Hi, everyone.
Aaron here for Zollotech and today Apple released iOS 14.6 beta three.
This is available to developers. And usually by the time this video is out,
it's available to public beta testers as well.
Now this came in at a fairly small 345.9 megabytes on my
iPhone 12 pro max.
And it was anywhere from just under 300 megabytes to just over 300 megabytes on
the iPhone 11 iPhone seven,
and then also Apple released iPadOS 14.6 beta 3,
watchOS 7.5 beta 3, tvOS 14.6,
beta 3, as well as macOS big Sur 11.4 beta 3.
So all of those are available now to developers and soon to public beta testers.
Now let's go ahead and take a look at the build number and talk about what's
new. So we'll go home, go to settings, go to general than about,
as you can see, the build number is 18F5065a
and with the a at the end of the build number,
it means we're getting very close to a finalized version.
And so with this version, there's a few new features in it.
And the first thing is a modem firmware updates.
So if you were having connectivity issues,
whether that be with an iPhone 12 pro max or any of the iPhones here,
hopefully this resolves that issue.
If you're having problems switching between 4g and 5g,
or maybe even slower signals and then back to 5g,
hopefully it resolves those issues.
Although we'll have to wait a few days to know that a hundred percent. Now,
there are a couple of things you can see as far as what's new in this one.
And the first thing is the first time you open the app store,
you'll get a new splash screen. Now I've already opened it obviously,
but I took a screenshot and it says what's new on the app store and arcade.
And it says app privacy details.
Learn how developers may handle your data on app product pages.
So you can protect your privacy. Apple continues to push privacy.
And if we just go to a random app here,
maybe we'll go to a game, wait for it to load.
We'll just pick this one and scroll down. You can see,
we have the information about data. Now we've known this for some time.
It's just letting us know a little bit additional details or things like that
about it. Now, if we open up podcasts for the first time,
we'll go into podcasts, give it just a moment.
And we've got a new pop-up or a splash screen that says Apple podcast,
subscription support your favorite podcasters and unlock ad-free listening bonus
episodes,
and more also podcasts channels discover all of the shows from your favorite
podcasters in one place. So if we click continue or tap,
continue and scroll down,
you've got all of the different things you're used to with the sort of
redesigned version of podcasts, and it's looking better and better.
And the nice thing is, let me find it here on my 12 Pro max.
And the nice thing is we're going to have subscription soon.
Now you don't have to participate in this,
but if you want to support different creators with podcasts,
it gives you different recommendations.
And I haven't really seen any subscriptions yet,
but they should be coming very soon, according to Apple.
So you will get that pop up here and it just helps you better find your,
the different types of podcasts you listen to now. Thanks again to my friend,
Steve Moser for helping point out a couple of details within the podcasts app.
And if we go to library and at the top here, you'll see, it says downloaded.
Now, prior to this, it actually said downloads. So it's a small change there.
Also, if we go into a show page in the upper, right,
we have three dots as a menu. If we tap on the three dots,
you'll see there's some additional options on the right with beta three.
It now says remove downloads and also Mark all as played.
So there's a couple new options there. And if we tap on remove downloads,
it says, depending on the availability from the publisher,
you may not be able to access the item again after deleting,
and then you can tap, remove downloads. If you want to, again,
if we tap on Mark all as played, you get a similar pop up that says,
this will Mark every episode of this show as played.
And then you can Mark the episodes as played. So a couple small changes there,
nothing huge,
but it's nice to see them continue to refine podcasts and sort of get it to the
place where I may be able to use it full time instead of other apps as well.
Now,
another changes maybe you're using Apple's new air tag and you have it paired to
your iPhone, but you can't figure out where it is. And it's lost.
If you go into the find my app under lost mode and you enable lost mode
under lost mode, tap on, continue.
You now have the option to enter an email address along with a phone number
before you just had the phone number. Now you can use an email address as well,
if you'd like to do that.
So it's just a small update as they continue to refine what they're doing with
air tag and any other features they have in fine might as well. Now,
in addition to this, there's also some changes within the code,
such as if your mobile network provider offers Apple TV plus subscriptions and
free trials.
Apple could check your phone number to determine if you're eligible through your
mobile network provider. Now, additionally, in the code,
there's mentions about watchOS. If you're having a problem,
maybe installing an update.
So if you go into the watch app and maybe you're trying to install the next
update,
and you're having an issue there's mentioned in the code that maybe if you're
having an issue to install the watch last update,
you could unpair your Apple watch and then pair it again in the Apple watch app
on your iPhone to help install that if it was causing a problem.
So it looks like we could have something like that to help if you're having
storage issues or maybe something else.
So there's not any specific specifics about this yet,
but there is code mentioning that you would be able to do something like that.
If you were having issues. Now,
Apple also said that they fixed an issue during start-up where I-phones may
experience reduced performance. So maybe you were on iOS 14.6 before,
and performance was really slow and sluggish.
I know quite a few people had this issue from time to time,
and it seems like it's performing well. This is the iPhone seven in jet black.
And if we go to listen, now, we'll just let it load.
And performance definitely feels different in this update.
So they fixed whatever was causing that. And it seems to be much faster.
It doesn't really matter which device I'm using here, whether it be new or old,
it definitely feels faster than before,
at least in the small amount of time that it's been out.
So that's a big improvement in for whatever reason something was causing that
problem. And it's now resolved now,
as far as green tint or any of those issues while Apple has not mentioned
anything else that they've resolved in this update.
So if you're still having green tint issues,
it's probably going to be in a future update where they fix it,
but they haven't mentioned it.
Apple did fix green tint on the iPhone 11 pro max last year, but in August.
So it took a long time with the 11 pro and 11 pro max to resolve that issue.
So if you're still having that issue, they fixed it a little bit with 14.5,
but it seems like they're still working on it. Now, as far as resolved issues,
other than the green tint,
I've actually noticed Bluetooth seems to be much quicker at connecting and
things like that. So whether you're connecting to a car to unlock your car,
like my Tesla, for example,
it's extremely fast to just go out and open the door before I had to wait with
14.6 beta two, also with AirPods.
So if you have a pair of AirPods pro open them up,
give it just a moment and they connect right away.
So you'll see it connected pretty quickly.
And in the past I was having issues where it didn't recognize that these were my
AirPods pro. So that has been fixed with this update as well.
So there's definitely some fixes going on and I know Bluetooth is a big concern
for a lot of people. So hopefully that's resolved in this update. Now,
as far as iPadOS 14.6, beta three, well,
there's nothing new other than what I've already mentioned.
This seems to be a common theme with these updates.
And I don't think we're going to see anything new until iOS or iPad, iOS 15,
where they'll do something major with the iPad as far as widgets and a
redesigned home screen. That's rumored and much more. So I think at this point,
everything's okay here, but battery life continues to be an issue for me.
I've talked about this at length before,
but if I go to the battery life on my iPad pro over the last five days,
I'm only getting about five hours of screen on time with this device.
It should be getting closer to 10 battery health. Isn't an issue it's over 96%.
And it seems to be just something going on in the background.
I've tried different versions.
I've tried completely wiping the device and starting new and then restoring from
a backup. So it's fast and fluid, no issues there,
but battery life is suffering on this iPad,
but it could be better with 14.6 beta three.
It will just take a few days to know that for sure. Now,
battery life on my iPhone, 12 pro max. Well,
that's going to take again a few days to know for sure,
switch over to dark mode here. And if we go to battery,
you'll see my battery health is at 100%.
And for those that regularly ask me updates, do not reduce this.
They just sort of recalculate what the physical capability of the battery is.
So it's not reducing the maximum capacity. It's just rechecking it.
So mine's at a hundred percent have used it every single day.
Just about since the release of this phone and yesterday and the day before I
didn't have great battery life, I had one hour and 56 minutes screen on time,
two hours and 37 minutes of screen off time and used about 40% of the battery.
That means I'm only getting about six hours of screen on time. However,
when I go to bed at night, I have over 50% of my battery life left.
It's only down to 73% because it installed an update.
I ran benchmarks on this as well.
So it seems like it's still suffering a little bit as far as that goes,
but maybe it's just not calculating it properly.
It's actually good on some days,
some days it's not as far as what it's telling me,
so we'll have to wait and see again,
it takes a couple of days for things to finish in the background to know what
it's going to be like overall. Now let's take a look at the benchmarks.
So if we go into geek bench here, we'll go over to geek bench and you'll see,
I scored 1,598 for single core,
4,205 for multi-core. I ran it twice. It's actually doing quite well.
You can see, I ran it twice here.
It got a little bit higher the first time on the single core,
but a little bit lower the second time on multi-core.
So as things finish in the background,
it sort of speeds up generally and it's doing quite well compared to what we had
even in November of 2020. So it's actually holding up quite well.
Let me show you all these devices.
So you could compare with what you have at first, what I have.
So we'll go into geek bench here and from left to right.
I have the iPad pro 12.9 from 2020 followed by the iPhone seven than the iPhone
11 and the iPhone 12 pro max. And again,
these are just general ideas of what your performance should be like.
They could definitely increase a little bit over time as these were run within
an hour or so of the update. And that leads me to,
should you install iOS 14.6 beta three? And if you're on beta one or beta two,
then definitely I would say install it. And then also, if you still have issues,
report them in feedback.
This feels much faster than the previous version to me so far. And like I said,
Bluetooth so far seems to be improved. So those are definite benefits of it,
as well as a couple small little feature changes as well. Now,
as far as when to expect iOS 14.6, well, beta three,
it seems like they're pushing them out on Mondays. At this point,
we could see a release candidate is soon as the end of this week with maybe a
final release the following week.
And the reason I say that is macOS 11.4, for example,
has support for the new IMAX, which are said to ship on the 21st.
If that's the case, we need that version. The same is true with the iPad,
the new iPad pro with the mini mini led display needs,
iPad iOS 14.6, based on the code. However,
they could push a smaller update to take care of that.
But basically at this point,
it it's released with the features such as the podcast subscriptions that Apple
was talking about in their earlier April event.
So all of those things seem to make sense as coming out next week for a final
release.
So we could see a release candidate as soon as this week or next week at the
latest, I would think Apple always of course can change this up.
But at this point, that seems to be what they're doing,
unless they have different plans that they change last minute.
So that's everything. And I was 14.6, beta three so far,
if I find anything else,
of course I'll do a follow-up with more features and things like that.
And if you found anything else, be sure to let me know in the comments below.
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