Hi, everyone.
Aaron here for Zolllotech and today Apple released iOS 14.6 beta one.
This was a surprise to all of us since we still have 14.5 release candidate.
But now this is the first beta of iOS 14.6.
And this came in at a very large 4.56 gigabytes. That's on my iPhone,
12 pro max. I also have that installed on the iPhone XR and the iPhone seven.
It was just under four gigabytes on the iPhone 7 and a little over on the iPhone
XR.
Along with this Apple also released iPadOS 14.6 beta one.
So I have that on the iPad as well,
and they released macOS Big Sur 11.4 beta one yesterday,
watchOS 7.5 beta one today,
along with tvOS14.6 beta one as well.
So all of those betas came out today and we still have 14.5 we're
waiting for as well.
So I think this might be one of the first times or only times.
We've seen three different things going at the same time.
We have a public version of 14.4 .2 a release candidate for release candidate of
14.5 and this new beta.
Now let's go ahead and take a look at the build number and talk about what's
new. So we'll go to settings then we'll go back, go to general,
then go to about the build number is 18 F five zero four six F.
And this particular build, like I said,
was a bit of a surprise and does have some changes in it that we can see. Now,
the first thing is it has a modem update. So if you're on an iPhone 12 pro max,
maybe you were having issues. You should have a modem update,
and that carries across to older devices as well.
So you should be seeing a modem update there for the modem firmware as well as
this new feature in settings. So if we go into settings, we'll go into settings.
You go to general, then you go to software update. Well, if you're on a phone,
that's a little bit older or maybe has a previous version on it. You'll see,
here's my other iPhone 12 pro max that's on iOS 14.5 release candidate.
This showed up automatically Apple sort of dynamically push this.
And now when you go to software update,
it gives you an option for the new beta at the bottom.
If you have the beta profile installed, now Apple's given us this option.
All you have to do is tap on it and you can install it or you don't have to.
So you can go to automatic updates, download only don't download it at all.
And you have that option now.
So that's under software updates and this will be really nice in the future
because you'll be able to jump right to a release candidate.
And then also Apple says,
you can choose to update to the next available beta or uninstalled the profile
to remove your device from the beta program. So that should be much,
much better,
and it should be a little bit easier to get out of the beta program.
Maybe they're making it easier to get off of maybe a different beta without
using a Mac in the future. And based on some information in the code,
for example,
someone tweeted on Twitter that iOS 14.6 seems to introduce a new
method of Mac iOS communication when you're in recovery mode and you're booting
up. So there is a potential that this particular update has something there,
although they're not making it very obvious that you can see anyway, also,
thanks to my friend, Steve Mosher for helping me out with some of these,
there are the possibility of exposure notifications showing maybe a
diagnosis link.
So maybe you put in the diagnosis and exposure notifications,
and you might have the ability to send a link. For example, with diagnosis,
it's not clear what that is. It's just possibly in the code. Also,
there's something new for home. Although again, you can't see it,
but you may be able to actually listen to an Intercom.
So here you can talk through the Intercom.
Maybe you'll be able to listen as well.
Although I don't know if there's regular microphones,
maybe they'll enable that later on with a home pod update, for example.
So I'm not seeing that yet,
but also they added the update in the Apple wallet for Apple card
family. Again, you can't see this, it's just in the code. And then finally,
one thing they've updated that they talked about already,
that we're still not seeing on anything is the option for subscriptions in
podcasts. If you're using the Apple podcast app,
it's going to have subscription soon.
That's why we have our little account in the upper, right?
And maybe you'll be able to subscribe to your favorite podcasts.
So you can go into your podcast, subscribe to that podcast, a different show,
support that creator,
and maybe be able to skip some of the ads in there because you're supporting
them. So that looks like it's coming up very soon,
but it's still in the code and we're waiting to see it. Now,
the only other thing is,
some people are seeing the folders be rearranged and they're seeing a new
enterprise apps folder. So if you have enterprise related apps installed,
you may see that as well. Thanks to Braden for sending this along,
but it just as an enterprise apps that wasn't there before,
as far as I can tell now, as far as any resolved issues,
Apple has not mentioned a single thing in their notes,
as far as what's been fixed in this particular update,
that does not mean they haven't fixed anything or they aren't working on
anything. But most of the major issues such as green tint,
those sorts of things are mostly resolved in iOS 14.5,
but it doesn't mean they haven't stopped or have stopped working on them for
this update.
Hopefully you're seeing a lack of green tint in your you're in dark mode,
in dark situations. Hopefully you're not seeing that.
Also people continue to ask me about yellow tint.
I personally don't see this as an issue because it's generally the phone billing
being a little bit more collor accurate. When you color balance a display,
it looks a little bit warm or a little bit yellowish if you've ever color
balanced the display. If you compare it next to the iPhone, XR for example,
both of these have true tone turned off.
They both look very different because they're different types of displays,
but the iPhone 12 pro max was touted as having a very or the most
color accurate display. So that may not be great for everyone.
I do wish they'd add some options to maybe change that a little bit.
If they could do that in the future. Now, anything else there is nothing else.
Like I said,
as far as any issues they fixed that they've mentioned Bluetooth does seem to be
fixed on 14.5 with AirPods switching, for example,
hopefully it doesn't mess back up with 14.6,
but we'll have to wait and see it's been good for me on 14.5, 14.6,
hopefully has even better wifi and Bluetooth connectivity and no issues there.
And for some reason, well, this is a different iPhone.
So maybe that's why it's not paired, but in general it should work much better.
So I'll have to try that out later.
This is probably paired to my other iPhone 12 pro max,
since I was using that with these. So I do have that issue occasionally,
where I have to repair them though. So hopefully that's not an iOS 14.6 bug.
Now, as far as iPad iOS 14.6 beta one, the same changes carry over.
Although, because this is on 14.6,
we won't have the little bar there and software update,
but the same sorts of changes carry over to this iPad. And in general,
I wouldn't expect anything different right away.
I would expect bigger changes maybe with beta two or beta three, for example,
performance seems to be okay on this iPad, given that it's age,
it's one of the older supported iPads and performance on the iPhone,
for example, seems to be okay as well.
I waited to open music for the first time. So let's see. That was nice and fast.
Scrolling seems very fast,
especially since it's still loading background activity.
And it actually seems pretty good. This is on an iPhone seven.
So in general it should be pretty good based on what I'm seeing here.
Although it will take a few days to know that for sure on the iPhone 10 are the
same thing. Just using this a little bit. Scrolling is nice and fast.
Everything is smooth. Now, as far as the overall benchmarks,
let's go ahead and take a look at that. I ran that on all of these devices.
So let's go over to geek bench and on the iPhone 12 pro max,
it scored 1,590 for single core,
4,061 for multi-core. I don't think I've ever run it on this device,
but hopefully these carried over,
but let's take a look here and you can see April 22nd.
And the last time was March 26th.
So it scored significantly better on this device. So it does,
it's doing a little bit better,
but these could have carried over from something else. Let's take a look here.
And that was on an iPhone 11 pro max.
So these are the scores for this device and they're kind of combining with
others, but let me show you all the different ones.
So you can get an idea if your devices about the same now from left to right,
I have the iPad air two followed by the iPhone seven,
then the iPhone XR and then the iPhone 12 pro max. And like I said,
this should just give you a general idea.
These scores generally will improve over the next few days as it finishes
processing in the background. Usually later in the day,
it will be much better than it is now. Now as far as the overall battery life,
well, we just got this update.
So it's going to take a few days to know that for sure.
But if we go into the battery, this shouldn't have affect battery health.
They've not added the battery health count recalibration to any other devices in
this update, as far as I can tell. And you'll see I'm at 100% on the iPhone,
12 pro max, this one has just been updated and had to reset.
So hopefully it'll be good, but we'll have to wait a few days.
It is an early beta. I would think that it will be as good as 14.5, but again,
we'll have to wait and see now, should you install iOS 14.6 beta one?
Well, if you know what you're getting into with betas,
then you absolutely could. However,
with iOS 14.5 release candidate coming very soon,
I would probably tend to hold off on your main device.
If you have a separate device that you want to try it out on,
maybe a little bit older, then definitely go ahead and try it out.
But there's nothing spectacular worth trying that this for so far with this
update. Now,
as far as when to expect iOS 14.5 released to the public. Well,
according to Apple, it's coming out very soon. In fact, on their website,
they said it was coming out next week so we can expect it early next week.
It looks like from, from Apple to release iOS 14.5 to the public. Finally,
that brings a ton of features. And of course,
I'll have a video covering that as well. So this was a little bit unexpected.
I'm glad they released it,
but I also think this update will come out around the same sort of time as
the new IMAX, the second half of may.
And the reason I say that macOS 11.4 beta one,
add support for those new IMAX.
And it needs to come out by the second half of may when Apple releases that
device to the public, along with the iPads and the Apple TV.
So I would expect all of these updates to come out sometime late, next month,
based off that they could put in an interim update,
but based off what we're seeing so far in that code,
and that seems to make the most sense. So I'm looking forward to that now,
as far as anything else, if I find that,
of course I'll do a follow-up video with more features in it,
and I'll do a follow-up of iOS 14.5 release candidate on Sunday as well.
Like I normally do. And we'll see how it's going for everyone.
That's installed that if you found anything else,
they'll let me know in the comments below.
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