Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and ios 14.5 came out to the public this past week
and we've all been running it on our phones and so i wanted to go over how it's been what battery
life is like as far as whether or not it's good or bad whether or not you should update as well
as any remaining issues or bugs that you may or may not be experiencing based off the youtube
community poll now along with that this past week apple also surprisingly released ios 14.6 beta 1.
so i have that here on an iphone 12 pro max and then i have ios 14.5 installed on an iphone 12
pro max iphone 11 and ipad os 14.5 on my ipad pro 12.9 from 2020. now this update i've been
running full time since pretty much the release candidate on my iphone 12 pro max so it's been
a couple weeks since it's the same version as the release candidate and this particular update has
one thing i haven't seen anyone else mention and a viewer sent in named reeve and he sent in that he
got a pop-up message or a splash screen that told him to turn on background app refresh for messages
so he was in messages just randomly using this and it said turning on background app refresh
loads your messages faster go to settings turn on background app refresh now this new feature is
something i've never seen before and i generally turn it off for many different things but not
everything and in some cases you want to leave it on if you're using those apps regularly because it
will just make it faster overall and it really won't make a difference in battery life however
i generally tell people to turn it off from apps they don't use a lot because it can use additional
battery life and even apple recommends that to turn it off on apps that you don't use regularly
but i haven't seen this before but let me know if you've seen this before in the comments below
now the overall usability of this update 14.5 is much much better in most people's opinion than the
previous versions it's smooth most of the time for me i really haven't had any issues on the newer
phones and even people on older phones are saying that it's generally smooth overall that doesn't
mean it is without problems no update is perfect and in particular this update for me has had a
couple touch responsiveness issues sometimes you go to touch an app and it seems like you have to
touch the app a couple different times for example so sometimes it's it can be a little odd and you
may have just seen it looked like it dropped some frames there just for a second when i went into
music normally it's very fast but occasionally there's some weird issues like that throughout
so it's not a hundred percent like i said but it's much better than previous versions however
there are people that were mentioning lagging and crashing now in addition to that bluetooth has
actually been quite good now that could be due to the recent update of airpods pro and airpods 2 for
example i tweeted about that and also posted that on the community page so with the recent update of
airpods pro it seems to improve bluetooth however for some reason it just disconnected that could be
because i'm switching between devices quite quite a lot with these updates trying to do the videos
so i'll reconnect that a little bit later but in general i have no problems with it connecting
it seems to be nice and fast after the update and some people are saying that noise cancellation and
the overall transparency feature seems to be a little bit better i didn't notice any
difference other than that it works pretty good with bluetooth that's something they actually
said was fixed with 14.5 with it connecting but i didn't do a video about the airpods update because
apple did not specify what they updated at all they just released the update and i did post a
video on how to update that quite some time ago so if you haven't updated your air pods
you may want to do that if you're having bluetooth issues now if you have a third-party bluetooth
device obviously that's not going to make much of a difference maybe you're having a problem with
your car and that sort of thing that will have to rely maybe on a car software update or maybe
future updates with ios some people did mention that the phone seemed to be more warm than normal
and that could be due to the huge update that it was where it's still processing in the background
so after a few days if it's still irregularly warm i generally recommend a hard reboot that usually
fixes that issue however some people do still mention that one thing i haven't seen in quite
some time though is some people are mentioning that it seems to have some issues sometimes with
touch id or face id now face id has not really been an issue for me at all it seems to unlock
nice and fast and if you're wearing a mask using your apple watch for example it seems to work fine
occasionally it will be slow with that but most of the time it's great so i'm not sure if you're
referring to that specifically or just overall in general but for me thankfully it's been fast but
quite a few people have mentioned that as well where there's issues we don't normally see that
very often again other people are mentioning touch responsiveness issues whether that be just not
recognizing touch input as fast and others still mention green tint now the majority of people say
that the green tin issue has been fixed so that's a very good sign however there are still some
people that are seeing green tin under very rare circumstances but if you're seeing it regularly
all throughout the os maybe at higher brightnesses then maybe you want to bring it to apple however
most people are saying that it's fixed or greatly improved and i would not expect apple to be done
working on this because they did not directly address the word green tint in this update
now last year with iphone 11 pro and iphone 11 pro max apple actually patched the issue mentioning
specifically green tint and they mentioned that that they fixed it last august so it took them
almost an entire year to fix that problem in the 11 pro and 11 pro max so they definitely
could still be working on it some people say that it's hardware but based off what they did last
year with the iphone 11 pro i would say it's more software based since it improved greatly with 14.5
for most people now there are still some people saying they have issues with app tracking in fact
right after i did my ios 14.5 what's new video quite a few people commented on the new privacy
feature under settings where you go to tracking and it says allow allow apps to request to track
now this was grayed out for a lot of people however since then quite a few people have seen
this sort of just pop back to life from maybe a server side push or maybe you updated to beta 1 or
beta 2 of ios 14.6 as that seems to have fixed it with that update so this particular update i would
recommend leaving it off which doesn't mean that the feature is off it just means that you won't be
prompted to have anything track you and then it's blocking all tracking in the background between
apps if you want it turned on you can leave it on and then apps will request one by one that's why
i generally recommend leaving it off if you just don't want anything to track you so it's a little
bit confusing maybe they will actually clarify that with some wording in the future but right now
just leave it off generally when it's off it just means it's not tracking you at all
so it's on but you're not being bothered it's more of a notification button than anything else
where it will ask you about it additional people are still having issue with wi-fi now i haven't
had these issues anymore with this update since probably beta 8 and i think they fixed some
things now if you're still having issues you may want to check for a router update for your
your home router for wi-fi however you shouldn't necessarily have to do that but in the past
quite some time ago apple had quite a few problems with different corporate routers
where they would push an update and then the router needed to be updated to to comply with
whatever standard or change that they made so it's possible they did something like that if
you're still having issues but the people that are having issues say that it disconnects from wi-fi
now with ios 14.6 beta 2 there was not a whole lot new in this update and generally it's fairly
too early to tell how the overall usability and performance was with beta 1 people did
report issues some people reported slow downs or just general odd issues but it seems to be
pretty stable and a small update as well but with ios 14.6 beta 2 it's a fairly small update that
should be out probably much faster than we saw ios 14.5 so there's not really a whole lot new in 14.6
beta 2 yet but maybe we'll see a lot more new with beta 3. most things though will probably be pushed
until ios 15 as far as any future major updates so the overall general usability of 14.6 i would say
is good but we still need more time to determine how it is now with ipad
os 14.5 in general it's been pretty great throughout all of the betas and everything else
the overall performance usability the experience has been really what you would expect on an ipad
the general usability has been great with the exception of maybe the youtube app from time
to time sort of locking up but then youtube would push a new update to the app and it would be fine
again so i think that's an app specific problem and the overall usability of the
ipad with 14.5 has been great with one exception throughout all of the betas and even the release
candidate and this this final version which is the release candidate battery life has been poor up
until about today you'll see it was last charged to 82 percent at 1006 a.m and about 12 hours later
so we are down to 71 this is the first day i've actually seen decent battery life on the ipad
most of the time i'm getting about five to six hours of screen on time where i should be getting
nine or ten with regular use just sort of watching youtube occasionally using documents mail safari
things like that so in general it's doing good now if it continues to perform badly with battery life
being that it has about 96 battery health using coconut battery i think i may format this or
update it to ipad os 14.6 beta 2 is sort of a last resort if that doesn't fix it then i'll start
over we'll give it another day or two otherwise i'll probably have to start over with this and i
don't mind that there's new ipads coming out and it's worth trying out and seeing if it improves
just from doing that when it comes to ios 14.5 battery life my battery life has actually been
pretty good my battery health is at 100 this is my main iphone since the day it came out
and i charge it every single night on a fast charger using magsafe so it's doing quite well
i charge it when i'm driving the car as well quite a few people are still seeing the recalibration
message in iphone 11 11 pro and 11 pro max and it can take a couple weeks for this and with all the
updates coming out this will take some time but quite a few people are seeing their battery health
capacity go up in that version with iphone 11 and 11 pro and 11 pro max so people that are concerned
about that i wouldn't be concerned about battery health it's normal for it to go down over time
and i expect mine to drop soon however battery life with 14.5 has actually been pretty good it
hasn't been incredible but it's been decent so if we go back a few days you'll see i had two hours
and 52 minutes of screen on time one hour and 14 minutes of screen off time and used about 30
of my battery if we could multiply this by maybe a total length of 100 usage we're going to hit
that 10 to 12 percent or 10 to 12 hours of screen on time that most people expect some people say
that they're getting more battery life by far with this update and based off the youtube community
poll with about 104 comments that i went over where people said it was good or bad or the same
77 percent of you said that battery life was improved over the previous versions that you
were running only 23 percent say that it wasn't that great or they were having issues however they
may not have taken into account to give it a few days to sort of finish background processing but
most people see a significant increase and since counting all these battery statistics that i've
done in the past this is by far the most amount of people saying that battery life has improved and
that leads me to should you install ios 14.5 well based off just battery life alone i would say yes
based off security absolutely and based off the features that you gain i would say for sure it's
much much more stable than we had with previous versions and most people are saying this is what
ios 14 should have been from the start and it took a long time to get right that's a good sign
because it's only going to get better from here in most cases where they'll sort of stabilize
everything get it ready to go for everyone else make sure it's solid until the next version comes
out so yes i highly recommend installing it specifically for security yes for battery life
and the updates and everything else so i know some people are concerned about that and i definitely
would say after a few days of installing it and everything finishes in the background
then you'll see an improvement if you don't before then now as far as if you should install ios 14.6
beta 2 or even beta 1 i would say if you want to try it out you have a secondary device go ahead
but if you're trying to remedy something you're having an issue with with 14.5 or an earlier
version i would pass on the betas because at this point 14.5 is the solid version released to the
public if you want to try out a beta there's not really any huge new features in this update yet
some changes with podcasts for example so there will be some additional features in the future
i think but right now it's not anything truly exciting if you're a developer of course you've
probably already updated to test your app or something like that so that makes sense for
those reasons now as far as ios 14.6 and when to expect that being released to the public
well based on what we know already from the release of the new ipad and the new imac apple
actually added support for those in ios 14.6 or ipad os 14.6 and mac os 11.4 so we need those
versions to have support for the new ipad and the imac which supposedly come out on the 21st of may
so we should have it in the first week of or of that week so maybe the 17th 18th although
they could put a smaller version in between to support those so we have to wait and see
but based on the rate that they're pushing this update out already it's rare that we have a beta
two maybe a week or so after beta one so that seems likely that we'll see that probably in the
second half of may or somewhere around the 21st for example now let's go ahead and take a look at
the youtube community poll now at the time of this video there are 25 000 votes so i really
appreciate anyone that voted and 602 comments that's an incredible amount and 66 percent of
you say that the update is great always three percent say that it's terrible for some reason
but it seems to be consistent thirteen percent are saying it has some bugs for twelve percent either
have not updated yet or are or are on fourteen point six beta one and then six percent of you
are using something else other than that whether that be android or maybe an older version now
let's go into the comments and take a look at some of them maybe about 10 of them there's 602 this
is available to read if you have an iphone or a computer you can read these as well but let's take
a look at some of these comments and the first one from james morrison says 10s max doing good so
far battery life is okay have to see more longer alexander says on my iphone 12 battery is a lot
better i didn't notice any or i did not notice any bugs now hopefully i can say this properly noor
rudin kachwala said hi aaron it works great on my iphone 6s just draining battery fast hopes hope it
gets better soon love your videos stay safe buddy and thank you and this particular update i think
maybe give it a few more days battery health could definitely be affected which would make
battery life worse if it's degrading over time quickly but either way this update give it a few
more days hopefully the battery life improves but i did want to show someone that actually said they
had poor battery life but again 77 percent of you have said that it's actually better gogetta
or gogeta blue said i don't notice anything too different but everything has been working fine in
my battery life hasn't been impacted in any way so that's a win in my books i own a white iphone 11
love your videos and look forward to watching the next one and thank you jacquari's one-way solution
said iphone 11 is now fast with great battery improvement no lag with a t now protecting my
phone from disturbing ads and now i'm ready to go smoothly within my apps and enjoy ios 14.5 fully
yash singhavi says there's a small bug for me an imessage after i've sent a message the keyboard
is just stuck there i have to exit the app and go back in and then it works fine ashwari says iphone
sc first generation and it's better than expected highlight is the battery life it's great willmar
clue says iphone 10s seems to be having issues with battery connectivity to wireless headphones
and their sony headphones and wireless speakers to bose speakers but apart from that all good
for some reason people continue to have these bluetooth issues so there's definitely something
that changed hopefully it gets improved pretty soon ahmed 22 says using it on my 10s max and
it's great no issues so far i recommend it the seal vatifu says it's really good
i've installed it on all my devices except for one which i'm using for other betas definitely
i recommend it to everyone to install james says i'm using this on my 12 pro max overall it's been
perfect battery drain was a little rough the first couple of days but that seemed to have normalized
mr sammy phoenix said i'm glad to report that the lcd-like glow when viewing a black wallpaper
has been fixed on my iphone 12 pro max ninja mat 55 says i'm using an iphone 11 it's very
awesome and nice battery life it doesn't seem too different but it's still lasting me the day
and battery health is still recalibrating although i don't know why it could be because i don't have
an app that has this feature but for some reason the allow apps to request to track is still grayed
out and with no app below the toggle i hope you can tell me the reason and hopefully i explained
that a little bit earlier on so that should be updated either in 14.6 or hopefully pushed with
the server side mike coeb says ios 14 is getting better and better ios 14.5 fixed for me the green
tint completely on my iphone 12 pro max and almost fixed the raised blacks or the black level that i
someone said was fixed before i feel in ios 14.6 the display issue will be resolved completely
and as earlier days the battery life seems great we'll read a couple more kurosh nwala says 11 and
i feel battery life has increased ever so slightly early days will observe it over the coming days
ibuka akka 4 says my battery life has greatly improved on iphone 12. a goyal says it's okay
neither good or bad i think battery life improved a little didn't like the music app
tweaks especially with the sub menu and then i'm using it on my iphone 10r and it's working pretty
good for me and so ios 14.5 seems to be a huge fix for most people hopefully it continues to improve
if you just installed it i would look for the battery life to improve over the next few days
so that's it for ios 14.5 and 14.6 beta 2. i'm looking forward to see what apple has next with
new features with ios 15 for example and hopefully some huge changes with the new ipad with all the
power that has with the m1 chip with ipad os 15. so i'm looking most forward to that at wwdc
2021 but if you found anything else new in this particular update 14.5 that i didn't mention or
14.6 beta 2 i'd love to hear from you in the comments below if you'd like to get your hands
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as always thanks for watching this is Aaron i'll see you next time
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