Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and ios 14.5 beta 3 has been out for a couple of days and it
has quite a few new features in it and there's even more that i didn't mention in the first video
now as we get closer to the final release of ios 14.5 we're going to see less and less features
and apple starting to really nail down the feature set that's within the updates and then making sure
they're stable before they release them i think 14.5 is a much better update than 14.4 with more
features and fixes as well as well as security and privacy and so i'm really looking forward to that
and i think it'll be a great advantage to many people once we have our phones even more secure
but there's even more features that i didn't mention in the first video and the first thing
has to do with a feature that's now available to everyone not just for 14.5 beta 3 but rather
everyone that has an iphone and apple has made a new website available or really added a feature
to a website that's already available and you can see privacy.apple.com once you log in you have a
few different options and one of the options is to transfer a copy of your data so if we tap on this
it says request to transfer a copy of your data we'll wait just a moment for it to load and you'll
see it says transfer a copy of your photos and videos so you can transfer them from icloud to say
google photos so right now google photos is the only destination available but maybe we'll have
amazon photos in the future or additional services but as you can see what it says in the top it says
copy your photos and videos from icloud photos to another participating service this will take
between three and seven days we use this time to verify that the request was made by you
and to finish the transfer and you'll see it tells you how many there are so i have two thousand or
twenty five thousand nine hundred and seventy eight photos and one thousand three hundred and
thirty nine videos using about 742 gigabytes i need to change that as many of these videos
just need to be thrown away but hopefully in the future we'll have some other features or other
services that we can transfer this to so that's something that's new that's available now if you
want to transfer those to another service maybe you're switching to android or maybe you just
don't want them in icloud photos you can do that hopefully we'll have a way to export them as well
just dump them onto a computer that would be nice also now the next change has to do with
apple watch if you take your watch off of your wrist and put it back on and you have a passcode
enabled it will prompt you to put in that passcode if you have the option turned on to unlock it with
your phone just by unlocking your iphone you can unlock the watch on your wrist because it's nearby
when you do that it tells you that with a little drop down they've changed the icon in the drop
down so this icon is changed i just i just took a screenshot of it since it doesn't stay on the
screen for long but you can see the little watch icon has been updated so that's new not a huge
change but something worth noting also a developer found some new icon packs for developers so
jeff hackworth here on twitter found that there's new symbols or sf that's san francisco their font
there's new symbols for things such as air pods we'll zoom in here but there's new symbols for
air pods and things like that and home pod as well so you can see those here if i scroll over you'll
see there's some new symbols as well these are just for use within applications if you want to
use those with homepod mini homepod and homepod itself so that's a slight change it's available
to developers not something you can physically see but it's there now a feature they've brought back
has to do with setting your music as a default to say spotify for example so maybe you want to
use spotify instead of apple music well we thought this was a default music setting change but apple
has clarified this so you can ask siri to play a song and say spotify it'll say who do you or you
can play a song and it'll say who do you want to play this song through meaning apple music
or spotify and it will change and then continue to play through that however there's no setting
for it apple has said that this is just basically intelligence based so that siri can learn what you
like to listen to over time it's not actually a default setting i wish they'd bring that setting
into music here it would be great to see them put a setting within the music app just to change that
and then allow us to select what we want for default whether that be google music or
i guess youtube music at this point as well as apple music spotify title anything else one of
those would be nice to be able to switch to if that's what your preference is now someone had
sent in that they've made some album change or album artwork changes when you're in different
music for example so if we search for someone here you can see there are different album animations
but this is different based on the artist for example so here we have two popular artists and
it's not on every artist so i just picked this but you'll see the one on the left is moving
the one on the right is moving now and it's just a little bit different between the artist
this is mostly just because that's what the artist chose so it's not really too big of a
change but i wanted to point that out since album covers could vary how it's zooming in the album
it may be outlined a little bit differently but you'll see it's moving back out now so they've
made some nice animations it's not on every album maybe in the future it will be now within the find
my app a week or so ago when i talked about beta 2 there was some mention in the code that the
phone could notify you if you're using that new feature where you can track items within find my
to let you know that your item is being tracked maybe you have someone else's item by accident
or you have an air tag or some other tag that's being tracked whether this uses that or not is
hard to say but whether or not you have that it will let you know that it's being tracked and
relaying back to the owner that you're using that now it doesn't tell you who it is there
isn't an identifier but someone was able to find that there's a little pop-up that will show this
and if we go over to photos here here's a little screenshot and you can see it says turn off item
safety feature the owner of an unknown item will be able to see your location and you will
no longer receive notifications when an unknown item is found moving with you so this is good
and bad in the sense that the data is anonymous but say someone takes one of your possessions
that has one of these tags in it they may be able to turn off that notification it's unclear
if apple is just turning off the notification or disabling maybe location services for this as well
through your device since it relays that information it'll be interesting to see if there's
more options for this in the future now within settings quite a few people have been messaging
me about a new setting that showed up for them so let's go into settings and if we scroll down
keep scrolling you'll see tv provider now this has been here for a while in certain countries like
the united states however it seems to be rolling out to other countries according to a lot of you
and so what this does is allow you to use your tv provider so maybe you subscribe to a television
provider locally whether that's combined with internet like it is in the united states usually
what it lets you do is easily sign into applications such as local news stations
that would let you stream tv for free so by using that sign on you'd be able to do that maybe free
apps as well so as you can see here it says at t u-verse has been saved as your tv provider
because at t u-verse is not participating in single sign-on you will need to sign in to other
supported apps individually all this does is allow you to sign in seamlessly between your provider
if it supports it so maybe you have in the united states maybe you have comcast or xfinity or or one
of those services you log into it log into say your favorite news station or maybe even hbo go
or something like that you may be able to get free services if you sign in with your tv provider so
this has been fairly common in the united states but it seems to be rolling out elsewhere now in
addition to the things i've already mentioned there's additional mentions within the code to
things like siri for example there's new siri car commands that could be implemented in the future
maybe when you're using apple carplay to help better use features or give you more features for
example also siri may be able to modify contacts in the future which could be kind of interesting
assuming that it works properly and doesn't mess up your contacts hopefully it would confirm that
information to you i would imagine and then also siri may be able to tell you about traffic when
you're in your car so maybe you're leaving for work and you want to know how the traffic is it
would better understand that and give you that information based off maybe a commute you've
set or maybe some navigation point you've added in maps so it would be able to do that
also there's talk of apple working on siri to help it better understand people with disabilities
or that need accessibility or have issues with speech for example so maybe you have an
issue with stuttering it would be able to better understand you with that so there's definitely
some work going into siri with speech recognition and it's great to see them working on this now
there's also one final thing i wanted to mention that's in the code that i thought was interesting
is that there's sensor kit ui facial metrics and speech metrics that seem to be related to future
health studies now we've had health studies for a while that use maybe the apple watch to
measure your heart and give that information back to universities should you opt in to do
that and it's completely opt-in so if you want to do it you can if you don't you don't have to
but there's future feature releases that seem to be related to the iphone's ability to detect
facial expressions and listen for different sounds that are emotion related such as laughing shouting
or maybe something else so it could use that information from the microphone and the camera
to better help health studies understand human expression and maybe different metrics they're
trying to measure so again it's nice to see them add features but again it's opt-in and you don't
have to do that now with the ipad like i said before it's had terrible battery life for me
and that's still continuing with beta 3. so you'll see that it was last charged to 100 percent at 205
a.m this morning and we're down to 57 and i've hardly used it so i've used it about an hour
or so maybe maybe three hours at most and it's draining the battery very rapidly and so this
seems to be a problem for me continually on the ipad and i think at this point i'm just going
to wait for ios 14.5 and ipad os 14.5 to release to the public and i'll probably just completely
restore it and start over and see if that fixes it since apple generally says if you continue to have
problems to do that and it should fix it so i'll try that then and as far as a follow-up as far as
bugs and other things that may not be working and other things that are working well i'll be doing
a follow-up in a couple days and i have a youtube community poll available and at this time it's got
three and a half thousand votes or so 3.5 k votes and if you want to vote and comment that's always
helpful so we can get accurate data about the overall experience so i'll be having a follow-up
in a couple days about that so be sure to go there if you are interested in participating if you'd
like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course i'll link it in the description
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