what's up guys my name is Brandon and apple just released ios 14.2 gold master to both registered
developers and public beta testers on a friday which is extremely rare but as i said on twitter
yesterday it was a possibility and if you're running this beta you'll know exactly why this
update was pushed out as an emergency release today but if you don't know why stay tuned we're
going to talk all about ios 14.2 in this video so let's go ahead and get right into it as you
can see the update came in at over 5 gigabytes on my iphone 11 pro here and that size will vary of
course depending on your device and at the version you're coming from but this was coming from the
latest beta which was beta 4. so a pretty massive update size there so let's check out the build
number for this update so settings general about 14.2 you can see the build number there is 18b91
and if we scroll down a little bit you can see we have a modem firmware of 2.02.04 so now what's new
in ios 14.2 gm and let's kick this off with the biggest news surrounding ios 14.2 and that is the
annoying pop-up that you see right here that would appear every single time you unlocked your device
on ios 14.2 beta 4 or beta 3 any ios 14.2 beta you would see this pop up constantly even if you went
into the notification center and then went out of it you would see this pop up here that says
a new ios update is now available please update from the ios 14 beta and then when you went to
you know the software update section you would not see any update and that's because
that was a bug it was extremely annoying a lot of people downgraded but again if you saw my
tweet on twitter yesterday there was a possibility for apple to push out a new release for ios 14.2
and that's exactly what they did so yes this new 14.2 beta will fix that annoying pop-up bug and
a lot of people were surprised by this because they haven't seen it before but that has actually
happened before it happened back in 2018 during the ius 12 beta stages and rambo over on twitter
actually dug into the code to find out the reason that it was happening and he found
that it was because the current build thought it was about to expire so it would push out
you know that pop-up saying that a new update is available so what i think happened here with 14.2
is that apple may have been running behind and they actually expected another version of
14.2 to be out by you know earlier this week and that's what was causing that pop-up to appear so
pretty interesting but no more need to get annoyed by it because it has been fixed
with this new gm release now as for what's new in this update there are a lot of things
changed and added in this update as you can see here from the changelog it is pretty extensive
but of course like i always do with these gm build videos i will be covering all the features more in
depth when the 14.2 update gets pushed out to everybody when it comes out to the public and
of course in this video i'm just going to quickly hit on some of these features and changes in here
because there are also some that were not in you know any of the betas any of the one through four
betas of 14.2 so the first thing i want to talk about actually if you look at the changelog here
is that it says support for iphone 12 leather sleeve with magsafe so that of course is apple's
new accessory and it looks like they added support with that in 14.2 so apple said that those cases
are coming out in november but now it's looking like they will be coming out in early november
so it's still november but it looks like they may be coming out maybe with the iphone 12 pro
max and the iphone 12 mini so that's good to see support for that on 14.2 as opposed to 14.3 which
is also expected in november another new feature in 14.2 is optimized battery charging for airpods
so if we go into bluetooth here and then go to our airpods i have the airpods pro for this example
you can see we have optimized battery charging so a lot of people complain about bad battery life in
ios 14 and just bad battery life after like two years of usage so this should definitely help
with that so below it you can see it says to reduce battery aging iphone and airpods learn
from your daily charging routine so airpods can wait to finish charging past 80 until you need
to use them so that is a great new feature added here in 14.2 that i think a lot of airpods and
airpods pro users will appreciate and then also if you go to sounds and haptics right here and
then headphone safety you can see we do also have a new toggle there for headphone notifications and
it says to protect your hearing your iphone will measure headphone audio levels if you exceed the
recommended seven day limit and notification is sent and volume is turned down so that is another
great safety feature here for airpods airpods pro and any other bluetooth headphones that you have
hooked up to your iphone also the magnifier application can now detect people and it can tell
you how far away they are with people detection so apple actually mentions that this is only for the
iphone 12s because it uses the lidar sensor so that is pretty interesting that it can now both
detect people and tell how far away they are which is nice we also get more than 100 new emoji in ios
14.2 so a lot of people will be excited about this you can see we have like the ninja that's
my favorite new emoji right there we have all kinds of new fruits new people new hand gestures
just a lot of new emoji in this update if you want to see every single emoji that was released i will
leave a link down below that shows every single one of the new emojis in this update also we get
eight new wallpapers so as you can see right here this is one of the new wallpapers included with
ios 14.2 if we go to our settings right here and then go to our wallpapers so wallpaper right there
choose new wallpaper and then under stills you can see we have all these new wallpapers
so right there so it goes from realistic to a more animated approach right here with these
wallpapers which i actually really like it's very unlike apple to do like an animated wallpaper like
that but i'm a big fan of all of the animated wallpapers here in 14.2 i think they look better
than the realistic ones that you see right here and of course we get a dark mode version for all
of these wallpapers as well as you can see right there we have like a blue hue to it a blue tint
to the wallpaper which looks really good in my opinion i wasn't a fan at first but it's really
grown on me and i really like this wallpaper here we also get a lot of changes inside of the control
center so first off in the now playing platter you can see the now playing screen right there
looks completely different than it did in past versions of ios 14. then down here we do also have
a redesigned airplay menu so you can see there it shows control other speakers and at tvs if
you tap on that you can see this is what it shows right here so it looks a lot better in my opinion
than it did in 14.1 and previous versions of ios 14. you also have the airplay icon right
there when you tap on that you can see it shows up just like so you will also notice that the volume
slider there is a little bit bigger as well the circle right there is a little bit bigger
you'll also notice that on the lock screen as well you'll see some minor changes there on the lock
screen when you are playing music we also get intercom support in 14.2 for both the homepod
and the homepod mini you can see there inside of the home application we have intercom and when
you tap on it you have all your settings here so it shows enough for people so if i enable myself
right there i can receive notifications when i'm home anywhere or never and of course you can have
all of your home kit enabled devices down here and it works well with the homepod the original
homepod and of course it will work for the homepod mini as well and you can you know talk throughout
the house with both an apple watch or an iphone or an ipad whatever you have so intercom is a really
cool new feature and i will talk more about intercom in depth in my ios 14.2 review video
when it officially releases and then of course we do also have the music recognition toggle here
inside of the control center via shazam so if you tap on that it will listen for music and of course
if you are playing music in the background it will pull up the song and you can you know find it on
apple music or spotify or whatever and this is actually really useful and i really like that it
is a control center toggle you can see that there is a 10 second timeout if it finds something or
doesn't find something it will tell you right there and we also get a lot of fixes for bugs
from 14.1 and even some that were occurring in beta 4. so a lot of bugs are fixed here in 14.2
some of the main ones are the photos widget would just simply not display a photo so a lot of people
reported this to me on 14.2 beta 4 but the photo bug has been fixed the photo widget bug has been
fixed it will display a photo every time now same with the weather widget so some people reported
that the weather widget would actually show the high temperature in celsius instead of fahrenheit
so that is fixed as shown in the change log there from apple also some people had an issue with the
camera when they went to video it would just show a black screen it wouldn't actually show anything
until you force quit the application and reopened it but that has been fixed here in 14.2 the gm
build and of course the final release as well and then of course the keyboard lag has been fixed
as well so a lot of people reported that this was fixed in the beta stages from 14.1 and it
looks like you know the final release is going to carry over and we will have a fix for the keyboard
lacks if you're having any issues with keyboard specifically inside of the messages application
you should see a fix in 14.2 gm and at the final release and of course like i said earlier there
are some other small changes and features as well and i will cover those in my 14.2 review video
when the official release comes out and we'll talk about when we can expect that to be released here
in a moment but as far as the performance and battery life the performance is actually really
good so the animations feel smoother than 14.1 even and the new music platter is awesome the new
now playing platter is awesome and just really fluid it just feels solid and it feels like a
small bump in performance up from 14.1 which is always welcomed now on the iphone 12 specifically
i did also put 14.2 beta 4 on there and i couldn't really tell a difference in performance or battery
life because i guess 14.1 was you know shipped on the iphone 12s so it was already you know really
well optimized for it so it's pretty much you know as good as it gets for the time being so
14.2 didn't really do anything for the 12 series but for like the iphone 11 pro the iphone 11s and
below you should see an improvement in performance here but battery life is about the same on 14.2
as it was on 14.1 which 14.1 was a big improvement over ios 14 and 14.0.1 now also i do want to
mention that apple 1 was just released today so this is apple's new services bundle so if we go
into our icloud settings right here and then go to subscriptions you will see a little section
here that says get apple one if you tap on that you will see all of the bundles right here so
we have the individual which is 14.95 a month and that gets you access to apple music apple
tv apple arcade and 50 gigabytes of icloud storage for 14.95 a month then you have the family which
is the same except for 200 gigabytes versus 50 for 19.95 a month then you have the premiere
which saves you 25 a month and it gives you it's 30 a month and it gives you apple music apple tv
apple arcade two terabytes of icloud apple news plus and apple fitness plus which is coming out
soon but you get all of those for 30 a month and that saves you 25 a month because if you did all
of them together you would pay you know a lot more so you do also have a one month free trial
for all of these plans so that was just released today as well and should be pretty interesting
so now what's next for apple when will we see ios 14.2 the final release so let's go into our
calendar here and today is the 30th so next week is going to be november it's going to be the start
of november so november 2nd now since we got the gm here on a friday i would not expect 14.2 to be
released to the public next week instead i would expect apple to release ios 14.2 to the public on
either november 9th or november 10th but i think it's going to be november 10th because that is the
week that the iphone 12 pro max and the iphone 12 mini get released and this is exactly what
apple did with ios 14.1 they released it a few days before the iphone 12 and iphone 12 pro were
released so if i had to guess i would say that ios 14.2 will likely come out on november 10th
however there is a very slim possibility of it coming on the week of the second so anyways guys
there you have it that is ios 14.2 the gm release i hope you guys enjoyed this video and hope you're
a lot less annoyed now that you don't have that annoying pop-up popping up every two seconds so
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