hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and I've been using iOS 12.1.1 Beta 2
for a few days it's been out for developers and public beta testers and
I've been using it mostly on my iPhone X are but also some on the XS Max
today it's also installed on the older devices no I did a community poll on
YouTube and quite a few of you responded we'll take a look at that in just a
moment but one thing I forgot to mention when beta 2 came out or I didn't really
forget it was discovered later on is there's extra functionality on the
lockscreen for haptic touch so if you push on this it now opens up so you've
kind of got that same 3d touch thing going on but it's not quite the same it
almost feels like you push down on it and it pops up the way it feels on the
screen it's almost like you're pushing a button and it pops open instead of a
press that kind of pops it open so it's a little bit of a different feel but it
works the exact same way so again it works well most of the time and
hopefully they were fine even more and add it on the apps themselves because
that's one area where I actually did use it and that's really it for that now
battery life for me has actually been pretty good and you'll see this was the
last 10 days 4 hours in 26 minutes and right here you'll see Geekbench used a
lot of battery that's because I drained it down but if we take a look at these
normally I'll have about 50% battery life left with three hours of screen on
time right around three hours of screen on time sometimes three and a half and
my battery level was only 50% used at that point so I'm getting great battery
life now I know this is not the case for everyone but that's the case for the 10r
now I've only been using the XS Max again today I do have that issue sale
where these screens bug my eyes but I wanted to try it out again and just see
how it's going with the beta so we'll go back to settings and let's go down to
battery and check it out now battery health should be a hundred percent and
like I've said many times before this really needs to be changed to is it good
or bad until you get down to a lower percentage because it dipping that 1% in
a few months really concerns people and you shouldn't really take pay much
attention to it because it checks it and does a bunch of background checking and
sometimes that actually varies back in four
so you'll see today though I've had 2 hours and 38 minutes of screen on time
not so great on this particular device over the last 10 days there shouldn't be
much usage but today I've had two and a half hours so we're probably gonna get
about 5 hours of screen on time with this device on this beta so mostly in
messages today so as far as battery that's great as far as speed and
smoothness I've had no issues people have asked me have I had stutters and
things and freezing and settings I haven't had any of those issues I also
haven't had any issues with notifications pulling that down and
freezing or anything and also I haven't had any LTE issues people do message me
from time to time and say when are they going to fix that LTE issue and that was
fixed a while ago and the issue was about it
not working properly so you might have one to five bars
it wasn't about signal strength it was about it maybe you had five bars of
signal you were doing something on safari using the Internet and all of a
sudden it just stops working even though you have a signal that was the issue
that they fixed so if there's another issue make sure you report it in the
feedback app so that you can actually have that resolved by Apple and they
know a lot of you are having that issue now I haven't had that and everything
else has been really good location services speed everything else is
working well and that's the same for these older devices - I have ahead
issues there but let's take a look at the community poll now before I do that
though let me know if you want to see these follow-up videos regularly or
would you like to see something else instead I do usually do these every time
there's an update but if there's something you think would be more
valuable I'd love to hear what you have to say so this is the YouTube community
poll I did a day ago you'll see seven point seven K votes so almost 8,000
votes which I really appreciate 273 thumbs up 24% of you said it's great
only 5% said terrible 8% said ok but some bugs many more people are not using
the beta now so 48% not using the beta it's probably a good idea honestly and
then I use Android 15 percent now I did go through and read I already tapped on
it I went through and read all 149 comments so there's quite a few you'll
see I responded to one an hour ago or so and that's not very
nice how do I stop getting notifications from you but anyway well scroll the hell
near and that's why I wanted to know if this is something valuable that you like
I'll go through a few of these but many of you really complained about battery
let's go all the way down to the first one I don't want to experience bugs so I
stick with the official release well you'll probably still have bugs with the
official release but probably less but that may or may not be true but usually
if you want to avoid little issues or weird issues stay away from the betas
that's a great idea love the haptic touch on the lockscreen
me too I'm glad they brought it their beta 2 is great but during multitasking
sometimes the backgrounds do not blur and that's the only bug I noticed so
multitasking hmm looks ok battery indicator works better battery life is
better also so someone having better battery life not bad I might Plus better
Geekbench results then iOS 12.1 I actually have worse Geekbench results so
go figure I'm not sure why let's see I'm not using the beta it's ok I'm just
running it up my ipod touch I had an issue since beta 12 or almost every time
I send in a message with an emoji and the emoji board is open there's a hiccup
or stutter when you hit Send or send it on my X or XS Max have you noticed I
haven't had any issues whatsoever but I don't really use emojis that much
honestly I use them every so often I did have one issue on the iPad I didn't
mention although this was not on a beta so I guess it doesn't count but with
Twitter if ik it would crash so I guess it's not on this iPhone it's on this one
but Twitter if it could crash mine send a tweet every time really good on my
iPad pro 9.7 smooth-sailing beta 2 is good on my iphone I had I had two
respring a few times due to my success acting sluggish random respring slags
and unresponsive display when plugged into a computer that's interesting I
haven't had that I'm using it on my iPhone XR and it's been good not great
FaceTime and iMessage crash sometimes hmm it's not good I use the Android
connectivity problems Bluetooth Apple watch series 4 and just dropping Wi-Fi
connection I haven't had that though trying to reboot it other people are
saying if you have that LTE bug remove your SIM card and put it back and that
may fix it for a lot of you still has the FaceTime bug on the iPad air where
the camera flip and camera off buttons are totally missing rolled back to 12.1
final and they're there in the ellipsis hidden menu back to 12.1 point 1 beta 2
and they're totally gone again I mean they changed the way FaceTime looks in
this version so I don't know if that's what you're looking for but normally you
just slide up from the bottom now instead of hitted hitting the buttons
iPhone XS Max a regular stutters freezes or crashes within apps and in
between it has smooth and fast operation the only apps I really find to be
stuttery sometimes is this one actually actually the YouTube creator studio more
so than this one notification bug and LTE issue still continues otherwise the
performance is good in battery life to my LTE not working properly after this
update XS Max I've had a couple of dropped calls and poor call quality but
need to remember that that can happen and may not be the beta or phone battery
seems ok but my use has been light recently so it should be ok let's read a
couple more perhaps opening closed pretty fast but battery life is not what
I expected why though it's a beta so that could be
why or try turning off background app refresh that actually helps quite a bit
on some phones issues with LTE and t-mobile using 10s max I have no issues
with t-mobile on XS Max I have two bars which I don't have great cell phone
signal where I live anyway but I have no issues with it on this phone so I would
like I said try popping the SIM card out and then put it back in it's improved
the battery in my iPhone 8 plus quite a bit also the new FaceTime layout is
great I'm glad they changed that quite a bit so that's it for this beta follow-up
let me know what you think in the comments below
and what phones do you use most I'd love to hear that in the comments below so do
you use a 6s plus like this one over here using a 5s or the newer phones I
honestly every time I put one of these phones in front or in front of the
camera here many of you say why aren't you using this phone or that phone well
I can't use them all at once or that just don't work out but which ones are
you using most I'll try and keep closer to that if I
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time