Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and today apple released
ios 14 developer beta 6. they released this alongside
watch os 7 beta 6 as well as tv os 14 beta 6 ipad os 14 beta 6
and i would expect mac os big sur beta 6 within a day or so
now if you're looking for the public beta of course that may take
at least a few hours or a day or so so depending on what apple decides to do
they may push it out then but it's only been seven days since the previous
release and so it looks like we're on the weekly
cycle and i'll talk more about when to expect ios 14 beta 7 toward the end of
the video so in this video we'll cover performance
and everything else if you want to see the chapter markers
check them out in the description below now you can see this came in at 437.9
megabytes on my iphone 11 pro max and was similarly sized or smaller
on my ipad air 2 as well as my iphone 6s plus and i have the previous version on
this iphone 10r so i can show you the differences
now let's take a look at the build number and talk about what's new
the build number is 18a5357e and this particular update does have a
couple changes the first one being a modem update
and that is available on not only the iphone 11 pro max but also other devices
as well are seeing that that's again under settings then about
and you can see it at the bottom it's 2.00.01 and this particular
update has a couple changes like i said and the first one has to do with maps
now let's take a look at the iphone 6s plus
so i can show you that so what that is is the first time you open
maps it's going to open up and give you a splash screen saying
what's new in maps and you can see there's
cycling navigation curated guides and speed cameras and so those are new
things in maps we kind of knew about this before from ios 14 when it first
came out but those are some of the new things and
also some people were saying the spacing is different on transit maps
so if we go to new york city transit for example maybe
take a look at some of these i'm not seeing the spacing differences
for scheduling or anything like that but some were saying the spacing is
different let me know if it's changed for you now one of the most exciting
things at least to me is that apple has turned on spatial audio if you're using
airpods pro and so to access that setting it's on by
default but you go to your settings go down to accessibility then you're
going to go down to air pods under air pods scroll to the bottom and
you'll see it says spatial audio follow iphone when follow
iphone is on audio for supported movies and tv shows will sound like it's coming
from your iphone instead of following your head movement
so i would imagine this will come not only to the ipad
but also mac os so or and apple tv as well so when you're watching a movie
based on where you're located you'll have spatial audio overall and so
i can't wait to try that out some more it is going to take a few days to try it
out see what it's really like and see if it's much different
it's pretty interesting and it should be great if it works like apple claims
now the next new feature has to do with mail it's a slight change not so much a
feature but if we go into mail and you'll see here's an email that
someone sent me the sender is now marked in blue so you'll see the sender there
if we take a look at the same or similar email on my iphone 10r on the previous
version you'll see here if we look at it the
sender is not blue so it's just a slight change it's a nice
little thing so that we know who it's from
kind of makes it a little bit nicer i'm not sure that it's a big deal though now
when it comes to navigating around the phone
they've changed this up a little bit so let's press and hold on settings here
we'll go into jiggle mode on both and you'll see the spacing around the dots
at the bottom again has changed maybe it's a little
bit further away from the dock and the spacing around the dots might be
a little bit thicker just a slight change there now also if
we go into the photos albums you'll see down at the bottom
where it used to say other albums and then you have your imports and hidden
and recently deleted now it says utilities on ios 14 beta 6.
slight change i'm not sure that it is a utility i kind of like other albums
better but let me know what you think about that in the comments below
now they've changed it again a little bit if you try and remove an app so
let's press and hold on youtube here we'll tap on remove the
app and you'll see that they've changed the
arrangement of it again so with beta 5 we had delete app at the
bottom and cancel at the top now with beta 6 we have delete app at
the top cancel at the bottom it's not a huge change but it's
something they're changing around seems like they're doing an awful lot of
that with these betas now in music i noticed a slight change
as well so if we go into music and then we go to
a song it can be a similar song it doesn't really matter go into that song
tap on the three dots for the menu it will pop up and you'll see show album
is now under the section with copy and share
it wasn't there with the previous beta with beta6 they've updated this so a lot
of visual changes in this one and speaking of visual changes if we go
into home they've changed the home back in beta 6
to what it was like with beta 4. so in beta 5 they changed it to this
icon with beta 6 now it's this new icon again or sort of
the old icon so you'll see those visual changes
throughout now there's two additional small changes if we go into the clock
app and maybe we add an alarm on each device
you can see on the left with beta 5 the time picker does not have an outline
where it does on beta 6. so they've just updated it a little bit
more maybe it's to let you know that you can change it here just by moving your
thumb around or your finger and it's just a nice
little visual change another visual change or slight change
was thanks to my friend steve at mac rumors so let's go into safari
and you'll see if we're on a french website where i speak english and we
want to translate that we will go to the options here in the top left hit
translate website and it says do you want to translate it into english or
spanish whatever you choose and then it says enable translation and
you go in on beta 6 it's changed a little bit
so translate to english and it takes a
moment and it just translates now depending on
which version you have the first time you go in to translate it
if you've never done it before it will actually give you a message saying
enable translation and learn more and they've changed some
of the web page translation wording here so they've just
updated a little bit it's not a huge deal but it just depends
on if you've ever gone into it before it will just do it
otherwise it just gives you some more information about it now with this
update there are 24 known issues that still
exist and one of those has to do with siri suggestions
i mentioned this before but if you go into your settings
go down to sirian search and then you turn off
suggestions while searching it still shows up when maybe you search for
say apple and so it will still give you your search suggestions even though it's
turned off this is still a bug that exists
also another bug that apple mentioned is when you're in mail and maybe you're
composing a mail you save it as a draft you reopen that mail later on it could
duplicate your signature so it's not a huge bug they've mostly fixed
things in mail and that's the only known bug that they've at least listed for
mail currently there are 13 resolved issues
that apple has mentioned one of them is the control center or at
least i've noticed this the control center no longer gives me a gap like it
did with the previous beta with the home
icons so the home buttons to turn on different
things like lights you'll see there's a gap with beta 5 and beta 6 they've fixed
it so it's a small change a visual change i
thought maybe it would be used for something else later but they've updated
that also widgets should no longer appear
blank often times with beta 5 i would have a blank weather widget
it seems to be updated with beta 6. so i'm not really seeing an issue with that
this time around and then also if you're using siri shortcuts or different
automations those should all run properly now so if
you want to create an automation for example
you can create that when people arrive we'll hit next
and we'll do color burst done and these automations
should work properly in the home app and also siri shortcuts should be working
properly now they've updated a few things that
probably would apply more to the ipad if you're using
an external drive and if you have encrypted apfs you'll see this is just
updating here it's the first time i've put beta 6 on
or any ios version on the ipad air 2 but as you can see it's running ok but if we
go into the files app on the files app if you have an external
hard drive that's connected and it's encrypted with apfs that will
now work in the files app before that wasn't
working properly also if you're using airplane mode on
either ipad or iphone when you put it in airplane mode it
should indicate the proper status where it wasn't really doing that
properly before in settings and then also once you're using a phone
call on your iphone maybe you're placing a phone call
and you've used the microphone it will now show properly
up here when you pull down and it shows you what what has used your microphone
it will now show you if your phone was making a call over cellular
and wi-fi networks so those things have all been fixed in this particular update
and i'm sure there's much more and they don't necessarily list every single
thing now battery life on ios 14 beta 5 was
improved from before and i expect it to be similarly improved
with this beta in fact using it so far it's been pretty good i'll talk about
performance in a moment but if we go to battery you'll see
battery health's 96 on my iphone 11 pro max and if we go
over the last 10 days you can see some of my usage so it
wasn't tremendous but it seems to be like it's
getting a little bit better so we'll go back a few days where i had three hours
and 52 minutes of screen on time three hours and 46 minutes of screen off
time and i used about 50 of my battery so with the screen on and
screen off time combined i could get about nine hours of screen
on time maybe 10 10 to 12 is normal for me with the
previous versions and you'll see this was last charged to 79
i often charge in the car and so i like that they updated that with the previous
beta with beta 5. so i would expect battery life to be
improved of course i'll do a follow-up where i cover all of that
how it went for you so look for the poll probably on friday or so
and then a follow-up on the weekend now let's take a look at the performance and
the performance has actually been pretty good
with beta 5 i had quite a few lock-ups and hang-ups
and with this version even with older devices such as the 6s plus
it so far seems to be pretty smooth you'll see menus are nice and smooth and
everything just loading in general seems to be pretty good
this is the first time i've opened music on this device since installing
ios 14 and you'll see the overall response is decent especially since it's
the oldest supported iphone and so if we go through different
applications everything seems to be responding fine
and i know people had issues with the app list before
but again it seems to be responding fine now let's take a look at the geekbench
scores on my iphone 11 pro max i scored 1334
for single core 3379 from multicore i did run it twice because it was a
little bit lower to start but if we take a look at the history here
you can see today it is a little bit higher than what we had
on the previous beta with on august 18th so
the single core and the multicore are a little bit higher
let's take a look at the scores on these devices as well so i thought we'd cover
the oldest devices from here on out and maybe
throw in a few others if you request them but let me know in the comments
below but on the left i have the ipad air 2.
in the middle i have the iphone 6s plus and on the right i have the iphone
11 pro max so hopefully that gives you a good idea
of what to expect with this particular update
now with ipad os ipad os doesn't really have anything new in it other than what
i've already mentioned you have the same changes of course the
same bug fixes and everything else and in general performance seems to be
about the same so if you're using an older ipad like the ipad air 2 or a
newer one like i'm using the ipad pro 12.9
2020 version let's take a look here this is my main device and i have it
installed here the beta has been pretty good in general
and only time will tell how this one is but in general it seems to be okay
and performing like i would expect now should you install ios 14 beta 6 if
you're on ios 14 beta 4 or 5 or earlier i would say absolutely we're getting
closer and closer to the final version where i would expect maybe beta 8
maybe even more based on what we had with ios 12 and ios 13 betas
but at least eight betas based off the past two years
and then the gm or golden master and this particular version seems to be
much more stable applications seem to be working okay
games like call of duty definitely are worth working at this point
as far as pokemon go it may be working but i suspect that has an issue with the
camera and it may need an update so test that out if you're using that i
don't play that regularly but let me know
in the comments below but definitely update if you're already on the previous
one and check for the follow up where we'll talk about
any additional bugs or features we might find now as far as ios 14
beta 7 well it looks like we're on a weekly schedule at this point as we get
closer to the final release to the public which will be late september or
october at this point i would expect an update every week
from now on so september 1st september 8th
and that can vary day to day and beta to beta but
i would expect that probably as soon as september 1st so be sure to look out for
that and of course we'll talk more about that
as we get more information now if you'd like to get your hands on
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