Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and ios 14.4 and ios 14.5 beta 2 have been out for a minimum of
two weeks and longer with 14.4 and so i wanted to talk about the overall experience when to expect
the next update and some bugs and issues and more but first i want to talk about one additional
feature i hadn't mentioned in previous videos so if you go into music for example now this may show
up for you on 14.4 as well but i haven't seen that but we'll try that in a moment but if you go into
music for example and you go to an artist page in some instances a pop-up will show up i wasn't able
to get it to show up with ann berlin for example but when i went to a more popular artist like
taylor swift i was able to get it to pop up and i took a screenshot so you can see it says listen to
a station featuring only this artist by pressing play and so you can listen to a station with that
and it's just a new pop-up i saw i wasn't able to get it when i went to a less popular artist
for example so let's try it on ios 14.4 we'll go to music and we'll search for the same artist here
and see if it pops up and it doesn't so it seems like it's only in 14.5 beta 2 but it's
a new feature it seems like now with ios 14.4 i'm running it on my iphone 11 pro max and i have ios
14.5 beta 2 on the other devices here the iphone 12 pro max along with my 12.9 inch ipad pro from
2020 and the iphone 11. but with ios 14.4 i've got continuous emails continuous messages on
twitter telling me about continued issues going on with this update and wondering when the next
one's going to come out so for example there was an issue that my daughter messaged me about today
on an iphone 10. she was using a 10 in face id all of a sudden out of the blue stopped working
so i had her try and reset it going into her settings and then going into her passwords
for example wherever that is here there we go you've got password or face id rather face id
and passcode when you go into that i had her reset it and it didn't work she had to try it again it
didn't work i had to have her reboot in order for that to work so that was an issue that seems to be
happening and someone else has messaged me about the same thing and then the next thing you saw
is when i swiped out to go home there was some lag this is continuing to go on with ios 14.4
and isn't fixed as well as the green tin issue that seems to be there still and some are saying
they're having terrible battery however 70 are saying they're having good battery with 14.4 so
it really varies from the device to device and on this one i haven't been using this regularly
and you'll see it's acting a little bit slow and that's because it's installing a ton of updates
since i hadn't turned it on in a while but just to show you the battery health this phone's at 93
this was used for a little bit about a year maybe a little bit more than that
regular full time charged every single night it was my main phone and this is the first time i've
turned it on in a couple weeks but it is running 14.4 so the battery life on this for some is great
for some is not great but there's continued lag keyboard lag and the main thing i hear the most
is issues with bluetooth connectivity whether that be with airpods airpods switching between iphone
and ipad back and forth or even other things like reception happening where it's just not
connecting or maybe people are dropping calls there's also carplay connectivity issues and
some people the screen stops responding to touch so ios 14.4 seems to have a lot of issues in it
and continues to get worse for some for others people say it's great and has phenomenal battery
life so it's really hit or miss it depends on the application you have installed so maybe you have
facebook i find that uses a tremendous amount of power for some reason so if you uninstall that
usually it fixes it so when you have the same phone with different apps sometimes you'll have
different experiences but for most it seems 70 or so we're having better battery life but the
people that have worse battery life will always be the loudest and comment about it the most
but that seems to be mostly fixed with all of those bugs for the most part with ios 14.5 beta 2.
so with 14.5 beta 2 it's not 100 perfect but it does seem to fix the green tint issue as well as
the hdr flickering or where the pixels look like they're backlit they no longer look like that
so i'm not able to replicate the green tin issue and those that were actually showing
me that problem that we're having it no longer can replicate that as well so that's a good sign
it will show up from time to time in different places but it seems to be fixed for the most part
now airdrop is working great compared to ios 14.5 beta 1. and what i mean by that is with beta 1 it
was really slow and didn't airdrop quickly so if i go into airdrop and share maybe this photo here
you'll see it sends nice and fast so no issues there it seems to be fixed and i haven't had any
issues since and it works great however there are some problems with ios 14.5 beta 2 and the
most recent one i've experienced really has to do with mail and mail has been great mostly for
me but all of a sudden fetch email stopped working push email sort of works but fetch email doesn't
show up properly it shows up properly on the ipad pro without a problem running the same version but
for whatever reason it's just not showing up on my iphone 12 pro max so i don't know what it is
i've tried rebooting i've tried hard resetting it and it doesn't seem to have fixed it so there's
something strange there and of course you want to report that in feedback to make sure apple
takes a look at it now also there's other issues youtube picture and picture has stopped working
again in safari for most people so youtube must have changed something there that's not on ios
but it's kind of annoying if you're used to using that and also if you're using the eq for music
it's not working properly you can change between the eq settings if you go into your settings here
and i do wish apple would would actually add this to the music app it's kind of strange that it's
in here buried but if you use the eq change it to electronic or acoustic or whatever you'd like
it doesn't make any difference and it seems to not do anything really so again make sure you report
that if you have it and you're having that issue so there are additional issues in this i think
they've fixed the green tin issue they've fixed a lot of the lag issues i haven't had a single time
in weeks with this lagging when i close an app it's been super fast everything's been really
great as far as performance ios 14.4 has not been that way so there's definitely a difference
between both of them with 14.4 needing an update for sure so whether you're using the iphone 11
with 14.5 beta 2 or maybe on an iphone 7 it seems to be much better in general with most things it's
fixed most of those main bugs with ios 14.4 at least from what i'm hearing from most people
now let's take a quick look at the ipad with ipad os 14.5 beta 2.
i've been using this full time like i said this is my main device when i'm not making videos and
i use this for researching and notes and things for these videos instead of my computer and the
good thing is it's been nice and fast it's super fast scrolling i haven't had a single app crash
it's been working as expected and i haven't had a single bug with the exception of battery life
so battery life on the ipad continues to be poor i've done a full restore reset and if
i go down to go up to battery in battery here you'll see that it was last charged to 97 at 2
40 p.m today now to be fair i did play a little bit of gaming on this today and i'm down to 57
that's pretty bad really compare considering i've only used it for a couple hours so
really you should be getting about 10 hours of battery life on this i'm getting about four or
five so it's about half of what it should be and i don't think it's because the batteries degraded
or anything i just think there's something wrong with the latest updates with the ipad and i've
seen a lot of you complain about the same thing but performance wise and everything else it's been
fine no bugs with the apple pencil nothing like that everything seems to be working fine i even
tried removing the apple pencil like many of you suggested to see if that would help and it didn't
seem to make a difference so there's definitely some weird bugs in it and if it continues to
happen it could be some apps i'm using i suppose but i'll i'll delete it and try over again if that
continues to be a problem now battery life on the iphone with ios 14.5 beta 2 i think is pretty good
and i say i think because i usually go to bed with about 50 percent of my battery life left i
do use multiple phones from time to time when i'm testing things out but if we go to my battery life
we'll go to battery health you'll see i'm at 100 and this is a 12 pro max since launch day that
i've been using and like i've said many times the updates don't affect the battery health they just
re-measure it so they're re-measuring the physical capability of the battery so i haven't had any
issues with it yet and if it goes down it's normal 80 after two years is normal according to apple
now let's take a look at the last 10 days since i've been running this for a couple weeks so you
can see so if we take a look at yesterday i got two hours and 52 minutes of screen on time and
used about 50 percent of the battery life that's not great two hours and 10 minutes the day before
three hours and 26 minutes the day before that and three hours and 20 minutes the day before
that and i'm using about 40 to 50 percent of the battery so if you double that assuming i use the
entire battery i'm only getting about six hours of battery life now the thing that's strange to
me about this and others have reported is that their screen time does not add up to what they're
actually using it and i wonder if that's the case for this because like i said i still go to bed
early in the morning usually with 50 or more left meaning that i've used the phone like i have for
years basically the same thing and i'm getting poor battery life maybe it's twitter that's
using the power since twitter is using a lot of power maybe it's not but at this point i'm not
sure what's causing it but it seems to be an issue and hopefully it's just a discrepancy here but one
thing i would love to see in ios 15 or future updates is instead of the last 24 hours tell
me how much screen on time i've used since it's been last charged to 100 so something like that
would be much better now over the past few weeks i've talked about apple releasing an incremental
update before we see ios 14.5 released to the public and the reason for this is apple
stopped signing ios 14.3 and consistently over the past few years when they stopped signing
say a public version such as 14.3 leaving only one version to be able to downgrade to or install
that means we'll see a public release fairly soon usually we'll see two public releases available at
once to be able to restore your phone or downgrade to when it's not signed it means you can't
downgrade or install that version anymore so when we see that sort of behavior from apple generally
it means we'll see an update pushed out to the public within two weeks this has seemingly changed
from what we saw last year so whether or not apple has changed something maybe they're just waiting
to make sure it's right or maybe they're just waiting for ios 14.5 to be available to the public
where they'll push a bunch of fixes and features at once since we'll have those new emoji the face
unlock with wearing a face mask when you're using an apple watch for example that sort of thing
and so this coming week i would expect ios 14.5 beta 3 or maybe even release candidate it just
depends how many apple has planned but i would expect it early in the week so we can expect a
beta since we're on a two-week cycle generally we'll have two weeks then we'll get down to one
week and then we'll see a final release now again apple has been changing up what they've been doing
compared to what they did over years so this could change of course but generally it seems
like we're on a two week cycle compared to beta 1 to beta 2 maybe beta 3 or rc next so i think beta
3 but we'll have to wait and see and then i would expect a final release of 14.5 later in the month
after apple maybe shows off some new products somewhere in the middle of march so
it's expected to have some products shown but not necessarily a keynote from apple or an event
so i would look forward to 14.5 beta 2 or beta 3 rather this week and 14.5 releasing to the public
later in march it's possible they could push it to april of course but without a small incremental
update in between that before the final release it'll be kind of strange but either way
look for that and i'll keep you updated now let's go ahead and take a look at the youtube community
poll since i didn't do a new one but i did want to talk about the ones that were existing already
because there's so many more votes on them so with ios 14.5 beta 2 you'll see the votes
have 38 000 votes for that one and if we go down to 14.4 there's 49 000 votes and so with ios
14.4 you'll see there was 57 percent that say it's great it continues to increase in numbers
four percent are saying it's terrible 13 are saying okay but some bugs and then 16 are on 14.3
or older most people are on 14.4 so let's take a look at just a couple comments that have been left
since there's 949 comments at the time of this video which is incredible so thanks to everyone
that voted and commented and you'll see here the first one from mitchell says starting to
see problems on my seven plus iphone stutter when pushing up or down lost my voicemail key
at the bottom of the screen error 1035 i think is the number app starting to disappear all
slowly appeared since i updated and so people are starting to slowly see 14.4 become worse which is
kind of strange if we go down a few more let's see what we have here william says on ios 14.4 iphone
12 pro lots of bugs with air pods pro bluetooth connectivity whenever i'm on face time and put my
air pods in my ears it ends the face time also still having stutter and a bit of overheating
so again strange problems that just all of a sudden start to crop up some people had had
them from the beginning some have not cato says i have iphone 12 pro max 14.4 isn't too bad but
i'm honestly waiting until stability with 14.5 increases so that i can get the modem update i've
been having some intermittent connectivity issues on cellular and wi-fi alike regardless still
pretty good aside from occasional reset needed to connect so again those cellular and wi-fi issues
and we'll take a look at two more on 14.4 then we'll look at 14.5 beta 2. binish says ios 14.4
is running great on my iphone 12 no stutter no lag even the battery life is great probably the
best update so far and you'll see that was from three weeks ago so it's possible it got worse
since and then angela says i updated my 11 pro max and 6s plus 14.4 the other day and they're
amazing so it's very mixed depending on who you ask and people's experiences vary depending on
device as well so we'll take a look at 14.5 beta 2 that i posted a week ago and you'll see only
17 percent are saying it's great three percent say it's terrible seven percent say okay but some bugs
and 61 are saying that they're on the older version so that makes sense and 12 are on android
now there's 353 comments which again is incredible so let's go ahead and take a look at the past
few of them alexander says using iphone 11 pro max and having bluetooth problems while airpods
pro and apple watch are connected to phone airpods keep disconnecting or sometimes sound is cutting
off while listening to music and battery is much worse than beta 1 even or even 14.4 and again i've
said i've i see this mixed depending on who it is but it seems to be very different ash says the
14.5 beta 2 caused so much of lag on my iphone that i had no other option of opting out of the
beta program also i faced frequent app crashes and my screen won't work sometimes be curious to
know what phone that is marlon said great on my 6s plus battery life is better can last 8 to 10 hours
of screen on time much better than beta 1 but there's a few stuttering when switching or closing
apps the only issue i got is my phone heating up when i plug it in but overall it's better than
previous betas and it will always heat up a little bit when plugging in as the battery will get warm
especially if you're fast charging versus maybe using a five watt adapter it will definitely
make a difference or a difference but when you plug it in batteries always get warm
so that's just the way that that works when you're pushing energy into a battery jeff said pretty
great on my 11 pro max battery is okay but only shows the last two days in the last 10 day tab
not sure why if you did a full restore or maybe a hard reset it possibly could have wiped that data
if it was a full restore it would have wiped it but otherwise strange that that would disappear
like that take a look at two more and let's see sandy says the battery life is down there are
scrolling stuttering issues i've never posted in the comments but this beta has been so bad for me
on my 12 iphone 12 pro max that i had to write i've done a hard reboot at least five times this
normally solves the issues but not this time and chesapeake in ohio 1309 says the latest
beta has been decent except that the battery performance is very poor on my iphone 8 plus
which still has 100 health and my ipad air 3 3g or third generation so it's very hit or miss like i
said many people are going to see very different experiences depending on what apps you're running
how you use your phone and more but so far for me like i said it's been smooth on my phone
but i have had those few little issues that's it for ios 14.5 beta 2 i'm really looking forward to
14.5 beta 3 and then finally a public release i don't really expect any intermittent release like
i talked about earlier with 14.4.1 but at this point we just don't know apple's really been
changing it up later lately but i'm looking more forward to see what ios 14.5 has maybe when it's
fully released as well as ios 15 with hopefully some icon redesigns and i talked more about that
in a video the other day now if you've found anything else or you have a different experience
i haven't mentioned or you didn't see any of those comments let me know in the comments below and if
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