really wouldn't worry about that.
But if you do want to test it out, just keep in mind, it's a beta.
It can have bugs and submit that feedback. So I expect a final pretty soon.
Other than that, there's nothing really in this particular update.
Unfortunately, hopefully if we find more,
I'll let you know in a different video, but at this point,
nothing really exciting. Everything does seem to be nice and fast.
And those issues I mentioned don't necessarily seem to be fixed yet,
but let me know if you found anything in the comments below,
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Thanks for watching. This is Aaron. I'll see you next time.