hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and today Apple released iOS 13.5.5
developer beta 1 this was a little bit surprising because just a
little bit before this Apple released iOS 13.5.1 to the
public to fix the uncovered jailbreak issue so they patched that and they
patched Mac OS and watch OS and TV and home pod and all of those things were
patched and then they pushed this update out and because this is a brand new beta
once you install the beta profile it will come in at a very large four point
one seven gigabytes that's the size on the iPhone 11 pro max and it's similarly
sized but around three gigabytes or so on the iPhone 6s plus the iPad air 2 but
if you have one of the newer devices expect it to be around four gigabytes
now let's take a look at the build number and then some of the new updates
with it the build number is 17 G 5 0 3 5 D and so because it's a D were a few
builds away from a final version although it is a little bit interesting
that we're going to be having iOS 14 betas and iOS 13 betas it's hard to say
what Apple is doing but they could change that at any time now in this
update there is no modem update so if you're having issues with your LTE
connection or anything like that apples not patched it with a modem update that
doesn't mean they haven't patched something else in the background but
there's no mention of as far as any of that stuff there's also nothing new in
the note so there's nothing exciting there but one thing I noticed right away
is that it felt a little bit quicker and there are a couple new features so I'll
mention those in a moment but it does feel a little bit quicker I
don't know if that's just me but it seemed like the first time I opened a
couple apps they just popped right up so if I go into the camera it seems to open
about the same but when I went into music for the first time we'll go into
whether it just seems to be really instant and so that's really nice that
it seems to be a little bit spread up I don't know if it's just the animation
speed or something else but maybe it'll stick maybe it won't by
the time it's released in the future here now the first thing that Apple has
actually updated has to do with Apple News and I don't really use Apple news a
whole lot but you'll see it opens up here and if we go into things that I'm
following we'll go down to say let's go to iMore and you'll see I still have the
menu down here at the bottom and so I notice that when I go into something sim
on say the previous version on the left iOS 13.5.1
the bar at the bottom disappears but it's actually still present on the newer
build so that's something that's new but there's a few things with news that you
can't see and specifically that has to do with news Plus and audio so Apple has
mentioned or at least it seems like they've mentioned that they're going to
be playing back audio from different news stories so maybe you'll have a news
story of the day you can go in here go to your today view and it will update
you with audio and read to you what's actually top news or your recommended
top news that's a new feature there's different mentions of this feature in
the code that my friend Steve Moser has helped me out with so I really
appreciate that but that should be in this future update there's also another
feature update with car key so there's more and more mentions of car key in the
background and what that will allow you to do is pair your car key to your phone
and then use NFC to unlock it similar to how Tesla does with using the app here
to unlock the car when you get near by but instead of walking next to it you
would tap your phone to it and so any of the NFC enabled devices should be able
to do that and BMW seems to be the first to be on board with this so maybe if you
have a BMW in the future you'll be able to pair your key to your phone and then
use your phone to unlock your car so that'll be something we'll see soon I
hope and as far as features or anything else it doesn't seem like there's
anything else going on in here nothing really new as far as control center or
anything I could find that doesn't mean there aren't a couple icon changes here
and there but usually in the first versions of their betas unless they're
major updates you're not going to see a lot of features they're getting ready
for whatever is next for developers to develop apps against now as far as
battery life is concerned it's going to take a little while to determine what
that's like it always takes a few days anyway but now that I've got a OS
13.5.5 beta one on my iPhone 11 pro max and then I'll be
running iOS 13.5.1 concurrently on a different device it'll
take a while to know what batteries like but battery has been decent for me and
battery health is not affected by updates I've mentioned that multiple
times in the past but if we go into my usage you'll see screen on time
if you look at how it is if I used a hundred percent of my battery life it
looks like I'll easily get 12 hours or so of screen on time combined with
screen off time no problem whatsoever so I would expect that to continue with
this update although it's hard to say like I mentioned before performance is
quite good and it seems to be really good on older devices too so I have the
iPhone 6s plus here so again if I go in to say music
it loads pretty fast and that seems to be the case on most of these devices and
it seems to be working well on all of them so even if you have an older device
if you want to try out one of the betas I wouldn't be afraid to do that now on
iPad OS expect the same thing you won't have any new features but expect the
same sort of performance great performance and hopefully good battery
life but again it will take a few days to know that now I did run a benchmark
test on these devices just so I could share that with you for those of you
that want to look at those so let's take a look at Geekbench 5 here we'll go to
history where I actually ran the CPU test earlier today and then I ran it
again later on with this update so you'll see I scored 1325 for single-core
3307 from multi-core and that's pretty consistent with what I got earlier so
you'll see earlier today on 13.5.1 I scored a little
bit higher on single core but a little bit lower on multi-course so don't
really expect any performance differences with this one as far as the
CPU is concerned those numbers could improve over the next few days but it's
hard to say and generally this device feels really fast anyway but let's take
a look at these three devices so you can compare if you have some that are older
or in between on the left eye of the iPad air 2 in the middle I have the
iPhone 6s plus and on the right I have the iPhone 11 Pro Mac's these scores
seem to be pretty decent and consistent with what we've had with iOS 13 all
along they may improve a little may go a little bit lower than you're used to but
as long as they're within a general area of what you're used to expect the same
performance now with iOS 13.5.5 being a little bit of a surprise
that doesn't surprise me that Apple is pushing updates but now we have a beta
and then in a few weeks we expect iOS 14 beta 1 on the 22nd usually Apple
provides beta1 on the day of WWDC their keynote which we expect from home but
being able to see streamed live or may be streamed pre-recorded on the 22nd so
we should see that along with iOS 14 betas Mac OS betas TV betas all sorts of
things and of course I'll keep you updated with that so maybe we'll see an
update this coming week with beta 2 or it may be a couple weeks cycle but it's
hard to say what they're doing with this update and why they pushed it to begin
with in beta form but if you found anything else in the the iOS 13.5.5
beta update let me know in the comments below I haven't found anything
else that was really significant but let me know if you find anything and if
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