hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and today Apple released iOS 13.4
developer beta 1 this is available to developers and soon to public beta
testers the final release will probably not be out for another month or so now
this came in at a very large 4.04 gigabytes on my iPhone 11 pro max it was
in the 3 gigabyte range depending on the device you're talking about but for the
iPhone 6s plus the iPhone XR and even the iPad pro they were all in the three
gigabyte range any time you're going from a public version to a beta or from
a beta back to a public version it's going to be a very large install and
this took probably 30 to 60 minutes to install depending on the device so it
took a very long time now aside from that Apple also released Mac OS betas
along with watch OS betas Apple TV betas and an update for Xcode betas as well so
there's a bunch of new things they're kind of pushing in the background and
there are some new features with this update not a ton but there are some new
ones now let's take a look at the build number the build number is 17 e5 2 to 3
H and this particular build brings a few new features and changes some are
actually pretty good so I'll go over those in just a moment but as we get
closer to the letter A at the end of the build number right now we're on H as we
get closer to a we're closer to a final release so it looks like it's going to
be sometime at least probably four beta versions at this point so it's going to
be a while until this fully releases but let's go over some of the new features
with it now the first thing is there is a modem update I actually had very good
LTE on iOS 13 point three point one but there is a modem update on here that
will affect LTE and cellular now the first feature
is one that was supposed to be released when iOS 13 initially came out but it
was never included in it and that was sharing folders with other people in the
files app so if you go into files and then maybe I want to share the Downloads
folder or the document folder I can press and hold on it and then maybe go
to share and under share I can go to add people down here at the bottom so if I
add people now I can add people to actually share this folder with me and
as I make changes within the folder maybe to a document or something like
that they'll see those changes and
be able to to modify them as well along with whatever I'm doing so very similar
to what you see with say Google Docs and things like that so that's now available
for everyone with this beta update when it finally releases everyone should have
it now the next thing that they've updated and a new feature has to do with
momochi so if we go into a message and where we have momochi stickers they've
actually added nine new ones so there's a bunch of new stickers here I actually
never use these but if you use these stickers you'll have some new ones as
you scroll through them so anything from the shocked face to a face with here's
eyes rolling and a lot more you'll see facepalm and frown faces and things
quite a few of them were there before but there are nine new ones so that's
something they've added as well now Apple has actually brought family
sharing to the TV app in this update so where you could share movies and music
and things like that with family members you can also see it now in the TV app so
once they're updated to this version you'll see their family sharing here and
you can go into that and you'll see each person's individual sharing so maybe
someone else purchased a movie it should show up here and then they've updated
mail to include some icons that should have been there a long time ago so we'll
go back into mail and I think they've reverted to this because now we have
reply on the far right we have flag folder and delete and in the previous
version with thirteen point three point one you'll see all we had was reply and
delete or a little trash bin there they've finally reverted it back and I
think that's a much better way to do it so that's something they've updated as
well now there's also support for new call controls and third-party navigation
in carplay so this is for developers they can update third-party navigation
apps with different call types so you can see that a little bit differently or
differently as far as visually but until app developers update that you won't see
any of that there's also a new backend feature that you don't see that is for
future use and that is a new car key implementation so what that means is
cars that now allow you to use NFC to open and unlock your car and drive away
you'll be able to integrate that directly into the phone instead of
having to use their app necessarily so maybe it'll be into homekit or something
like that arquette we may see next so that's for
unlocking driving and sharing with NFC car keys and then finally with
developers they can now sell Mac and iOS apps as a bundled purchase so for
example if you have the app things three you'd normally would buy things for your
iPhone then for your iPad and then for your Mac they can bundle that all
together if they want to do that now on the iPad while there isn't anything
particularly special that they've added they have added some shortcuts into
photos so if you go into photos and you have your different photos here and you
hold down command on a keyboard you'll see all of the different shortcuts so
now they've made it so you can switch to years months days and all photos just a
little bit easier by holding command and hitting the number one there's a bunch
of other shortcuts as well that they've added but specific to the iPad that's
really all there is in this particular update for iPad OS now there are a few
background updates for developers as well along with authorizations and
things like that but there are some known issues that they actually
mentioned within notes so a couple of them have to do with iPhone 11 iPhone 11
pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max using the configuration profile installation using
the restore image isn't currently available for those particular models so
that's something they've noted with this update also after viewing specific app
settings and then returning to the main settings page it could crash so that's
something that they've noted so there's definitely a few bugs in here and then
also within photos it may not sink as expected to Apple watch and then also if
the Siri interface is no longer appearing you they suggest you actually
restart your phone so those are all things that they need to fix and that's
normal with earlier betas but the good thing is they've reverted those buttons
on the mail app they fixed quite a few things in the background and I would
imagine there's quite a few more features that we just haven't found yet
and I wanted to talk about performance and battery life as well and performance
overall well it's only been out for a couple hours so we don't really know how
it is over days but as far as smoothness and things it's fine on the 11pro max
here I also have the oldest supported phone the iPhone 6s plus
and speed seems to be okay here things are loading fast and I'll talk about the
Geekbench scores in a moment but things seem to be loading fast you'll see music
opened quickly it's fine and just using it in general should be about the same
as it was before or better now with the iPhone XR I know a lot of people
wanted to see this particular phone as well again it's having the same sort of
reaction a lot of people said with iOS 13 point three point one it was having
some issues right now it seems to be okay
opening different applications of switching between them and also RAM
management I actually tested that on the iPhone 11 Pro max by opening about 20
applications and I didn't have a single app reload so I went through all of my
applications went back to YouTube and it didn't reload so that's a pretty good
sign now battery life will take a few days to measure but on iOS thirteen
point three point one it was pretty mixed I found that more people actually
had good battery than not but battery life for me in general has been OK
you'll see I had two hours and 15 minutes of screen on time 41 minutes of
screen off time today and I've used about a little over
well 31 percent of my battery so you'll see we're at 69 percent battery so in
that amount of time I'm only getting about eight hours of screen on time
today but it does go from about 10 to 12 normally if I was to use it all day long
and not plug it in but like I said it will take a few days to measure to see
how it is in in this update and I'll let you know with a follow-up video later on
now let's take a look at the Geekbench scores I'll put all these phones out so
you can take a look at them on the iPhone 11 pro max I scored 1334 which is
pretty close to what we had before and then for multi-core 3338 if we take a
look at the history go over to CPU here on history let's find January 28th it
was very similar so you can see here is February 5th
here's January 28th with the previous one so we're very close as far as
Geekbench scores and that just means things should perform as expected and
basically they should perform as they were with thirteen point three point one
now let me lay out all of these devices so we can take a look at all this the
Geekbench scores two from left to right I have the iPad pro
from 2018 12.9 then I have the iPhone 6s plus than the iPhone XR then the
iPhone 8 plus and then the iPhone 11 pro max so this should give you a general
idea of what your scores should be near the 6s plus the single core score is a
little bit low at 397 had I gave given it more time it would probably go up so
they may go up a little bit overtime after all the background processes have
stopped now with iOS 13.4 when it comes out and maybe a month or two I would
expect the new emoji to be in place as well that was shown off recently so
there's a bunch of new ones that were introduced by Unicode and then iOS 14 is
where we'll see the major changes so don't expect any major changes until we
see iOS 14 revealed for the first time in June and then a final release in
September that's pretty much how it goes every year expect refinements and some
major tweaks and feature ads with 13.4 maybe we'll see an iOS 13.5 but iOS 13.4
seems to be decent right now we'll only know in a few days if it
actually is pretty good but let me know your thoughts about it in the comments
below how it's been for you over the past couple hours or days by the time
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as always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time