What's up guys.
My name is Brandon and I've been using IUs 14.2 for the past week or so.
And as I always do here on the channel,
I wanted to give you guys a follow-up review on how the software has been
running for me on multiple devices. So we're going to discuss the performance,
the battery life, the connectivity, any new features that I may have missed.
And my initial what's new video and more so first off,
I just have to say the iOS 14.2 has been excellent for me on all
devices. However,
there are some pretty major disappointments with this update as well.
And one of those disappointments is that the laggy keyboard was fixed for the
first few days of IUs 14.2 being released,
but then it just randomly came back. And actually,
if you look at my comment section on my initial what's new video,
I am not alone.
This happened to numerous other people when it mainly happens inside of the
messages application.
So like if you go into messages and then you instantly go to type a message,
you will see a lag in the keyboard.
It will just kind of hitch for a second and may pause for a second or two.
And sometimes also when you start typing the keyboard or the letters that come
out are just a little bit behind.
So there is still a lag in the keyboard on 14.2.
And this has been going on for quite a while now, but for some reason,
for most people, myself included, it was actually fixed at the beginning.
But for some reason it came back and we still have that lag, unfortunately,
with the keyboard here. Now, another thing that I really am not a fan of,
and I think Apple is going to fix in the future is the new airplane menu.
You guys know when you go into here and you have this airplane menu right here,
or actually when you tap this right here, that airplane menu right there,
it looks fine in the control center, but on the lock screen,
if we go ahead and play this music right here,
so we can get it on the lock screen, when we go and tap on that,
take a look at the animation. It's just so clunky. You know, it just appears,
and there's kind of like a lag. Once you go out of it,
until you get back to the lock screen,
it's just very Annapolis for an animation for something like that.
So that's really been bothering me lately. When I go to switch, you know,
the source for my audio, it's just a very clunky look.
And I think Apple is definitely going to fix the way that looks in a future
software updates. Now also on the lock screen, I noticed that in 14.2,
the text no longer scrolls like it used to it's like if the song is too long or
the album is too long,
it used to just scroll and show you the full name of the song or the album.
But now, as you can see, it does not do that.
So you can see there's a feature here. And also the album was too long,
but it does not show the full text. It kind of just cuts it off there.
And you have to go into the actual music application for that text to scroll
if it needs to. And it also does it in the control center as well.
But for some reason, you know,
it shows the full album title and everything in the control center.
But for some reason on the lock screen, the text just does not move anymore.
Like it has in the past. Now,
another issue that some people are having on iOS 14.2 and iPad at West
14.2, is that the widgets, especially if you have a smart stack,
will sometimes just show a blank widget when you're scrolling through them.
So sometimes it will be blank and sometimes it'll show up.
It's just very hit or miss on both the square and on the rectangle SmartStack so
I've not had this issue. My widgets have been perfectly fine and 14.2,
but some people are having issues with the smart stacks specifically.
Now I've also seen quite a few people say that they are getting the text message
notification bog in 14.2.
So this is something that I've covered extensively here on the channel over the
past, like maybe two years I've covered this.
And some people are actually seeing it come back in 14.2.
So this is basically where you would get a text message and you know,
your phone would be locked. Imagine it's just sitting on your desk,
your phone is locked and you just simply would not get a notification sound.
You wouldn't get a vibration,
your phone wouldn't light up or anything when you get a text message or an I
message. And some people are having that here in 14.2,
where they just simply do not get a notification when they get a new message.
Now, thankfully, this has not been happening to me.
This drove me absolutely nuts over the past like year or so when this bug was
prominent, but Apple did fix it. And I have not had it for quite a while now,
but some people are having issues with text message notification.
So let me know if you were having that issue on 14.2 as well,
but aside from those bad things,
there has been a lot more good with this 14.2 update.
The first thing I want to talk about is the optimized battery charging for the
AirPods pro. So I mentioned in my original what's new video,
that this works for all AirPods because that's kind of what Apple said and the
release notes,
but I've since realized that this is only a feature for AirPods pro.
So you will get the optimized battery charging.
If you go into Bluetooth and then to your AirPods pro right there,
you will see that we have this right here, optimized battery charging.
That is the new toggle right there. And it works instantly.
So it doesn't have to relearn like your listening habits or anything like that.
It works right out of the gate after installing 14.2, which is really nice. Now,
of course,
it's still too early to tell if this is actually prolonging the battery life on
my AirPods pro this is something you'll notice over the course of a year or so,
but so far,
it seems to be working just fine here on 14.2 with my AirPods pro also the
Intercom feature is working really well for me here on 14.2.
So I have a home pod. I will be getting a home pod mini on Friday,
and I actually may make a whole video on the Intercom feature,
but I've been using this on 14.2 and it's working really good.
I actually really like this feature.
I think it's going to be a lot bigger in the future.
Once people get more home pods and basically it's worked really well. You know,
I can talk to whoever's downstairs if I want to via Intercom. And of course,
if you have kids, if you have a bigger family, a bigger house with an upstairs,
this will really come in handy.
You just have this Intercom little button here in the top, right corner.
We tap on that. This is where you can just simply talk.
And I like how it pops up right away. You press that,
then you don't have to press anything else. It just instantly pops up.
And my voice is now being heard downstairs on my home pod.
I've also been loving the new shazamm at music recognition toggle.
This was one of the main headlining features with 14.2 and I've been loving it.
I actually used it in a real-world scenario just the other day.
So there was a movie playing and there was a song. The movie that I liked,
I liked the sound of it. So I went ahead and opened up my control center,
tapped on this toggle and pretty much within like two or three seconds,
it had the song recognized. Then it took me Tisha Zam. I clicked on Shizam,
you know, I clicked on the little pop-up that comes up top.
And then I opened it up in Apple music and I was able to add that song to my
playlist. So I love this new feature. It is very, very handy.
Now there is also a bug with it. So if I go and tap on this and then untap,
sometimes it will just start playing music randomly.
So this is a weird bug with the Shizam music recognition toggle.
So it's not doing it right now,
but sometimes it will just play the music that was playing,
which is pretty strange. But overall,
I love this feature and this was the first time I actually got to use it in a
real world scenario.
I've also been loving the new wallpapers and of course the new emoji in 14.2,
there are over 100 new emojis in 14.2.
And of course we do have all these new wallpapers as well.
So if we go into our settings and then go to wallpapers and then to our stills,
of course we have all these new wallpapers light and dark mode.
I really liked the dark mode as well on these animated looking wallpapers right
here. So really loving those of course, that's what I have on right now.
That is one of the new wallpapers. And then of course,
we just have a lot of other miscellaneous bug fixes throughout iOS 14.2,
which leads to a much better overall experience.
And that's what leads me to the next part of this video. I want to talk about.
And that is the performance of 14.2 and the performance has been excellent.
I've really had no noticeable hiccups on this update.
I have not had a single random Reece spring on any device.
And I only had one app crash since I've had this installed on my phone.
And that was while the phone was really under load.
So I wouldn't even really blame that on at 14.2.
So pretty much an excellent experience with the performance so far on,
and my iPhone 12 iPhone 12 pro I've also been using it on my iPad pro 2020
and the iPad air 2020, the iPad air for there.
So I've been using 14.2 on multiple devices,
and I've had the same experience on all of them, which has been excellent.
And even though the performance gains are more noticeable on the iPhone,
Eleven's like the iPhone 11 pro here,
which I ran through all of the iOS 14 points, your betas on.
I'm actually surprised that I was able to tell a difference in performance on my
iPhone 12 and I phone 12 pro because if you guys remember it,
my initial what's new video,
I said that you probably won't be able to tell too big of a difference from
14.1, just because it shipped with that.
And it probably shipped what they well optimized software,
but I was actually surprised to see, you know, a minor bump in performance,
especially when gaming, multitasking,
things like that on even the iPhone 12 and 12 pro.
So overall a really solid update when it comes to the performance. Now,
not only has the performance improved across the board,
but connectivity has also been improved for me on the iPhone 12 and the iPhone
12 pro just as I suspected.
So I had terrible cell signal on 14.1 with my iPhone 12 and
12 pro. But now thanks to that new modem update,
the new modem firmware in 14.2, the signal has definitely gotten better.
My connectivity has definitely improved on my iPhone 12 and 12 pro.
However, I do need to point out that I have completely disabled 5g,
as you can see right here on my main phone here in my iPhone,
12 pro I've just completely disabled 5g.
And I just have it on LTE right there. And I have this on standard.
And the reason for that is simply because 5g just simply gives me a lot of dead
zones for coverage and it just drains battery.
It's not even worth toggling it on at this point for me, at least in my area.
And I just think the 5g is still so new that it's just not worth it at this
point in time. So I just have mine sticking to LTE here on my main phone.
And I've noticed that I get much better coverage overall when I do not have 5g
on at all.
So hopefully future software updates will fix the signal a little bit,
but of course the main thing that's going to help the connectivity and the long
run is going to be the building out of 5g towers in all cities.
So that's going to take a little bit, probably, you know,
next year is probably when we'll see a nice bump in 5g performance if I had to
guess, but as far as Bluetooth and wifi connectivity goes,
my connectivity has been perfectly fine for both Bluetooth and wifi.
Now some are having issues with AirPods, randomly disconnecting,
but I've been hearing this since like iOS 13.
I've been hearing this for so long.
So I do not think that that is an issue with 14.2, but for me,
everything has been working perfectly fine when it comes to wifi and Bluetooth.
Now, when it comes to the battery life,
I did not notice any improvement on my iPhone 12 or 12 pro,
but I did notice a slight increase in battery life on my 2020 iPad pro,
which is off the screen right now.
So I've been actually using that 2020 iPad pro a lot lately for gaming and just
media consumption because I've mainly been comparing it to the new 20,
20 iPad air for which I have right here.
But the battery life seems about the same as 14.1 to me.
And this is something that also, you know,
I was suspecting in my what's new video since the iPhone twelves ship with an
already well optimized 14.1, which improved battery a lot for most people.
So especially on like the iPhone 11 and 11 pro iOS 14.1 was a nice,
nice update for battery life. So not too much of a change here in 14.2.
So now that I've talked about my experience with 14.2,
I wanted to talk to you guys about your experience on 14.2 via my
community poll. So I did post this in the community tab just over an hour ago.
So I was a little late on posting this, but we still got over 3000 boats.
So I think that's enough data to cover this here in this video.
So as you can see here, I asked, how has iOS 14.2 been for you so far?
And as you could see, 53% of people said, excellent,
no annoying bugs and good battery. 22% said, good. Just some minor bugs,
7% said decent buggy and bad battery life. Only 1% said terrible.
I had to downgrade and 17% are not on 14.2.
So 53%.
That is an extremely high number compared to past versions of iOS 14.
So it seems like a lot of people are having a very similar experience to me with
good performance and battery life and things like that on 14.2 here,
and you can see 22% on good really only 8% total are just not having a good
experience on 14.2.
So now let's go ahead and take a look at some of these comments to see how you
guys are liking this update and kind of what issues are facing as well.
So you can see there,
the top comment actually talks about the issue that I talked about earlier in
this video. And that is that the keyboard is still laggy and late.
So you can see there also somebody here Mikey said, overall, it's working fine.
Just that a,
I wish I could customize the app library same here and B sometimes when opening
the messages app, the keyboard will lag when I tried to start typing.
So once again the same exact issue as the person above mentioned.
And that's also what I mentioned earlier in this video, going down a little bit,
you can see I'm experiencing wifi connectivity issues. Again,
I'm using the iPhone seven.
So some people are actually having wifi connectivity issues,
and that may be an issue with your router.
It may not necessarily be 14.2 blue here said that he's using a seven plus with
no issues whatsoever.
That is great to see also a seven plus the annoying AirPods connected still
happens every time I unlock my phone. And unfortunately that is not a bug.
We talked about that here on the channel a lot,
and that's mainly due to the new, you know, handoff feature.
So basically when you have, you know,
media planning or music planning on one device,
and we'll just connect to that device automatically,
and you get the little pop up every time you unlock your phone with your AirPods
connected. So that's going to be happening for quite a while unless Apple ads,
you know, like a toggle, it's a maybe turn that off.
Michael says that I've been using it on my 11 pro max battery has stayed good.
And just a couple of bugs from time to time, not anything major. So that's good.
Hello here says that when you turn up your volume to max, the yellow color,
won't fill up fully in the volume bar. So not too sure what's going on there,
but some people seem to be having issues with that.
Everything ASMR says that there's a bug that's making a received IMS,
it automatically read from a specific contact.
It doesn't notify me that I have a new message. So that is a new one.
I've not heard of that.
And let's see if other people are having that issue as well. So yeah,
it seems like other people are having the exact same issue.
So if you were having an issue like this,
let me know in the comments section below,
I'm very curious because I've not faced that.
And that's actually the first time I've seen a bug like that mentioned both
Martin and Bismark both mentioned the keyboard lag in,
IMS it on the 11 pro and the 11 pro max respectably right there.
And then you could see a lot of other people here are talking about as well.
Sometimes I don't get the notification bubble above the messages app when I get
a text.
So also people mentioning that a lot of good things said about 14.2 and they're
mixed up with some bad things as well.
Some people haven't even battery drain issues.
Some people having issues with messages.
I saw a lot of people talk about messages issues,
where they don't get a notification or, you know,
certain conversations are muted for some reason. And then of course,
I saw a lot of people talking about the keyboard lag and the messages
application, but again,
the overall consensus of 14.2 is more positive than it is negative.
So now let's talk about what we could see next in terms of a new iOS update.
So today is Wednesday, November 11th, and tomorrow we get a new Mac update.
So Mac S big Sur will finally be released to the public tomorrow on Thursday,
November 12th.
So that tells me that there is a possibility of seeing a new iOS update as early
as tomorrow on the 12th. And that would probably be a public release as well.
So maybe eight, 14.2 0.1. We could see tomorrow,
but if we do not get anything tomorrow,
I would expect a new iOS update as early as next week. So the week of the 16th,
either the 16th or the 17th, we could see a 14.3 beta begin.
So we may see a first beta of 14.3 or once again,
we could also see that 14.2 0.1 release that week.
But my guess is that we will see a 14.3 beta come very, very soon. So yeah,
guys, there, you have it. That is my follow-up review on iOS 14.2 in iPad,
iOS 14.2. Again, it has been a great version so far. I've had a few issues,
a few annoying bugs and things like that, but overall the performance,
the battery life, that connectivity, everything is solid for me.
And I definitely recommend everybody to update to 14.2, but once again,
I want to pass the question along to you guys.
How has 14 point Subin for you on your iPhone or iPad?
Let me know down in a comment below also let me know if you were facing any of
the issues I mentioned in this video as well. I like to see, you know,
kind of just from a outside perspective to see how many people are actually
facing the same issues.
That's what helps Apple fix these bugs and future software updates. But anyways,
guys, if you enjoyed this video, I would appreciate it.
If you give it a thumbs up and of course,
make sure you subscribe for a lot more iOS, 14 coverage coming soon.
But anyways, guys, thanks again for watching and I'll see you soon.
[Inaudible].